Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-01-27
. JIM"
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paid Of. and no drew. the nrsr money ho
had had since he began to work
"What arc you going to do now
Jim?" asked him.
"Woll, I'll tell you he said. you
know 1 amt always been n tramp;
used to havo . nice home in Massachu-
sets and a vito and children, but five
years ago / had somo trouble with my
vito and I wont away, and-well,
ain't boon good for nothing mucu
since
"'Now, Jim, look here said I, 'what
you want to do is to 60 right back to
Massachusetts and SEQ il your wife's
alive, and look up your children and
live like 4 man again
"'Gencral' no said, that's Just what
was comm to- You see, amt been
caring much what became Of mo since I
got to trampin' around, but seeing
these people so miserable an workin',
you know. an holpin' 'em what l could,
its kind o changed me. somehow. an I
want to SEQ il can't be somebody N.Y.
self. SO Two got some money nov ~
rIl go back an hunt up my folks. an I
know can get work, an may be I'll
get along all right again.
"'Jim, you're just right Isaid. How
much money have you got"
'S:xty-cight dollars, General
"'Now, I'll tell you what you do;
wo'ro all going away in a day or two,
you know, and you go down to the COM
missary department and tell 'em to give
you suit of clothes, and K yourself up
some, and when go home I'll take you
with me, and you can stay day or two
with me, and then go on to Massachu.
SETS
lie seemed very grateful. asked
him:
What will you do when you get
thcrc?'
"'Oh, III got work again
"'Well, all right; now you go of and
get now suit. ard I'll take you homo
ried off toward the commissary depart.
ment
Later in the day he came back.
You wouldn't have known him. OF
course tho suit wasn't much, but it was
neat and clean, and he'd got his hair
cut and his beard shaved of, and he had
on boiled shirt and necktie. lie
was a big, stalwart fellow, with hand
some, waving mustache. md no looked
really handsome. But there was some
thing tho matter with him, and in a
minute knew what had spoiled Jim "a
life
"Jim,' said, you've been drinking.
We'll. General, said he, you know
I'm through work now, nm hadn't tasted
drop over since l been here, so I
thought I'd just get a quart Of whisky
while / was down there. and-and !
guess lvo drunk pint or 30 Of it, but
I amt drunk
"'Now, SEQ here, Jim said I, this
isn't right; you'll never got back to your
wife and children If you start in this
way Quit 1T right where you are,
and don't spoil every thing just as you
arc ready to begin over again
'Ho sort OF bali promised and won,
on down tho road, but l noticed thai
he mot some friends and that there wa.
adeal OF fitting ofcibows. watched him
until no mot another party OF friends
and saw the elbows go up again, and
then Jim went on out OF sight.
''Somo time aftorward ono Of nv aide.
cnmo to tho tent, looking very queer
and said:
ucneral' CncrOS an aCc1dOnt nap
pened to Jim, and I guess you'd bottel
como
81 hurried of after him, and away
up the railroad track I camo to O little
group Of men, and in tho midst Of them
poor Jim lying on tho ground. ue hat
got in tho way OF the freight trail
somehow, and both his legs wore cut of
above tho knee. We picked him up mt
carried him to the hospital. We dit
what we could for him, but 1t WASH
much. Two or three Of US sat by hi
bedside all night, and whom day brok,
no died. Wo picked out the finest con,
wc had for Jim; we dug his gravo In tn,
prottiost spot there was left In the Gem
otery, and no had tho biggest funera
that there had been In Johnstown a
NIL. And tho day we loft Wo took n .hna n