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

did was to turn over new leaf with his
wife. - 81
Zone day he'd sold some heiferss nc
he tossed money over t. her "a 8
careless oaIIat S. 81 .. said s. ST
hstraight'
.E1f9 HR85Fa sine. bl k spiders.
Bat her, She !@Onlcn have been more
skeer6 - sA&s i,
/ % I don't know nothiTa about money
Eshe sod Sic befee hosE'
Deacon GlsEhs .sssE tezszzstEs her a sssIle11'
she only jest teehed it. N : ~
9 Wall, rs time syd55tt sail 8 Now
yoq'vsgOts5 gin = q g $ no use IN
wi1nmen ks5eih 6 80 Sslgy'n9Fant about
O" ! iWRy n IasF5 tic but
furthef 9th an Ibstraction. g
g 'NeVeA ha5nd that, Esther: said ne
Squire, laSghinS5; 9 heereda yeq couhtil
up six dozen eggs t'othsF day,
money hahn no lfferent 8fl51a the1.5
L knows onS ~ 800 ~ ELgR
i, ..You oughttS have seen thesslodj:fya - Oh
Ettkat woman & face as She tuned e.SsE'
the bills Ehere. was seventy lars of
Ism, and she done pretty well at coun-
tin 'em. Tbeflst, time she made ninety
dollars OF lem, and the last time, fortya
'TYern tlsos bad as itnlight, have been,
i and on the other" hand 'twan't What
you 'dsscalh accurat' but her husband
kept her at it, iencoufagin' her along,
AM helpin' her on, for as he said, when
she. got to be Mis- Widow Peters, he
wanted her to know. enough bout dol
lars and cents not to be IMPOSED upon;
at which the tears would come into
Esther;s eyes, and she'd say She. hoped
she shoQldn' t; outiYe- him. :, ? .ro4aaIr
q Nobody, knows nothin' boutithats
but one, or t other has got to go fqst. and
ye may as well il arrnl all ye, can bout
takin1'r kerr Of yourself. =. liz 1910 aasa-
+ They was an, awful happy couples.
Say what, you're, a mind to, married
4 aolks. gifts along better when there's
Fplepty OflOVe between them, than when
I they re draYi4' together just from 2 sense
of doQty. I've alters said / should en- en-
JOY my second :, marriage. betteT2nps my
fust, i was Jsure, though. I've, neKer.
found one, as yet i It S, and awful re-,
sponsibsAlity to go into the m NEE
and say; With my, worldly goods l
Ethee endow, especially when you on. amt in
'EBut Twas, te1Iin' bouts Squire Peters,
4 u
I there couldn't nobody cheat her. One
day he was going, off. to the citY-for
that was what-Salen1 had growed to be
] and says he: Esther, you may sell
them steers, if the man should come
along.
't'I think WILL said she, laughing;
how, muehsdo yQu. ask for Temp J.
"Qh EaEentBa a liars hs said and e Of 9
g I happened to be in there when the
drover came, She. talked around n
Ieetle about tie. bEcce, ana actually sold
them steers for eighty-five dollars, and
then sheg took the is9noneygs net a bit
scared;7 She rung the silver and
j squinted at the bills to see if they was
u ghniWin' as handy as them cashiers in
city bank; and she was about the pleased
est woman yous- et%isee, when the
I Squire came hum, and she told him
what she'd been up to. Yos7 see women
7 don't enjoy being SO helpless, and havin'
j OFerseersa put over 'em, cou,1tin' every
cent for 'em as if they was ijiC@s.
There want, much Squire Refers
could do with that ere one-third of his
wife's property-the, will was such
drefful GURUS ,one-untn he found,
German who wanted to hire it. He
leased it for some years, and what did
he put onto it but Slaughter-hOuse.
4 You see Sad ana waspSroEinf proper fast.
I and they wouldn't allow no KILN done
in the city. Now that Jest split Liiah's
hull farm to him and to his wife. Not
that it hurt their feelin's so much to see
the peer ble8tin' lambs driv' by, and the
cows with their calves a fOlloWin' 'em-
I'm not sayin' but beef-steak and NUT
ton chops amt good and toOthsOme in
their way, but, it takes the relish out o.
them to see the dumb critters going to
the slaughter, loOkin' up at you with
s@their great lonesome FeyeszT ebut LJah'
and his wife weren't no way tender,
and what fretted them was that there
got to be such drefful stencil from the
slalghter-house there Weren't no hvin'
near it. Mis- Peters lot was to the
south of 'em, and the wind was mostly
bloWin',s from that Sers quarter; and
? Liiah was took Sick and-hadla heavy
J doctors bill to pay-they all got allin'-
n the cows wouldn't drink out o. the crick,
the water was so piseped, and. folks
went along the road a=holdin3 their
noses. till finally iLijah eouldn' t STAN it
no longer; so Z he just. buys out the
widows hull right in the place4-pays q
harnsom' price for it, too-and then he
buys out the German s lease; altogether
! it cost him one good sum. - , 80, Hl 81.
, g Now, said Squire Peters to Lijah,
hope You'll larn somethinr = Never saw
the time yet when the bitter didn't get
bit; and furthermore you see the
i +Squire'd been a Justice of the Peace,
and had got into he:habit o. usin' that
; ere word-I'll leave it to you if you
hadn't ought to have used your, aunt a
leetle better, seem lyon started 5pODr las
poverty, and allfy0u're wIIth has 1Dome
i! 'FRONT.' that ere pOverty.'iE4 ir, s-o41Hq IS
hsfYou see he give him an awful talk
in to, antp1ft done some good, for the
Squire said that aBijah was the skan3ed-
y est-l oo4E9h iiaan that ever heiseeit II 40
! ~ Herd how the Squire and his wife
d died, hain't you? Well, twas a drefful
.kegir'us circumstance. They was both
) took the same day with a feFeF-ketched
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