The age-herald., 1900-11-11
SKETCHES FROM
 EVERY DAY LIFE
WHO COMES HERRi A cRRNADIER.

PHe UdQ SelZeQ Hlin Dy lllc NOllbA HI H PA'@S ful way and shook him as a cat would a mouse.
 "Get up," she said, do you want to catch your death of cold. What will become of me if my protector should die?' She was mothering him with vengeance. He had, whether he would or mo- become her pro- tector. Doubtless he wanted to die ana was trying to catch his death of cold. h. stead he only caught bringer. He wls led In the house and his life saved.
 One day found her in a retrospective mood
 Just think, doctor, it has been thirty nine years since I was here I don't be- lieve there has been a house built in the place since"
 "Yes,' said the doctor, you seem to have conjured it. But it has been forty years instead of thirty-nine. Let me see' it was in 6O about one year before the war that you were here"
 Now, doctor, I want have it. 1 won't be made out older than 1 ann It is just thirty-nine. I remember distinctly that 1t was about the time the war broke out. How well l remember my poor dear nus band saying that the South was bound to be defeated; that the Southerners were all fools and that we had no chance, and that he expected to lose all his money. And how true it all was"
 The doctor, however, being man of sci- ence and accurate, demonstrated that It was forty and not thirty-nine and she' for the first time, was silenced. At last the great day came when the tao- let was to be unveiled. She had gotten twenty-five dollars worth of entertainment out of the family, but the other twenty-hVe dollars worth seemed to lag. Something must be done-the tablet must be unveiled the family pride would do the rest.
 So on a certain Sunday, ever memorable as a. day of fuss and feathers, everybody the matter with each. The truth was that the family had shamefully neglected 10 call for her in a victoria, and she finally, in a state of indignation, consented to go to church In the doctors buggy. The rest prepared to go to church. Every vehicle in the community was brought to the front steps, but none suited her. This one was too high; that too narrow, and something went on foot glancing admiringly at the doctor, who had consented to drive her.
 But all greatness has it's Waterloo, and on that march to church deep eonspi- racy was formed. Everyone agreed that not word should be said on the subject of the tablet-that 1t should be completely ignored. As Butcher arrived opportunely for Wellington it so happened that the fam fly without previous consultation came to the same conclusion. The result was what had been foreseen and hoped for. She left the church in a towering state of anger. She had waited at the door as long as she decently could for some hattering remark as to it's beauty and appropriateness but none came. The more she thought of this outrageous treatment of the family and the household the madder she got and in final outburst of anger she damned the whole community, ordered her bill and prepared to leave on the p. m train The station agent did not let her miss 1t, the doctor said her lungs would stand change of climate, the postmaster cheer fully agreed to forward all her letters the doctors daughters helped her pack, and the combined muscular force of the six boarders hoisted her aboard the cars and al as the train disappeared in the distance gave one long ringing cheer that is still doubtless echoing among the hills.
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