The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-05-10
FEMININE TRAITS.

Jim Hardin. with much elaboration
drew toward him the tobacco can and
proceeded to stuff the bowl Of his pip
full Of the weed. It was significant
We knew we were about TO hear what
Jim called an "antidote," and our faces
and attitudes at n expressed profouni
interest.
Women" said Jim between puffs
sis queer cattle-yes, they be. A felle,
thinks he has th'r p'ints ar mebbe keeps
on thinkin 90 fer awhile. Then he finds
ont all of a suddint th't what he think,
he knows and what he don't know Ii
more alike thin what he thinks he knows
and what be does knQw. :
Zone woman, amt no more like mother
woman thin ] be like that-waal, like tina,
stove, frinstance. Cause why? Gauss
th'r p'rverse: They be, An they cain'
help 1t, none whatever. Moreovermore
they don't wanter help it.-that's tn pr,
versity of 'em. WY, We never Seen nc
woman that'd be r do r think like r
other woman eff she hung fer not dom it
Th'r' all 1ike-all right 'nough in them
respecks, but not any more. Ye e'er
pick out y'r female wherever ye please,
an / don't keer eff she's tn mos common,
est, ev'ryday sort O. critter We CANT find
mother one WI tn same markins. Tn
Lord Almighty didn't make 'em that way
no morn all cattle is Shorthorns, and I've
saw a lot.
81 was jes' thinkin of a couple o. cases
| en- reflect.
"Upin Dakoty l knowed a Teller thu
he'd a reg'lar thoroughbred wife. His
name was Sammis, an he KEEP store uI
to Bessemer, also sellin wagons an grain.
He was a fine Teller, this Sammis, an
nothin was too good fer him, not even
his woman, an they was reg1ar 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 a Chinese cook an q hired
girl, an had av'ry thing folks en- banker
fer, includin various trips T. Omahaw
and Chicago ev'ry year. / knowed 'em
a long time, an I 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 q brace of % likely kids as ye ever
seen, an still folks usedt say alters how
much them Sammis did sot by each
other. 1t beat the dooce sure, an
might've went ON fer all time, eft Sam
mis- hadn't gone IN got inter trouble.
"Come year bixness was slack at
the store-cash bizness, / 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 t pay up right
soon, but he didn't c'nect proper, an
they sinched i'm. Ev'rybody at Bes-
semer took a 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,
bat feelin innercent Sam. he wouldn't
havei it none whatever an toll them east
ern cnsses th't, seein they didn't wanter
wait till fall an git q far squar up, they
cd go t the devil, IN he'd go t Jail. So
they sens i'm up two years beltin rock In
tn pen. We'd We got a 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 bis sassy
fras like a man, an he's done it.
"Eow don't think for a minute th't ill
this time Mis- Sammis want dom moth.
in. Great Enoch! that woman hustled
like a major-wint e. the men as was
sinchin Sam an begged ar. 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 tool
ON tur'ble wen tn jedge sent'nced Sam
She didn't look like she ulster fer a LONG
time, jes' got paler an more peaked1ike
an folks thought she was goin T. die of
sure. Bout three months later she went
T. see Sam, an Sam. he tol me bout it {
couple years ago. They had real scene
Jamful o tears IN real spoony love, an
Sam wanted T. know eff it wouldn't b.
better fer her t get a divorce, cause hi
was q disgrace t her. Then o. course
she falls on Is neck an weeps q hull lot
an seq 10 how she'll stick t. him till til
ol Harry goes into tn, ice cream bixness
r somethin like that.
"An, gents, it want three months
longer bfore she gifts her doggone de
vorce an spices with q baldheaded o
duffer I'm P~ennsylvany th'td come /.
Dakotyt' Git unhitched hisselfl Oh,
WIS fought tell ye. Sammis, he's on
now, dom good bixness. an got his kids
- Beasemes. tDo. b'goAh--an also behayi,
ht1DeL BIT he wAs considerable brok,
~ wen III woman shuck I'm.
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