Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-07-28

weakness produced Dy the CONSCIOUSNESS
of neglect and injury. She adjusted hel
cap and looked defiantly around.
"Wel," said Jones mother-in-law.
with sarcastic emphasis, 81 must say
that when a person expects a young
woman to overlook and slight her own
mother, and name her first girl-baby
after another personally, I'm pre-
pared for anything!'
81 should think, ma'am, that per-
son would have right to expect it, sc
long as she is in her oUn sons house"
"Oh. ma am, / don't intend to die
pute that question; and I'm sure have
no intention of being an intruder in the
house Of my own daughters husband.
If my presence inconvenience you
Mar interrupted Emily, pleadingly.
While Jones whispered something in
the ear of his maternal parent which
caused her to bride up with:
q am sure, Horatio, that 1 don't in.
tend or desire to produce any unpleas-
antness. 1 am the last person." and
here she applied her handkerchief tc
her eyes and left the room, at the same
moment in which Mrs. Crutchings, with
all her little curls in a tremble, sailed
out by the opposite door.
A dead silence fell upon the company.
Jones looked extremely uncomfortable,
and his wife began to show signs OF
nervousness. Mr.. Weatherby Jones
sucked the head of his cane, and Miss
Arabella pensively toyed with hel
watch-charms. s..
II don't see." said Mrs. jackson,
meditatively-"I don't see how the
question is ever to be settled, unless you
allow the twins to grow up and choose
names for themselves"
Cor call them after everybody al
once" suggested her husband.
For once his idea was considered
worthy of attention. Cousin Joshua i'm
mediately took it up.
suppose you call the boy after both
his grandfathers-Thaddeus Peter
and the girl after both her grandmoth.
ers F."
"Jerusha Jane Jones! What a namer'
sobbed Emily.
Couldn't we prefix some ornament.
al name," said Miss Arabella, "by
which the little darlings might be usu
ally called?"
This proposition being approved, il
was further proposed that the grand.
mothers themselves should have the
privilege of choosing these qualifying
first names. The two ladies were there.
upon waited on and informed of this ar.
rangement. Mrs. Crutchings was dis
covered to be packing her trunk, and
Mrs. Jones reading sermon upon ''The
Trials of our Earthly Life;" but they
were induced to return to the company
and though neither appeared perfectly
satisfied with the new arrangement, o
more harmonious feeling was soon re-
stored.
II think" said Mrs. Crutchings,
thoughtfully-"I think Byzantine the
prettiest female name in the world. Ii
was the name of the heroine of a novel
which l wrote at boarding-school, and
never had published, The girls used to
90 wild over it."
"And," said Grandma Jones, pen.
sively, ''there is, in my opinion, no no.
bler-sounding name than Hamilton. ]
had a lover of that name-my first
lover--.whom my papa forbade my mar.
rying."
So the twins were called Hamilton
1hdddeuS Peter, and Byzantine Jane Je-
ruShG!
But there's no foreseeing the course
of human events, and to this day the
Jones twins are known to all their &C.
quaintance by the twin-like abbrevia.
tions of Ham and Eggs!-SGturday
Night.