The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-05-03

roost. ,Jehiel sat up in bed in his sleep ana
crowed like frightened cock until the
whole family was aroused.
| II came here and opened my ONCE some
ten wears ago. At that time Jehlel had
grown into a steady, tolerably industrious
Young man. prominent in the Congrega-
fionaI Church. and so sober and decorous
that the village people had trusted HIM
with the driving of the town hearse
When I first knew him he was counting
Young woman by the name OF Giles, who
lived about seven miles back in the coun-
try. Jehiel was tin knccker by trace
and more pious. respetcaole, reliable LII
knocker you never saw.
"Jake had tunred out very differently
By the time of Sumter he had made sat
urday Cove too hot to hold him, and every
BODY. including his twin Jehiel, was glad
when he enlisted in Maine regiment |
never saw Jake in my life. for came here
after he had departed, but have pretty
good notion of what reckless, loud
mouthed. harum-scarum reprobate he
must have been After the war he drift
ed into the Western country, and we heard
of him occasionally, first as steamboat
runner at St. Louis, then in Jail at Jetfer-
son for swindling blind Dutchman, then
as a gambler and rough at Cheyenne. and
finally as dead beat in Frisco. You
could tell pretty we'll when Jake was IN
deviltry BY watching the actions OF Je-
hiel. At such times Jehiel was restless,
knockedt in with an uneasy Impotence
that WASH t habitual with him, was as mum
and glum at prayer meeting as the worst
sinner in Saturday Cove, and evidently
had to struggled ard to be good. ltseemed
as if DIR. Gookin's knife. which cut the
physical twins apart, had been unable to
: dissever the psychical twins, and that
some part of Jake's soul fingered at times
: in Jehiel. Whether Jehiel's piety ever
influenced Jacob, | am unable to say.
l 1.-THE most singular thing of all was in
$ regard to Jehiel's attentions to the young
a woman named Giles She was a sober,
demure. church-going person, whom ia
cob had never been able to endure, but
i who, as everybody said, would make an
excellent helpmate for Jehiel. He seemed
Il to care a good deal for her in his steady
: slow way, and made point twice week
}. of driving over to bring her to prayer
}. meeting at the Cove. But when one Of
II his odd spells was on Ehim he forsook hel
: altogether, and weeks would 60 by, to hel
d great distress, without his appearing a
the Giles gate. AS Jake went from bat
y to worse. these periods of indifference be
: came more frequent and prolonged, ant
= occasioned the young woman named Gile
e much misery and good many tears.
- Zone fine afternoon in the summer 0
! 1871, Jacob Dow, as we afterward learned
- was shot through the heart by Mexican
10 in a drunken row at San Diego III
h sprang high into the air, and fell upon hi
face, and when they laid him away goOt
"a Catholic priest said mass for the repose o
20 his soul.
v THAT same afternoon, as it happened
k old Dr. GOokin was to have been burie'
re in the graveyard yonder. He had died
v. day or two before at an extreme age, bu
A. in the full possession of his faculties, an
" one of the last remarks he made was
pr express regret that he would be unable t
il follow the career of the Dow twins an
of further.
k. 1T became Jehiel's melancholy duty
harness up his hearse on account of old ID
Gookin's funeral, and as he busted til
IL dark plumes and polished the ebon
re panels of the vehicle, his thoughts natura
or " required to the great service whic
lis that excellent physician had rendered hi
lis in. early youth. Then he thought of h
ok twin brother Jacob, and wondered whe
he he was and how he prospered. Then h
ewes wandered over the hearse, and he tie
he dull pride in creditable appearance
1t looked SO bright and shiny in the 5,
ey that he resolved as it still wanted a CO
w, pie of hours of the time appointed for Il
I'm funeral, to drive it over to the Giles far
Nv and fetch his sweetheart to the village
ID the box with him. The young wom
he named Giles had freqently ridden wi
Ito Jehiel ON the hearse, her demure featur
ny and sober apparel detracting nothil
,th from the respectable solemnity of
lid equipage.
IN "Jehiel drove up in state to the door
lie his betrothed, and she. not at all relucta
our to enjoy the mild excitemet of funer
ect mounted to the box and settled hers
the comfortably beside him. Then tn
led started for Saturday Cove. and jogg
DIR. along on the hearse. discoursing affectio
TED ately as they went.
ne Miss Giles affirms that it was at
an third apple-tree next the stone wall
.ho Hosea Getchells orchard. Just opposite
ihs bars leading to Mr.. Lords private ro
ihs that sudden and most unexpected char
,uis came over Jehiel. He jumped, she sa
III II. high in the air and landed sprawling
III the dusty road alongside the hearse, Y,
ing so hideously that it was with di
Guilty that she held the frightened hor:
e s Picking himself up and uttering a rou
''ci oath something that had never Def
pa passed the virtuous lips of JehieD
'ic . turned his attention to the horses, kick
osl- and beating them until they stood gu
.oas He next proceeded to cut and trim a '
IA a" low switch ut the roadside, and pull
'iie his decent silk hat down over one eye.
darling from the other surly glanc,
the astonished Miss Giles. he climbed
up his seat on the hearse.
Ike ",Jehiel Dow said she. what d
"a this means!
d to lit MEANS he replied, giving the
, no horse vicious cut with his switch. :,
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