The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-10-26
SHIT IN A VAULT.

y Larry J. 0rli WIS Inc lres, :
81 of big bank i'll western
cs-. M and the colonel and were, at
90 ,hronicling of this tale, in New
~ whittier we had gone as
i~ se travelling companions on a
'D". ,,om the west. 1t was on Sun
-. ,,oruing. and as we took it easy
'N H., handsome apartments he was
,,vi,lg Il messenger boy brought
,.le.ram. The message was
l ~ hi. wife, and, the boy being a
:.h, eyed youngster, the cheerful
~,,.,,, ,hatted with him pleasantly
I eV.Y .amcrt and gave him a quarter
s. anoe,nt = that mako telegraphing
81 ,., ,rettv highf" inquired, with
# 'V' 'a trre Yankee spirit Of thrift.
y y w II Iu,cd to be one myself, !" he said
a,nlanation. land now whenever
.ssa bright eyed kid like that l
-.rm M to him and give him some
,%ny @ though not always a quarter.
Il ps,nr 1a sunday and the telegram be-
~ rom ny wife, l do bit better
G ,hon usual and part with all Of 25
s3cnts
g lr,rr once messenger boy?' I ask
# i IN treat surprise as ! looked over
4 3.ha elegant man of the world, every
nCh 4 gentleman born, who sat in
!. ,he biy chair by the window grace
stullv poiSilg a cigar in his thumb
and finger
Really and truly" he laughed,
band if you can stand rcminis-
IS renee this morning I'll tell you the
s[tory of my life. Journalists" and
bowcd over tho arm Of the chair
.l believe, are always on the look
mt for interesting facts in history
Ind fiction, aren't they2"
II Jbastened to assure him that they
Sasore, and after making me swear
That | would keep awake at what
s. ssbyer sacrifice he began.
a when was youngster Of 10. :"
ssbe said, Il was a messenger boy
s. M,arnips the luxurious salary of o3
y week, all of which l gallantly
S burned over to my mother. who was
So bankers daughter. though she
|s5bad been turned out Of her fathers
ssbouse because she had not married
Ao suit him and her stepmother. In
aeed she had gone further and
married the man who had suited
her and after that, while her heart
Il kas never empty, she and her hus-
Band and only son were often 80.
\ Ind life was not quite as rosy as it
+ hight have been. We were bravo
geople, though, and with my SO a
heck we managed somehow to get
= long. l improved after a year or
q y Eoand incidentally picked up teleg-
! |aphy SO that when l was Is I got
] place at u small country station
D. liissouri and took my mother
here to live with me on my salary
% $40 month. my father. having
ed year before.
81 When was 18 my mother died,
eaying me alone in the world. At
he funeral my grandfather re-
%nted sufficiently to propose that
$50 educate me, which proposal 1 ao-
Fpted and agreed to take a good
- usiness education. By the time I
s5Sas q had been graduated, and
10y grandfather gave me position
E| e a bank ne owned in a very pleas
Int interior town, where 1 showed
shch aptitude that the old gentle
s4an entirely forgave me for having
Fen the sou of his disobedient
hughter and told me to go ahead,
pd should be partner some day.
y = THE next most natural thing in
$eSes world to do was To fall in love,
s. pd did it for all there was in my
81 hrobbing heart, and on the evening
So the day was promoted to the
2shlership of the bank l asked
81, aate Vernon to be my wife. / did
advisedly, too, for Ely GRANDPA
aSer had tolc me when I married he
3ould give me an eighth interest in
3e bank. Miss Vernon wasn't the
q; Ost beautiful girl the eye of man
er rested on, and even was forced
confess that there was too much
Fps In her nose for classic beauty,
!52s she was the h-::ssAt.cst: h:s.: young
llan IN the county and the cheer
t and l was heels over head in
'e with her, which made up for
discrepancies.
During all the time Of my expe-
sace in the bank I had kept up my
efest in telegraphy..- and after
fle and had settled upon our fu-
" relationship / had connected
l house with my room at the
aS3aS' and whenever / had the
&3aace called her up and and talk
'ose to her between meals by
trlclty. don't know how much
!aat kind Of talk we INDUCED in,
ss' oo know that Kate became al
s' an expert telegraph operator
80 could easily have made her iv-