The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-28
y Person of Prominence

kin you send reporter around to NV
place to do a send Off 2n asked II middle.
aged man, approaching the cashier with a
vissage in which umidlty and check were
curiously blended.
What kind of send of? What is it?"
demanded the cashier.
ITS u plant, and it comes otf tomorrow
afternoon, replied the stranger. "To-mor-
row NJ sharp we are going to plant nv
wife, and promised her that would have
q reporter present and II long article about
the way it was done. She was a great stick.
Ter for such things when she was alive, and
want her to have the right thing now she
has gone up the Hume. Kin you send one
around?"
WAS she a prominent woman" in.
Quired the cashier. I'VE don't often send
reporters to write up the funerals ofpriyate
citizens unless there is something part,cn.
larly interesting about the person or The ok.
ercises. Did | understand you that she
was a very prominent woman"
well, Mister, there was times when she
was the most prominent woman in our end
OF the town. There was times when she
was the only citizen that could stay any.
where around where she was, There WAC
that ever was born as busy as tramp at n
free lunch, and il that prominence isn't
quite up to your pitch, there was times
when If she'd kim in here and asked YOU 10
do anything Tor her, you'd have done it, or
II would have taken all the rest of the EN-.
ployes around this building to have tound
where You went out Is that prominence
enough fora reporter to write something
about the send-olf tomorrow
That very well as for as it goes" re-
pied the cashier, in sympathetic voice
but what part did sic seem to take in
public affairs that would warrant us in be-
lleNing That the public is interested in her
obseQuiesp"
Part What part did she take? Was Won
ever in the vicinity when any public affairs
going on that she felt an interest in? Was
you ever located where you could look on
IN safety when the interest of hcrn began TO
take grip | guess you couldn't have
been, partner, by the questions YOU ask
about that woman"
But VINO was SHE? What was her partic.
ular liuep'
mister, it's hard to tell who she wasn't
\ when she got started Sometimes sue was
n buzz saw; sometimes thought she was
INTENDED Tor steam triphammer; there was
other times when She was an electric light
wine That's WHO she was, As to what She
did I'll refer you u the walls and buildings
around where she lived, The mark is there,
\ GU can see tor yourself Her line Law
right through the middle OF whatever was
gong on, She went into everything thnt
visited the neighborhood, and when she
came out OF it she lett hole that there was
no m'staking Is that prominence enough
Tor reporter to kim around tomorrow and
say u word for the way We give her the
grand lauhchY
don't see vet that she was OF enough
importance for the public to take any in.
terest In her funeral argued the cashier.
"Praps not sighed the herca cd
| "Prups not, There is them who never
having knowed her wouldn't think 10 see
her in her twelve dollar coffin, that she over
run oR section OF the town ur tree and
thon stood under Vt aud throwed bricks AT Il
until II dropped down again. don't know
bow important people has got to be to have
3 reporter at the wake, but kin tell Won
that its ID lucky for you that she pegrcd
out before mc,n
III don't see what I've got to do with
that, smiled the cashier
III she'd come aronnd here tor n rcporicr
to DO prescnt NJ my plant, and you'd given
her the game YOU been giving me. Won
might never realize what you had 10 do with
II, but thcm rs looked On IN awe while
You aud Sue was figuring IL out would
have had 10 send Il reporter som Q.
whore that ia, II your belonging around
these premises is likely to put you In tbs