The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-08-09
EBENSBURG. PA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 8, 1895.


til he got more self-assertiun-
WHY not send him to the leEIsla-
ture? asked my wife.
why he don't know the first thing
about politics, seZ |. We want some
body to do credit TO the town. hod
hain't been out to town meetn since
he took the freeman's oath, twenty odd
wear ago
But wife said things couldn't go 50
badly to rack and ruin at the state
house. a. they was going at Tick Ridge,
even if he did vote the wrong way and
the only thing that would really help
uod was To show Mrs. Lurvey that
some folks respected his opinions, if she
didn't
1t would be more credit to Brod-
icll to save Hold Lurvey than 10 send
the. smart.st man in town, seZ she,
and we couldn't disagree with her.
We'll. we talked it up one side and
down the other at the caucus fafe
Wiley. who had been representative
for five years, and of course expected
to be again. said he 'nuf sight ruther
Iod should have it, and would work
for him There was no danger but we
could carry the town easy enough |
There waru't a man. far nor near but |
would give all his old hats TO get even |
with Mrs. LurVey.
| ..Hod did not know what was up, but
! | made him promise To go down and
| vote He said he would come over,
! cross lots and go down with me. When
! went out to the barn that morning
! who should | see but lIod coming up
| the hill with his old clothes on, and
looking as meaching as a whipped dog
...She suspected was going to the
! village to-day and got tearing mad,
| ser he. She locked my store clothes
up and put the key ia her pocket and
told me to be lively about the chores
for We was going to pick geese to-day.
fed around. then made tracks for
here l guess | might a. well give up
| fust as last. 1t will have to come. /
| don't believe. that man lives who could
stand up against her when she gets IN
! a rage.
You're tired and hungry sez /;
come in to breakfast, then We'll talk
things over.
II don't suppose | was sympathet-
ic as might have been, for If there's
| ANYTHING under the sun that riles me
it is to have ID man under a womans
thumb.
1t took some argufying to screw his
courage up To the pint of buying a sec
ond suit of clothes. but he done il; and
! lntrt wal u d Sl'i h'tA l'l'hAiA45 t''''AA -
town meeting that day than Hosea
Lurvey. We had agreed to stop calling
him Hod and to call him Hosea or Mr..
Iurvev, to see if that wouldn't prop
up his self-respect little
He voted the straight ticket
through till they come To town repre-
l sentative: then his name was proposed
and was greeted with such "A cheer that
q the moderator said it was ii waste of
n time to ballot and we'd elect him
u by acclamation. Then we escorted
him home in tine style.
/ Mrs. Lurvey come to the door al
a primcd and loaded to give him 4
" scotch blessing, and was some took
r back 10 see So many of us. Col. Hook
4 er stepped forward and sez, sez he:
II ALLOW me, madam, 10 INTRODUCE t'
We our new representative, Hosea Lur
D vey, of Brodick, ESD
' =. You've hit it right for once sh,
L answered. If there's an Esq. any
!. where it amt Hod Lurvey that deserve
"a the title. and | amt overly sure tina
2, Brodicll does. either. If its made sue
y a fool Of itself Waal. Mr.. Lurvey, q
d, Brodicz ESD making him a mock
ing bow. We better bid your friend
l. good night and come in. I've got
al little account to settle with We
-; Thank We kindly, but promised I
If 90 down To the colonels to supper st
ur he. We only come up TO tell We III
news. Then how we cheered for ou
in new representative
ny That night the hull town turne
as out To serenade him, and on one pr
rm text or another he warn't alone muC
we for the next few days.
I'd He hired Nathan Simpson to ru
Ill l..
told him what to do and how to do
he Mrs Lurvey might as well have tri'
'ey to drive mule as II make Nate
ant aCin uoseas orders. There was diffe
eft ent works at Tick Ridge from tn
mi time.
ten You never see how Hosea improv
set when once he had a chance. He to-
md right holt of politics as though he n
the been brought up To 'em all his life a
Int it warn't long before he had the Re
mt ertation of being about shrewd
I II they make EN-.
ne I'VE knowed. W hen we met him
@ht the post office, on his way home I
the fust time. that our experiment h
l"d- succeeded, and he was going home
ane rule the roost. Mrs. Lurvey seed
i'm. too. and give up trying To hold /
one own agin him. lie has been to
Su- legislature every other term since.
ser: send Rafe Wiley other times. I
was wear he is first selectman and overs
lad of the poor.
eek He has got one of the finest ST
up farms in the state, and has things /
Irks different stvle from any Brodicll
ever had afore. He's maxim MOI
liant Eastern any other man at Tick Ri
lie and spends more. too. That Is wh
but his independence shows itself most,
he Mrs. Lurvey is tighter than the b
hold to "A tree, and keeps say ing they will
il of on the town yet. Well, If they
nd we'll help 'em out with deal be
, old grace than If Hod had never pro
than himself "A man. The boys have gre
that up fine, steady young men, and the
is one to be proud of.
that ~ Gu must go over to Tick Rio
Hod but l warn You that Mrs. Lurvey
With introduce him To ye as the colonel
ID at that night. Hosea Lurvey, of Brod
got Esq. N. Y. Herald.
with
ring Value" husn
Count WoronZoif Dachkotf, the
,5,3 sian court minister, who Is one OF
- 70 most important officials in the s
-, was one of those chief friends OF
late ear and the only surviving
4, the new cars earnest reques
- ,,-os IN remain in office untll the