The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-09-07
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Forty BOlIaFS worth 0F clothes T0r
Ten Cents Worn OF Worms.


Forty pOlIaFY worth Of clothes T0r
% Ten Cents Worn OF Worms.
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A few days ago 3 man who had
been sick for 8 week, died. His Wild
ow sent word OF the mOuFnful event
to her brother, VINO WAS at work hAr-
Yesting for 3 farmer near CrOtOn'
Falls, n. Y. When lie got the intel
| ligence he made haste to DAnbury
some 30 miles, but owing to delays Of
several kinds, did not reach here unit !
the friends bad got back from the
burial. rhe suddenness OF the death,
and the man whom be bad seen I'D
health but three weeks before was
dead and buried, was q severe shock
to him. He spOke of it several times
in dazed sort Of way, and would
break of In inquiring the particulars
OF the last sickness, to comment on
the dreadful sUIllianness OF the affair.
YAnd now ne is buried" he added,
at the close Of the bereaved womsn's
i recital, sand we shall never see him
again. It don't seem possible that
George Is gone. Don't cry, MAZDA ;
It's hard on you, but IL can't; y
helpad. You did everything yOu
could to prevent It, you know" 'HLe
stopped here and neryOusly worked
his fingers, which were elssped to-
Rether over his knees. After 3 mo-
ment he added at was Just three
weeks ago last night thst he came il
with that new black suit 4 rsmenl-
ber his standing up there By .sne
chair" indicating the spot with his
eyes, while his hands still eontinhs,i
to play nervously together, With
iem on. I never see George look 90
well in all my life as he did that
Dight, and was speaking to mother
| afeessd5 afessd5 and 4 buried. I can't make II
seem possible. L"
Clothes" said she IrlUer-pOiing,
nandu-
sWhat % val
They were both on their feet now.
He stood there with the hands sepa'
rated and eleRched, q CHASTITY palloI
on his face, and his eyes fairly start
ing from their sockets. Brought ltC
her feet by the strength and sudden
ness of his exclamation, she stood be-
fore him In 8 pallid wonder, with
the culver OF 8 nameless fear on bel
| lips.
ADO you mean 70 say" he gasped
l"that you chueked q new suit o.
clothes under ground like that p"
Tom 20 she cried, holding up bsth
hands In q horror Of protest.
stDonIt Tom me % he screamed
with q bitterness indescriDable
"DOn't speak to me at all, you Wit
less woman. / can't bear with you
/ hate YOU. A nice sister yOlS are. ftI
was fearful, tine depth Of irony in thi:
expressIon.l You deserve brother
gOu do. On, yes. An him and M
the same size, too" He elenched his
hands tighter than before, and strod'
uD and dOWn the room. II wcnde
\ what keeps me from sinkin' righ
through this floor !" he passionatelI
added. "rO grow up with . sistel
like that, and she a-chuckin' 2OOC
clothes into the ground with . brothe
: that sin't worth hardly a decent RAJ
!. to his back. Forty dollars worth o
|, clothes for worms to esvort aF0un'
IN 70 And with . gToan OF despair h
! sank back heavily into 3 seat
HTom.n gasped the unhappl
woman, In voice OF terror, "are yOI
crazy ?"
"Crazy ~ he shriIly repeated. ''I
,, am crazy It Is your fault, you mis-
, erable sister ? Crazy It's enough 4
Z make the hosts Of heaven crazy TO so
forty dollars worth OF clothes chuck
ed 10 ten cents worth Of vOrms-r
She buried her white face In. he
hands, and sobbed outright for silam
and agony
There's no use crying over spill
/, mIlk,n he giOOmily observed
YOU'VE done It, and that's an end 0
,, tft. and can now have the cOns0latiOl
OF knowing that you've injured 81
own brother. Another time i gues
, you'll be q little more careful ho'
, you fire q new suit Of clothes into Tn
: ground"