Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-23

The Weoen a the Csrnees Make 10
Very warn fer Ms. Basee0 and the
Male TrequenseRs u his Saloon.

Male Freauensers ef his saleen.
CoxYKDERrr X ROADS, witch is in the
state of Kentucky, JOon S.-The Cor
ners 10 jist now pasin thru crlsas Wlch
is suthin terrible. For four days the
foundashens nv the crate deep hev
bin broken up, and chaos hez cum aRin::
For the fust time in my life realised
to the entire significance Nv the passage.
MAN is nv few days and full nv trubei.
l hev he'd trubel enuf within the last
four days to not only turn my hare gray
bat to change the color nv the scalp
which the hare fed years ago.
It is al the fault of Mrs Basoon. wich,
despite our warning, wood wear a ZOO
silk dres, and rar silk stockings. and
butened shoes to church last Sundy.
After the expression Nv dissent made by
Mirandy Pogram, Mrs. Kernel M'Pelter
aad Mrs. Isaker Gavit', and the other
enraeed females of the Corners, she
promised to wear em no more, at honae,
bat the desire wich is implanted In
every female buzm to show al the dry
goods she heZ wuz too strong for her,
and 80 last Sandy she blooned out
gayer than ever, and thereby set the en-
tire feminine popelashen Nv the Corners
in . state Of frenzy, wich Is easier to
imagine than describe.
Their wuz a sekret meeting held at
Issaker Gavitt's. which it wuZ easy to
do, ez Issaker is alluz at Bascom's, cep-
tin at meal times, and even then he is
ther eff he gnows. / lev a moo man
from Loojsvile wich hez money to spend
and wants 10 do it, SO Their WIZ no
ditfkilty in hevin sekret meeting Of
wimen at his house.
Wat they resolved or wat was said at
that meetin nobody gnows nor never
vii, but the results WIZ made painfully
apparent to Us imeiitly.
Att clock that mite about % nv em
marched into Bas ,om's and astonished
us by takin the best seets and the best
places in the bar. Mirandy Pogram sot
in one cheer and put her feet up into
another, and tilted back in the most
comfortable atitood possible Mrs. Ker-
nel M'Pelter leaned up agin the bar,
smokin clay pipe. and thu Others
asOomed other atitoods eZ material as
life. Some of en- cooked ther feet on
the cheers, eZ we do, and did it jest eZ
wei, only peticoats amt ez handy ez
trawsers for that kind of comfort
taken. However, the wimem Nv
the Corners, ceptin' Mrs Bascom
amt very 3uch bothered with cioze
Bascom tarned pale.
what do you want here!" he gasped
This amt no place for wimen"
Amt it - exclaimed Mrs. Kernel
M'PeIter. ave shell see. Any place
that is good enuf for my husband, Ker-
| mel Cashus M'Pelter, the father Nv my
| children, and, sencs his niggers wuZ soi
free, NV al his children, is plenty good
enuf for me. | promised to cleve unto
him, and Pm going to do it. Ez Naomi
remarkt, Wher he goes., ther will go.
Bascom. set 'em up. don't jist knC
| what 'sst 'em up meens. but hev Otter
heard the Kernel murmur them words
jist after he rolled into bed with his
boots on. Whatever set 'em up is
yeu do it"'
"Who is to pay?"
"The Kernel. He takes all the none,
/ work for, and he must therefore pay
for settin' NV en- up"
But you wimin don't want liker -
Then Mirandy POgram broke in:
"Don't We tho 2" Do you want it
Does that old fool, the Deekin, want ii
Does that hOary headed fraud, old Mas
by, want it? II they do We do, just the
same eZ men. We hev stumicks to bt
scorched and bowels to be iritatid. II
it adds anything to human hapinis Il
burn and sOOrch inards, then ours mus'
be burned and scorohed. Eff it amooZes
yu to git fol and CON homo at IL o'olocl
at mite, it will amOozs as. Watts sauce
for the Corners Gnnders must be sauce
for the Corners Goose. Set en- up Bias
com. We long to be hapy."
"Yes," said Mrs. Is-aker Gavitt, "Mr;
BascOm kin hev moo silk gOwnds, a
hounced and frilIed, and silk stockins
and shoes that button, while We 90 bare
footed. We might hev the same of ouI
husbands didn't spend al ther money
in liker, and deprive rs nv good cloze
there must be suthin in liker soOpsriol
to good olozs. Ez We can't hev thu
good clozs We vii hev wat is better thar
good cloze. AL the pleasures NV life
amt agoin to be continually on one
side. q. W., set 'en upr'
And ez Bascom didn't muve fast enuf
bein in q sort nv dazed condishn, Mir
andy POQram rushed behind the bal
and sot oat glasses and the familiar ole
bottle, and the entiro bilin Nv EN- rush
ed up to the bar. In an instant the bot
tie was empty, and Mirandy went Il
the d-headed bari and filled it, turn'r
the spixot 80 that over gallon nv tn.
elixir NV life wuz spilled afOre Bascer
| got presence Nv mind enuff to shot of
the murderous stream.
They drank the iker, and Their
snatched up the pipes and terbacker
and took their seets, and sot in soluu
| silence til Mrs. Gavitt she ordered Bas
com to set en- up aein, wich he WI;
compelled to do, preferin to handle tn,
liker hisself to hevin unskiled hand.
foolin around With his spigo.. They
drunk that, and after more talk Miriam.
dy PoeraIa ordered Bascom to set 'eu
up agin.
BY this time the party had becom.
hilarious and friske. They ordered u
out Nv the barrOom. and told US to %
home and do the milkin and other worl
about the RESPECTIVE houses, when at
tempted to demonstrate and arcoo the
pint with 'em.
commenced to instruct 'ea that wo.
man il the weaker vessel, when Mir
andy Pogram Missed thru her teeth
"She mite hev BIN the weeker vessel or
iginely but after 4 long and arduou;
experience Mt the wash tub, and spli.ir
oven wood, and hoeiu corn, she ken
probably hold her own with men Which
nez he'd less exercise"
And three nv 'em jumped onto nut
and keried me out to the horse trof AM
deposited me tenderiy in it. Then they
histed out the DeekiA, Issaker and the
Kernel, threw Bascom over his bar anC
took the running nv the establishment
into their own hands.
They held the fort till IL at mite
when heer,n Nv 'em sinGin bachanalia,
songs on tae street We wondered in
1t vuz a horrible site that met our as
tonished eyes. Over the bar wuz huna
a banner Nv white cotton. onto which
wuz painted these words nv fearfal inn.
port:
Mrs. BAsCoN sHKL NOT BE THE ONLY
WOMAN IN THE CORNERS WITH sIIE
DREasrs, SHOES THAT BUTTON, AND REL
SILK STOCKINGS! CLoZE OR BLOoDr'
Tho cheers WIZ broke. the table WI
overturned, and the bottles wuz strewet
about on the floor. In one bottle Their,
WIZ perhaps two drinks, and took /,