Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-03-20

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muslin curtain to the window and iii ;r
cot bed. There are plenty Of 90 GOOD :,
sweet hnsks in the corn honsa ana -, ~,
can just tack together a mattress u sua suta
that Tm'ewaah p the ceiling, and What's
naa. fpas peniah? The COWS in the rye lot /
lea Lear me! Everything goes wrong if i
s.eP INTO the house for moment. And
really, Lutte, these things are your bugi-
ness, ana not mine!" he added irritably.
lucy could not help laue ming. all 6y
neTseit, as her husband IAN M the stems.
Dut u was very sad little Ianph
ana soon changed into Sigh.
L WONDER" said she, in a whisper. ssif
my poor, tlred-out ghost would haunt
19ese stone pavements, and scrubbed
seelves, II l were to die! never heard
OF q ghost in q dairy before. bnt I
snould think that it might easily be-"
But the little bedroom was fitted mn
1or all that, as fresh as rose and
uncle Paul arrived, dried.up. Yellow
complexioned old man, with an I'D fash.
Ioned cravat in many folds around his
hres, hres,, s,aat. ana 9 suit of navy blue, with
he had the polite way Of half a cen.
isaIy, ago, and Lucy thought she should
IKE him very much, if only she had time
TO get acquainted with him.
put she was churning ten pounds of
Dutter day, and there was the baby.
ana the company, and the young chick.
ems, and the baking to do for the sewing
society, which was to meet at her house
that week.
She was almost too busy to sleep.
But Uncle Paul was Watching her
quietly all the time.
he came out, one day, to the barn.
where his nephew was putting a new
handle on sickle blade.
Pretty busy times- Uncle
Paul ?" asked the farmer, scarcely tax.
ing the leisure to look up.
Aye, absently answered the old
men. did I tell you Nephew Seth,
about the reason I left your Cousin
"Not that I remember" said Seth.
breathing on the blade and polishing
1t with his silk handkerchief.
Dorothy died-his wife ~
Oh, yes," said Seth. "Ma)arial
fever, wasn't it ?"
"No" bluntly answered Uncle Paul.
cit was hard work. That woman.
Nephew Seth, did the housework for
eight persons. Eliab didn't even let
her have woman to help with the wash
ing and the ironing!"
Must have been regular going
brute" said Seth, Tightening the handle
little.
=" All the sowing, too" added Uncle
Paul -" the mending and making.
Never went anywhere except to church..
about" Q
"The old savage!" said Seth.
"She was fond Of reading but she
never got any time for it," said Uncle
Paul. "She rose before sun.up. and
never lay down until IL o'clock. IT was
hard work that killed that woman. and
Eliab coolly declared that it was sheer
lazlness when she couldn't drag herself
around any longer. And when she died
he rolled up bis eyes and and called it
the visitation OF Providence"
"Why didn't the neighbors lynch
him2" cried Seth fairly aroused to indlg-
nation at last.
Uncle Paul took off his glasses,
wiped them vigorously. and looked his
nephew hard in the face.
"Why don't the neighbors lynch
yon?" said he.
Seth dropped the sickle and stared,
sNephew Seth," snid Uncle Paul. i'm
pressively, "thou art the man! Are YOU
not doing the very same thing?"
"I?" gasped Seth. e
"Your wife is doing the work of a
household of sixteen people," said
Uncle Paul. "She is drudging as you
could hire no foreigner to drudge. She
is rising early, and lying down late; she
ia Offering up her life on the shrine OF
your farm and its requirements. / have
seen her grow thin and pale even during
the few days have been here. I have
carried water and split wood for her, be-
cause there was no one else to 90 it.
have seen her carry up Mrs. Belford's g
breakfast daily to her room, because
Mrs. Belford preferred to lie in bed; and
cooking dainty dishes for Helen Patt ,r-
son, because Helen wouldn't eat what
the rest, like. No galley slave ever
worked as she does. and you, with
your hired men-whose board only adds
Ito hercaressand your array of labor
saving machinery, stand eooily by aud
see her commit slow suicide. Yes,
Nephew Seth, thin kit is case for
Elyhehinp i,.s
~ Ssfh had grown pale.
"I-Tneyer thought of this" said he.
"Why didn't some one tell me?"
"Where were your own eyes2" said
Uncle Paul.
Seth Bellenden rolled down his shirt
sleeves, put on his coat, and went into
the house.
He told the Belfords and Pattersons
that it was inconvenient to keep them
any longer. He gave Cousin Susan to
understand that her room was needed.
He made arrangements tokeep the hired
men at the vacant farm house, and en-
gagged stout dairyman, and a house.
servant to wait on Lucy. And he tele-
graphed to her father to come to Silvan
Bridge at once.
tShe deserves treat, J" he said. "He
shall spend the summer with us.
And then he went to tell Lucy.
She had tainted among the buttercups,
picking strawberries Tor tea. Poor lit
tie Lucy! The machinery had utterly
refused to revolve any longer.
His heart grew cold within him.
"She will die" he thought, ''and
shall have murdered her !"
But she did not die. She recovered
her strength by degrees.
"It is better than any medicine" she
said, ,.'to know that Seth is thinking OF
me and for me. y
And Uncle Paul-.'the last straw" as
she had called him-had proved her sal:
walton. :
81 didn't want her TO go as Eliaba
wife did," said Uncle Paul.
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