Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17

reach Chicago at noon; would pur
chase the organ that afternoon
would complete his other purchases
on Monday, would leave for home
on Monday evening and would
reach Grangerville at 8 o'clock.
III.
A TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGE.
About 6 P M. of Saturday the
excellent wife of the Deacon was
engaged in complex household af
fairs. The two youngest children
aged two and four respectively had
become entangled in vigorous row
over half-eaten apple.
Mrs. Granger was chivairous
mother who always espoused the
cause of the weak against the
strong. She therefore seized upon
Hezekiah, the four. year.old tyrant,
and, after few words of matronly
advice and warning about his duty
to his little sister, che proceeded
calmly to invert the young man,
preparatory to accentuating her
suggestions as to fraternal duty
with slipper.
At the precise moment when Hez
ekiah supremely agonized over the
impending catastrophe. had opened
his thorax, and was emitting his
loudest yell, there came a ril g at
the door.beIl. The upl,fted slipper
wrs poised moment in mid.air,
and then descended, but not on the
spot whore the sensory nerves OF
Hexekiah were already tingling in
anguished expectancy. Instead it
dropped to the floor, and Hezekiah
suddenly found himself proper side
up with cuticle intact.
Stop your noise you bad boy,
and just see how the room looks
and pick up them things and wipe
little sisters face aud now you be
quiet, do for PHYS sake, CIRCULATED
the good lady without having time
to pause for comma or semi-col.
on; and in whose mind the ring a,
the door bell had conjared up vi
sions of callers with her house in
the disorder of Saturdays cleaning
up for Sunday.
Internally anathematizing-in 6
strictly moral and religious way
the i'll taste of callers on a Saturday
she gave her hair brush before
the glass, gathered up an a-mful Of
things lying about and dashed them
into closet, whose door she closed
with bang and then she responded
to the bell which bad been runa
again impatiently.
A messenger handed her an en-
velope whose familiar dirty yellow
color and printed lines at once char
acterizad it as telegraphic mes
sage.
Visions of train smashed up
and the husband of her bosom 9
MANNED corpse; visions of death
among kindred in Vermont; visions
of death among kindred in Iowa
flashed through her mind as she
took the message and tore il open
with nervous hands.
She read it once without compre
bending it's import. Then she read
it again more slowly; and her face
became flushed and then an ashy
white.
1t was dated at Chicago and ran
as follows:
'Had my pocket picked and have
lost all my money.
A. GRANGER
Alas for the organ
Alas for the bright expectations
of represslng the bell,gerent Calvin
lists
Alas for that contemplated fete
the song of the soprano and the so,
10 of the youthful cornet player.
The news spread. The Baptist el
ement of Grangerville put sack
cloth on IFS body. ashes on it's head
and scraped itself with a pot. herd.
The Presbyterian element O
Geangerville gave no sign. Presby.
terianism never smiles.
Ill.
IN CHICAGO.
IL becomes now the painful duty
of the historian to transfer the
scene to Chicago.
At high noon Deacon Grange.
dismuunted from the cara, entered
an omnibus and was driven to The
Sherman House. He entered his
name on the register in fair bust
ness hand:
"A Granger, Grangerville.'
Have a room, sir2' said clerk
with his hair below the plane of hi.
left ear combed up and over SO al
to invite particular attention TO {
bald place on the summit of hii
head.
81 don't know yet responded the
good deacon as there ran through
his mind, that perhaps before nigh,
he might encounter some of hi,
Baptist friends who might invite
him 10 spend the Sabbath with then
at some of their homes. Take my
sack and coat he continued for thl
present, and I'll decide on a room