The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-04-14

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up crumb, and. going to window.
threw II out Resuming his chair. he
said. smiling:
MY old oman frelkwent gives me
scold about drappin crumbs about;
but as 70 that, | don't know as know
anything cxceptin' what everybody
know In our settlement. The old man
ANDERSON were monst'ous fond o.
Cullen, seem like 20 me, till
no got married 20 Hannah En-
low. when seem like soon arter that he
got put out ag'inst him; but then, I'm
no long time, about year or sech q
matter, thought he had got riconciled
10 him, and even a-includin' of Hannah.
j know he was moust'ous proud when
their baby como and they named Il
nrtcr him; that's what make Il all
'stonish me SO. Why. sir, I've heard
him mp till not two month before he
taken sick, OF frckwent a-goin' on
about Hannah, what fine, industrious
wife she were TO Cullen, and turnin'
out so fur better than he ben a-cx.
pectin' from what some people had
told him about her"
Ibid he say what this was, and from
whom he got it,"
well, | can't ric'lict cgzact; but
somehow II were that he have heard
Hannah were kind o. froliclSy, frislSy,
that didn't lScer much fur-well, the
upshot were, she weren't too good, and
were danger of her fetchln' down the
family, after Wiley have lift il up. and
so on, which told him could OF told
him all the time that Hannah were a
perfect jcwcld Of girl myself, IL her
parents was In mod'rate circums'es.
AS for whcrc'd he got his idces he had
at the offstart, why, I'll have towel,
the people in tho Settlement says, and
my old oman among err, they all says
he never got 'cm from nobody but Vile
Anderson hissclf"
mo doubt about that, Mr.. Flint.
Mr.. ANDERSON did not tell you what was
In his will2"
mo, bless your soul, no; nor never
asst him"
ibid he ever say in your hearing that
he had destroyed it, or that he meant
TO do SOP"
mo. not al member. He were not
a man TO talk about what he'd ben
a-,loin and were n-racanin' TO do. and
never asst him, IL not bcin' any o. my
business"
81 was not in court when the will
was proved. You were, heard. and
testified 10 the old gentlcmans entire
soundncas Of mind"
"Oh, yes; | were the only witness
there. Billy Lilly he was dead, you
know, and that rattlin' Owen Car
ruthcrs lie were the tothcr. and he
were laid up with ono o. his rlcumatiz
spells, that come ON him sometimes 10y
his talSin' no ltccr o. hissclf Pcarcc
Amcrson's mind were rs sound as it
ever were, certain and sure, and il Kept
SO long as Gee him 10 talk with him,
II I'm amy jcdgc."
yet he told Cullen. several times, a
month before he died, md IN the pres
encc of Cullcn's wife. that he had no
viii, and that Wiley had persuaded
him against IL, saying as they were
only two, both Of age, they could di-
vide the estate between themselves"
ia that 500" he asked, in much sol
cmnity.
at is"
well, then, theirs obleeged 20 be
somcthin' rotten Gomc'rcs. Pearce
Anderson were n truth-tcllin' man, nlbe,
like me, he were not n pcrfcssor o re-
ligion II he said them words, he be-
licvcd EN-"
The difficulty, Mr.. Flint, is in cstab-
fishing this. Cullen Is dead, and could
not testify IL alive; neither can his
wife The law, as told you, will
stand to will that Ia fairly made. but
tho law never lends countenance to