The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-22

''Mr. Hantline is awake how, and
seems easy" saia the nurse, entering
the dining room on tiptoe, and helping
herself to the coffee with the air Of per-
son to the manor born, &
'Eat your breakfast, nurse, while We
visit the chamber together, said Ars.
| Hurfliy9fA @@ maaa 91a aAss aaa
ST will go and procure the license and
the preacher" Baid Ned. 'Father is
rational now, and he may grow deliricus
If we wait longer"
The other sons of the family were
too far away to besummoned tohis bed
I'll The dying man Il 8 greeted his prospect
i've daughter with wan smile of vel
cone.s9AsiIGA Eaisgssi 98 lfl bs,
"She will be your legacy, mother, !"
he whispered. e Ned has the property
and you will have her, and may you all
be happy. Where's Ned 2" lfoJ
"Gone foE the preacher, father. He
will be here presently" said Mollie,
stopping to kiss him on the forehead
g Mother" exclaimed the dying man,
81 have provided as well as I could for
your support. You will have no more
care and no more work during the re-
mainder of your days. IHn IfDe Ts3
''And no more liberty, y was the poor
wife's silen silent ecbo, but che made no audi
bic reply,
"rm going long road, mother, but
| the journey will soon be over. Don't
weep for me. Well meet again in the
morning of anew existence" "A
Ned entered with the license and the
4 minister, and the dying mans attention
was engrossed to his latest moment Of
conscieusness In witnessing tie ceres
mony that was to unite the young peo=
pie till death or divorce should part
them 81. se.~ ~
Z Take good care of mother, Mollie,"
was hisparting Injunction.
She death-damp gathered on his fore
| cad, the death-rattle sounded in his
| hroat and all was over.
The funeral obsequies passed off qtii-
lily, and Ned Huntiine and his new wife
returned to the old homestead to take up
heir new life, and Mrs. Htintline re-
\ turned also to her doubly-bereft exist
/ once, since she was both homeless and
widowed. -mas~m-1 go
The new Mrs. Huntline elbowed her
| motherzin-law from her place at the head
of the table, where she had presided for
+ over thirty years. The old Mrs. Hunt
K line accepted the situation. She did not
I interfere with any Of the new-fangled
airs thattook the place of the old-fash-
I ioned regulations. She glided in and
out of the rooms like q ghost, and grew
more and more conscious that she was
I considered burden as the family's ex-
/ penses5 increased. al sa 3Fa 24
/ Ned Huntline did not prosper in his
| business, and, as theyears rolled on, the
/ homestead was mortgaged to meet the
I demandsof his creditors. Little respon-
| sibilities were added to the household in
+ annuaIreinfor Genie nts, and the old adage,
t " A fool for luck and a poor man for
l children 2 was amply verified. ,ea.
L Mrs. Huntline'B legacy did not prove
financial success. She was compelled
/ to act asschild's nurse even more con-
stantly than when her own babies were.
| growing. She had been a servant with
out wages in her husband S lifetime, but
Eshe was. a servant Of servants now. The
X Chinese cook would not tolerate her in
the kitchen, nor could he prepare her
? food tosher liking. IN Is~
p The junior Mrs. HuntIine grew more
and more cold-hearted and exacting.
Adversely pressed hard upon Ned, who
gradually grew to think with his wife
that his niotheis was q burden and in the
way. Interest accrued upon the mort
gage, and there was no money to meet
the debt. Ned grew morose and ll1civil.
and when his mother, who had toiled
beyondher, strengthen caring;forhis chill
dren, was laid low with arheumatie fe-
LIVER, ne inwardly confessed that her room
| would be more acceptable than her COM
pany. The anxiety and poverty and
noise and discomfort preyed upon her
spirits. and her recovery was slow.
Mrs. Huntline was just able to sit up
and occupy chair atthe breakfast table
on the tenth anniversary of her hus-
bands death. The children were noisy,
the food was not to her liking, and the
tablecloth was awry. She could not eat;
she leaned back in her chair and wept
silently. agsI M y-sslss
y. n F" You have an easier time than any OF
us, % said Ned, petulantly, as he noticed
her tears. Mollie says You have always
been trial to her. Can't you be little
mere reasonable 1t seems to me that
if hadn'tanythin to worry me but the
quality of my victuals would not put
ON airs" e9ng7s n sg.yss sgzryssg no : are
+ Mrs. Huntline was stung into open re-
tort for the first time in all these years.
ia" If your father had left me this
homestead, rs the legacy that is right
fully mine, I should have been able to
surround myseIr with every needed com
fort. and wouldn' have been obliged to
overdo my strength and catch the rheu
matte fever by being 2 ehild's nurse.
either" N& G&HSss#sI @gs sESk#
I'D like to know what you'd have
done with the. homestead if you had it, ~
surlily answered Ned.
44" | wouldn't have mortgaged it." was
the fearful reply. g Suppose I, instead of
your father, had died, Ned, she con-
tinued, "do YOU think he would have
been contented with his lot If / had
willed his homestead into other hands
and left him to feel himself burden In
the house Of his children? Do you
think the legacy Of daughter-in-law,
wiz WOuiSl A1ttF5 bIIOuSub It'll utlISdtlC6
no matter what he did, would have COM
pensated him for the loss of his homer"
Ned Huntline did not reply. But his
brow contracted he was thinking,
thinking. Tens years had wrought
great change in him. No one would have
thought, on the day. of his marriage,
that hewould deteriorate in so short
time from the tidy, we'll preserved young
man of the decade gone by into, the
seedy, careless and wretched-appearing
fellow that he now was. s9IH0a
bab If the Homestead had remained
mine, said his mother, ".you would not
be living under o mortgaged roof now.
Ned, nor would have been q dependent
irudge during all these years. 1 don't
think l can live a great while-I hops
| can't-but [ wish to impress on you
an important duty before my change
comes" q d . a st
- What is it, mother?"
~ 1t IS this: Never wrong your wife.
even on your deatf-bed, by willing the
hard earned home away from her; and
never imagine that you can make her
comfortable in her widowhood by de-