The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-08-22
He jes' haint like hisself

Wnys Wnat mas caused TINS
change? He had class in Sunday
school, went to church when it was so
he could and seemed to me a very So
cial gentleman. He treated Iona and
myself very kindly the evening we
spent there and / enjoyed myself ex-
ceedingly. He is a man of good sound
practical sense and capable of doing
much good if he will"
Eyes. all that is so, and much
more can be said for him; but six or
seven years ago he tuck q yankee
widder thar to do the work and AFTER
spell he got ter thinkin more of her
than he did of his wife. He quit
gOin to meetin and said it was kase he
did not like some of the folks that
run the meetin.' Some of the folks
thought this was 80; but arter a spell
when they'd 60 thar they'd notice the
'tention he paid the widder an how
she began to dress herself and little
gal up. Then by an by she had to go
off some whar. She went to Ohio and
staid three months. Folks thought
they knowed where she went and why
she went; but arter she came back
they knowed it. She washed her face
in buttermilk all summer to git it
right; but she KEEP a heapin' onto her
soul spots that buttermilk wouldn't
nigh take of: Things got wus and
wus until they knowed they was found
out. They talked and planned to-
gether, and long late in the fall it
was announced that she was goin' to
! marry her brother-in-law back in
Ohio. Some said Mr.. Powers went
on tn Ohio and hired him to marry
her Che tuck trip to Kentucky that
fall on business). Some said she
rit to him and axed him to
have her. 1 don't know how it
was brung about, but know
it was brung. But believe that Mr..
Powers money had somethin' to do
with it some way. Well. afore she
was married and lef she jes told all
about it. How thar he had
Civ her all the money she wanted
and that she had more fnery than his
wife, and her gal had mOre'n Mrs.
Powers granchild and that ne was
goin' to get her an origin and that she |
could jes wrap Mr.. Powers around her |
finger, and he d do for her quicker'n |
he would fur his wife; and that he
didn't like them as sOt themselves above |
her kase she'd acted that way. Well, |
that last was a complement, kase hit |
jes showed that neither one on 'em
thought they'd do as they was doin'. |
Well, she went up to her cousins, MIR
Berrell, and was married up thar. He
fdgeted and planned ter 60 up when
he found Mr.. Homer was to come on. |
but when he found others was goin' |
that knowed what was go;n' on, he
didn't 60; but some say he rit to her |
an sent it by niger.
Some thought that now she was
gone. he'd do right and git like he
used to be; but he jes tuck to goin'
over to Miss Willows and matters
was as bad thar as they'd bin at
home. You know she lived thar jes
north an jinen to his paster; twarn't
but few steps. AFTER she'd liverd |
thar spell thar was a muss raised
that she he'd never bin married and
that the man the children call uncle
war thar father. She had two gals
and a boy when she come thar. 1
never believed the talk, kase thought
Mr.. and Mrs. Powers had q better
chance to know whether she was all
right than any one else nigh, and they
went to see her and seemed to think
lots of her and l didn't think they'd
have nothin' to do with that sort Of a
woman. / never seed her DO nothin'
out of the way and 1 believed she was
slandered. And John, stealth hain't
nigh as bad as slanderen' an inherent
upertended woman. know the Lord
will remember the man and
woman too that'll do it.
l never should believed anything
was wrong twent her and Mr.. Powers
eff 1 hadn't knowed what had went on
at thir house afore and when he KEEP
runnin' thar and sendin' her things
and jes seemed like he'd lost HE appe-
tite for everybody else, I had to
believe it.
Last fall when his son jined the
meetin', Miss Willows tole Mr.. Powers
that some folks had persuaded him to
do it, an that they jess wanted his
money; he got so mad he wouldn't 20
to see him baptised. When it got out
that she was the one that seemed so
consumed about the money, folks said
she needn't fret too much, the meetin'
would never git more money from the
boy than she and her Gal had got frnm