Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-11

| would be returned to its stable and the
performance repeated at the next oppor-
t,; Nor in all these battles. against the will
fulness OF his horses did he ever once
| lose control of his, temper, but white
| up on his odd looking seat, seeming TO
| be only a DISTINGUISHED spectator of the
| contest. It was this unnatural calmness
| That people regarded as sinister. Ii the
| telloW had given vent to a yoley of oaths,
| or II he would only have taken his whip
ana given the obdurate steed a beating
them '' @eelieo '''ole human 70
mo Nor was this the only grievance that
against him; despite the superhulnan
energy with which he applied Himself to
t hls se eas KS you had need of but one eye
Yet he had asked credit of no one, nor
| mad he ever been known to ask an abate-
menl N the price Of an article in his life.
able. rendered almost criminal by the
profound Indifference with which he
seemed SCENE to ignore the matter. not even
from his neighbors.
This poverty had not always tormented
nm nun IN the early part of his career in
dieluded those who wished to be Cheated
into a belief that it was going to con-
Meanwhile there was preparing n DEL
| ugs of misfortunes which were destined
| TO- Inundate him. First, bad crops followed
Succession
| and some of the best horses which he
had bought died from accidents of va
rl9us KINDS, always unavoidable
! most rigid economy beforehand Womb
enable him to withstand these Gripping
nloWs TO ms finances, and those who had
beyond what their eyes told them becan
to hazard conjectures. Already their eS
a az Z, ,imaginations had pictured the
tei mortgage, and certain gossipy tongues
mad even limited that such had been the
case e., While ,e, Others ayerred that the horses
IN ms stable had nothing to live upon but
pine needles and might be eSpected fo
drop down with the mails at any minnie
Ihese troubles and prosecutions covered
a series OF years, and amid all of there
the same undaunted demeanor continiIed
to characterize the victim, who to Judge
marble or iron instead of flesh and ii hao q
1t was evident that he was in fearfuliv
straitened circumstances, and yet his
comment A lawyer from Lewiston was
eventually seen IN the act of taking !" q
memo ora az nc OF the forming implements,
turned up incurably lame.
Still he seemed determined to fight it
out to, the bitter end. and without moving
muscle; his stoicism was impregna ble
But what, was surmised and limited at
by the bnsybodies, bore only a thin resem-
BY careful calculation hel. had found
that upon the eighth day of the succeed
! ing, month he would have arrived at the
limit of his resources.
BY careful driving his one remaining
horse might be relied upon TO stand the
strain of double duty until then, but on
that date a crisis was Inevitable
The outraged bosoms of all Passauuod
mush, burdened with long accumulating
surplus of sympathy and commiseration.
We're waiting to discharge their sponta-
neous tribute.
There was almost a feeling of silent ex-
| ultation over the. fact that the victim
who had so long eluded them was at last
to be delivered into their hands
1t was the morning of the long-expected
| eighth, and it had been a record breaking
morning for Miss Stotts. The glow in her
| cheeks radiated health and pleasure as
| she pulled up her horse at the top of Fid.
dlers Hill; She heard the familiar sound
| to let it pass down the hill before her. Ii
came along with what she fancied was an
undue degree of speed, and ratified on
| downward, but. she noticed with reassur-
ance that the imperturbable driver man,
quite half way to the foot of the. sharp
rary only, for, when the buggy reached
| the bottom, the driver, either through