Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-10-15
Struggle to Throw
 Clf an Influence.

S'i' Vt tiSIlttHu. Elisha was rather bright fellow. but without good h,1u. Meilt. His Wife Was exactly tlp.. onno- Site. She W;t> not hrj1ht. hut roSsrSs. ed ith chormou$ amount of ..}ule,r sense. For twenty yeats >he kept lef husbahd oil the track and when hc showed siE4$ of ''hreaEiny' world speah to hin ill no Uncertain tone pull strong on thc curb ;nd noN and theh give him Il sharp cut with the "H!!'. l he consequence Wa> that Here lofd' being smart, by the time he was ior'F had secured :; competency,
 NOW, the thing without Which sue cess IS not iu be attained is often mn recoghizah!e. especially by the achi,.v- CT Hereford attributed it in his c1se to his talents, arguing that if lie were not pulled back by his wife l, would De q millionaire His most intimate Friends knew that his wife had pu. those talents to their pruper use and prevented his wasting them. Perhaps II any Of them had told him this it mi9ht have neutralized this story. Per haps hc would nave received the in 1ofmalion 0s false. The latter suppo- sition is the more probable.
 One day Hereford disappeared. It was found that he had taken S:3l .us, and left sl0n.00o for his wife. with 10 explanation whatever This is the most practical i}iing he had eyer done without her assistance. Almost any one would pronounce tue money pref efabie to the explanation. But the a,.s was just like Hereford He was a mixture of the sublime aud the ridic,l- lous
 it baoat been gone long ,hcf.rr his Wife received letter from an .Ameri- caA gent!5lnan in ColstaAtinople named I;tri,1X stating that ,ferrlord had died there. He bad left inS(rGe- tons With TarboN to send what money v he had left some SlnmW and hi, in. cineratcd remains to his wife Her friends said that so long As he had seni the money he needn't have troubled himself about the ;tshe> Mrs Here ford deposited the former in bank and Wept over the latter. When it came to sentiment she had her Weaknesses. the most pronounced of which was d Silrele affection for Elisha Hereford SlfE' Was loo son>ihe to keep her hus- l,st.,1ts $ d3!st iH her own house so sine Siant < itf' oil q marble tomb. placed !, jn t cemetery and locked tue dust ii it. Not that the Sl0r represented Aer love for her dead husband. The tomb WAS plenty large to contain the aslics, aAd Mrs, Iicrcford's sentiment never f:tn away with her instinct Of econol!%.
 Btto2t prorcetliug any further with thi~ st9gf ViSi to say thae there is a featitre in it that won't he believed. Ton e3tn invent Il lot of laoinary non sense, and i, WiH be .upc;l down. but give 5cuil" q r"a coincidence such as happens every day and they will laugh it vou. am Snre. however, that any o9.' who knows Elisha Hereford on I4glliug what refer to would say, ''lhai'S just lill" him fer all the world.
 As have said. Mrs. Hereford W;tS prone to indulge q sentimental sorrow so long as ii Was nut expensive. She went once q week 10 the cemetery, took out tlle uln ,IIistcd il, probably because she mad been used to periodically dust the marble clock Oh her mantel ai home, wept over if and put it back. One day just after haN ing done the dustin" she tarued the key and witE bowed head was mntciN offering a prayer for the rep6sc of her husbands soul when s.ic vas aroused ny crash. il seemed she had heard some Wood- en structure Knocked into kindling wood Starting up, there i'll lot not a hundred wards from her she saw pronScuouS mass of slender timicrS iunfed with some light woven tex lure From beneath it q man Strug gled 10 free himself and after doing su stood ur,un his feet The widow went toward lhe fragments, and when the mans hcad appeared above the wreck age she caught at an iron rail incloS- ing d burial lot.
 She saw him whose ashes she haa been weeping over.
 "Well." he exclaimed pelulanily. sur veyin% he wreck, tits all up, and I'm glad of it.
 Mrs. Hereford who saw medium for wasted money, breathed hard.
 "Ellsha," she said sternly, what foolishness have you been guilty of this time:"
 ''I own up, my dear. It was this way: heard of all these fellows try ing aeroplanes, and I had a plan that I wanted to try myself. l knew you would never consent to spending the money to build if. so I concluded to take the job into my own hands, first eliminating you from the experiment.. Jim Twinkier was going abroad, and charged him to take care of you from there under an assumed name, telling him what to say and what to send, This left me Sto.000 with which to
 "ElSlla.''
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