Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-07
INDEPENDENT WOMEN.
They Have Original Ideas and Done
Need Help to Get Along.

They Have Original Ideas and Done
Need Help to Get Along.
Miss Sabry SeamanS, Of Factoryville,
Is industrious, frugal, kindheArted and
independent She is seventy odd yearA
Of age, yet she works like beaver every
day, and takes good care Of her prop
erty. Miss SeamanS owns . house and
lot in tho village, as we'll as several
acres Of land close by, and no one in tho
neighborhood is more thrifty than the
elderly spinster. Besides keeping Q
small garden in good shape, doing her
houSewOrk, 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 az first class. Peo-
pie take their rags and yarn to her
house, and during the present season
she has had 30 many orders that she
couldn't catch up, although she has
worked - many hours day - she did
twenty years. ago.
Miss Seamans never pays the road
master any money. When the time
comes for the public highways to DO re-
paired Miss SeAmanS 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 pey
1t to the pAthmaster.
A middle-ARed 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 1t into round sticks, which
she rOtails At ten cents apiece. As soon
IS the monthly pay days begin at the
coal mines throughout the Lackawsnna
valley the industrious salve maker be-
comes . peddler Of her wares She fills
half-bushel basket with sticks of
salve and goes from one mining settle
mOnt to another. peddlipg it out ON the
way. and often making as much a. s.
and IS day.
A somewhat eccentric, elderly woman
In the township Of Ashley has mania
for collecting Almanacs. That is her
only hobby, and she has been riding it
for nearly thirty years, It makes NO
difference to her what kind OF almanaca
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 almanac, and these she
keeps separate from the medicinal ones
Miss Augusta Goddard, . daughter to
Farmer Merritt d. Goddard. Of Ovihktea
township, Sullivan County. has charge
Of her fathers garden every summer,
almost to death with the henA She
couldn't kssp the hens from scratching
up her beds Of vegetable seeds One
daY while she was taking Q Famhie
through the weeds she spied young
poroupine. and the thought sticc@k her
that Il would be good thing to capture
and tame it. So she made . couple Of
loops ont Of Eithas, caught the porcu-
pine, took 1t home, and placed 1t in the
garden. feeding It food she knew 1t
liked. The porcupine soon became
wonted. hoped about the garden. and
actsd ~ though 1t 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 anothe T
In their haste to get out of the garden
For two summers 1t has chased the hens
out of the garden before they had .
chance to scratch any.-Scranton (Pa.)
Cor. N. Y. Sun.