Daily Republican., 1886-09-29
A MISERABLE WIFE.

N mpb1h4 Dill " 1t
Eyes, professor, I'm afraid I shall
have to rent or sell the farm My
wife is so miserable. / cannot carry
1t on without hiring, and hiring eats
up all the profits"
looked at the speaker admiringly.
He was about 30, and as robust as q
man of 80. His whiskers were neatly
trimmed, showing a full red cheek.
He wore jaunty hat and natty cuta-
way coat, and below his vest hung q
silE fob and heavy gold seal. was
proud of him. He was q perfect pic
ture of the New York gentleman from
the rural districts. wanted 10 imprint
his picture On my memory.
$50 your wife is miserable?'
Eyes, kinder droopin', with a dry
cough and no ambition. She just
kinder drags around the house and
looks so peaked and scrswny it gives
me the blues. 1t does, swaa if 1t
don't"
NATURALLY weak, wasn't she'"
"Shei Oh, no. When / married
her she was the smartest girl on the
creek. She used 10 work for father,
and the way she made the work stand
round took my eye. She was a poor
gal, and her industry got her rich
husband"
Here he carelessly took out a gold
watch, locked at the time, put 1t back
and adjusted the silk fob on the front
of his nicely fitting trousers.
| 80 she did well getting married on
account OF her Industry"
why, of course; she was getting
only two dollars and filty cents q
week, and she became mistress OF a
farm"
| Excuse me, but how much are you
worth now, con6dentially you know; /
use such acts to your injury with the
assessor"
swell, professor, could crowd fry
thousand dollars pretty hard"
"That is good. How long have you
been married?"
Thirty years next Fourth of July,
We went down to Albany on q little
teeter, and l proposed the match and
Jane wss willin'."
"How much do you suppose yor
have made in these thirty yearsf"
Hum -um-lemme see. l got thu
, Davis farm the first ten years, then
: run in debt for the Simmons place
got war prices for my eese, ant
squared up both places. Well, l have
!, cleared up thirty thousand dollars
since we spliced."
!, Every good, indeed. And your wife
, has been great help to you in all thi
: time"
1 "Oh, you bet. She was RATHER
} She took care of the baby and the mill
}. from twenty cows. / tell you sh
made the tinware flop. Why, we hav
, had four children, and she never ha'
+ hired girl over six months in tina
!. time"
}. "Splendidl And you have cleare,
$50, 600 in that timer"
). "Yes, easy"
= Nov, how much has your wifi
/. nader"
"she, why, durn it, professor. sh
y is my wife,"
4 81 know it But what has she made
= You say she was poor when you msl
ried her. Now, what has she madef
!, "Why, by gum, you beat all VIII.
y she is my wife, and we own 1t alt'
l. getber."
"Do you? Then che can draw O
. your bank account? Then she has
Of horse and carriage when she wan
D. one? Then she has a servant mai
when she wants one? Then she ride
IT out for her health, and has a watc
d and chain of gold as you do. Is ths
D so?"
- professor, you must be crazy. N
Sc Who ever heard of such thing9'
snow, loox here. You said she dl
q well in marrying rich, and | cann'
see it If she was getting two dolla
and fifty cents per week when yC
Y married her, and had saved her wage
d; she would have had now three thol
L. sand Dix hundred dollars. If she hs
invested it she would have had ii,
: thousa and dollars. Now, you tell n
=. she ID broken down, used up and mi
tn cradle, and looks so bad she max
you sick, and she has no money, I
- help, and will get probably notbir
in but a Scotch granite tombstone wht
ct she dies"
"Protessor, if you were young
man, l would lick you quicker than
w spring lamb can jump thistle"
"What for? / am stating this ca
fairly, am l not? Your wife Is /
longer young. She is no longer han
: some. Her bands are as hard as
ht local EDITORS check, and she has stoo
ed over a milk can until she has
hump on her back like peddler"
he "Shut up, will you!"
ao "She has raised four children. o.
Of of them is at college. One is takir
n. music lessons in Boston. The 9th
'' two are teaching school. She is
home alone, going around in trea
= mill life which will end in rosewot
u coffin and first-class country fun
n raj.
II "Stop that, professor, will your"
"While you are still a handson
,e man, with just enough gray in 20
Il. whiskers to make you look interestin
>. No doubt you have been thinking
d some nice young girl of eighteen wi
would jump at the chance to mar
your thirty COWS ana twenty acres
, hops"
" "Professor, won't stay here if y,
don't let up on that"