The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-30

Omaha, Nch, oct, 2l.-To the Ed.
or of The N2ws: say Is smoking
God for suffering? Uncle Oscar SECS
{ helps him SEES II stCddys his nurN"s
and keeps his tung from wohbliug,
And after every meal he stops at the
igar counter and buys too fer
quarter from the pretty lady In blue
She seems gratcly interested in Tn.
lie. Has bin ever sins she nurd how
called the mite clerk down with
five hundred dollar bill
Uncle SEES sumonc ought to sort of
look after an innoscnt girl like her
With all them fresh travelling men
around the hotel.
told one of the offs boys about it
and he laft and sCd: shell look out
for herself all right and your Uncle
Oscar too. why kid that girls bin
married off and on for ten or twelve
years. Her furst hubby abusd her and
cum home jagd one mite and was GO
ing to scalp her with butcher nife
and she shot him in sclf.dcfons. Then
she got n divors from one or two men
and now she gets ten Il week ally
mony. But that amt Cnuf to live ON
| YOU see, SO she got Il job behind the
cigar stand whore fishn's good. You
Uncle Oscar'd better look out or he'll
get hookt."
"Oh, ! Dunno | SEES. Uncle never
got cot yet and he knows lot more'n
| he ever tells
The luther day the advans agent OF
the Madam Cattle Opera company
stopt at the hotel for dinner and gave
the sigar girl, who's his sistorln-law,
two complementary tickets. Snc was
standing drumming them on the show
case and looking sad when Uncle Os-
ar walkt up for his after dinner
herself:
ooh, dear, what shall | do. 1t was
nice of him to give me two tick.
cts, but mama's SICK and can't 30 and
do hate to miss it, but | can't go
alone, cause I'm so fraid to come
ONE in the dark"
Whats the m-mnrter with m in me?'
| ~ ''I'lt oSNdl.
ooh, it wud be so kind of you" she
replidc, land | know mama wudcut
care if went with such nice man.
SO last Wednesday mite Uncle Os'
ar tucker to here Madam COTE at
he Boyd, or rather she tuck him, and
lncle gave me Il dollar to sit up in
he gallary
| got sect way down in trunt
where | cud look over and see Ill the
'olks in the pit and you'd Il dido to
see how shockt Uncle lookt when she
tuck off her fir and from where | was
It lookt as if she didcnt have much
IN but a silk strap over each shOldcr
But Uncle got to feeling lots better
When he saw lots of the luther winner
drest the same way or as Uncle SEES
"deckolet" | shud think they'd e t soa1
hrotG. got Il sore neck, Iubl cring
Every time Uncle starts to sa" sum
thing and stops to stutter she picks il
rite up where he lCIC off and SEES il
for him and just what he was q goinl
to say, and when She gets thru he SEES
"Y-y-yes, th-th-thats it," They jus
seem to get along fine together.
Uncle Oscar has most forgot abou
his book he started, his Memories o
a Agriculturalist," but the mite afte
he went to the show he dicktat ID an
luther chapter, and I'll give YOU al
eXtrack from it:
CONCERNING WIMMEN
Now I'm no fighting man, and
never had a wife, but if was ard hat
one and some man should meet M
on the street and say well, Uncle
how's your woman?" Id knock hin
down,
"My woman!" that term males m.
blood rise to PIP in the sun,
"My woman" that is the mo t bar
barous expression in the language.
"My woman!" no civilized man VIII
really respects his wife and who eve
stops to think what it means, wi
cav it again
CIV women" th~t town or' 'rn'
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