The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-06-02
THE JINERs.

She was about forty-fye years old we'll
dressed, had black hair, rather thin and
tinged with gray, aud eyes in which
CLEANED the fires OF determination not
easily baked She walked into Major
Huse's Office and requested private
interview, aud, having obtained and
satisfied herself that the law students
were not listening at the key hole, said
slowly, solemnly and impressiveIy:
81 want divorce"
"What for? Isupposed you had one
of the best Of husbands" said the major.
81 s'pose that's what everybody
thinks; but il they knew what I've suf.
fered in ten years, they'd wonder hadn't
scalded him long ago. ought to but
for the sake Of the young ones I've borne
it and said nothing. I've told him,
though, what he might depend on, and
now the times come, won't stand it,
young ones or no young ones; I'll have a
divorce, and if the neighbors want to
blab themselves hoarse about it, they
can, for won't stand it another day."
"But what's the IN utter? Don't your
husband provide for you? Don't he
treat you kindly?" asked the lawyer
"We get victuals enough, and l don't
know but he's as true aud as kind as
men in general. aud he's never knocked
any ofns diva. wish he had, then
I'd get him into jail aud know where he
was nights, rstorted the woman.
Then what is your complaint against
him?"
"WeIl, if you must know he's one Of
tenn plaguy iiuers!'
"A what?"
"a iiner-one of them pesky fools
that's always iining something. There
can't nothing come along that's dark
and sly and hidden but he'll jine it. If
anybody should get up society to burn
his house down, he'd ilne it just as soon
as he could get in; and If he had to pay
for it he'd go all the suddener.
eve hadn't been married more'n two
months before he jiued the Know
Nothn's. We lived on farm then, and
every Saturday night he'd come tearing
in before supper. grab istful of nut.
cakes, aud go off gnawing them. and
that's the last I'd see Of him till morn
ing. And every her night he'd roll
and tumble in his bed, and holler in his
sleep, Put none but Americans on
guard-Georg Washington; and rainy
days he would go out in the corn barn
and jab at picture Of the Pope with an
old bagnet that was there. ought to
put my foot down then, but he fooled
me so with his lies about the Popes
coming to make all the Yankee girls
marry Irishmen. and TO eat up all the
babies that warn't born with a cross on
their foreheads, that let him go on and
encouraged, him in it.
"Then he jined the Masons. Praps
you know what them be, but | don't,
'cept they think they are the same kind
of critters that built Soloman's Temple
and took care of his concubines; and ol
all the darned nonsense aud gao about
worshipful master and SO uare and com
passes aud sich like that we had in the
house for the next six months, you never
see the beat. Aud he's never ouigrowed
it, nuther. What do you think OF mar
squire, that'll dress himself IN white
apron. bout big enough for monkey''
bib, and go marching up and down and
making motions and talking the foolisl
lingo at picture Of George Washington
in green jacket aud truss on his stom
achi Amt he loooytiek? We'll, that
my Sam, aud I've stood it as long as I'm
goin' to.
"The next lunge the old fool made
was into the Odd Fellows. I made
warm for him when be came home ans
told me he'd iined them, but he kindo