Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-03-16

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Pe''euceu II al IN my " life. saw
po.i' o'e'-Ouruenea isthe7 aid IL
-. 4'a'e because OF over
~ .o' IN Trying 70 supply
fi.lu o. d SICK vile and his
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wa1tar, 'l1l'-''' a>surea' lou
anu success are more dear to
~ am Ia1 .H.Ha
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Won ,r;,r me lof ANNOYING
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need NOT cog-, 49, - a, 80 sIl' o
/ rich,hir Mace in INV bono
..Ob. Rarph Lila c,-rs hon. -.
+ fire. called Dora ~, 60.
at last consented 10 ten B. WIN H. N.
ways spend, the 10Th of March augy
! from her home. | have a.ka5 per
dozens Of times. but she never ror'5
consent TO tell her reason before
Dora dropped the ,kain Of b~i,b,
yarn. and drawing Aunt LDafrJa'.
easy chair into the GENIAL fire Iigb.
placed the little old lady within il.
embrace. They then all seated Them.
selves near her. and prepared 10 listen.
Il am actually ashamed IN tell va,
children, how foolish an old woman
can be-, she said with "a flush on her
,wee, Old face. II think ,ba, even
the storm would not keep me here for
this night il | had any money about
me, or ans thing VERY valuable to
tempt robbers.
ado they modest you on the 10Th Of
March more than at any other tlmea'
asked Ralph. qUizzically.
Il have never spent ,hi. night In
The house since my father death.
which wa. on the 10Th Of March. with
out being robbed, confessed Aunt
Lucinda. E~ervousiy.
Can It be tha, grandma come. bacg
on this nights" asked Dora. with a
startled glance into the .~reegi7g ansrt.
ment beyond
He would hardly rob MI, own
dauGhterif he did. remarked Alice
"What have YOU lost. .Agr,9" Rafrh
Zone year from the night that father
died, | lost my wedding dress. Yon
all know how | was to have been !
married, and my future husband died
with brain fever only a week before ]
18th Of March, ! had other thing. !
b, more value in the house, but only !
wedding dress was taken; and that /
more than thirty years ago.
at i very strange, unused Ralph. U
.-houghtfalIy, What could any one :
nave wanted with your dress
Il have asked myself that ou..,io7 .
4 hundred times, continued Aunt Lu. J.,
linda, in troubled tone. The next u
after that our father, then a /
man, brought me some money II
IN that very day, | think there wa, =
five or six hundred dollars in the y
package, and he asked me TO take II
Of it for him until the next dav.
IS he was going into the country. =,
it away carefully, and the next :
it was zone. y
Dear me. | do hone the rolbar.
rim not como -o.,f,b, Ill n IN -.
sludder. y
II replaced the money from my oy, b
ank account, and he never knew Of 4
he loss. added Aunt Lucinda ..Tbo :.
ext year. / spent the pight with von-
in his new home and tbor. M :,
lost: but the wear fouowirg I ;,
st a large sum Of money. The town ;,
ad grown ,o rapidIr d',rfro ,LoI.. ~
~ months that the wost opd NJ tbo .
nm was laid ont into town lo,. and :,
I'D. There were FIVE tbop.,rd dolIa,g :,
a secret place tbat only I kr.w of -
nd thought the money safor ,hora !,
ian in a bank. | had kan, i, yafaI,. i,
II weeks. but il wa. .,olano nm ,bo1etI -,
March. After that wa. afraid a. y,
,eDd the niob, 81, bona u@9 III
We much to solve the mv.tory Of ~. -
for | INNS, confess thu, wLiiai =