The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-05
THE END OF AN ANARCHIST.
BY AquiIa Nemnster.

The truth of the matter was that Ar
thur Smiths head was a size too large
for his hat. This trouble is not uucom-
mon among young men, despite the fact
that it generally leads to unfortunate re-
suits. unless early nlpped in the bud.
This particular young man had been
made quite a good deal of by his employ
er, Mr.. Rushworth, who saw the maxi
ings of a bright business man out of the
young fellow, and so he had pushed him
ahead and treated him with more than the
usual amount of consideration shown bv
business men to clerks. He had invited
him to his house, and instructed his
daughter to act graciously towards the
young man. And, of course, all this had
turned the poor boys head, and at the
time of the present story he was-in his
own estimation-a very much ill-used and
misunderstood young man.
The cause of this sad mental attitude
was Miss Amy, his employers daughter
with whom he was in love; but who. to
tease him, chose to ignore his budding
passion in such manner that the young
man took umbrage and revenged himself
on the young lady by refusing each and
every invitation extended to him from
that source. So, after awhile, Mr..
Rushworth ceased to ask him, trusting
to time and little experience to bring
him to his senses.
But Arthur took the thing more seriously
than was expected; he began to lose a
great deal of his usefulness; his appear
ance decidedly deteriorated, and Mr. Rush
worth heard several vague rumors of the
company he kept after office hours that
disturbed him; for he realized that per-
haps he himself had been to blame in his
treatment Of the youngster.
He talked seriously with him and tried
to bring him to a better frame of mind,
but with no result. Finally he told him
that unless he managed to attend to his
duties better that he would have to dis
pense with his services. II was only a
threat meant to wake the young man up
but the threat was enough to still more
embitter him.
He had joined society of misunder-
stood unfortunates like himself, and at
their weekly meetings he was foremost
In his denunciations of the 'tyrant" and
the "monopolist," and he had developed
quite gift of forid orarory the senti-
ments of which were cheered uproariously
by his beer-swilling companions. At last
he was appreciated at last he would prove
to the naughty Miss Rushworth that he
the world would yet hear. The monopolists
had cast him out; well let them beware!
So master Arthur became a very de-
termined young anarchist, and brooded
long, and wore a soft SLOUGH hat in
stead of a derby, all for the cause"
One night a stranger came to the cat
and Heron and drank beer and listened
with the rest. After the usual flamboy-
ant speech from Arthur. and when the
thunder of boosey applause had dwindled
down, the stranger rose and demanded
to know what they were going to do
about it,
This was such novel question that it
took some time to get the sense of it
through their thick heads At last one of
the men spoke up and said that they
were ''goin' ter keep right on purtestin'
agin it."
rs that ALL" quoth the stranger then
1 won't waste any more time here only
l thought by the way that young chap
spoke that I'd struck the stuff that lead
ers are made Of I'm for the states my
self and we find that much good doesn't
generally come of protesting, and we've