Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-15

Inc church-meet1ng broke up sudden.
~, the sentiment which Mis- Hosee
Blodgett expressed being apparently the
sentiment Of all-that she should have
died in five minutes if she couldn't have
got out where she could talk it over. &
"Don't talk to me about that girl!''
exclaimed Miss Nancy Perkins, with
deep feeling. ''There never was man
that it took SO much faculty to get as the
minister" s<5
And she wouldn't have hilnP De-
pend upon it, there's more in that than
meets the eye. She's Deep" said Mis-
Ichabod. ~
",What do you think Mis-, Moses
Gregg whispered to me in meetin' ?"
said Mis- Hosea Blodgett. s'She says
Pamely sells the pictures she paints for
money-sends 'em off to the city. And
besides supporting her and Ketury, she's
a-geiA to pay off the mortgage on the
81 hain't never been sorry that was
brought up to work, - said Mis- Ichabod.
s'Vanity and folly may prosper for q
season, but We all know where Che down
ward path ends. If Pame1y Semple
hadn't been sent away to that academy,
she might have been as likely and we'll
behaved as any girl in Brimblecom-if
she hadn't any faculty."
And with these remarks Mis- Ichabod
withdrew herself from the council.
On the even tenor of her way went
Pamela, working early and late with her
brush, and before long a report found
its way to Brimblecom that she was con-
sidered a remarkable artist, and some
things were evident to Brimblecom
senses: the mortgage was being paid off,
the crops were in prosperous condi-
ton, and old Keturah was renewing her
youth. s#@# s a /.
Brimblecom began to be proud of
Pamela. ~ 1t almost forgot that it had
ever been afraid she would become q
pauper. Nobody seemed to remember
that she had been thought to have no
faculty nobody but the committee.
One or two persons were actually
heard to say that it was pity she
wouldn't marry Mr.. Stockbridge. but
perhaps she had right to look higher
than the rest of the Brimblecom girls.
Mis- Ichabod always shook her head
with mysterious meaning when Pamela
was mentioned, and said, grimly,
"Them that lives longest will see
most"
. One day triumph came. to Mis- Icha-
bod. & 8 s. s.
The committee were in the post-office
Mis- Ichabod and Mis- Hosea Blodgett
were often so kind as to assist Miss
Nancy Perkins in asserting the mail
when in came Mrs. Deacon Simmons,
who was fat and scant of breath, aud in
such state of excitement that the COM
mittee had, all and severally, to fan her
vigorously before her news could be
extracted.
"Don't you think, as true as I'm a
livin' woman and not "a corpse, az
might expect to be. hearin' such upset
$50 on, 90 on! don't lose your
BREATH" cried the committee, in chorus,
tanning vigorously. "Weu never
breathe it to soul.'
go, it's all over Brimblecom. That
good or-nothing cretur Ben Seaverns
has come back, without hardly so much
as a coat to his back, and the rheumatic
fever. Been cast away on desert
island, and eat up by cannerbals most
which nobody can't say Want ex-
aetly like him-and nothing but skin
and bones, and the doctor says most
likely won't never be good for anything
again, not to mention that he never was.
Aud Pamely's took him in, and she and
Ketury is a-nussin' him up. And that
amt the worst of it; the minister went
I'D and married 'em! She's took that
good-for-nothin' cretur to take care Of
for life-her that might a had the min
ister!"
ssThey never got me to believe that
she had any faculty." said Mis- Icha-
bod.-Harper's Basar.