The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-24
WANTED SITUATIONS.

to sell our claim for almost anything
he could get in cash, and the other
husbands was ready to do the same.
put my foot right down and said I'd
sign no papers, and he was nightly
| disappointed. He wanted to go to work
for the railroad and sweat his shirt and
become great man, but looked him
squar' in the eye and said:
a. You kin get right along down to
Bristol and go to work as soon as you
please, but we amt goin' to sell out
this home
The missionary comes over to see
me and read me a long letter on the
duty of wives, but it made no differ
ence. L jest said I wouldn't sign no pa
pers and that ended it.
Then 1 was told that Zeb was goin
to sell our two nevis and the hawgs
and chickens and go along to Salt Lake
with the rest of the idiots, and 1 saw
it was time to act. l sent word to the
women folks all along the line and one
evenin' arter supper l says to zeb:
hill, and I've got to go over there and
do some nursin'. Maybe shan't be
back much before daylight
" Is it a purity bad case?' he asks, in
a keerless way.
almost case OF life or DEATH
Don't you want me to see you
over?'
along by myself.
Two hours arter that Is of US women
had met at an appinted spot. We had
lanterns and Eppes and switches, and
we had met to give Sartin person
surprise party.
1T was clus to midnight when we
arrives at Elder Sabin's house, where
the missionary was stoppin'. The elder
we had talked with him for two or
three minits he stood aside. The mis-
sionary had a pistol with him and
Threatened to shoot, but we crowded
in, h
his night shirt. Didn't pear to us to
be no time to stand on ceremony. He
made a big bluff at first, and then he
got scarf and was easy to handle. We
tied his hands and walked him down
the road a ways to a tree, and there
says to him:
our bizness with you is to ask if
you will get right out of this naybor-
never come back?
II am here to save souls he says
in reply
Them Mormon men don't think
much of women folks. you know
This fellow probably figured that 1t
would all end in chatter, and he was
quite chirky as we tied him fast to
the tree. He got over his chfrkiness
mighty soon after the first blow red
and then coaxed. and in five minutes
we had him hollerin' and Begin.
Say, stranger, if you don't think
fifteen mad and determined women.
each one armed with a stout switch,
are a power to be afeared of, then you
have sunthin to learn They heard
that man hoIIer- two miles away. We
basted him till we was too tired to
strike another blow, and when we
finally united him he just dropped
down like a log and couldn't move
leg.
1--WE drawed off and left him to live
or die, and with help of the elder he
got down to Bristol next mawnin' and
has never showed his face since.
got home at o'clock to find Zeb
sittin' up and Worryin' about me.
'How's the sick folks?' he asks, as
I come in
"a heap better says l..
What was the sickness
" Mormonism.'
"'And who is the patient?'
Your new preacher. Yes, he had
it bad, but fifteen of US women folks
took him outer his bed and give him
five hundred cuts with switches, and
that he is on his way down to Bristol
to get change of air.
'And my Zeb sot there and looked
straight at me for all of three minits,
turnin, red and white and yaller in the
face, and bime-by he turns away with
out one single word, and we have
never spoken of the matter since.
Eyes. women may be Gurus critters,
as he says, but I've told you this story
to prove that men folks hain't far be-
hind 'em in their curusness.' Copy
right, 1904, by T. B. Mcclure.