The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1895-01-26

nail Way icTOSS the tiiChS, u uSuTo lEAlS'
ing there in, bewilderneEt.
There's "a train coming each way
somebody gasped. WHY doesn'the get
OFF Of the track"
The station agent AMI one cr u
cthir officials were shouting loudly, bat
appeared thoroughly dazod. As he pre-
pared t step upon the track nearest
him he had caught sight Ct Il train
coming down upon him, and he ROW
staggered back aDe. Was aaGat topl0.!-3
~ front OF .ne ether down canliE. Is
press when ~sald"nly something ve.T
unexpected happened
- the crowd of hv>;anders ahyaui.
bacE with hC-Tcr stricken faces. o0ll-
viEced that they were about to witness
the terrible fato which must instantly
uyertaI,e the ola Maa. d figaro III .
much bec-in:cl canvas JACKIE: spraug
ont from among them, alid clearing tho
tracks a: a bound alightel beside the
swayilg form of the Other.
4 st.1dder, and g wave o. pitifEi re-
sre7 swept over the mot,oaless crowd
He can never drag him back i'll time"
they bre2thed. They VIII both 5a
Ellle.i Oh, the pity Of it"
Bnt our football MAJ had no thouSht
e dragging tie unsteady figure IN front
Of either approaching engine, IL an il
sian, he he'd tackled the Ean and
tlrov-n him fat upoa tho ground be-
.,--.r-. -, f,ro ,-,.I-. So- ON ~. ,--,Il
quite as if he had been an opponent on
the football field. Then he dropped
lightly ca top Of him and lay there mo-
tionicss, while tho two trains ~taundered
PAST u each side Of them, and TIE
crowd stood waiting spellboa::l.
IL much less time than If take 20 Ge-
scribe the episode it was over, and What
might have been p tragedy had proved
olly G lit Of melodrama after ali. yet as
Rocer jumped np AID pulled the old
Llan on to his feet applause and cheers
louder than any that had greeted hial
on the football field rang in his cars.
Abashed AID quite overwhelmed by
such an ovation, Roger made haste to
elbow his way through Tie crowd, and
in SO doing nearly overthrow his own
brother Fred, who happened TO he stand
ing directly in his path.
Fer heavens sake, was that you,
Roger: he cried, confronting him IL
establishment.
"Dolet me get out Of this. his broth
or responded impatiently. They need
not make such q fuss because I Knocked
the old dutfer over and be bolted in
the direction Of tie gymnasium.
Saturday nights generally brought the
scattered members Of the EarJ1aJt fam
lily together, as the colleg!ans always
made Il point Of coming home TO spend
Sunday under tie parental roof tree.
On this particular Saturday evening
all wero assembled before Roger cano
in. Fred was all agog to describe the
scene that he had witnessed, but he uE-
solfshiy held his tongue. "Illnot spoil
his story for him, but will give him "a
chance to do justice to it." he mentally
calculated as be watched his brother
swallowing his soup with unruffeG com
posura.
But Roger said nothing upon the vi
tai subject, and Fred looked st him with
increasing surprise as he judicially set
forth the respective merits of the oppos-
ing football team and called attention
to their most vulnerable points.
I'm turn i'll early tonight, / think
he yawned as he withdrew from the
dining 0 II put pretty solid work
into the last half of that game" and he
leisurely wendell his way up stairs.
Il wish that Roger would put q little
solid work into something else, ? his IA
thor volunteered as he disappeared from
the room.
At this, Fred, who had il times past
repeatedly sccffed at his brothers ath-
letic proclivities, instantly fired up.
Father" he burst forth, you're
making a big mistake about Roger.
Hes got more genuine stuff in him than
all the rest of us put together, and if
its football that's done it the sooner
that We all go in for the game the bet
ter, > and then he p1oceedoa u give q
graphic account Of the afte-2oaes cxre-
rierce. which caused his father t. blow
his nose loudly and repeatedly. while
his eyes glistened With harry pride.
aHu which sent his mother weeping j2
search Of the sleepy athlete. who could
10, understand what lie had done that
was worth making such q fuss about.
a few days later Mr., Bartlett received
a note from his old friend. Wilkinson
Snalley, which ran somewhat rs fol-
lows:
DEAR EARTLGTT-I Eea- that yo1.- Roccr is
going IN for the law, and if So / want hin.
When ne gets through with TIC law scaou7. yor
can hand Him over to nat, for hes ;ast tho
r~aaterlal that I aEl On tha ~laal.oHt ~. 40