Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — WAS A WOMAN OF BUSINESS. [ARTICLE]

WAS A WOMAN OF BUSINESS.

A. Nebraska Widow Who Picked a Husband and Married Him in Short Order. We were camped alongside of an emigrant train in Nebraska, says a writer in the Louisville Commercial, and just after supper a woman about 4p years of age, who was smoking a pipe, came over to our fire and sized the crowd up, and said: “ I’ve got suuthln’ to say. I’m a plain-spoken woman. When I’ve got a thing on my mind, I don’t beat around the bush.” We looked at her with curiosity and surprise, and she leaned against the wheel of a wagon and continued; “I’ve been a widder forthree years. Over thar I’ve got a span of mewls, a good hoss, a new wagon filled with housekeepin’ stuff, and t kin rake u 'j about SBO in cash. I cum along with the party to take up a claim. I’m good-tempered, healthy and can swing an axe or hold a plow with most anybody. As I said, I’m a plain-spoken woman. If there’s a critter among you who wants to get married, let him stand up while I tako a look at him.”

The eleven of us promptly stood up. “Git into line,” she continued, with a wave of her hand. “I hain’t after beauty or eddecashun, but I can’t take up with a fellow who’d skeer a wolf to death.” She passed down the lind and then returned half way and said to a middle-aged man named Remington: “You’ll do, I reckon. There’s a preacher in camp, and ’twon’t take fifteen minutes to settle things. All of you as want to see the marrying come on. ” We followed the couple, who were made man and wife inside of twenty minutes, and next morning as we passed the wagon on the road the woman looked out and bowed and said: 1 ‘ Sorry for the other ten of ye, but perhaps you’ll meet up with the other train toon and strike luck.” >