Show I H SO SON or Of I 1 I. I T j DYN WITH A fT ELY NEV AUG 21 STRETCHED STRETCHED I ON A COUCH IN THE COUNTY HOSPITAL HOSPITAL HOS HOS- PITAL FROM PROM WHICH HE WILL I PROBABLY NEVER AGAIN ARISE IS AN OLD MAN WITH A HANDSOME HAND HAND- SOME PATRICIAN FACE AND A AHEAD AHEAD AHEAD HEAD THAT BETOKENS AN UNUSUAL UN USUAL AMOUNT OF OP BRAINS PATIENTLY PA AWAITING THE FINAL SUMMONS HIS NAME IS JOHN BRECKENRIDGE BRECKEN- BRECKEN RIDGE THOUGHT TO BE A SON OF JOHN C. C BRECKENRIDGE THE FAMOUS FA FA- KENTUCKY ORATOR AND STATESMAN FORMER VICE DENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND ONE TIME CANDIDATE FOR FORTHE FORTHE FORTHE THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE TUE DEMOCRATIC TICKET I The old man came to White Pine county nearly forty 3 years ears a ago o and up to the first of the Hie present year rear made his home in iii in Osceola Durin During all I the tho years he be has been heen in the county he has never been known to receive receive or send a letter He has lived the life of a hermit barely speaking to anyone and allowing no one to gain gam his confidence con con- He Found Pound No Gold When h ho he first came canio to the county he ho had some money moner and en engaged a ed in in I placer mining at Osceola His was the usual experience of the mighty hosts who have played the mining game game game-a ame-a ame a few successes successes and many fail fai ures mes So long longas as his health was good however he mana managed ed to make both Doth ends cads meet and always hail had the tho wherewith wherewith where where- with to pay for fot his frugal fare For the past four years years the county h has s supplied his simple wants without his knowledge On the first firstS of each month the County Clerk w would uld send the monthly allowance to John Winnen Winnen Win- Win nen a saloon man at Osceola and the theon theone theone on one man in the county for whom the theold theold theold old gentleman felt a genuine attach attach- Dent Winnen would turn the money over to the old gentleman saying th that t tit it was derived from a lease on some someI of his minin mining properties I His Last Friend Died Winnen died last winter and with his death vanished the last r ray y of sunshine that has brightened the de declining de- de dining clining years of the recluse What the nature of the heart tragedy was that wrecked this man mans man's a life no noone noone noone one here has ever been able to gain the sli slightest inklin inkling The most casual reference to his past life by way of inquiry earne earned f for r the inquisitive onI one on the lasting enmity of the proud haughty haugh haugh- I ty silent old man and never to any anyone one has he volunteered one word of ex cx- Endowed by nature most lavishly a a handsome face a commanding fi figure ure a brilliant mind stored with varied and useful information a voice deep pleasing and perfectly modulated why did he elect to spend the greater portion portion portion por por- tion of his bis life in a dingy cabin in the I mountains with not even even a dog for a companion f The question will probably never be answered The dissolution is near at hand and when it comes a paupers pauper's grave rave will close over the plain pine board in in which will sleep the scion of one of Americas America's greatest families |