The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-12-26
INDEPENDENT WOMEN.
They Have Original Ideas and Dont
Need Help to Get Along.

They Have Original Ideas and Don't
Need Help to Get Along.
Miss Sabry Seamans, OF FactoryVille,
is Industrious, frugal, kindhearted and
independent. She is seventy odd years
of age, yet she works like beaver every
day, and takes good care of her prop
erty Miss Seamans owns house and
lot in the village, as we'll as several
acres Of land close by, and nc one in the
neighborhood is more thrifty than the
elderly spinster. Besides keeping a
small garden in good shape, doing her
homework, and looking after large
lot of poultry, Miss Seamans finds time
to weave hundreds of yards Of rag carpet
during the year. She turns it out for
country housewives far and near, get
ting certain price per yard for weav-
ing it, and everybody speaks of her
work with the loom as first class. Peo-
pie take their rags and yarn to her
house, and during the present season
she has had so many orders that she
couldn't catch up, although she has
worked as many hours day as she did
twenty years ago.
Miss Seamans never pays the road
master any money. When tho time
comes for the public highways to be re-
paired Miss Seanans shoulders her hoe,
reports to the road master of her dis
trict, and works out her road tax, just
as the men taxpayers do. She says it
seems like throwing away money to pay
1T to the pathmaster.
A middle-aged married woman in
Scranton makes nice lot of money
every year out of sticking salve. She
manufactures the salve from beeswaX,
mutton tallow, and two or three other
ingredients known only to herself, and
she molds it into round sticks, which
she retails at ten cents apiece. AS soon
as the monthly pay days begin at the
coal mines throughout the Lackawanna
valley the Industrious salve maker be-
comes peddler Of her wares. She fills
a half-bushel basket with sticks of
salve and goes from one mining settle
ment to another, peddling it out on the
way, and often making as much as S.
and So day.
A somewhat eccentric, elderly woman
in the township of Ashley has mania
Tor collecting almanacs. That IS her
only hobby, and she has been riding it
for nearly thirty years. 1t makes no
difference to her what kind of almanacs
she secures for her collection. Along
about Christmas each year she visits all
the drug stores in Scranton, Pittston
and Wilkesbarre, obtains two or three
copies of each almanac, and packs them
away in big chest There are three
chests full of all sorts of almanacs in her
house now. She sends to the large cities
shortly after New Years for copies of
all political almanacs, and these she
keeps separate from the medicinal ones
Miss Augusta Goddard, daughter to
Farmer Merritt d. Goddard, of Ovington
township, Sullivan County, has charge
of her fathers garden every summer,
and until last year she was pestered
almost to death with the hens. She
couldn't keep the hens from scratching
up her beds of vegetable seeds One
day while she was taking q ramble
through the woods she spied young
porcupine, and the thought struck her
that it would be good thing to capture
and tame it. So she made couple of
loops out of withes, caught the porcu-
pine, took it home, and placed it in the
garden, feeding it food she knew it
liked. The porcupine soon became
wonted, hoped about the garden, and
acted as though it was glad to be there.
One day, when the hens came around
and started to scratch in the onion bed.
the porcupine bristled toward them, and
the hens got scared at the strange
creature, and tumbled over one another
in their haste to get out of the garden.
For two summers it has chased the hens
out of the garden before they had
chance to scratch any.-Scranton (Pa.)
Cor. n. Y. Sun.