Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1883 — Beginning to Squeeze. [ARTICLE]

Beginning to Squeeze.

Wall Street Daily News. Two or three years ago a Jersey City pension lawyer took the case of a widow who wanted about $2,000 back pay, and the papers went to Washington to be hidden away among the cobwebs until some clerk had nothing else to do but examine them. After three months had passed, a young fanner called to ask about the case, and regularly every ninety days since that time he had dropped in with his: “Well, any good news for the Widder Jenning?” At his last visit, the other day, the lawyer replied after the same stereotype fashion and added: “Do you live near the widow?" “Only one farm between us.” “And she has told you to watch for the money?” “Well, not exactly that, but I’ve kinder taken it upon myself to do so. If the Widder Jenning gets that $2,000 before the first of April my heart is going to yearn to marry her. If she don’t git it, I’m going to marry an old maid with twenty-one acres of land and a yoke of oxen. I wouldn’t have come in to day but the widder she’s a winking and the old maid is looking purty as a bed of onions, and things is beginning to squeeze on me.” Miss Anna K'*ng, living eight miles from Anderson, has been cured by prayer of an injury to her ankle which had compelled her to walk on crutches for a long time and had been pronounced in- ’ curable.' '