The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-09


Il rather wonder that Young Davi.
should have looked IN that Director
for wife. No wonder his father wa,
angry
But the girl was all man could
desire.
"Neverthelese, blood will tell"
1T does in her case, for she in
herits her mothers virtues, and 8
bet er woman never lived. WHY
shoald Nettie he held resuonsible for
the crime OF her father"
"Do YOU thiuk Davis knows the con,
dition they are in?" queried his com.
panion, willing to change the subject,
Tor the very unconventional views oil
Doctor Crnmer were we'll knowD.
"Prohnbly not. Knowing his want
OF sympathy they would he in nc
hurry TO force themselves upon his
attention. they are not reduced to
actual want; bu. Nettie is settling into
rapid decline which nothing but her
speedy removal to IL warmer climate
will check or cure. This t. Walter is
simply impossible; but the few hun.
dr9 is 1T woIld cost t. take them
through the winter wonld never be
missed by Milton. Jovel | should
hate to so live that my children woald
be glad when | was deadl"
And you think Walter and his wife
are mercensry?"
mot Mt all; but it re luires no great
mathematical ability to read the fact !.
Milton Davis is worth Mt least eighty
or ninety thousand dollars. He has
four children. Fifteen or twenty
thousand dollars will inevitably come
to each Of them in the not remote
future, for Milton is about our own
age, AMI we neither OF us expect to
see many decades. Now, Instead of
having Walter work John Green's
farm on shares. with mengre utensils
AMI no capital TO speak of, and letting
his wife work herself, as she has been
doing this summer, why the dickens
doesn't he take five thousand dollars
OF what will eventually belong to
Walter, bug him nice little place of
his own, and give him chance to
save his wife's life? THIS hanging to
your money till grim death compeIs
you to- let so is one OF the greatest
tarces of the day. Not that believe
IN n man robbing himself for his chill.
dren and then being dependent upon
them. But too many provide for u
future which their children NAV never
live to see, :li ALLOW the present. o!
which they are sure, to be passe in
positive want. 1 hate cauting hypo.
critesi"
Milton Davis listened IN silence to
the long TRADE. for 1t was nothing
else, and shook himself uncomfortable
"A 1T proceeded. The doctor was mis- O..
AIKEN, however, in calling him hvpo-
critic. That he certainty WAS not. His
views mi sht be incorrect, but as he
saw matters SO he acted; and now a
train ct thought was started that
wOnld probably bear fruit.
- is So confouudedly proud, " the
doctor went on, that | really think
hs would consider it special dispen
sation of Providence in his behalf if
Walters wife should die before any
children were born to inherit her
fathers shame"
He proul? Milton Davis denied
the accusation forciblv TO himself.
Why, no man in Hilton dressed plain.
err ; then hts mind refused to accent
the explanation. IL was not pride of
dress, but tho more subtle pride OF
station, { not OF wealth. which nos.
sessed him and communing with his
conscience, which the words OF Doctor
Cramer had rousel NJ never 1t had
been Toused before, he saw himself in
y true light, and when the train drew
10 at HiGtonyille he hurried away. not
Wishing to see the doctor, or be recog.
nized 10y him
Fox hours be lay besidc his wife that
night, not sleeping, but thinking.
thinking. till his brain grew dizzy. A
cantiug hypocrite was what the
doctor had ciilel him. Was that what
his son anI his wife Gale him? Some.
how the pleasant subject Of the
churches be had helped refused 90 oc.
cnpy the foreground i'm his mind 10.
night Nettie dying, and he 10 a
measure responsible because he had
compelled his son to depend entirely
upon his own resources, not doing 30
much for him n' he hal done for
r'cc' las ideas OF propriety and
yes, his pride-snd married as hi,
heart babe him marry.
But the thought that ranked most
vas that his children would be GLAD
when he was dea T. lie had done his
best TO leave them tidy sum Mt his
death, but, as the doctor had said. the
uFOseut wAs not so wall uroviJcI r,.r
tie remembered hearing Matte say
once that she did not nave ne mucn
money 90 spend az th3 hired girl.
Was 70 true? Had be denied bis ian
lily more than he ought in his effort to
leave them we'll provided Tor at hrs
deatb2 Had he b.en ~ rannical in his
dealing, usurPiug the place OF PrOvi.
dence TO great extent, aud making
them feel that his will must not be
crossed or dire results would follow
lie resolved that change should be
iaade. He began g. realize that he