Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-25
MRS. GALLUP'S LAMENT.
A Neighbours Clock Gives Her Warn
ing That Her Time Has Come.

| ing That Her Time Has Come.
| Copyright, 1900 by G. Lewis)
| When supper had been concluded,
Mr.. Gallup sat down to read pam
phlet description of the Virgins wash
| ing machine, and Mrs. Gallup flung a
shawl over her head and ran over to.a
neighbours to give warning that the
chicken pox had broken out in town
only ten miles away, and would prob
ably sweep the whole country before it
could be staid. 1t was hardly quar-
ter of an hour before she returned, and
her first action was to pitch forward
on the longe and roll over three times
before she got settled down into a COM
Portable position to do some weeping.
Her conduct ought to have attracted
immediate attention but it didn't. Mr..
Gallup was reading a declaration from
the sole inventor and proprietor that
the Virgins washing machine had saw
ed the public 100000 pounds of soap
in the last year. and the family clock
might have stopped without his taking
notice OF it. When about so sobs and
signs and groans had failed to arouse
him, Mrs. Gallup sat up and said:
Samuel, you knew l went over to
see Mrs. Taylor. As she has leven
children and is allus willin to lend me
her fiatirons, thought it only right to
tell her that the whole leven might be
taken down with chicken pox any min
it, / hadn't hardly got my mouth open
before she bust into tears and put her
are around me. She wasn't cryl1 on
account OF the chicken pox, but On my
/ account. i had bad news for her, but
she had Bladder for me. Don't you
want to know what it was?"
Mr.. Gallup refused to commit HIM
self. That Virgins washer was being
sold for $40 when other and inferior
| machines were foisted on the public at
| SIS. and he was saying to himself that
Virgins ought to have the gratitude
the nation Mrs Ganup shed seven OF
eight tears, caught sob between her
teeth and went on:
I'm the first place, the oven door to
the stove needs new hinge. II got
| broke seven years ago, but have got
along with it so as to save expense
Then the spout is broke off our tin
| quart pitcher, and the handle Is off the
gallon jug. If l was goin to stay right
| along on earth, | shouldn't tell you
that we ought to hey new set of tea
spoons or that there are three holes in
| the Gishpan, but I'm goin fur, fur
away, and your second wife won't put
| up with things as have. We are still
! slcepin on the same feather bed moth
er gave me When we was married, and
, the feather ought to have new tickin
| If | was to live on, could make the
| old sheets do fur year more; but
| as it is, / guess you'll hev to buy at
least two. You ought to hev some pill
larsiips too. Down cellar you'll find
! half barrel of soft soap, two jars Of
peach pickles and six gallons OF apple
1 butter. hope your second wife will
| be as careful of EN- as | hev bin.
Many's time | hev wanted a peach
| pickle in the middle of the aftr 1uon
but wouldn't go down arter 1t and be
a pig. Did tell you about the cider
| vinegar, Samuel"
Mr.. Gallup was holding his breath
over the statement that the Virgins
washer washed a shirt for the Cover
nor OF Arizona in Is seconds, and Of
course he didn't answer.
Mr.. Gallup didn't. He was reading a
testimonial from the wife OF a governor
that the Virgins washer had brought
joy to her household when everything
else had failed, and be was deaf to the
outside world. Mrs. Gallup waited a
reasonable time for a reply and then
said:
The news she had to tell me, Sam
uel, was that had but three days to
live. II I hadn't gone over there she
would have come over here, as she
thought ought to be maxim ready.
That's Mrs. Taylor all over. She's al
lus dom sunthin for other folks. You
must remember when Saray Anr
Spooner died? And you remember
when Uncle goodrich was hooked to
death by q COW? WAL. Mrs Taylor
had warnin three days ahead that both
OF EN- was goin to perish. Her clock
suddenly stopped with a vhir-r-r, and
both hands p'inted to certain direc-
ton. At o'clock this afternoon the
clock stopped a'gin and the hands
p'inted right toward our house. That
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