New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-05-12

halls piety ever influenced Jacob, am
unable to say.
1.-THE most singular thing of all was in
regard to Jehiels attentions to the young
woman named Giles. She was q sober,
demure, church-going person, whom
Jacob had never been able to endure, but
who, as everybody said, would make an
excellent helpmate for Jebiel. He seemed
to care 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. Bat when one of
his odd spells was on him he forsook her
altogether, and weeks would go by, to
her great distress, without his appearing
at the Giles gate. As Jake went from bad
to worse these periods of indifference be-
came more frequent aud prolonged, and
occasioned the young woman named Giles
much misery and good many tears.
zone fine afternoon in the summer of
1871, Jacob Dow, as was afterward learn
ed, was shot through the heart by Mex
lean in a drunken row at San Diego. He
sprapg high into the air, and fell upon
his face, and when they laid him away
good Catholic priest said mass for the re-
pose of his soul.
THAT same afternoon, as it happened,
old Doctor Goobin was to have been
buried in the graveyard yonder. He had
died a day or two before at an extreme
age, but in the full possession of his facul-
ties, but one of the last remarks he made
was to express regret that he would be IN
able to follow the career of the Dow twins
any further.
'It became Jehieps melancholy duty to
harness up his hearse on account Of old
DR.. Gookin's funeral, and as he busted
the piumes and polished the ebony panels
of the vehicle, his thoughts naturally re-
Cured to the great service which that ex-
cellent physician had rendered him in
early youth. Then he thought OF his twin
brother Jacob, and wondered where be
was and how he prospered. Then his
eyes wandered over the hearse, and he
felt dull pride in its creditable appear
ance 1t looked so bright and shiny in
the sun that he resolved, as it still wanted
couple of hours of the time appointed
for the funeral, to drive over to the Giles
farm and fetch his sweetheart to the viii
lage on the box with him. The young
woman named Giles had frequently ridden
with Jehiel on the hearse, her demure
features and sober apparel detracting
nothing from the respectable solemnity of
the equipage.
'Jehiel drove up in state to the door of
his betrothed, and she, not at all reluctant
to enjoy the mild excitement of funeral,
mounted to the box and settled herself
comfortably beside him. Then they
started for Saturday Cove, and logged
along on the hearse, diseoursing affection
ately as they went.
GGhTicu elias fHrrno that yv,og ~
the third apple tree next the stone wall
of Hosea Getchell's orchard, Just op-
posite the bars leading to Mr. Lords
private road, that sudden and most ex-
traordinary change came over Jehiel. He
jumped, she says, high into the air and
landed sprawling in the sandy road along
side the hearse, yelling so hideously that
it was with difficulty, that she held the
frightened horses Picking himself up and
uttering an oath Something that had never
before passed the virtuous lips of Jehiel)
he turned his attention to the horses,
kicking and beating them until they stood
quiet He next proceeded to cut and trim
a willow switch at the roadside and pull
ing his decent silk hat down over one eve
and darting from the other surly glance
at the astonished Miss Giles, he climbed
to his seat on the hearse.
" Jehiel Dow! said she, what does this
meant?
"'It meansF he replied, giving his off
horse vicious cut with his switch, that
I have been going slow these thirty year,
and now am going to put little ginger
in my gait. Gelangr
''The hearse horses Jumped under the
unaccustomed lash and broke into a gal
lop. Jehiel applied the switch again and
again, and the dismal vehicle was soon
humping over the road at tremendous
pace, Jehiel shouting all the time like a
circus rider, and Miss Giles clinging to
his side in an agony of terror The peo-
pie in the farm houses along the way
rushed to doors and windows and gazed
in amazement at the unprecedented spec
taele. Jehiel had word for each-a
shout of derision for one, blast of BIAS
phemy for another, and an invitation to
ride for third-but he refined in for no.
body, and in twinkling the five miles
between Hosea Getchell's farm at Duck
Trap and the village at Saturday Cove
had been accomplished. think I am
safe in saying that never before did hearse
rattle over I've miles of road SO rapidly.
go, Jehiel, Jehiel' said Miss Giles, as
the hearse entered the village, ARE you
took crazy of sudden?
"'No, said Jehiel, curtly, but my eyes
are open now. Gelang, you beasts! You
get out here; I'm going to Belfast.
But, Jehiel, dear she protested,
with many sobs, remember DIR. Gookin.
"'Dang Gookinp said Jehiel
"'And for my sake, she continued.
Dear Jehiel, for my sake.
Dang you, tool said Jehiel.
drawing up his team in magnificent
style before the village hotel, he COM
PEELED the weeping Miss Giles to alight,
and then, with an admirable imitation Of
the war whoop of Sioux brave, started
his melancholy vehicle for Belfast, and
was gone in fash, leaving the entire
population of Saturday Cove in sta te of
bewilderment that approached coma.
THE remains CT the worthy DIR. Gookin
were borne to the graveyard that afternoon
upon the shoulders of half dozen Of the
stoutest farmers in the neighborhood.
Jehiel came home long after midnight,
uproariously intoxicated. The revolution
in his character had been Is complete as
1t was sudden. From the moment of
jacobs death, he was q dissipated, dis
honest scoundrel, the scandal Of Saturday
Cove, and the terror of quiet, respectable
folks for miles around. After that day be
never could be persuaded TO speak TO or
even recognize the young woman named
Giles. She, to her credit I think. still
remains in spinsterhood, faithful 10 the
memory % the lost Jshiel. His downward
course was rapid He gambled, drank,
quaFEaled and stole; and he is now in |
State prison at IhomastOn, serving out