The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-01-22
RATI6PIED JEAIOU1Y.
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sATlsFIED JEAIoUBY.
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aHappy Worla 1his Woald II.
The worst case of suspicion and jeal-
,usy in the Northwest has just been
cured, the patient being the wife Of .
xell-known travelling man. She had
noticed that her husband never brought
lis grip home with him, but always left
t ct the store when he came home from
trip, and in her jealousy she imagined
t to be filed with love letters, appoint
pents Of meetings with fair ones, etc.,
etc. A few days since, while her hus-
band was on trip through Dakota, she
went down to the store and approach
ing the porter, said:
John, you like to make adollar hon
sstly when you can, don't you?"
"Oh, yes'm."
"You know where my husband keeps
his grip when he comes in, don't you?"
"Yes'm. He throws it down in cor
ner of the Office and leaves it there"
"Well, look here, John. He will be
On the Northern Pacific train tomorrow
morning, and if at the first opportunity
you slip his grip out of the house and
bring it up to me, I'll give you q dol
lar. You can bring it back again in
half an hour"
The porter consented and two days,
later presented himself at the drum
mer's residence with tho grip in his
hand. He explained that he had not
before had an opportunity to carry it
away, and giving him seat in the par
lor, the woman carried her prize to the
bedroom, and with Sc: teeth and pale
face opened it. The first thing she en-
countered was we'll worn pocket BIZ
bic, thumbed and showing the marks
Of much handling. Then she dug out
soiled shirt. some unchaste socks,
comb, hair brush. and then she found
letter folded within an evelope. This
she opened eagerly and read as follows:
Fargo, D. T., Sept. l, 1884.
Mr.. William -, Dear Sir: Your
monthly assessment of so cents for the
support of the Young Mems Christian
Association Bible fund.- is now due,
and the earnest interest you have always
taken in the work assures me you will
promptly remit the amount. You will
be pleased to learn that the good cause
progresses rapidly. as you predicted it
would in your address delivered here
few weeks since.
A. w. EDWARDS, Secretary.
This drove much of the hard, stony
look from her face, but she continued
her search. She fshed out two Or
three tracts, bottle of pop, Francis
Murphy temperance badge, bottle Of
DR.. Surepop's Gittbere's bunion paci-
fer, some more impure socks. and be-
meath it all letter sealed, stamped aud
ready for the mail, addressed to "lLiss
George Gray, St. Paul, Minnesota"
The superscription was in her hus-
bands handwriting. and again the stony
look came into her eyes, and her bosom
heaved with emotion. Her teeth grit
ed together, and her breath came as
hard as three-year-old New England
cider.
"Oh, the wretch!" she cried in her an
guish. "My suspicious are too we'll
founded. George Gray! Oh, if I had
the-the-the thing I'd kick her hustle
clear over her head! I'd-I'd-Pd-Oh!
this is too much, too much!" and she
gave way to flood of tears.
When she had Gained herself she
tore the letter open and read as follows:
St. Paul, Mimi. Sept. 19.-Miss
Gray-1our note asking me to meet you
in Rice Park Saturday evening was
handed me by district messenger boy
this morning. In reply, permit me to
say that you have mistaken the man.
You may not be aware of the fact that 1
am a married man. and am blessed with
the love and confidence of the sweetest
little wife in America. Rather than be-
tray that confidence or dishonor that
love, Iwould suffer ten thousand deaths.
In my eyes there is but one woman in
the world, and she it is who greets me
with a smile and a wifely kiss every
time I come from trip. shall not
tell her If this, for'I do not want her to
know that one of her sex could be SO
depraved and lost to all sense of honor
as your act has proven you to be.
WILLIAM.
Then she laid down on the bed and
sobbed for a while, and then closed the
grip, took it to the porter and asked
him to return it to the store and say
nothing of what had occurred. As he
entered the store the drummer stepped
from behind pile of goods and asked:
did she go through it, John?"
''Guess so. She took it into another
room an was gone half an hour before
she brought it back"
"How did she act?"
"Well, she was smilin' awfully, but
looked teary like around the eyes. She
gimme another dollar an said this
would be happy world if all men were
like her husband"
'That's business, John; here's the V
promised you, and now let's go across
the street and take something. When
you come back dump that stuff and put
my things back in the grip, for go out
tomorrow morning Ill never forget
you, John, for putting me onto this"
and they slipped out and disappeared
behind the green shade of convenient
saloon
The slaughter of brakemen on on
railroads reaches alarming proportions.
The mortality among this class from &C
cidents suffered in the line of their duty
reaches the enormous number of four
thousand year. A large proportion Of
these deaths result from the dangerous
system of coupling cars with link and
pin. Massachusetts IS making an eff
fort to check the slaughter by requiring
all the roads in the state to equip their
cars with automatic couplers as soon 40
the railroad commissioners shall have
decided upon the best device. Humanity
ought to lead all companies to follow
the example of the Baltimore & Ohio,
which has of its own motion adopted
such a coupler, and they probably will
upon being fully satisfied of its merits,
for it is not to be assumed that railroad
managers are Indifferent to the serious
loss of life under the present systems of
coupling.
Nearly all the States and Territories
are making preparations to be adequate
ly represented at the great New Orlean.
exposition which opens i'll December,