Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-10-02
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paper on Social Ethics to be read before his
club. He had style rather profound, he
fattered himself, and was just about wind
ing up with fine peroration, when he heard
slight rap at his door, and Mrs. Sutton ap
peared.
Mr.. Sutton was tired, but as he made it a
| point never to show temper he merely laid
down his pen with an audible, patiently
patient sigh, and said: "Well, my dearl"
To which Mrs. Sutton made a hardly APP
posite reply, for, holding up pair Of very
| pretty walking boots, evidently her own,
between her finger and thumb, she said:
"Where do you suppose these came from9'
"From Prayers, presume"
NO." said Mrs. Sutton.
"Well, my dear, if you have gone to some
other firm you had good reason, no doubt"
As she made no reply, Mr.. Sutton vent
ured guess II really don't know why
you should insist on my guessing, my dear,
but Whately, perhaps. A very good maker
and becoming quite the fashion among the
| ladies, / believe"
''They came from no such place." said
Mrs Sutton, with certain amount Of as
perity in her tone; 'I will tell you where,
however. They came from the alleyp'
''The alleyl my DEAR" said Mr.. Sutton,
hardly knowing what to think, but sure he
had something to do with it; "the alley
| Why, what a scamp Muff must be"
'You are wrong" Mrs. Sutton rejoined,
with great quickness and severity. "Muff
has far too much consideration for his mis-
tress to destroy her property. You are the
person, Mr.. Sutton! There's limit to
every thing-I can not and will not bear
this longer. 1t was only last week that my
cut glass smelling bottle, the one poor
cousin George gave me on my wedding, was
| broken"
Il replaced it my DEAR" r1eekly rejoined
| Mr.. Sutton.
sit could not be replaced. It was gift
that meant something
Mr.. Sutton WINGED. He never could bear
cousin George, and was glad he was now
/ dead.
"But," said Mrs. Sutton, changing her
tone, which had verged on the fearful, back
to severity again, II say nothing more on
that point, but to resume. It's merely
| chance that / have not lost my boots Mr.
Sutton, some other way must be devised
for getting rid of those cats! 1 can not
sacrifice all my wardrobe. say nothing of
| my disturbed rest"
"Mrs. Suttonp' demonstrated her hus-
band, 81 grant that l have been reckless in
throwing any thing that comes to hand
| without paying sufficient attention to what
it might be, but my dear, when you speak
OF disturbed rest, pray recall to your mind
the fact that it is in an effort to give you
undisturbed rest by dispensing those cats
| from the premises that have imperiled
your shoes"
Seats, IL let alone, would not keep me
awake" said Mrs. Sutton, majestically
"It's your foolishly impulsive attacks on
them that complain of, and these must
cease. can not and will not endure It'll"
'But, Mrs. Sutton; can not sleep with
that caterwauling"
severely, "that some other method than
throwing all our valuables over the fence
must be thought Of" and with these
| words Mrs. Sutton took herself and her
boots away, leaving her wretched husband
seated between the horns Of dilemma.
Their house, a recherche mansion,
suitable for the residence of one of our
merchant princes" as the advertisement
that first drew Mrs. Sutton's attention to
the place styled it, was no longer the source
Of pride that it had been, for the whole
place, especially the alley fence, was in.
tested by cats; the very lowest, most ruff
fianly of cats in legions. The coarse, gut
ter tones Of their voices, appraised every
night as they were, in strains of love or wild
vendetta, were too much for the sensitive
nerves Of Mr.. Sutton-he who loved retire
ment, and whose chiefest pleasure was what
he tondlY styled ''wooing It'd muse" late at
night. Instead hS was obliged to listen to
the voices of these horrible beasts, aud in
| fact, all OF the h ,urs that he should have
been sleeping were rendered hideous by
these creatures.
Mrs. Sutton had borne with the trouble
in enforced patience until her frantic hus-
band had laid his hands on all things.
| When it came to bric-a-brac and articles
OF personal property, Mrs. Sutton felt it
must be stopped, and had said so. And her
husband knew that when she adopted GER
tain tone and air, it must indeed.
That very afternoon he met his nephew.
J. Deming Hazard, a young lawyer waiting
for practice, and begged of him to devise
plan to rid hun OF the pest of his life, and
vas promised relief. The following morn
ing as he took his way down town he met
the nephew who heartlessly aecosted him
| with: "My dear uncle, you look seedy this
morning. Had bad nights resta
"fhat's 9 matter Of course. Have you
thought OF a remedyin
"Well, yes, l think may say have q
sure thing"
II hope you may have hope you have"
said his uncle with sigh. sAny thing Won
90 will approve. 1 have tried every thing
myself with ae result, unless it has been to
draw those deviIish beasts IN greater NUN
per. What is your planl'' - 1855 -
sFhat is p little thing of nv own, as
bunthorne says. BY the way, uncle, how's
moonlightP'
moonlight"
Eyes, moonlight. AS for me, am in nv
ONCE working so hard that never have q
chance 70 see such a thing as a moonlight
night. really don't know when she shines
and when she don't BY the way. uncle. Won
ought to throw something handsome in the
way OF business my way if rid you of your
cats"
81 shan't forget you, James," said Mr.
Sutton, with great solemnity.
"An right / am willing to guarantee
that the cure shall begin the first moon
light pigEt Well, you see" in answer to the
question in his uncle's eye, "moonlight is
good for taking observations You win like
to see this thing work, won't youg When
did you sayT'
THE moon win be full on Thursday.
sAnd to-day IS Saturday; very weHn
That night Mrs. Sutton remarked at din
ner that Mr.. Sutton's nephew had been do
ing something at the alley fence, so.the cook
| reported. aEr. Sutton made no reply, but
rejoiced in his heart
On Thursday night J. Deming Hazard a
rived just after dinner, and seeking his
] uncle in the library announced that his ar