The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-01-30

and looked at the pra1r1es In the after
noon sum- And she told him about her
school. and tried to find out what b,
had been doing with his opportunities
And SO, for the first time since the
property came to him, he too began
to wonder what he had done.
And he wasn't pleased with what hs
found There was a little hole in the
fortune; but it wasn't enough to war
rant any man in breaking his nerve,
down trying to burn money.
They were a good deal together on
the train-natura1ly- He had been over
the road four times, but he didn't know
anything about 1T. or the country, and
she told him some things.
At Cheyenne he wanted to hold her
hand At Rawins he proposed to her
At Ogden he wanted to quit the train,
and drown himself at the Great Salt
lake At San Francisco he remembered
that he had been entirely sober for
three days.
get out of the way of the CLAW sire et
cable car Anyway, they brought him
to the hotel considerabl bly, battered.
and the doctors said he better not go
down to the Yosemite with the rest Of
the excursion. So he had them tele-
graph to Kenwood stating that he
would be at home when he got better.
Next day he noticed a bunch of pam
sizes by his pillow.
Who sent them ?'' he asked.
1.-THE young lady, said the nurse.
''She didn't go to the Yosemite with
the rest of the party
Tell her to come in, and read to
me-
She came, but he did not hear any>
thing she read. He Law there. look,
hungrier for the love of woman OF
that sort.
He broke into the middle of Clocks.
ley HaIl'' with:
"Why won't you marry me?''
Because you are worth a Million
'I'n give it away
thing?''
by George. I WILL
''Then will marry you''
She stopped above his bed, smoothed
back his hair, and kissed him very ten
DERBY. Then she told the nurse it was
time for the medicine.
He sent her out of the room while
the lawyer was making the deed of
gift Next morning the rest of
the party was back from the Yosem-
lite, and there was a pretty little we'd
ding in the par1or of the hotel
'Here is the deed of every dollar"
he said 81 want you to have the pleas
Gre of turning over the property to the
new owners. Don't look at it till we
get home.''
His man met them at the station,an
took them home in the same aut ONO
bile When they got to the best part
of kenwood he pointed out a fine
house, and told her the people to whom
his fortune had been given lived there.
'sThey don't seem to need it as much
as some Others could have shown
you" said his wife.
'1But I think more of them than
do of anyone else in the world
The auto was stopping She opened
her satche1, and took out the deed. She
read the words: "To my beloved wife,
and knew she had been tricled into
millionaire and that it was
now too late to escape.
Getting Money Under False Pretenses
The comment of the village critic in
Massac husetts, who remarked after a
by the Chicago orchestra
that sit is a long ways to bring a drum
from Chicago just to hit it once,'s
,a1ls to mind the excitement of KAN
sas City at the first performance of
italian opera.
The sale opened at eight in the
morning and the night before half the
own camped out in order to be early
ut the box office. One of the richest
men in the country round about was.
Uncle Andrew, and he shared in the
general eNcit ement although he .1et
IN" that he was going merely to please
MS wife.
The night of the entertainer Mt I'M |
lie Andrew arrayed himse elf in his very |
pest cLSt and was one of the first to- |
lrrive- The opera was Lucia di Lann- |
nermoor, and the cast was we'll di- |
Tided among Italians, Germans, French |
ind English few minutes before |
line o'clock the street door opened |
md Uncle Andrew appeared. He |
walked solemnly back to the end of /
he room, pulled chair before the |
rate fire and sat down to smoke.
Hello, Uncle Andrew said one of |
he younger members, II thought YOU |
we're at the OPERA
Been" replied the old gentleman,
hortIy.
Didn't you enjoy ft2' |
ENJOY 1t ?? Uncle Andrew plainly
bowed his deep disgust at the ques-
ion Enjoy it? Why, young man.
he hull blamed thing was in Latini''
French Proverbs
Among the French are some ant
roverbs that go directly to the point
he following. translated by Mar
Harrison. seem fo have