The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-09-25

h music has scraped the fellows con-
science bare; all the pretty things are
in the voice, and none left in the moral
nature. But that's merely my theory;
myself, I don't know one tune from an
other without the words. Jimmy did
have an angelic voice. Now he began to
sing Rock Me to Sleep, Mother, in his
most affecting ann Directly there
comes II roar from the bed.
Don't want me to warbler saws
Jimmy sweetly.
WANT you to sing something lively
growls the audience.
lyon don't need anything lively
answers Jimmy placidly; what you re-
quire is to have your conscience awak-
ened and your affections touched and a
general kind of wish-you-were-dead feel
ing encouraged.
Mother, come back from the echoless shore,
Take
Drop that pillow! You'll have to go
without sleeping accommodations if
you hurl them all at me. But anything
to please.
"'Nelly was a lady; last night she died.
Toll the bell for lovely Nell
That too melancholy too?
"tSee how it sparkles, this drink divine,
But all its brightness our eyes outshinei'
"Reisling WIS quiet now, and he re-
manned quiet, although Jimmy glided
into old Folks at Home, and when
Mrs. Reisling entered he was singing
old fashioned hymns. She said that she
didn't know what she should do with
one Jimmy, and spoke of him with tears
i'll her eyes. OF curse she knew nothing
about Jimmy's real name or his rela-
ton TO my wife The next morning
Jimmy appeared at my office again. He
was more angry than l ever had seen
him, and he explained at length just
how Reisling had outwitted him and
escaped when he took the inebriate to
drive. 1t was comical to watch Jimmy's
mounting indignation. Particularly did
he bubble over the drunken cunning and
duplicity Of his charge.
"'They are all like that said I phil
osophically, and the red climbed up in
to the roots of Jimmy's hair.
"'Was / like that?' he burst forth.
81 repeated several episodes which at
the time of action had amused Jimmy
more than his friends. He made no
comment. From that time, though, Ino-
ticed that he got into the way of COM
pairing his own past with Reisling's
present. The mischief with Reisling,'
said he once very seriously, lis that he
thinks he has a good time, while he is
driving his wife crazy with anxiety,
wasting his money and running his
health. Such rotl But, Lord, amt he an
object lessonr
"'I am hoping he will save you, Jim
N.Y., said l, whether you say him Oh
not.
"'Oh, I'm going to save the bloom
ing little cad's soul, said Jim very sol
EMMY, If only out Of gratitude. That
isn't all; he is really very fond Of me,
and he has some mighty good streaks,
so l am bound to save him. What he
needs is all almighty scare. 1 wish you
would go round and talk a little stiff to
him Il was by this time his duly ap-
pointed guardian; you used to talk
uncommonly well, Roger says Jim,
with all the assurance in life, and I
believe you might get through the hair
with him. / have been at him about his
health got him into Severne's hospital
the one I was in, you know-and Sew
erne has kindly collected the grewsom-
est lot of cases of the effects of alcohol
ON the human organs, and l am trying
to impress Resisting. Yes, Roger, if
that fellow won't be sweetly persuaded
into a better life he has to be dubbed;
that s, the size of it.
II wish you could have listened to
Jimmy! 1 used to sit and shake, he
was SO funny in his dead earnestness,
that was SO different from the usual
manifestations Of e~arnestness. Well,
shortly after this conversation, Reisling
got his scare. 1t was this way: Reisling
gave the doctor the slip, and Jimmy
and l pursued him. We caught our man
on a train going down town, Illinois
Central suburban, and crowded. Short
as the time of his liberty had been he
had managed to get himself semi-intox-
icated.
"'Well, old nan he said with a
foolish smile, I knew you would catch
me. l don t mind. l have had all the
drinks | want. Til go with you
Jimmy said something amiable, but
he quietly took R%eisling's hat and stood
between him and the door. .Reisling
appeared to go to sleep. But when the
train halted at Randolph he leaped out
of his seat and made a dash for the
door, and simultaneously, as luck would
have it, a lady of huge proportions,
dragging after her two large children,
rolled toward the door too. She lurched
against Jimmy, and Reisling got past. I
was farther down in the car, but I tum-
bled out somehow, and there in front
was Jimmy's gray derby bobbing among
the crowd after Reisling's bare head.
You know what kind Of a station Ran
dolph is, with the huddle of tracks, and
the crowd, and one policeman to pre-
vent a slaughter Of the innocents. Refs
ling plunged recklessly on the tracks.
He didn't hear, or he was too crazy to
heed the policeman's yell. I could see
the crowd shiver, and the faces go white
in a second, and the black monster roar
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