The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-05-15
Nasby.
MIR. NASBY DEPRECIATES THE INTERFFR-
ENCE WITH BASCOM BI l HE WOMEN OF THE
CORNERS.
CONFEpERIT \ ROADS.

CONFEDFRIT ROADS.
(Which is in the State Nv kenucky.) !
April ., 1884.
The wlmmcn uy the Corners are given us
much more trubbe than the men. We kin
GIT on with Blger and Pollock, for we kin tite
them, but when the wives. dawters and sisters
Nv the Corners glt to invadin the sakred pre-
clncks 1t worries us. Only last mite ther wuz
almost tragedy. They cum in and led out the
l,eekin lssaker, the Gavitt and Kernel Mcpel-
Ter by the ear, took EN- home and locked EN- in
their cold houses and they returned and sot up
III Bascoms barroom till II O'Clock at mite 1t
wuZ terrible.
| hcv studied woman with great care: and
am free to admit that she heZ her yooses in this
world; but she is not man and never kin be.
Al the attempts to convert her into sich will
aillz result in lgnominyuS falyoors. Woman
Is ornamental; and, in certain capacities, yoose-
lul IN her proper speer.-moVn in her reg
icr orblt.-nothin kin be better. The wife NV
iasaker Gavitt is to BaScom Il plcasin picter
When she is the foreground uv "a wash-tub,
pcrlkelorly eZ he knows that All the money she
earns at that pursoot he will inevitably spend
at his bar. There she is in her material speer.
ana Is good. But when that same bein flies
out NV her orbit. and flies into hizzen. she is
like comet. wich slosheS about among worlds
and smashe> things. When She rushes fran
tically in to his bar. with her four hungry brats
close behind her. and forbidS him to sell likker
TO ls>aktr. II she wants what she heZ earned,
AZ least, TO buy perVishens and shoes for the
children. She don't please me at all she is in
terfern with lssakers prerogative eZ man
and, while | don't delite in brootality, can't
deny that she richly deserves the black eve
Wich she aluZ sits on sich occasions.
WuZ never so conyn>t NV the danger NV
women gettIn out Nv ther speer ez wuz one
hte when she wuz tryn to vet Isaaker home
ana he struck her. 'Heyns eff only Good
with tcer> and pa>hun, ITS quick enuff we'd
shut up slch holes ez yoorn.' This to Ba>com
he remark Wuz fuIi uy mcanin to me-
lSSaker. and the others who spend the most NV
thelr lIme and all their money with BaScom.
agreed with me that nOthn Good he so danger
Gus to our liberties ez women. They beyn't
the reasonin faculties Nv men, and hevn't the
>tIddlni>S necessary to the proper exercise Nv
the govcrnin function. Basc0mS customers hey
often commenced the disru>hn uy this question:
ana wood, doubtiiS>, hey struck out suthn
startlin, ef they Good hey kept sober long cnuff
TO heV developed their ideas; but this | know.
that every man who frekentS hi> bar is opposed
TO wmmin, ceptin at home in their place.
| hev reasons for not l0yin women too much.
| Wuz Wunst the head Nv a family: that il. |
Wuz where | WuZ entitled to BE- 50 by law. In
my yoothtuI days. married My spouse wuz
the owner. in her own rife. Nv productive
farm IN Moo Jersey; and bed pictured in my
mind lf" Nv felicity >ich eZ the poets drccm
uuN. i WIZ lroot farm; and sod to myself.
l-o"lzrr ane shell pick them peaches; Looizrr
Jane >hel market them. Ez for me. Shall
lay me on my back under the trees and >mok-
IL my pipe. try to forgive Eve for bringing la
Dor into the world. thought | wood compel
Looizer Jane TO make repara,hen to me for
the tFll her mother inflicted on me and all
men.
he'd miecaculated Looizer Jane. When |
gave my dreck>hcn> The first time. cz to what
she shood do. She refoozcd | demonstrated
with her; when that mfonratd and mu~kclcr
female knocked me down with \ chair and
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