Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-11-03
THE FARMsR.s REVENGE.
Planning q Robbery for which HIS Hated
Enemy Was Killed.
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tChicago Hcreld.l
Ihsve carried this skeleton round In my
pocket Tor ten years, expecting some day
70 put it together and dress it up. Ihave
never done 50, and am satisfied now that
never Will II anybody wants to fx it up
he can have it 1t is true:
A farmer In Pennsylvaaia had q de-
voted and beautiful wife. He was faith
ful and painsts king No shadow crossed
the threshold of his home. The earth
gave its seasons yield to his labor, and his
leisure hours were beautifed by a woman's
Tenderness and interest There was o
broker in New York. Clos, attention to
business and the wear and tear of the ma
chinery Of that great metropolis at last
told upon his energies. He needed rest
he consulted eminent physicians and they
told him to go into the country--to walk
as much as he could. He started out and
walked from farmhouse to farmhouse.
One evening he stopped at the farm
house / have described. 1t was hos
p.table. During his first nights stay
he sickened so that he was una
bic to resume his journey on the
following day. He remained for sew
eral weeks aud was cared for by the farm.
er aad his wife. He grew stronger, and
one day he went away fully recovered aud
again plunged into the whirlpool which
surges and dashes and frets in Wall street
all the year round. In a few months after,
the wife of the farmer sickened and died
and was buried in the ground of the little
farm which her own hands had helped to
beautify AMI enrich. One man knew why
she sickened, pinsd, dropped and passed
away from the sound of his voice and the
f<ava oh - -,
her husband. But he never upbraided her.
and never did she know by any look, act
or word of his that he know the secret He
knew that she had opened her eyes to the
truth that the stranger whom she had
nursed had kindled a new fame in her
hearts But she was true woman and re-
mainei by the side of the man whom she
at last, too late, realized was beneath her
station. Sac passed. away in his arms,
faithful to the promise she had made be-
fore God and man. He buried her under
the blossoms of a tree which she had
planted, unborn saith ths shade of which
they had sat when the summer winds were
at play in the leaves, and long before she
knew there was any other world than
their little home aud his great strong
arms
He sold the farm and went to Colorado
He grew gray under the shadows of the
mountains; his beard became long and
white as the tops of those mountains
above him which glisteued in the sun.
Nothing of the mans former self was
left He had even changed his name.
In the whirlpool of Wall street
the stranger who hal sickened on the
Pennsylvania farm was finally wrecked
and went West In prospecting he fell In
with soms miners. One OF them was good
TO him, aud they soon became friends
They prospered and became associated in
business. One n ght there was a robbery
away up in one of the camps. BY a chain
of nces-circums tances purely
the man from New York was suspected
and arrested. There was a speedy trial
such tr. ais are still held in that country
and the New York man was fouud guilty
and sentenced to be hanged to limb, q
barrel sut1icing for a scaffold. While this
was being arranged the partner OF the con.
demned man stole away to his camp and
returned in time to see the convicted man
ready TO have his neck placed In the moose
The miner was not as he had been. He
was clean shaven and his long hair had
been shorn. The man on the barrel recog
nizei him as the farmer whom hs had
known in Pennsylvania. Hs had not rec
oSnizei him in all their business associa
tions. As the barrel was tipped over an
the victim swung between tho earth an
the blue sky the sharp report Of pis ,ol
sent its revorDerations among the sigh ing:
of the pine trees and the farmer from
Pcnnsylyaaia-the m;ner-fell dead
pierced by the bullet of his own pistol H.
had planned the robbery for which tn.
man who had won the heart OF his wife
vas hanged.