Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1881 — A Spirited Lady and a Tramp. [ARTICLE]

A Spirited Lady and a Tramp.

Almira Free Pres*. Mrs. Deacon Grover, who was tne widow of the late Mr. Cornell, of the town of Horseheads,is a lady approaching rixty years of age, a kind hearted and charitable, but spirited woman. One day last week she was visting her son, Augustus McConnell, in Horseheads, who keeps a bach el of -sort of farm in the town. By bachelor we mean not a lonesome place, nor an illkept one, but one in which the absence of women is a noticeable feature. During her visit Mrs. Grover was sitting at a table sewing something that is neeeasary even in a bachelor establishment. “She was alone in the house. A person appeared who answered well ■the description of a tramp. -He said he was hungry, and the lady’s sympathies being aroused, she drew her gold rimmed spectacles from her eyes, and •laying them on the table, went down into the cool eellar for some bread and meat for the visitor. When she returned she noticed that her spectacles were gone from the table. With the toothsome provender on a Elate still in her hand, she said: “You avegotmy specs.” The tramp denied the charge. Sbe reiterated it, and the stranger reiterated his denial. She quietly laid the plate on the table,went to a bureau, she taking a revolver thgre from, her son keeping a weapon of that kind, in every room m the house, and she knew it, she pointed it at the tramp and told him if he didn’t lay those speeks on the table she would shoot him where he stood. The tramp took the spectacles from his pocket and mildly laid them on the tabl. “Now,” she said, “eat what I have brought f< r you ana get out.” He ate and departed. When her son Augustus appeared, the spirited old lady again- took the revolver from the bureau and said to .him ,‘Augustus, how do you cock ; this weapon?”