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m iVCL.xvm. 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 INDISTINCT PRINT ^ '1