Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-04
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A t.tCUR'VSH WEEE4-}1NlE&s
'"Yes'm, tell you what, the world does
-moye.p The speaker was "Uncle"
Benz a man without kindred, yet uncle
ito everybody. ''Time was when a
woman would no more think of handlin'
money than of flynn. Why, as good
man as old Deacon White would take
the cl5th his wife had been a4Weavin',
,downto the Store, git the pay fOr~it, and
bring it home, and if she put as much
as her finger onto a silver quarter, or a
bill, he'd snap out: Let that alone.
won't you? That 'ere's money.
1.-The GURUS thing about itwas she
never thought of answering him back
and ,stabdin', up for her rights. WANT
heard on in them days. -
''Once in a while, when Mis- White
wanted new ribbon or somethin, I'M.
common, AI've4 seen that woman stan
and tease for fifty cents, and he'd pre-
tend he didn't hear her, and finally he'd
hand it over to. her. with a dreadful
scowl onto his face, and say: Here It's,
Melissy, and don't you luse II. Where's
your handkerchief to tie it up in?' And
MelIssy would look as plesed as could
be, when perhaps she'd done Seventy,
five or a hundred dollars with of
-weavin' besides all her hOusewQrk. .aH
''But the naeanest3thiAg & ever heerd
ION was the way Joshua Ftibbsl portiOned
off his darter Betsey. You see she'd
spun and wove, and WoYe and spun, and
never'd had nOthin' of her own. She'd
got along in years, and was bent Just
nigh about double. Poor woman, she
was as crooked as rainbow. She'd
got so that she was just a machine for
work. She never smiled nor nOthin'.
Her father'd took all her airnin's and
had added farm to farm-sUunny kind
of Rhd it was that Wouldn't raise
nothfn' but mulleins and 'huckleberries;
he'd been sailing down money, too, in
the bank-he was alters putin in an
never takin' out. Neighbors used to
say that his hens had mournful way
of cacklin', as if they knowed their
eggs would be grabbed afore they was
cold, and sold. There want no day SO
stormy but what you'd see, Joshua
Tubbs4 goins by with a-load 90 Ship
timber or bark, and on top O. that
would be one O. Betsey's pieces O. fac
tory, or a dozen hens eggsg Or a peck
o. apples.
''Wall, he'd laid up money amazin'
fast When he came. to die he was with
dew you s'pose he pervided for Betsey !?
Why, in his VIII he just give her a hum
with her brother, Artemus, on the old
place, but not q cent she could, call her
own. She couldn't work no more, she
was so wore out, she could not straight
en- herself up, and was old and humly,
and Artemus and his wife, when they
found out she couldn't do nothin', they
didn't want her; so they was kinder
hard on her, and turned her off, and she
got low-spirited and deranged-like, and
went over to Job Watson Nmill7po
and drowned herself, and that was the
last o. her.
''But the most GURUS will that I ever
heerd on was Deacon 'Bijah Clark's.
Remember it, don Youp You don't?
/ declare if I'd ever heerd it onct, I
couldn't have forgot it. The Deacon
rally did think heap O. his wife, and
Esther Clark was good woman if ever
there was one. He was one % them
men as thought a woman never ought
to touch money, and he'd pervided so
she wouldn't have no trouble o that
kind
ellis will began like this: i, Biiah
Clark of the town of Salem, censidefin'
the o1isartainty of this mortal life, and
bein' of sound memory, blessed be AL
mighty God for the5sarne, dew give and
bequeAth unto my beloved wife, Esther
Clark. all and singular, the personal
property which shesowned at the time Of
her intermarriage with me, You see
in them days winmen- coufdnt even
hold what was their own, and for that
mattel Esther hadn't nothin' tbut a
chist % drawers and a feather bed.
ALSO koHe-third part of the farm in
SalenE where ] now reside, the same to
be taken from that portion not includin'
the btildip's; also. the use and Occu-
pancy of the southeast closet of the
house where i now reside; also the
privilege of cookinf at the fireplace,
and the use of the TIN baker IN the
kitchen of said house during the term of
one year and six months after my de-
cease, the same te-be Ia fab reeempense
of, and for any dover and thirds which
she may or cam ing anyWise- claim and
demand out of my estate. .,..,,4 =.
''NOw, want thatre ieurlus? And
not exactly easy for the old woman,
was lit? Don't know what 3Biiah
thought she was goin' to dewIwhen the
eighteen months was up; couldn't cook
by the Fireplace no more, couldn't
sleep in the bedroom, no money,
.nothin' to to do. but go and reside, As
the lawyers say, on the one-third OF the
farm not includin' the buildin's.