Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-04-21

painful. You must take this petl- |
tion to the President yourself. You
must start this afternoon. When |
you get there, go straight to the
White House. 1t will be senator's
day, and the secretary will tell you
the President is busy and you cannot
see him. You must answer: but
| must see him; / have a message
to the President from the Burkee
Times Then if he hesitates, show
him this card and tell him L sent
you, but don't say anything else
and L gave her one of my autograph
cards which had written on it, Isl
las H. Brown, managing editor
Burkee Times
She promised to do strictly as
had told her, lavished her thanks
as upon me, and then went away To
prepare for the journey. trusted
to the very oddity and "cheekiness"
of the management to secure her
an audience with the president, and
felt confident that General Grant
would pardon the man when he
saw that l was ready to employ
him again. Besides, had recently
visited Washington and had renew
ed my acquaintance with the Presl-
dent, and L was certain he would do
me almost any favor, for the Bur
kee Times was power in the west,
and even presidents were not slow
to heed its cOunsels.
Now the managing editor OF a
great metropolitan daily newspaper
is not supposed to be 'hdgety over
anything, but confess for the next
two or three days / was rather anX-
ious to know the result of my phi
lanthropic effort.
At last, one afternoon, Mrs.
Schwarz came rushing into my
room, the dust of the journey still
on her clothes, her eyes sparkling
like diamonds, and her face lighted
up with an indescribable look OF
Joy. She gripped a package OF doc,
uments in her hands and exclaimed
as she entered:
sOh, I've got it! oh, I've got it
Thank God and you. Mr.. Brown
I've got it! The pardon! Me nus
band is vree!
And then she repeated it over
and over, while tears OF JOY rolled
down her cheeks, and confess my
eyes felt pretty watery. ,.
'Well, well, sit down, sit down.
and tell me all about it, said In a
husky voice.
Mrs. Schwarz, after some gyra,
ton about the room, calmed herself
enough to be seated and tell me hei
story.
well. | goes to Washington al
, right. I go right up to de big Nltt
house. 90 up to de secretary and
dell him, Il would like to see d'
Bresident. I've a message for hin
, from de Burkee Dimes Den d'
secretary, he look very cross an M
saw, 1T is senator's day, you canno
see de Bresidentr But l say / mus
see him; / have message from a.
: Burkee Dimes and here is Meeste
9 Browns card, an he told me not {,
| dell you anything else, and hand
/ ed him your card. He looked at
/ and told me to wait minute. De
. he went away an den vas fright
? ened. Pretty soon he come bacI
! am he say, You may see de Bresl
/. dent; = an ] went in to where q
;. Bresident was.
/ 1T was a beeg, beeg high room
all very gram and | was awfr
n 'fraid. De Bresident sat at Il bee
y table covered with bapers. ii
looked very cross he had ciga
4 in his mouth; and oh, / vas yer
4 much much afraid and wished
! hadn't come. Den / tink me OF m
boor husband and children, an
r. cav. tMeester Bresident, have a p
I tifon to you,' an / handed de pet
o tion to him. His face grew black'
o and blacker as he read 1t, and M
IS heart went way down in me. De
It he say, 1T is no USE cant q
Something's for you > and he lay. c
d petition down ON de table, loOkln
le very cross.
4 tDid YOU read de writin' on 9
j. back. Meester Bresident? Did yo
AZ see what Meester Brown wrote?
n cried. wild me heart in me throa
70 lie PRESIDENT pick il up again an
read de writin' on de back an he
n face-oh, it grew so much lighte
n an he say:
sHumph, if Brown will put q
m man TO work on de Burkee Dime
,s he had better be dere dan in de sta
| prison /! r.,,
nr sAn' den he write a little an
a handed de paper to me an he Sa
Your husband is wee" an 1 erie
rz an said, tank you, Meester bres
dent,' an made a courtsy ana oeI
If ran for de train, an here L am a
~ am so gladp =,
n, Capital so far but don.t le'
s. waste time-let's go and get yo
I'd husband
1o So we ordered hack and start
3 for the county Jail. Arrived thei
we found that SchwarZ had De
n taken to the State prison 40 mil
1l- away. lust an hour and a half befoI
Well we telegraphed to the pr
in on that he was free man, ana we
,at down to bring him back in the ne
IN train. We found that our telegra
,e- had arrived Just too late-Schws
w. had been taken to the prison bart
he shon and had lost his fine beard a
hair. But he hadn't been Oenl
lis the prison bars. can't uescri
ed the meeting of Schwarz ana
wife. We all cried and were We
: a Well, | brought than man ba
w. to Burkee and gave him his {
inn place on the Times. Igave not
te- TO the employees that nothing. v
il ever to be said to him about
ire mast. and whoever did so would
INT promptly discharged. The M
thing to do was to keep the ST.
no out of the other paper, the Burr
he Republican. Now the editor of
Or Republican had the reputation
10 being heartless man who wol
on. never keep anything out OF pr
vas no matter what the circumstan
cy, were. | was not much acqualn
10 with him, except through the e
toriaI amenities we threw at ei
ere other daily in true western ST!
ne, So il was with some misgivi
-, that | called on him at his OIL
VIII There | told him the whole SIC
at When / got through he was wi
no ING away the tears and 80 wa
:, He said nothing, but summoned
al local editor.
ana sMr. Short he said, when
local editor appeared, you h
nm heart of this Schwarz case i
rte pose%
Iieo .So Yes, SIR
the sWeii, sir, never refer to IT in
lds Republican in any way, under
per- alty of instant discharge. Inst
ana your reporters to the same effec'
,me a Very well sir answered the i