A TRYING EXPERIENCE
The foil »wn»n extract of a letter
fr mu u former K. H. O. boy gives a
glimpse « f bow nil alone this* boy
e.'p-Vi with a very sad experience.
Kin*' 0'*ve. A l mka
Sept .11. 1917
My Dear Friend
l will tell you wh»* has hap
pened since 1 wrote to you lust.
When I left balboa Huy I never
thought that 1 wool 1 tl ml my father
aifk ti: boil anil helpless I stayed
with him anil to ik care of him. lie
was sick a tn mth, ami tin* 1 ist two
weeks of Ins sickness he was in led
all the time, and another thing he
e didn't slo p vi.d that yon know
help 1 to shorten his life lie wasn’t
us patient iii Ins siiIf* ring as lie should
have beeu, but you know I.ever
knew wha* sl'kness was and lie took
it a little harder than other people
would
But the laet two night* of his life
ho* *tu« 1 to ti’.ko it nmre easy. It
l , f t ,.ti b :use I -i was ming
to the lust.
I was with him fra little over a
month. I never expected he whs go
injr to die so so >n, it seemed to take
him down m quick ho hadn't any
worry, hut ho whs wi.ling to die: he
wanted to die.
The end ciill** without me know
ing ,ii,ything about it on the morn
iojr .,f the drd of July, I turned m to
h iv i little nap in *hd fore noon, he
„ , d *o he resting easy, about lih.jtl
. ^ up and t§ nrted limner, I had
I j t*r ready and h id sit down in the
i,t i 'mi to him it » • nud s ■ quite
\en m to s e him and found
ti: it he had died, and died peacefully
without me knowing anything nbnut
it.
I laid him ouf aiul then left f »r
Sand I'oint an 1 was stuck t h**r** r
two days ill the worst gale of * ester
ly wind 1 have s« en f*>r some iimi',
well l ji**t tli«9 •• din mad** It didu't
cost in** anvtInn^ to have it m .d*»
tin y w* re willing to do the vmk t r
nothii x e« * Init was “Old 1‘oin
l)t v in**
1 got Imek on 111** fifth mi l dug tln>
grave inul on till* six'll ivo hum i
him, every! *lv fiom S mil I’oitit wits
don n to til** f mu rul
Iiis v is I .ini in 0old Spring, Duch
ess County, Statu nf New York.
Will clow* for this time, give my
hew* regards to the other workers and
chil Iren
Your friend
Ml*niiis 11 Devine
--
Mi and Mu I, (i. Folsom give a
dinner the 10th in honor of the
members of the Katmai Expedition
Aside from Griggs par’y the guests
were Mr and Mrs 1'hoinas, Mr and
Mrs Worley of the Had in St it*, n.
Sup . mi 1 Mrs Le iru. It w.snm.s
di lighlful occasi hi and will lie 1 ng
reiueinberid by the gnesls
While tlio Admiral Kv.nn whs in
port them i\em several cases of inter
ication in town. As this is now a no
licence ioivn, it did not take .Marsh
til Armstrong 1 »ng to discover that
tin* whiskey was being obtained on
the steamer He c night the steamer's
barber bar-keeper in the act of sell
ing liquor and arrested him. Thu
man was tried, found guilty an
fined $100 00. apt. (ilasscock of the
Kvai s is very much opposed to bal
ing liquors on board, but in this
matter it is the Steamship Co that
rules.