The Holly chieftain., 1899-02-17
HoLLY, COLORADO. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY u. 1893
MET HIS FATE.
me OLD sailor whe Drovast h
r.h.

MI mo
rhs old ssiisr whs Drovast h .
They sat little way apart q the
deck Of the Cleveland boat oae morn
ing. One was . young woman. pos
sibly rs. with bright brown syss and
hair and pretty face, and The other
was old-she must have Deen B ct
,east-with tired eyes and gray hair
and q wrinkled face. says the Dstroit
Free Press. The nrst would sit still
moment, then wriggle around b her
chair and look over along the dock q
though she feared something The old
lady was sweetly calm. and cbesfvsd
the actions of the other with . curious
little smile. Finally she decided to
speak to her deckmate, II one may use
that term. BE yew 1ookfn' for some
body?" asked the old lady quietly. The
other woman sighed " though II were
q relief to her to be spoken to. and
pushed her chair a little nearer her
questioner. NO." she said; i IN not
looking for any one" Il thought yew
mote be-" went on the old lady II
seen yew a-gazin' OF toward the dock" :"
mo-" repeated the young woman. II
am not looking for any one. I'm just
a little bit frightened. that is ALL"
"Skeert, be yew? Why. TO tn lan's
sake, what OFT" WELL continued
the fdgety one, since the sinking OF
that ocean steamer l have been dread
fully frightened on the water" "sho,
yew don't say? Well. yew needn't be.
They amt nobody drownin' but them
whose fate 1t Is to drown" oh, do
you think so!" "Of course does. /
made up my mind to that twenty
years ago" What makes you say
that?" asked the young woman, with
a little look of interest in her eyes.
well, my husban' wuz a sailor on
these lakes fer twenty year. After
awhile he was 'pinted captain an hem
me uster 60 all over everywhere Hem
me seen a lot o. storms In our day.
But they wuz never no disaster / sez
to him onct, seq I. John. ysv're a
sailor an know it's yewr fate to die
BY drownin'.' He looked at me mint
an then he seq, sez he. 'Marthy, I'll
fool yew.' didn't say nothin' more,
but l knowed that his fate would be
. wet one. jes' felt 1t like Yew
know how yew1l feel things some-
times. Well. It wux thataway With me.
knowed John would be drowned some
day. 'Twouldn't be no moren mach
eral. Well. we sailed and sailed, mem
John, an he q capting. Arter he'd
been at It fer more'n twenty year he
wux retired an we made up our
minds t take . little farm away out
the Gratiot road an spen' our re-
mainin' days In peace an quiet. By
that time I'd slmos' made up my min
sthat4 JohA -Bus goin,, e tool ~ an
not die drownded arter all. Then one
mornin' In airly summer when I wu2
a-puttin' mp little fruit tn en- come.
John went out Z the pump t draw
me q pail o. fresh water. an be didn't
coms back. Bimeby I went out thar
an 10 an behold! John had reptic
At an fell inter the pump tub head
fust. He was drownded wen reach
ed him. 'Th' Lords will be DONE said
I. knowed 1t wux his fate. An I've
said ever since that they amt nobody
drownded les 1t be his fate t be
drownded; but. do yew know, when !
seen that he wuz drowned in . tub O
water l felt Just sorry fer him an
couldn't help a'thinkin' heow shamed
he'd be ef he'd a knowed be wuz
drownded in q tub o. water arter sail
In these lakes fer twenty years 'ithout
no disaster ever happenin' t. him. And
the kindly old lady had wiped away a
tear that the wind, probably, had
caused to gather.
The LAnkworthys.
The suicide OF Edward Martin Lang
worthy, following ON the death Of an
unfortunate lady who claimed to be
his wife. recalls to mind one Of the
most curious cases in the history Of
me English courts. Mr.. Lapgworthy
had inherited something like ESQ.,
600 from his father and uncle, and aft
career at Eton and Oxford was
called to the bar. He met Mildred Sa-
bine Palliser Long on the continent
and went through form Of marriage
with her 1t Roman Cstholic church
In Normandy. ana to confirm the sem
blance of legality performed similar
ceremony In Presbyterian church al
Antwerp. He then took The lady on
his palatial yacht Meteor to South
America, and at Buenos Ayrss inform
ed her that their Darrias, was NOT
valid. Mrs. Langworthy became 9
mother and for the child's sake tool
proceedings against her decdver. Fol
four years the wealth oe ". Lang
worthy bought the quibbling Of un-
scrupulous lawyers to uphold his case
and the divorce court eveumslly de-
creed the marriage invalid. but grant
ed the lady alimouy ct thu rate Of
fl.200 year. The ungsntleuanly Mr.
Langworthy. however, ssaded payment
by fleeing the country; Mn Lang
worthy might have bees driven
through despair 10 suicide hA not the
Pail Mall Gazette, sditsl st that time
by Mr.. Stead. taken up her asa She
brought q new case against ". Lang
worthy for $4,000 damages fm breach
of promise. and evsryous rsjotced
when she won 1t. The eun>s,l tsliei
was that Mr.. Lansworthy ~ bsen
sgsed on to such conduct By rlsavss
who thought the marriage ns1Alli-
sncs; anyhow. the quarrel na4 tc
nave been made up to some atsat Sc
lore the end. and Mr. LanroFtAy'i
suieids = ascribed to srisf Il ~ stb