Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-03-19

b'li've - gracious we'd had Just such
II fuss a. El and me hiss had.
Ill shows tina. human nature is much
the same under all circumstances and
conditions, aud ii makes us careful not
10 expect other people to do better than
we should ourselves. | hope your wife
will soon come | added, as a covering
TO the pill of truth had given him.
He rose, took up his stick and his
SLOUGH hat, and said he must be
"goin'."
IL was going TO ask you to open my
lotter when il came, Miss Stewart, and
answer il for me so as to lose no time.
| want her to know just how | am sit
uated, and she must bring home somo
coffee and sugar and new wash-tub,
but guess III let il wait, and come
down again in few DAYS myself
With parting "good-day, ma am"
he departed, and was soon forgotten.
Next morning the sun shone, and we
had no time 10 think of Mr.. Timbcreo
and his domestic Affections. AT sunset
on the second day we saw shadow fall
on our work as we sat on the porch,
and looking up whom should we see but
MIR. Tmberee, rs large rs life, but look
ing ut least ten years younger and smil-
ing rs CHEEKY rs il there were no erring
Jcmima in the world. His hair had
been cut, and was neatly brushed, and
his eyes were brighter than ever.
"IIow-de."
Good evening, Mr. Timberee.
"a mighty nice day we've had. Tho
world is a purity place after ALL and
body don't feel like goin' underground
just yet; at least don't Did my letter
come, Miss Stewartp'
Eyes, Il came yesterday"
lie took II and slowly dcciphered lis
contents. then folded IL, put Il back In
It's envelope and laughed, little cack-
ling laugh Ms he SAID;
"She don't appear to be- in hurry to
como back, and I've made up my mind
TO let her stay spell longer. I've had
streak OF luck since was here t'othcr
day. and don : mind telling you how
IL came about. All the way home
kept a-thinking what this lady'd been
saying, and somcthn' kept saying to
me: 'Jcthro Timbcrloc, don't you think
you was n triilc onreasonablep' and |
was wilin' TO own | had been, The
more thought il over the more | was
sure of it, and by the time I'd walked
five miles | began to wish ! could see
Jemimy and tell her | was willin' 10
overlook il all if Ed would tell me |
warn't liar. felt it would be good
to ease my mind like. Wall, when /
got homo opened the doorand thought
how lonely was, and how | wished
hadn't been so hasty, when all of sud
den | looked up, and there was the Ia
bic all sot for supper, and the room was
full of the smell of hot gingerbread and
little onions, and out in the kitchen |
heard some one moving about. Ii was
Jemimy herself, as clipper as if she'd
never been away.
Pap" she said, and threw her arms
around my neck. I'm sorry didn't
mind you.
Don't say word, child, says,
It's all right. | was little too hasty,
and I'm afeard made fool o. myself.
Wen forget all about it, I'd done
the same thing myself when was his
his age. You're good girl to get your
pap some supper, for I've had a hard
time here alone
land can Ed come back?'
Course he can, and well get the
crops planted, and garden-sass in, and
corn and potatoes put in right of, and
let your mother make her visit out, foi
she'll never get there again.
Just then the door opened and Ed
Burgess came in, holding ont his hand,
and saying he was sorry for anything
he said in a tit of anger, and allowing
he hadn't slept well thinkin of me
all alone.
"All right; don't mention it; was
more to blame than you,' said, and
we just shook hands then and there,
and made up rs good friends rs you
ever saw. Then we sat down TO sup
per, and when | went out to milk, he
takes the pals out of my hands, and
wouldn't let me touch COW, just for
all the world as if he was my own son.
Before we went to bed, | told him L
would give him half of everything |
owned Next morning, bright and early,
the two other hens came OF with every
chick Matched out
"'Good luck everywhere, SAYS
Jemimy. Il felt ashamed TO have only
one chicken, but now we'll show n nice
lot to Nam when she comes home,
and she laughed rs If she was as
happy as a child to think of il.
"The funniest thing of all is that when
| told her to 90 out as much as she
liked and talk to Ed, she said she didn't
want to go, nor wouldn't go, where it
wasn't woman's place: and she stays
in the house like an old woman, but she
sings rs pert as II robin. ] wish you'd
come to see us, ma am.
| replied that should certainly try
TO when his wife came home but he ST.
fenced me by saying;
Don't wait for that, ma am. Ill come
with blackboard for you any day you
say, and Jemimy'll be mighty glad to see
you, for she says your words made me
think how she was, and set everything
straight. Mighty strange it was, ccr-
tain, that this is the same world was
in then, and it amt bit like it. The
birds are all singing now everywhere,
and tho sun shines so bright il cen
Almost dazzles me, but everything was
dark then, and | was so miserable l
wanted to give up livin'. Good-by,
ma'am, I'll come for you in n day or
two"
And so Jethro departed, having made
his life right by using little practical
common sense that would solve many
a perplexing problem 20 greater men
than he, namely, by putting himself in
their place. -Mdrgaret B. Pecke, tn Chi
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