Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-03-21

my son-in-law's will leaving to FStt.s.; e
right TO all ancient family proparfg II
SAGE, the restoration Of which Ia ~ e
in view of his services to the -
But, poor France, what could She ~
after SedanY So, although tried .s9N
suade myself that it was the locket + =
ed, knew that the hunger that noa.'
me was TO meet the man hated TS
him, TO ask him one question, and "a
u found him-found him after a.
years, and without being OBLIGED Il -
the sea. He had almost been nv nav =
neighbor for | know not how mans 20 .
and had not suspected it. Solarsslsa
world, and yet so SMALL $50
ut was Saturday night. Thu
crowds were filing your busy streets
ed with Christmas gifts and ali tbs
things that represent so many an
thoughts and so much innocent iov1
selfishness of breeding grief in mr. y
breast was penetrated by tie 49, y
brotherhood. Never since nv BOWLS
Alsace did | feel myself so near In :,
( Citation with humanity. And at TIA,
slant one face in the crowd froze nv M
/ 1t was face that was old, witheraS
lignant, but knew it-Lazarus Star,
did not see me; turned and followed t
He looked feeble, ragged, abject INT ~
no throb of pity. / forgot that | ,Fss
and infirm. My hate had given ma 4
strength that strong liquor gives Ia ~,
rage gives to others. | followed him ~
South Clark street, to Sherman. ami y
I him enter the shabby tenement whicb
/ all he knew of home. | listened t1 !.
weary steps were silent. Then | wen, !.
and saw his light, thus making certsin
/ the room.
u crept up the stairs-up-up-s
\ that 1t seemed as if the precious nipbs \.
| galloping away from me- But al IT
was AT the head of the second 1gbt y.
/ saw his door. The light shining hrs1
| the chink showed me that ii was Dof ~
| ed | pushed it open.
"There he stood, my lifelong enemv
| wretched, decrepid miser. He blBRaS !.
/ me like an owl, but as I went toWarisA.
/ there come into his eyes look OF far,
| that told me that he knew me- At H.
/ He tottered and would have fallen. bTi
/ caught him-caught him by the Throat ~
/ dragged him toward the bed. | do n
/ know what / said, but ] asked him Nh
1 the blood in my veins, If not with Wnsi
/ the question that had been BURSTING y
| heart for years. And he answered n
/ though he did with his eyes. One gl9rs
/ triumph obhterated all their terror, ami
| know not what | did. | forgot thathara
4
| his feet. | seized his hands, feyersII
/ tying them together, when | looked \
and saw the glazed eyeballs and the fsl1
/ chin. cast myself upon the body SpesF
| shrieked; but the silence that be kept
life he did not break in DEATH He Es
corpse--a shriveled shell of humanity h
bundle OF rags.
"The shock awed me. The presence
death was always sacred 70 mn--deatb h
its own sake IS sacred. flung QuitoYg
the corpse and began the search FOR hs
( locket. IN the excitement | could not fD 4
{ it. I threw things about in every dr8 /
ton, but it was useless. Then there WgI
the sound of steps upon the stairs Su
! persons were ascending. | thought Of OSI
! GERS, of murder, of the EalloWs, Of hul |
| bred horrible things in an instant Tha |
rushed from the room, stumbled agals
| figures, know not whose, and found NIL
self in the open air.
Had killed him, or was it shock 81
was it old age? But he was dead, and as
| mystery of our hatred he took with him
the grave.
shall learn in the other worll' Sasl
/ meet him there2 | have seen his face Il
niJht-iJ VIII not let me sleep
You to whom | write these lines vi
/ take care of my era .dchill-it She is n
| grandchild. must goOut into the night
Harry told Stella all that it was god
for her to know of her guardians fat
His body was found in the lake 40
there was no evidence that his deathva|
other than accidental. Youth Is ela5tn|
and the temperament of the girl won
quickly recover from a seyerer tensa|
of grief than that occasioned by 4
death Of an old man Of whom she b
known little. To her lovers Suggest.
that after marriage they seek new Q
in young Western city she readily n
qniesced. And so she went with ID
great tide of the hopeful toward the 'n
set, leaving behind the dark and shadow
old world past for which she cared 4
little, and looking toward that t1il1
whose ever-burning beacon lures US
Now less hopefully but more serl0hI
did Harry Weston take farewell OF II
past; for one final incident of which
read, but in which he took no part oa
tirmed the wonderment with when
viewed the mystery of Lazarus eNl
Two days after the disappearance Of 2
old artist he read this item (written n
another hand than hiss in the columns
the argus:
A SCENE AT THE MORGUE,-The 6oay
| Lazarus Stein, which was eXhumed az q
! suggestion of Detective Dennison, was
aminet yesterday at the mOrgue Idt
| of violence was discovered, but not enoL
in the opinion of the physicians to -
| death. The thieves under arrest for ~
! the garnet of the dead man will. thefey.
] be prosecuted for robbery, not muNs
! While the body of the dead jew was
at the morgue the remains We're OIol.
! in Of man almost as old as the aecsrt
! and placed on an adjoining sian. III
! were identified as those of Desire BoIas-
an eccentric French artist, who suIg1s3
! TO have fallen into the lake while slIy 5-
! on the pier, or TO have committed SUI.
! The bodies were left side by side U :"
each other company last night.
"Side by side to keep each other o3i
pany"--the usual flippant repof'U-
comment, but how significant to ths J.
/ person who had a knowledge OF the
lations subsisting between the WI
Fate, that had brought them togetns m n
often and so strangely in life, played ~. ~
1 them even in death--fate, thai "a,
oceans between those who love, M1-
these enemies at last lie cheek by lo,gis
restl And as they were thus r..
through the long hours Of that VIZ h
morning, from the old belfry o.
| Clark street church the Christmas :
were tolling the message of PeagIs
earth and good viii to men.-E q >
tn Chicago Tribune
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! The Widow and the Tramp