The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-09-01
By M. QUAD

Aunt Sally Henderson was the wild
ow of a farmer. She was bustling
little woman with a babyish look. She
kept hired man on the farm and a
hired girl in the kitchen, but she was
boss and a worker as we'll She was
kind to wayfarers and liberal con-
tributor to the unfortunate, and she
was ready to take advice on all points
but one. There she was singularly OBJ
stinate and seemingly foolish.
During his lifetime Farmer Hender-
son had been the victim of a bank
failure. True, he lost only SIT in it,
but it was lesson to last him the rest
of his days and to be handed over to
his wife when he departed. She had
been widow for three years, when
a sister died and left her 4 thousand
dollars in cash. There was then a pri-
vate banker in the nearest village, and
he was spoken Of by all as God fearing
and strictly honest. There We're peo-
pie who had known him from infancy,
and they vouched that there was not
blot ON his character. When Aunt
Sally got her thousand she was adj
vised to bank it. She declined. After
she had been talked to by her neigh
bors, her minister, the justice of the
peace and others she did consent to
drive into the village one day and take
look at the banker. He looked good
to other folks, but after five minutes
oil Ivy Inv
81 wouldn't trust that man with a
single dollarr'
But why?'' was asked.
Because he toes in when he walks
You take my word for it, he'll turn out
to be rascal
no tOe-in banker for her thousand dol
lars. Shed keep it in the house. OF
course she was warned of the danger
OF robbers, but she smiled in her baby
way and replied that they could come
on as fast as convenient. In a month
it was known pretty much all over the
county that Aunt Sally Henderson had
a thousand dollars in the house. Some
said it was buried in the cellar, others
that it was hidden in the garrett 9TH
erS still that it was in a trunk under
her bed. With everybody talking there
was bound to be results.
1t was a big tramp who came limp
ing along the highway at shutdown
one day and talked of his hunger and
Affections. Besides his limp he had
his left arm in a sling. No friends, no
home, nothing in the future for him.
He wept as Aunt Sally questioned
him. He was fed and given quarters
in the barn. At midnight he came out
OF the barn without his limp or his
sling and raised kitchen window and
stepped in. AS he stepped in he also
stepped into a beartrap yawning for
Weary Willie, and the jaws closed on
one of his legs. He was a big man,
and he made a fuss according to his
size. Aunt Sally dressed and came out
of her bedroom and had him carried
out on the lawn. There he was tied
up and the trap removed, and she said
she would see him later. After break
fast his case was attended to. The
hired man brought up some blue beech
gads, and while he laid them on Aunt
Sally stood by and sang "Shall We
Gather at the River"
The next conner fioated in from the
village. He was travelling with a cir
Gus as seller of pink lemonade. AL
though he was making 500 per cent on
his LIQUID he sighed to get rich faster
Hearing of that thousand he walked
out to cooper it and buy some cold
storage stock. No kitchen window fol-
him. In the first place he was toe
tony, and in the next he found par
lor window open. 1t looked good to
him. He went in. The same beartrap
was there. Aunt Sally had simply
shifted it. The victim had a good
voice on him, and he used it to arouse
the house. He was taken out and laid
on the grass as the other had been