Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-09-28

speerit Young wimmen that used tor laff at mo
! turned awful civil, bu never quite understood
| >em Father an step mother couldn't do enuff
| fur me, step-mOthor KEEP saylu' I'd ouShter
hev wife fur my big house an that her cousin
| Julia WAS jest the one. Bvmo by Julia como
| down from the city to visit her, an l got &C
quainted. She'd the blacklist eyes an redest
cheeks you ever see. ! liked her at fust sight,
| but you see marin, I'd knowed puthln' of her
| life to homo or what 'ud gone afore. She
seemed kinder sad an misrabble at times, but
step mother said all girls in love was so. an
| never knowed. When | asked her if she'd hev
mo she said yes after time. though sorter
| queer an scared like. We was married private,
| over to fathers. Thought it kinder funny for
step mother was allus a great ham fur p'rade
| an show. No man, marin, that re-
spects wlmmen'u ever tell o his trubbleS
with his wife; faint honest nor right; so I'll
keep that ter myself; but l kin say that it
didn't take mo long to see she didn't even like
| me-. You see (apologetically) it want to be ex-
| pc cted she could l was a man Of no sperit,
| an she found it out amt harnsum nor tidy
like other men, but done my best for her.
| She never wanted y thing but got it for her.
| AFTER the little gal born she cared for
| nuthin' but it, an it took a reSlar hate toward
me. l never troubled her. | KEEP to myself.
| AS long AZ she'd let me make over the leeue
| 'un | was satisfied. l loved that child such as
! you'd little suppose Il man o no SPORT could.
I'd cut my right hand clean of if it 'ud spared
her moments sutfcrn'. She was so pretty, 4
too, tall an big like her mother, with black
| eyes an hair, but skin like Jersey peach, and
the leetIest hans an feet-in that she took.
| arter my side o tho house. She called me
| 'poor leotIo pa" an she used to scold her
mother bout tranln' mo so-the neighbors
used TO tell her, YOU know. Julia never got
MAD NJ ncr, mother
Wa, wears went pretty fast 1 worked hard
for u.y gal, putting all | could save in the bank
to her account julia named her Clara. but
never called her nuthin' but my "harusum
| gail think O her that way allus. There's
things as took place. bout her. no one need
know. Some folks has pre- udices that way;
! never had, nor Julia neither Julia was more'u
wlliln', for she seemed to dread NV gals eyes
an the way she took up for ME. AFTER she'd
| lief the house Julia seemed more pleasant-for
| The tlrSt time III twenty wears she kissed me.
| 1t took me ahack, tell You. noticed she was
q finer .pokiu' woman than ever. She'd never;
! had 10 work hard IKE other farmers wives,
| for l done more work that she might
! hev help. She was only forty emmy way,
an tell vouI was'proud of her. We went to
meeinf on Sunday together tho tus time since
my hanisun Cat was q baby. Folks stared 4
god deal. Now mind, don't accuse Julia
of no design or takin' emmy unfair advantage,
what done done myself of my own free will.
l decided the farm house an land to her.
! give her the money, that was in my gals
name. She was so pleasant after that l begun
ter be happier than ever before SIGH nice let
tiers from my gal, an her mother an mo a
rradin' OF them together" He stopped mo-
meEt, wiping his poor eyes with torn red
handkerchief. His voice was husky. Love
| and peace makes = heaven on earth,' | said,
| thinking of the minister
| Yes, marm,' he answered, coming back to
| himself Il think you're right, but 1t want to
| be for me. hope I'll not tire We, but I'll tell
| the rest jest 1t happened 1t come when my
! heart was full OF thankfulness; p'raps twas
best; we Amt the uns ter complain o Provi-
dence l remember the time 1t happened
| sOrter on 10 the twilight; the moon was just
| rlslu,-a big red bali way cross the hills, like
a fire. somehow shuddered. I'd been tend
in to the critters for the night, an was leanin'
on the barnyard gate. l stood there awhile,
an | couldn't help prayer. Maybe all
wouldn't done it, but couldn't help it, was
50 happy. Then l went inter the house,
| thinkin all the way how pretty Julia would
| look sirtlu' and SEWN. how nice she KEEP
everythiuK; how geAt-el she was in the blue
| caliker gown I'd bought her, an how, arter so
! many years. she wilin' for me to stay in the.
s!tt,u' room of an eveuin. The kitchen was
! dark, but the slttlu room was lit up. | opened
| the door. Julia was slttin' BY the table N the
fancy rockiu' chair ID got for her; ner work
| basket was on tbs table; she even had on the
| blue callkcr. never seen her lookln so pretty
| before, if she was white, her eyes shlnin'
| like stars. Leanin' on my gals leetle origin
| she play ont so pretty when she an me was
alone Sunday eveaings-was big, fureign-
| loOkln' man that I'd never seen afore He
| was dressed mighty good in genteman's
| clothes, his hair an eyes was black as Julia's
lie had long beard and his face was bronzed
| like 4 sailors.
Both on EN- looked at me- Iwan't meanin'
| to So III, Won know, ill L cleaned myself up
he'd on my cd oTaralls and boots, nlr head
warn comb1d an was sweary an dirty. I
sto I'd there mi lit, then I says:
''Im g you've got company. Julia, some
o.d treu' o your? I'm sure he's welcome here.
never seen him ature as l know on, what o.
tnat, every one you ike has the best kin git
for him.
"Ie man sorter shuddered then but Julia
riZ mp. Stay here she SAYS to me, never
mind changiu yur clothes, we won't keep you
but moment You tell him, Tom she went
on, tayIn her han on the strange mans arm
| stood an stared at 'em The strange man
jest kept his eyes Oh the origin; he seemed
scared to meet my eye.
Look at this man," Julia saws: faint he
harusum-.ub,e loOkiug-aiu't he just the
| man woman would love? Inu know it, Look
at yourself, puny aud uudersz ID, homely, of
no manln = or sperrit in any way. Then
| think which of Won two a girl would marry
! Whether she would love him aud despse
! yOu?'
Twas feeling awful faint and siddy, bnt
only say: Il know you're saying truo, Julia:
but the munster made you ms wife. You're
our harn-um girls mother, leavlu' me out of
tAe question, is It right for YOU, her, &C
couut, to talk like this? II cant help her,s'
she says, excited like. eve borne for her
sake twenty years of torture. I've KEEP in and
| endured, won't no more STE don't need l
| shonll. Tell him, Tom, what you are
to me- but the nun covered his face
and groaned. II can't" he says, with
an oath. I'm bad enough for most every
thing, but can't tell him this, "What Is it?"
says, coming step nearer her. "Has emmy
thin happened TO our gal? Why do YOU cling
to that stranger? Amt your husband the man
you should come to? I've never said cross
word to we, Julia; I've allus tried to make We
thappy." She kinder catcned her breath
mint, then she SAYS in quick hurried way,
| "a year before II married you. 1 was lie.
yours. ;" Somehow, then, sevsryshng seemed
| to fade .away-a syhirling like the roar
of tee spring freshets, I caught holt
sort o way: No Q; she says Tin show YOU
| wanted me to be welfoff., Louis had nothing,
and had to fly for his life; 1ho killed man six
| months after we .wers marred.-s He was most
| a stranger in the city I lsed in, so he escaped
easily. 1.-The we u gilt now, he'd hang for
arm roughly Istarted forward. forgot, you
see, hadn't no right to protect her. But she
didn't seem to MUD what he did : 81 know
whom I'm talking to-" she says, and then she
went on and told me what wa. to.do. The farm
I had given hor-the money OF Clara's she did
not wish. Now if 1 would leave the country
deserving her, giving her cause for divorce
Clara should never know the story-never
knew-"weii, hardly know how toIsav. it to
We, marin, but YOU'RE awar -vourselfShow chill
dren is treated by the world when everything
amt all right knowed 1t 'ul kill nv hansum
gal; shes so proud speerited. an 1 thought
she'd blame me; she'd think Lard o. her 'leetle
pa. I couldn't ha' borne that knowed that
the farm was mine, if Julia want my wife, an
that l could inform on the man. remem-
bered the murder, after she'd said he was the
man. If did tell, Julia would ha' hated me
worse than ever-an' she's a desprit woman.
She'd told the whole story Besides, it was
hard for her to live with man like me-
don't know what some would ha' done, but
I've no speerit an done as SIGH people do I