The National tribune., 1891-01-15

ward in Heaven If ever a woman did,
Dye suppose she viii feel at home if the
Lord don't find fanlt with her, OF the angels
leave her have her own way a little bit?n
Well, j guess If they made her feel to
home she wouldn't know il was Heaven"
Poor Lid ann"
Mhatll JOnty d0?n
Him! On, he'll get another wife 10
complain at and scold and badger Did
anybody ever see the beat Of that man for
harpin' and naggin'?n
None Of the good danes present ever
had, but as Jonathan Sourbeck's temper
and his "nearnessh and his general pnloveli-
ness In the domestic circle had been common
talk toI years, there was really no new word
20 say against him nor in favor OF the palid
thing that had just been lowered into the
grave Nothing 10 say now that poor
Lid ann was gone except to hope that she
was better of, and that Jointly Sourbeck
would be come up TO in a second wife.
Though the women were all down on him
for his alleged ugliness to the pale fragile
patient little wife il did not follow that
they should refuse to mother the little ones
until the wldOwer should find good house
keeper and turn around in his new position.
Nor did the gradually-fading story of his
marital indifference undo the fact of his
having fine farm, nor that he was still
strong, rudy, good-lOoking man in the
prime OF life
I'm less than six months Mr. Sourbecll was
heartily sick Of n housekeeper's rule at the
farm. By some still undiscovered law il is
almost certain 10 occur that a widowers
housekeeperW viii reach out after his affections
as does the hop vine for the pole While
MT SOurbecll WAS somewhat susceptible, and
found II very trying without Ld'ann, yet
Miss Selma Sanders spinster tall, angular
and active did not appeal to his fancy.
But the chlldren-what could he do with
Tour little ones2 They clearly needed a
Womans care. The children needed a
mother Think Of Bobby, mere baby yet
30 ID came about in less than six months
that Jonathan SouFbecl1 became very regu-
lar al meeting, and came out in a fine suit
and dashed along the country roads in a
brand-new top buggy. Then the neighbors
al laughed and winked at each other, and
declared that JOnty had begun TO take
notice" IL was not quite a year until
LID aims place was filed and the children
had a mother
The young widow Daniels the best house
keeper and prettiest woman in the County,
knowing full well the reputation Of Mr..
sourbeck, yet consented TO risk her happi-
ness on the Sourbeck farm.
Lid ann, for whom Mr.. SOurbeck had
sincerely mOurued whenever a Deirhbor
dropped in, had been a pretty girl when he
married her but OF the fragile, spirituelle
type-a sensitive timid little thing. whose
small stock Of resistance and courage had
suite oozed out before the second baby came |
The new wife was the exact opposite. She |
was younger than Lid'ann, plump and |
strong and CHEEKY. She was round and rosy |
- a Winter apple, and always ready with a |
happy little laugh.
The best cook in seven Counties" Mr. |
sourDeck had said TO Deacon Mink aud bis |
wife a few weeks after his marriage.
And you should be proper thankful TO |
the Lord for such q gift" replied the old /
gentleman, solemnly
Poor Lldanns martydom was thoroughly |
well known TO pretty Patty Daniels She |
had visited J0nty's first many time. and /
had once said TO her own John, on their way
home from the SOurbcck farm:
ia like 70 take JOnty Sourbeck In hand |
o few months
What would you do" grinned her bus-
band admiringly.
What wouldn't ] do you better ask. |
We'll, FIRST Of al, ] would make him wish he |
had never seen me, then I'd make him wish |
he bad never been born and then-Id have
him meek a. Moses" and Patty's black ewes |
EpaIEled Indignantly.
Four years later Providence prOyided the |
way for Patty's proposed experiment. and
being lonely after her poor Johns death. and
approaching the advantages IN marrying SO
forehanded a man as Jointly Sourbeck, she
unhesitatingly stepped into poor Lid ann's
shoes
The new broom swept pretty clean for
couple Of months, and then the evil one. as
Fatly secretly held, laid hold upon the
newly-wedded farmer.
Patty wish you would try and not get
these buckwhcats 30 heavy" remarked Mr.
6ourheck NJ he sat down one morning 10 lie
caudle-light breakfast Then he discoutept-
edly poked among The pile Of hot, brown and
delicious-loolang cakes.
Are they really heavy, JontyYn asked
Patty. sollcitousy crossing from the other
eide Of The big kitchen, where she was balz-
ing cakes Tor The family, before sitting down
10 her own breakfast We'll. that's too bad
picking up the plate and scrutiuzing the
cakes. My 70 j believe they are and
without more ado she hurried away. emitted
The steaming cakes into the chicken feed
and catching up the batier-crock. poured The
contents into ihe pigs bucket.
The children viewed this operation in
alarm, and joey sang out softly:
My You'll catch t.n
Jonathan SOuTbecEs face was a circur,-
EcTibed thundcrcl0ud.
What does this mean, ME SourbeckY B
What, JontyiR turning around with q
perfectly innocent air
hy you arc throwing away good food
and leaving man without a warm break
fast
But Jonty, dear, you said they were
spoiled"
"A mans got TO eat something snarled
She discounted husband
Patty laughed. "0f course he has but
not heavy cakes. John always called NV
caEo up-top. guess j must be losing NV
knacE M co0siHg There. now. try he san
sage and the biscuits I'm not going 10 lei
you get dyspepsia from bad food. know
how 10 deal with q mans stomach
Aud thc bride rosy with standing over The
stove quietly dropped into q chair and de-
murely ate her breakfast.
The master Of the house seemed disnave5
into silence, and without another word ate
what was before HIM.
For week the Sourbeck family went
without cakes; then J0uty, unable 10 forego
ms iarorlte dish, politely asked Patty TO sci
some more cakes.
viii smiled his wife cheerilv. and
thereafter the buck wheat cakes were never
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