SONS OF GUNS OF DETROIT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1609, 14 February 1884, Page 2

SONS OF GUNS OF DETROIT.

John Williams Blank belonged to the Ancient and Modern and Highly Honorable Sons of Guns of Detriot. If it wasn't that, it was some other fraternal order which meets on every Monday night, and pays .so much to the heirs of every, member that happens to die; •' 1 ; V '

John Williams happened to die the other month, rand! a ; committee was appointed" to ? draft' 'resolutions and present thorn to his wife in person, The first part of . .their, duties was fulfilled to the entire satisfaction of the lodge, |but the i 'committee had some little trouble in finding Mrs Blank. ,-'.They traced her, from one- neighbor to another, arid'finally found her at her .sister's,;,hat und, shawls on, and ready togo out, ■*. fi ;■: " Resolutions of sympathy, eh 1 well, read 'era,"

: The Chairman of the Committee proceeded to read 1 that John William was a good husband and a;kind'father, and a'oitizeft of unapproachable integrity, when tbo .widow interrupted: " Too much .taffy, - We used to have a fight every.:Weekj .and as for his being a. kind father $e never had any children' JAb "fov liis integrity ho stole all the wood we burned last winter!" ' ; f Tto Ohairmaii gulped down something andcontinued te read that John .William was an upright brother, a man ji with a heart full of sympathy for misfortunes of others, and that charity and forgiveness were the. beacon fires which guided his footsteps, "Fudge'" sneered the widow, "I washed.for the money to pay his dues to the lodge, and all the,sympathy one 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 sometime,: He'd have revenge if it cost him a year in State Prison. Beacon fires is pnrty good, considering 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." :1 ■" He was cut down liko a flower.' / " Well, flowors ought to let whiskey and saloons and plug-tobacGo, and old sledge alone," ■ "And we trust that our loss is his gain." ' . V " Well, if he's any better. .off I'm glad on't,' but I guess the gain,is on your side. Now that's all I 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 and see a woman who offers to Bell a fur-lined circular for fifteen dollars, and if you have any more highfalutin Shakespeare to git off my sister will take .it in and save it till I'come back."—Detroit Free Press, s