The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-08
sis it "a family jar?" I inquired.
"Conae IN to the cabin.D replied tn

selves as We approached, and the oldes
said to his father:
MAN was a-goin' this time, ful
suah."
"Shet!" was the brief command Of
the father.
Dad and nam is always a,fussin', ,
added the second one.
Hiram, you shet" exclaimed the
mother, as she sat down beside him.
The father and sat down upon log
at the door, and while he was clearing
his voice to begin, and reaching out for
a stick to whittle while be talked, the
woman suddenly broke down and Sob
bed out:
.'Just look around ard see how I've
had to live fur the last fifteen years ~
"Thar's them as lives wuss," replied
the husband.
What hev we gotP' she demanded,
starting up and looking around. you
| jiSt squatted here and we don't own
nuthink."
Its agin the law to own niggers, he
calmly observed.
"Niggers! What do we want with
niggers? Nlggers would starye with US.
We'uns is niggers nuff.'
well hev mule some day."
The children cheered.
"A mu-el! Some day! Oh, yes! A
real, live mu-eI. And kerridge! And
we'll feed him on slivers and splinters
That's bin the talk fur the last dozen
years, and whar's the mu-le?"
''Muels is high, Nancy"
g." in l wollop him, dad?" anxiously
inquired the oldest child.
''Shetl" called father and mother in
one voice.
Its like this, stranger" continued
the wife after wiping away her tears
I'VE don't git along. It's all his fault
He's lazy, and he don't keer fur riches.
He's allus gwine to do sunthin,' but it
never comes. Yere we seuatted when
We got spliced, and yere we are to-day.
Them young 'uns has growed up like
heather, and I've forgotteH sll 1 ever
knowed. I've got clean pushed out"
MANS bawling," snickered the
old-st.
"Shet!" exclaimed the father as he
reached over and cufted the youngsters
head.
Il purfess that we heven't got rich,'
slowly replied the husband, put faint
all my fault. Wasn't l clawed by a
bar? Didn't l fall from a tree !?
w hSA luo lOUuS uuS uOWu Will Iuc
measles and things?"
But you haIn't used me rightn
sobhed the woman. Look at these
duds-the best l hev! I've worked
and toiled and saved and what have l
got for it? Who be | but ramshackle
squatter's wife, heVin' chills all sum-
mer an goiu' bar'fut all the winter?
Where be we and what be We?"
The children set in and began crying
with their mother, and the mountain
eer drew his sleeve across his eyes and
whispered:
Stranger, talk to har soothin' like.
She's powerful good hearted, but liab BILE
to spells. She's got a spell on just
now.n
perhaps things will soon mend" l
said, as the woman controlled her emo
ton little.
"Whar' did We find me, Samuel JaI-
vis?" she suddenly exclaimed.
AT yer pops"
Yes; at my pops, where was brung
up like lady. What did you prom
ise?"
Heaps, reckons."
so you did! l was to hev muels.
and kerridges, and niggers, and silks
Whar' be they?"
We've ben misfortunate, Nancy.
The stranger will fetch with me that a
man hain't to blame for his mis-
fortunes. Come, wife, take off yer
| things"
what fur?"
ITO stay, of course. See them
young'uns a-weepin', and see me
a-askIn' it of you"
You said could go ii I didn't like
YOUR style"
Il was only funnin', Nancy"
Ma S a-gettin' the upper of dad!"
snickered young Hiram.
"Shetn' called the father, getting in
double cuff this time.
"Well, l might stay on account of
the children" said the wife.
Eyes, they are pore things"
And mebbe you III do turn better"
Il will, Nance-durn my buttons if l
don't.'
But the stranger must fetch with
nae that m a-doin' it to please you
and the children"
Yes" 1 said, your duty lies here.
You must not desert your family"
Ma dssn't go. and pop dasnt let
her!" l called Hiram from behind a
stump, and then we went inside. We
had smack" of bears meat and corn
bread, and as evening came down thew
gathered in front of the fire to hear OF
the wonders beyond the Cove Rail-
roads. Neither mother nor children
had ever seen q track. Steamboat
They could hardly comprehend. New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago
They had never heard the names.
Telegraphs and pianos
and organs-reapers and mowers
steam engines and electric lights! Each |
was wonder to them. Neither man
o wi e could name five States. They
had no names for oceans. They could |
name only three large rivers. We talked |
aud talked, and when midnight came |
the squatter reached over for my hand,
and said:
stranger, don't it make yer head
ache to carry all them knowledge
around 2"
And the woman added:
"Dog-gone my shoes, Sam Jarvis, but |
ives got to be aristocrats purity soon or
III hang myself !'-M. Quad in Detroit
F ee Press.
A Shocking Case.
4 short time ago, Mrs. Hatley ar
rived in this city from CoalviIIe, bring