The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-12-12
DIVISION IN THE HOUSE OF Nasty.
Mrs. Nasty Heard From.

(Which is in the State NV Kentucky.

luSt SeIce We lell III twenty years d5o
the year afore Jeems Sparks was born.
| hev ben good wife--or fule-some-
times | amt sartain wich ! hav alters
raised eggs and garden truck in summer,
and nit socks to sell in winter, to help
meet the bills-Bascom alters bein' the
heaviest
| hev jes come from Missoury: my folks
liv in Missoury, Pike county. | staid four
months SO es to hev my board ekal the
price ov my ralerode fare Petroleum is a
good economizer, eff he amt the best per-
wider in the world My folks is all tenn
pruns folks, and went with 'em to the
meetings, pertiklerly convenshun at Sc
daylia, where got some yues, end | hev
ben a vuin ever sence. The PERSONAL of
the meetin was all wimmin, and few
pale nosed men (Which otherwise was of
good helthy color, and uncommon free
from smell) One of 'em, who was right
peart looking, was axed thare to spoke, but
the wimmen didn't git time to hear him.
| seen by the handful the fust thing after
dinner was hygeen and heredity, showed
by doctor. | SEE to sister, "Mariar, eat
fast; want to see them, we don't hav EN-
in Kentucky.
We got in jes as thay was a calling it
off None of the men didn't move, but a
female riz up--as fur as she cood-she was
hull he'd lower'n me. She looked scared
like, and I whispered to sister, Marian
whar is the doctor and the hygeen at p
''Sez she, ''thar she is. its female doc
tor Cynthia Ann.
| SEE |. .sMariar. in the solum hour of
deth | want somethin strong.
you want Dr. Bigpil's breth then. :"
snapped Marian | herd afterward that
she he'd doctored with the little female,
| fur peccolyar kind of malaria they
hev in Missoury. People is awful touehy
about thare doctors. Then a woman
talked about law and pollyticks and she
was smart. Thar want nothin skeery
about her That's wen my Use was
opened | hey alters believed wimmen
should keep in their speer, but | seen now
that winners speer was all out doors
and meen to keep inside my speer.
hev heerd Petroleum say convenshuns
was upliftin, OWN to the sooperior quail
ity of the likker thay allus hev to 'em, but
here the flown bole held lemonade with
out stick or straw into it, and yit l was
inspired to resolve tibet | would go back to
to the Corners and iine with Mirandy Po-
gram, Mrs. Kernel McPelter. and the rest
of the sufferin sisterhood in such a rade on
Bascoms es wood make the fust one pail.
also visited in Bethany, whar, for twenty
| five wears. there has been no likker sold,
and there is no Jale accommodations, and
men have ben bleeged to spend their
mummy for vittles and close-or keep it
witch men wunt do. There my purpose
was strengthened.
This morning at brekfust begun: SEE
| to Petroleum, ''who be You goin to vote for
| this fall ?' He looked at me severe and
sed: ''Cynthy Ann, hev you learned to
purity insteps, thay is warm? Them ort
to fetch a good price SEE l. MIR. Mas
by, = never called him Nasty before end
it startled him, ''hev you lost your man.
ners assoshiatin with George Willyum
Curtis and Beecher and them Boston fell
lers > Who be you goin' to vote fur?"
SEE he, ''With my party man is bound
to his party as much as woman is bound
| oil ~
bound to her husband after he's ded. |
hey ined the Prohibition party, Mr.. Mas
| by SEE l. Petroleum actooly turned pail
in the nose, and up spoke Jeems Sparks.
Mother" seq he, watts the use of another
party? The Republican party is the
party of CRATE moral idees. Look at Kan
sas and Lowry" Jeems Sparks has draw
ms toward Republicans. He is swete on
Joe Biglerses girl, and hes ben warm billed
shirts for yere. my sun, SEE |, LIANT
no time to talk about the Republicans in
Kansas end Iowy end Mis- Foster, tho
thares enuf to be said. but look at the old
parties in Missoury. The Democrats
wouldn't hev a prohighbishun plank in
their platform on no account. When the
Greenbackers put up their platform, they
tried to put in narror prohighbishun
plank, end they laid it in careful too, but
| it broke the hull thing down, and they
quit and went home, telling the Republi-
cans to see what they Good do. They never
touched the prohighbishun plank, they
| kaolred their underpinnin was too rotten to
support it, so they didn't put in any thing
new, but jis patched up with the old lum'
Der. Jeems Sparks this prohighbishur
plank is heavy, and nothin weak Amt goir
to hold ii up Its fine grained, hard wood,
right out of the heart of the Lords best
timber. Its like the Florida heart pine
| I've heerd on Its CRATE fur fence posts,
or anything you want to tie to, and it'll lay
rite out doors till every thing around its
rotten but il amt hurt a bit. Jeems
Sparks, this prohighbishun plank has got
to 90 into a hull new platform, with
principles in its underpinnin, and richusnis,
in its moren likely it'll hey to be braced
up by winners vote By this time Pc
troleum he'd cum too, and SEE he, 'Wat is
to becum of the children wen the muthers
spend their time votinrf SEE |, "Wai
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