The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-25

| any OF his FRANKS. One night, for in
stance, when Jake was off robbing hen
roost, Jehicl sat up in bed in his sleep and
crowed like frightened cock until the
whole family was aroused.
II came here and opened my office some
ten years ago. At that time Jehiel had
grown into steady, tolerably industrious
young man, prominent in the Congrega-
tiOnal Church, and SO sober and decorous
that the village people had trusted him
with the driving of the town hearse.
When first knew him he was counting a
young woman by the name Of Giles, who
lived about seven miles back in the coun-
try. Jehiel was tin knccker by trade,
and more pious. respectable, reliable tin
knockcr 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. I
never saw Jake in my life, for came here
after he had departed, but have pretty
good notion Of what a reckless, loud
mouthed, harum- rcprobate 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 Jcffer-
son for swindling blind Dutcllman, then
finally as a 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 Jehicl was restless,
knockedt in with all uneasy Impotence
that wasn'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. Itscemed
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 Jakes soul fingered at times
in Jehiel. Whether Jchiel's picty ever
influenced Jacob, I am unable to say.
"The most singular thing of, all was in
regard to Jehiel's attentions to the young
woman named Giles. She was a sober,
demure, church-going person, whom ia
cob had never been able to endure, but
who, as everybody said, would max an
excellent helpmate for Jehiel. He seemed
to care a good deal for her in his steady,
slow way, and made a point twice week
of driving over to bring her to prayer
meeting at the Cove But 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 and prolonged, and
occasioned the young woman named Giles
much misery and a good many tears.
zone fine afternoon in the summer of
1871, Jacob Dow, as we afterward learned,
was shot through the heart by Mexican
in a drunken row at San Diego. He
sprang high into the air, and fell upon his
face, and when they laid him away good
Catholic priest said mass for the repose of
his soul. .-f.
"That same afternoon, as it happened,
old DR.. Gookin was to have been buried
in the graveyard yonder. He had died
day or two before at an extreme age, but
in the full possession of his faculties, and
one of the last remarks he made was to
express regret that he would be unable to
follow the career of the Dow twins any
further
cit became Jehiel's melancholy duty to
harness up his hearse on account of old DR..
Gookin's funeral, and as he busted the
dark plumes and polished the ebony
panels of the vehicle, his thoughts natural
ly required to the great service which
that excellent physician had rendered him
in early youth. Then he thought of his
twin brother Jacob, and wondered where
he was and how he prospered. Then his
eyes wandered over the hearse, and he felt
dull pride in creditable appearance.
1t looked so bright and shiny in the sun
that he resolved, as it still wanted cou-
pie Of hours of the time appointed for the
funeral, to drive it over to the Giles farm
and fetch his sweetheart to the village on
the box with him. The young woman
named Giles had freqently ridden with
Jehicl 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 excitemet of q funeral,
mounted to the box and settled herself
comfortably beside him. Then they
started for Saturday Cove, and logged
along on the hearsc, discoursing affection
ately as they went. l..
"Miss Giles affirms that it was at the
third apple-tree next the stone wall of
Hosea Getchell's orchard, just opposite the
bars leading to Mr.. Lords private road,
that sudden and most unexpected change
came over Jehiel. He jumped, she says,
high in the air and landed sprawling in
the dusty road alongside the hearse, yell
ing so hideously that it was with diff
Guilty that she held the frightened horses.
Picking himself up and altering a round