Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-04

two brass kettles, all my iron and hoI-
low ware, one. fireshoyel, two heifers,
SIX yall6ws chairs, one IlibIe, one bed
with bedding and beasteao, Doddrfd6eas
'tRise and Progress in RELIGION - one
neWhehist, DeddFidge's Regeneration, -
one table, one. stand with oi1-cloth cover
for fle sames I#fs sktfIs kI
Z Fo1ny aephsY, 'Liijah Clark 81 e.
| reservedly give and bequeath all the rest,
residue and remainder of my personal
l)estdte and effects otsher@nbefOTe dis
posed of, includin' that one-third por-
ton Of my farm upon which are situated
my houses and tenementals.,' 80
Tackled onto the4asteend g the will,
was codercil in which 'Bijah Clark
give the children Of his former pastor,
Elder Eleazer Smith, "A set o. blue
edged 5crockery-what there was left
on :" Fo2S's Book of Martyrs cheer
full kind O. readin' for the young folks
and brass warming pan
.'YOu see he. got things dreadfuIly
mixed up, brass Kettles and Bibles, but
the will was drawn only day be-
fore his death, when things was gettin'
kind . 7 misty gin shis own mind ssHe
mieant thathis wife shouldn't have no
trouble handlin' money. The cdeaedn
hadn't been dead a month, afore his
niSo Fl Rdfdy {54R9f P qoGFPd Et
'Lijah; SO Doddrige's 'Rjse'aRd 'RegeA7
Grafton, went right back again to the
old shelf.
:. 'Twan't lone. afore ''Lijah and his
wife. lett heir Aunt Esther know who was
the marsters in that house. I s'pose it
was uatuEi toEio list so, and human ma
tur' is poor stuff anyway, and it warn
long afore she was driv inCo that ere
southeast bedroom and closet, and told
that she must remain there.
81 Lijah's wife, right contrary to the
will, forbid her cooking by the fire place
but sent her leetle dish O. puddin' and
merlasses three times a day, saying that
it was good enough for anybody and
dreadful film. sss
QetTt was no anatter whether Mis- CLARK
liked it-or not; itsaftaihly '#ahatSvery
film to her, for she grOwed poor on it,
andloOked ten years older than she did
on the day the deacon died.
Now. Mis- Clark was a nat raj cook,
and ye KNOW what thatmeans. If she
/ set out to- fry q piece o. pork, why, it
was Drowned to Jest the right broWh;
even in bilin peFtateFs she knew jest
how, to dew it. They warn't never
sogeY, but alters com9z.8ut mealy and
whole. When ( she. faiHly laid herself
out, bless mel You should have eat her
Edoughnuts and gingerbread and pump
kin pies.@Itlgss cookin IS was ee0Enl
She'd beat the huh neighborhood.
Now the deacon setsa good deal by
Esther, and especially by her victuals;
and, arter. all few ribbons and curls
may cateh.a husband, .butsthere's moth
in like good, hullsome cOokin' to keep
himAin traces. The way to a mans
! affections lies right through the stomach,
andit STAINS to reason it should be so,
| for yaller biscuits and sour bread natter
! ally brings on dyspepsy, andthat makes
everybody cross and snarlin'.
''But [ was tellin' how that. will
worked. 'Liiah and his wife putt the
screws onto Esther, and the property
was given in such GURUS way that she
couldn't do nOthin' with it. True, she
had the use of One-third o. the farm, but
there Wern't no buildings onto it, and
reckon that and is.w us, than. money foa
| woman to handle; SO there she was
right under their thumb, and they
| knowed it, Folks kinder thought she
was losing her mind; anyhow she got
| drefful lOw-spirited.
1T happened about this time that
! Squire Peters lost his wife-DeacOn
CIark's folks and the Peterses had alters
| been drefful intimate. Now q very
GURUS ACKNOWLEDGMENT or, rather,
it came to light. 1t seems that some
| thirty wears before, when Esther was a
rbsf EcheeIsed gf}l 9e&Sn old folks is
| young some time in their lives-Squire
Peters writ her a letter, askin' her to
marry him.
J FIN them days postage was high, and
! he hadn'tnO two shillin's to fool away,
so he put it into the hands of his Uncle
Zebedee, who was goin' right to Salem,
and asked him 10 carry it to- Esther.
This was in the month o. March.
''Zebedee Peters was one O. them aw-
tf1l forgitfuf men; he. slipped that letter
into rs overcoat pocket, and then It
slipped out O, his mind entirely. When
he got home from his journey it had
growed warm, and the OvercOat was
hung up in the closet, and nobody
looked into t6e pockets till the next fall
Then what Should Zebedee, IN fumblinS
around, draw out, but that ere love let
ter. Twas a GURUS circumstance.
| ln-Cn6 IledubllAe, turing Ills EIE
summer, Squire sReters; feelin' a good
deal sighted in not hearing from Esther,
had done just what many another disap-
pointed man does. engaged himself right
away to girl he didn't care any great
for, and Esther had been married to
Deacon Clark.
t:In course o1timeySSq giireF Refers toll
bought farm up to Salem, came up
ii =
nothing had happened, and nothin'
rally had happened, ferthe=S qHiEezkept
his own secret and that was the end
ont. All parties lived happily enough.
! F''In them days divorces warm t talked
about, nor incompa tibilities. When
I men and women got married they
sknoWed it was fog. life, and they d got
to stand it for better or for wus. Be
sides, it was such hard work. to get 8
Twin, they didn't get no time to Sigh
over what might have been. A man
and his wife was like "a pair, 0'foxe1iizv
they was y0ked together-and twas
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