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IIE WEPT WITH BILL
A REPORTER WHO WAS VICTIMIZED
BY A SHAM CORPSE.
In Ills thimbles lie Stumbled 'Upon a Sol-
itary Male ateurner Sobldog Over a Wax
I)oItin a Italie Ooftio,
is discourngiug to a young man who
/' thinks he is smart to bloseom out sad-
, denly into a low-browed, driveling
chump in a community where everybody
knows him. That is what happened to
me down here during fair week and it
will be n long lime before I cart catch on
again with the hold I had.
31otimouth was the home of tuy glad,
joyoue boyhood, and though there were
but few leafy -doll and babbling -brook
episodes etrung through my early life I
was glad to drop in on the old town. I
was also pleased to drop out again when
they got through with me. Several
years ago a thirst for knowledge drove
me out into the world to lay in a store.
On several occasions, the last of which
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was my advent into Monmouth on a
pass, I felts that I had both bands
clutched full of the oarth'a alack; but
later developments show that it was but
a frail tail bold on one of the tags. Be-
fore leaving home I occupied myself
during the winter in the plow factories
and the gladsome summer -time I toiled
With the oection gang tamping ties with
the handle of an Amos No, 2. After n
lapse of pare I suddenly flashed in on
the town attired in a $30 suit, a repor-
- ter's star, and wearing a patronizing air
which my folks said was very becoming.
Then I got bloated in the head, and
when not engaged in sharpening a hand-
ful of Resorted lead -pencils on a street •
owner I stood with one hand under my
coat-tails and pressed the other on my
brow as though arranging my thought -
waves for fluent delivery. This course
made me very popular, and when I got
sueked in the people all felt ' sorry for
Me.
The way I got done up was this:
About ten days ago, shortly after com-
ing home. I took a walk ono morning
out to Cedar creek, throe ranee north of
town, where I used to fish and hunt for
hickory -nuts. While stombling through
the woods in the vicinity of Paynes old,
ruined mill -dam I came upon a
one -roomed shanty, standing in a grassy
hollow a few rode back from the road.
There were po signs of life about the
place and a tiny, open grave under a
huge oak tree near the house, with fresh
earth piled up alongside of it, gave token
of death.
Impressed with this and the strange
stillness of the place I stepped to the
open door and loeked'in. There I saw
a sight which I thought would haunt
me for years,
The room was almost naked save for
a rickety bed and a wok stove. On a
block of wood in the middle of the room
stood a snuill, rough coffin of undressed
pine with the lid leauing against the
foot. A big raw-boned, ehaggv-looking
man sat on a stool close by the coffin,
with his beck to the door. He ant with
his elbows on his kneem, and, with his
face burled in his liends, he was :lobbing
s though his heart 'would break. As
he didn't eeem to notice my approach, I
stepped gently to the coffin and looked
in. There lay the gold and silent form
of atittle girl, perhaps 2 years old, radi-
antly beautiful oven in tloth. The lit-
tle f ace, about which the golden eurls
clustered in wavy maseee. looked like
tinted wax in its placid loveliness. The
long, dark lashes rested in vivid con-
trast on tbo marble cheeks, and the pale
lips were parted inth peacefulaniSe,. as
thoughthe death slumber Whom dis-
turbed by the soft ruetle'of an angel's
wing. The tiny lingers'held a bungh of
flagrant wild fiowera, plucked and placed
there by loving hands.
But what went straight to my heart
was the rude attempt to supply the little
corpse with a shroud: This was a sough,
shapeless gowu Saddened by clumsy
hands
from n pair of old blue overalls;
for the pocket, worn throttgh fr000 car-
rying rough objecta, Was visible on one
side of the tibia. The inside of the
coffin was trimmed with bits of muslin
doer sacks tacked on with old-fashioned,
leather -headed, carpet twice Every-
thing about the place indicated that
eaunt poverty and misery . had long
await there. Never beforeeild (leper -
oath amoug me Lowly, lino wepi—
wept a I lind not for years.
Koine slight noise I mode attracted tho
attention of the men and 110 looked up,
Brushing the tars from the rough bard
with the mule or 13 10 hand he etraigh ten -
ed up We towering form COO pointing to
the Pottle lie said:
'titrauger, that box bottle nil I bed on
earth to love—my little fflt. title died
last night for wont of a mother's) owe
and now Pin loft to go it alone. 1 Oever
thought that (lath we)It(' 'eop in a
bolo like this end take the anuohlno out
of a Inittes life, but it did," und faIling
on his knette the poor 111011 threw his
arme acmes it anti burst lath a paselon-
ate fit of weepiug,
When Ito had quieted somewhat the
unhappy father told Inn how Ills wife
had 111 II away With a aranger w1%0 paid
BtoalLliv visite to the house while he Wila
out in 'the timber choppitig wood, 'Plod
was three mouths 10, 110 said, and since
then the baby limin 1 been Very well.
She hod died the night before and he
with going, to bury her in tho Mlle grave
under tho air tree in the morning.
When ho lied finished his etory, which
was a long one, he reamed hie old al-
titude of abject despair, sitting un the
tool with his head hanging low en his
breast. Taking ono last long look at
the little corpse lu the calm 1 quietly
dropped SO, all the change I had, into
the father's hand and loft him 'done
with Ills dead.
Night after night (l)nt baby face
haunted me hi my dreams, and would
often awake to lind tears on my cheeks.
I never mentioned the matter to any
one, for I was ashamed of my emotion,
but I naked after the name of the man
who lived there. Bill Rocks somebody
said his name was, nod be had lied
there a year or more. But as hehad the
reputation of being a tough characterno
one ever went near him.
This happened ten days ago and I had
• almost forgotten the baby until yester-
day, when I went out that Way agiiin.
In careful; back I thought I would drop
in and see bow Mr. Rocks Was coming
on. Everything was as it appeared on
my former visit on the outside and the
situation was the same on the inside.
But it changed shortly after 1 gqt in.
lust before turning oft the road to-
ward the house I caught a glimpse of a
man darting into the doorway. It was
Mr. Rocks, and when I wont in he was
sittleg by the same coffin in the saspe
old poeition with his heck to the door.
Tip -toeing over to the coffio I beheld
the same corpse of ten days ago, looks
Ing as fresh as ever. In fact, it wee too
fresh, and giving It a punch in the
stomach with my fist the blue eyes flew
open, then shut, while it gave out a
SIX•DOLIJAlt WBSP.
sech tettcliteg appeal to the
diall heart Mt pathetie PiCtUre
/1(
mama to steeping in the nue try with too
other, He Was very pleaeod, null said:
"Oh 1 that ie nice I now I need not be with
the children ay mom"
In the Summer of 111811 ell live boys had
a 01mi:tiling 'whitey with their 01001100
at, the bountiful °Kale of Oberbot, in the
'omit of Thuringis. Their father was
away.
A little fort wee built for them in a oar -
nor of tho gardens, with o tont and two
email eannell.
Tho three eldest, dressed in officer's uni-
forms, paraded in front of the fort. Then
while tho Crown Prince beat the drum, an
old soldier showed the other two how to at.
tack and defend the fort.
• Little Prince .A.ngustus \ Villiarn, who was
only a year and a half, wee demised in white
and wore a tiny helmet. Ile looked on and
clapped hie bands.
In Germany, every boy, whether ho is the
son of the Emperor or of a peasant, has
some day to be a soldier.
The Emperor is eery fond of his five
boys.
Almost his drat question is, when he re.
turns home, "How aro the boye."—Our
Little Mon and Women.
most unhealthy squawk. Mr. Rocks
stopped sobbing and jumped to his feat
just as I jammed another squeak out of
his wax doll. He looked at me with a
devilish grin on his ugly nuts; while I
tried to forgot that I' had wept over his
imported 820 corpse. It was a failure,
however, so I said:
"Sir, hand over that 86 at once or I
will have you arrested and thrown into
prison.
"The hell you will," replied Mr.
Rocks, reaching back for his stool.
"Make a sneak, you underdone squab,
or 111 jam your head so far down into
your abdominal cavity that your folks
will have to get a derrick to hoist it
I went. I complained to the authori-
ties and that's how the story got out.
'Squire Jim Plark, to wham 1 applied
for a warrant for Rocks, said he couldn't
issue it under law. If Bill Rocks chose
to sit in his own house and slobber over
a doll to a coffin, the 'squire said, that
Was his business. And if some wall -eyed
chump wanted to drop in and dump his
money into Bill's list and also help Isim
weep, why, that was no fault, of Bill's.
He didn't ale anybody for money and
there is no law to pnizili a man for
playing funeral in his own, house if he
Wanted to.
uNCLE SAM'S NEW MAILBOXES.
The Simple Device That line 1111514 Adopt-
ed by the Postmaster General.
The new postoffice street boxes that
have been adopted by the Postmaster
General will be put in position 110 00011
as a muificient number one be manufac-
tured, Tho patent was obtained by Mr.
Willard D. Doremus, and was applied
for as the result of a circular sent out by
the postoffice authorities in 1888.
The department was and is much dis-
satisfied with the present box, says the
Now York Herald, not only because it
gives bot lktle protection against the
weather but because newspapers cannot
be placed in it. Every ono knows the
custom of piling papers on top of the
letter boxes and the odd honesty that
protects them. In answer to the post -
office department's circular several hun-
dred designs were sent In to the patent
office, out of which the Postmaster Gen-
eral lies selected that of Mr. Doromus.
As may be seen from the cut, the box
Ws a pivoted pinto
s at one vole near the
Lop. When tho han-
dle (I) is pressed
down the plate (c)
swings up past the
flange (Ir). Ttm curv-
ed moment (j) swings
11 out, taking an open-
ing between its end
and the roof of the
the mail can be put.
hos: through which
But as the plate is
0101 hOltEKUS DE,- then up, the letter
mos or newspaper rests
on it until the handle is' relettsed, when
1( 10 Uropped iuto the body of the box.
It will be seen nt once that with such
a box robbery is impossible, for the box
can only be opened by closing the lower
part off. Of course,. there is a door at
the lower side for the postman to unlock.
The disk (m) is intended to mark the
hour nt which the mail will be collect-
ed.
The whole thing is simple, yet effect-
ive. It is strong and will not be opt to
get 0(1( 1)1 order. As the roof overlaps
tho top of the plate when the latter is
hanging down rain cannot get, in and the
mail is perfectly protected.
HIS CIRL IS TOO TALL.
With an Elongated Sweetheart the Cluing
Man Seeks a Remedy.
A young male persist: with a torn and
tattered heart writes MC pathetically as
follows:
"Dieuo ant deeply enamored
of a beautiful but tail young lady, who
In her tura thinks the continent of me.
But she is very tall and I am very short
of °Were. When I am walking 111 the
street with her the disproprinteness
height is the most appttrent. It nialiAls
ott 10 i vere . g:, toetteti boots:,
Mr. 14 11,1 Ire They luny givn some re-
lief. Or what do you think of the Wen
01 (00)1011144 allits? It
would bo tonnewhat
01 11 novelty to fete
a 81113(1 ming Man
00 Stifle prancing
armlet] whit his
best gui without
stilts, taut yours is
not a eolithry 0)1811
And the thing Might
reaotpcultiar.011—b0001111,
What are the per k
Dater eymptorns (11
the complalut, Mr.
Saudorff? You do
pot specify them.
Do you have greet 4 ton As km).
difficulty in holding your dear one's
urebrella on a rainy day? and does your
keen same of gallantry abhor the idea
ot letting her 10 1101(1 it for you, thua
permitting the little rain (0001)41 (0 perms -
late down via your back oollar button?
That's probably what you would have
alleged in an amended bill of partied,
lars.
However, it is 001 dIffioult to believe,
-
V without statement
to that effect from
you, than you ex-
perience gr e tit
mental and paysl-
cal pain whenever
s: you endeavor to
keep step with
emir elonelited an.
. 0080,
sseu
li • there ars very
remedies pro -
'8011110(1 for its
cure. If she knit
00001010110, SWEET" fat 118 well as tall,
anti if you are not very thin as well as
short, congratulate yourself on that
happy combination of facts. Also de-
rive much comfort in a negative way, if
it is 0 feet that she is not very thin ns
well as tall, and
that you aro not
absolutely fat as ,
well as short.
Then again you
might, if 3(00 11
possess a good,
healthy imagina-
tion, seek con- .
teinment from
the knowledge to:
tho( you are not
blessed with two
TEYINO TO 110031114
best girls, each a STEP.
foot or so taller ,
than you. Imagine yourself sandwich-
ed between them and ambling down
State street together.
I knew a young man ouce who was
inflicted thet wily. lie lived in ITtah.---
OhM.11,* T.01412'411. lo Chinann trepal..4
toot rents. :so 11 )11')) too trogar 01 the
shin 111,8 °Vet' I he temeettled foot the
cork one, teutheil lo the moue size ne the
perfect foot, end the toes imitated with
pods and springs, does not betray itself.
People with lint feet may hews their tre-
etop reified, and those who only desire
alight elevation can have it put In the
heels of their shoes, only, inetead of be.
leg pet outaide, the cork is put inside
the hoot
neaten Triumph.
HOW ONE MAY BECOME TALL.
On ingenious Device That Otte lie Used
by the Short Penal..
Holt OW cheeks and wrin I e10 eerie -
ward thitiett, writes 31100 31 u lel te.i in
the Fal 1 11411 Budget. Le.1 their
best to prevent their appe 0 • te, The
clever oues :teem to be able io :1 off
the wrinkles, but hollow cis mun-
pletely 110119 their Skill. A .
who lives at lei letston is prov ;1 lies
whose cheeks nre hollow is to 1.0011
pads. These pads ere atte011,-1 t • tint
-
ural or artificial few 11 by nu 1.1* tiny
gold springs. ',floe of II pad
is 0 (rifle heavy, .0 every 1111114r else
guaranteed to int 1 ye the personal ap-
pearance. A pair of olds crod some-
thing like a5. The 111-1,0er of the face
pad said that genii, nen ns well as ladies
are wearing the. One gen tote:nun
had never looke any t iti z hot eau-
daverous until Ito (001 10 Ilse pad.
Now lila checks are rimmisti liko
a cherub's, awl he ...toes ten years
youuger. The cer-ons thing about the
face pad is its inflexibility. It to made
of the some material as 1111, emu of a set
of afflict:it teeth.
There is no need fur the sing(. Arson
to be overlooked oe nenoun I of want of
stature. It is pu isib.0 add es Much
as four inches to your stet ore by the
Oremerinn boot. designed for I he eleva-
tion of the lowly, The invention is an
odd and ingenious otte. Instead of tack-
ing six inches on (0 )1 *meson's heels,a pair
Three maidens oat en a rook -ribbed shore
Of a fashionable waterlog place;
The (008(051 00 gowns these maidens wore,
Of cashmere, and muelln, and Mee.
And one or them mune from 0)1)0500 10(00
(011, weep for her pitiful Mtn
11r, 110' brow coiled up In &frown,
"0 Mit heavens! We frightfully hot:"
Said othiftemald who haNewd
iled from Po
d0(100
(She reared on high (181 00010131 form),
las,00liiiids:leton:seff,70%odfluegmbpta,atilowl,ITIght,
• Teo Boston girl looked up from her hoo)c
('Twits Dante he woo devouring).
And said, as she darted a ecornrul look: ,
"The sun's rap; are o'erpowering,"
—Bonen Poet.
Senator 1 ntcalls'm Oddities.
"There are two little circumstances in
connection with Senator Ingalls's speech az
the unveiling of the Grant monument," said
a gentleman just home from Leavenworth,
" that go to show his love of notoriety, his
desire to be considered odd, eccentric and ori-
ginal, and go far to explain why be is a
much -quoted, much -talked -of man. In the
first place he delivered his speech from the
top of the table which stood upon the plat.
form. His tall, Blender figure was clad in
O well -fitting suit of some light gray mater-
ial, and from the elevation he chose the
effect was striking. Mrs Ingalls knew it
would be. Then, as the Times stated, his
notes were written upon telegraph blanks.
Yes, upon telegraph blanks of many colors,
sizes and shapes. To the man who did not
know Ingalls ho appeared to say : "I dashed
them off during a moment's time I had this
morning , had nothing but a few scraps of
paper and really gave them no thought."
Now Ingalls probably spent some hours of
study upon the little speech ho made at
the unveiling and his peculiar and careless -
looking notes were for effect. It shows the
man, always superficial and deningogio."—
Kansa City Times.
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A Chiengo turns ood 1,831001041,
.11,0 015 informal tea given last week the
party of India discussed a very common
subject—dress—and of course considerable
was said. One visitor told of a comfortable
costume which she knew V01111 worn by a
lady in Chicago, who was an expert steno-
grispher and whose business took her out of
doors a groat deal. It consists of a full
suit of blaok tights, a divided skirt and a
drew, the latter nst touching the ground by
three inches, In this raiment ohe is per-
fectly free, looks the same as any ordinary
well-dreesed woman, and is not conspicuous
in any sense of the world. The chief eons.
fort to be taken with this style is the fact
that the woman is perfectly free. She does
not fear a rainy day or a muddy street, her
dress escapes all soil at the foot and she
does not appear in the attitude of the
woman who holds her dress up in one hand,
her umbrella and packages in theother,
and, then gets a drabbied skirt slier all,
—From The Indianapolis Journal.
Now York Otololitlk,S.
A Now 'York lVorld reporter who has
been doing Atlantic 01ITe, rsayie:
,1,he0
1100
many
New York men here,
t
t)
,,,,,s. ..• hough the 3)1000 10)88
more men than girls
as a rule. These fol -
1)1(08 are pretty far
1 5. gime 011 the road to
%inane dudism. One
Sn'I'dit.' w - m
---going hoe
ees'i 3i. 16, to.mor—"
"Aw--(long pause)
5(1000 11010 SOAK. —Aw."
"Yeas. Nobody heed, aolng to the
Ersuelt—lry 10 w 31? 0110 11)0 Mc) thou
'ir'',A( Pte' -11 1.:it'isly‘i'0.1(.k
11)ti.t.:little jthllson girl?
—A w,"
"IguiV un, voll kno 6. Doeso'l tatir
••Nsw 7 ill', tryt.• knew Y"
"Awske..1 our."
That WOO HU, and the swirl of the
crowd caught them up and carried them
%way.
OWE T11AT'86.
That is all the 'toleration I got, ex-
cept to show Bill Roan up in his Ain
game and warn'ethers front running up,
againet his funeral, Piton"( care Si:11C1'
SS. but Ido hateto weep fin nothlig.—
Mao Tiosse.'
GERMANY'S ROYAL CHILDREN.
Pretty Story for Children of This Country
to Wad.
The young Emperor of Germany, William
11., has five little boys. The eldest is seven
years old, He is the Crown Prince and the
• heir to tho throne, He will some thy be
Emperor of Germany, Ho is a fine manly
little fellow.
Germany is a very military country, and
the Emperor William is such a thorough
soldier that aria military disoipline is tho
order of the day in the nurseries of his little
people.
As soon as pattidoats are left off the tiny
boys are dressed in baby uniforms, and the
young Crown Prince looks quite like a
soldier.
When their father visits them in their
o(0ii quarters (as I appose I oughts to call
such a very military nersery) the Crown
Prince commands his smaller brothers to
"fall in "
Then Prederielt and Albert who are
gamely taro then Whites "fall Little
Prince Albert is stroll a mite that he is not
able to keep his position for long, and s000
trots away to his nuree'e side, But the
Ceovvn Prince end Prince ProderVek stood
still and starched like real soldiers: till their
fathers rearm their salute in prow faele
ion.
What the little Crown Primo (0011 tux
yeare old lie was Oven a bedrooni to himself
A MONT THORN
me, at times, feel that I am perfectly
ridiculous in the oyes of my fellow -man.
She down% seem to mind it a bit. What
am Ito do? What do you recommend?
Distractedly yours,
''SAIIDOEST."
This Is a hard one. Some people seem
(0 1)0 brought into this world for the ex -
pasts purpose of asking mo difficult
questions. But for my sympathy for
Mr, Saudorff I should utterly ignore him
and hie potter.
.As it is, the best thing I can recom-
mend to the unfor-
tunate young man
I1 is for him' to aug-
1 gest to his beloved
1 one that she under-
go amputatiou. If
she really loves
rltim, as she says she
illdoes. she will not
tt 'I refuse the loss phys-
_„ cells, of a taw
—tr y iiiches. 'Phis may
smut frivoltnte. lint
NO 11)188 1(10 TIES, it 1110't. EltlrOrae
08508 require 0011'11110 01800111'08 they any,
and this, arts:101y, in a case where the
eating off of the extremes themselves
000100 Poccssaty.
There aro few etternatives that nppenr
to ity mind at present, It might seem
feasible, too, for the young man to be
stretched ((111(0 inches. 1 have heard or
such onsys, but the exert formula is not
al loonl, and 11 1,01'1 well for the novice
011
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TO idAsit TEE MOUT TALL.
of entirely false feet made of cork are
put into tbo shoes. When the wearer
gets into them he or she is raised ac-
cordingto the irches of cork, Of course.
i
in titleinvention the original foot is
made to combine With the cork one un-
der the loather in such a manner that
the lino of demarkation is not percepti-
ble. The size of the foot is earthed, it
is true, and a larger boot is isecessary
with the cork "elevator" than would be
the ease naturally; but fancy having
four Melia faded to your height!
Of course, oven with those who are
moet ambitious to increase their height,
it is impossible that they should add
several inches to it in a day. So they
are advised by Mr, Cromer to grow hal
an inch at a time. liven this would be
sere to acaaion a little surprise, for
tunno of your acquaintances ore Wiwi
to notice suet' untoward growth. But
the offers a 'ago flekl for sim-
ulation. You can take off your shoes
With these "elevators" and no one he'
any the wiser, for the cork additions to
the feet Oro hidden in the stockings.
This principle is applied to the elebfoot-
ed with groat ingenuity, for instead of
n huge ploy cm* sob a cork foot is
mado, on the ton of Which the deformed
Presh From the Steerage.
lir.qtaa.10 (who has 1(,0 r teem no Orbs
outnI)—Ilegerl It's (((((101 1' 14P(.1 IL rale
Irish fsee 11110 side Di' :gather!
Where. are y en from ?"
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