Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-18

wife will never survive this night The
stricken man never said a word His face
turned the color OF snow. He walked i'm
mediately into another room and blew his
brains out. The wife never knew She
passed beyond the shadows of death before
sunrise next morning. That" she said,
was the most tragical as well as the most
ps thetic event l ever noticed.
But life" she went on. particularly
boarding house life, rs not all made up
of gloom and misery. There are innumer-
able romances. and one happened right
| under my roof. There was a young min
lister who with his sister was at one time
among my boarderS The preacher, very
intellectual and pleasing young man, was
engaged to marry young woman who was
school teacher in a nearby city, while a
young man who was master machinist
IN big factory was dead in love with the
minister's sister. He was much happier
than his brother in-law-to-be, for he, the
,, brother-in-law, could only see his sweet
heart about once in two weeks. while the
ma chfnist visited his lady love seven even
irgs in each week. At last everything was
arranged / was in their confidence.
Be arding house mistresSeS" she declared,
Generally are contided in by the young
minister went to the little town where his
heart was and was married in the forenoon
He came back the same day with his bride,
ard in the afternoon performed the mar
risge ceremony for his sister and her young
man. They all started on a wedding tour
that evening. as happy a quartet as existed
In the state of Ohio.
'One time there was a young man came
to my house from Canada continued the
old lady. He represented himself as a
student of divinity, and brought with him
two or three letters of recommended ton,
which. he said, We're from preachers In his
locality. He was a very handsome, rather
arfstocratic-looking man. and as his Gre
dentials appeared good he was properly
welcomed. He was courteous and quiet.
and soon had the respect of every man and
the admiration Of every woman in the
house. The only thing that appeared queer
was that the divinity student was a regu-
lar night owl Of you win allow me to use
that unladylike expression He had SO
much church work to attend to, he said,
that frequently kept him up very late
One afternoon the servant opened the door
in response to a ring. and just behind her
came the young student of theology. He
walked right into the arms of a rather
rough-leoking person who was no less than
Canadian detective. There was quite a
CONSERVATION. and appeared on the scene
The detective told me that was harboring
q robber, forger and gambler, and ordered
the young man to go with him. The divfn-
fty student simply laughed at him. He
said to me: Madam. all this fellow says is
true am forger, and all that, but you
need have no fear and then he brayed his
law onicer. to know that there was no ex-
tradition law to hold him. I am not going
back to Canada he SAID and he didn't
He never came back to my house. though
One OF the funniest happenings that
recollect" said the old reminiscencer "was
when on . very dark night youth tried to
get away from my house without settling
hts beard bill He arranged to lower Mn
carpet sack from q back window by a
rope ana make his own escape by rear