The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1894-09-11
Her Husband wac a "Jinsr."
[Fratenal News,l

black hair rather thin and tlnged
with gray, and eyes in which
cleaned the fires of a determine
ton not to be easily baked,
walked into Major Huse's Office
in Manchester, and requested a
private interview; and having
obtained it and satisfied herself
that the law students were not
listening at the keyhole, said
slowly, solemnly and impress
sively
81 want a divorce.
"What for ? I supposed you
had one of the best of husbands, "
said the Major.
81 'spose that's what everyone
thinks, but if they knew what
I've suffered in ten years, they'd
wonder | had'd scalded him long
ago. / ought to, but for the sake
of the young ones ] have borne
it and said nothing. I've told
him, though, what he might de-
pend on, and now the times
come. | won't stand it young
ones or no young ones, I'll have
a divorce, and if the neighbors
want to blab themselves hoarse
about it they can, for I won't
stand it another day."
"But what's the matter? Don't
your husband provide for you ?
Is he not true to you ? Does he
not treat you kindly p pursued
the lawyer.
eve get victuals enough, and
| don't know but he's as true and
kind as men in general; and he's
never knocked none of us down.
| wish he had and then I'd get
him put into Jail and know where
he was nights" retorted the
woman.
"Then what is your complaint
against him ?"
"Well, if you must know, he's
one of those plaguey jiners."
"a what p
"a jiner; one of those peskey
fools that's always jining some
thing. There can't nothing
come along that's dark and sly
and hidden but he'll jine it. If
anybody should get up a society
to burn his house down, he'd
jine it just as soon as he could
get in, and if they had to pay to
get in, he'd go all the suddener.
We hadn't been married more'n
two months before he jined the
Know Nothin's. We lived on a
farm then, and every Saturday
night'he'd come tearin' in before
supper and grab fistful of nut
cakes and go on gnawin' 'em,
and that's the last I'd see of him
till morning. And every other
night he'd roll and tumble in his
sleep, and boiler: ''Put none
out;Americans on guard George
Washington p And rainy days
he'd go out in the corn barn and
jab at a picture of the pope
with an old bayonet that was
there; [ ought to put my foot
down then; but he fooled me so
with his lies about the pope
coming to make all the Yankee
girls marry Irishmen, and to eat
up all the babies that want born
with cross on their foreheads,
that | let him go and encouraged
him in it.
Then he jined the Masons.
Perhaps you know what them
be, but | don't 'cept they think
they're the same kind of critters
that built Solomon's temple and
took care of his concubines; and
all of the darndest nonsense
about worshipful masters and
squares and compasses and such
like, that we had in the house
for the next six months, you
never seen the beat. And he
never outgrowed it, nuther.
What do you think of man,
Squire, that'll dress hisself in a
white apron bout big enough for
a monkeys bib, and go march
ing up and down making motions
and tall1in' the foolishest lingo
at q picture of George Washing
ton in a green jacket and truss
on his stomach :? Amt he a
looneytick ? Well, that's nv
Sam, and I've stood it as long as
I'm goin' to.
THE next lunge the fool made
was into the Odd Fellers. | made
it warm for him when he came
home and told me he'd lined
them; but he kinder pacified me
by telling that they had a sort OF
branch show that took women,
and he'd get me in as soon as he
found out how to do it. Well he
came in one night and said I'd