FAITHFUL AFTER DEATH, j
A WOMAN
OFFICES
PERFORMS.
FOR HER
THE LAST
HUSBAND.
A Puthetio Story of 1
a Wife ami Motlier
Spend Her Strength
rout lor Life How
Ucsltatcri Sot to
for the Suko of the
'Man She Loved to tlie Last.
The 6tory of Mrs." U. J. Wenner's life
on Fremont island is about the most
pathetic story ever told on the frontier.
She was .born and bred in luxury; she
came to this city a bride eleven years
ago. When, five years ago, her husband
decided to move to Fremont island, she
cheerfully gave up her luxurious home
in this city and went with him. Of
course she had no neighbors. With no
one but her husband and her little family
around her, with a hired man and girl
to assist, she lived there five years. At
one time she was there two years and a
half without leaving the island.
When, two years ago, her husband be
came too weak to ride on horseback, she
looked after the stock herself, she at
tended to her house, she taught her chil
dren, she nursed her husband, and in
these occupations she was busy every
moment of her time. She says she was
happy and we do not doubt it. Her hus
band was failing all the time, but he had
been a long time ill and she would not
permit the thought of the possibility of
his dying to enter her mind. So it went
on until two weeks ago Wednesday,
when her husband had a severe hem
orrhage of the lungs. It was stopped,
and he said he felt more relieved than
he had for months before.
Of course great prostration always fol
lows a hemorrhage of the lungs, and so
he lay very weak, but cheerful. Thurs
day he wanted the man who had been
their faithful employee so long to take
the boat, go over to Hooper and get the
mail, as he said he wanted his papers
and magazines. The man, however, did
not go until Friday morning. Through
the day Friday Judge Wenner was com
paratively easy. He asked his wife to
lead to him from their favorite books,
and also to repeat to him whole poems
which she knew by heart, and so the
day and night passed away.
A FEARFUL ORDEAL.
Saturday morning he told her what to
cook for his breakfast, saying he wanted
a good breakfast, but while this was in
preparation she heard the signal which
she had prepared for him to make in case
he needed her. When she got to his side
the fatal hemorrhage was on his hps,
and when she hastened to give him the
medicine that was always given him at
such a time he motioned it away. She
put her arm around his neck, drew his
head on her bosom and asked him if he
loved her; he answered, "Yes," and
asked her if she loved him. At her "yes,1
oe smuea, ana in an .instant, witnout a
spasm, that smile was transfixed and his
out had fled.
' "She was there all alone; with her own
hands she washed and dressed her hus
band's body, went outside and got the
board herself, and stretched it upon the
chairs beside the bed; the girl had such
a horror of death that she could not be
induced to come into the room to help
her lay her husband on the plank. She
did it all alone, and when all was com
posed she went to' her children, told
them that their father was dead, ' ex
plained to them as well as she could
what death meant, took them in and
showed them their father's face; they
all kissed him, and knelt and prayed be
side him. The day wore along and.a
great storm pame upon the lake, so that
it was impossible for the man to return.
.It had always been understood that two
signal fires meant that she needed help,
so as the night came down she went and
' lighted those fires and then took up her
watch beside her dead. At intervals
during the night she would go and re
plenish the- fires, and so the watch went
on till daylight. All that day passed
away. At night she renewed the fires;
and finally, at great peril, tne man
reached the island at 10 o'clock at night,
. A PATHETIC BURIAL. .
There was no possibility to return to
get a casket, so the poor woman told the
man that he must from the boards on the
Dlace make the best box he could. The
man helplessly said he could not, but she
encouraged him and told him she would
help him. So the box was made. From
' the best material she had in the house
she with her own hands lined the box
and fixed a pillow for the sleeper's head.
That completed, the man dug a grave.
The only services for the dead was by
the wife and little children kneelin
around the coffin before it was moved
from the house and praying. . But then
what other service was needed?
As best they could they got the box to
the grave, the man drove stakes on oue
side of the grave and tied ropes to them,
and that woman and that man lowered
the body into the grave. Then she went
back to take care of her children. The
storm was so furious on the lake that it
was a week before she could take her
children and leave the island.
What she endured through that Satur
day and Saturday night, that Sunday
and that Sunday night no one knows,
and no one can imagine. She did not
shed a tear. She has not shed a tear
since. She says calmly that she never
anticipated life without her husband,
but that now her children need what
strength she has got. And she speaks of
what she. did as nothing at all. . She
says it was a pleasure to her to do the
last office; it is very much sweeter for
her to think of than it would be to think
that it was performed by some one who
might have been less tender in his touch
than she.
And that was by a little woman who
never knew what work was or what iso
lation meant, who knew nothing at all
about the rougher side of life until hhi
gave her heart up to her husband and
thenceforth lived only for him. Salt
Lt&ke Tribune.
."Always Plenty.
'Suppose coal were to give out, what
should we use in its place?" asked Hicks.
"Poems,'' returned his editorial friend.
Life.
A policeman in a wild country.
How Jack Kirliap, of Sproat's Inding,
Pat a Desperado Out of Town.
There waa only one policeman to en
force the law in a territory the size of
Rhode Island. He was quite as remark
able in his way as any other development
of that embryotic civilization. His name
was Jack Kirkup, and all who knew him
spoke of him as being physically the
most superb example of manhood in the
Dominion. Six feet and three inches in
height, with the chest, neck and limbs
of a giant, his 300 pounds of weight were
so exactly his complement as to give him
the symmetry of an Apollo. He was
good looking, with the beauty of around
faced, good natured boy, and his thick
hair fell in a cluster of ringlets over bis
forehead and upon his neck.
No knight of Arthur's circle can have
been more picturesque a figure in the
forest than this Jack. He was as neat
as a dandy. He wore high boots and
corduroy knickerbockers, a flannel shirt
and a sack coat,' and rode his big bay
horse with the ease and grace of a Sko
beleff. He smoked like a fire of green
brush. In a dozen years he had slept
more frequently in the open, air upon
pebble beds or in trenches in the snow,
than upon ordinary bedding, and he ex
hibited, in his graceful movements, his
sparkling eyes and ruddy cheeks, his
massive frame and his imperturbable
good nature, a degree of health and
vigor that would seem insolent to the
average New Yorker.
Now that the railroad was building
be kept ever on the trail, along what
was called "the right of way" going
from camp to camp to "jump" peddlers
and gamblers and to quell disorder ex
cept on pay day, once a month, when he
staid at Sproat s Landing.
The echoes of his fearless behavior and
lively ad ventures rang in every gather
ing. The general tenor of the stories
was to the effect that he usually gave
one warning to evil doers, and if they did
not heed that he "cleaned them out."
He carried a revolver, but never had
used it. Even when the most notorious
gambler on our border had crossed over
into Jack's' bailiwick the policeman de
pended upon his fists. He had met the
gambler and had "advised" him to take
the cars next day. The gambler, in re
ply, had suggested that both would get
along more quietly if each minded his
own affairs, whereupon Kirkup had said,
"You hear me; take the cars out of here
tomorrow." The little community (it
was Donald, B. C, a very rough place at
the time) held its breathing for twenty
four hours, and at the approach of train
time was on tiptoe with strained anxiety.
At twenty minutes before the hour the
policeman, amiable and easy going as
ever in appearance, began a tour of the
houses. It was in a tavern that he found
the gambler.
"You must take the train," said he.
"Yon can't make me," replied the
gambler.
There were no more words. In two
minutes the giant was carrying the limp
body of the ruffian to a' wagon, in which
he drove him to jail. There he washed
the blood off the gamblers face and
tidied his collar and scarf. From there
the couple walked to the cars, where
they parted amicably. .
"I had to be a little rough," said Kirk
up to the loungers at the station, "be
cause he was armed like a pincushion,
and I didn't want to kill him." Julian
Ralph in Harpers.
A Young-Woman' Tact.
There was a pretty touch of courtesy
in a Brooklyn church on a recent Sun
day. After the service began some late
comers, evidently strangers, were shown,
other seats being occupied, to the very
front pew. There were four of them and
they scrupulously followed the routine
of worship, rising and remaining seated,
as they noticed those around them doing.
At the hymn before the sermon, having
stood during the singing of all the others,
they rose as well. It is the custom of
the congregation, however, to sit for this
hymn, and the four stood alone when the
first note was struck.
Only for a few seconds, for. a young
woman, a church member, who saw the
mistake, rose to her feet to share the
situation with them: An old gentleman
just behind her followed suit, another at
his side joined the standers, and in less
than a minute the entire congregation
was on its feet, put there by the quick
tact of one young woman. And the
strangers never knew they had blun
dered. Her Point of View in New York
Times. '
An English Soldier's Record.
Lord Wolseley, since his. nineteenth
year, has served in nearly every impor
tant military expedition in which British
valor has engaged. He served in the
second Burmese war as an ensign.' As
a lieutenant he served in the Crimea
and was twice wounded. Attaining a
captain's rank, he served in India and
received a brevet majority. In 1860 he
became a lieutenant colonel and served
in the China war, while in 1863-70, as
colonel, he served in Canada. As major
general he commanded the troops in the
Ashantee war, 1873-4; and as lieutenant
general, in 1879, in the south African
war. In 1882 he served in Egypt, and
in 1884-5 commanded in the Soudan
campaigns. - He received 25,000 for
services in Ashantee and 20,000 for
Egypt. In October, 1890, he became
commander in chief of the army in Ire
land. London Tit-Bits. t
She Broke the Bale. .
Not all American ladies are docile.
Some years ago we used to be permitted
to take ladies into the Home library, but
the rule was strict that they must not
be alloved to sit down there. I once
escorted a young American married
woman through the various rooms of the
library, and I mentioned to her, as a
matter of more or less interesting fact,
that it was against the rules for a wom
an to sit down there. "Is that really a
law of the placer" she asked, with wide
open and innocent eyes. "The very law."
I answered. "Then," said she calmly,
"just see me break itl" and she drew a
chair and resolutely sat down at the
tabled Justin McCarthy's Letter.
THE CAVALIER'S SON a
A steed! a steed of ruatchlesse speed,
A sword of metal keene!
All else to noble hearts is drosse.
All else on earth is meane.
The neighynge of the- war horso prowde.
The rowlinge of the drum.
The clangor of the tramped lowde.
Be Bounties from heaven that come;
And oh. the thundering presse of knightee,
Whenas their war cryes swell.
May tnle from heaven an angel bright.
And rouse a fiend from hell.
Tben rccunte! then mounte, brave gallants
all. ,
And don your helmes amaine;
Deatho's couriers. Fame and Honor, call
Us to the field againe.
No shrewish teares shall fill our eye
When the sword hilt's in oar hand
Heart whole we'll part, and no whit sighe
For the fayrest of the land;
Let piping nwaine and craven wight
Thus werpn and puling crye;
Our business is like men to fight.
And herolike to die!
William Motherwell.
Two Kinds of Stomach.
Generally speaking there are two kinds
of stomachs the acid and the bilious
stomach. Everybody has ' one or the
other, and each requires different food
and care. - Do fruits, acid foods and
drinks make you feel bad, cause dyspep
sia or colic pains, nearly every time yon
eat them? Then you have an acid stom
ach, and it is well to avoid all foods that
have an excess of acids in them. Your
greatest remedy . after a meal is bicar
bonate of soda, carbonic water or vichy.
Do fat meats, grease and other rich, fatty
substances cause nausea, vomiting and
sickness? Then you have a bilious stom
ach. Your greatest remedy is to avoid
ail tatty ana greasy roods as mucn as
possible, and eat fruits and food con
taining plenty of acids. Acid drinks
are the best medicines that you can take.
Tftese two kinds ol stomachs are
found on all-sides, and as soon as one be
gins to know that he has a stomach he
must ascertain which one he has. Then
he can doctor himself easily. Occasion
ally one changes into the other in the
course of years. The acid stomach, by
the continuous use of fats and avoid
ance of acids, becomes a bilious stomach,
and vice versa. Then it is well to eat
equally of both for a time. Yankee
Blade. .. ' '
A Girl's Wonderful Power. '
Rose de Lima Belville, a young French
Canadian girl eight years old, residing
with her parents at Montreal, is said to
be gifted with a supernatural power of
healing, with which she is enabled to
perform miracles. Hundreds of persons
who are lame,- blind, halt or otherwise
diseased throng after her daily in the
belief that she is possessed of curative
powers. ' .
Her first cure was operated on a friend
of the family suffering . from panaris,
which in English means whitlow. It is
said to have been successful. The opera
tion consisted of .Rose passing a goose's
feather over the affected part, and the
patient, it is alleged, was immediately
cured. Since then she has continually
employed her faculty and has visited
many people, who declare that she cored
them of their various ailments. Chicago
Tribune.
Artists and Fats. . V ' ,',
i Why are lyric and dramatic artists so
fond of animals and birds? The' ques
tion has been ; repeatedly asked, ; but
never, as far as we know, satisfactorily .
answered. Adelina Patti always travels
with her canaries and several '.dogs.'
Sarah Bernhardt drags about a small
menagerie with her, and nearly every
singer and actress has a canine pet of
some sort. ; . v '
: Laura Schirmer-Mapleson has a weak
ness for talking parrots, and possesses
some remarkable specimens of these or
nithological bipeds.tialignani Messen
ger. . .
A Learned Blind Man.
Blind men in Japan sometimes distin
guish themselves outside their regular
occupations. One, was a famous, "go
player, and it is recorded that,. having
beaten a prince at the game, his antago
nist, in a fit of jealous anger, killed him,
and was himself executed for the crime.
Another was a famous author, and com
piled a valuable repertory of information
in 635 volumes. The blind also practiced
usury, and acquired ..much unpopularity
from . the harsh way in which they
treated their debtors. London Times.
The Maid Blushed.
When Mr. David Dear (winner of the
queen's prize at Bialey) was a law sto-
dent, he once attended an "at . home."
On the servant asking his name, he. re
plied, "David Dear." The girl blushed
and said, "Yes, yes; but what is your
i otner name, sir." lie assured ner nenaa
no other name. But it was of no use;
the servant knew better, and announced
him ks "Mr. - David." San ' Francisco
Argonaut. - . , . -
In one of the best known London res
taurants the waiters are said to receive
more than (300 a week in tips. The
railway servants of England receive
about $1,500,000 every year in this form
from the British public.
We consume in this country about
100,000,000 pounds of prunes annually.
Of this amount California produces
about 17,000,000, and the remaining 83,
000,000 pounds we import from Asia and
Europe. .
Stars seem 'to rise and set, like' the
sun, on account of the earth's revolu
tion on her axis. . They seem to rise four
minutes earlier every night, on account
of the earth's revolution in her orbit.
; A philological statistician calculates
that in the year 2000 three will be 1,700,
000,000 people who. speak English, and
that the other European languages will
bespoken by only 500,000,000 people.
The expression, "All the world's a
stage," though attributed to Shakespeare,
is found in the Latin of . JouvenaL An
old Grecian author says, '-Greece is - a
theater where all are players."
The oyster seems from all accounts to
be scarcely less prolific, actually, ' than
the houstrfly. It is estimated that each
mother"oyster' throws off "from 00,009
to 2.000,000 ova" annually.
Just
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In just 21 hours 3. V. 8. relieves constipation
and sick headaches, - After it gets the system
under control an occasional dose prevents return.
We refer by permission to W. H. Marshall, Bruns
wick House, 8. F.; Geo. A. Werner, 831 California
St, B. F.; Mrs. C. Melvin, 136 Kearny St, S. F.,
and many others who have found relief from
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of 6 Terrence Court, S. F. writes: "1 am 60 years
of age and have been troubled with constipation
for 25 years. I was recently iuduccd to try Joy's
Vegetable Sarsaparilla. I recognized In it at
once an herb that the Mexicans used to give us
in the early 60's for bowel troubles. (I came to
California in 1839,) and I knew It would help ma
and it has. For the first time in years I can sleep,
well and my system is. regular and in splendid
condition. The old Mexican herbs In th Is remedy
are a certain cure in constipation and bowel
troubles." Ask for - ; '
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A Revelation.
Bew people know that tba ;
. bright bluish-green eoloe of -
the ordinary tees exposed In
the windows is not the nat
ural color.- Unpleasant as the ;
faet may be, it is nevertheless
artificial: mineral - coloring :
matter being ased tor this
purpose. :' The eOeet : is two- -
fold. . It- not only makes ths
tea a bright, shiny green, but also permits the
M of " off-color " and worthless teas, which, -once
nder the green cloak, are readily:
worked off as a good quality ol tea. -.
An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject: "The manipulation of poor teas, to give
them a'finer appearance, is carried on exten-.
sWotr. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring cheaper o:acfc Kinas Dy
glaxing or teeing with Prussian blue, tumeric.
nam, and indigo. ThU method is so 7-
eral that eery little genuine uneolored green tea
it offered for tale." .
It waa the knowledge of this condition of
affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's
Tea before the public. It is absolutely pure
and without color. Did you ever see any
-genuine uneolored .span tea? Ask your
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and you
will see it, and probably for the very first
time. . It will be found in color to be Just be
tween the artificial green tea that you have
been accustomed to and the black teas.
It draws a delightful canary color, and is so-
fragrant-that it will bo a revelation to tea-
drinkers. Its purity makes it also more
economical than the artificial teas, for lest
of it is required per cup. , Sold only in pound.
packages bearing this trade-mark: ,-
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