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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1887-12-14, Page 2aY a ,, 'r,114e4.n . O . A ? .. , PIMP % 1l, . 7790010 .' It t �i..� n t 11. 4(401Q.5 ,v1 it ?tot 89 1041. '1YR ropiretors.ol Tgi:OaPanicltNnw; Navin pru'eltased ttbe b.usiucs artcl plant u f Tal. Hiunox It>t,.00nt,n, will in future o ublisb the anal ;arnated papers in Clinton, it►dsr the title of "'Tits HIJrON flows- .. %Bothe." . . Clinton is the most. prosperous town ill iG cetera Qutarie, is the spat of considerable nanufactnring, and the centre of.tlhp finest sgrieultural section in Ontario. ' The combined cireulation of Txo NEws• %Ecom exceeds that of tiny paper pub- ,islred in the County of I1nron. It is, therefore, unsurpassed as an advertising medium. a rltates of advertising liberal, and urnislhed on application. /Parties, inaking contracts for a spo aci-, rtgti time, who discontinue their advertise- ments before the expiry of the same, will be charged full rates. , • Advertisements, without instructions as to space and time, will bo left to the judg- ment of the compositor in the display, in- serted until forbidden, measured -by a scale of solid nonpareil (12 lines to the inch), and charged 10 cents a line for first insertion and 3 cents a line for each sub- sequent insertion. Orders to discontinue idvertisenents must be Ili wr'itine. al. Notices set as READING M AVErt, ;measured by a scale of solid Nonpariel, 12 lines to the inch) chared at the rate ef. 10 cents a line for each -insertion. ••d JOB WORK. We have one of the best appointed Job Offices west of Toronto. Our facilities in this department enable us to do all kinds of work—fi•oin a calling card to a mammoth poster, iii, -the best styie - known to the waft, and at the lowest possible rates. ' Orders by snail proniptly attended to. Address The News -Record, . Clinton. Ont The Huron News -Record Wednesday, December 14, 1887 AN M. P.'S DOWNFALL. Hounded into Bankruptcy by the Rapacity of an Extortionist. LoND0N, ENG. Duo. 2.—Win. Copeland Borlase, formerly a mem- ber of parliament for the St. Austell division of Cornwall and under secretary of the local government board, was exanaiued in the bank- ruptcy court. His liabilities amount to £42,658 and his assets to £8,371. He traced a part of his embarrass ment to his relations with his mis- tress, Madame De Quiros, whom he allowed a fixed' income of £25 a week. At first sho payments.. were made willingly, but subsequently the money was extorted from him. The woman followed him to France, Main, and •finally to Wales where he was forced to obtain police pro- tection against her and hor reale companion. The last £500 he gave her was paid in Trafalgar- square. She was passing in a cab; when she ,saw him, and stopping the cab, made. him get in and go ivith her to the bank and get the money. She ac- cused him of deeds he had never -committed, and on one occasion, at 2 o'clock in- the morning, forced lier way into his wife's bedroom and told of her relations with Mr: Bar - lase. Since that time he Said his life had been mule misery to him. Although lie owed hor nothing;•ehe still pretended, to have claims against him. At this point the -exa- mination was.adjourued. The case is exeiting'much interest. He Blanked Poor Canada. Buffalo Conner, Ho wore a wearied air and a coon -skin coat, and he perspired freely as he flooded his lower level with beer. IIo had' some griev- ance on his mind, and, as the hours sped along and the column of fluid in his tank mounted higher, he bo - came animated with a desire to blow off. He began by cursing Canada from Canso to Vancouver and back, in her constitution, laws and in- stitutions, -in hor population com- merce and navigation, all and sever- al of which ho consigned to the deepest and hottest depth of per- dition. Ho had gone to Manitoba to do a long job of railroading, it appears, and, winter .setting in; ha. resolved to pull up stakes for home Senec.t County. "It costs a heap to got home,' he said, "and, while I was figuring on it, along comes a feller that had got one of the matrimonial tickets issued by the Canadian Pacific railroad. You see, if a feller wants to go oast and get married, the company sells him a rebate ticket. I was 'a little chuck, I guess, when I ran again a feller with a rebate ticket au' bought it for a trifle. When I presented it to the conductor he not only refus- ed it but collars me, all conductors in Canada be'in' police officers, and runs me in an'" has me fined $50 for violatin' the anti-sealpin'law. I could have bought four tickets for what that cussed auti-scalpin' law cost me before I got through. D ---Canada and all Canadians anyhow ?" . gg..44` Ont +0441=1. Phaniherf eiAlverlI X4bu1;10I lea '1' Qnlit 1' g t wiith aQ? fazoo.00 , pf 14#44m.: 'The' brick [limn[ at tlinpp"tQp, gpt to; RRo thio: hllot1Fo• hu4tnt9, ',stud m iditfg With, lt,tt 1.k; glf 14, "aa ion ngi�lri:sh1llt><ig F1'ae,tit,e legal11►tu isllstlR�it:t lies[ eti'kt'lli �h in e,eel.ts . � 1.11 �: , tt e Fur tlfa 8099P4 411e4s4 the. pQJ 1ty was -heath, without buueftt of caex and not only 'wore -ue 1ectt'ul ca - :3ta,bles. disc?[,, but rill persons w1ie. fail t.. a are a d pop s e r t' , Q P1 h. tt t pus kal. p'ty 10 shillings, Those;yho could not bo set to worn were'te he banished top he New Found Londe, the East and West Indies; Germanic, 1 ranee, Spayne, or the Leve Countries. People were ready to make a pro- fit out of housing the London beg- gars. Here.- is a thorough case of the "Tatteboy's Rents": In the 40th of Elizaboth, in the star chamber her matys attorney - general did enforme that Rice Gals fin rif- fin had unlawfully built a tenement in Hog lane.—now worship street —which he divided into several rooms, wherein were living poor tenants that wel'tf' maintained by begging abroad in other places ;and that John Scrips had, in like sort, a tonernent in Shorditeh. But country, as well as town,, was afflicted ' with the epidemic. In Somerset. "the numbers," writes Edward Hext, a justice of the peace, "aro infinite. ...They live meshy by sheep stealing saying boldly' that they will not starve, and, when 'I threaten them with the house of correction they confess a felony so as the rather to be cont to gaol." We do not appear to have adopt- ed the Dtitch cure for inveterate beggars—a' water -tight compartment with a pump in it and a tap. high ot'.t of roach. In this the man was put, and the tap set running. so that he was obliged to pump to keep himself • from being drowned. Whipping was the great English in- centive to exertion, while sham soldiers were treated as felons and 'likely to be hanged. Two classes of vagrants excepted were "diseased poor traveling to Bath or Buxton," and "John Dutton's fiddlers in the county Chester." Chester." This curious privilage.,,dates from 1210, when the Welsh in great force besieged the Earl of Chester in Rhuddian castle. He sent word to his steward to col- lect troops and raise the siege, who, coming into Chester at midsummer fair, and finding there was a great mob of fiddlers and players, marched with -them and frightened off the Welsh, who took thein for an -army. Whereupon the earl, by charter, gave the steward and his heirs power over all the fiddlers and cob- blers in Chester. Fiddlers used to take out a Dutton license. Tho last licensing court was held in 1756, but the st..tute was not repealed till 1882 ! • Under -Janes I., 'along with re-enactment of the vagrancy 'act and deportations to Virginia„ ---came an issue of copper farthings—to supersede the lead tokens,, "plain - 'loos Anglia;," of which Erasmus speaks. Here and there a man took action without wahine, for justice or con- stables.. "One Mr. Harman of 'War- wickshire, being pestered extremely with sturdy beggars and wandering rogues, did take order that they should all bo sent to the house, whom presently he set to work to gather stones of his grounds, and gave tein some small reldefo in moat and drink and a penny a day, and hold them hard at'work (having lusty, stout servants to see to th'em), and when be had made at, end of gathering off his own grounds he. sot them -to work in his neighbors' and paid them their wages, which thing, when all the rest of the wan- dering beggars understood, they durst not:one of them come a•beg= ging in that parish, for fear, they should be' made to work. And for the younger sort of idle poor in his own parish this was such a dicipline for then that they did betake them- selves to poor and honest labor, and so the true poor were much better relieved." What Would.He Have Thought P "If to an Americon Indian of the olden time," says the Boston -Pan- . scrz:pt,; an- scrz:pt,; "a woman of our modern civilization had suddenly appeared walking painfully in her tight„ high -heeled boots„ her free motion checked by skirts and "pull backs," drawing her breath -unsteadily from above her Tiny pinched waist„ hor neck tightly eollnred up to her cars„ the bird i;toc in her hat reaching far above her head and pointing to the zenith„ and her skirts hanging out a yard behind her as from a camel's hump—:what would the Indian have thought do you suppose 1" Possibly' what the New Hampshire farmer said the first time lie mot a fullflodged "dude' on sho highway„ "Well„ well ; what funny things a feller sees when he hain't got no gun with him ?" A POSTMASTER'S OPINION "I have great pleosure in certifying to the use of Hagyard's Yellow Oint" writes Dr. Kavanagh, Postmaster, of Unfraville, Ont., "having used it for soreness of the throat, burns, colds eta., I find nothing egqnal to it.'; 273.2t. i�ttrdl,•11t. t 11la. it tit. t•. ul a � 1~t014ity' ''QQttrt'.:Qy., Stouoa' 1heatd €►.;cries t41; atilt lt,. ' IXs; 1414:1149.§94, st.1g14e. ,qt .el. , tti:lc4 reetdiag .1t1 Ioti;tpel� U rn. u xe fer ., ",1�:.1';le ,4d.Z :b.cinn �3n � Q bulanoe, of ant.oitut clue fat' die, boarej4 and ivaiutenanc,e PI a eat, IM4binsou appeared foir the plaintiff, Rud Mr. Rickards for the clofendant, The cat, whin was fi favorite and' very valuable, canto into the possession of the plaintiff in June, 188$, when au agreement was entered into by which she un- dertook to keep the animal and supply it every day with half a pound of liver and a pint of milk, fot which she was to receive 2s: per week,' payable by instalments of 21 in advance. The defendant paid ,various sums up to August, 1884, and several letters passed, one as follows. - "Daut ANNIE. --Inclosed is £1 off James's (the cat's) account, and a tin of sardines -for his dinner, which I hope he will enjoy. - I enclose also a loin of pork, which I trust will bo equally acceptable to yourself." In August last year the defen- dant became desirous of having "Poor Jim". poisoned, and -sent• a nlessenger•with a letter begging that the cat should bo handed ver for that purpose. The plaiutitf' .tated that in 1883 Mme Coruher, who was a wealthy lady, lived in Sussex street, Pimlico, and the witness was, her char. woman. On changing 'her resi- dence she asked the witness to take care of the cat, and the witness was to feed it as stated. • Mr. Itiekards (ill, cross-examina- tion(—Have you a receipt for what you fed that cat on ? The Witness—No,_but my solici- tor has. Very often my husband and I have fed that cat when we wore hungry ourselves. We did it out of respect to Mine. Corner. Sho sent us many presents, such as a• loin of pork. Mr. Robinson—It was a very vnluable•cat, was it not? The Wituess—Yes. -Mr.'Rickards—I should think so. He ate almost enough to keep a man. The Witn ess—I Would not like to keep you on it long. • Not on loins of pork 1 Tho Witness.—We ate the pork ; "Jim" ate the sardines. Unt•imately. his Honor gave judg- ment for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. Oh .''Hevings P" Can Such Things, Be? T. P. Gill, M, P., cables' as . follows to theTribune last Thursday;—When Mr. O'Brien's clothes .were stolen in the gray of 'early horning ono would have thought that Mr. Balfour's iu- •famy had at last touched bottom, but .there was a lower depth, and last night this was reached; Mr. Mandeville, in order to prevent the repetition of the clothes -snatching tatics, had since his removal to Tull- arnore slept in his clothes: When darkness had come, and it comes early in the noisome cells of Tulla- more, John Mandeville lay down on his plank bed. At last sleep came to him,and he was for a little while for- getful of the tortures of Tullamore. He did not know that outside*the cell there werewardens on the watch with their ears close .to the. grating in the iron door,listening for the first change in his breathing in order that the governor, like the modern. Macbeth, might have the news that his victim slept. _ How cautiously and holy stealthily dp they step along the corridors, six of the warders headed by the aged governor of the prison, Captain Fetherstonhaugfh ! The door of the cell is opened and with a rush they enter. Before the prisoner can turn he is seized by the: six warders. He demands what they want. , The governor mutters hurriedly that lie either have to take off his clothes. and (Tress himself in the prison suit or the 'clot'hes will be torn off his back. Against the six warders he struggles, the governor standing by. It is of no avail. T.ite man's clothes are dragged off him with violence. He calls out, "For the sake of decency leave me a shirt" ; but his call is un- answered, the shirt is torn off and Mr. Balfour's prisoner STANDS NAKED IN 1115 CELL, oovering himself as best he can with the miserable strip of quilting that lie is allowed to hide the plank bed. Ho turns on the seven gaolers, and tells them that they have acted in defiance of the Jaw au.l ont-t,'plt,ra their loathsome duty. 1 -le oaks that his clothes be given back to him, and says that he cannot surely exist in a state of nudity until Christmas, when the term of hie imprisonment *ill expire. The governor, as ire leaves the cell, points to the blue rags in the corner, and says :— "There are clothes ; put thein on." "I will die first," was the reply. The door is locked and the naked man is left in darkness. It was a noble exploit. • At half -past eight this morning Dr. Moorhead, assiduous as ever, is at the gaol door. IIe is led to Mr. O'Brien's cell. He finds him still in "his new clothes, but he is looking pale and ill. Mr. Mandeville he finds walking up and down in his flagged cull with the quilt and sheet wrapped around him. • ' • 04 ..**tin ap* ;t. �,he gt'vllt t>_l ed Q$ �tLQd 1a t r r 11. r .t . 1h,ar'.dest m. . _ l 4 P, it p ;t11Q .. ��ti �# 14ttles, Olt lab ;eceetKa,tl-g18,. csutilleit:C,: outside; t' xht fnugbt ill, t11,st greet AtnerlQ.t t► Q x , hili- ,>1,an1t. > 1QpQ *r,10 -4i0.4; tt o tt%11e .th MO AA ~•[well[;;• Tate,. ,tittle ef gnat;tistQtx •t. h �olgl�,ras ;Coot,lit on the kxaterg of the t.ve' and' the heights above them, • Af, the very apot.wl>_ere the Atnter. ieana were driven over the precipice there was enacted, WAG thirty Tem - ago, a fearful triple tragedy. 4. man named Tom Brennan lived with. a family,by the name of-Conuore, itr a cabin near by. He became unduly familiar with the woman and finally, with --her knowledge and presum- ably her consent, murdered her husband, copied the bloody corpse on his back to the 'precipice, and threw it over. A few days after the woman began to get -conscience stricken and Brennan, fearing that she might_ betray him, killed her; carried her body to the precipice, and hurled it over to join that of hor husband .among the rocks and trees below. Then he, returned to the cabin, where there still retained the only. child of his victims,... It was a little boy, and when hebegan to cry, this inhuman monster, iyho had rnurde red the father and mother, took the child in his arms, and carry- ing hint to the same spot where he had thrown the other bodies 'over, without even going through the formality of first killing him, he tlnow'the little fellow over the pre- cipice. Through some, apparently, miraculous intervention the boy was not killed by the full, but found himself by the side of the mangled remains of his father and mother, badly bruised, and his arta broken, but otherwise uninjured. He crawled away and hid in the village and a few days after told his story to sho villagers, who instituted a sear clt.apd found the dead bodies of the man and woman. ,Brennan was found in the hold of au emigrant ship at Montreal, on his way back to the old world. Ho was brought back to old Niagara -on - the Lako, where he was tried, found guilty, and executed. And, as a fitting sequel to such a bloody car- eer, when he was hanged he was given such a fall and length of rope that his head was toru from the body and rolled in one direction while the trunk fell against the • prison wall, which was all bespat- tered, to a height of some ten feet, with the crimson record of his crimes and their expiation. A Young Wife's Suicide. The \Viarton, Bruce county, Echo says :—Many things have' occurred of late years on this peninsula of a startling CharaCtel', but nothing has given the community such a shock as the news which was circulated on Sunday night that Mrs. Charles \Vhicher, an intelligent and highly respectable lady of Colpoy's village, had committed suicide by jumping into the waters of Colpoy's Bay. It has been generally known for some months flint the deceased was some - What affected ill her mind from a recent attack of brain fever. -After her recovery from the disease sho became melancholy and wanted to speak to no one. Her husband took her to Toronto where, -she was treated by the best physicians, who pro- nounced her wholly recovered from her malady;lind she returned to her home ou Tuesday of last week. Her friends noticed with sorrow that the old complaint was quite visible, and as she has tried on different occasions to take her life, sho was watched closely. On the night in question, however, she appeared in the best of spirits, playing on. the piano, singing and conversing with her fancily; to all appearances as sane as possible. She -left the room where she had been chatting. with her family and went into en adjoining one, and was gone but a few minutes when her husband missed her. On going to the room which she had so lately entered .he found, to his surprise, that the window was closed and -his wife was not there. He'r tracfcs could be easily seen' where she had ,jumped from the window mud took a direct course, for the bay,. which was but a few rods distant. Mr, Whither at once followed in her tracks, which ,;ottld bo easily dis- cerned in the snow, to the bay, and on arriving he saw something flout- ing some distance from the wharf: •IIe at once procured a boat and rowed to the spot, and found' that it was his wife, who but a few minutes pievious was with him to all appear- ances in the best of health and strength, now cold in death, and her own murderer. Before leaving the house she had donned a rubber dolman, which sho had buttoned' around her, placing her arms inside. The air that gathered on the inside of this mantle had po way of escape and kept tho body of the unfortun- ate lady afloat. Sho Was taken beak to the house so lately loft by hor and every effort was used to bring back anilnation,_butall• failed, life was ex -r tinct. Sho 11ad seen in the water as near as could be judged about twen- ty minutes. Tho deceased was in the prime of life, being only 34 years of' age, and leaves a • husband ,and three small .childrou to mourn her' untimely end. Her parents live in Toronto. m� as he: 0. n; '� . ?FQ, k Ifo dr .at li,'v.tp : ht ., At, 'r t, ' e1 ` r,. ��.t� 1t,. tyct uns of}t. d to W ndpi,»,, ceAtt ..i .sho -d -lith' li int, c � t tQ• Qtbe}, , .Gs bard to, ii 1�. a be t1 .a a kvay at txo, uns. age, 1?:ore Den 1" She tn.otded the bu.ttermilli Bakes, plaoedr,t.heln in a 1hall, and shoved tem into, the rlokety Qvon. 'Pore ' Den I she went. on, in her dispirit- , e4 manner, "s'posen he's went on his faol'''S arrant us usual. Lawy.or Shame won't do nothin'. Arian !" for there was a -sound from aliove- stairs. ShiJ listened awhile. "Ou'y the ole man a-coughin'.," she said, getting, into the rocking -chair and swaying herself in a nervous, jerky fashion, losing herself in thoughts that involved deep sighs, A. homely old,woman, with sur- roundings as homely. Her life had been a continuous struggle, as . had been her liusband'e. No child had come to lighten the cart and keep.. their hearts from growing too .old; trouble had ordinarily abided.•with them, although they had.. always managed. until this autumn to keep 'the wolf from -the door. Now gaunt povertystared them in the • face. Throe or four summers had been damp and -cold, the crops had done miserably in consequence, there had been little or no money, and the mortgage was about to be fore- closed.- ,More than that, a plague has come' to the chickens and deci- mated them, and the pig had • the measles. For days the living hail been cakes, made of coarseiflour and buttermilk ; husband and wife wore too much depressed to miss better fare or to wish for it. Rocking in her chair, hor seamed hands ..picking at the hem of, her apron, the wife, untidy and griev- ing, bore little evidences of a hap- pier earlier time, any more than did_ the scant, poor furniture boar evi- dence of a time when it had marked the existence of prosperity. A two -roomed cottage with a loft over -]load, a generous farm around it, which should have borne full and plenty for the household, except -that seasons will.° bad,. and the mortgage interest .had to be paid. It was their farm no longer; Mr. Slamo would foreclose next month. "I haint no blame fer Slaute," Windom would say ; "he wants his money an' we can't pay him. I hain.t no blame fer hint." All the same, he went now and then to the lawyer, a wistfuliness in his face that made the holder of the mortgage out of conceit with himself, that his need of the money compelled him to do what he was about to do. Yes, Windom often -vent, and wondered if there might not be a stay of proceedings; not that ho had auy prospective funds to help hits out, but that th'e un- complaining of his wife reproached him more• than. her complaints might have done for Ms inability to provide a home for her, while his sudden pride made thought of charity suicidal. Nino, hundred dollars would have set it all right-L- a ight=a poor nine hundred dollars. Nine thousand dollars would have been as come -at -able. And yet- - "Ben's later'n ordin'ry,t' his wife murmured, rousing herself at last, and, going to the oven drew out the cakes; "s'posen Lawyer Staines 'splainin' it all over agin. Wisht he come ; them cakes'll be spiled. He mustn't find me low thought ; he never see me low all the forty-five year sence the Marriage - day. Wisht he'd come." She put the- cakes on the table, and went to the door to look for her husband. The af'toruoou was growing old, and over the western hills 'a reel glow streamed like a beautiful river;, the. wind was crisping, and bit the leaves from the trees, whose boughs were beginning to show ; a bird pocking at the grass flow up with a startled whirr when an acorn fell and bounded over to the path. Maria Windom looked .around her at stubble fields, at empty barn, at the •stye whore the ailing pig complained; the chickens were not wandering about, but disconsolately hugged a corner of the wall, where still lingered a ray' of the sun. "On'ya-month more, and thea it paint own uo mors. Wisht Bon 'd come." Even as the words trembled in the air sho saw a black uprightness moving across the hills, the sun back of it snaking a silhouette of the human figure as black as its elon- gated shadow into which it stop- ped. "Pore Ben,!" she ejaculated, but already in a cheerfuler tone of voice. Sho hastily passed her hand over her face as though she' would smooth out the lines of care there, for when ho palm was lowered to Iter breast a youngish smile lighted up her countenance. She ,watched her husband coming home. "How old he gits !"--There was a click in her throat: Windom indeed di.i appear old, as he ,deseended the hill td the • • Cott tl a ;)tidal. ial411i ski ;fit"ay Rlr Ptttl: . lti811014 tler10111 g fl ggo )101 4104 t}tft htfilt Artint $4tA eypa were fist' tied, ,tA bio; wlah' sho a �• note _.. ► ,[Quid w4,te ul+'4 1ti llnat Q>•b� a, bl;il 4i 4: -loop: had •r recited Om; ' '41..44 IL ol'dll)tat , :�3ciX„ : �'t9'!!ttl 4,64 , ^'. .. � ,i, said QhcWily. 11. ca1!:es 11-;4411,' l'e:ady, cotute I” He slowly eilterec1•the T004-104.; hung itis tilt o.a .tttt natl'behrud 1#e doer, W'itho1;1 Ali wgrd l,o slated; ,himself at the cable- oppasite ktts+; ,wife Rini began to eat. , "WWII )1Q13 bed a leads tett' fer yo'soif, 111'nrta " he suddenly Pitt, "1.'ea," she [repeated, scornfull "Why, they y vby, saVp tea makes a boclyr llei•vtltlS,, leo tea fer me while, F,t get Adam's ate." In proof•of which she .raised tho water -jug to lie"r lips, and took a long draught. Her husband lunched •his cake,: his eyes lowered: "Well 1" she said, when she hash watched him for some time. Ile frowned. "Be'n to Lawyer Slam, 'Ben?" '.Yes." "Cain't do nothin'T" "No." "Well, don't you mind too rnuch; I don't." He turned a scrap of cake in hie mouth as though" he could -not swallow it. - "Bat it means the porohouse, Marian" His head fell ..forward upon the table. She clutched the sides of her chair; she arose and went around to hint, putting her arm about his neck, laying her own gray ' head beside his. "But we tins '11 be together, Ben;" she whispered._"tillers,, together,. lad. Don't mind too much, I don't." He raised one of his hands until he caught her fingers, and .so he. held theta tightly She let him be until the fit had. expendeff tlsoTf=ht was nothing new; for more than a week he had had those spells. Tho red light came in at sho win- dow and rested upon the two bowed heads. Suddenly a sharp note broke through the stillness. "Whaton's that?" cried Windom, jerking up ; "whatou's that ?" "Why, Bon," said his wife, "how starty y' are; it's the ole plan a- con;;hin'. "pears you've heorod it - often 'nough these two weeks to• know it." - "Two weeks! he be'n here that long 1" "Twas yes'day two weeks the pore ole soul come'long—nigh 'on to eighty, I should say. Think o'' him, Ben—ore; 'atone totterin' to a stranger's door, dazed, childish, • nigh starved, 'n' homeless. Hain t. - no lot in life but it might be wuss ; we uus is together, in our right mind ; yon man's ole, alone, daft—"' . "An' a pauper like we uns '11 be in a month time." "But together, Ben" she persist- , ed, using her all of comforting ar- gutnent—so she always quieted him. ' "An' what'll. become o' him. then?" he demanded. - "IIe won't be herethen, Ben." "What you sayl" "He's all wore out. I'd not be sapprized to find pini slop' away any mornin'. He's pow'fnl weak to- day—iveakoh- 'n ever-- couldn't hardly drink no sweet milk." "Sweet milk! where'd you get sweet milk at ?" . A little warns color swept over her face. "I—ass Betty Mann for a drop when I bought the cent's wuth • buttermilk fer the cakes." "Beggin' e" he said, sternly. •"Not fer we uus," she denied— "not fer We uns, on'y for thepore._. ole ma•u. Wisht we knowed who he woe," sho went on with, alacrity, thus putting a stop to further • ex- postulation ; "wish- we knowed where lie's from. Haint there not a soul in the whole world -that re- members him 1" "Who remembers anybody1" her husband rejoined, bitterly. "What'd nine hundred dollars be to' a. rich man that spends that' much a day ora month of he's a mind to? It'd keepy ou 'n' me fer life, bridge over . ev'rythin' toll uoxt season 'when crops are bound to ho butter. Re- member ! even; the Lord seams to forgit His people that Ho made sometimes.' "Don't 1 don't 1" sho said pull- ing at her apron -hem; my on'yi comfort is knowin' you ansite's allel:s together; of you don't. b'lievo in the Lord -0 Ben 1 'u'd you hey me go to Heaven by my own self—no chick nor chile there, on'y your mother 'n' father an' my' mother 'n' father, an' all a-askin', "Where is --him you lovedan' cleaved to 1" She mended the fire with soma • pine knots and made it bright and crackling, bending low over the flame, so that hor husband might not see hor face. Then" she went and sat beside* him, quiet, undemonstrative. Ali at once he emote his knee. • 4 It 'i. ii