The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1898-06-28

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to him easy like: What's the matter,
pard?'
"'Nothin',' he says, only more hard
luck
Girl gone back on your / said,
thinkin' to be cheerful an maxim up
my mind to josh him.
"'No,' he says; 1T 'ud a-been better
for her if she had long go. Read that
he says, an handed me this" concluded |
pocket. 1t was dated from an Ohio viii
lage and read as follows:
my Own Dear Husband: Your loving |
letter received yesterday, but 1t found us, |
OH so downhearted and wishing for papa. |
Dear husband, IL seems that our troubles
will never end. Mr.. Rhoades has changed
his mind and will foreclose the mortgage.
You know he said before you went away
that IL we paid the interest up he would let
1t stand awhile longer. Well, when the
mortgage was due sold the COW and took
some OF the money you left me to live on
! and paid the six months back interest.
| Now, he says, as the mortgage Is due he
must have his money and will foreclose. I
tried all the companies and banks to Dor
| row the money to pay him. but they all
say that 5000 is too big a loan on the place;
/
take a second mortgage to secure the
other $500. Yet II does seem hard, when the
| place ought to be worth three times 1880
| I've tried every way to sell II, but can't
get no one to give anything above the
| MORTGAGE Everybody knows Il Is mort
gagged and are waiting to buy ii at sheriff's
sale. Rhoades knows this too, and now
| he says II will save us lots of trouble and
costs II we will give him a qutclaim deed
and surrender peaceable possession.
III
learned you had gone out to the mines he
said he would not walt a day: that you
/ were on wild goose chase, and, dear hus-
band. Ire even intimated that he believed
you were never coming back to us. That
made me angry and may have said things
to him that should not, but / could not
help it. Now, dear husband. / cannot
stay here after having sold the COW; there
Is nothing to do here, you know, except
washing and ironing and house cleaning,
and am not strong enough for that. Mrs.
Simmons Will take Bessie and let her help
with the homework and go to school, and
1 will sell the chickens. pigs and furniture
and take little Charlie and go to Cleveland
to try to get sewing or something. 1t will
be, oh, so hard, but IL cannot be helped
Now, dear husband do not worry: we will
} get along some way. Remember the words
! of the prophet: Once l was young, but
now l am old, but never have l seen the
righteous forsaken or their seed begging
Drtdu NOW. utdr nuSDanu. take care OF
your health, and IL you do not find anything
T out there soon. come back to US, we miss
you, oh. so much. Every night Bessie
prays for her papa, way out in the mines.
and that he may find something rich. You
: may be sure that echo her prayers. Write
as soon as you get this. dear husband. for
cannot stay here long.
Your loving wife,
5 MAGGIE"
: This letter was passed around; two
r or three started to read it aloud, but
e they broke down, and it was silently
r passed from one to another. 1t was
: well for Mr.. Rhoades that he was not
4 in camp.
r HE told me all about it," said Sam.
1 They was five acres in the home place
i that he got from his fathers estate
! close to town, an he bought five more
I joinin', mortgagin' the ten to make up
t the balance of the money. He'd a-made
/ it all right, but times got hard, an first
s one, then another of them got sick an
II he had to keep on a-mortgagin'. He
s see he could never pay out, so he come
e out here to see if he couldn't strike
n it, leavin' nearly all the money they
q had with his wife, an this cuss Rhoade.
A, sayin' that he'd let the mortgage stan
anuther year, now-dern him. See thai
E. stain there? That's from bunch o
D. apple blossoms that was in the letter
Is he lowed they must a-been from tn,
4, yellow harvest trees back of the gar
% den, poor cuss. Take keer of yei
d health, dear husban',' an him a-layin
1t fat on his back up there in his tent
s. without money enough for month
r grub. Come back soon TO us'-humm
" Look here, pardners, let's answer Bes
p sizes prayer, an show this felle
he Rhoades whether mimi is chasin' wil'
t. geese ur not. Mebbe Sans dern foo
re an l know he amt got much money
he but he can rustic. I'll GO purity nigh m.
* pile on it-there's so; who's all in OF
n, it?" and he slammed two a0s aud
d, on the bar. 1t was just like Sam, an
a whoever heard an appeal like that go III
he answered in q mining camp? Their
II were so men in the room, and ever
man saw Sans ante, and those tina
= did not have that amount borrowed
from their friends. In few moment
Up $3.50 in gold lay piled on the bal
d. Sans eyes gGstened as he counted tn
lie money. "Everybody's in on the game,
If he said; won't he be paralyzed? Now
h pardners, every one of you come dow