Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-09-25
SCARED 3QyEsRsY AUNT.
AMJsino ADWATuees OF A
DAY IN CHICAGO.
She Visits Nephew Sile and His Dumb Wife
and Is Shocked at What She Sees and
Hears-Terrors Of the Cable
Goes Home Disguised.

him myself for k,thar)s hves in Chi
caGo. He used to set great store by
my Cinthy, and he wanted to marry
her. but said no, twas agiu scriptur.
Then he tried to get her to elope with
him, but she told me what he was up
to, and he went off in huff, saying
she had too much talk to suit him, and
the next we heard he had married a
deaf and dumb girl, and he sent us
word he preferred that sort, guess
nobody was hurt much, for Cinthy got
a forehanded man right off
Sile was making it hum in Chicago,
and according to his tale "lived in a
iive-story house by n beautiful river,
drove his own team in the park and
ate his dinner there once a week. SEQ
ing all the parades He drove out to
our house on the prairie to coax his
mother to go back with him and see
for herself how an eXpressman could
entertain. She nor | hadn't ever been
before the fire, and we had been afraid
to go since. Mehitabel said her rLcu-
matiz was better nussed at home than
abroad and set in for me to go in her
stead.
Well. if it hadn't of been for the pill
low put behind my back would have
clean give out before got half way.
We rode and rode and rode miles and
miles and miles after Sile told me we
in, hut
scarce as chickens teeth and no streets
as far as l could see. At last they got
thicker ana streets to match till we
fetched up to his iive-story house. 1t
turned out to have five families in it,
and Silas lived on the top floor. The
Lord placed me on the ground floor and
don't believe in soaring up in the sky
till I'm called for good. BY the time
had climbed up to his roost hadn't u
breath to say how be YOU? to Phoebe.
Sile and she twisted their fingers at
each other till l thought l should
screech, it was so funny! Phoebe
smiled and shook hands like other
folks, and as far as could jedge her
bed and vittles were good, and her
bread riz the same rs what mine did,
but, oh, it was awful quiet and solemn.
Sile shut up too as tight as a drum
when he got home, but his tongue did
wonders when he came to eat.
watched all night for fires.
didn't dare to undress and may be lose
my best gown. Right after breakfas,
l put on my bunnit and me and Sile
went out together. He said he was go
ing to show me "a crib" / thanked
him kindly, but told him l didn't care
to waste my time that way. Crib
indeed! just as if couldn't look at hi
old one any dayD Then he proposed
visit to the board of trade, but l hat
shed full of 'em at home, awaitin' m,
own figure, and been used to lumbe
all my life, bein' a native of Maine.
said didn't care to 60 there, either
What do you think he proposed next
1t makes me mad to remember tn
invite! "Let US go to the stock yards,
says Sile, ''and see how many critter
can be killed in mint" Think of it
Me. that always stuck my fingers in m,
ears and shet to the door whenever
chickens neck had to be rung! fel
real hurt. and I know Silas WASH
pleased with me. was kind OF home
sick and unhappy. I was kind c
trembly, too, from the cable show i
the morning.
was bound not to ask question
J II Sile was dumb l would be hummer
;; For, I had rode on the Erie Cana
when I was girl coming from Yorl
State, and l allowed that this cabl
might be little better than the lin
, boats. may be as good as the packets
! with their three horses and a bugle
Any fool knows that cable ropes ant
line is one and the same thing tn
.. world over. and I expected to Sc
! enough clean water to float US, bu
there we stood in the road, no water
, no tow-path. not hoof nor hair G
: mule to draw, but n great juggernau
coming down like mad upon us. I
a this mint don't know how we eve
. got set down inside it! didn't forge
e my manners II l was discomboberated
y for l turned round and asked tn
r people that set behind to excuse IN
back. and l said ''good-morning''
all that set near. but not a word com
, ont OF their heads. A load OF dun
+ mics out for an airing. thought l.
= We spun along OF ourselves at
= great speed, and powerful as it wa:
y any man. woman or child could sto
|. the whole thing from the roadside b
3 just holding up one hand. 1t WI
Y wonderful! -
p A man with black streaks on his fac
}. was standing up in front trying