The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-06-01
FEMININE TRAITS.

Olu IldrulIl, WIFI IuuCu uellDeTdUlOu,
drew toward him the tobacco can and
proceeded to stuff the bowl of his pipe
full Of the weed. 1t was significant.
We knew we were about to hear what
Jim called an "antidote," and our faces
and attitudes at once expressed profound
interest.
Women" said Jim between puffs,
'is queer cattle-yes, they be. A feller
thinks he has th'r p'ints an mebbe keeps
on thinkin SO fer awhile. Then he finds
out all Of suddint th't what he thinks
he knows and what he don't know is
more alike thin what he thinks he knows
and what he does know.
Zone woman amt no more like mother
woman thin be like that-waal, like that
stove, frinstance. Cause why? Cause
th'r p'rverse. They be, an they CANT
help it, none whatever. Moreovermore,
they don't wanter help it-that's tn pr
versity of 'em. Wy, ye never seen no
woman that'd be r do r think like n
other woman eff she hung fer not doin it.
Th'r' all 'like-all right 'nough in them
respecks, but not any more. Ye cen
pick out y'r female wharever ye please,
an don't keer eff she's tn mos common
est, ey'ryday sort o critter ye cain't find
mother one wi tn same markins. Th'
Lord Almighty didn't make 'em that way
no morn all cattle is Shorthorns, and I've
saw lot.
II was jes' thinkin of couple O. cases
en- rec'lect.
stTIo IN no1otxy 7 lznop,od n fo1lo,, 4l,,4
he'd reg'lar thoroughbred wife. His
name was Sammis, an he KEEP store up
to Bessemer, also sellin wagons an grain.
He was fine feller, this Sammis, an
nothin was too good fer him, not even
his woman, an they was reg'lar stuck
on each other. Mis- Sammis had all they
was goin-Sammis had dust, an he want
'fraid t. put it up. They had fine
house, KEEP Chinese cook an a hired
girl, an had av'ry thing folks en- banker
fer, includin various trips t. Omahaw
and Chicago ev'ry year. krowed 'em
a long time, an I never seen folks get
along 80 smooth t'gether-jes' like them
doves that sits on TIL fence b. tn stable.
They'd been hitched seven r eight year,
had brace of as likely kids as ye ever
seen, an still folks used t. say alters how
much them Sammis did sot by each
other. It beat the dooce sure, an
might've went on fer all time, eff Sam
mis- hadn't gone an got inter trouble.
Come one year bizness was slack at
the store-cash bizness, I mean-an
Sammis, he let out heap of stock on
time, fer grub stakes an tn like But
he'd likewise ben playin poker some, as
uzhal, and was shy fer stuff wen one
day some O tn people he was OWN called
fer him t settle up. He'd ben borryin
dust firm the election he'd made fer
some of 'em, 'xpectin t. pay up right
soon, but he didn't c'nect proper, an
they sinched i'm. Ev'rybody at Bes-
semer took hand-'xcept a few O them
th't cd We helped him most, an ought
er've did it-an tried to help Sam out.
but feelin innercent Sam, he wouldn't
have it none whatever an tol them east
ern cusses th't, seein they didn't wanter
wait till fall an git far squar up, they
cd go t the devil, an he'd go t. Jail. So
they sens i'm up two years beltin rock in
tn pen. We'd We got gang t'gether
an took i'm way from the offusers, but
Sam sent us word he didn't want nothin
o tn sort-he was goin t. take his sassy
fras like man, an he's done it.
''Now don't think for minute th't all
this time Mis- Sammis want doin moth
in. Great Enoch! that woman hustled
like major-wint t. the men as was
sinchin Sam an begged an pleaded an
might we got 'em t. give in Of Sam
hadn't been SO uppish with 'em. She
looked jes' orful durin tn trial, an took
on tur'ble wen tn jedge sent'nced Sam.
She didn't look like she uster fer long
time, jes' got paler an more peakedlike,
an folks thought she was goin t. die off
sure. Bout three months later she went
t. see Sam, an Sam, he tol me bout it
couple years ago. They had real scene,
lamful o tears an real spoony love, an
Sam wanted t know eff it wouldn't be
better fer her T. get divorce, cause he
was disgrace t. her. Then O course
she falls on is neck an weeps a hull lot.
an sez as how she'll stick t. him till th'
oi Harry goes into tn ice cream bizness.
r somethin like that
AN, gents, 1t want three months
longer bfore she gifts her doggone de.
Vorce an spices with baldheaded ol