Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-06-14

remember, and. as usual. had the best
place At the fire My present impression
OF Green Is that he was a very selfish
man. will go one step farther. He
was jealous Iainded man and a willful
man. His instincts were brutal used
10 think that his inonstrous bump of self
esteem was all that kept him from over
riding all the rights OF others In order 10
CRAFTY his own desires-in fact. from
tolerated HIM. bur don't think ne had
the honest friendship of a man in the
hospital.
Don't blame me il say hard things OF
the dead, Mr.. Charles Gates. Ny in
stroctions are TO give. in the interest OF
IN inquiry now being made. descrip-
hon Of the mans temper and bent Of
mind as | understood them. You have
my personal ideas Of the man. Take
them for what they are worth.
said just now that Green was in one
of his bad moods. should have said
jealous moods. One member of the
group about the stove had been explain
ing to his companions the life ne had
abandoned when he entered the army
The life that he told was life that anv
one might envy. 1 think-yes, | am
positive-that the talker was the officer
from New York. for he told Of "A luxuri-
Gus home and an indulgent mother in
that city. he seemed to begin at the
time he bestrode his first hobby horse in
the bay window Of q sunny nursery and
continue through every detail OF his
school and club life. The man had just
passed through long seige Of brain
fever. He was weak in body. Pardon
me if l say also that he was weak in
mind. We all know how .he body affects
the mind. He was lonely and homesick
He had eyes and thoughts only for the
happy scenes OF home. His word pict-
ures affected me strangely. pitied him.
Private Green listened TO every word
with an eagerness that all noticed. Then
he settled back in sudden silence
which believed TO be a jealous silence
They were the last words he ever heard
At that moment soldier who had
been foraging in the nearly empty store
house made his appearance. He carried
in his hand a small package. AS he adj
vanced toward the hungry group at the
stove he busted himself in unavailing
efforts to remove the frozen paper which
concealed the true character Of his dis
covery. The icy surface Of the package
resisted all his efforts, and he. too i'm
patient to await the slow process Of
thawing by the fire, seized a blazing
brand from the stove and applied it to
the package. The frozen paper thawed
/ slowly and then melted away, revealing
a second wrapping of cloth.
| An instant later we were thrown from
our feet. The rows of cots became min
gled in awful disorder. The stove gave
up its blazing brands and fell apart like
walls of wax. A sulphurous smoke filed
the room, and second later | saw the
cold blue sky looking in through our
shattered roof The soldier had applied
q blazing brand to package of gun
powder.
Four persons were wounded by the ex-
plosion and two were instantly killed.
When recovered sufficiently to realize
what had taken place, the officer from
New York lay on his bed moaning with
horrible wound in his head He re-
| covered after weeks Of illness. The
wound and excitement threw him back
into brain fever. One Of the dead was
the foraging soldier. The other was
Maurice Green.