The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-16
TIE AGED MANS WIFE.


She was tall. thin and the color Of
with a green feather. slapped on her
nd at Ts snd stsaneS Snt
buttoned tightly across her nat chest.
The old man showed all Of the many
pears he declared he had lived. He was
upon which ne leaned. His clothes were
Pr prov fasteninss. He waiked-tot;
seemed ready to fall to pieces with his
CLOTHES.
Yet he said he was looking for work.
supt, Blake was 's s. Ii ned that the pair
mad been passed along here by some
community that was anxious to get rid
Of them. SO he determined, to find out
sending them back. After many exami-
S nations , b. the SUPERINTENDENT. the
would not tell where they came from.
It was with dificulty that anything
q their history could be learned. The
Der much. and the woman is too denseiy
ignorant to obtain any impression strong
enough to recall q week later.
so THEY were o;s. sitting on bench in the
them this morning. The old man was
moaning as though in pain. So the wo-
lad been booked as Germans she was
ID" "p you speak Enslish?"
win mo; s sirm she - answered: looking up
This reply, which at first seemed a
OH 81 wit; turned out to be very seriously
considered by the woman. With little
was born in New York State. a great
many years ago, and had never had a
SSYme in her life. All she could remem-
e eet was tramping since she was a little
bed out Of doors
She said that she had married the old
man Tour years ago In Danville, N. Y.
ey paid justice S Of hsdp Sssn to whSm
sSs, ever since. She referred to the
SEEMING affection, and declared that
oniicher could give very lit tie account
VI himself and his wanderings since he
isme 70 America fifty-eight years ago.
Bern 'a'' sw NE was was born In the Canton
next next Christmas. Asked concerning
sis early life, he exclaimed, with q faint
e' o OF pride in his eyes:
proMas with the Kaiser Napoleon"
vr nressed on this interesting point, he
Sew quite voluble, and said that he had
itsiy IN Napoleon's armies In Spain and
"a ne said he was light cavalryman.
wris pointed to scars on his temple, his
had i han and his leg. which, he declared,
a bawo vn made successfully by bullet.
II suhet and sabre.
hays. 20 not nor at all improbable that he may
Vice r seen as much as five years SER
well Under Under the old Napoleon. It is
lie F Sno%n that in his last campaigns
liz emperor made levles that "robbed
BOYS r and and the grave. by enlIstins
ents anu Old men in his depleted regi-
Mi ~ S W that Switzerland. and almost
&optpibnw,Oe Western Europe, in fact, were
III The tutors ni5or to his armies.
leen Nv man did not say that he had
sould NnS lto In person, and while he
efiorh pt recollect the names OF the
NntIv ne remembered we'll and appa-
surSt WIN much pride that he had
Ists- 'EI the great Kaiser.
Ttaininlnn me day Mr.. Blake, after as
ided ,bsa az he could from them, con-
en- 10 NAY II would be unfair to charge
gmAJ "a any country. lie believed they
an "a aLout from one 10 another. and
sretoroo county owned them. He
uners decided that they were State
anshousahu sent them 10 the FIatbush
Ste,' which receives a portion OF
% are rs' ne appropriation for paupers
"o' charge on any county.