Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-12-29
AFTER MANY YEARS.

tnougn | say 1t that shouldn't our Bald
wins and our Golden Majesty punkins
showed out superior to all others and
fetched prize" "Jane Eliza, it is time you
spoke mp and told the facts in the case
Misrepresentation should not be permitted
by perfessers.
Jeremiah, my dear" says |, your words
express the thoughts that air in my mind
I'll up and do it,
We warn ta-speaking of the Baldwns nor
the Golden MaleSties, as you may suppose
1t was the case between Tobias Starch and
Rosy Wood that was in our minds How
1t may he in New York do not pertend to
know. | should suppose fokses' minds
was too well occipied in them haunts OF vice
and terror with savin themselves from
ben run over or electroated TO death by
busted light wires, or bein smashed by new
houses comm down onto 'em as they walked
unconscious by-which is, accordin to the
papers, the regular thing thereon account
OF builders trying to save in mortar, or
being pickpocketed or sandbagged in the
streets, or murdered by burglars into their
beds, to care enough about scandal to salt
1t up twenty years and then fetch it out
again with alterations. | hope they don't
do it anyway, but they do III villages like
Soapstone, where everything goes Oh reg
ular and even for the most part, and the
majority lives till eighty and dies because
they air tired of hevn To get up and put
on their shoes and stockings only to take
EN- off again at o'clock and lay down.
twenty years ago II happened - says |
to Jeremiah. 1T waru't sensible of Rosy
but she was gal then. and il was New
Years time"
Now that again may not be understand
able Dy clty folk N Spn M,
Years day is the day for doin all sorts OF
queer things playin ali sorts of tricks-a
kind OF April Fools Day comm OIL the fust
OF January And anybody that is tricked
at that time is bound to be forgiving, and
it didn't seem to me to be fair for old Mrs
Perket and Maria Beckworth and Miss
Maberly, all of 'em to speak to strangers of
Rosy Wood as the person that proposed
to the Rev. Tobias Starch in her younger
days and was rejected" Rosy hadn't ever
married, and a spinsterhood of thirty seven
feels such ISLANDERS kinder heavy An old
lady could laugh it off. but when person
amt neither young or old it's harder for
'em to bear. Mrs. Wood had said she
couldn't stand to see Rosy so cut up. and
there seemed no provin facts unless up
and proved 'em, and proved 'em before all
Soapstone, too in kind of public way.
writ down and read as paper Jane
Eliza you air talented and hev the pen of
ready writer; then why not give it in a
literary tormp"
Jeremiah" says |, "a will, you inspire
me. | will write it, and will read it at
the minister's donation party ef | am
spared. Only, jeremiah, you must go to
the store and fetch hum a bottle of ink six
pens and quire of paper"
| said this in such solemn manner that
Jeremiah replied;
Amen" quite unconscious, instead of
sayin Il will, as he orter
Bright and early he got the literary fix
in's, includin a wafer. for we had re-
marked that legal afferdavids always had
waters onto 'em, likewise postage stamps
and day and night sat before the succer
tary into the best parlor while things
went to rack and ruin The turkeys ran
away, Jeremiahs stockings got holes into
EN-, and Jeremiah's buttons came off and
were not sewed on ag'in. began my la
bors in the latter end of October Novem
ber passed, December came in, and still |
writ, fur what with wishing fur to have a
good style, and hevin considerbul to say,
and remarks of my own to add, and poetry
TO quote and getting it copied off neat
and hevin to refer to Webster's Una
bridged continual, the work was slow
and every few days jeremiah had to buy
me another quire of paper and more ink
However, it was finished at last and the
appropriate time for readin 1.-THE New
Years eve donationparty-ha cen almost
arrove when put my MS. into Jeremiah's
hands and said:
Jeremiah my work air accomplished
return to my proper spear and never will
leave it again, for writin one konsize
statement is more labor than housecleanin
kept up remitless fur year Ef this had
not been my duty as a perfesser should
hev fallen by the way. Read it loud. SO
that shell know how it sounds before
read it myself" | says sinkin into the
largest rockin chair and fodin my weary
hands.
Jeremiah took the passel and reviewed
1t with kinder sublime expression onto
his countenance.
Jane Eliza" says he, when view this
here noble work feel proud of you. Your
thoughts and feelin's must hev poured
from your brain like it was a fountain.
But, Jane Eliza, hev read papers before
lhe public and you hev not. Ten minutes
Is considered considerbul time for paper
and fifteen is the limit of patience, unless
II air lecture with tickets paid for and
people anxious for the worth of their
money when circumstances alters cases.
This noble work. eff you was to begin to
read it at the donation party at about s
O'Clock would take you until that evenin
next week, allowin time fur meals 1t
would be profitable fur them to hear it
there amt no doubts. But do you think
the mass OF the population of Soapstone is
capable of riveting their attention on any
thing fur that there length of timer
.Ieremiahs words was uttered with a
solemnitude that proved they were true.
looked at him speechless minute, aud
says l:
Land sakes alivel see 1t ALI My