Connecticut western news., 1909-02-04

HIS MOUTH.
 bered urinG the last fortnight he LaJ bee. c,; Tcl. to the house, and when called to sec him an hour ago was told by the doctor that he would not live the night through.
 "Gentlemen, this does not come to us with sudden shock, as might have been the case if he had fallen off haystack, but at the same time we feel like asking why a good man is re- moved from our midst. Shad is hardly forty years old, and he comes from sturdy race, and why is death reach ing out to clutch him instead of some of the rest of us? The doctor has peered and peeked and squinted around and has finally decided to call the complaint erosion of the liver, but some of us here know better. We have known for long months what is the true complaint. It's complaint with d moral attached to 1t, and hope that every one within sound of my voice will benefit by the moral.
 'Ten years ago Shadrack Joslyn got
 
 that. The Lord intended man to mar ly. I myself am now living with my rnitd wife, and if ske should be taken c.way I'd look around for fourth. It hain't in the getting married, but it's In who you marry. It looked at the start as If shad had made a good match, and only few of us knew bet ter after q few months had passed.
 "Shad Joslyn had always been a homebody and hard worker. He had never attended even a camp meeting. He had never stopped work on the Fourth of July. He had never attend cd a spelling school or a circus. He once saw a dog fight, but he could boast of nothing further. He jest worked as reg'lar as the clock, and if a funeral procession went by when he was hoeing corn he never looked up. That's the way he got the nick name of Old Steady among us. As to the gal he married, she could wash and bake and sew and make soft soap and all that, but she had seen a heap in her day. She had been to six cir
 
 rode on the cars and visited her aunt in New York.
 "She begun right away after mar riage to crow over poor Shad. She loved him, but she couldn't help but boast. Every morning at breakfast she told him about the boa constructor and rhinoceros she saw with the cir GUS. At noon she told him about the awful roar of Niagara falls, and at supper time she switched off on the sights she had beheld on the Bowery in New York. She kept that up for months, and then she changed to tell ing about the railroad cars, the fire engines and the big buildings. When that got old she changed ag'in, and so she has kept 1t up for years. She's jest kept poor Shad crushed to earth. If anybody was visiting at the house she'd talk of other things for awhile and then start off with:
 "I was telling Shad last night about balloon l saw go up at the Podunk county fair, but the poor man can't get it through his head. It's such an aw- iul pity that he never travelled around any
 Would Hurt His Feelings.
 "We all know how sensitive Shad was, and of course such things would hurt his feelings. Mebbe he's find q dead sheep in the field. That would be a big thing for him. After walk ing round the body a dozen times and wondering what killed 1t he'd start for the house on a run to communicate the news and expect to see his wife jump two feet high. She wouldn't