Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — She Had Him Cowed. [ARTICLE]

She Had Him Cowed.

Wnlle stopping one night at a farm house in Missouri a traveler was astonished to see bls hostess walk up to her husband about every fifteen minutes and box his ears or give his hair a pull. In the morning the guest, seeing the woman alone, asked an explanation of her strange conduct, and her reply was: “You see, stranger, me and the old man has been fightin’ for ten years to see who shall boss this ’ere ranch, and I have jest got him cowed, but if I should let up on him for a day he would turn on me again, and my work would all go for nothin’.” Commander Phillip Hichborn, chief constructor of the navy, has presented to the city of Hartford, through Senator Hawley, the figurehead of Admiral Farragut’s flagship, the Hartford. A man honest enough to pay a debt that has been outlawed Is rare. ,