The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1908-02-04

get quart Of mOlasSes IN this jug
after the mai, il distributed After l
had cOurted her for six weeks had
no more doubt Of her saving yes than
I have that Hiram Baker over there
ought to I've ASHAMED of the old hat
he's wearing
"One day | decided to settle things
I drove over and she had the same
smile for me until begun to talk bust
ness. Then she said she Guessed I'd
made mistake In the house and hint
Ell that ia better drive on for mile
and a half.
What dye s'pose she had done
while appearing to be as innocent and
childish as a spring chicken? Got
Teller to look up my property and
found l was under mortgage. and she
let go as IL I had been a hot later.
Yes. she did. and all the time she was
telling me that II she ever did marry
ag'ln she didn't care how poor the
man was IL he only had a manly heart
in his manly bosom, meaning me. If
I'd been counting long 'nuff to be head
oNSi uSSiS III 1--WE ~ nave SVAhS uOUic
to hang myself in the barn.
"A wilder woman don't hit fair from
the shoulder.
You don't know when to believe her
and when not to-
when you think you've got her she's
somewhere else. When You begin to
latter yourself that you've s.ot all the
other fellers ON the run she's working
her cards to ring in a new bunch.
"One experience with a wilder WON
an wasn't 'nuff for me- It's jest like
when you git blowed up with powder.
You know you've been blowed. but yet
you banker to go back to the spot and
look around for the fragments. / was
buying hay that summer. and called
on the widder to see If she'd sell me
five tons.
''She wasn't five minutes finding out
that was q widOwer
LAS she knew that I'd quit the
tombstone business and she would be
safe. she begun to talk about her dead
and gone Moses. lie had split her life.
He was dead. and she didn't want to
talk ag'in bin. but she had TO say that
be was a pesky mean man. When she
married ag'in she hoped to marry her
equal and man who loved her for
herself alone and all that kind Of nOn-
sense.
Left House frustrated.
81 went away from that house 80
frustrated that l forgot all about the
hay. I'd have bet steers to calves that
the wilder was gone on me at first
sight. or course l went back ag'ln.
Had to see about the hay. No hay for
sale. but we sat down on the shady
veranda and talked. and when we got
| through talking | was asked to call
ag'in.
at hain't no use in denying that
| thought | had struck good thing.
| There was a good farm and a nice
| widder woman that could do u Monday
| washing and ironing and be ready to
| bake bread on Tuesday | used to sit
and hold that widder's hand in the
moonlight and hear the whippoorwills
sing and feel jest as if Il could mel;
away like butter in July. She kept
dra wing me on. and | should have
popped the question within two months
if she hadn't stopped me at the critical
moment She seemed to read my
thoughts. and she'd bring me up short
! before | could get the words out
''Then. as I'm the other case. went
over one day TO lay my manly heart
at her feet. She caught me up before
l could lay it by shedding tears and
telling me that she must raise 4 hun
dred dollars or be sued. NY Marian
| be sued? Never! Never on this earth.
bumped for town and borrowed the
money on my note and carried it to
her, and ! was to call next day. when
when ] didn't ! had never seen n
man spoOking around there. but I
| learned that she had five Of US on the
string and that she had borrowed the
same amount from each without Sc
curity. Can't talk about security to n
woman who's going to marry you. you
know. Yes. sir, made fools Of the
whole five of US, and that money paid
for her bridal tour with n wire fence
man to whom she had been engaged
| for two years. Just got through pay
ing the last Of my hundred dollar note
the other day.
| My case Is linn HOpeweli's case.
Got IN love with widder woman and
! got the throwdOwu and took 1t IL
heart He'll live to get over It. jest
| as I have and. though he may never