The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-09
His Reasons for Standing.
(Danbury News.

i His Reasons for Standing.
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= There were at least half q dozen vacant seal
'' in the car when he entered it, but he occupie
none OF them, preferring rather to stand u
IN the passage-way in the most rigid and I'm
: compromising manner, which strange con
IS duct many OF the passengers took for vanity
! when they discovered that he occupied bran,
new overcoat with pockets in the sleeves
But the young man was far from beint
proud and vain and pulled up, notwithstand
ing his contradictory conduct; for far down il
his. humble soul there lay buried burning
secret that the world might never have known
had not our sympathizing nature drawn i
from him on the way home He was young
married man keeping house on ':tioor" uI
on the hill, and living as happily and comfort
able as could be with his pretty young wife,
who was one of these sensible and properly
educated girls who knew skillet from mu-
, sic-rack.
The last sudden cold snap had taken Sc
we're hold OF him and used him rather hard
so that when he came home from business
one evening be was one of the worst used up
men from cold that ever walked the earth
There wasn't bone of him but what ached-
one or two of them with suggestion of rheu-
matIsm-and his breathisg apparatus Was SO
stopped up that his head hummed like top
His eyes and nose were sorrowfnlly weeping,
his head hung despondently on his breast, and
the cold shivers. raced up and down his back
and legs with q wild scamper that made the
man actually quake. His joints ached so that
every motion was accompanied with agony,
while his snuffl.s and grunts of pain came
thicker than the objurgations of stage
driver.
"Why, Frank, what on earth is the mat
ter p said his wife, as he slowly aud painfully
limped into their neat little kitchen, looking
and acting very much like funeral process
sion.
"Oh, Tbe CUB sub dreffle cold," he re-
Piled in stihed accenta.
| "How'd you get it. pray?"
| "Howbi do dell?" said he, shivering and
shaking; 'I-I-brew. ew- ew- waugh duddo"
"Haven't you been careless somehow ?"
she asked.
"Do. Bid aroud sabe's udual and hab-
augh-ew-ew-a-a-ker ker-chew had hi
| obercoad cd wediebber wad oud doord,"
" It is strange" she said; "but are you sure
you've been CAREFUL"
eyed, berry-waugh- ew-ew-a-a-ker-
chew !' he replied.
"You must be; you know you're family's
consumptive, Frank"
"Ye-e-ker-ker-ke r-cheb I dow :; ad
thads wad IMAGES be anxouds do breag up
She snapped him up like fash
"Never mind what your mother used to do.
I'll mother you after supper with some good
composition tea and a hot mustard water foot
bath thatll just revolutionize you come
along up here to the table and eat your sup
per; feed cold, you know, and starve a
fever
"Yed," he said as he groaningly moved |
up to the table and commenced an alta tx |
that showed his willingness to follow the |
rule.
ing that q sick man had hand in it, and |
thereafter he went into the bed
room to disrobe preparatory to soaking his
feet and repairing to bed while she got the |
tea things out OF the way the composition tea
ready and the mustard handy, after which
she set to work to stir up the fire, as the
well-tilled tea kettle failed to boil with the
that she wished.
After prodding the fire thoroughly with
the poker, she thoughtlessly placed that red
hot instrument on an old Northumberland
chair close at hand. and went about her work
Just as a slim, stopping. cricky. grooming
ana muslin-clad man with shawl thrown
over his shoulders, and look of the most
woe-begone misery on his face came slowly
mping into the room.
"On by sud cold !" he said, hobbling
up near the stove and backing around in
ront of that old chair, he groaningly made
he necessary angle in his body. and slowly
md sadly lowered himself into q sitting
posture.
The poker actually trembled with joyful
and delight as the supreme mo-
nent swiftly approached, and every particle ,
md fiber therein spread out its little hands, :
10 to speak, and reached far up to him;
cached for him warmly and tenderly and |
oneingly, and worked its fingers in hungry.
earning sort OF way as he came down, and .
when the bllssful moment of intact came | ,
hey sprang for him with glad impulse and
astened themselves upon hun in the ecstacy
# that joyful mo nent. Then went up such
howl to heaven that all the policemen in the :
leIghborhood woke up, and people in East
Jew York held their breaths in alright and :,
horror, and said, "another murder p
A big piece of the Ceiling overhead came g
own with him when he reached the floor; .
where, pain-distracted and agony crazed, he =
egan wild race around the room, clutching ,
at himself and waving his body
u the air like dervish-moaning and sput-
ering and squealng and calling upon his :
7ife and all the early martyrs for relief and ),
weet oil and lint and consolation. till, hap :
ening to catch sight Of the sink, he made one
esperate rush, and sitting himself therein !,
ilu pounce lnaU Wade the iron snap, ne n
urned on the water and sat wringing his e
ands and kicking and squealing in perfect !,
-ansport Of agony. h
HIS wife had hard time getting both the
old and the fire together out OF him; but she h
nally succeeded, not only relieving but
ctually getting him to sleep, where he
reamed over and over again that Beslzebub
as after him with toastingfork heated to
Izzling whiteness.
" The Bloody Shirt-Long may it wave. =
by Senator Morton.