Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-03-08
LETTER FR0A THE CORNERs
a Nest o News.
NECK Or NoTa4N' Hzrir..
KILKENNY CoRSERs.

H. 9th q ay an sh g
ses it want no rat de-
a terminatcr tibet her an
9sstsA Mandy give Hiram, but
ssfk<4A jest seventy i've cents
.s.sss worth OF lobelia an twen-
sSss ty-fve cents worth
N.Se Of epikak, an re-
- ~ solved IA sum all
- S.Ssoel5is5 =. 9 ~ sszahol; but they
~ tole Hiram it wer
rat pisin. An, sea she, Mis- Scooper,
IF ever you seen a scared man tibet man
Wus Hiram Dayton, an we amt never
tole him what it Ever he drunk, nuther;
an he amt never fetched no whisky
sence.
An ses she, "BIis Seooper, did yen
ever heer how Nose Parsonses wife
noses him arOun.
I tole her T didn't nose 1 he'd.
An then she ups an tells me how
Elizabeth, thet is Moseses wife, she
thet wus Elizabeth Marvin, henpicks
him aroun. Ses she:
Elizabeth she makes Nose fetch IN
all the would an water, git up an bid
fires an fill the teakettle, stir sars when
she wants him to. peal pertaters, tend
the children, and Onct when he wusn't
agoin to wash out sum of the baby's
durty close thet she he'd tole him to,
she ups with a pale of bilin suds an
thrOwd it over him an TUX the broom
TO him an scrubbed him an hammered
him tel he promised to al'ays do es she
sed.
I tole her I felt sorry fur pore Moses,
fur he wer al'ays sieh a good-natured
boy an so willin, to.
Mis- Cronk, she sed she thot the Par
senses wus the lowest down people she
ever seen; SEE she, "They air all Of EN-
a durty, lazy, misable lot, an fur huE
part she wer glad Nose he'd got wife
tibet made him step aFOun.
William HeAery, he's a most dun his
corn shuckin, an then he wants me to
hev quiltin, and he viii hev a wood
chopin, but p jest seems es eff 1 want
able to cook fur it, but 1 spect I'll hev
to, fur the schOOlmarm an Ben hev
tuned up fur me to, an to hev party
in the eYenin. spose I'll hev to agree
to it or 1 won't get a minnits peice.
Mis- Roper, Peters wife, she wus IN
yestidy, an she sed tibet they wus q
goin to hev might sciety meet to the
church before long, an hev supper ther.
an hev a sOshible afterward, an tibet
the committY wus a goin to write names
of all the people Their on to keerds, an
give one to eech member of the sciety,
an thet persun I'D hev to talk to every
buddy thet Their name WIS on to the
keerd tibet they held. Ses she. GIVE
bin aroun a little an saw how other
people dun" You know, Mr.. Editur,
tibet Peter an Susan they went out to
Califurnia State last winter an Susan
thinks she nose a thing or to sense she
got back, an she is bound tibet the
folks at the Corners shale5 be behind
the times emmy eff she kin help 1t.
The school marin and Mis- Roper was
a talkin over startin Litarry- Sc1ety
here to the Corners, when the men
folks git Their corn all shucked.
Mis- Roper ses we OF to heY sumthin
of the kyand heer to the Corners fur
the benefit of the risin gineration.
The school marin sed she thot it I'D
be more fun than q "ban wagging" to
hev on started, and so I spose they'll
kerry it threw, fur they air both awful
determined when they set Their beds.
I Wus over to Mis- HOpperses totheE
day an she Wus a teIhn me about the
fuss the school marin an the Wilder
Van Dyke he'd one Sunday rite in the
church house.
You see Mis- Van Dykes little gal
Emmie he'd fit and scratched Mis- Hop
perses little Erminnie, an Erminnie
she went an toIe the school marin, an
the school marin she arsked sum Of
/ the other yOunguns about it an they
all sed Emmie wus to blame,
an the school marin she hit her
three ticks over the han with a stick no
/ bigger than a straw, an on the mex
Sunday she goes fur the school marin
about it rite in the church house be-
tWixb Sunday school an meetin. It was
one Sunday when William Henery he'd
to stay to hum on account of a thorn he
| he'd run into his nee when he wer cut
tin down thorn tree, an I stayed with
him.
} The wilder went an sot down in the
| seat with the school marin an says she
awful hateful, so Mis- Hopperses wus a
tellin me, "School marin, whot did You
whip my little Emmy fur on Fridy
last ?"
Simply bekaws she needed it," SEES
| Che schoOlmarm.
oval" SEES the wilder, maddern
hops, "why didn't you whip Min Hop,
pers, TOP"
Simply bekaws she didn't need it,
| ses the schOoImarm, as cool as a COW
cumber. An they he'd quite lot more
words about it, an the schooImarm fin
! Ally tOle the wilder
But, good grashus, eff ther amt
! Sonothan Blodgers acomin driyin fit
! 50 kill. I spose sumpthin is rong with
| little Horrowson or Marolson, an hel
want me to go over rite of. So good
by. HESTER Ann ScooPER-
A French Bill Sykes.
A most dangerous species OF Bill
| Sykes has been arrested, together with
a ferocious mastiff which he owned, by
the Paris police. The malefactor was
the terror of the Ternes district, and
his speciality in crime was 10 prowI