The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-09-07
AT A NEWSBOY'S FUNERAL.
How His Companions Remembered HI
and His Mother Also.

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How His Companions Him
and His Mother Also.
1t was one Of the solemn days /
along the alloy, for another newsboy
had died.
He had not been a prominent men,
Der of the push" and had earned
no title. If he had achieved distinc-
ton in any way, he might have been
called Rubber Neck, Hot Foot
or "Sleep Out"
They had known him as Freddie
He had been accustomed to stand in
line rather meekly and endure more
than his share of the pushing and
scufling. His bundle of papers was
never very large, and as he wasn't
tall enough to talk loudly and
"boss" around he was never prop
erly respected in the alley until he
died,
Then a heavy grief settled on the
colony, and 'Bootsy" Thompson
went about with a wrinkled brow
and was ready to chastise any young
ster who seemed to be cheerful.
1t was suddenly remembered that
Freddie had always been ION the
square," that he had never gone
camping on another kids corner,
and some recalled the affecting cir
cumstance that he dropped in his
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when 'Tanny" was killed by the ca |
BILE car.
They had seer him around only a
week before, and it was within the
last two days they had heard that
he was very sick.
When a newsboy dies, his COM
rades hold meeting. Instead of i'm
itating the conspicuous example of
their elders and passing resolutions,
they 90 down into their pockets and
make up a fund.
They held a meeting at $3.50 in the
afternoon. After the spokesman had
announced the news of Freddie's
death he said that every kid
would be expected to come down
Then the hats were passed, and there
was Il steady jingle of red and white
coin. A committee to count up re-
ported that $7.13 had been contrib
uted, at which some of the thought
less ones were inclined TO yell, for
getting that the occasion was n of
sorrow. "Overcoat, ""Hawkey" and
"Cocoanut Charley were appointed
to buy the floral tribute and take it
to Freddie's home on the West Side.
Next morning the three members
of tho committee and a large box
wrapped in white paper came into
the office of the nan who vas re-
garded as the supreme authority of
the newsboy army. He was the
court of last resort in all SCRAPS, y
and a good man to be next to-" So
they brought the tribute around to
show it to him.
Heuntied the string and lifted the
lid. Within the box was a huge clus-
ter of pink roses with waXen leaves
and wire stems, wreathed about by
stiff hand painted leaves.
"Why, these are artificial flow
ers, said he, and he began to laugh.
The committee was silent and ap-
parently offended. Then "Hawkey'
spoke up: 1--WE got fake flowers be.
cause dey was cheaper, but de're al
right, and dc kid wouldn' know dc
difference. We fought dey was
purity enough"
what makes this peculiar smell?'
The flowers gave out a peculiar alec
holic odor.
Oats perfumery. Fake flower:
amt got no smell, SO we sprinkled
little perfumery on"
If the man at tho desk had follow
ed his inclinations, he would have
roared with laughter. But he ha'
too much feeling
That's very nice, boys, said he
replacing the lid. "Freddie's mothe
will be glad that you remembered
him. That's right. You give her tn
money that's left. Don't sprinkl
any more cologne on the flowers
They have enough now
Then he followed them to the win
dow and smiled to see them tro
happily away.
after all" he said, lit doesn'
mako any difference"
In the afternoon, when the allie
delegation saw the hearse drive ava
from the little house, the waXen flow
ers with the wire stems lay on til
topof the coifin .-Chicago Record.
After Twenty Years.
He was asking the old man for h
daughter in marriage. He was talkin
tremblingly, hesitatingly, as you read
in story books, and the scene was full
color, so far as an irato father and nerv
less young man could make it.
1t came the old mans turn to speal
and as he began his face was white vii
passion, and his voice shook with excit
ment. You want to marry my daug
teri" he said. "Ah, now is the time Fl
my revenge! Twenty years ago our f
ther crippled me in a stock deal, and
swore to be revenged! And now my tin
has come"
He paused for breath, and the aspira,