The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-15

and at last tried new drink the bar
keeper joked them about. Bess began
to cry, and father remem bered, perhaps,
that he had nothing to pay for anything
more, and in shame hurried US off. He
said he was so sorry,' and if poor little
sister was very hungry he would pawn
something. She said, No. no, papa /;
let rs go right homer
sShe looked all white around her lips,
and It was very hot; but we both were
afraid TO be left with father, and longed
to get him home. He had begun to talk
not roar and laugh before he lett
the saloon. Soon he staggered and
mumbled and pulled u here and there,
or half tumbied over us. People began
10 stare and whisper, boys jeered and
yelled, "Hii hi! Old Tipsyp / tell you
for two high spirited children it was
pretty hard. We felt it. Bess was like
little woman. She said: We must gel
him right to the station, and he may
wait there until the train comes. In
the depot We can sit each side of him
and hold him up straight She looked
like little broken white lily in the
blazing sun as she said it. A
policeman insisted upon arresting
him he was very kind and
went TO the corner near the depot
with US. We got there al last, and faith
er went to sleep. Bessie kept getting
dizzy, and said the benches snd the stove
were swimming in the air. There was
a refreshment table IN the room with
great sugar-sprinkled buns and cool
milk for sale. 1t seemed as if We must
have some, but when Bess put her little
stained hands in fathers pockets she
cotld not find one penny the bartender
had the last. make more of this be-
cause can't bear to tell the-Well, two
or three trains came in at once. We
walked father up to go and see which
was ours for G.. He could not think
at first and staggered about; then he got
into a great hurry, and tried to be very
smart and appear to know just where
we were to go. He was half ashamed
and half crazy. Lite Bess thought he
knew where TO go when he got out by the
tracks. A man pushed me one way.
Father must have started and sent her
ahead another An engine started, a train
backed; heard people groan, and 9TH
others cry. 'Where?' 'Who% I
rushed with the rest and I saw-O Ned
You think haven't any seRsitivenessI
Was 1t just the cruel great iron wheels
that had crushed my beautiful little sis
ter's body into a mass of blood and
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my fathers brain that sent her little
feet straight under that backing train !?
And you wonder I can stand being
sneered at when 1 say / hate i'll!
I did not know what il meant until q
brakeman picked up little straw hat
with wiited pink rose in it; then l
don't remember how we ever got home
or who told my mother. Poor mother!
Who left Bessie happy as queen in the
quiet garden at home.
''That was not the end of trouble,
either; but 1t was the end of my father
He drank-drank, drank, drank. Itdid
not kill him, but it made him almost i'd
lotto. A year after he was put in a ward
in lunatic asylum. For three years I
went with my mother once a week to
see him. People used to ask her why
she took me, and she said: That my
boy may learn to hate his fathers muir
derer. In old times some of a murder
ed mans family vowed TO slay the MUIR
derer. want Morris to give his life to
hunting down the devil of intemper-
ance'
1--WE took that poor silly creature sit
ting mumbling to himself, grinning or
crying from one days end to another,
cakes, fruit, anything he asked for.
Sometimes he would say: Give Bessie
some. Bissie likes cake And this is
the reason, Ned, am not afraid TO say
"No.' But its no reason why I should
not feel some things"
Ned's eyes were full of tears. He got
off the box and Grasping Morris's hand
said ~ will stick to you hereafter, and
you stick to me. I don't go off to any
drinking spree this day"