Indiana Messenger, The (Newspaper) - October 7, 1874, Indiana, Pennsylvania ps Hood 18 56 jln 19 NO 4 INDIANA WEDNESDAY EVENING OCTOBER JR SMITH SON PUBLISHERS BILLAND THE WIDOW said Ed Wilbur one morn ing as he gSt stirring his coffee with one hand and holding a plum cake on with the other and looking i cross the table into the bright eyes of neat little wife wouldnt it be a good joke to get Bachelor Smiley to take Widow Watson to Robinsons chow next week You cant do it Ed he wont ask her IHS so awful shy Why he came by other morning when I was hanging out some clothes and he look fd over the fence and spoke but when I hook out a night gown he blushed like a girl and went think I can manage said but Ill have to lie just a little But then it harm under the circumstances for I know she likes him and he dont dislike her but as you say hes shy Ill just go over to his place to borrow some bags of him and if I don t bag him before I come back dont kiss me for a week So saying Ed started and while he ii mowing the fields we take a look at Billy Smiley He was rather a good looking fellow though his hair and whiskers showed some gray hairs and he had got a sjt of artificial But every one said he was a good soul so be was He had as good a farm as any in Norwich with a new bouse and everything com and if he wanted a wife many a girl would have jumped at the like a rooster at a grasshopper was so that he was on he never said boo to lur i married o oid Watson he just drew his hjad like a mud turtle into shell and there was no getting him out again though it had been no that since Susan had become a widow he bad paid more attention to his clothes and had very regular in his attendance at the church that the fair widow attended But here comes Ed Wilbur Good morning Mr Good Wilber Whats the HEWS your way nothing that I know said only Robinsons show that every boy and his girl is going to I was over to old last night and I seen his son Gus had got a new buggy and was scrubbing up his har ness and hes got that colt of his as slick as a seal I understood he thinks of taking the Widow AVat sou to the show Hes been hanging round good of late but I d just like to cut him out I would Susan is a nice little woman and deserves a bet ter man than that young pup of a fel low I wouldnt her much either if she takes him for she must be dreadful lonesome and then she has to let her farm out on shares and it isnt half worked and uo one else seems to have spunk to speak up to her By jingo if I were a single man Id show him a trick or So saying Ed borrowed some bags and started around the corner of the where had left sweeping put his car to a knot hole lis tened knowing the bachelor had a habit of talking to when any thing worried him Confound that young said what business has he then Id like to know Got a new buggy has he Well so have I and a new too and his horse come ii sight of 1 a to I will Ill go his very night and ask jier the wili inc Ill show lid Wilbur that 1 aini suh u i ue thinks i am if I did lot old Watson get the start of me in the first place Ed could scarce help laughing out right but hastily bags on his shoulder and with alow chuckle at his success started home to tell the news to Nellie and about five oclock evening they saw go by with his horse and buggy to the Widows He jogged along quietly thinking of the old singing school what a pretty girl was inwardly if he would have more courage now to talk up to her at a distance of about a mile from Kr house he carae p a a large it so happened just qs he reached about tha middle of the bridge he gave a tremendous sneeze and blew his teeth out of his mouth and clear over the dash board Striking on the planks they over the side 1 of the bridge and dropped into four ed at this startling piece of After a while he stepped out of the buggy and getting on his hands and knees looked over into the water Yes there they were at the bottom with a crowd of little fishes rubbing their noses against them and wish ed to goodness that his nose was as close for one second His beautiful teeth that had cost him so much and the show coming on and no time to get another and the Widow and young Sackrider Well he must try to get them somehow and no time to lose and some one might come along and ask him what he was fooling around there for He had no notion of spoiling his good clothes by wading in with them on and besides if he did that he could not go to the widows that night so he took a look up and down the road to see that no one was in sight and quickly undressing him self laying his clothes in the buggy to to keep them clean Then he ran around to the bank and waded into the almost icy cold water uut his teeth did not chatter in his head he only wished they could Quietly he waded along so as not to stir up the when he got to the right spot he drop ed under water and came up with the teeth in his hand and replaced them in his mouth But hark What noise is that A wagon and a little dog barking with all his might and his horse is starting Whoa Whoa said as he splashed and floundered out through nud and water Confound the horse whoa whoa Stop you brute stop But stop he would not but went off at a spanking pace with the unfortunate bachelor after him and the little dog yelping after the bachelor was certainly in capital running costume out though he strained every nerve he could not buggy or reach the tines that were dragging on the ground After a while his plug hat shook off the seat and the hind wheel went it making it as flat as a pancake snatched it as he ran after jamming his fist into it all dusty and dimpled stuck it on his head And now he saw the wido ws house on the hill and what oh what would he do Then his coat fell out and he slipped it on and then making a spurt he clutched the back of the seat and scrambled in and pulling the buffalo robe over his legs stuffing the other clothing beneath Now the horse happened to be one that he had got from Squire Moore and he got it from the widow and he took it into his head to stop at her gate which had no power to prevent as he had not possession of the reins besides he was too busy buttoning hi coat up to his chin to thing of doing much else The widow heard the rat tle ot wheels and looked out and see ing that it was Mr Smiley and thai he didnt offer to get out she went to the gate to see what he wanted and there she stood chattering with her white arms on top of the gate and her smiling face turned right toward him while the cold chills ran down his shirtless back clear to his bare feet be neath the buffalo robe and the water from his hair and the dust from his hat combined to make some nice little streams of mud that trickled down his face She him to in No he he was in a hurry he said Still he did not offer to go He did not like to ask her to pick up his reius for him be cause he did not know what excuse to make for not doing it himself Then he looked down the road behind him and saw a at surmising that it was that Gui be resolved to do or die and his errand The would be delighted to go of course she But ue coma m he was in a hurry be said he had to go on to Mr Greens place said the widow You are go ing to Mr Greens are you Why I was just going there myself to get one of the girls to help me quilt some Just wait a second while I get my bonnet and shawl and Ill ride with And away she skipped Thunder and lightning said a scrape and he hastily clutch ed his pants beneath his feet and was preparing to wriggle into them when a light wagon drawn by a horse driven by came along and ter go about your sighed at the loss of his Sunday boots j and turning to the widow said Just pick up the lines will you please this brute of a horse is forever switching them out of niy The widow complied and then he pulled one corner of the robe cautious ly down and she got in What a lovely said she and so warm I dont think we need the robe over us do we You sec she had a nice dress and a pair of new gaiters and she wanted to show Oh my said earnestly youll find it chilly riding and I wouldnt have you catch cold for the She seemed pleased at his tender care for her health and contented herself with sticking one of her little feet out with a long silk over the end of it Yes I bought it the other day and I must have left it in the buggy Nev er mind she said it was so care and stooped over picked it up and made motion to stuff it in between them felt her hand going down and making a dive after it clutched it in his and held it hard and fast Then they went on quite a distance he holding her soft little hand in his and wondering what he should do when they got to Greens and she wondering he did not say something nice to her as well as to squeeze her hand and why his coat was buttoned up so tightly on such a warm evening and what made his face and hat so dirty until as they were going down a little hill one of the traces came un hitched aud they had to stop O murder said what next What is the matter Mr Smiley said the widow with a start that came near jerking the robe off his knee One of the traces is said he Well why dont and put it on I said Ive is I havent dear Im so sick What shall I do Why said she tenderly what is the matter do tell me she gave his hand a little squeeze and look ing into his cold and troubled face she thought he was going to faint so she got out her smelling bottle with her left hand and pulling the stopper out with his teeth stuck it to his nose was just taking in breath for a mighty sigh and the pungent order made him throw back his head so far that he lost his balance and went over the low backed buggy The little wo man gave a little scream as his big bare feet flew by her head and cover ing her face with her hands gave to tears or was hard to tell which was right side up in a minute and was leaning over the seat dumbly apologizing and when Ed and his wife and ba by drove up behind and stopped Poor felt that he rather would have been shot than have Ed catch liim in such a scrape but there was no for it now so he called Ed to him and whispered in his ear Ed was ready to burst with suppressed laugh ter but he beckoned to his wife to drive up and after saying something to her he helped the widow out of Bills buggy into his and the two women went on leaving the men gin iost uo time in arranging his toilet as well as he could and then with sion to go with and hunting up slippers and getting him washed pd combed had him quite when the ladies arrived I need not tell how the story was nil wormed out of bashful how they all laughed as they sat around the that flight but they con cluded by saying that they went show together and has no fear of Gus Sackrider now This is the story of and the Wi dow as I had it from Ed Wilbur and if there is anything unsatisfactory about it ask him Stopped The boy held up a pair of boots in one hand and a pair of socks in the other and just as the Widow again reached the gate he said Heres your boots and socks Mr Smiley that you left on the bridge swimming said the boy aint you the 1 1 3 LUU Words do to poor thlt race with the horse or paint the expression of his iace as just now am The evidence of a witness in a life insurance ease the blowing up of a steam boat on the Ohio is droll just because it is characteristic The witness knew tha missing man and saw him on the deck of the steam boat before the explosion by a lawyer When was the last time you saw him ha answered The very last time I set eyes on him was when the boiler bust and Iwas going np I met him and the coming gentleman asked a wit Do you believe in spirits T Ay replied he looking him full tn the face I see too much evi before nte to doubt LUCY TRAVERSE Will you give it to me Say wo man will you give it to me or shall I You shall interrupted a poor pinched looking woman as she rocked an old cradle that creaked and squeaked with every motion as if it ivere about to fall to pieces What do you say Do you mean o tell me that you are not afraid of me answered Peter Pike as he sud denly rose up from under a pile of bed clothes that covered an old bedstead and raising his shaggy eyebrows look ed out of heavy dull eyes at the wo man who had hidden away in her pocket a small sum of two shillings you a word to say to me Hannah Pike persisted the man The less I say to you the better it will be for me and the longer you lie where you are the better it will be for me and the replied Hannah n a discouraged tone Now whine woman whine will you No matter Ill let you know whos the master of the This muttered Hannah two dingy rooms with the old greasy mper half torn off the walls Its just it for a master as you And ook at Kitty and Teddy shivering over the green wood fire and this poor baby lying in its cradle and and staring at me as if I had anything or it Yes Peter Pike I should think rou were the master of this house Its good match for you no mistake Peter No more of your impudence wo man You think Im about half drunk because I lie here in bed but when I get up to show you whos the master of the house youll sing a dif ferent tune Give me that two shil ings now before I get up and try my land on You wont get the two shillings I shall keep them for Bread repeated Peter Pike Liquors better than bread and that is what Im going to have Give me the money Hell get it away from me Im afraid and then where shall we get the next loaf of bread And if Robby comes home tonight without a cent as ne often does what will become of us Poor boy hed work hard all day to a little money for you dreaming about call ed out Peter the old bedstead on which he once more raised himself Are you going to give me that he asked in a screaming voice No not a penny of it if you touch me Ill have you locked up I know where to go to complain of you You shant have Mammas money cried out Shant shant the little boy Teddy on as high a key as he could reach Master master growled Peter Pike Ill show these young ones and their mother whos Thirsting for another glass and de termined to get the money to pay for it be leaped out of bed But the money had suddenly found its way out of the pocket where it had been hidden and into hand and Kitty had as suddenly disappeared f oy his the furious man kicked Teddy into one corner of the room and his mother into another and plung ing his hand into the cradle seized the baby and rushed to the door exclaim ing There goes your baby woman down the rickety Faint from the kick she had receiv and by what had been done Hannah sat crouched in the cor ner and making no efforts to Dead dead she said to herself and in a moment making no efforts to rise she repeated But I must go ta her Oh God I I once had a good home I wish Id never seen that man I had no baby to get murdered How can I how can I But I must go and take up my dead child Oh Peter Peter where is he Gone for another drink No there he is now buried up in the Not a sound on the said Hannah Dead dead And she crept along as well as she could to the door but she hardly reached it when it opened and she saw her badys thin pale face pressed to a cheek as fresh and bright as a June rose Dont be frightened dont be fright ened said the young girl For it was a young girl of sixteen who held Pikes baby in her arms You see shes not hurt at all I was halfway up the stairs and caught Good gracious exclaimed Hannah Pike Youre the first angel that has ever been on that rickety an the young money girl but I was coming up these stairs and ah Im so glad I was in time to save your baby How I saved her I hardly know I didnt think I could but I put out my arms and caught Not dead not dead said Hannah as she pressed the child to her heart I thought I was almost glad to say dead dead for I was thinking just for a minute that she had better be dead Hannah had almost smother ed the baby with kisses and called Teddy to come and kiss his little sister Nony as he named her she turned an inquiring look upon the young girls black clothes and asked Have you had any trouble in your house Oh replied the young girl Lucy Traverse with a smile as sweet as if she had never felt the touch of sorrow My brother went away last summer But Mamma said he went away up the shiny way singing angels all around him and we too must try and sing praises And so we did for a while but now I have to sing alone The smile was gone from Lucys face and tears filled her eyes but in a mo ment the smile was back again and she said Mamma went up the same shining way so I often sing alone just as we used to sing And how did you happen to be com ing here asked Hannah Pike I heard loud talking and so I came How strange replied Hannah Young girls like you dont ever come up a rickety staircase because they hear loud talking They hurry along and get out of the Oh I couldnt do said Lucy with a serious look For before Mam ma went away she told me ever I wanted her very much I must go out into the world and see if there wasnt some poor sorrowful person who wanted me more than I wanted her It dont me that any one can want me as much as I want her but Im sure you want As Lucy said this she seemed to have caught some of the light from the shining way and she look all around the room into its gloom corners as if she longed to brighten everything with her own sunshine Cant I do something for you she asked Oh Good gracious exclaimed Hannah Pike again Wouldnt I like to go up the shining waj you talk about and take all my children with me But it seems to me I shall always go up and down up and down that old rickety staircase I can bear it better though Im sure now that I know theres been an angel on the stairs Youre an angel she added as she gazed into Lucys face and it is strange enough that youve come up that rickety just in time too to save the babys Poor rag ged baby added Hannah Pike You saved for anything good Youll have a hard of it like Kitty and Teddy and the rest of em huddling anil shivering over the green wood five And what to the next is more man i can tell Lucy glanced at the old bedstead and saw a light movement beneath the ragged bedclothes Hes said Hannah in a low tone and its little comfort he is to us or to himself either though I will say when hes a sober man hes kind to the Lucy looked around again and thought to herself there was little com fort for anybody in such a room Cant make the fire cried Ted dy And he put his little red hands into the ashes and turned over the green sticks and blew away with all his lit tle breath hoping to start a fire You wont ever get warm here lit tle pink he added as he stared at Lucy Traverse And why do you call me little pink lady said Lucy I Because theres pink in both of your j cheeks and you are a little pink i lady j You replied Teddy snak j ing his head Nobody puts any wa I ter in the wood but it wont theres a great big crack in the stove Youll see Ja a day or two if I wont ever get warm said Lucy and after saying a few more kind words to Hannah Pike and patting the baby she disappeared down the rickety staircase I Poor Hannah felt she had seen an angel And Lucy Traverses uncle felt that he too had looked on an an gel when Lucy with her cheeks glow i ing with tlis winters Jng into the house after her walk to tell him where she had been I cant believe Im in the same world I was in half an hour she said as she stood by the register and looked around the room that was so bright with gas light and pictures and all beautiful things Oh Uncle if I had to live where Ive been this after noon I should be so ugly that nobody could endure me I couldnt be half so good natured as that little boy Teddy and Im sure I should never show his patience in trying to make a green wood Lucy had told her story her said I wont let the sun set tomorrow night until Ive let that family know what it means to be com Poverty miserable aud hunger and dirt and are not favorable to the growth of any of the That man gets only a days work now and then his wife told said Lucy Well well give him every agement to be sober and see what it will do for him One of the best of the little houses that I rent is vacant and Ill have a good stove put up in it and two loads of dry body maple sent there and a good bedstead and a table and few chairs and your aunt shall send some bedclothes there and Ill give the man steady work Ill attend to the business immediately after breakfast tomorrow Oh how glad I am that I went up that rickety said Lucy to herself Now I know what mamma meant when she said that there were people in this world who wanted me more than I would want her when she was Mr Traverse did not forget his promise The stove was sent up to the empty house early the next morning and before noon two loads of wood piled in the little shed back of the house Before sunset everything was ready for the new tenants and the an gel once more went up to the stair case When Hannah heard the news she kissed her baby in a kind of frenzy Jof delight and Peter Pike covered his face with the ragged bedclothes and cried while Kitty laughed and danced and Teddy hurried to get his hat Not quite so fast my little said Lucy Some one will be here in a few minutes with a bundle of clothes for you And turning to Hannah she added It will be easy moving for there isnt much here that youll care to take with you and youll find everything there As soon as you are all ready go over to the house and see how you like it No one will bo there to disturb The sun had gone down and the stars were all shining when Hannah Pike and the children turned their backs forever on the old bed stead and the ragged bedclothes on the cracked stove and its grees on the cold smoky room and ftn all discomfort Bless God said Hannah set dawn in the house ant looked all around have I come up the way and brought per aml I know who put us in said Teddy Its the little pink But Hannah cried for joy and said something which Teddy could not un about the angel on the rick ety For five years Peter Pike has made Hannah and all the children happy and the liquor seller gets no more of his money Teddy is ten years old but he nev er forgets to talk about the little pink lady but his mother thinks of the angel and the rickety staircase West Chester Record says A man living at Exton West Whiteland the other day was visited by his uncle who said to him that the young men of the present day would not do as he did he was young in order to make money when our young friend replied that he would do anything to make money His uncle then told him that If he would go to the wharf in Philadelphia and saw one load of wood he would give him 8200 feeling that his offer was a safe one But our hero took his uncle at his word and went to the wharf and saiyed the wood The uncle true to his word made out a check in the name of Robert Perchin for 8200 and forward ed it to our hero sawyer Irishman being asked wheth er he did not frequently converse with friends in Irish replied No indeed Jemmy often speaks to Irish but I always answer him in Why so Because I dont want Jemmy to draw the attention of A Pikes Peak Adventure Grace Greenwood gives the follow ing account of a recent adventure at Pikes Peak in a letter to theN Times We have lately had some painful sensations at Manitou caused by serious accidents with and there was the Pikes Peak adventure accounts of which you may have seen Mr Moris a tourist after a successful ascent by the old trail attempted to return alone to the point where he had left his horse lost his way in a storm of hail became bewildered and finally fell some twentyfive feet upon a narrow ledge of rock overhanging an abyss known as the Here he remained bruised and dis abled for two days and two nights subsisting on the small remains of his lunch and on hailstones which he had the precaution to store in a empty vial not daring to sleep for fear of fall ing from his perilous perch keeping himself awake and from being chilled to death by a thousand curious de vices He certainly showed himself to be cool and courageous man and yet he seems to have been for a portion of the time delirious or sub ject to singular hallucinations for he tells of visions beautiful and passing strange He saw and the rocks about him were alive with of them grand and gracious some terrible and grotesque and people dropped iu upon strange but chatted and discussed wito him by the hour They were rather behind the when he found that none of them touch ed the great he was rather glad they had come Among the vis agreeably beguiled his time were some very nice ladies who came tripping over the rocks and up and down the lovely dames but so exceedingly delicate and dia that his good wife will have a little cause to be jealous of It is not likely that he will ever seek to renew the acquaintance When at last he made himself heard by men who bad long been searching for sometimes with his was utterly exhausted and helpless The brave fellows made a rope of their lin en was laid down to him and he was soon extricated from his fearful predicament on the ragged edge of destruction They brought him down by easy stages and up by brandy and his affectionate wife con cluded not to order mourning She had quite given bun up as he was a domestic methodical man who kept up early hours She had laid out a suit of clothes for him to be buried in ia case the body should b He took pleasure in wearing that suit as SOPA as he got about Didnt Etas Her A gentleman who has been recently traveling in the lower counties teNi Ui the following amusing story He was over at m bowse tne partition walls were particularly thin adjoining room was occupied by a mother and her daughter After retiring the mother began to rebuke the daughter for an alleged partiality to somebody named John which soft impeachment the daughter denied vigorously said the mother I saw him kissing you at the cowpen yesterday morning Amanda No ma he wasnt kissing me at What did you have your head so close up to his for you crit ter Well you see ma I had been eat ing the fruit of a species of and you see ma I got some of the m my i And what you wicked wicked critter And I couldnt get them out myself you know and John pulled them out with his he didnt kiss me nary time the sun in all its splendor wag peeping over the eastern hills a newly married man exclaimed The glory of the world is His wife who happening to be get ting up at that moment taking the compliment to herself simpered What would you think my dear if I had my new silk gown Doing A Don I have a small against a pernicious looking collector as he entered the store of one who had ac quired the character of a hard custo mer Yes sir a very fine day was the reply I am not speaking of the weather but of your replied the collector in a loud key It would be better if we had a lit tle rain Confound the continued the collector and raising his voice added Have you the money to pay this Beg your pardon Im hard of hear ing Ive made it a rule not to lend my funds to strangers and I really dont recognize Im collector for the Daily Extin guisher newspaper sir and I have a against persisted the collec tor at the top of his voice producing the aud thrusting it in the face of the debtor Im determined to endorse bills for no one you may put the back in to your pocketbook I really cant en dorse Confound your endorsement well youll pay it uo doubt sir but theres always a risk about these matters you know so I must The money must be mine Oh yes ninety days but I would not endorse a for you at a week so get out of my store It is seldom that I am pressed upon for an endorse ment even by a friend on the part of a stranger sir it is Do not force me to put you out leave tho That was returned to the Extin guisher office indorsed So dreadful deaf that he couldnt I know that I understand Two young men out riding were passing a farm house where a farmer was trying to harness an obstinate mule Wont he draw asked one of the i men Of said the farmer heH foot that pastes Take a Sheep Too An old farmer about the time the temperance reform was beginning to exert a healthful influence in the coun try said to his man servant Jonathan I did not think to say that I think of trying to do my work this year without rum How much more must I give you to induce you to do without Oh I dont care much about said Jonathan you may give me what you said the farmer I will you a sheep in the autumn if you will do said Jonathan The oldest son said Father will you give me a sheep too if I will do without rum Yes Marshall you shall have ono too if you will do The younger sou a stripling then said Father will you give me a sheep if I will do without Yes Chandler you shall have a sheep also if you will do Presently Chandler spoke again Father hadnt yon better tako a sheep too T DIDNT KNOW HIM Had been in Washington a few weeks ago you might have had a hearty laugh at the expense of Captain In the last hours of the late Congress the Captain came tumbling down stain ia hot search of some one to carry from the committee room of Commerce a patent foghorn intrusted to hfe care by an Yankee acquaintance At the foot of the stairway he tered a colored man sauntering along pulling away at a huge cigar My good cried the Captain Ill give you a dollar to carry down my foghorn Who de do you take mg fuh responded Africa drawing him self up in dignified wrath An able bodied man willing to make a responded Codman Den you dont know me No sir and I have no time to seek an introduction Who are you any how ile sah Ise de honorable Mr Cain member ob You dont say remarked the captain thoughtfully Well Mr Cain I am sorry for you have proba bly lost the only opportunity you will ever have of making an honest Persevere said an old lady friend of ours to her help Its the only way you can accomplish great and good One day eight apple dumplings were sent down stairs aud they all disap Sally where are those I managed to get replied on earth did you manage to tat so many dumplings By persevering was answer
