Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-04-12
FEMININE TRAITS.

Jim Hardin. with much deliberation,
drew toward him - tobacco can and
proceeded to stuff the bowl Of his pipe
full of the weed. 1t was significant.
We knew we were about 10 hear what
Jim called an ''antidote," and our faces
and attitudes at once expressed profound
interest.
Women" said Jim between puffs,
sis queer cattle-yes, they be. A feiler
thinks be has th'r p'ints an mebbe keeps
on thinl1in 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 why2 Cause
thr p'rverse They be, an they CANT
help 1t, 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 1T.
Th'r' all 1i,-e-all right 'nough in them
respecks, bat not any more Ye cen
pick vut y'r female wharever we please,
an don't keer ef she's tn mos common-
est, ev'ryday sort o. critter ye CANT find
mother one wi tn same markins. 1h'
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.
sup in Dakoty knowed feller th't
he'd a reg'lar thoroughbred wife. His
name was Sammis, an he KEEP store up
10 Bessemer. also sellin wagons an grain.
He was fine feller. this Saminis, 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 a fine
house, KEEP Chinese cook an hired
girl, an had av'ry thing folks en- banker
fer, includin various trips e Omahaw
and Chicago ev'ry year. / knowed 'em
a long time, an l never seen folks get
along so smooth t'gether-jes' like them
doves that SITS on tn fence b. tn stable.
They'd been hitched seven r eight year,
had brace IF as likely kids as ye ever
seen, an still folks used { say alters how
much them Sammis did sot by each
other. II beat the dooce sure, an
might've we I on fer all time, eff Sam
mis- hadn't gone an got inter trouble.
"Come olIe year bizness was slack at
the store-oash bizness. I mean-an
Sammis, he let out a 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 { pay up right
soon, but he didn't c'nect proper, an
they sinched i'm. Ev'rybody at Bes-
semer took hand-xcept few o. them
tht 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 II 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 q gang tgsther
an took i'm way from the offusers, but
Sam sent us word he didn't want nothin
O. tn sort-he was g'in t take his sassy
fras like a man, an hes done it.
Now don't think for minute tht all
this time Mis- Sammis want doin moth
in. Great Enoch! that woman hustled
like a major-wint t the men as was
sinchin Sam an begged an pleaded an
might We got 'em t give in eff 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 peakedhke,
an folks thought she was goin { die off
sure. Bout three months later she went
t see Sam, an Sam, he tol me bout it a
,ouple years ago. They had real scene,
janful o tears an real spooby love, an
Sam wanted t know ef it wouldn't be
better fer her t get a divorce, cause he
was a disgrace t her. Then o course
she falls on is neck an weeps hull lot,
an sez as how she'll stick t him till tn
oil Harry goes into tn ice cream bizness,
r somethin like that.
IAN, gents, 1t want three months
longer b'fore she gifts her doggone de-
NOINt du spll1So WIN q Va
duffer FIN Pennsylvany th'td come to
Dakoty t git unhitched hisself! Oh, it
was tough, tell ye. Samnis, he's out
now, doin good bizness, an got his kids
at Bessemer. too, b'gosh-an also behavin
hissel. But he was considerable broke
up wen tn woman shuck i'm"
Here jim paused to refill his pipe, and
we took advantage Of the opportunity
briefly 10 debate the question as to wheth-
er or not Mrs. Sammis was justified in
doing as she did. Jim then proceeded:
9TH other case was thinkin of is diff
frunt hull lot. TIL woman in it was
bout tn same caliber as tother one, /
reckon, but more perseverin.
1T was up in Dakoty, too, this here
case; over t Gilman, bout 20 miles firm
Bessemer. Bwas sheruff then an knowed
ev'rybody ia tn blame county. B'sides
tn gyurl was sorter relation o mine,
how came I know s'much about it.
This here gyurl was a dandy high
stopper Her ol man was we'll fixed an
she'd went T. school & st. Louis an was
purity persnickety. Blame fine gyurl,
stunnin purity an nice, but persnickety,
cause some o. tn finest and best fixed