Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
Old Yoke-f-noki, becaused he yoked so

Old Yoke-fi-noki, becaused he yoked so
many couples.
What education he had picked up
avarice and illiterate associations had
chased out of his mead; like an old
country Dutchman, he could spell joists
for his Darn joyce and talk about the
breechman on his horse when he meant
b%reeching.
AS time advanced Garrick grew deep
ly in love with Eunice, and forgot to
give spiritual restraint to his son.
'At seventeen sharp old Garrick
Howton often repeated to himself, o
ing at Eunice with threefold passions of
love avarice and superstition.
Often when an old man falls in love it
seems to him like holiness, when 1T is
only f~oOlishness. -.
In that way Garrick threw himself
back into his natural state before he
became an Hvaricious ~scoundrel. or u
self-frightened hypocrite. He got to
believing in the religion he practiced
upon. He feared night solitude and
ghosts. He believed that his monstrous
passion was IA sacrifice on his part for
the sake of securing Eunice's soul.
Il should be the DEVILS prize without
her." unused Garrick Howton. The
children | have tied in wedlOcks OF
despair. the uniformed souls | have
manacled to selfish tiends, the head
strong schoolgirls | have made the
legal slaves of hideous skintlints, and
who have in u few months awakened to
everlasting repentance and horror,
would troop into my lovely home
amongst these mountains and drive me
crazy with their curses. | should go
mad, But Eunice, Eunice, she will
guard my door and warm my heart and
bring other angels like her from heaven
to my relief and comfort
1t was plain that the hypocritical old
bishop was becoming slightly hysteri-
cal.
Weasley Howton had been notified by
his father that he must go west and
establish his own congregation OF the
peculiar Zionskites.
He was sent to the garnet to study
discipline and thoroughly contemplate
the Scriptures.
One day Euuice stole up into the gar
ret, while the bishop was marrying a
one-eycd man of sixty to a mountain
maid of eighteen, and she met a differ
ent scene there from the penance and
prayer she had expected.
Weasley was rugged out in a suit of
theatrical clothes taken from Eunice S
parents trunks, and was executing a
wild and fantastic Jig.
The bishop mad told Eunice that in
the said trunks was the devils ward
robe. The young people ocked the
door and examined the wardrobe thor
oughly.
What places are garrets for rain and
love, How it drops upon the roof. How
it goes pit-a-pat in the heart! How the
| heart is raining suddenly through the
eyes and the roof is beating with the
palpitations of the wind.
Old men seldom go to garrets. Bad
old men like Garrick Howton never do.
Next week Weaslev Howton was to
start for Indiana, and be an apostle On
the Wabash,
His trunk was packed and his ticket
for the stage was to be paid for over the
great national road from Hagerstown to
, the far west.
FIFTY dollars fare!" exclaimed the
| bishop, as he walked his upper porch;
what q sun OF money! But the next
week it shall be made up out OF Eunice's
fortune, which will then be mine, with
her fadeless beauty, till death do us
! part. The rascal"
AS he looked there came a cloud Of
dust up the L~eitersburg road from the
south, where somebody was driving
~hard--someb body in q desperate hurry.
at looks like a runaway couple" ex'
claimed Garrick Howton, reaching fol
his eyeglasses. But the shade OF the