The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-19

only all my money, but two glasses 81
my best ounce jelly and two bottles Of
cod liver oil from the office-tfle latter
! was better. he explained, than he could
| get at the drug store
! | can't tell just how it happened
! There was tale OF woe and want which
| caused me to weep into the garment |
was mending. I felt heartless when he
| explained that Mrs Turner had pur-
! chased the elegant black silk to be laid
| out in, and, pending the time of laying
| out, was getting bit of actual wear out
OF it, while the black broadcloth he had
| bought especially to mourn in.
could see for myself, he said, that
the time appointed for his mourning
was not far away, and it beilooved him
to be prepared
1t CHANGED that Mrs. Turner got al
most all the wear out of that dress be-
fore it was put to its original purpose.
She also, incidentally, wore out the doc
tor and me.
Being of the same name and sitting
SO near them in church, and being such
congenial spirits, so said the Turner's,
we seemed like members of their own
family. This was an unfortunate cir
curnstance for us, because it led the Tur-
ners to borrow nearly all our transport
able possessions and-climax of borrow
Ing-one which was not transportable
This IS the way the dreadful climax
was reached. The day after Mrs Tur-
ner died her husband appeared to me as
l sat IN the south window. His ''time
of mourning" had come, and he was
simply dissolved in grief.
He had come to beg a great favor, a
favor not for himself, hut for his dear
departed-the loan of our cemetery lot
Might he not lay his angel wife under
the shadow of our monument until such
time as he could raise enough money
to take her back to her old Iowa home
He had noticed, such were the in
scrutable dealings of Providence, that
there was every likelihood of the lots
being unoccupied by its owners for years.
For this dispensation we ought to be
thankful and loan bit of the ground
to such as had not been kindly dealt
with.
loaned it.
When the doctor heard my story he
whistled hard, and went to the barn.
He has done that for twenty years when
he has wanted to say unbecoming words
to me. AS though it were not painful
to me to have my dear lot desecrated by
strangers
l felt so badly that I could not go to
the funeral, and in the south window
turned my chair that [ might not see
the granite shaft
Still, even the doctor softened little
in the matter when the youngest Turner
followed her mother in less than a
followed her to our lot, too,
pending the time they both should be
taken West
l became positively mellow in the mat
ter when cold snap carried the second !
daughter to our lot in four months. And /
when the third and last child died and
rested beside the others, the doctor him
self headed a subscription paper with !
which [ burdened myself.
l remember the snow was deep that
week, and | had cold, but l travelled
miles with the paper.
People gave literally, because they all
knew of our unfortunate connection with
he Turner's. Many gave with the ex-
press understanding that Mr.. Turner
would use the money to send the pres
INT inhabitants of our lot to Iowa.
He received the money with thanks
md blessings, and sent West the only
member of his household that had es-
,aped our lot.
The blow fell on us unexpectedly one
morning at the breakfast table A neigh
,or flew in and exclaimed wildly, did we
Know what use Turner had made of his
lift money?
1 arose and ran to the south window,
expecting to see men with spades and
'ickaxes at work on the ridge 1 was
ecalled by the neighbours voice.
| remember every tone now Mr..
Turner had departed for the West, bag
nd baggage, on his wedding tour He j
ad kindly left to Mount Alva his debts !
nd reputation, and to us his defunct
amily-but not his future address.
There on the ridge lies our lot. In /
he midst stands the stately shaft bear ,
ng the single word Turner" Grouped
t its foot are three of the name.
There is room for Just one more
rave, and the doctor says that as soon =
5 he can find 'the rascal" that vacancy ,
fill be filed