The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-10-03
HER HUSBANDS.
Copyright, 1895. ]


wife. Yes, married my second husband
daughter. / suppose Jou have heard Of my
second husband2 Mf. Barker had nothing
in the world but daughter, who came to
live with us after we were married, and
pa married her. Pa gave us our home, and
1 took in sewing. / never would have
married Mr.. Barker If he hadn't been so
kind to me. He loved me-oh, yes, he
really loved me. 1 often wonder why so
many men have loved me, because l was
always plain and never really well in my
life, but have had better chances to marry
well than girls who were pretty"
"What was the trouble with Mr.. Bar
kerr"
"Drink. Between his treatment and the
dressmaking thought would go blind
and crazy. At last George-you remember
George my first husbands child, Cousin
Marthaf--and pas wife said 1t was an out
rage, and must get divorce from Mr.
Barker. May, my stepmother, said it was
shameful the way that her father treated
me. She Is 18 years younger than l am,
but surely no woman ever had "a better
stepmother. She never grudges me any
thing that pa does for me-and pa keeps
us up here-and besides she sends Inc pres.
ents and last year came and nursed me
through spell of sickness. She and pa
want me to come and spend the winter
with them. oh, yes, they want me to take
doctor along, too, but we can't leave un.
less we could sell or rent our house.
"Where is Mr.. Barkor2 He lives with
pa and his daughter In little house in the
yard and takes his meals with them.
agt INT xxyhn I Vic tr
pa and his wife Mr.. Barker said he would
go away If wished, that he wouldn't
keep me away from my fathers house, but
Of course would not drive him away from
his home, and we met just as ordinary ac
| quaintanoes. found him greatly changed
He has stopped drinking, and he says that
he treated me badly. I'm quite sure that
he loves me yet.
"You see, doctor, while a good, kind
man, is not fitted TO compete for practice
| In town like this. For one thing, the
other doctors cry him down because hi
practices different kind of medicine from
theirs. He is very well posted in his schoo
! and reads and studies all the time.
"But reading and studying are not all
and l tell doctor that he ought to pusl
himself more. We live away off to one side
| and he never makes an effort to get pa
tients or boarders. Poor, trifling wretche
come to him, and he mover refuses to trea
them, but they do not pay Why, they
would not do q day washing for me o.
haul load of wood for him to save ou
lives. Oh, the people in this town ar
things to shudder at High and low, ricl
and poor, there Is stain upon them all
don't suppose ought to say anything
against the place, because it certainly saw
ed my life.
"I came here nearly dead, and the al
or the water set me up wonderfully 70
awhile. Why, you would have been sur
prised to see me walking over these hills
tell you was the pet Of the town.
wrote it up in prose and verse, and l wa
the leading spirit of the literary society
Many meeting have we had in this par
lor. Well the health was just a boost
You see what wreck am now. 1t wa
just like taking WORKOUT old dray hors
and turning him out INTO fine pasture
He fattens up and seems young and stron
again, but put him back in harness an
work him little Will Then you'll see
sit was just boost, 1 have u complain
that doctor says is incurable, and that
am just as well here a. | can be anywhere
but l think that this place Is too damp fo
me in winter. Doctor thinks, too, that
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