Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-01-24

Dear, Alito>ts an Wisen folks got TO catlln
her poor aiis' Ware. an sRyin' they
didn't live happy, allus suspected as
she aggravated him 10 death with her
cool, calculatin' ways. Themsoft SPOKEN
creepy little women are ike cats, an
have claws under softmittins Pvefonnd.
But never said a word. thinkin' { what
didn't say couldn't he repeated; an in
Orin's last sickness--he died, like Liddy.
of consumption--he couldn't touch a
bit OF the doughnuts / used to take
over. though they was his favorite cake.
Caused kind of brilin' in his stomic.
he said, which want the way Liddy
was, for she took comfort with her vict-
uals till she was at the brink OF the
grave, which did us all good to think
on as mercy.
And what did the widow do to your
brother in law9" asked Mrs Wharton,
the cookery boos for the moment for
gotten.
@DlG Well. she did enoughl" Aunt
Hepsy knitted with violent energy for a
few moments, evidently arranging her
recollections. Ye see, he was allus
full Of some crink crankum or other.
L nathan was. Afore the war it was
abolition. Land! remember when he
wouldn't step foot In meetin house
where the preacher didn't pray for the
ensIaved African reg'lar. An then twas
spirit rappin's, an next he got an idee
OF stattiIl' New Jerusalem on earth. as
if we poor sinful critters could git upa
city at would shut the devil out When
Luwella married him he was a goin' IN
fer reform ginerally. an he said it was
q IN IN tile face oil Providence TO have
prop'tv insured. Well, after they'd
been married three months the big fire
snep the town. an his stave mill with
the rest, an he with stuff on hand that
should "a beh delivered to his customers
an got paid for. but he'd been too deep
reformin' creation to tend to it An
there he was without cent TO his name
bat the land where the mill stood, an
real estate was low jes then. an the
staye mill was too near the fats
He certainly needed wife then,
broke in the minister's wife 1t was q
notion OF hers that all widowers needed
wives
II should say so; but she took that
time to up an leave him. She said she
had enough for one, but not enough for
two, an off she went as cool a. you
please TO L. Ray, where she had house
an lot Einathan. for all he was most
90, an quite bald an a grandfather,
thought the world an all of her; an
what with the fire an all his brain was
upset; an one mornin'-it was in the
fall of the year. an cold to go to your
marrer bones-I was afryin' doughnuts,
the riz kind, tough enough to make
wagon springs on-my husband, Mr..
Jackson, wouldn't eat no other sort
when who should wa k in but Elnathan,
as wet as a drownd,d rat What has
hal peneds' SCI !, an where under the
canopy hev ye ben?''
sin the canal basin adrowndin my
self, sez he, kinder overcome like; but
couldn't stand it. an clum out, it was
50 dun cold
did he die?" askel Mrs. Wharton, re-
Stunning tile notebook
@No. give him pepper tea an num-
Der g. an a corn sweat The next thing
he tried to buy pisen. but he couldn't
git any, and old DR.. Scrann frightened
him by tellin' him there want no use
to try TO kill himself-he could bring
him to- After that Elnathan quieted
, down and begun inventin'. an what he
called his drawin's' were a sight to see.
He staid the most Of the time with us,
Mr.. Jackson bein' generous man as
never begrudged anybody meal Of
victuals But come spring he went to
Martha's, am come March she got her
nose set to clean house. long afore there
was any sence O. takin' down stoves. ]
seq to her, Martha, SEE l. I'VE hain't Lad
the equinoctial. an we're sure to hev it
as sunup' But Martha was all Stone.
an az set as a chunk Of iron, an when
she'd been at IL four days, an it was
to my house as tight as she could run.
a-askin' for her father. Some of his
work has been misIaid, an nothin' will
make him believe it want done a pur-
pose, when you know how things get
lost in cleanin, sez she. j was in hopes
he come over here, but he started up
street. an the children are comm down
with what looks to me like mumps on
both sides, though the doctor says it's
chickenpox. an Betty Martin has just
had word that her man has come of the
canal drunk again, an she says she
must go home right off to keep the root
on.
put on my rubbers an went home
with her, but didn't feel there was any
comfort could take her. felt that low
III my pirita l see Martha was right
about the children. II was niumps on
both sides; an the doctor he was right
too, for they had chickenpox. Them
children was all Skinner, an great hands
to get through with a good deal at once.
an they was a stent 70 the nation, you
may Ielieve, for a while. Well. Des.
jackson he hunted high an low fur
Elnathan till late that right Aiyl ]
never shall forget a-settin' in Martha's
back parlor, an tile carpet up an not
mite Of comfort any where's in the house
for anybody. All could think on was
how Liddy Ann sot store BY Elnatllan,
an how he bein' naturally contrary, an
it goin' with the disapp' pp'intments Of this
world It should he so, had jes sot his
heart on Luwella Ware, who. for all her
promises at the altar to love an cherish
an SO on, had up an lef him An along
toward day it come into my mind
like fash at Elnathan had sensed how
Liddy Ann had felt toward him, an had
piked of to the GENTRY.