Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-09-01

scrirlp:u' herself and putin by every
cent she could save to educate her boy.
He's full of music just like his mother,
but Anonadab won't help him because
! he don't take to farming. Anonadab
| hates music, he won't let Silury hum a
tune if he is in the kitchen She never
dares to touch the piano when he's
| around Silury believes in educating a
boy sccordin' TO his bent. but Anonadab
! thinks deestrict school is good
enough for a farmers SON He saws a
college education is time and money
thrown away. Silury's good woman"
| continued Miss Chirp, land her hus-
band hasn't done the fair thing by her. -
NO" said Mrs. Fairplay. ''Anona-
dab says he'd share his last dollar with
her: but when it comes to the case in
hand he isn't so ready to do it The
fact is he want brought up to do for
people. Bein' an only son every body
did for him, and that makes children
/ selfish Silury was brought MP differ
emily. Her father was old Parson
Gold bury, one of the best men youever
see. Seems as if he lived at Heavens
gate, and only staid out to help sinners
in. / don't see how Silury came to
| jine hands with Anonadab, but she
| says she loved him, and perhaps she
did. / reckon she got tired of knockin'
| round in boardin' schools and wanted a
home. Anonadab was forehanded and
| belonged to good family. and the
| old folks thought il would be good
| match. Silury didn't realize what she
was goin' into. nor how hard her little
hands would get playin' on a wash
board instead of piano. She's smart,
and she's got grit. l hope she'll get
her way. That boy of hers will make
his mark in the world. Those great
eyes and that broad forehead want
given him for nothin'."
Flushed with her long speech Mrs.
Fairplay wiped her glasses and set her
stitches rapidly.
Il suppose Mr.. Arrowshooter will be
looking for a housemaid,' said Miss
Scrubb, who occasionally accepted a
kitchen situation Just to accommo-
date" He won't get me, He deserves
to have a try at homework and then
he'll have more sympathy for Silury."
a glance of intelligence passed round
the circle. Lets stand by Silury,
said Mrs. Fairplay, who had a vein of
humor in her composition. IN send
those advertisements to my brother.
who edits the County Sentinel. Wen
watch the fun and see how many
women will dare to invade Mr.. Arrow
shooters premises
4 hearty laugh rang through the
room and -nerciless jokes were cracked
at Mr.. Arrovshooter's expense which
would have dashed his self-complacen-
cy if he had heard them. A labor
lea que was formed then and there. Sill
ury had adherents she never dreamed
of having when she mustered courage
to leave home on a strike.
Her cousin Amelia kept genteel
boarding house in n neighboring city.
She had corresponded with Mrs. Ar
rowshooier from the time they were
schoolgirls together and fully under
stood her peculiar trials. When Siiury.
in desperation. said she was tempted
to strike and go where she could edu-
cate her son. Cousin Amelia offered
her twenty-five dollars a month and
the board of her son if she would take
charge of her kitchen and captivate
the boarders with mullins and chops
which no one could cook quite so de-
liciously as Silury.
One bright morning when Mr.. Arrow
shooter went to the village to get his
horse shod. Mrs. Arrowshooter and her
son went in an opposite direction to
railway station and took the first train
for the city.
On his return Mr.. Arrowshooter
found deserted house. a fireless kitch-
en- and on the clock a note, short but
expressive: Gone for higher wages"
Let her co. he shifted. contemptc-
ously. Il shan't run after her."
He made no attempt to find her and
felt no anxiety about the result of the
affair until he saw the bit OF sarcasm
in the News saucily defying his au-
thority.
Silurah was shrewd. She knew her
husband received the evening News,
and when the morning edition APP
peared with Mr.. ArrowShooter's adj
vertisement, she fastened to the Office
with her reply and arranged that it
should be printed under her husbands
insertion. The editor saw the point
and consented, wisely inferring that
more would follow. and that others be-
sides himself would watch the novel
conflict
week. Her husband thought she
would relent and come back by Satur-
day night. but he was mistaken. Her
note of defiance signified war. for Mr..
ArrowslIooter was mot the man to be
bossed by Il woman Women were in
ferior to men. Their BRAINS were
smaller and weighed less. Men We're
made to be the head of the family. and
he. Anonadab Arrowshooter, would be
master of his own house"
He began to tire OF the continual
round of kitchen duties, for, although
he shirked as many as possible. and his
wife had left good parcel of cooked
food, still he and Sam had hearty appe-
tites and they hadn't made the Wet
uals go as far as they might, seein' as
he didn't think Silury'd be gone SO
long"
The bill of fare was growing monot-
onous. as his knowledge of cooking
was limited to fried ham, pork and po-
tatoes. The advertisement decided
him. He harnessed his horse and
started to hire a girl. If he had been a
woman he would have had some slight
idea of the herculean task before him;
he would have entered upon his search
with less self-confidence, and with a
clearer knowledge of the market value
of domestic help.
He FIRST asked neighbor il she could
tell him where to find a maid. His
wife had gone away for a spell His