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

pacihed me by telling me they are a sort
of branch show that took in women, and
he'd get me In as soon as he found out
how to do it, Well, one night he come
home and said I'd been proposed, and
somebody had blackbaled me. Did it
hisself. Of course. Didn't want me
around knowing to his going on. OF
couise he didn't. and told him so.
"Then he iined the Sons of Matter.
Didn't say nothing to me about it, but
sneaked Of one night, pretendn' he'd
got to sit up with sick Odd Fellow.
and l never found it out, only he come
home lookin' like man who had been
through threshlng- machine, and /
wouldn't do a thing for him until he
owned up.
HAnd so it's gone from bad to wus,
iinin' this and that aud t'other, till he's
worship minister of the Masons. and
goodness of hope of the Old Fellows,
and sword-swalIower of the Finnegans,
and virgin cerus of the Grange and
grand Mogul Of the Sons of Indolence,
and two-edged tomahawk Of the United
Order Of Black Men, and tale bearer of
the Merciful Manikins, and skipper of
the Guild-C -Caratrine Columbus. aud big
wizard ofthe Arabian Nights, and pledge
passer of the Reform Club, and chief
bulger of the Irish Mechanics. and
purse keeper OF the Order of the Cana
dian Conscience, and double barreIed
dictator of the Knights of the Brass
Circles, and standard bearer of the Roy
al Archangels, aud sublime porte of the
Onion League, aud chambermaid of the
Celestial Cherubs, and puissant poten-
tate of the Petrified Pigstickers, aud the
Lord only knows what else. I've borne
It and borne it, hopin' he'd get 'em all
jiued after while, bnt 'tain't no use,
and when he'a got into new one. and
been made grand guide of Nights OF
Horror. l told him I'll quit, and will. "
Here the major interrupted, saying:
w 0Ais JOui IN well
initiated, that's fact; but the Court
will scarcely call that good cause for
divorce. The most of the societies You
mention are composed of honorable men
aud have excellent regulations. Many
of them, though called lodges, are relief
associations and mutual insurance com
panies, which, if your husband should
die, would take care Of you and would
not see you suffer if you we're sick. "
"Sse me suffer when I'm sick Take
care of me when he's dead! Well, /
guess not; can take care Of myself when
he's dead, and if can't can get ano-
ther There's plenty of 'eml And they
needn't bother themselves when I'm sick
either. If want to be sick and suffer,
it's none Of their business especially
after all the suffering I've had when l
amt sick, because of their carryin's on.
And you needn't try and make me believe
it's all right, either. 1 know what it is
to live with man that jines so many
lodges that he don't never lodge al
home.
ooh, that's harmless amusement, :
quietly remarked Mr.. Huse.
She looked him square in the eye, and
said:
81 believe You are iiner yourself
He admitted that he was to certain
extent, and she arose, and said:
II wouldn't have thought it. A man
like you, chairman of Salbath-schoo
and superintendent OF the Republicans
It's enough TO make a woman take pisen
But don't want anything of you.
want lawyer that don't belong to no
body or nothin'." And she boIted oui
of the Office aud inquired where ,'aptair
Patten kept.