The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-11-14

"Deacor. you was fool for maxim
such promise"
ri know was."
"My old woman has asked me more'n
forty times to promise the same thing,
but I never have done it and never
WILL"
! But I wish hadn't"
Gut you did. and now we must
see how YOU car get out of it. Was
| day."
Never"
"Was there any call for her 20 go
sI the riNcr?"
"Not Il call"
(Which of the women suggested
that they take the boat?''
My Ajfc.'
Ifoac "a strothcrs. if that don't
come under ,hc head of conspiracy,
thcn my old white COW is q rod one |!
II anyone conSnires ito force q
promise out Of anothcr then that prom
IS" won't nod"
81 believe Won are right, Mr.. Roe.
hNc',." replied bc deacon viii! relief in
his voice.
COZ course am. Al agreement
that hHnelits only one side does not
hold. DID your wife - ak up and
say tbat she would not Harry again
If Won died hrst?"
";Sh@ did not"
"Wol. there you are. as free as n
bird. though you'd better go to the
paraon and see what he thinks about
1t. lie nay hold sentimental views"
The dencon walked over to the par
sonage, and not wishing to be too
b!usque, he began:
"PNrson, do You hold that an angel
in heaven can SEE what is going on
here below"
eff they could they wouldn't be
angels very long," was the grim
reply.
did you ever preach that they
could"
''Not that remember of. Heaven
Is Il long way off, deacon"
"A1y wife kinder believed that after
she got to heaven she could see what
was takin' place down here"
The parson was silent.
"She wanted me to promise not to
marry again in case she died, because
if she looked down and saw me with
a second wife it would make her feel
had.
"If anything could make the angels
feel bad In heaven, 1t would not be
heaven, would itY
"By George, pnrson, 1t wouldn't !!
Martha was mistaken about 1t. If
I Was 70 marry half dozen times
over she couldn't know anything
about it,"
"But did she ask you to promise?''
queried the parson.
"Yes, she kinder asked me-"
"And you promised?"
Eyes, 1 kinder promised. but 1t was
because I did not want her to feel
bad as an angel. Now that you say
she couldn't feel bad If she tried her
hardest, 1 guess that promise needn't
bother me much"
|
"Yes-ahem-yes!
"It's the Widow Stephens, I sup
pose?"
"Yes, kinder"
"rhrow out any hints yet?"
"a dozen. guess"
"You may find that she made prom.
Use to her dying husband"
"Jewhittaker! I'll see about that
the first thing!"
1t was a new scare for the deacon
and ne made the two blocks to the
Widows house on the trOt He found
her in the garden coaxing the pea
vines to climb their best, and he
didn't wait a minute before asking:
"Widder Stevens, did your husband
expect to go to heaven when he
died?"
II don't see how he could. He was
man that cussed and gambled and
drank"
did he ask you to promise not to
marry again?"
mo. he didn't, and if he had !
should have told him that that was
my own business. Why are you asking
these questions"
"Widder, hain't l been good man
at the woodpile?"
"Tine."
"And a good one in the garden?"
"Surc."
"And hain't lonely and you
loncly?"
1--WE are"
"l'hen--thcn let's get marrcdm
ia me! Bring on the parson and
have it over With and OF our hands
! for thcm string beans have got to be
po!ed afore sundown!'
Water Damage to Flour.
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ors that flour viii not only float after