Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-01-08

oughtnt-she a poor furriner an all
her family drowned
But as soon as Ruth set eyes on
this Bertha Rubinstein, she took to her
an all her outlandish ways as eff she'd
been a born sister"
But" suggested Mrs. Lane, 81
thought you were to tell me how Ruth
happened to marry John Dean, She
had no beau, no lover up 10 this
time !"
"Sakes alive. plenty of EN-. SIGH as
they was. There was the schoolmaster
that Ruth never got sight on, but she'd
cen Almost laugh in his face, he was
that queer and stiff in his ways; an
there was a neighbor's son with a soft
spot in his head somewhere, for he writ
poems and things for papers-believe
he came to be editor Afterwards Ruth
couldn't bear him. Then there was the
sea capting. a sight older'n her, forever
q askln OF her to 90 a ridin' or walkin'
with him, an she a maxim excuses an
never goin' Ruth nicknamed him
in her funny way, Laird Dumbiedikes,
an said he'd think himself she ought to
marry him, she'd known him so long.
Then there was Roberts friend. Dick.
real likely he was, too, an he was at the
deacon's sight; but didn't call him a
beau then, for he and Ruth was alwus
a sparrin' an a argyfyin, an never
seemed to agree about nothin.' They
was the oppositest bein's | ever see
Ruth so quick an techy, an Dick as
cool as cucumber.
Ruth was kind of independent and
womansrightsv, and was minded to say
that women didn't have morn half a
chance, men was so selfish, and treated
'em as eff they was doll babies. An
Dick believed, or purtended to, that the
hull kit Of female kind needed masters
and pertecters as much as the niger
slaves down south. This would set
Ruth right up. for she didn't believe in
slavery, no how.
at was soon after the deacon died
that there was a picnic of to one OF the
islands, an Ruth an Dick both went
When Ruth came back she looked aw-
full cut up about somethin' or mother,
and went right to her room. | heerd
her trampin' up an down half the night.
| never know'd what was up for three
years, an then she was married to John
Dean an moved out west. an it was
only an aggravation.'
At this juncture the baby, like Pip,
brought up by hand, made an outcry.
keturah Ann satisfied its demands,
and put 1t in It's crib saying with little
chuckle:
"There, you're blessed good speci-
men of the male sect in gineral, as
peaceful as lamb when you're a stuff
fin somethin' into you that suits you,
an for jest a little while afterward." As
keturah took her sewing Mrs. Lane re-
marked smilingly: You have not
made it clear yet why your friend mar
ried John Dean"
"Why, it's plain as day that she took
him because he choosed her, an seem
ed to wuship the ground she stood on;
same's many Il woman has married
when she didn't get the one she'd sot
her heart on, an didn't keer about fly
ing in the face Of Providence an not
marry at all. It's clear as can be that
she'd DRAWN towards Dick all the
time, for all her independence; an his
goin' right off to California after that
picnic, and never seem of her, made
ner kind of reckless like. One day
when | was at Ruths old home takin'
keer of Bertha's baby, while she an
Robert was off to sea, Dick walked right
in where | was. They said he'd got
rich mimi, but ne didn't look no
ways CHEEKY if he had. He kent talk
in about Ruth, and asked eff | thought
John Dean would make her life happy,
an all SIGH questions. He said little
Rubinstein looked more like Ruth than
Robert, an then he kissed him an
looked SO down-hearted, | jest up an
asked him what happened at that pic
mic. 1t all come out then that he'd
been lovin' Ruth right along; an that
day, when they was alone among the
cliffs, he'd told her he was goin' off to
be gone long spell, an he wanted to
hey seris talk long her: an Ruth
never stopped to hear what he was
goin' to say, but turned an walked off,
sayin' kind of scornful, she hoped he'd
have more sense about womeu-tOlks
when he came back. An he went off
thinkin' she didn't care for him; but
seem that she was still Ruth Worthin'
the last time his folks writ him, he'd
come back to see if she wouldn't be his,
after ALL An here was Ruth, another
mans wife out in Illinoy. | declare it
was awful pervokin' to see how them
two bein's, both of'em q speakin' the
same tongue. an KNOWN one mother
all their days, went on to blind their
eyes and make sch mess, upsettin'
all their happerness for life like two
material born iiets; when there was Rot,
ert and Bertha only knowsd one moth.
er six weeks or better, an ONES talk ell