The Forrest City times., 1893-08-18

unambitious; and not being engrossed with ideas and great schemes had the time and inclination to do much for the welfare of his friends. He belonged to the very valuable and sensible class whose intellects are fortunately inca pablo of entertaining theories of any kind, so that their lives may abound in good works resulting simply from the action of sympathetic hearts and help ful hands.
 As the party drove through the cem- etery Hanlon acted the part of a hum- ble gentleman to perfection. He lis- tened patiently to the garrulous com- ments of the old ladies, repetitions of which he had heard hundred times. and at the right times made brief remarks and answered questions in just the way he knew the sisters wished him to. He understood how to please them and never failed to do it.
 Il am afraid am talking to you too much," said Martha, the older sister, as she tapped him on the shoulder for the tenth time within a few minutes in order to draw his attention to tomb stone.
 Not at all" he answered, good naturedly. ''Talk to me all you wish to. I like to hear you"
 He was sincere He vas not bored because he was bent on giving pleasure
 They arrived at the spot that inter ested them the most. It was where the remains of the parents and husbands of the widows Maupant reposed, in an ex- pensive granite vault built against a knoll.
 Hanlon assisted the sisters to alight from the carriage. Together the wid- ows walked to the tomb They looked somber in their black dresses and in their bonnets, dark except where the ruche encircled their foreheads. Old, bent and feeble, they moved with slow steps. Hanlon unlocked paddock, opened the heavy iron door at the en- trance of the vault ana stepped respect fully to one side. The others walked in and faced six receptacles for the dead arranged in two tiers, one above the other The front of each receptacle was inclosed with a marble slab. On four of the slabs were inscriptions suitable to the memory of the parents and husbands of the widows Maupant. The two remaining slabs were not yet lettered. The spaces behind them were empty.
 Tt will not be long, Sarah, before our casliets will occupy the remaining spaces said Martha, pointing toward the unlettered slabs.
 That is so, sister. The thought is a solemn one. but not unwelcome. We have outlived all who are dear to us, and it will be more of a pleasure to be with the friends above than to re- main much longer with strangers here. There is one, we know not whether he is dead or alive, whose bones might fitly lie in this vault, but there is no space for a seventh coffin"
 Tt is better as it is," answered Martha, hastily. His career, so far as we are acquainted with it, is not one in which we can take pride. He is the only one of our family who has led a common life, and deliberately placed himself outside of good society. l re- fer to our brother, Enos Whittlesey, y she ontinued, now directing her re marks to Thomas Hanlon, who ap- preached them as they were leaving the l tomb
 You'll never be able to forgive your brother for running off to sea and not following a high mode of living like the rest of the family?" Hanlon replied.
 No; he had the best of opportuni- l ties but he deliberately turned his back on them. There was nothing particu- larly bad in him, but he was common, | dreadfully common. He was uncouth and uneasy when he was in good SO ciety. He preferred to mingle with ordinary people. He did not like to gc to school ;.nd played truant often. Il was only with the greatest difficulty | that he could be taught to read and write, and the rest of his book knowl edge was very meager. am sorry to say that in every respect he was far be l low the rest of the family. There was d common streak in my grandmother family. My mother was high-breo woman, accustomed to society, but hel mother came from common stock, re spectacle, l presume, but poor, un educated, uncultivated. It was hel beauty that attracted my grandfather but after he had married her he wa. often mortified becouse she displayed SC much ignorance and was so common 1T her demeanor when she was surrounded by refined people. l suppose my brother inherited his ordinary tendencies from our grandmother, and perhaps he wa. not to blame for being what he was Nevertheless, as his father and mother and Sarah and myself possessed the