The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-03-20
HE WAS A JINER.
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''0NE OF THEN PESkY FOOLS THAT Is
ALWAYS JNINH SOAETHING"
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And She Wanted 8 Rveree, because There
Couldn't Any thing Come Along that was
Sly and Hidden that He Didn't Join.
She was about forty five years old,
well dressed, had black hair, rather
thin and tinged with gray. and eyes
in which cleaned the fires of a deter
mination not easily balked. She
walked into ;tbe mayors Office and
requested. q ptivatea interview, and
having obtained it, and satisfied her.
self that the law students were not
listening at the keyhole, said slowly,
solemnly and impressively:,
81 want divorce"
"What for? I supposed you had
one of the best of husbands" said the
mayor.
IL s'pose that's what everybody
thinks; but if they knew what Eve
suffered in ten years, they'd wonder l
hadn't scalded HIM long ago. ought
to, but for the sake of the young ones
I've borne it and said nothing. I've
told him, though, what he might de
pend on, aud now the times come; /
won'tstand it. young ones.or no young
ones. I'll have divorce, and if the
neiphbors want to blab themselves
hoarse about It, they can, for l won't
stand it another day."
"But what's the matter? Don't
your husband provide for you? Don't
he treat you kindly?" pursued the
mayor.
1--WE get victuals enough, and l
don't know but he's as true add kind
as men in general, and he's never
knocked any of US down. l wish he
had; then I'd get him into Jail and
know where he was of nights,' retort-
ed the woman. gttf MI
"Then what is your complaint
against him?"
"Well, if you must know, he's one
of them plagued jiners," -
ga what?" ,.--
"a iiner-one of them pesky fools
that's always jining something. There
cau't nothing come along that's dark
and sly and hidden but he jines it. IF
anybody should get up asssociety to
burn his house down, he'd jipe it just
as soon as he could ie; and if he
had to pay for it he'd 60 all the sud
dener. We hadn't been married
more'n two months before he lined
the Know .Nothin,s.i We lived on q
farm then, and every Saturday night
he'd come tearing in before sunper,'
grab a 6stfull ot NUT cakes, and go
off gnawingi tisstn, and that's the last
I'd see of him till nj rning. And
every other night he'd roll aud tuIn-.
ble in his bed, and holier in his sleep,
Put none but Americans ON guard
George Washington and rainy days
he would go out in fhe corn barn and
jab at picture of King George with
an old bagnet that was there. | ought
to rut my foot down then, but he fool
ed me SO with his lies that l let him
60 on and encouraged him in it.
"Then he fined The Masons. P'raps
you know. what them be, but l don't,
'cept that they think that tthey are
the same kind of critters that built
Solomon's temple; and of all the non
sense and CAB about worshipful mas,
ter and square -and compasses~ and
sich like that we had in the house for
the nextysi pieuths, you 4eyer see
the beat. gAnd ne's never o,isgfowed
| it, nuther. What do you' tiiink oi u
man. squire, that'li dress himself 10 a
white apruns 'bouta big enough for a
monkeys bib, and 60 marching up
and down and making motions and
talking foolish lingo. at d picture of
George Washington ia ca green jacket
and an apron covered over with eyes
and columns aud other queer pictures?
Aint4 aloaiatick? Well, that's my
SAM. and I've sto6d il ~ long isi Pm
The next lupge the old faol 8 made
ives into the Odd Fellows. I made it
warm tor him when he came home
and >told me he'd jined them. but he
kinder paci6ed me by telling me they
are sort Of branch show that took in
women, and he'd get me in ass,on as
he found out hoR u do it. Well, one
night he ceme hone aud said I'd been
proposed, and somebody had black
balled me- Did it himself, Of course.
Didn't want me around knowing
about his goings on. OF course he
didn't, aud told him 20. fE2h
s1hen he jined the Sons Of Mdlter.
sneaked otf.,ne night, pretendin' he'd
got to sit up with q sick Odd Fellow.
land L uever. kfund it out only
he come home looking like 10
/ man who had aheeh1 xfOaehi 10