The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-04-26
A rxRUE BIBLE STORY.
A Mistas>o If Hotel Bell Boy Causes a
T.t-anendOus CoxnmotiOn.
From thu chicago Inter-Ocean.


T.,-mendOus Commotion.
From thu chicago Inter-Ocean.
An earthquake or a fire could not have
caused much greater commotion and ex-
citement at the Great Northern than Gid
the simple mistake of a bell boy. A gen
tleman had been i'll for some days in
what is called, in the technique Of the
house. II 35" This meant room No. So
on the | floor He rang the bel for a
boy yesterday morning and told him that
he was i'll and to have q barber sent to
his room. The invalid thought the young
negro messenger manifested more excite
ment than the simple request called for,
and he thought correctly. The boy, in
stead of telephoning down stairs as usual,
ran all the way down to the Hcaptain"
and shouted, ode man in l 35 waits the
Bible sent to his room"
"Wants what?"
ode Bible"
''The Bible?''
eyes, that's what 1 sai5 what de
prea cher reads from"
The captain passed the word on to
Clerk Raidt.
Mr.. Raidt is accustomed to responding
quickly to every demand that is made,
but for once in his career as a hotel man
he was nonplused.
"a Biber' he repeated, "a man in
IS wants Bible. Miss -" he said to
the cashier, "have you got q Bible?"
at home"
In this hour of perturbation he forgot
his politeness and shouted, ''What good
will that do sick man at the Great
NorthernP'
He ssnt one boy to the barber shop,
one to the barroom and one to rhe young
lady type writer. No one had Bible.
Just then Mr.. Eden came in. His fore
sight had provided for everything but
a Bible, but to his intense relief he saw
Mr. Hurlbut approaching.
"Mr. Hurlbut," he said, "a gentleman
up stairs wants Bible"
GA what?"
"A Bible.''
spell it,"
"a Bible"
''Well, that's the best joke I've heard
for a year; come, let's have someth''--
"No," replied Ar. Eden; this is no
joke; I'm in earnest. The gentleman is
sick AMd wants Bible"
"He must be dying" said Mr.. Hurl
but; 'better get apreacher, too. Where's
the directory? Here, boy, take this and
find preacher"
In the meantime Mr.. Eden had dis
patched boy to the nearest book stone
to buy bible. But before he returned
an imperative demand came from the
gentleman in IS to hurry up; that he
was tired of waiting.
Mr.. Eden sprang into one elevator, Mr..
Hurlbut into another, and bell boys were
dispatched in various directions to beg,
borrow or steal Bible.
One of them ran into Commissioner
Wickersham's room and told him of the
exigency. All he could find was bound
copy of st. Johns Epistle. He gave it to
the boy and babe him fly. The boy
rushed into the invalids room. Here's
the plstle of st. John, sab, all he could
find, but Mas Eden, he's sent out for
de whole Bible"
"Bible," shouted the Invalid; what
in - do I want with a Bible? / want
barber" Just then he saw how the mis-
take had occurred, and when the physi-
clan, DR.. Tillman, came into the room
he thought his patient had jumped from
pneumonia to apoplexy. While the doc
tor was using all his skill to quiet him,
fearful of uhe consequences to one so
weak, Nj. Eden rushed in with a new
Bible as big as Weoster's Unabridged
Dictionary. After putting Mr.. Eden out
in the hall Dr. Tillman remained with
his patient the rest OF the day.
But there is an interesting sequel to all
this local connection. When the boy
went to the store to buy Bible, he re-
lated something of the circumstances. A
lady member of the Chicago Tract soci-
ETY. was standing near and heard him.
All o'clock last evening consignment
of 500 small Bibles we're sent to HuTl0ut
g Eden by the Tract society, with The
polite request that one be placed in each
room. Hereafter the guests Of the Great
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