Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-06-18

four blades"
Augustus Deoro gave long whistle
and stared at his mother with joyfr
surprise.
81 will, by golly," he cried.
II "Don't use such expressions" hi
mother replied. Remember, don't b
% noisy. Sit quietly at home until tn
dessert is put on, then take the fines
= bunch of grapes q will mark them 70
YOU, and present them to your god
father, saying: "This is present TO
> you, god-papa." All! he will remen
Der you handsomely when he dies.
"Will he die soon?'' asked Augustus
Deoro.
"Hush, sir,' responded his mother
severely. "Never let me hear such al
expression from your lips again."
, "You said something about his dy.
: ing" returned the young hopeful de-
i, family.
"There, go out in the yard and play
said Mrs. Hope. "You can't speak be-
fore children
When Augustus had vanished his
charitable mother began to soliloquize.
"When he dies. All! how much
would like to know that happy day."
1t seemed as if Mr.. Deoro would nev-
er shuttle off his mortal coil, for at the
age of seventy-four he appeared likely
to survive many Of his expectations.
Dinner day arrived, and Mr.. Deoro
likewise. The fish he pronounced ex-
quisite, the mushrooms ditto. Master
Augustus Deoro having during the
morning been schooled in his part, ap-
preached his. godfather at dessert with
a luscious bunch of grapes on a gilt
edged plate, saying:
"Here is present for you, god-papa.',
Then he added phrase not put in the
bill, but intended to increase his god
fathers admiration of his genius.
''Mother told me to say so, for, you
would remember me in your will when
you died."
"What an infamous story! How dare
you, sir?" cried his mother, raising her
threatening finger. and. growing pur-
pie in the face.
Mr.. Deoro only laughed, and patted
the prodigy on his tow head. Perhaps
I, l,o 4 \
mirth.
Itwas not until Mr.. Deoro had weaIh-
ed eighty-two winters that he was gath
cred to his fathers. Forty years of his
life he had employed in raising the ex-
pectatiens of his friends. He remem-
bered so well the birthdays of his. god
children. That was feat of mind any
how.
When the news of Mr.. Deoro's death
was made public, the married popula-
ton nearly went mad with joy. Angus
tus Deero Hope got out his fathers
powder horn, and prepared to blow up
the maternal castle. 1t was wash.day |
with. Mrs. Hope, but the .suds reposed
without bubble. There was some
thing on her mind of more consequence
than clean clothes. People. chased ev-
cry lawyer they met to find how much
money Mr.. Deoro had left behind him.
Mrs. Multiply had twelve. children.
Four sons and eight blooming, dashing,
delightful daughters. Every one of
them had Deoro in his or her names.
This amiable family went nearly wild
with delight when the melancholy in
telligeHce reached them. Jake, the
eldest, determined at once to sell out
his shop and travel in Europe. Ezra
would hunt up Congressman and buy
his way to commission in. the army.
But the youngest son showed the only
genius manifested by the family.
sI'u 90 to China and purchase all the
shooting crackers:in the land, and then
put them on board ship, so as to arrive
in time; for the Fourth of July. Pl
double my pile if nobody but me has
A practical turn of mind
had this boy Augustus. Every boy
that bore. the name of Deoro ordered
shotgun. Their parents were willing.
A great many mourners put on black.
An honest man had died--one who
would not defraud them of their respec-
tive legacies.
Things got SO bad in that hitherto
peaceful community, thai. the "expect-
ant" narrowly escaped being committed
for riotous conduct. /
Mr.. Deoro was buried, and there was
great lamentation among the "expect-
ants" not for the soulless body they
were committing to dust, but rather for {
the absence of that knowledge they
were SO anxious to possess. The day I
for reading the will came. The room
was filled with motley assemblage of /;
people, whose couAtenances expressed
the most eager anxiety, mixed with an
Importance that was truly ridiculous;
and when Mr.. Waryman, the lawyer,
began to read, the anxiety increased to II
to painful intensity.
This is the way the will read: |,
81 hereby will and bequeath to my
nephew, Jereme Deoro (whom for many $
years believed dead, but.who within
he last few months has written me
hat he is alive), all my estates and per-
'onal property, amounting to twenty-
,wo thousand dollars, save and except l
ng only the sum of one thousand dol
ars, which came to me as prize from Y
| Kentucky lottery; which said sum l
10 direct to be divided among my four ,
hundred and fifty god-children, pro rata.
Here followed a list of the young IA
'orites, and storm of deprecations and
mothered curses from the 'eXpcctants.'
some of the names had long left this t
sphere, and had gone to /
,ut on their wings as cherubs.
"And so he had nephew after all"
iercely calculated a doting mother, b
with six tow-heads, all
having Beoro in their names. "Ah! h
he old deceiver. To think of the pud- a
lings and ducks L have wasted upon
lim!"
Youth is seldom mercenary, and the II
'lder of the young legatees laughed
way their disappointment. Not sol