Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-09-27
THE GAME "JEEMs" PLAYED.

There was All awful time in IL farm
house near Ponti:tc last night We l,av,
not received any particulars, but solemn
ly believe that Il certain husband, who's
front name is ''Jecms," was made to wisl
he'd never been born into this deccitfu
| world.
There arrived on the western expires.
yesterday morning Il nervous, black-eyed
woman of forty, who kept closing anG
opening her fingers all the time, as if sh
was clawing noses or pulling hair. She
bad a strange business look in Ler eyes as
she got off the train, and one of the hack
men at the depot door ventured the opin
ion that she had come into tho city tc
foreclose IL morts age or make upa "short-
age" on wheat.
| Sir" began the woman, as she walked
up to the depot policeman, 81 want an
swers to a few questions"
eyes, mum-just so," was the humble
reply, as he followed her into tho waiting
| room.
''Now, them" she continued, 'as she
took a seat, 81 live near Pontiac. MY
Jeems was in here the Fourth of July,
and didn't get home till midnight. He
came i'll here on my money, and 1 want
to know how he spent it. Here is his
bill Of expenses as he made it out. He
has put down $2 for riding up town in
hack"
''That's 12 shillings too mucl," replied
the officer.
''Just as I thought-just exactly" she
whispered, as she put down the figures.
''Here he has got down 81 for seeing the
balloon 60 up"
''Not a balloon went up that day,
madame"
''Just as 1 thought-just exactly!" He
looked as innocent as a Lamb when he
wrote that down, but he didn't know me.
Here is eighty cents for riding across to
Canada and back"
"That should be TO-"
sJust exactly what I thought last
night when he kissed me and said it was
observed, rs she put down "7O' opposite
his figures. ''He has it down here that
his supper and dinner cost him 81 so per
meal at the Central Market. 1t strikes
me that So would buy two pretty festive
meals"
"You can knock off about - so from
that" said the officer, after he had figur-
ed Il bit.
"Just exactly as thought. He smiled
as softly as an angel when he wrote that
down, but he was smiling at tie wrong
woman! While 1 was at home milking
the cows and having an awful headache
he was eating high-toned meals like
second John Jacob Astor! And now he
has put down 50 cents for seeing the
"earsr'
''The what? ?"
''IIe says it costs him so cents to go
into the menagerie and see the BEARS" she
explained.
''lf there was menagcrie in town on
that day, then l didn't hear of it," sol
cmnly remarked the officer.
''Just us l thougll-just as I thought!
Went in to see the bears: did he ? We'll,
he'll see several mena geries when reach
home! Here is one more item. He says
he paid - to see the ropewalk."
''It was tree," replied the officer.
eyes, I thought so--thought so when |
he sat there and looked so lovingly and |
and said it made his hair stand |
up. I'll crc'll be a walk when get bacY
home, and somebody's hair will stand |
straight up! That's all, and Pm much
oblige."
"You won't kill him at once, will you!" |
pleaded the other.
She looked over his head ut the wall,
breathcd hard, clerched her hands, and
answered:
'I've 'spected it Il long time, and now
III claw him if die for it,"
She walked up and down the depot
with her teeth hard shut and her eyes
growing brighter all the time, and, when
she finally took the train for home, the |
bill of expenses tightly clutched in her |
hand the officer looked after the receding
rain and muse;l;
"Now, why did he give himself away
in that manner? Why 1idn't he tell her
light out tina It some one picked his pocll-
1t H'- Detroit FREQ Press.
W That enc and one make really two |
Most people will acknowledge true;
Yet even to ''this" rule we find
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