The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-10-12
EtrugsIe to Throw
- Off an Influence.

IDeni. Ills wife was exuctly the oppo.
sllo. she was not bright, but possess
cd an cnoffpous anfouut OF horse
SENSE" For iWcuty ycars she kept her
husband o. 9hc. track and wien he:
showed sige Of breaking would
speak TO hip in no uncertain tone,
puIl strong % The curb aud now and
then give hfui a sharp cut With lle
whin. The cdnseaHehce was TINT Here
ford, being smart, by tho time hc was
forty had secorcd Competency
Now, the thing without which sue
cess "a not 10 be attained Is often nm
recognizable. espccially by the achiev.,
er Hereford attributed II ia his case
TO Ills talents. arguing that If he were
not pulled back bv bis wife he would
hc n millionaire. His most intimate
fricn,ls knew that Ills wife had put
those talents 40 their proper use and
prevented his wasting them. Perhaps
II any Of them had told him this it
might lmvc nentrali2ed this story Per
hnps be would have received the in
formation us False The latter suppo-
sitioh is The more probable.
One day Hereford disappeared. II
was found thpt he had taken $4,000
and left slO0BOO fer his wife. with no
explanation whatever This is the
most practicaEtliing lie had ever done
without her assistance. Almost any
ono would pronounce the money pref-
erable to the explanation. but the act
was Just like iiereforl lie was a
mixture OF the sublime aud the rldicu-
lous
lie hadn't lIeen guue long before his
wife reccivcl q letter from an Ameri-
can gent,c:aan in Constamtinople
named 1arbox stating that Hereford
had died there. lie had left nstruc-
tDns with TarhON to send what money
lia had left-some $4,000 and his IN
cheratcd remains 10 his wife Her
friends said that so long MS he had sent
the money he needn't have troubled
himself about the ashes Mrs. Here.
ford deposited the former in bank aud
wept ovcr the latter When It came
10 s,altlmont Sic had her weaknesses,
the most pronounced of which was a
siiccrc affection for Elisha Hereford
She WAS too sensible TO keep her hus-
bands dust in her own house. so she
sneiit %lD0 on. n marble tomb, placed
IL IN cemetery and locked the dust
IN H. Not that tho 500 represented
her loye for ber dead husband The
tomb Was plenty large TO contain the
ashes aud Mrs. Hereford's sentiment
never ran away with her instinct Of
economy.
Before proceadng aus further. with
this story | wish 70 say Tint there Is a
feature 10 it1hatr Won't lie believed
You can invent lot Of imaginary non.
sense. aud it N'illbe gllpcd down. hut
give people a real coincidence such Us
happens every dag aud they will htugh
at you. am sure. however. that any
one wbo knows Islisha Hereford on
hearing what ! refer To would say.
"Fhat's Just ike him Tor all the world =
As | have seid. Mrs. Hereford was
prone to indulge sentimental sorrow
so long as it was not expensive. She
wcutohce week, 70 the cemetery. toqk
out The urn. dastcd il, probably because
she had been used 10 periodically dust
the marble clock on her mantcl at
home wept over II and put Il back.
One day Just after having done the
dus,ing she turned the key and with
bowed head WAS mutcly Offering a
prayer for The repose of her husbands
soul when she was aroused by a crash.
1t seemed she had heard some wool
en- structure knocked into kindling
ina f., l.t q
a hundred yards from her she saw a
promlscuous mass pf slender timbers
jumbled wi'h some light woven tex
turc FroI beneath 1t a man strug-
gled TO fre1 himself and after doing so
stood upon his feet The widow went
toward Tie fragments. and when the
mans head appeared above the wreck
age she caught at an iron rail lnclos-
Ing a burial lot.
She saw him whose ashes she had
been weeping over.
"Nell." he exclaimed netulantly. sur
veying the wreck. ,;its.allllp, and I'm
glad OF IT,"
Mrs. Hereford. Who saw a medium
for Wasted money iJreatheJi hard.
elisha" she said steruly. "what
foolishness have you been guilty OF
this time:"
Il own up, my dear. II was this
way: ! heard OF all these fellows try.
Ing aeropanes. and ! had a plan that
wanted to try myself know you
would never consent to spending the
money to build It. so ! concluded to
take the job into my own hands. first
eliminating you from the experiment
Jim Twihkler was going abroad. and
charged him to take care Of you from
there under an assumed name. telling
lin what TO Say and what to send
This left me $lOoOO with (Which to-
"Ellsha.
"Afy dear"
"Have you sunk $4,000 in that thai
heap
''l're sunk 10000"
"Where IL the rcst1"
"ID bank"
"You come Sght home With me aud
6fsw me q cl1ck for ii, was fcol
not 10 fcTesze something like ltlIis
Wsver arain G-iiI xo4r hare n dollar