St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-02-01

would keep him, he told her, and that
was to put the property unreservedly in
to his hands. In spite Of her love for him
the poor woman saw his brutal selfish
ness, and her good sense told her not IA
yield.
Tho chivalrous expressman was as
good as his word and left her. For .
time she was almost heartbroken. The
neighbors, pbenomenally acute in their
perceptions, As neighbors sometimes
are, saw that his plan was to stay away
. few days and then come back and make
his permanency conditional. They were
correct in their diagnosis. They said,
too, that the deserted woman who was
50 much in love with the handsome
monster that she would take him back
the first time he put In an appearance.
She, however, dried her tears, thought
the matter over and said she wouldn't
Still, they felt sure she would.
At the end Of fortnight the wander
ing refugee returned. He came in with
. grave and merciful face, doing the in
jured and the forgiving quite like the
grand, gloomy and peculiar fellow OF
the melodrama.
His wife, still i'll and pale, was propped
up in great chair. In the calmest possible
manner she told him that her house was
no longer his homo. He treated the as
sertion with lofty scorn; in fact he
smiled 1T it As the vagary Of sick
brain, and began to settle down In his
old ways. She explained to him that he
had forfeited all claim to her considera-
tion leaving her in SO heartless . man
ner when she WAS ill; and that IL she
loved him fifty times more than she did
she would never live with him again.
Then it WAS his turn to beg and en-
treat, which he did unavailingly. Then
he announced that he would stay any.
way. He WAS her husband, and she
could not put him out She thought
otherwise, SO she sent the kitchen girl
for policeman. Still he wouldn't 60.
He thought she was trying to scare
him; thought she would finally give it
all up and tell him he was her dear
old boy" and that she was glad to have
him back"
The strong arm of the law arrived.
clad in blue and brass, and arrived with
bludgeon, and gently but firmly led
this recalcitrant natural protector"
out into the bitter world.
Next day the now miserable exile
came back with . freshly oiled tongue
and undertook to reinstate himself in
his wife's affections. Vain hope. The
policeman broke rudely In upon his
manly eloquence and took him out
again, reminding him that the next
time he entered the house he (the po-
liceman) would lock him up.
The neighbors acknowledged them
selves astonished at the carpet-weaver's
hrmness. They were astounded when.
. few days later, she had . relapse and
died, after making . will which cut her
husband on without shilling, and left
all her property to . cousin. As she
lived in Indiana, which has the most lib
eral laws for women, she could do this
and know that her will would stand un-
disputed.
The expressman put Grape on his hat
he was in mourning for his sel6shness
and folly, the neighbors said.
Strange faces look out Of the windows
Of the carpet-weaver's house as the ex-
pressman drives by in his green wagon.
HE has had his lesson" the neighbors
say. He sighs and wishes he had re-
quircd less teaching.-Gertrude Garri-
son. in Texas SiftinRs.