The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-08-12
Johns FATE.
RecOhciled to the Situation
When the End Came.

They sat little way apart on the
deck of the Cleveland boat the other
morning. One was a young woman,
possibly 25, with bright brown eyes
and soft hair and a pretty face, and
the other was old-she must have been
65 at least-with tired eyes and gray
hair and wrinkled face. The first
around in her chair and look over
along the dock as though she feared
something. The old lady was sweetly
calm, and observed the actions of the
other with a curious little smile. Final
ly she decided to speak to her deck
mate, if one may use that term.
''Be yew lookin' fer somebody"
asked the old lady quietly.
The other woman sighed as though
it were a relief to her to be spoken to,
and pushed her chair little nearer
her questioner.
NO." she said; 81 am not looking for
anyone" Z
Il thought yew mote be-" went on
the old lady. Il seen yew again off
| toward the dock"
NO." repeated the younger woman.
81 am not looking for anyone. I'm just
little bit frightened, that is ALL"
"Skeert, be yew; why, fo' tn lan's
sake, what OFF,"
Well" continued the fidgety one,
''since the sinking of that ocean steam
er 1 have been dreadfully frightened of
the water"
''Sho, yew don't say. Well, yew
needn't be. They amt nobody drown
in but them whose fate it is to drown"
ooh, do you think SOP"
"Of course / does. / made up my
mind to that 20 year ago."
What makes you say that?" asked
the young woman with little look of
interest in her eyes.
''Well, my husban' wuz sailor on
these lakes fer 20 year. After awhile
he was 'pinted capting an hen me
ulster go all over everywhere. Hen
me seen lot a storms in our day. But
they wuz never no disaster. l seq to
him onct, SEE /, John, yew're a sailer
an 1 know it's yewT fate to die by
drownin'' He looked at me mint
an then he SEE, SEE he, 'Marthy, I'll
fool yew.' I didn't say nothin' more,
but 1 knowed that his fate would be q
wet one. jes' felt it like. Yew know
how yew1l feel things sometimes.
Well, it wuz thetaway with me. /
knowed John would be drownded some
day. "Twouldn't be no more'n mach
eral.
"Well, we sailed and sailed, men
John, an he capting. After he'd been
at it fer more'n 20 year he wuz retired
an we made up our minds t take a
little farm away out the Gratiot road
an spen' our remainin' days in peace
an quiet. BY that time I'd almoe'
made up my min that John wuz goiE
t fool me and not die drownded arte T
all. Then one morning in the airlv
summer when 1 wus a-puttin' up a
out t the pump t. draw me pail O
fresh water, an he didn't come back,
Bimebv went out thar, an, 10 an be-
hold! John had leptic fit and fell
inter the pump tub head fust. He was
drownded wen / reached him. TIL
Lords will be DONE said /. Iknowed
it wuz his fate. An I've said evec
since tibet they amt nobody drownded
les it be his fate to be drownded, but
do yew know, when l seen John a-lay'
in face down in that tub O. water
just felt sorry fer him an couldn't
help a-thinkin' heow 'shamed he'd be
eff he'd a knowed he wuz drownded il
a tub O. water arter sailin' these lakes
fer 20 years 'ithout no disaster ever
happenin' to him."
| And the kindly old lady had wiped
away a tear that the wind, probably
had caused to gather.-Detroit Free
Press.
New Experiment Station.
California is preparing to establish
at ST. Helena an experiment station