The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-11-29
BY LILA 4. SAHINE.


hau>tcd from her recent trial. that III She
couldn't do no hetter'n that. she'd better quit
tr!ih' t. hcy a family" And She. meek ana
Submissive - usual. oirlr1. lietty was the
ii>t.
1t was small wonder that she WAS :, weak and
puuy child How could il he otherwise. when.
np to the very day of her birth. the mother
cared for three little ones. made butter and
| cheese. MIXED cows and cooked washed and
ironr'i Tor the ''men-folk>" on Il large farm.
>inglc-hanIcd: The wonder was that she lived
at ali hut she did, and throve. and grew strong.
until at seventeen he was the picture of health.
| and ;i> pretty and win>ome Il maiden rs YOU
often see.
Yes. the gals look we'll enou-h.' their
father said one day. in Response 10 IA compi-
mcnt upon his ''hand,ome daughter>. Il
| don't deny that: bat it does take an awful
| sight Of caliker."
Jacob WAS well Of. .qute forehanded." the
Ee-hhor- said. but h. ha'i mania for buying
| land. and w.> usually enrumbered with a debg
| for some OF hi additions to his farm. - that
ready money was always scarce with him. At
| the time story opens. he had lust >ad,iled
| himself with >h debt of this kind. His
| wife had Nentured To remon>trate. thing she
| rarely did. He had married late in life. nor
Wa hl- wife Young. She had had a little
money Of bar own. about thousand dollars.
Wlhrh he haI promptly appropriated to pay
| ui' hi> sister. W!,o fer wears bad been his
had led to hi own. From that inl his wife
had never had 4 cent il spend as she pleased.
Not that he meant to he hard with her. lit!t
| She was o,tly t woman. aud the i've, of women
! on New England farms generation ago We're,
| and IN too many cases are. eN en now, a bitter
| bondage, hv lhe side of which even African
slavery lad some re,ieenling features
Mrs. Fuller seldom Ncntured 10 oppose her
husband. hui ON this occasion She summoned
courage TO Ae.g him TO buy 10 more land
al, -.
| n YOUR >iNtv-iifth Wear. an l'!n long past fftv
I've been kept close and >hiinped to pay oil
land debts ever since | WA> married. WHY
can't 81. take it ..a>v the rest of our lives: Lei
the girls have !. chance 10 90 about a little an
| take be GOOD OF our nlnicy ourselves. ] ncVel
have dollar that | can ca my own. thou.
| you know my money all went into the farm
! pnd Land Knows. | work hard enough
Nv hat do YOU want lnoncs for:" snaricji heI
husband "non't YOU have your keep: Enough
>icht more than Nou coulj earn. And riIe>,
| ran manage my own business without any
instructions from woman
Then he strobe wrAtltully from the room
and. i'll order to snow Mrs. Fuller that l4e
would dc II he pleased. before night he h;t
bought not only the coveted u.,.. Of .'ine,i,lcr'
but also a tract of ''ra>iur land adjoining
and had incurred a debt of Two thou>ant
dollars, secured iiy q mortgage on the farm.
He felt ljlte irialilened.a a> lie realized what
he had lone. and all that winter, for the first
time III iiauV Years. he 'did the chores him.
sell. without help. imlhe early part Of March
hc quite exhausted his supply of cash on hand
| in buling >olne COWS at a sale of fancy stock
The new pasture must De used be reasoned
Then followed 4 further attempt at economy
i'll making his maple sugar without assistance;
and thi> resulted in his taking cold. and The
first Of ApliI found him laid l3 with ini1amma
tory rheumati,,n.
The mucll-ie,pi>od Girls. With the aid of /;
hoN Of sixteen, the son Of a neighbor. finished
tin ~ugar-makin. >uccc> >fully. and looked afte,
matters at the t.arn while their father fume,
and frcttrd under his enforced imnrisoument
one day. when lefi 10 himself. he tried 10 wa,b
a'ro,> ihe room. and failing. foll heavily 10 the
fo1r. breaking 1h,. bone, Of his left Id in tb,
fail. Fever 1T in. and in 4 ,Iay or two more
Dr. Gerri>h told them erinv that their father
wa> lin for il" and they need not expect hin
to do any work on the farm that sumner.
Mhat >h;'il We do:' asked Mrs. Fuller.