Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-09-24
UNCLE JACOBS RUSE.
A Change in His Will Produces =
Happy Effect.

mother was very proud OF them, and
though d widow in straitened circum-
stances she strained her narrow means
70 put them at the new seminary.
The ambitious mother might have
found it difficult to carry through
her plans if an only brother. several
vears her senior, who had run away
when boy, and who had long ago
been given up for dead, hadn't come
back one day as suddenly as he had
disappeared, with no end of money in
his pocket. still bachelor.
Uncle Jacob Ransower, in spite OF
his grotesque dialect and old-fashoned
manners, soon became great favor
ite with Jenny and Lucy. BY sort
of tacit understanding he look up his
home in his sisters house. and from
that time the latter was relieved from
all anxiety on the score OF her daugh-
ters' education. Uncle Jacob thence
forward cheerfully paying their bills.
including all the extras"
The girls came home finished at
last, and Uncle Jacob was leased into
load of fashionable music.
The sisters would have had Hocks of
beaux, for they were not only remark
ably pretty, but, as every body knew.
they would one day come into Uncle
Jacobs money; but they held their
heads so Uery high that there wasn't
youth in Balky Bottom adventurous
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Hiram Hoppick, VINO used to be rather
spry in his attentions to Jenny in the
ante-seminary days, and Reuben Ruck-
man, who used to bask in an occa-
sional smile of Lucys in the same
biissful period, hung back now like
brace of bashful school-boys with their
fingers in their mouths.
/ At last star of the first magnitude
set the armament of Balky Bottom all
A ablaze. 1t was no less a luminary
than Mr.. Cleophas Brassey. Uncle
4 Jacob, who had caught from his nieces
! touch Of the seminarian idiom, pro-
nounced him ''mooch too quote"
But the ladies nonconcurred. Mr.
Brassey, in their eyes. was perfect
Prince Charming; and when they
came to know him, and heard him
4 sing: "Me hawt is fawh, fawh await
"a statement with probably more
truth than poetry in it-Jenny declared
he was nicer than a-a-, and Lucy
quite agreed with her.
For the first time in their lives was
there any jealousy between the sisters
For time Mr.. Brassey distributed
his attentions impartially between the
two. 1t would have puzzled him, in
deed. to give a reason for Il prefer
ence In peint Of looks, neither sister
had the advantage, and Uncle jacob
money, it was understood, was to go
to them in equal portions.
But Cleaphas Brassey was of more
practical turn of mind than the meta
physical donkey that starved to death
between two haystacks, for want of
Philosophical reason for choosing the
one rather than the other Uncle
Jacob was complaining good deal
i lately OF a ''puzzin in his het," and
had put himself on double rations of
oiackstrap as IA remedy. Feeling there
was no time to lose, Mr. Brassey, in
the privacy of his chamber, christened
MS meerschaum Jenny and his tobacco
stopper Lucy. and went over the old
Juvenile rigmarole by which school
Boys decide who's first to be hare.
Inc last word fell to Lucy; so Lucy it
was
from that time forth it ceased to be
aquestion where Mr. Brassey's pre-
affections lay. 1t was nothing but
Lucy with him now.
Mr. brassey would have proposed
10 Lucy without delay, but he was Il
little dubious on the score of Uncle
JACOB 1t would be just like that OBJ
sthate Old Dutchman, if he didn't like
Tue match, to express his disapproval
" dlslnheriting clause in his will.
out at last circums lance occurred
mat couldn't fail to give Mr. Brassey
considerable lift in Uncle Jacobs
opinlon- Lawyer Hacker, with whom
Mr. H. seemed to have good deal of
BUSINESS lately, came in hot haste in
search OF that gentleman, whom he
,ouno on the widows back porch max
ing himself quite one, of the family
uncle Jacob, with his corncob pipe
ana pitcher of blackstrap. Hacking
4 the party.
nave just received said the law
q yer breaking in on the company with
o air OF one on pressing business,
& ah oner OF two hundred thousand dol
n W ,srs Tor your Florida plantation.
Il mat answer shall ! giver''
4 oay I've changed my mind and
4 't wish to SELL" carelessly replied
me other, turning TO resume his tets-
"-Se.e with Lucy. and Hacker left.
uncle Jacobs ears had not been idle;
4 anu when. in the evening. it was dis
1,osed IN family council that Mr..
.S"ssey mad that afternoon proposed
lucy the old gentleman. instead of
81 ssp'oaing as mad been feared smoked
aus pipe in silence, and when that and
Il o oiackstrap were finished, betoolS
himself quietly to bed.
NeSt morning Uncle Jacob was off
1umes to town. Going straight to
Aawyer Hackers Office, he SOUGHT