Year: 1870

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| CONSEQUENCE.


The following letter is from Wy.
oming correspondent of the Dode
county (Wis.) Citizen. 1t il, Of course,
perfectly reliable for the editor OF
the Citizen says 80, and he ought to
know;


DEAR MOTHER: OF course You have
read in all the papers how that Anty
has been setting on the jury, and how
they convicted man to death.
know 1t was great honor for her, but
I had an awful time Of 1t, and was
glad enough when they Adjourned
You see girls is scarce and high out
this way and Uncle Jed han't got his
place paid for yet; 80 Anty and me do
our own work. The day the jury be-
gun to set we got up at 3 o'clock and
had the wash out before breakfast
Anty went away before 10-then I had
the work to finish up, and dinner to
get. Before I got half through little
Ulysses Grant Flail woke up and
missed his mother, and set up such a
howling you'd have thought there was
u dozen Indians on the war-path. /
tried my best to keep him quiet-nt
last began to sing to him:


"Ni-e little baby. don't get 10 n fury.


'Caus. mammas gone o. set on the jury


Just as got the words out OF my
mouth uncle Jed came in md says,
" damn your jury" He was billing
mad, 1 tell you, for he cannot bear to
hear the baby cry. He told me,to take
the baby straight to the court house
to his mother, and he would eat his
dinner in the pantry; and told me to
tell Anty TO get excused and come
home. But when / got there the
Chief Justice was preachin' to wimmin
beautifully, and told 'em how that all
the world was looking Mt them; and
that Wyoming had took the first step
to give wimmin their rights, and lots
more that / can't remember. Poor
Ulysses spied his mother and was get
ting uneasy, so that / couldn't hear
half oft. After she got through Anty
gave the baby his dinner, and he
was happy as prince, looking at all
the folks. She said il she did not
come home to supper 1 might bring
the baby again about dark. Well, /
had to trot that baby three times a
day back and forth. oil the time that
Anty was settin' on that jury, and do
all the work besides. All the wimmin
had on new dresses except Anty. She
bought beautiful blue merino, but
couldn't get it made up for love nor
money-so she had TO wear her black
alpaca. She was glad Of it after
wards, for a man sat next to me and
says to another man that that woman
in black dress is sensible, for VIM
min set.in' on a jury in n muider trial
ought to wear mourning. ! was real
provoked one day when ] was takin'
the baby he kept squalling all the
way, when who should see coming
but Bill Smirker. pulled my veil
over my face and pretended l didn't
see him, but he sings out, Halloo.
what's that ! a young juryman ?" Bill
has been home with me q couple of
times, but I'm afraid he won't again
after that meeting. They wouldn' I
let Anty come home during the whole
time. / couldn't get dinner, so Uncle
Jed used to get lunch at the saloon.
l don't ought to say anything about it,
but he stayed out three nights till IL.
Where he was don't know. / shall
tell Anty, for she is all tuckered out,
and has to lie down every little while.
Anty said to-day she was going to
turn over a new leaf in the house
She would hire girl, cost what it
might. Sine had come to her senses,
and found out her sphere, and as for
wearing herself out among pots and
kettles, and being slave for Jed Flail,
if she knew herself she shouldn't do
it. Not much, Mary Ann ! She is
going to read and expand her mind,
and some day will start on lecturing
tour, and that would be pretty soon,
if t'want for the baby. She said
" there is one thing certain. put
my foot on that square; there will no
more Fails come into this house.
Ulysses is the oldest, and will always
be the youngest. When was settin'
on that jury I was mortified aim oss 10
death to think of Jed Flail being SO
stupid as to send that baby right in
court time. Of course he had no feel
ings for me. I sometimes thought I
should faint awny and drop out of my
seat, and this great lumix to drag out
what little life there was in me. 9th
er wimmin could have their babies at
recess, and their fathers think just as
much of them as Jed does of his baby.
If had my life to start over again,
I'd keep school till was gray before
I'd marry a man that couldn't appre-
ciate my talents" said, Anty,
you was beginning to get gray, weren't
you, when you were married ?" but
she didn't hear. Just then somebody
knocked; I opened the door, and there
stood Ruth Roddock. She had been
visiting here a spell. She says to
Anty, /" Good morning Mrs. F'lail
how do you find yourself setting on
the jury 2" She said she had just
come from Mrs. Goslow's; that she
and the baby were both sick; that she
left quilt half off when she went to
serve her country by setting on that
jury; and now that Providence had
seen fit to affiict them with sickness,
she did not know when it would come
off, with nobody but a twelve-year-old
daughter to do everything. Then
called at Mrs. Knockabout's, and she
has the rheumatic pretty bad. Her
husband had got the children off to
school. and the breakfast dishes wash
ed. He said he was willing to work
Il. 4 !