The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-06-19

'''''" "Workse Aeapee !
a-'. Vels cheapee"'
And his eyes have all tho seeming Of demon
opium dreaming,
While the light Of progress casts his shadow
darker than before;
And John Chinee, never quitting, still Is SIT
ting, still is sitting,
With patience unrcmitting, on our Occi-
dental shore;
With a, patience unremitting, underbidden
,(9 lower and lover:
'Wo-kec heapee.
T., Velk cheaptc"
A BROOKLYN SKELETON.
The Secret Of an Aristocratic Household
Enoch Arden Is Tramp.
In a suit not long ago before the Su
preme Court OF Brooklyn, facts were
brought to view about some persons
named in it Of most strange manner.
Close on thirty years ago comedy young
lady Of that city was welded to we'll
to-do young man, whose business was in
New York. They lived happily together
for seine years, and had three Or four
children, At length the husband died,
having first made will, by which he
bequeathed some 100000 to his wife,
without laying any charge up not to mar
~ again. Mrs. B., as she may be called,
sold out her dead husbands business, and
still made her home in that city. She
was very handsome widow, her weeds
becoming her we'll. Two or three years
went by, and, though many lovers sought
her side, she was deaf to their whispers,
and not to be won by their promises.
About this time dashing young fel-
low made his bow in Brooklyn society,
among the set to which Mrs. B. belonged.
He was we'll made, had handsome face,
dressed in style, and seemed to know
everybody and everything. He and the
wido met. 1t was fatal meeting, for
she took fancy to the stranger, and he
was not 10th to be enslavcd. They fllrt
ed and made love to each other tor few
weeks, and then the widow married the
man, Of whom she knew really nothing,
and installed him as master of herself
and home. Three weeks Of delight fol-
| lowed.
Then the honeymoon and the widow
dream Of happiness ended together. The
man whom she had taken to her heart
turned out a drunkard and idler, and
spent every cent he could lay hold of for
rum He ran up bills at all the grog-
shops around, and once and again his
wife paid the score. Then she put her
foot down md vowed she would do 50 no
more. The husband stole her watch, her
jewelry, her clothes, her furniture, and
pas ned them for liquor. He became a
pest and All eycsore to his wife and the
neighbozs. At last, when he found that
his wife would give him no more money
and pay no more bills, he raised shame
full uproar and struck her. She was 20
ing to have him Gagged, but forborc on his
pledging himself to decamp. She gave
him $500, and lodged $500 more to he
paid to him after he had lived for three
months in San Francisco. Thither he
went. and drew the money after he had
given proof that he had been there for the
time named. Then he passed out of sight
for months. But not forever, for from
time to time his wife in BROOKLYN re.
celved letters from him in various parts
Of the United States. asking for money
VIII CHI she sent him in sums Of $40 and
$50. She wrote to trustworthy persons
and found that her husband was q dirty
drunken, hideous tramp. passing from
one place to another with horde of out
casts Of the same kind.
Five years passed thus, and the wife
saw nothing Of the husband, though she
had letters from him, US already said, {
good many times. In the meantime she
had joined an uptown Methodist Episco
pal Church, and was one OF its strong
pillars. In the church was a wealth,
aldower in large way Of business or
one Of the chief thoroughfares in the city
and dwelling in costly home on til,
Hill. A ~arm friendship sprang up be
tween the two, and before long tn,
records Of New York court showed tina
the lady had got divorce of some kline
from her husband. The papers wer'
said to be all regular, and an affidavit
stated that the plaintiff had not seen tn,
defendant for over four years, or heart
anything Of his whereabouts. How tn,
thing was fixed cannot he known, but tn,
oman was made free, and thereupo1
married the widower already spoA en- of
The couple lived together in fine style
and everything was as lovely as it coult
he.
For time, it may be safe to add
Months and years rolled by. The new
husband Of course thought the old hus
band was out Of the way forever. TIL,
wife, perhaps, had her fears about it. A
length, to her great joy, she got a lette
from u stranger, who wrote that her hus
band had died in the writer's barn sucf
a time, and that he had buried him at an
expense of $3.50. The stranger asked tina
the sum be sent to him, and it was
Then had the mind Of the woman rest.
She was found of beautiful flowers
and the garden in front of her home wa:
always kept with much care. One Sun
day morning in the early summer sht
was up betimes gathering the Lowell,
roses and the sweet violets for bouquet
to place by the side Of her husband OF
the break fast table. As she stopped sht
became a. arc that shadow had passec
between her and the bright sunshine
She glanced up and saw man standing
on the sidewalk, grasping the railing
and looking IT her almost ticrcely. Sht
gave start, almost q scream, and step
ped back. The figure moved not. Il
| was frightful object that stood there
The hair was coarse, long and matted
and covered with a greasy straw hat
The beard was shaggy and unkempt
The eyes were red and blearcd. Patches
Of dirt were on the face. The clothes
were ragged and foul, and the hands like
wild beasts claws But in spite of thu
blod-shot eye and the dirt, and thu
claws and the rags, the half-faintine
woman knew that the hideous being wal
her husband.
"Ah, you know me, see," he said
"You're we'll fixed, amt you2 A fin
house, and a pretty garden, and a..
husband that's respectable and dom
drin<. Ha, ha, you've done better thar
havcn