Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-06-29

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pushed to it's greatest destroying pow
CIR, and hence was it that haste over
came dignity when the foam-flecl1ed and
painting horses of the undertaken drew
up in front of the entrance to the ere
matory.
The ice chest was snatched from the
hearse, borne hurriedly into the furnace
room, set upon the iron platform,
wheeled into the very center of the
white flames whose waving, curling,
twisting tongues seemed reaching out
to their fullest length, impatient for
their prey, and the iron doors slammed
shut with loud resounding clangor.
At this instant a woman, hatless and
brcathless, with disheveled hair, burst
into the furnace-room.
Hold! Hold" she shrielzed, and then
her hands flew to her face and, stagger-
ing backward and striking heavily
| against the wall, she sank limp and
| lifeless in a heap on the stone floor of
the furnace-room.
But the two men in charge had
neither eyes nor ears for Mrs. Timmins.
AS the doors closed they sprang to their
posts of observation in front Of the two
peepholes, and stood there watching
the effect of the flames upon the huge
| ice chest.
Its wooden covering parted here and
there with loud crack, laying bare the
metal case, from the seams of which
burst fitful puffs of steam. Then came
Il sight so strange and curious that the
two men held their breath as they gazed
| 4h1 ~ &n,s
from the melted ice the flames were
pushed back from the chest and it lay
there for an instant as if protected by
some miraculous aura.
Then happened something which
caused the men to reel and stagger as
if their limbs were paralyzed by drink,
and which painted their faces with as
deep pallor as deaths own hand could
have laid upon them.
From the furnace depths came forth a
dull, muffled cry of Help! Help!''
Making desperate effort, the men
tore open first the outer and then the
inner doors of the fire chamber. AS the
air rushed in, the lid of the metal chest
burst silently open. Again the cry of
"Ilclp!" rang out, and two hands quiv-
cred for an instant above the edge of
the chest, and then with loud and
defiant roar the flames closed in upon
it, and began to lick it up ravenously.
The doors were banged shut, and John
Winkletip had his way.
, But the Dingee million seemed to
draw back instinctively from the touch
, of the worthless Cy Win1letip.
. With loud cries of joy, the various
, bcncficiaries under Martha Delury's
; will now discovered that Cyrus Wrinkle
. tip WAS born on the eleventh day OF
. August, and that rs his father had de.
= parted this life on the tenth day Of Au.
gust, the son was not of full age when
@ his father died. But the law put an
= end to this short-lived joy by making
a known one of its curious bits of logic
n which so often startle the layman.
p 1t was this: The law takes no note O,
parts Of a day, and therefore, as Cyrus
S Winltlctip was of age on the first min
ute of his twenty-first birthday, he wa:
. also of age on the last minute of the
t lay before-consequently on the frs
1 minute of the day before he was TWEEN
= ty-one!
y This gave the Dingee million to c,
g Winklctip!
e Under constant and stringent sur
S Vcillance and tutelaGe, Cy Wink1etiI
e was, after several years OF as close ap
Q plication as was deemed safe in view o
his weak mental condition, admitted t.
S the ministry in accordance with th'
r provisions of Miss Delury's will
d At last the wicked Dingee million
IS seemed safely launched upon it's tasl
It Of undoing the wrong it had done, bu
e y Winlletip's mind ran completed.
;. down in five years and he died
It wretched, slavering idiot.
J? Mrs. Timmins was inclined to war;
+ off the Dingoe million with q gestur
Of horror, but, yielding to the solicita
B. ton of her friends, she consented t
st take title in order that she nigh
o create a trust with it for some goo
1t and noble purpose. To this end-b
p o last will and testament-she create
ID and endowed the American Society 70
" the Suppression of Gambling an
le Wager-LayiRg and then died.
To The trustees at once began to erec
=, tbs buildings called for, but before tn
" society had had an opportunity to SUI
- press a single gaming establishment
the lawyers, at the prayer of Mrs. Joh
. Winlxletip, Mrs. Timmins' mother. lei