Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-02-23
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The Good Deeds OF a We'll Known Georgia
Turfman.

Nobody would have suspected "old Man
-" of hayins any sentiment In his COM
position; He vas regarded by the score or
| more of Northerners who were at all fa-
| mlliar with him as an open-hearted, hos
pitable Georgian who was fond OF owning
and who took great delight in seeing his
favorit3s galop home In advance Of their
| horse business many years IN a prominent
Georgian town, and was toleraby well TO
| therefore only himself to please.
The plainly dressed, quaint spoken little
man in the suit Of gray was for many
sands who bet on his thoroushbreds, which
animals by h sgR lie S SGPe' 10 be el cone one
tent to spend placid eleven months IN
Of peasufe rHG at e Long - Branch. where he Vt met
py in the society Of his Northern friends,
season that the intervening eleven months
would pass away all too slowly for him,
When Monmouth park closed its gates,
somehow his interest In racing seemed to
wane. and he has sent fewer horses to the
thing in training. He has not been on a
tace course in the vicinity of New York
In the North nobody ever heard him mem
tlon a woman's name. but golden deed in
which the little man appears In the light of
a philanthropist has Just come to light.
the door Of his stable in Augusta tS one ,.
physician said; Poor John hasn't
sons 9ST 9 e and and eSTe fF2d Md HI wife j.
She's very low this morning.
The, good doctor returned the same even
woman was dead and the little girls, aged
and years, were orphans:
'"Twould be great thing for some good
man TO adODt one of those girls said the
'Iil take them both" said the horseman.
sent, to a boarding school It was stipn-
should be paid through the physician. and
that the girls should never know the name
by the the girls grew to womanh6od AMI ' and e were
sent to Nassar to complete their education. <
Their guardian had never seen them. but
credit to him and oftentlmes pleaded with
the old man 70 make himself known to
them and pay them a visit.
This he steadfastly refused to do say
ing: What would, young, women of So
e1 care f9r an old ang ma1 he IKE died
bu, feeling that death would absoive ci hin; him
from his promise he had commnnicated mn,
whom they had to thank for their educa-
tion and support They wrote most
etsr to visit h bn he was
timid that he put them off until he could
give the matter further consideration.
About n year later he was waited upon
one day by smart-ooking young man OF
30 who introduced himself as a lawyer in
a well known New York firm. The visitor
explained his errand In few words and
asked for the hand of the elder sister. II
was n novel situation. Here was young
man he had never seen before asking for
the hand of ward he had never seen. and
for the first time in all the years all the re-
sponsibility of the situation dawned upon
him. He made some Inquiries concerning
the young lawyer. found that he was as he
represented himself to be- and gave his
consent to the marriage. He would not
come to New York to see the ceremony.
but there was no costlier gift on the list
of presents than that which bore the card
of the plain old Georgia horseman. He
had a like experience few years since,
and now there are extra inducements for
the old man to visit New York.