The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-02-27

sPerhzps be hss met With IN accident
Hadn't you better drive TO Mr.. Perry's
IN the morning and seer
''Yes. I'd SO tonight Il It wasnt -
stormy. replied the farmer.
But when In the morning be drove
up TO Mr.. Perry's door he found the
house locked up. The whole family
had gone TO Ohio. He inquired at the
few houses on the road between Mr..
Perry's and his own. home, but could
hear nothing Of the missing boys Sadly
he unhftehed his horse. firmly con.
WINGED he had seen the last Of Mark and
his twenty dollars
One day about the middle OF Japuary,
Just as the Greens had sat down TO dim
negg, the kitchen door slowly opened and
Mark Bloomer stepped In. He was
poor as crow" as Arthur expressed
1t; his eyes and cheeks were hollow and
he was so weak he could hardly walk
At this unexpected apparition Mrs.
Green arose from her chair SO suddenly
as to nearly overturn the table. Arthur
uttered loud ..Hurrah. / told you SOL
while Mr.. Green could only sit and stare
in open-eyed wonder.
zs.As where have you been, and
what makes you so thin. and pale?''
asked the good housewife as She placed
plate and cup and saucer for Mark.
1--WE been in the pesthouse and I've
had the smallpox said the boy.
"When I've had something to eat I'll
tell you all about it. I'm awful hun.
Cry"
After dinner Mark told his story az
follows:
Although | didn't say any thing
about it, hadn't been feeling well fol-
some time before | went away. !
thought It wasn't nothing more than a
cold until that day went to Mr.. Per-
RVS. j felt sick enough to die before
got half way there. My head and back
burned and ached, and the trees and
houses and things looked as though they
were just spinnin' round. l couldn't
think what was the matter with me at
first, but soon made up my mind | was
coming down with the smallpox. The
day before ! went to Mr.. Perry's Ike
Pier told me that Sam Smith was down
with the smallpox and in the pest
house. About fortnight before, you
remember, Sam and Il had worked to-
gether in the woods. When that came
into my mind l knew what was the mat
ter Of me, and says to myself it won't
never do for me to go back home and
give Arthur the smallpox. Weak and
sickly as he is, he would die sure. FIJI
just go to the pest-house and bear Sam
Smith company. j managed, somehow,
to get to Mr.. Perry's and give him the
envelope. l told him all about it, afld
where was going, and made him prom
Use to tell you; but he was so fright
ened and in such big hurry to get rid
Of me that don't believe he realized
What he said"
He went West that very day." broke
in the farmer, ..and got. letter from
the money all right, and told me all
about your-your--"
@ Heroic behavior" said Mrs Green,
who used to be "schoolma'am," and
prided herself on having better educa-
| tion than her husband.
.Well.n continued MARI. Il got to
the pest-house somehow can't re-
member-hew=mys the doctors
said it was fine case;' though what
there was fine about it is more than I,
/ for one, can tell. forf -was sick s horse.
| They pulled me through all right, how
ever, and here | am, and that's all there
| is about 1T -==== z==z==== e@
We'll. Mark" said Mr.. Green 81
| will say this much your home is here
| just as long as you care to stay When
you get strong enough you can go to
work, and I'll pay you ten dollars a
month the first year. and more the next,
| and you can go to school winters. feel
| that your presence of mind saved my
sons life. for he never could have lived
through what you We endured God bless
| you.a and to hide his emotion the farm
er abruptly left the room.
Good Mrs. Green, with the tears
streaming down her cheeks, clasped the
two boys in her arms and said
'.Henceforth, instead OF one son,
have two. Arthur, you must love Mark
as brother, for he just the same as
saved your life. -.
t--.sI5 new he- NiasH,tt t -thief, said-Ar-
thur, ssiuirming from his mothers arms.
I s'IIurrah, for brother Mark! Hurrah,
for every body!"-Thomas Burke, in
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