The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-06-09
DUPLICITY PUNISHED.
st Was Love as Did It"-A True
Incident Of Lowly Life.

Hannah, or s.Hanner"-as she i
generally spoken of in the circles il
which she moves-Hodges is cook il
o pleasant house in the Fifth Ward
4 most excellent cook is Hannah. Sh,
has no widowed mother who keeps &
boarding house to supply with pro
visions, and consequently her employer
gets Oh comfortably on 4 very moder
ate income. Neither does she cherish
@ cat which breaks things, and hel
male friends are never RECALLED with
anything but cold roast that is actually
unfit TO again 60 on the table. Hannah
is a model cook so far as culinary skill,
cleanliness and management go.
And then she is tolerably cookbook
hg. She has a broad, red face, and
weighs perhaps one hundred and eighty
sounds, and may be considered by
critical folk somewhat too red and ro-
bust in the matter of arm, and her
hair NAV be trifie too thin, but a vast
army of truckmen and cab drivers and
servants in the houses Whereabouts. d.
not consider these little matters as
drawbacks. Possibly the rumor that
abe has. in q long course of earning
wages and outstanding perquisites,
saved one thousand dollars, somewhat
snitigates the general severity of her
appearance, and lends a charm TO her
which mere beauty, never more than
skin deep, can not give. One thousand
dollars il not very large sum OF
money to a banker or a wholesale
merchant, but to hack driver, ambi-
kpus TO swi1dle on his own account in
stead of doing it for another, it is a
great deal. 1t means a hack OF his
own and luxury. Likewise truckman
who pants to own his own establish
ment does not consider thousand dol
lars matter to be lightly considered.
! Two men, both truckmen. essayed
khe fair Hannah, and sought her hand
b marriage, which is honorable. One
Mas Seth Strawn and the other Henry
Peter. Hannah treated them both
well. and sat before them, with rigid
tmpartiality, portions of cold beef pre-
cisely alike. They never came the
same night, or if they did she was not
ut home to the last conner. They were
both aware that they were both hated
rivals, they each knew that the other
was an sspirant for the hand of the
maiden, and they hated each other as
cordially as two men can hate. Men
may compete in business and still be
friendly. Generals may contend on
BLOODY fields and love each other, but
he who encounters another in the lists
of love must necessarily hate him.
Why it is so, is a conundrum.
Both had proposed to her, and both
had urged her to be his. She liked
them both, and had told each that she
would be willing to marry them, only
Only what?
One evening she had them both to
gether. and she explained from what
her hesitation sprang. She informed
them that they were mere employed
kruckmen. and that their wages were
about one dollar and twenty-five
cents a day, or possibly less.
With sigh they assented by bowling
their heads. but Mr.. Strawn remarked
that it would probably be better as
soon as the times got better. Very
good. But it would make no differ
enee, as the price of beer would 90 up
correspondingly with the betterment OF
the times. She would say nothing OF
her savings, which might or might not
be large; but one thing she had deter.
mined TO never do-she would moi
marry except it gave her independence,
Her mother made the fatal mistake OF
wedding a man who was iOurneymar
shoemaker in London, and the result
WAS that she (Hannah) was cook, in
stead of dwelling in gilded halls. She
did not wish to rise at once above hel
nrcsent station, she should put on ne
airs. she should cook her husbands
meals and mend his clothes, and make
her own, but he must at least have th'
means in hand, when she married him
20 enable him to rise.
s.In short. gentlemen" she contin
med, ''this is my decision. The maj
who as my art, and consistently, m!
hand. must hown is hown truck, anC
be join' bisnis on is hown haccount
vicb of you does this first may COM
and claim me"
Mr.. Henry Peter sank back ant
Eroaned. He remarked that it woult
take an eternity for him to get truck
and he bid her fearful farewell for
ever, and retired. An idea, probabl
knspired by stern determination t.
handle the one thousand dollars o
(which she was the reputed possessor
occurred to Mr.. Strawn, and he seize'
her hand:
Hannah" he exclaimed, ''wait 70
me. You shall have me. and truck