Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-02

happy days with him. | visited with
him tue extensive smelling works in
the neighborhood, all of which he own.
ed, and finally, on the night preceding
the morning on which was to depart,
he told me his history.
"WEen | was about 1S," he said, ~
wanted TO go to college. but my father.
who was an austere man. bound up
in work and rather despising bookncn,
insisted that | should remain at home
and acquire a thorough knowledge of
the business which he had established
after much labor aud expense con.
sented. but he placed me under the
severest restraint. was the only son,
and my three sisters, all older than
I, were married They and their hus-
bands were grently disappointed Mt my
father keeping me at home with the
expressed purpose of leaving his busi-
ness to me, n small portion of the
profits to 20 to my sisters and the
main part of them 10 be invested in
the business, for his ambition was that
the business should vie with the largest
III VI Tue nluu.
young as | was, fell In love with
comparatively poor girl and married
her. AS | had given close attention
to business and became almost as well
acquainted with it as my father was.
/ presumed upon his knowledge of that
fact and audaciously brought my wife
here to this house and introduced her
to him."
The speaker was deeply moved, ana
there was pause of minute or more.
"She was shortly 10 become moth.
cr," he continued, ''or | shouldn't have
done 1t. My father grew frantic with
rage. ne struck me. He seized
walking cane and showercd blows
upon my head and body. bore IL all
But when he foully and brutally beat
| my wife with his cane and called her
vile names could stand it no longer
! | knocked him down, ana he lay at my
| feet bleeding.
"My poor wife was removed 10
room, and n doctor was summoned
My wife was dead before daylight
/ kept all the circumstances to myself
| the doctor alone guessing nj what bau
occurred | buried my wife. Ny IA
| ther lay at deaths door for week,
and then he began to recover slowly.
AS for myself. was crazy with
grief. My sisters and their husbands
accused me of having attempted to
murder my father and used threats.
In a moment of despair | left home
and enlisted. But the life of the bar
racks was unbearable, aud when was
Informed by the parents of my dead
wife that my father overwhelmed
with horror at having caused my
wife's death, had committed suicide,
determined TO desert. Ny wife's ia
tber came TO the barracks and gave me
money. and the first opportunity | had
! fled. Mind You, every exertion had
been used by my wife's parents to
secure my discharge, but one of my
brotlicrs- s-ln-law, who was member of
parliament and in with the party in
power. frustrated every effort to that
end. The excuse was that great war
I was pending and that not n man could
be spared
What followed the reader may an
y
who appropriated the students clothes,
! as narrated above. After doing so he
returned home and found that his IA
ther had carried out his original pur-
pose with regard to him, leaving his
sisters, however, amply provided for.
Tho whole affair. he said, was almost
forgotten, and he and the rest of the
family lived In comparative amty
! When told him that was well
acquainted with the youths, one OF
whom he had deprived of his attire.
and that had heard the story narrat.
cd by them more than once, he laughed
heartily and said:
Bring them to see me some day. IL
you can, and I'll treat them as they de.
serve, for they acted in n manly and
consldorate fashion, Exchange.