The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1882-02-04
From llarpcr's Bazaar.

| IRON Harpers bazar.
NY FRIENDS We air here tonight
to see if the deeStrict will vote to build
new skool-house or not. We air here
at no small expense of time, trouble and
kerryseen. ldidn', expect to say moth.
in when | KUN in here, but I've been
a-thinkin rs I've been a-settin' that /
ought to raise my voice agin the whole
purcecdin', it is such an extravagant
waste OF public money taxed out Of pri-
vate eindervidooals. shall vote agin il,
and do all can to kill it. The trouble
is, folks want too much in these days,
and them folks what have little or moth
in 'cept young ones are always ready
to vote 10 spend other folks money TO
edica;e 'em. There wasn't much money
spent to edicatc me, and I've been
deekin in our meetin' for nigh forty
year. I've worn the same coat and the
same trousers, TO say nothin' Of waist
coat and boots, every Sabbath day dur
in full half that long period. Amt |
4 pattern for the deestrict in matters OF
ekonomy? What would have bekum
OF me and Be;sey Ann if / hadn't "A
done so?
don't purtcnd to be Judge of win.
mems goods and fxin's, but I've OBJ
Sarved that she don't spend much of my
money on dresses and bunni;s. She
knows my sentiments too well on them
pints, and don't waste her time a-gad.
din round 10 see the f,shuns and ssr,h.
She 5 4 stay at. home woman and work.
in woman, she is, and, if | do say il,
she's pattern just As much as am.-
Why, il cen Almost TUX our breih away
one Sunday mornin' when we seed our
minister's wife a-kummin' inter the
meetin' house with 4 new bunnit on, all
kuvered up with flowers and fe,hers.-
Sumbody scd twas an Easter, or West
er, I've forgot which, for we don, keep
them Pagin days like the 'Piscopals and
Romans. Weknow better. We j'icc
in the lite while they walk on in dark.
ness; but as was a-sayin', me and
Betsey Ann was dredfully dis,rest over
it. And when we got hum, sez she to
me, sez she: "Whai an example TO our
young folksl You ough,er to go right
over there, jeremiah, and labor with
'em about il"
The next mornin' I wen, over to the
parsonage, and kcrried sum Spccked
apples that We wuz goin' to throw away; /;
for alwuz takes sumthin' with me when
! goes to see the minister's family-it's
4 sakred dooty. tackled Mr.. Nicode-
mus about it. He said that the bunnit
wuz present from sumbody who wuz
here last summer. | suppose il wuz
sum Of them city folks who wuz a-doin'
nothin', and spendin' their money at
the tavern-"Summerin'," | believe
they call il. Anyhow felt an inward
call to labor with the minister a spell
longer, and to tell him in plain words
that he mustn't allow any Of his family
to indulge in extravaganza, whether il
costs him anything or not. We pay
him four hundred dollars a year. when
We can raise it-that's what he wuz
called on-and I've often laid awake
nights thinkin' that he must be a-layin'
up money, and it's wrong for ministers
to do that the Scriptcrs is all agin il.
He has wife, seven children, and an
old uncle on his hands, 20 be sure, but
then we only charge him fifty dollars a
year for the use OF the parsonage, and
there amt many folks that gets their
rent as cheap as that. We use il to pay
the insurance and keep the house in re-
pair. Pertatoes and brown bread are
cheap; that's our livin' mainly, and
what's good enuf for US is good enuf for
anybody. And then, agin, / don't see
why the minister should be obleeged to
entertain the whole tribe OF Gadites,
and half the tribe of Manassar, and
spend our money in feedin' 'em.
Why, it's wus than flock of Egyp-
tian locusts to sec the folks that 60 a.
trampin' in and out Of our parsonage in
the course Of a year. We don't hev
any kumpany. We did hev a man and
a woman lite down on us onst, but they
didn't stay long. She sed that her
mother was third cousin to my wife's S
great-aunt, but we never seed 'em afore
they came a-drivin' into our door yard.
was a-splittin' kindlings, and Betsey
Ann she was a-settin' milk pans out to
dry in the sun, when we heerd sumbody
cry out "Why, how do you do, Cousin
Jeremiah1 How do you do, Cousin Bet
sey." We thot sumthin' queer was a.
kummin', and when that air woman
jumped ou. Of the wagin, and told the
man who druv the team to take out the
trunks and bandboxes, riz right up and
told 'cm we had no foundations for
kumpany, and they'd better go on to
the tavern. My punkins how that fe-
male did splutlerl They had traps enui
with 'em to stay munth but It was
rite in haydn time, and they didn't find
the atmosfear congenial, so they left in
hurry, and we We never seed 'em since.