SHE KNEW HIM BEST.

Thames Star, Volume xv, Issue 4767, 19 April 1884, Page 4

SHE KNEW HIM BEST.

'•> "■- <v%^ D am Blank belonged to the ■ .-■""' Aijjcient and Modern and Highly Honor* ' able Sons of Guns of Detroit. If it wasn't that, it waß some other fraternal order which meets every Monday night ff> and pays so much to the heirs of every V--!tD remb^r who happens to die. \%:-r" John William happened to die the other mVmth, and a committee was appointed to draft resolutions and present them.to his wife in person. The first part of their duties was* fulfilled to the entire satisfaction of the lodge, but the committee had some little trouble in finding Mrs Blank. They traced her from one neighbor to another and finally found her at her sister's, hat and shawl on, and j Orea^to go out. : " Eesolutions of sympathy, eh 1 Well, read Viar." The of the committee pro- ,,» ceeded|t6 read that John William was a . ■ good lmaband, and a kind father, and a '" citizen of unapproachable integrity, when the widow interrupted: " Too much taffy I We used to have a fight every week, and as for his being a kind father, we never had any children. As for bis integrity, he stole all the wood I we. burned last winter 1" ;„ * The CJhairman gulped down something, - and continued to read that John William was an upright brother, a man with a heart full of sympathy for the misfortune of others, and that charity and forgiveness were the beacon fires which guided his footsteps.. 7 "Fudge "sneered the widow, "Iwashed for the money to pay his dues to the lodge, and all,the sympathy anyone got out of him wouldn't buy a cent's worth of ...court-plaster ? Forgiveness! Well, some "of you ought to have sat down on his hat some iimo ! He'd haverevenee if it cost him a year in a State Prison. Beacon fires is party good considerin' that, we never had a decent stove in the house !" " Madam your husband has been called hence." " Exactly; I was at the funeral and ought to know." /'■ . "He Was cutdown like a flower." - ' • " Well, flowers ought to let whisky and saloons, and plug-tobacco and old teledge alone." " And we trust that our loss is his gain*" " Well, if lie's any better off I'm glad on't, bat I guess the gain is on your side. Now that's all 1 want to hear. I can pick up a thousand better men than him with my eyes shut. I'm in*a hurry to go down to see a woman, .who offers a furlined circular for lodol., and if you have any more highfalutin Shakespeare to git off; my sister will take it in, and save it till I.come,back!"