The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-04-07

find even a proxy to get him into the con
vention after that. Moreover, most OF
his practice was in adjoining counties
Some way, at home the jmries refused to
weep, and his creditors annoyed him. He
got interested in number of stock propo.
sitions that didn't. pan out, and sold out
some of his friends. He acquired bad
reputation at the banks, and changed
| bankers, He owed lot of bills around
town, and spots appeared on his fancy
vests. But he was having fine time, and
when business was dull he would 90 away
some said to Kansas City, Others said to
st. Joe-and come back rather the worse
for wear. After every big lawsuit. he
would lock himself in his office and corn
up. and for day or two would go about
looking frowsy and bad; then take a
brace, get hold of himself, buy some new
clothes and, after having himself barbered
and massaged, he. would appear on the
streets looking. as fair as May morning;
but the hell frying in his heart, glazed
eyes, and he had a faraway look that
made. people distrust him. But he wasn't
punished. The Lord apparently wasn't
keeping books on him. 1t didn't seem
to cost him much to lie to women, so he
tried it on men, and was known as a
mighty slick proposition. He gave his
note freely, kited his checks from bank
to bank; kept within the law, and if
victim squirmed, the victim was told to
test the matter in the courts.
And so the years wore on. Women
couldn't fool him so he did not marry; he
knew when he was having a good time,
and as he passed his fortieth birthday his
face grew hard, his eyes shifty and cruel,
his hands bit unsteady at times and his
friends distrustful. They said he was
smart as chain lighting, and they had
about the same feeling of security toward
him that they had for CLAIM lightning:
Tor he was just as treacherous. He was in
dorsed for high appointve office, but his
old trouble came up and he was turned
down. An equity in the best proposition
he had went to satisfy debt, because he
could not raise any money at either bank |
he finally married woman and the town
smiled at the marriage, and his clothes
wrinkled and bagged, and he shaved only
twice a week. Then he grew cross and
mean after his sprees, and made enemies
He appeared more or less in Police Court |
lawsuits, and his outsde-of -the-county
practice gradually dropped, for he was
found once or twice on both sides of law.
suit
So, in the wagonet, riding to the grave
yard. the pallbearers didn't really have
much to say about him. Each was afraid
10. speak what was in his heart for fear the
others would repeat it. They planted him
both wide and deep, and rode home in a
happy frame of mind, talking of something
Else. And when his estate was figured up
t was found in the big book that he had
neither friends nor good name; that he
lied stranger in a strange land in the
,ery town of his birth; that he blackened
he touched, and that the only
ears that were shed for him were by
woman who did not come to the funeral
he first wife who remembered him in his
youth, when he was clean and full of
'ision, before he said in his heart, there
8 no God"
The newspaper containing his obituary
anne to the Gazette office this week. The