Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30

some day receive substantial reward.
Thus by making empty promises he
raised hopes which in many cases ma
terialized into presents of geese, turkeys,
hares and wine. And when at length, in
the infir1nity of age, he found himself
compelled to seek medical advice, he
deliberately dressed himself in rags and
applied to some first rate physician as an
utter pauper, relying on the doctors
kindness to obtain advice for nothing.
Wanted Misery Spouse
RUT it must not be supposed that the
u annals of miserliness are without
humor Take the famous case of Miss
Elizabeth Bolaine, of the English city of
Canterbury. She was a we'll connected
woman, sister in law to the Countess of
Denbigh, and received advantageous
offers of marriage. At the last moment,
however, she would jilt an apparently
favored man for one with little more
money. 1t is no wonder that suitors fell
off, and one suggested that no man ought
to propose to her unless she gave bond
for one thousand dollars, which sum was
to be forfeited in case she did not keep her
promise. At length, however, the woman
engaged herself to man fifty years older
than herself, who had lodged in her
mothers house as guest. This elderly
fiance died, however, and forthwith his
hostess sent in an immense bill to his
relatives for housekeeping expenses.
But at last even Miss Bolaine was
suited with husband. He could wash
and iron clothes and sweep the house
thus doing away with any necessity for
servants. And he could eat anything
moldv crusts and meat of suspicious
freshness.
The queer thing was that the pair were
not without social ambitions. They re-
solved to keep a carriage; which, how
ever. in turn helped to keep them, for
they frequently let it out on hire. AS a
carriage it was an object of r1dlcule
throughout the whole countryside. Great
numbering farm horses would serve their
turn between its shafts, and the coach
mans livery was an ancient and faded
soldiers uniform For various reasons
the roof of the carriage was equipped
with pickle jars and glasses, warming
pan, garden tools, and a ladder. One
day the strange equlpage met with an
accident The aged, half starved horse
fell down dead in the road; but the
woman rose to the occasion. She sold
the attenuated carcass by auction on the
spot. as we'll as the carriage, and then
both she and her husband set out on
walk many miles in length to the city of
Rochester, where they put up in an aims
house. where bed and breakfast, together
with eight cents, were given to destitute
travellers by an ancient foundation.
In this case the woman was the lead
ing spirit, and it is worth noting that by
the terms of her will she was to have
very costly funeral A magnificent monu-
ment was subsequently erected over her
remains, and her virtues were to have
been recorded on a spacious slab-whiCh
however remains blank to this day
A Begear's Rebuke
pERHAPS the ablest rebuke ever ad-
L dressed to miser was that of a
beggar who derisively offered Lord
Brace, an ancestor of the present British
Duke of Fife, little silver coin just to
get sight of his Lordship's boarded
gold and silver. Now, Lord Brace was
of true miser breed, and the mere sight
of the silver tempted him to open his
chests, whers Upon the beggar remarked
quietly:
After all, m as rich as you, my Lord.
l can see yo~r gold, and even you have
not heart to do any more with it.