Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-12

the GROUNDS TO avoid beng called on TO
ASST SC nStherenovai.O Wounded andr
dead. sy1I ~ -itrTei isia..l ar .olZ
1--WE got o light wagonsn said JIM.
going baek 60 therioctor. almost choked.
with anger. MAY bring that?" - -
'YeS-quick"
The seats were torn out with little
ceremony. Straw was placed in the bed
of the wagon. upon which Harvey was
tenderly laid. Then the horses were
led round to where other SUI erers lay
and two more were added to the load.
Again Jim's heart grew OK at sight of
torn, bleeding bodies and anxious
friends trying to improvise comforts and,
bring some reliefs and he turned his half
dizzy head the other wayas they passed
building in which he knew were lying
those suddenly called out of the sum.
shine and the summer air and the bust
ness and the pleasure.
"Come back" whispered Mr. Glenn
rs Jim took his slow way to the town.
There hardly-one of these heather
drivers will bear hand."
Jim came, back and carried two more
injured men, unknown by any one
there, so far as he could learn. Then
again for others whose mourning friends
followed in a carriage. At night, over
excited by the sad scenes through which
he had given such ready, self-fOrgetting
aid, he went to his bed, feeling as if he
never could close his eyes again. But
sweet sleep watches in kindliness on the
steps of such, and the country boy S
rest was unbroken by dreams of the
days tragedy. When he awoke the
sun was beaming as benignIy as If it
had not last shone on hearts Swallowed
while time should last on what it had
then witnessed.
He first went to the hotel at which he
had left Harvey, and was cheered by
hearing fair accounts of his condition
and that his mother had come 10 him.
Then he turned his attention to his
wagon, spattered and dripped with the
marks OF his fear ul loads of the day be-
fore. 1t took him hours to wash it, re-
quiring such an amount of energetic
scrubbing that he soon perceived that a
thorough repamting would be necessary
to put it in condition to return to its
owner. 1t was not fit to offer for pas.
sengers now. He drove out to the fair
grounds, thinking he might see some
thing OF his seats, and did, indeed, spy
what looked like them in a huge pile of
ruins from the disaster, but they were
quite beyond reach. He caught sight of
| Harvey's father, who turned at his ap-
proach and gave him a warm shake of
the hand, but his attention. was instant
ly claimed again by those who passed
about him.
/ AS Jim turned his horses homeward
he was ashamed of himself that he felt
much depressed at realizing how utter
/ ly his expedition had been a failure in a
money point OF view. Ashamed that
I his heart, which had so stood still be-
tore the woe of others, could give a
I thought to his ownight Ioss. In his in
nOcent respect for the afflicted he had
not for n moment thought of applying
for what was Justly his due, and would.
of course, have been willingly paid for
his most valuable services in a tine of
such need. The loss would throw
him back year, perhaps more, in his
| pursuit of learning. But he was made
of the stuff which occasionally sends a
boy from the prairie or the Jog cabin to
the White HOuse--more of them to high
p aces in civil and military life, and.
perhaps, better, sends boys all over the
length and breadth of the land to fill
worthy p aces as exemplars of all that
is noble and honorable in Amer can
manhood.
4 Arrived at home he made terms for
the complete putting in order of the
wagon. This, with his horse hire, used
mp little more than he had made al
the fair before the accident occurred.
"Halloo, here-Jim? You're Jim
Brand, amt you?''
Yes" said Jim, thus hailed by a
farmland who drove up to his moth
er's gate and spied him at work in the
garden.
"Well, here then" He turned away
as Jim took bulky letter from his
hand.
"Any answer?' shouted Jim.
"Guess not. Not rs was told Of"
Jim carried it in the house and sat by
his mother as he opened it This was
nearly a month after his venture at the
fair.
Several sheets of paper, headed each
with the device of a steam-power and
business-like let ering. were covered on
one side with boysh-l looking hand
writing: From among these fell a
| 0Hi'hh PiOOO VI paper. Jlm nau never
seen many like it. but his hand shook
as. first looking at It, he passed it to his
mother.
This was the letter:
| DEAR Old FELLOW: Father wanted to
write to you just as soon as he could think
straight ABOUT anything, but | begged him to
wait III could do IL, so that s why you haven't
| heard from US before. Father expected 10 see
yeu again at the far. but couldn't find you.
| Other 'ople wanted you, too. They SAID YOU
di mt go tor your pay for helping folks. WHY
didn't your You were goose. Fathers had
| quite time finding out how to address you,
hut the Slerrvales told him
/ I've been brought home, but the doctors
| think III have 10 Ii still a long time yet.
don like IL at all, but mother says it sure to
! De all right somehow or IL wouldn't be so. Nv
mothers that sort. I'm glad she is l tn nix
| that lrt Is the best TO have. when you're in
| trouble and when you re out of trouble, too
But what want to tell you IN ST Of all is
that the Co. - that means, YOU know, ali the
| folks of the machine works, think you did the
| right up and down square thing by them and
by everybody else that day of the eXplC sion.
10 they send you this two hundred liars Just
| u make sur you didn't lose anything by il,
and father hopes its enough and ne says you
| behaved adm. raby. anl IL you ever want q
| triend yoa re to come to him, and lots more of
| that kind Of thug. RSfF y. s s Z
by the time In s letter reaches you you'll
find fiur f.,v-v alrs4