The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-07-03
lpORCAS ALLEN.
Shs Gets to Town Just In Time to
Know All About the wedding.
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Shs Gets to Town just In Time to
Know All Abou, the " Wedding.
LEAvENwoRrH, June 80, 1879.
DEAR SISTER JERUsHA Was it not
fortunate that made my journey from
Timbsrville here Just the day before the
heavy rain. | came through safely and
find it pleasant to be here again. The town
has much improved and is 80 lively that if
it wasn't for some of the old landmarks,
such as the pord on Ottawa and Fourth
streets and the jimson weeds ia some of the
vacant lots, 4 should hardly know the
place. Abiram says these would have been
removed also-but the City Fathers are all
in Jail, so to speak, because they refused to
levy tax, which they thought was unjust
and while they are in Jail, az 1t were, a
grateful constituency should not expect too
much from them. The friends here are all
we'll. and just now the one great topic OF
conversation is the Pierce-Eaton wedding.
send you THE TINES extra by to.day's
mail, that you may learn the full particu-
lars Of this most important event.
Imust confess it all looks mighty strange
to me and if l knew these people. I'd like
TO ask great many questions,
1t seems the bridal pair only visited the
lntry Of the bliIe's mo:her, after the
dishes had all been removed, and two gen
tlemen had spent the greater part of the
afternoon in magnetizing 1t (whstever that
may bel Sam Jones' wife said the msgne-
tizirg was probably done with sap and
ater, with 4 sprinkling OF sand and a good
stout scrubbing brush; but Melinda Smith
SAYS it stands to reason that il is not that,
for two colored ladies would have been en-
gagged for that. But whatever it was that
was done, and they made the room ready
for the event. Then Mr.. Mott went in aid
s., and bresthed heavily while the materi-
alizstion went on.
/ suppose the philosophy of all this is,
that the harder they breathe the greater
the spiritual etiervescence, and that the
spirits make use of the sfliuvia which
passes off-that isn't Just the proper ex-
pression-the efiluent particles which ema-
nate from corporeal hsb sbitsts thrown of by
the indwelling spiritual escence OF these
magnetizers, 20 to speak. Well, the spirits
gather this magnetic aroma and make
themselves bodies, and beautiful satin
dresses and veil-, and wreaihs of
flowers. as it were. I-n't it glorious?
Oh, if they would but hasten the time,
when there would be great many such
persons as Mott and those kindred souls,
and the spirits would but teach US the art,
would We not dispense with the silk worm
and mulberry leaves altogether, while We
IL IN l.,.srona
spun and woven from the spiritual fibres,
emanatinG from such magnetic souls. l
would like 10 know if there gentleman re-
quire different diet for different kind, OF
CLOTH But am not acquainted with them
and so cannot ask.
Another thing tnat troubles me is, We
are told in some of the letters that send
you, that every negative must have posi-
tive and that every person is either positive
or negative; therefore, ii ! am positive,
must belong to some negative, but if am
negative there ia somewhere positive be-
longing to me. Now you know that l have
lived all these years, without any special
hankering after matrimony, and I'm not
going to begin at this time Of life to hunt
up my belongings. II any other woman has
got my positive-as most likely there is
shall make no attempt to garnishee, nor
to replevin, neither shsll l have writ OF
ejectment served. He shall be hers, to
have and to hold, until death do them part.
She shall remain unmolestsd while
she cooks his dinners, darns his stockings,
sews on all his absent buttons and bears
with what meekness she may all those little
eccentricities which belong to masculinity
in this subluns.y sphere. But l give her
fair warning, that when it comes to the su-
pernal regions, to roaming through the
ffowery fields up yonder, it is | who
will roam-and don't think l vii! wait
for Swedenborg's sanction either. Here In
this world where We see through glass
darkiy, and are in constant danger OF get
ting some other womans position, it seems
to be necessary that parties be held togeth-
er by legal bonds also that children may
be made legitimate inheritors of their IA
thers' estate. But, up yonder, where We see
eve to eye, and know even - We are known,
where positive and negative meet, reckon
there won't be any ceremony needed to
make 'em one. But truce to matrimony
supernal,o or infernal-does not all this we'd
ding talk bring back to you those old days
when We used to sit At table with General |
Franklin Pierce at the old Esgle Hotel in
concord A proper, nice-iooklng man
was he, when he was sober, but heard q
young girl say she wouldn't dance with |
him when he wasn't, if he had been forty
times President of these United S:ates,
for he didn't seem to know how to behave |
then. What q tumble down old rookery |
his house was, there in old North Concord,
for though Gen. Pierce was rich, he was |
miserly, the oldest inhabitant there couldn't |
recollect when it had its last coat of paint
no flowers about the yard to make it look |
nice and homelike, but ont in the street |
were grand old elms on either side whose |
branches met and interlaced, forming fine |
archway, which, when once under, was |
pleasant enough to make you forget the |
residence of our quaudam |
president.
1t was just at this time the var broke |
mt and II wa this same P;eeoe vho vhin>d