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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1895)
jt IflE PH1CE Of PEACE, wt arm BKMitx l. nun. la til my travels, from Main to Rhode Island, I've new come across a eouple more nnlilte than what Mr. and ails' Niros was. Mr. Nima waa one of theae shut-nn-to-himsolf men, and he'd glum "round for days over some little matter that a word would 'a' aet right if he'd only been plain .hearted. alia' Mima waa all the other way talk It out and done with It; a little hasty and imprudent, maybe, but she Is well-meaning, Mia' Kims is, and aa good a woman to neighbor with aa I want to aee. I hov thought whether or no being of different persuasions didn't work to keep 'em apart. See, she waa brought up an orthodox, and he favored the Methodists. She joined with him and , laid out to do her part amonmt 'em, but she never waa to home with the Methodists. Then, another thing, ahe hated a dog, and Mr. Kims must always have a great clumsy hulk, good for nothing but to bark and eat and lie around un der .foot, while Mis' Mima, ahe marn't have even a kitten, though she aet everything by a oat. And so it went One day I stepped in to borrow Mis' Kims' cutting-board, and Just as I got to the door I heard her say: "Ton aint going to turn Charley in amongst my flowers, be ye?" lie didn't condescend any reply not as I could hear. "Now, Mr. Nims," says ahe, "he's stepped on my pansy-bed and broke off a dahlia a'ready. Aint there any other place on this whole farm where yon can put him? I don't want him here," saya she. Mr. Kims' countenance didnt change .more than a wooden Indian. "I do," says he. "There's a good bat ing of grass to be fed down, and I cal culate to leave Charley here toraepell," says ha And he budged off as stiff as though he'd swallowed a a ramrod. Mia' Mima didn't say a word more, but ahe gave that old dog a push that sent him oat of doors with a yelp: and I didn't blame her a mite, nuther. 1 brought the cutting-board back as they waa a-eettin' down to dinner, and Mis' Mima asked me to draw up to the table. She had an excellent dinner Mis' Nims is an elegant cook bat not one identical word did he speak, only to ask If I'd have .another potato. She seemed chipper enough, but I aee a shadow pass over her countenance when the old horse sneezed right un der the window where her piney bed was. and the dog, that had got back under the table by that time, yopped oat as thongh somebody had accident ally trod on his tail. Mr. Mima was a great hand for rais ing colts, but ahe was a terrible scary creature; and I expect riding after half-broken colts has given her a fit of the newralogy many 'a the time. Be was dreadful set in his way same as the general ran ol men sir end it waa like fighting the east wind to try to move him oat of it Them two used to remind me of a pair of nana jawed scissors that yon can't cut with. Some might have pat the heft of the blame on to her, and 1 e'pase she did nag him some, and flash oat when she'd better have kep' still. I run in one day to borrow a sleeve pattern, when I heard Mr. Nims speaking out kind o' gruff, and 1 halt ed, lor I didnt wish to intrude. (I never wear squeaky ihoes myself). I didn't find out what went before, bnt the first i heard was this: "I cant please yon," says ha (It beat me If he'd ever tried.) "Yon don't like my hired men, you ain't sat isfied with my breed of cows, the color of the corn barn don't suit ye. an 1 I'm thinking you'll be happier if we divide and separate. You've always thought more of your brother Asa than you do of me, and you can be free to go to him, so you'll be well fixed." "Why, Mr. Mima!" I heard her kind o' gasp out, and I surmised by the sound that she let fall a teacup. I I looked to bear her burst out in her quick way, and I'll warrant ye he supposed she'd flare up, and that would be the end on't But she seemed dnm founded. By 'n' by she said, quite quiet: "I'm sure Asa would be pleased to have me there. He misses Sarah Jane, and so do the children. There has to be somebody at the head to make things so. Bnt what would yon do, Elishar I had to smile, for she scarcely ever called him Elisha "I can look out for myself," says he, and stalked off to the barn. a 1 went right in, and said I guessed I could tell what was in hie mind. He was calculating to make a home for bis mother, and get along they two to gether. Old lady Nims never was any too particular, and now she had the shaking palsy. So I could see Mis' Nims set right to thinking how things would go to wrack and ruin under such no management She is an awful nice housekeeper herself, nnd set a great store by her things. She made an ar rant up chamber pretty soon, and was gone quite a spell. When she came down her eyes were some red, but ahe stuffed it out and went on aa matter-of-fact as the cows coming home. "I've got to flax around," says she, "and get Elislia's new shirt done; and there's the pickle-vinegar needs scald ing, and the brine, too. And I was laying out to put up a few more quinces. Elisha i very partial to quince sauce." . The next day I went over to offer my help, and she seemed glad to have me there. I guess she felt she must let out a little to aomobodyi and site knows I'm do hand lu.rjn and toll. She told me tbey werooing to Squire Ilosley's to get his help about a divi sion of the property. She wanted to wait till after Monday, so she could get one more wash done, but Mr. Minis had laid out to begin cutting corn Mondavi and Saturday suited his time best. Pretty soon the said: "I hop you'll look in and da what yon oaa to s that fcitsaa it aawfcwtaaU," Kl , I had my thoughts, but I kep' "em to myself, and only said I should ad mire to do anything I could. Then she hashed sp and sail so mora. Squire Hosier's wife is second cousin to me, and ahe had been after me to help about her sewing. So I thought I might a well go there Saturday aa any day. The squire's office Is at one side of the house, with a door opening into the orchard and another door opening into a little back room. Mis' Hosley uses this for a sewing room. So there I waa I had set the door into the office on the jar the room being so small and close. It was still work that I was upon, mending stockings and the children's elothes, and I couldn't help but hear all that was said in the office. Mr. Mima made the explanation of what they wanted, and said it was un derstood between them that he kep' the house and farm.. I'll warrant yel I knew he'd never yield an inch of his ground. He waa a man who wanted all the land joining his, and to plant in your garden. ' vThe bed 'and table stall is hers," said ha "Oh, no, Ellahsl" says ahe, "I don't consent to that Sarah Jane had a good setting-out and Asa's house is full. Besides, if I find I need more things 1 can make 'em, and your moth er's eyesight plagues her. She can't do as she could once," she saya "The bed and table furnishings are hers," Mr.Mims repeated. "What she didn't make she bonght with her but ter money." "No, "Liana," Mia' Nims began; but Squire Hosley interrupted her. I see they was beginning to wear on his patience. "Why not put the property in two piles and draw cuts, if you've no choice. That would be fair," says ha I knew by the way 1 heard her snuff that Mis' Nims hadn't give up, though she said no more not then; but from that they went on to wrangle over very stick of furniture. Sheahould have no use fortius, that and the other thing. An' no more wouldn't ha I could hear the squire drum on the table, and I knew he was getting rest less. Finally he made an end of the talk by saying: "Why not let Mr. Mima keep the downstairs furniture, and she take what is above? How would that they demurred, each one being afraid the other would be cheated, bnt at last seemingly, let it go. and worked their way on to the live stock. "Three cows for her," says he. "Two will be full and plenty for me. She waa alwaya more for a dairy than what I was," he saya "Why, 'Lisha, you are g&ag to make beef of old Brindle," saya she, "and that leaves only four:" - "I've concluded hot to beef her,' she' is such a favorite of yours," says he. That waa a great piece of newa Mrs. Nims had felt awful .cut up about having Brindle tatted and killed, for she called that cow the best for butter in the herd. But Mr. Sims" appeared arm. ' . . ,, ; .' . .--" "And the pigs," he began. "I dont want any pigs! I've no use for 'em What can I do with piga down to Baker street?" ' ' ' And she burst out crying. She had set a good deal by that litter of piga,. bringing 'em up by band, as yon might say, for the old mother died when they ' were eight days old. . After that it was still as death for a minute, then Squire Hosley spoke no. "My good friends," says - he, "If you can't agree about living apart, my best advice is that you agree to go on liv ing together." ", For a minute or two all was still again, and the old clock ticked up like the Day of Judgment By 'n' by Mr, Nims spoke rather low: . V "What do yon say, Louisy?" "I waa thinking whether' we' hadn't oughter drive over to your mother's and see how her cough la I'm some worried abont that cough," says she. "I'm agreeable to that," says ha . As I was leaning forward, I caught sight through the cracky of the door of him mopping up his face with his old' red handkerchief; sol sen he'hod felt it some. Squire Hosley, he said noth ing. .. . . - .'.. - Well, I made my way home middling early, and was keeping a watchout .as they driv into the yard botwixt sun down and dark, and 1 see her atop and pat the yellow dog that was Sopping his tail on the top step of the piazza. Old Boss was so tickled that he jumped 'round aa graceful as , a cow; and 1 knew by the looks of the back of Mr. Nims' neck that he took it in. 'After awhile I made an arrant tocarry. over a dish of Dutch cheese, and there they were, eating their supper as cheerful a a basket of chips. "Set ap and have a cup o' tea," says she. "We've bad quite a ride this afternoon," says aha "We've been to see Mother Mima, and Elisha drove 'round by the bridge. It is all of a mile further, but he knows how skit tish I be about cross ing the ferry in Uncle Seth's old scow. I'm silly, I s'pose. Elisha and I, we think mother is getting too old and feeble to live alone, and we hare abont persuaded her to break up and come tmus." - ' She ran on for a spell, but that was all sha 'said concerning their arrange ments. And would you believe it? from that day to this oils' Nims has naver opened her mouth to nio an the . subject though she knows I never re peat And now. to see thorn two jog ging 'round together ofter oldCharley, as content as ducks in a tnllipond, no body mistrusts it took e'ena'most a separation to unite them. I Nobody knows but ine and the old squire. It won't get out from him he is as elose-mouthed as a lish. And I was never one to talk. Outlook. 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