Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-04-27


fuddied, but could feel them whacks on
| the licking / didn't get out of my bed for
most week mnt have been about 50
time, was choppins wood up in Morris
county, sub, up her, in Jersey, and my
per for the. shakes. Tn, last time was since
| I've been here. A yo,ng chap got me to
go to New Brunswick win hin, and he 60.
pig =. ;a-bask. sah: through he mud and the the
but | didn't mind that, | was too much
fuddled.". And the old man laughed TIL
1t seemed as Il his too,hless jaws never
Il never was much scared after that
eclipse, when | got drunk the first time.
| black snake-a regular rasef-chased mo
that was big snake! could soc him rise
right up every once in a while When when !
| Then he would hump himself to catch me,
| and then ! could hear him &c down on the
60 Osi fiY tRatpSSd Rs pd the thousht
was go1er. sure. But he didn't get me.
bdan tns Sd G@e from ono air. al saSsh Pet eaf of for or
more than eighty years however since
left the navy. was never scared in New
while, before you were born, sonny, ,hatt
make No rSabs for S ths SGSay and ha
haint made no trouble for nobody eyer
come out the better for, it, too"
Mr. MT Mills TIE Fislds S' pantatoh o as 1S fssi as i'G he
could sn, snd started out to find employment
Where / could Say" the " old '9ua man P'ad said.
after he had explained his life philosophy:
til came to the house of the Widow Pen
elope Parker; oh, my, gracious, sub, she
couple hundred slaves, and she raised all
kinds, of crops. and there were tar kllns on
rels OF tar. Well, the widow saw me walk
Ing n along the road and she came out, and
Noah, how far are you gong?'
said | was going till found place to
work, and she says:
well, / hired out to Widow Penelope,
st to to Work S for her Sd fts f nep the
but not like like the old widow. When the
yomng, yan T., widow do, I wanted me to be her over.
more to remain on her farm, but You see
thought maybe I could marry the young
wd9w If tSa MaS and then her plant
and the tar kilns would be mine. Well.
my plan ,y,ah wSnId h have worked yes sub; Il
body else. but, with the widow herself.
WAS wa. all tangled up. heels over head. in love
q, her. No, sub, l didn't have the brass. to
hadn't been dead in love, with her L would
have told her sure. Everybody on the
nse knfE MnSo how nEgfs felt ihousha hqa sSad a
"Massa las l., Noah. you 60 to ,r1i mssus and
says no then ri FIX her. III charm her
'But I wouldn't marry her that way. If
she didn't love me herself, | wouldn't have
So didn't open the secret to the mistress.
oh, my gracious. sub. she was a handsome
face was like a wax dolls face. Her cheeks
was .red-like apples. Her eyes sparkled
time Her hair was jet black-black and
fine. But I never told her till it was too
well. sub, felt like would die.
couldn't do no work, and one day my half
brother, he saw me. and he asked me was
and l surprised him when l said was.
Well, my half brother was in the navy. and
he gave a great laugh and said:
''.If you are in a love scrape. Noah. there
amt but one thing to do. and that is to
With nt us ,S1 ana If, 20 tba On with
body. /, shipped! on the Constitution; and
the young widow once more. got leave of
absence once, and went to her plantation
10 Settle up, anu hie pau lie OIL AL right
NOAH, why did you go away that way
and leave me, and never say anything
about IT.?
"Then told her all about 1t; how l was
in love with her, hut didn't have the brass
to tell her: and what do you suppose she
said--Faint heart never won fair lady"
Eyes, sub; that's what she said, and by
that I've always thought that If had told
her in time she'd a had me- Why didn't
marry her then? Good enough reason
the man who was her overseer after me
wanted to own her plantation, her niggers
and her big house, and he asked her to
marry him. and she did. sub. Yes, sub!
And they hadn't been married more than n
week then, suh"
Maybe, though, she wouldn't have had
me II I'd asked her, and I'm glad didn't.
1t would have been awful troublesome to
have a wife all these years, especially
when the civil war came along. Why, sub,
I wouldn't have been in that civil war,
sub for all the world, and all the women
in 1t, no matter how much I was in love.
But I never fell in love no more. and I
never married nobody. and ! guess I've
been more. comfortable after all. Yes, sub:
certain suh!'
Baltimore. April 26.-Rev. Dir. r. w.
Dinger, well known preacher of the Meth
odist Episcopal church. died to-day. He
was "A wears old and was horn in Aarau