The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-06-20
They Misjudged Him.


I From the Detroit Fnee Press.
Coafs.-grained, rough i'm his ways
and speech, the men in the shop want
7 el none of his society and felt pity for
his wife and children tie kept his
+ place because brute strength was need
( cd instead Of skill While other work
men sang and whistied he was silent
and mOrOse. Children sometimes look
ell into the shop, but if they caught
sight OF Big Sam they fcd in terror.
\ child lost and frightened and hum
gering would have run away AT sight
Of that Sowing face.
The other day, just before the noon
hour, something went wrong with one
of the machines in the shop. There
was crash and "A smash, and work
men ran about crying out that Tom
White had been killed They thought
80 at first, but a they washed the blood
from his face and put coat under his
head for pillow they discovered that
life was still there. One man rushed
away for 4 doctor, while Big sam cody
gazcd AT the injured man for moment
and then put on his coat and walked
out doors.
'That', like him-a man without
the feelings of common humanity, -
the man whispered 60 each other as
they noticed his going.
Down the streets and through the
yards came tot Of girl not over six
years Of age with dinner basket in
her hand Every noon for the last six
months she had put in an appearance,
and score OF the worSmen had come
to know her as Tom Whites girl. That
was her fathers dinner in the basket
| Strange that no one remembered that
as the whistle blew she would be ut the
door-;hat if no one met her she would
walk in aud see that manglcd and
Bleeding object. But one man did H.
member il and that man was Big sam
The child approached to find him smiI-
| Ing "a no man would have believed he
could smile, and when he spoke 70 her
she looked up in surprise tina, 50 big a
man should have such kind and
womanish voice.
"Well, little tot, that's pops dinner,
eli3'' he said, as hc reached out for the
basket. 'I'li hand it in to him myself
and you may run back home. J wish
I had little girl like you to bring my
dinner"
''les, sir" she replied, a. she stood
with finger in her mouth and shyly
booked up AT him.
'.I> the mamma hOme9''
''les, sir"
"Wen, You run home like good girl
and tell her that your pa i coming
soon. He hurt him<clfa little-just
little, mind you-and the boss says
he'll give him the rest of the the day
to smoke his pipe at home. DO you
understand"
''Yes, sir"
Just hurt his foot, you know, and
maybe well have 10 help him over
Not much Of hurt, but wen come over
with him. Tell your ma wen soon be
there, and she Isn't 70 be a bit worried
Your pa i just laughing over it, hIj
we'II come over with hin,."
The child ran away smiling, and Big
sam entered the shop with the dinner
basket in his hand. Tom White OPEN
el his eyes and looked from the man 70
tie ba-kct and back and his lips qUiv-
cred
Don't worry, Tom, whispered Big
sam. Il was out there in time To catch
her, and she'll tell the wife that its
only yoIr foot-only a trifle of a hurt. +"
And when the others knew what
had occurred they whispered together:
eve have wronged Big sam and viii
ask forgiveness. Hewas more thought
ful and tender than any of uS