A QUEER COUPLE.

Western Star, Issue 2215, 21 June 1898, Page 3

A QUEER COUPLE.

’When told that he had but a few more hours to lire William C. Buhrman called fop the woman who bad been his wife for thirty years and lived with him under the same roof. Por ten years he had not spoken to her nor she to him. The long silence had been the result of a quarrel which neither would “ make up.” Their lives during these ten years were as separate as if they had never met, and death would have found the ten years’ silence still unbroken but for the act of the dying man himsolt. When the family gathered at the bedside for the end Mrs Buhrman stubbornly remained in another room. Then Mr Buhrman yielded. He called, in a weak voice the name of his mate, and, feeble as was the summons, the woman heard it. He had spoken first and she was ready to relent. They talked and wept together, and when bo died she sat caressing the withered hands. William Buhrman was seventy years old, and had lived near Bay Side, L. 1., more than thirty years, He kert a grocery and provision store, and by shrewd management amassed a fortune of £500,000. —New York journal.