Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1880-05-19


Philip Hitler badly iwxred. Both
,ciu Be sent on IN merit train
In this ghastly shape came dis
sster to the long-exempt household.
Life and the world had dealt 20 be.
nignly aud bountifully with them
heretofore, that they had insensibly
learned to look upon their posses
sion of health, love and happiness
as assured for years and years to
come. Emma's marriage had re-
moved her from them but Q couple
blocks, and oil concurred in the
opinion that this was Q charming
variety upon their former estate.
"How did we ever get along with
ont Fred's and Emma's house to run
intoi 1t is as good as having two
homes" the girls often said among
themselves.
When the twins came-bouncing,
healthy boys-the excitement and
joy in one house eQualled that in
the other. 1t seemed now, indeed,
that they could ask nothing more of
Heaven; that the brimming cup of
bliss was mantled all over with
rose.leaves. And when "Papa and
Fred, were obliged to be absent
from their homes for . week, in at
tendance upon the doings of court
a hundred miles away, Emma and
her babes were transferred with
much ceremony and rejoicing to her
mothers care; given up to the pet
ting and admiration of the dOating
aunties without reservation, beyond
Fred's earnest entreaty that they
would not kiss the boys away to
skeletons before no returned, and
q threat to have them protected by
copper sheathing from the fate OF
st. Peters brazen toe.
Dear Fred! the merry, handsome,
stalwart brother; their only ONE
who WAS never to jest with them
again; never again to hold wife and
babes in his embrace. Imogen and
Blanche mourned for him only less
passionately than did she who had
proudly and gladly borne his name.
Poor wife! she was denied the sat
isfaction of hearing that her name
had been the last in his thoughts
and speech; that the loyal heart had
never beat more lovingly for her
than in its latest throbbings; for
weeks passed before Mr.. Hitler
could speak at all, and then the
disjointed utterances of the palsied
tongue told nothing beyond the
terrible fact that the brain had sus-
tanned serious, it might be irrepara.
BILE, damage. A paralytic cripple
he would remain until the day of
bis death, although this half.lite
might be prolonged for years, pro-
nounced the best medical anthori.
ties in the land, summoned without
regard to distance or expense, BY
the agonized wife.
Stricken, smitten of GOD, and
afflicted, the four women sat them
down together in the mothers
room, a month after the double be
reavement, and took mournful but
deliberate counsel together. Their
affairs were not at desperate pass,
as they already knew. There was
the house in which they lived, free
of mortgage, which would bring al
least thirty thousand dollars 10 the
market; ten thousand dollars in
bank stocks and other securities
solid, paying investments, and five
Thousand dollars worth Of real es
tate-chiefy unimproved lots in
, growing part of the city, tina,
, might be very valuable in time, i
, they could be held and the taxeI
paid. Fred had invested four thou
sand dollars in the latter kind o
, property, and his life was insured
for ten thousand more. II Emmi
we're to sell NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
> lots and all-she would have jus
seventeen thousand dollars will
which to support herself, to rea
and educate her boys. By livinl
upon the interest of the lifeinsur
ance fund, and paying taxes on tn
y real estate for some years, sh'
= might double the little fortune be
A queathed to her, without reserve
by her husbands will.
al shall not touch Q cent Of it,
, I can help it," she said, in sad de
cision. at shall be the father
, provision for his sons. They viii
. need it all, in order to educate them
y selves as he would have wished
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