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ATLANTA, GA-» TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE J, 1866
PRICE FIVE CENTS
A BRAVE DEED.
A Story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
(Copyrighted 18S0 by the Author. All Right . In
terred.)
PAST-1.
I am a trouble man. That’a what they call
it in my business.
But Hist let me tell you. I ought to go
back and begin at the beginning. I ain’t used
to tolling thinga—only yarns to the boys.
But I nerar sat down by the job, before,
and made head’n tall of what hap-
pens to folks—me nor other folks. Yon'll ex-
cute me, ma’am, if I don't get my hand In.
I'm a greeny at ik If you hadn’t aaked mo to
tell you, I wouldn’t ha’ thought of it. When
my wife says to mo: "She wants yon to go and
sot in her setting-room, of an evening and tell
her all about It,” 1 was struck of a heap. But
I couldn't back out after I’d got my foot in. 80
here I be. I’ll tell yon. I’ll tell yon beat way
I know how. I don’t know’s I care mnch
about your tailin’ other folka; but I!m not
against It. I haven't only one thing I'd like
to stipperlate about that. Bamboozle ’em with
the given name. That’a all. I'd rathei yon
wouldn't nse my given name. I ain’t partlk-
kelar on any other points at I know of.-I’ll
leave the rest to yon. I’m willin', if yon aro.
Uy name is Charles 8.—call it Scattorgood;
Charles 8. Scatteigood. That’a aa good at any,
for bamboozling purposes, I knew a mar, onco
named Scattorgood. IIo was in hogs, out to
Chicago; packed pork; ho came to a violent
end Horn mistaking of a bottle of solfarious
ofthesejobsandnot to much as topple. It
was hit fuck. The boys always said Charley
Scattorgood had luck. Some said he seas sue!
a handsome fellow. But some said It was
drink luck.
r,UIIl SUli uisuiaaiuK uj» wv . w
cemet next. I’ve got to tell you about that or
yon wouldn't understand the story. When
first I tee him nukin' up to her I say: "That's
Charley Scattergood’s luck.’’ But I didn't be-
he'd get her, tomeways. I couldn’t.
lievo
She'd kopt company with me. I thought it
was one of her li tie trays—for sho was fall of
’em;ste wasn’t like me;the had the mischief In
her, Annie had: she was always np to some-
end sent her through tho grammar school
tnd talked about the high, and I’ve
nothin’ against him only for marry
ing of a step-mother that Annie didn’t
like, I don’t know’s I ever blamed her
for she had the neurology done np in flannel
bandages of a gray colorllko to make yon wish
she wasn’t there—when I got to her fhtheria
bonso this night I tell yon, to take my girl to
the thesytre—ma’am, she wouldn't go with
never put hot hat on theaffle of her hesd for pathy for linemen. Sometimes seems to me
me. She never stood that way, with her hand
against her—that silly little boyish way—with
mo. 8he'd been all girl to me. But she says:
“Hllloa, Charley!" Just as If she’d been
another fallow i and she laughs and nods at
him; and for all it so silly, she looked so pret-
‘y> and her dimple looked so, standing there,
"I’m obliged to yon," she says, "but I ain’t a
going. I don’t feel like It”
ty, and her dlmpl
" 1 could have killed him.
But, m*'am,;when sho come to shut the door,
and he went in and I seo him in the front entry
*»va, aiiuiw unu, ouu was seewmja up tu >111110*
thing; and she liked a now man to And out
what a pretty girl the was—there most
generally sras one. I was need to it. Ipntnp
with it for she kept company with me. She
always made a difference between me and
them. And I says to myselfi She is so pretty
She’d ought to have her little ways. I’m.
dlfl'erontfromsheis. I’m slow and set. And
then I ain’t a handsome fellow. I must be
Mtient with Annie.”
I was pretty patient, take it all, I guess, for
"But I’ve got the tickets;’’ says I, for she’d
never spoke like that to mo before. “Its the
beside her; and I said: “ He's drank.”
Well. She didn’t go anywhere with him.
for I watched to see; maybe she had tho tenso
we have a call for Ik ourselves, for it ain’t a
very safe business. It ain’t to mnoh plack—
though it docs take pluck—but pluck ain’t
anything to complain of, -
Now, come a morning after such a storm at
this I speak about. These’s ice every whoro.
Your steps are slippery. All the sidewalks are
A HM l»rot»7 JfslblUUbg MRO IK Oils A gUCSfl, I OF
I never riled her, nor upset her mind by
. her mind by
Jealoutncts and nagged her. I says to myself.
lb, Charles S.
‘Sho don’t love you hard enough,
Scattorgood, tor you to leave her. Walk Be
You
end from mistaking of a bottle of solfarious
add for a hot scotch; that’s the way I come
to remember the name.
I am a lineman in the Atlantic aad Pzciflc
telephone company. I’ve been on the force
ive her wavs out and you keep atlU.
Just walk Don’t yon bother Annlo.”
I’d like to tall yon what tho looked like
them days If I knew how. She wait’n like
the other girls. She had lota of pluck. She
had a queer little way with her—a sort of man
nish way. She wasn’t mannish, not abik
I don’t like that kind. It was only a
sort of trick of bars, like ehildren’s
tricks when they play at being something. It
kind of tickled her to play at Ik I thought.
Shecntberhaliahorkbutit was curly hair,
of a yellow color, very light; and it wrinkled
all over her head like a little girl’s—she
couldn’t look like a follow to save her. 8omo
of’em can. I don’t like that sort. Annie
never (Olid. She wore a little linen colar
rometlmes, choking np her pretty throat with
six years. Italn’t an easy life. Any lineman
—ill tell you, *—
will tell you, Ask ’em. 'But I haven’t come
to that yet. That isn’t the beginning. The
king up I
a stiff necktie, bother throat was so toft it
made yon laugh to seo it. Then the had a
notion ono time of running her hands into hor
tack pockets; and she’d put her arm over a
soft-that way. But you’d have laughed—It
was so round: she couldn’t square off at tho
elbow to save her. She had a dimple too—I
like that. And sbo had the biggest eyes yon
ever see; blue eyes. Sho was always laughing.
Annlo was. And when I ssw hor put ou those
1 ttle ways, thoso man’s ways, I tell you of, I
dldn’tsooldhcr. Mehbo I’d aught to; bat I
couldn't, for it amused me. I mod to to think'
of when I played house up country when I was
.m-uuti.o turns, a 11 pisy nusoxml this
time;"—as if Annlo was up to somo suchgtuic.
There wasn’t much mau Inwyglrl. No.
Nor sho wasn’t that way so much tr me, I’d
have you understand, 1 seo it more with
folks. Sho was dlflhrnnt wlSjr.r
"thebe was—a ono,” voc bbe.
You tee there sras—a girl. Tho beginning
was about a girl. I don’t know but that’s the
beglnnln’of bother anyhow yon fix it; seems
so, don’t it? I can't say. I don’t know much
about’em, only this one I speak about. 8he
was my girl. The boys called her my host
girl, bat they hadn’t ought to. I hadn't any
second-beak nor any girl bat Just this girl,
ain’t that sort. I never took to women folks
that way. I was kind of shy with ’em. .
never cared abont any girl but this. We’d
been keeping company quitoa while. I think
it was as much a year. We warn’t promised,
but I never thought of anybody else; ma'am.
I’m that kind. There waro't anything in the
way bat to wait till she felt like Ik horself.
She knew that 6he warn’t in a hurry to be
married. I didn’t want to akesr her. (didn’t
S ’ much to her, only to try to please her.
ed bar. Ijiever liked anybody so much in
all my life. 1 couldn’t help it.
Her name was Annie. Call it Annte—well,
call it Annie Hspo. That's a pleasant sound
ing name, I think. Hers was pleasant too. I
used tossy it over a good deal to myself, while
I was to work. I need to think it kopt ms
Bern getting giddy sometimes on top of
high poles and creating roofr, ana wl
was slippery, and in doin' of dangorooL „
hundrsdaof feat above safer men that earned
their jivin’ on the sidewalk. It steadied my
bead. I said it over, as if you was to aay :
Annie—Annie Hope.” while I was tracing
trouble or doing any dlsay thing.
''You srant to know wbat Is tracing trouble?
111 tell you presently. I’ll explain myself as
Igoatony, but I’ve got to go my own ways.
I’m likes mud-turtle—hetlget there give him
tlmecnougb, but he’ll doable and hedge and
go like he was mollycoddled oat of his points
of cotnpsts. all the way. I'm sort of slow, In
■jjMjapotlUon >Sd Mt ’ * n,V8r could bo
There's another one I’ve got to get In first.
I want to beqult of explaining how he got hers
Isranttocloarmymind or Charley Scatter-
good befure I go ahead. He warn t a turtle;
there wasn't any thing alow about him; he was
different from me, he’d do what he'd—what
he pleased, anyhow yoa fixed it quickerin a
fellow of my sort could find out he meant to do
ik He was more like a terrier, Charley was.
You can understand, ma'am, that there sras a
difference between us just from that point of
the way we sras called. Wo had the
name you see—happened to. It doss happen,
likely srith the name of—Best-
but it ain't so llki .
tergood. But there ire were on the same force,
doing the same Jobs; answering to the same
oldest, and round among the same folks, so
they told os apart like twins, that way.
Charles 8. Bcattergsod, that's me; always. Bat
him they called Charley. Nobody ever called
me Charley. It didn't come natural. Charles
8; that was me, and Charley; that vu him.
Folka knew us apart aa well as if sra’d been
Hoses and Yankee Doodle. He htd curly hair
na folk
for one thing, and I’ve noticed when
by the came of Charles has curly hair folks
call Charley. He was a very good-looking
follow. He was better looking than I be.
And be had a way abcat him, a rollicking
aoitof nay, for he'd bean a sailor; a good
many of our bualneas have. It comes’em in
good stead, I tell yon. sparring op a rotten
poln after a elect storm. The girls all took to
Charley Scattorgood.
Now, there’s one thing I never could ass
the sense of; and that’s a drunken lineman. I
aay: Suppose you're on the roof of a ssven
story building shaking out a cross? I don’t
teen s.-ni Mho wm'aii
the kept company with me. She kopt company
with me like the was a girl.
Now the time I speak of was this time. It
wet In winter, come January, two years ago.
It bad been a very cold winter, If yon remem
ber. It wasn’t a lineman’s winter, you better
believe. It come bard on us. But It come
toughest on Iho troublo men. I'll tell you
about tbntwhen I got to it. We’d hal a great
Hones go down in thostreek Thetopsoftho
fences and the door-knobs and all sorts of llttlo
things are sleeted over. The trees have crustod
up like they’d got Into a bathing suit of ice
from toe to top. The roof—well folka don't
think about roofo. They are all of a glare.
That's the ktad of weather folkastay Indoors,
if so be they can. Women huddle round the
register and i '
Isay: “ I guess I won’t go out to
day." Men go to their business in tho horse-
cars, and talk about bow slippery It is. In the
evening paper there's the accidental column—
foil of now such a one slipped on the pave
ment and how his leg was broken, or his back
sras hurt.
Way dosrn below na whilst we are at work
we see folks putting saw-dust on level places
and holding on to smoothing whilst they go
r. They look kind of small as we look down,
ko creatures that grow on something. M.iybo
we’re are out on the saves crawling along
towardtho evos-trough to get a wire that got
down acroet a water-spout; or maybe we're
rfmmtln* frnm Ann vnnf in I'nMiaa n .
droopin’ from ono roof to t’other, or we’re
holding on to a chimney, or there's a pole to'
climb beyond’em all—a roof-pole you must
climb, and you put your spurs ;in and go up
clinging to that polo, to gr ’—
untwist somo trouble, am
untwist tome trouble, and slippery—by gra
cious! Slippery don't tell Ik It’s all glared
over—roof, pole, saves, wires, pins aod insu
lators, tho skylights yon go out of, tbs slates
you crawl acroet, the fire-escape you hang oa to
—and you feel the ice melting underneath your
fl! how the wind blows from the
norianl altar a sleet-storm, on a soven -story
roof!
That’s tho weather whan a lineman has to
work. Come a day when it ain't safo to put
foot acroet your door-sill oq tho solid earth,
that’s the very day tho linemen have to crawl
like kids and oats hundreds of feat above you
in tbealr. Ibslandng and holding of them
selves for life’s sake and the take of your tele
phone message against slip and go. If he was
to make one mlsstsp he’d be to pleees on the
STREWING FLOWERS
An rmprsssivs Cotas in oaiocts-Oeatral Chtraxa
at theUead ortbs Ooiuan or vtloransol noth
Armlts-Spotshsa sue Tsars Over too
Brsvs-othev Worse of too Her.
Cim-Aoo, Hay SO.—Tho observance of deeer-
atlng the graves of soldiers by the veteran
organization of this city occurred today. Tho
marching column, composed of posts of tho
Grand Army of tho Republic, was the largest
ever seen on the streets of Chicago on any
similar occasion. The Ransom past, of 8t.
Louis, was in line, having come aa a special
guest of the posts of this city. Accompanying
the Ransom post was General Wm.T. Sherman,
who marched in the tanka on the right of tha
leading four. Ho was quickly recognised
by largo waiting crowds on tha streets,
anil waa wildly cheered. General Alfred
Terry was alto ona of tho marchers and waa
cheered along tho route. Governor Oglesby,
accompanied ny several other gentlemen, oc-
copicd the only carriage in the column.
Tho veterans in line numbered 4,000. Tho
coluten proceeded to Roto Hill cometary,
where the chief ceremonies 'St the day occur
red. During the afternoon Usnoral Sherman,
Governor Oglesby and other prominent per-
tdnagea reviewed the marching column from
tbs balcony of the board of trade.
ai’/
no hope for you Ifjonoe
head of the lino and they presented a very
flneappearanee. Never before in their his
tory were they accorded such a welcome aa
that or today. Their magnificent precision
tnd splendid drill was such aa to command
anplsuse, buk probably in memory of
their recent record,they were roundly cheered
nil alosc tho route.
Accompanying them was the first pollco
patrol wagonjever constructed, and in recog
nition of its aid In increasing
the efficiency of the forco its appearance was
llhewlio mado tho occasion for cheering.
Following tho police were tho local military
commands tha veteran organizations bringing
up the rear. Rx-confodontoa, to the num
ber of forty, met at their assembly room at
No. 11 Washington street, at 0 o’clock this
morning, and with tho American flag at their
you slip. If you ain’t a dead mao, jren'ro I ““ '?Y, h ,ho American flag at tboir
worse. Your back’s brake or it's laid you up head formed In line and marched to the Tro-
for life. Lucky for you If you knocked your | rao f^ house, where floral tribute*, largo and
on hotter than if sho got a cripple to support! I ^yMnoficfiSSnJtfepok where it took the
her and him and the children too. I train for Oakwood cemetery. A iium-
i too.
Now this day I tell you of, this sleety day, I
woke, for I was miserable In my mind, and I
.anted to headquarters for any orders for tho
day. It was a terrlblo slippery day. But I
__ ' tho .
i-actory.’ For sho had a ahino to asethe
' 1’earl of the Necktlo Factory;” It had ru
hundred nights; she'd talked about it a sight
I givo a dollar for
"Why. what’s the matter, Annie?” says I,
for she didn't uy much to me. “What alls
to make out liis condition; maybo her Aril'
would let her—for I know hor father war to
home and would look after her—and sol oomo
away,
I como away, and homo I coma acrost tho
ferry, and I looked np at tho start, for it was
aimut tbntwhen I got to It. Wa d hal a great
deal of anow, and blow. There’d boon a
lower of aloft. They’d kept me pretty busy.
Ma> bo It was along ot being 'busier thou
tie so regular
usual end of not seeing her quit ...
that Annie tnd him madsuptofar. Ithought
so afterwards. Girls like bein’ remoiubirod
of. Lord knowe I nover forgot her—used to
with I could. But there’s cue thing I’ve
noticed about girls. They want to bo told
things—they’re tlist way. Then's another
thing; teems as if thslr minds was Insulated ou
the subject of bniiness; they don't make con
nections on it. Seems as if they thought a
man could earn his bread and butter makin’
love. If It comet this way. ao'a 1 was on daty
And hft WfllftlP. hfi'ii Hits nm* fiksM (ftl...- L.
and ho waa off, he'd run over there. Then he
hoarded pretty nigh her. 8ho lived in East
Boston. I lived in Russell street, myself, with
my married sister. 8ho'tawiddor My, and
my boaid helped her along. He had chances
against me of running in by apellt. Coma to
think or It afterwards, I guess ha made the
moat of ’em.
Now thla time I tell you of I was going' to
takehertothatheaytre. She waa very food
of tho theaytro, and I’d aald we'd gofirst even
you, dear?"
Sho woo setting on the sob in hor fsthor'o
setting-rooin for her rtop-motbor waa scolding
of tho baby In tbo front chamber, and wo was
by ourselves.
Bo she turned hor pretty head and looked at
ir.o and tben she looks away. Booms as 11 she
did and didn’t Seems as If she would and
wouldn’t Seems aa If she should and shouldn’t
—tha way a woman does.
"You didn’t comes Wednesday,” so she aays
to sr.c.
"I couldn't come on Wodnosday,” aays I to
her, “I done my best You ought to know It
1 waa clearing trouble under Charloa river
bridge. I done the beat I could.”
"Well,” she aays, "I want o’ Wednesday,
J'v« seen the play. I’ve teen the ‘Pearl of the
Necktie Factory,’ and I don't know’s I care to
too it stain,” tha says. “Yon could have coma
if yen'd tried bard," tha says. “A smart lei-
coming over—and I wont from hurt to i
and I went from mad to mad, and then I went
from mad to tenor—lost hs ahold got h*r after
all. And I cursed him for I could havo killed
him. I cursed him on that foray, all tho way,
I seemed to say to him:
thought maybe It didn't matter for 1 was:
n.iflrmMo along of Annie and Mm that bad got
my girl aw ny from me. I hated him, I had
bated him over nigh tears* I listed Jtlm come
morning, and J batu—hate—liatnd film n-,' T
walked along, that way, a* you’d tn,i
music. My bate and mo kept step hummsc of
him and Annie.
Now tbit Is the way wo do If, They solid us
out according to tho Job, and If there'* four or
flvo of us, ws're what you call n crow. If
Die
■hero’s a good many needed for any purpose, I ,”,5 tll " ««I" ,lt b°‘>z omtf
you'd say wo were a forco. Bat a trouble mm I d^d .^ i ,' iJi lf r'"‘?'i L n , wh
by himself, it V, 1 ."MV i '?,?
low iike you are (She did call me a smart fel
low, don't you see?) he can do a thing if na set
a theaytro, and I’d said i
fog, Icould fix lr. So It was tohoofs Wedear-
:"K, iomiwii* iiz i‘. no is was to os ora wodass—
dayrar a Saturday, and If I couldn't lot her
know—her being In Eaat Boston—I was to do
the bast I could, her being ready to go ono of
— * .bio '
•hem two nights qnlts agreeable and me to
out to. 1
"There’s one thing "aays I vei7slow, for I
was that cut, "there’s one tniug tec smartest
man can't do; he can’t make a girl reasonable,
If she won't bo.”
“If it’s so bad ss that,” says the, “I wouldn’t
waste your vallyable tlrao sitting hero. May-
be you can spend It better," says sho, - and so
can I, sir”
And upshegetrand 1 saves the sota, and off
tbo goea up stun.
"Yon’ll be so polite to excuse me," the aays,
"my stop mother desires mo to scold the baby
for ber this evening, on ao muntof her neuro
logy having struck to her brains.”
"You went to tbo theater with Charley Sett-
UE WAS BIGOEt) Cl> IW ALL HH SIISDIY
CLOU.”
csll for her. So, of a Wednesday, I couldn't
go, for ny chief bo seat am out tracing trosble
under Charlra river bridge for a wire wss
down from tha lea that bothered us consider-
tb)y and I was to work late and drenched
through—and It was tarnation cold—end whto
' got borne to Botscll street and got my tapper
that bound to you not to go with
who I please,"she aaya, “nor I won’t bo in a
burry neither.”
Ma'am, they socm little tbioga to get bo
tnet n a man and tha girt lio liked. Don't
think they ever did teem to small at they do
now I como to tell ’em. If It had been a big
thing, I'd bars known what to do with It—
something Hko a runaway horse, or an art-
louche, or a follow 1 could have bit, or some
thing Ilka that. But it wasn’t nothing bat
that little thing—the way a girl’s mind work
ed, I’m a big fellow; you Me; but all my
muacla wasn’t good for that! against that
atrangs, small, pretty creature in tha working
of her mind. I could have carried her In tbeeo
here anna from Button to San Francisco; 1
coaid have climbed to the top af a seventy-five
foot telegraph pole with h-rand held her there
In a thunder storm—but there I tot like o baby
onthoaofy, beaten by the working of hor
mind.
I got my hat and left. There srasn’t noth
ing else to do. I got my bat and cleared
out Into tbo street end there I walked and
walked. I sras raging mad. I waa mortal
bulk I went from mad to hurt and back
again from hart to mad like I ahonld die for
it. I'm a alow man in my temper, bat whan
it's up, I taka It oni-.remo way with my feelln’s
—aim'd hart my foelin’a. She never hurt me
that way till that time. I didn't know tho
could. Sho had ber llttlo tantrums and little
ways with me; but sho never got my fcaliu's
liko they wss that night
Now I'll toll you. Whilst I was walking up
and down ootalds and raging to myself, I taw
, nan come np and ring her door'
idle sudden to my
overboard. Let us be! 1
For it seemed st if ho was on dock beeide
me, and I felt about In tho dark ot it I’d
him. And I flung my arms actors tho
as if it waa I flung him ovor. And I
down as If I are him going under. And I
watched tho paddle-wheel at If It drawed
him in. Bat 1 caned him for I hated him.
1 think I had a tort of fovor io my brain for
I never wanted to kill a creature before In all
might to happen to him to Ira mending troublo
aomewharea by himself. Yon might bo o trouble
man and you might tee a lot of poles blown
down—lor wbtn one goes sometimes the rest
go liko aa they ware cardt set up—and yon
might go and notify tho chief, and he'd send
a force to mend tho trouble, but you bo might
her of membera were nccrraipvuloil
by their wives and children, who boro
lntlulrarmsaprofnalonof cut flowers mid
growing plum*. Tho scone wu u touching
ono, Tho most noticonblo plocowuv * broken
pillar rompoted of choice flowers, At Italntao
was a, banner 0 r (now; whlto;«llk lata filled:
WolVinft-rly Bcniouhor Our Do ad." ftour
jp-CobfudcIiits Association of f'hh:.»go,
Deiido thin cam a insgnlliconl ito-m* oT div
ers fully six fret in height, next tu whl :h waa
a hnnncr of htu* silk bearing tho iuscrlption:
‘Wo Honor tha Brave,” flrom the Ex-Confod-
riato Association of Chicago.
Tho train r( ached D-kivood shortly before
noou.'Front tho depot tho ox-conf. dtrzt is pro-
whleh tho un>
, .s marked by •
nronnmeatnnoounti.il I.v tho st.-itno of a sol
dier ot "iioradi reok” lion tho floral croaa
was homo and silently dopoaltod at tbo base
of tho atatoo. Flowers ware scattered ovor tho
graven and now the large pro-
cctalou moved toward the oxtrams
•oulh end of the burying ground! whoro
•to Un the remain* of 480
lew. In tho center of tho
if I'd got I Mud ranjbo to somo point oport to act aoms I IJASSSfrilGE
10 railing I miacnief right, you'd act your eye on. Maybo I - — —
I ioolcod you'd go too polo to guy it ovar-that’a to h rtHnH t M ??■ S thtb f excop *
ru.an it car to another no.a-to k«o It I Tntt
futon it ovor to another polo—to keep It
steady and to mend tha break, and to stop tbe
rest Irani going, and maybe you might be up
to top of thla polo by yourlelf alone and it
might bo;it wu a hlgh|polo, don’t you «ee? and
_ tbrro you ore.
or ir it wu an old hen, I didn’t liko to do lk I Now than, this dsy I speak of, I wu ordered
Buk nta’am, I could havo wrung hit nook, or 1 I to tbo Sooth Knd for there had Man the htvoo
conld have atompad on him, or if I’daMu him I to pay np along therein tbo region of tbo
under a locomotive injine I wouldn’t have I city hospital, whore those high polos ore—
cared, I bated Charley Scattorgood. I wanted I we've got somo beautiful pole* at tha South
‘' * Ire * * -■- " ' “
my days. If It wu a kitten or a yellow pup,
. .... - ... • ■■■ 't like to do It.
him to die. I went ifou mad to murder in
toy heart upon tho ferry book on help moiled.
Ma’am, where do you think them tblog<
come from, plumb I Into a mau’e toul ? If he
wit a ttcady man and tried to do hit dooty,
■'* *" " ‘ itla
and like hit fellow creatures aud lied goal—
thoughts llkeotber folks and nevor wished no | I turn:
barm to no tuan. Soema aa if It were a braiu
dlrd In the lontlieni cause. Tha members of
tbo aaamflatlon gathered around tho mound
•ed whim they uncovered their heads tho
floral pillar waaravarently brought within tho
circle and placad on tha mound. .
Frctldent Forester tben zddrMSod tho as
sembly In the following words:
"In all sen, at all tlmn. In all It:
imp la. rifor end hrmUai bare L.
yatnars point with prtdo to lira spot
. son; were slain la daiknao of ibolr e
trouble way out tooanl Uotbury for Ibowiroa I ISWiSSvlMKfJJiSiif
down along of tha aloct-atorm and wo were I »*moo>««• t/vi
prcttyhuiy—iDd allatouco, for I waagolngby, I tadrt, quietly and unoMtalatkmsIy,
1 at a hone-car driver atop hla ear and point I tribute of respe^' ----- -
End. So my chief hs aant me to pick out
rib
waa a mad man—11 it la a girl. Haems a
ain't you that love her i t’a a devil or an aogal
■au t jvu »u«i> tutu uci ,| is * m uofii ur an aujivi
love* her; ano ho ongola you or devil* you cud
there you he!
Well. Bo mu n’t on the forry*i»3*t. Ho was
setting there bcaldo of her iu her rather’H wit-
tlng-roonj. Drunk. Aud calling of hor Nan.
Ho I didn't murder him, for it waan't handy;
and I went home, lor my aUter th«t was a will
rada^qulatljraml uuoftantatloinljr, to pay oar
tribute of rc*)*et to the bravo and heroic men who
tot&lrMh«a!”” 0B#Wb ° 1*0003 ho
staring aid two or throe ibor atopMd'and’wA I Hot. Robert To Coyle, chaplain of tho
Ml iMkrdup 7 stepped, end wo j WM?ta oon, then offered ancWutand for-
And tbonlaco a sight I never oow before nor
I don’t know. I core to an it every Joouary hatred mar b.v?M?n irelvld'di rlS
bis whip upward over yonder behind me'and
iod and looked. And then I see folks
it to the cat, and to 1 went l
sleep. But I givo tho theaytro ticket* to a
horse car driver that 1 waa acquainted with
that bad a girl that iquintod. It sacrucd • pi tty
to waste ’em.
every Jaonary
n» ruing neither.
It waa a vrry high pole. I knew that polo.
I’d bMn np Ik time again. It waa an olgbty-
foot pole. It was all glared over with tho Ice,
and it shook against the wind. Tbo wires were
down.
Vpat the top of that there pole there
Waa a man. I'd ought to aay there
bung a mao, for quick aa I act
aye* on him I know it wm all np wrllh
■ lat man. It waa a toouhle man gone np to
we an thankful that I
„ .. iloveofouronaoounuy.'*
l’rctldant Forester than aald:
"('omradre.wataOire today to pay tbe tribute of
^jur tore amnbefiomajje of our lean totbomcaa-
tha members of tha association replied In
concert:
{ “We corat to pltoo garlands upon tbo gran of
« bravo Atntrlcau soldier, to exalt valor and to-
Plre to all tbo deep If— *
ioms. Those wboworo tb
a nan come np and ring I
tight for thorn wasaatrert-
r-bcll. He como
quit _
light opposite her door, and ha com# flash!
beneath it all to ooce. Ha waa rigged op Io all
hie Sunday oloao and bo had blarsted early
and Into dry clom, and decent to show myself
I had
to her it was going on to nine o’clock, so 1
drink. It ain’t aenac. Bat Charley ha had
1 him either.
his sprees; nothin’ uevsr banned
I'veaacakun ao far nndei ha coaldn’t walk
straight to ditt«r.iod h tfi crawl not onto lira
arts to mites twist or Caiten guys or any
to pat It off. So it cobu Seterday night and I
a mild night aud
got ready early, for It waa L .
pleasant, and I waa to a harry, sad I hurriel
a man decs whan he's going to Ms”girl, for I | on her
her sinoa Monday, and it secure
hadn't seen ber since Woodsy, and it see use 1
to me aa If it wne n good white.
So whan I got thorn to bnr father’s home—
for her father la n (ton# cutter in Digger nod
DownaeomoiMeynrd, and ha does a steely
business and brought her up matt pertlkkler,
J close and bo bad blarsted early
o eras n handsome follow, aod I
didn’t need no spiritooal mejtrnt to tell mo it
waa Charley Scattorgood. Wonetekohlm!
Sle como to tbe door beraelf. Sho did. She
wasn’t taking care ot no atop baby. Bht hsd
her things oo, ead her little beltatahUwise
r rhurt hair, nod she wore n little
on ncr inert nair, sou tan wore a little green
gown, she had. ber Bondar gown with filin’,
on it aradn af fur ar feathers and there aha
•'soda, far aha teamed to bo going aoma whores,
md I heard him uv:
"Hilton. Nan ! ’-for hs did, ha caUed bar
Nan. But I had alaays exited her A ante. Sirs
aalcetatorm.
like tho Evil til that night, aud corns morning,
if you wav to look out, it war liko forking on
n world of ice that made you thiuk of n crea
ture froten dead; liko it waa tha corpse of n
tus» saw A.-si Itwu, imu aw mas« bus I.UI j’30 Ul ■
world. It waa the worst slaot-atorm wo bad
that winter, for I had a reason to remember.
1 said I'd tall you what a trouble man la.
Hu’s ono of them detailed to pick out trouble—
ttat’a the way the name como to bo given to ua.
Tbu telephone batlrunr to a mighty accidental
business; something happens all Mrs time.
First you know your Hum won’t work. Maybo
. wss with blm only tbs fores to work to
tbe Inorth’srdx, where the other pole* htd all
gone down.
My heart como Into my montb’whcn I nw
that man, and my marrow frees within raa for
when I looked, I saw him fling his arms—that
way—and topple. Whan I raw him,for hs foil
foriards on hla face against the orose-arms of
thr poles, both arms abont Ik and hind of corns
together liko n Jack-knife—so-and there bn
bung, aa helpless and aa a«ntolaw aa thobnrted
dtad.blm eighty feat above tha ground.
" He’s dead I” r
spIra Uf all tbo deep'love far our ebuhtrg and
asuSsM&M 1 sifttasf s?
upon one untied country and united people, with
MJtt
association and their comrades grouped around
. ithaua
It. The confederate graven ware then strewn
with flowers and the assembly broke up.
The last basinets of tho day area the adop
tion of a motion that all the commit!
ahonld bo prepared to report In fall at 2
" He's dead!”' cried tha hEmTifon I
Bat the conductor aald- * r * ceM unl11 9 0 clock
the trouble man that have to find out
wheren They keep tu for that purpose. That’s
our Job. It ain’t an easy Job. Wharoeomerer
•ni) hiiwromftv#? that Hns’i fint Af Itlltar fmm
and auwfomever that lina’a out of kilter, from
Boston to California, that’s oar baslneot to find
oat. Mayka it’s broke by wind; mayboitgirs
way under the ice; or it’s beaten down by
snow; or it’s Brack by lightning; or it'scroai-
ed sohrawhens by somebody alas’a accident—
tors# telegraph company’s had bad lack and
“He’s drank I"
“Ha’s In a faint!" arias somebody.
"He's in a fitl" aaya soma ona.
"Jin's got tho cramp I” I heard • fallow say.
” He's flora with tha weather!’’ aaya a wo-
Bjjui xolof by,
“God havo many on him I” aays they all.
‘ He’ll drop—he'll drop la a minute—.”
” There I” rays they. “Ob, look as him.”
(To beoon tinted.)
morning.
telegraph company':
tied yoo np; or ll r t got extebad beneath a
bridge, for wo havo to work under water aa .
well st over air; and yon wouldn’t beltovsIt of
a telephone wire, bow It can marl If It sate oak
There’s nothing tfcnt equals tha snarling ca
pacity Of a telephone win MI know of nates
It's n woman with the neurology. Hearns na If
them wires wen so many men-folks trying to
crotchet; they don't taka the rtff’iar stitch,
bokthey ora op a tot of yarn in making oi tha
—■ rdlnary pattern. They’re pretty
moat extra-ordinary pattern. They’re pretty
stiff, and they slash snout a goad deal to wind
and water.
Did you ever happen to think, ma’am, of a
slippery wintry moratog, what it would bn liko
if yoo waa In our business? There’s more
bus-torn goes on over your hesda that* days
tbixk folka Z
: ranch abont ik Thom’s
a sight of pity goat to sol ton and such like
tod firemen and these and I'm not denying
they .deserve it. But oar boaiaaaa ain’t aa
they A*
wdl uLdantoad in folks' ml ad to feel aaya
Cotton Head roar Thousand Years Old.
Pome rime ago Hunaat Oox forwarded to Hantlor
Brown Horn Egypt a package of ration wad that
had been Brand entombed with a mummy. Tbo
mommy belonged to tbo race ot tha Pharaohs, and
hsd been pronounced dead four thousand yean be-
fora Hr. Cox discovered tha ramalua Three of the
lead ware teal by Senator Brown to
Dr. CoimaRy, of this city, and wart doly
submitted to tbo ten of sun and
■oil, Tfaay were pleated to tuba, flllad with highly
fertilised dirt, and wan carefully watched and
watered fora period oi thirty days. In spite of
this, tbe seed failed to apront, and they wan finally
dog up and examined. They wan Iliad with dash
endUisnrppotad that (hegann nr Ufa that once
bed existence In Urcir frail shells had pamed away
utterly. Hut who can tell? lilt not lair to suppose
U-aia cotton seed which had bean entombed With
a mummy for four thcosaod years would require
•t hast a ihoiztad rears to garatiaate. Let ua be
Just, art n to aa Egyptian satloa seed.
The Pimlico Poisoner to Demamd.
From lira London Fall Mall Gazette.
Tbe seventeen offers or marriage which Ifrrn
Adelaide OartleU la said to have received during
tha law weak, toclodlng one from a clergyman,
merely Illustrate and rapport the argument ot
Buckle that human actions are as much subject to
uniform laws aa the count of the start. Buck
oflkra of marcltge always toclodlng one from a
clergyman, an lire Invariable fortune of Ufilas who
aregaeeoaod of poisoning their husbands or loratm
The somber tof seven teen has i
treated tan-fold by ibis lima. If u
the recorded experience
A Tidal Wan of Tornadoes.
From tbs Das Molnea, Iowa, Laadar.
It Is begtonlag to be admitted that tbs In
crease to cyttoora Is inland no!apparent. A
gnat many theories bars beta advanced to ae-
conalforth Eleetridiy generated by railroads,
denudation of fcrwU. cultivation of the toll end
odation of Curtate. taUlratlon or tha toil and
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