St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-03-09
COvINGTON ST. TAMMANY SATURDAY, MARCH 1895

Z, MARCH 9, 1895.
powerful agin the grain with me" says
Ben Chris They may go on and git
married whether or no like you say.
From all can see and hear reckon
no doubts they will. But it never will
be with my say so, and it never will
come to pass at my house. If Rosy
May was to take sick and die / reckon
l could stand to see her hauled
off and buried. but / will
never stand still and see her lcave our
home to be the wife of sich torn
down, drunken rowdy rs John Cliff Tom
linson-never, Rufe-never whilse the
sun shines and the world stands"
1t was ON Friday when Ben Chris
come by my house to tell me about his
trials and troubles and tribulations
concernin Rosy May. He passed the
night at our house and the next mornin
he saddlcd up and lit out for home. So
and behold when he got there terri
BILE confusionment was goin on amongst
the neighbors. Where was John Cliff
Tomlinson? He had took q suddent
trip to Georgia. Where was Rosy May
Weaver? Bless goodness, she had took
and went with him. They come back
one day during the followin week, but
by that time they had got tied up to-
gether in = double bow not, which the
same nothin but death or q chancery
court could undo. It had come to pass
exnctly like had told Ben Chris. No
body didn't kill of the man, and nothin
didn't break, and-they got married.
Nature Takes Her CoursA
What did Ben Chris do when he got
home and found that the cat hap jump
ed and the cake was all dough? He let
in, he did. and done exactly what l had
told him to do-jest simply nothin.
But when John Cliff and Rosy May got
back into the settlement they didn't
hang out at the Weaver place any to
speak of. John Cliff hadn't lost moth
in in that particlar neighborhood. Rosy
May sent home after her clothes, and
when she got the clothes she likewise
also got word from Ben Chris to the gen.
eral extent that she must move her
washin for good and all
'.She took the bit in her teeth and
went dead square agin the word and
wishes of her old daddy" says he, ''and
reckon we can now manage somehow
SO as to git along without her hence
forwards and forever. She has made
the bargain and she must stand by it.
Tell her there ain't nothin here for her
to come back after. Tell her, too, that
have put lock ON the front door and
a new latch on the front gate, and the
the key and the string will always
hang ON the inside to John Cliff Ton-
linson and his family"
The next time / went down In the old
settlement to be certainly of course !
called by to swap few lies with Ben
Chris Weaver. had heard what come
to pass in regards to the weddin match
between Rosy May and John Cliff, and
likewise also about the word Ben Chris
had sent them touchin the latch string
and the key. soon found ont that
Ben Chris still had his bristles up and
his feelins terrible bad hurt with the
Tomlinson branch of the family. But
it was nothin TO me and none of my
business, 50 I didn't mix and meddle
myself up with other beople-
then went over to the Tomlinson
place to see how Rosy May and John
Cliff was comm on. Whereas, both of
them showed up to be as happy and
snug as two bugs in a rug. only Rosy
May would slip of and take a big cry
about oncst q week on account of the
word she had got from her daddy
when she sent back home after her
clothes. She wanted to know if /
couldn't do something to cool off the old
man and bring on a general reunion in
the family. She lowed l was good and
smart-not mentionin general appear
ments-and if anybody could manage
Ben Chris it was me. But l told her it
would be all vanity for me to poke my
finger any deeper into that family pie.
"But Chris will yet come down to his
knittin and everything will work out
all right for you, Rosy May" says 1.
IAN you have got to do is to lay low
and to say nothin and let nature take
her course"
And Nature Win ths Fight.
So Rosy May she took my word for IL
and in the fullness of time it come to
pass that was right. Nature took her
course and win the fight A year went
by, and whilst l was down in the old
settlement durin the Christmas and
new year holidays of 1894 and 1895,
about the first man I went to see was
Ben Chris Weaver.
"Dadblame it, Rufe, have you heard
the news?' says Chris before 1 could
hitch my horse and light. had heard
the news. but didn't let on that way.
Rosy May has got baby-a Dustin
big baby, Rufe, and o boy baby at
that" Ben Chris went ON. '.And Aunt
Nancy Newton says he is the livin, spit
ten image OF me-" and thought in my
soul the man would fall in q duck fit.
We then went in the house and Ben
Chris showed me letter which he had
writ to Rosy May and John Cliff, which
the same it was as follows:
Dear Rosy NAY: You and John
Cliff must come home and bring tho
baby. BY gatlins. am most crazy to
see that boy. have lost every dad
blame key ON the place and there amt
no latch ON the front gate. Your lovin
father, b. C. Weaver"
OF course Rosy May and John Cliff
come up to spend . few days with Ben
Chris and the rest of the family and
brought the baby with them. They
tell me that John Cli6 Is behnvin him.
self the bulliest sort nowadays, and
Rosy May told me on the sly that she
is considerable in hopes Of making Z
good democrat ont of him before next
election.
1t is plum marvelsome to me to 81
| what big changes can be brought on IL
. family by one helpless little baby.
But nature is . powerful peacemakel
II you will only but let her have her
time and take her own course.
RUTUs SANDHRA