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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-14

1--WE ASK YOU TO STAY" ter breakfast and
come back with green wreath that had
q red star in it's center. Almost every
window in sight had it's green wreath with
q red star for a heart. Dodo was the
churchgoer of the twain. AS she pierced
her Sunday hat with long pin she settled
the dinner hour with Nan.
While they were talking the man over
head was walking to and fro with scarce
~ muff1ed restlessness, which Dodo de-
clared got into her nerves. Then they
heard door open and the same football
pass down the steps.
II suppose the poor fellow has gone off
to play peace on earth and good will to-
ward man to a church full of rich people
who don't care copper whether he has q
crust Of bread today or not"
Nan looked at her severely. Upon my
word, Dodo, wouldn't let my imagina-
ton run entirely away with me just be-
cause a man over our heads Is given to
pacing all day in creaking shoes and the
janitor's wife called him the lonely gen.
tleman.'"
When Dodo got back from church, Nar
put her in charge of affairs while she made
one of those mysterious expeditions Of
which Christmas day Is always prolific.
When she came back, Dodo was standing
by table in the kitchen staring tragical-
~ into an open paper bag.
Come look at this, Man," she said
gravely.
Nan walked toward her with apprehen-
sive quickness. OF course something had
gone wrong with the dinner.
IA tin pan with baked beans and pork
ir it? Why, we never ordered any beans!"
''Of course we didn't. That is his
Christmas dinner. Oh, Nanp'
"Whose9''
"That poor old mans overhead"
tWell, but how do you know it isp''
"It just must be. Somebody whistled
up our tube, and I went to the dumb
waiter, and there were just two bags on 1t.
I grabbed the one nearest to me, for I'd
left the sauce for the plum pudding SIM
mering on the stove, and the waiter went
ON up. He is the only one higher up than
We, 80 we've got his Christmas dinner
"And he's got our plum pudding!'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-14

"Oh, we'll, let it goi A miserable little
canned pudding-I hope he will relish itv'
"But perhaps he prefers beans and
pork"
Dodo put out her hands tragically.
"Don't speak Of them. I came home
In such asublimated frame Of mind Such
music as have heard today, Mani mean
the organ soloi It came over me like the
swelling anthem Of solemn ocean waves.
I always cry at the sound of the sea. If I
could find out who played that solo, I
would pay him all I make in q year to
teach me the organ. 1t lifted me clean
out of the realm of worry and care, and
then-to come back to pork and beans!'
'And Mrs. Stone" Nan added as tie
twitter of the doorbell sounded through
the little apartment.
1t was in a state of complete readiness
for the festive occasion. Mans evergreen
wreath, with its crimson star, decorated
their one front window; a beautiful branch
of holly that Dodo had secured week be-
fore was suspended BY her best neck rib
bon from the single gas jet in the center
of the room. Two mysterious parcels on
the table under it showed where the mod
est gifts which were to brighten the day
for Mrs. Stone and the lame girl were de-
posted.
Dodo stood absently twisting the neck
of the bag about the pan of beans. If
there was only some way Of sending his
dinner back to him and making him keep
their plum pudding for dessertl Then
she started violently.
Nan was talking to somebody, and some
body was answering in a rich baritone
voice that certainly did NOT ha1oncr RI old
Mrs. Stone. What Nan said was:
I'VE had just discovered the exchange
My friend took your package by mistake.
Thank you very much for bringing our
pudding back" Dodo's eyes and ears
were wonder stretched at Mans next
words. 'sWe would be so glad to have
you come in and take dinner with us
that is, unless you have friends with you
up stairs.
The rich baritone said sadly, "No; there
is no one waiting for me to come back"
Then said Nan, with grave sweetness:
eve ask you to stay. Our own Christmas
will be the gladder for knowing that you
are not all alone" And, with q grateful
glance beyond her into the little holly
decorated room. he said, eff might
ut just could not be avoided, said Nan
self defensively that night when she and
Dodo, flushed with the triumphant sue.
cess of their dinner, sat discussing the day.
when saw him standing there, a pale
faced boy, meekly holding out our plum
pudding and asking for his beans, could
no more have handed him that pan and let
him go back up stairs to muisch them
alone than I could have flown"
"Of course you could not" said Dodo
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-14

"Nancy Haywood, you are crying all
over that menu. Give me the pencil"
mamma used to make such lovely
mince meat, and used to help heri" Nan
sobbed in explanation.
Dodo pointed the usurped pencil trag-
ioally at her. "And you are breaking our
contract"
''Not to allude to home Christmases OF
our own peoplel know it, know it.
butt
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-14

ton. The jani-
tors wife always
speaks Of him as
the lonely gentle
man. She says
he plays an organ
somewhere. And
then your old Mrs.
Stone would make
lit perfectly prop
Ter. "
1T would not
do at ALL" said
Nan stoutly. And
she fell to work
energetically on
the bill Of fare.
"I've got the
cranberries down.
Minca nia andO-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-14

lonely, heavy foot
ed organist come
down stairs to q
Christmas dinner.
But a man never
''out aged" his
conceit, and he
might presume on
1t.
Christmas came,
and there was an
unwonted creak-
ing up and down
on its ropes Of the
dingy dumb wait
er that did duty
for the entire
building. Nan had
gone out early af-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-14

with you. He fair THE MISCHIEF WAS DONE
ly devoured your face while he sat opposite
you at table,"
"Plus celery, cranberries and olives. Il
did me good to see him eat. But don't
see any point in calling him boy just be-
cause we made the absurd mistake of
thinking he was an old man before we saw
him. He is very much Of gentleman. /"
IAN educated man. It must be his
shoes that mislead us SO. They are so
cheap and clumsy that suspect he walk
ed slowly to spare our nerves.
KINDLY, but futile. He is handsome
how"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-12-14

demurely. And
then old Mrs.
Stone made every
thing perfectly
proper; she is so
dreadfully old. :"
"And as deaf as
q stone wall. Do
do"-Nan' g plain
face was all a.
quicker with anx-
iety-''n you do,
I'll never forgive
myself. r"
IF I do what,
you Incompetent
sible old gooses"
"Let that poor
boy fall in love
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NIX
T5 i ssss; ! suppose !, ss,n ss%.
ble?''
"Oh, but Nan, if the sum total frightens
US, we can score out the things we are
not particularly addicted toi'
Precedent would go to show that we
are only addicted to oatmeal, tough steaks
and moldy crackers Here goes!"
The lamp had been lighted and placed
on the little center table, By it's light q
bachelor girls den was made visible-a
small fat, artistically cluttered with every
conceivable article of uncomfortable utility.
The most interesting furnishings Of the
little flat were the two bright faces which
came in close contact over the pad on
which their Barmecide feast was spread.
The faces belonged respectively to Miss
Nan Haywood, stenographer and type
writer for big firm of lawyers, and Miss
Dora Chase, who gave music lessons for
a living and wrote homesick letters for
pastime. The pencil was in Miss Hey
woods hand.
celery, of course. The eating of celery
on Christmas day Is compulsory. Twen-
ty-f1ve cents"
"Oh, Nan, won't that be great guam
tity?"
1--WE are to have two invited guests.
Their celery capacity is represented by x
unknown quantity"
But we are not going to invite cormo-
rants. The idea was that each one of US
was to invite some one more friendless
and lonely than ourselves, so as to-as
to-
Exactly. Don't choke, please, Dodo.
Whenever you give that asthmatic sputter
know you are getting homesick. have
already invited my guest-old Mrs. Stone,
paper wrapper and envelope director for
those atlas makers. You should have seen
her poor old bleared eyes when invited
her to come take Christmas dinner"
Dodo sighed enviously. II have not
made my selection yet. am halting be-
tween lame girl buy my evening pa
pers from and him."
Nan held the pencil suspended A
heavy football sounded on the uncarpeted
floor over their heads. Some one was
moving about in the fiat over their heads
with the ponderous slowness of an old
luan.
But we don't know him; never even
Jaw him!'
Eyes, but you know our Christmas din
ner Is hardly what you call social func-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-22
OCEAN FREIGHTs.

Cotton-Market easy; rates quoted are
per 100 pounds Boston, per bale, $1.25;
New York, per bale S1.00; Philadelphia per
bale, $1,000; Baltimore, per bale, $1OO
Direct-Barcelona, 55c; Genoa, soc; ReVal
Soc; Bremen 4Sc; Liverpool, Ale; Havre
Acc; Trieste, Soc; Venice 63c. Via New
York-Liverpool 42c; Bremen, 45c; Amster-
dam, 4Sc; Hamburg, 45c; ST. Petersburg,
SIC; Havre, 45c; Reval, SIC; Genoa, 53c !;
Naples, Coo: Japan, soc.
ruling rates. Foreign business is more or
less nominal. The rates from this and
nearby Georgia ports are quoted at $4,000
400 Tor range-including Baltimore and
portland, Me Railroad ties, base A feet
10 Baltimore, 12c; to Philadelphia 1Sc; to
New York, 13i2c. Timber rates, 50cG$1.00
higher than lumber rates. To the West
indies and windward, nominal; to Rosa
no sl2.O04l3O0; to Buenos Ayres and
Montevideo, $100O011 90; to Rio Janeiro
$l4'OO; to Spanish and Mediterranean ports
$ll-SO9ll.50; to United Kingdom for orders
nominal for lumber, Ga IS standard.
By Steam-To New York, $500; to Phil
adeiphia, via New York $3.50; to Boston.
5000, via New York; TO Baltimore, $500.
Naval Stores-By Sail-The market is
hrm. Medium Sized Cork for orders. are
as follows: Rosin, % lloyd for barrels of
3lO pounds, and per cent. primage spirits
As l1sd; Genoa, rosin 3s 3da3s Cd; Adri-
attic, Is 6dM2s Cd; South American, rosin.
SOC per barrel of 2SO pounds Coastwise
Steam-To Boston, 10c per 100 pounds on
rosin, voc on spirits; to New York, rosin.
Slzc per 100 pounds; spirits. SOC.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-22

ida syrup buying at 18G20c; selling at 200
221bc; sugar house at 19QS2c SCUBA straight
goods, 23d3Oc; sugar house molasses, 10
Q2Oc.
Salt-Demand is fair, and the market
steady; carload lots, f. o. b., Liverpool,
2O0-pound sacks, SIC; job lots, 65Q9Oc; COM
mon fine salt, 125-pound, in burlap sacks
carload lots, 96@ common fine salt, 125-
pound, in cotton sacks, carload lots, 39c.
Hides. Wool, Etc.-Hides-The market
firm; dry flint, lac; dry salt, 12c; green
sailed, nc. Wool-Firm; prime Georgia,
free of sand, burrs and black wool, 1Sc
blacks, Ice; bury case. Wax, 23c. Tai
low, &c. Deer skins, 15c.
Oils-Market steady; demand fair; sig
nal, 1880; West Virginia black, 9012c;
lard, 48Q55c; neatsfoot. 60d75c; machinery,
15025c; linseed raw, 42c; boiled 45c; kero-
sene prime white, &c. water white, &C.;
fire-proof. 10c; deodorized stove gasoline,
barrels, SIC.
Gun Powder-Per keg, $500; half kegs
1925; quarter keg, $1.25; Champion duck
ing, quarter key, $225; Austin, Dupont
and Hazard. smokeless, half kegs, SLIPS;
quarter kegs, 1913; 1-pound canisters, s.. CO.,
less % per cent.
Shot-Drop, SITS; B. B. and large, $3.50;
chilled $1.55.
Iron-Market very steady; swede. 40
41ac; refined, $1.55 base.
Nails-Cut, $1.55 base; wire, $1S5 base
Advanced national list of extras, adopted
Dec. l, 1896.
Dry Goods-The market is firm; demand
brisk; prints, 31aG5c; Georgia brown shirt
ings, Sc; CSC, 4c; "A brown sheetings, AGO
sc; white osnaburgs. &c; checks, 4a5c:
brown drillings, 51aG61ac
Lime, Calcined Plaster and Cement-Ala-
bama and Georgia lime in fair demand
and selling at 75c per barrel, bulk and car
load lot special; calcined plaster. $50
per barrel; hair, 405c; Rosedale cement
$1.10d1.20; carload lots special; Portland
cement, retail, 500; carload lots, $780,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-22
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.

The following are the Savannah Board
of Trade quotations:
Bacon-The market is steady. Smoked
clear sides, 6Ac; dry sailed clear rib
sides, 59sc; bellies, sac; sugar cured hams
9lkc.
Lard-Market firm; pure, in tierces, sac;
5O-pound tins. &c; compound, in tierces.
4lac; 5O-pound tins. 4Ac.
Butter-Market steady; fair demand; Co
sheu, 16G171ac; gilt edge. 22a23c; creamery.
23Q24c; fancy Elgins, 25G27c.
Cheese-Market firm; fancy full cream
cheese, 11Q1112c; 20-pound average, 111a0
12c.
Flour-Firm; patents. $40: straights.
$500; fancy, $3.50; crcar, $4OS; family, $41O.
Corn-Market steady; white. job lots,
49c; carload lots, Ale; mixed corn job lots,
4Sc; carload lots, Acc.
Oats-Carload lots, 36c; job lots, Csc,
Texas rust proof, job lots. 45c.
Southern seed rye ST. 10.
Rice-Job lots, fair, 412Q45sc; good, 424D
SC; prime, 5Q534c.
Bran--lob lots. 9Oc; carload lots, s5c.
Hay-Market steady; Western, Job lots.
soc; carload lots, 75c.
Meal-Pearl, per barrel, $2.15; per sack,
CSC; city meal, per sack, boted, coo;
city meal, water ground, Csc; pearl grits
per barrel, 1920; per sack, $100
Coffee-Steady; Mocha, 26c; Java, &c;
Peaberry, lie; standard No. l, lie; No 2,
13c; No. 3, 12ac; No. 4, 111ac; No. 5, 101sc;
No. 6, 9iac; No. Z, Sac.
Sugar-Equality Prices-Savannah quo
tationsi Powdered 5.62c; standard gran
ulated, 5.43c; cubes, 5.62c; confectiouers'
A. 8 soc; white extra @, 4.S0c; extra c.
Also; golden c, 455c; yellows, 4.43c Tone
firm.
Cabbage-Native, barrels, per head,
6d7c; crates, $175
DEMONSTRATES. $1.0O; barrels, 1915; large
Spanish, $1.65 crate.
Potatoes-Irish, $275.
Apples-$ 4.O0d425.
Oranges-Florida, $3.50d3.75.
Lemons Market quiet; Messina, new
per box, $300Q3.25,
Dried Fruit-Apples, evaporated &c;
common, 5Q51ac.
Nuts-Almonds, Tarragona, 12c; Ivicas,
10tac; walnuts. French 10c; Naples, lie:
pecans, 10c: Brazils, SEC; filberts, 10c; as
sorted nuts, 50-pound and 25-pound boxes.
10q1O1ac; cocoanuts $S.75 per 1O0
Raisins-L. L., $1.65; 1a-box. S.O0; loose,
6O-pound boxes, 61ac per pound.
Peanuts-Ample stock; fair demand;
market steady; fancy, hand-picked Vir-
sinia per pound, 4lzc; hand-picked, per
pound &c.
Eggs-Market firm; candled per dozen.
16Ql7c; country, &c less.
Poultry-Steady; fair demand; half
grown, 25@S5c per pair; three-quarters.
grown, 40q50c per pair; full-grown fowls.
55d65c per pair.
Fish--Mackerel half barrel, No. 1. $3.50;
No. 2, $3.50; No. g. $500; kits No. J. 81 25:
No. Q S1.OO; No. 8, 95c. Goldfish, 1-pound
bricks, 6l3c; 2-pound bricks, &C. Smoked
herring, per box. zoe; Dutch herring, in
kegs Sips; new mullet. half-Darrel, $3.50
Sugar-Market quieti Georgia and Flor
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-22

dead. When rent for these receptacles is
unpaid the bodies are removed to the cat
acomb, uncofned, and piled with more an
cient bones and dust. The catacomb is
blasted out of the rocky soil, with a level
floor twenty feet under ground. It is a
roomy corridor. with vents for sunlight
and air through the arched roof of rock.
The bones of the unnamed and unnum-
bered dead are piled compactly up at either
END.
Slowly the open space is contracting.
but there is still a hundred yards of it,
Along its facing walls partially preserved
cadavers have been placed, apparently to
attract the curious. They make a chastity
array with male subjects on one side and
females on the other. Most of them are
recent dead, and some are clothed, wholly
or partially. a few have papers loosely
pinned to them, stating names and dates
Of death-a pitfully feeble effort to stay,
if but for moment, the relentless march
of oblivion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-22
THE NEW MILEAGE TICKET.
How They Are Made and the Manner
of Their Use.

of Their Use.
From the St Louis Republic.
Since the adoption of the interchange
able mileage ticket by the Western roads
the new form of transportation has be-
come very popular. The new ticket is
gotten up in peculiar form, and requires
the investment of but fifty cents to give
the passenger the benefit of the cents
mile rate. The 50 cents secures for the
purchaser his credentials, which are got
ten up in the form of neat leather peck
etbook When the holder of one of these
credentials takes a ride on any one of the
roads in the Western Passenger Associa-
ton he purchases a regular ticket at the
regular price. at the same time presenting
his credentials. The agent who sells the
ticket places the latter in an envelope,
portion of which is a receipt for the tick
ct. This receipt is torn off by the conduc
tor, and handed to the passenger, who
files it away. When the passenger has
ridden 1900 miles he turns in these re-
ceipts and receives as a rebate the differ
ence between cents a mile and the rate
he has paid for the 1900 miles he has rid
den. In case he does not ride 2,0O0 miles
within a year he does not get the rebate.
His chance to get the rebate, however,
has cost him only 50 cents, in return for
which he has a neat leather pocketbook.
One general passenger agent in speaking
of the new ticket said:
Yes, it's a very nice thing-for the
travelling public-but l am beginning to
think that the railroads have got the short
end of it, and that it viii make a material
difference in their earnings Every body
was in favor of the new ticket, and now
that we have got it, / am afraid we don
want it, The tickets are undoubtedly very
popular. / have been on a number of
trains, not only on my own road, but on
others, since the new ticket was placed
on sale and was surprised, not only al the
number of people, but at the class of peo-
pie who We're using chem. ! saw a great
many people who, l am sure, never used
a mileage ticket before and who, 1 fm
equally certain, would not plank down the
price of 1000 miles of riding, hand up these
tickets. Before the new ticket was placed
on the market, these people purchased
tickets at the regular fare. Not it takes
simply the investment of half a dollar for
them to get the benefit of the cheap rate,
and they are all taking advantage of it.
The loss of these regular fares will make
a big hole in the earnings of the roads.
Some of these people may not ride enough
to secure the rebate, but many of them
will, and it is a clear loss to the roads of
the difference between the two-cent rate
and the regular rate
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-22

supplies; No. 2 red, $1.O41aG1 O51s, closed
I.O56; May, SSB@S414c; closed S41ac.
Corn, spot, steady options opened
steady and advanced little with wheag
closed quiet, steady and unchanged.
oats. 'pot qlie,; No. 2, 2S34c; options
very slow, but steady with corn, closing
unchanged; May closed 2SAc. Hay dull.
Hides steady. Lead steady. Wool steady.
Beef firm. Cut meats steady; picked bel
lies, 5Q6c; do shoulders, 424@5c; do hams.
IAc. Lard trim; western steam, 5O5c:
May, 5.l5c nominal; refined firm. Pork
hrm. Tallow quiet. Cotton seed oil quiet,
but firm; prime. 19Q191zc; do yellow, Z3dl
Rice steady fair to extra, 52sQG1ac. Molassek
steady; New Orleans, open kettle, 2SQ33c,
Coffee; options opened quiet with prices
unchanged, closed net unchanged to I
points decline; sales 1850 bales, Including
March, 570Q5.75c; spot coffee, Rio steadyA
No. Z invoice, 612Q63sc; No. job5iugJ
6AQ67sc; mild, dull; Cordova. Sl2q15c. SUI
gar raw, steady; refining, 9-16c; centri4
fugal 96-test, 1-16c; refined steady.
Butter, quiet; western creamery, 14l24
zoe; Elgins, zoe; factory, 11@15c. CheeseA
quiet; large white, September, sac; small
white, September 9h@91ac; large colored.
September, sac; small colored, September,
9AQ97sc; large October, SAQ812c; small Oct
tober S12QS%c; light skins, 61ac; pari
skins, 412Q5i2c; full skins, 2Q9c.
Chicago, Jan. PLATTER advancing a cent
to-day on the remarkable strength of Eng
lish markets, wheat fattened out and clos
ed unchanged for May. but July held 3sQ
12c of its gain. Heavy Argentine shipments
rather took the wind out of the bulls sails
Corn and oats showed a little more active
ity, but substantially no changes in price.
Provisions closed unchanged to TIC higher
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closings ,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-22
COTTON ACREAGE OF 1895.
Strong Reasons Why 1t should BE
Gut Down.

New York, Jan. 19.-It seems to us that
the most vitality important lesson for the
South to learn is that Over-produetion OF
cotton is seriously harmful to the material
prosperity of that section.
We have repeatedly written on this sub
ject and feel that we have exhausted the
argument; nevertheless, with the result OF
the current crop, we are constrained to
write again. even at the risk OF reiterat-
ing what we have said before
Whatever share the merchants ana
planters of the South are to have in the
revival of business and general prosperity
of the country now apparently well start
ed, will depend upon the profit that is
made in the production of cotton, crop
worth $500 100000
The total crop of 1866 was 7,15L3ij
bales, and 1t was sold at the average
price of 500 cents per pound, or $l0S2 per
bale. according to the record Of exports
and the official figures of the Bureau OF
Statistics al Washington. The planters
that year made large food crops, ana
when the planting season the next yeaI
began. they were fortified with every re-
quisite to produce cotton cheaply.
Last year the total crop was S.757 96i
bales, and the average price was 1A2
cents per pound. or $S7.4O per bale the
crop yielding, perhaps, a larger net profit
than for many years, because planters
had few supplies to buy
The success resulting from the conserva-
tive policy which was pursued these two
years did not induce planters to adhere
to that line of action; on the contrary,
they increased their purchases Of fertiliZ-
ers this year, and many of them drifted
back almost TO the Affection principle,
and planted the largest cotton acreage
ever known, hoping that the world would
pay remunerative prices for the staple,
no matter how large the supply
The disastrous result of over-planting
this year is already clearly shown by com
parison with last year. when the acreage
devoted to cotton was decidedly less
Last year the amount of cotton mar
keted to Jan. / was $685. 1872 bales, the av-
erage price realized was 7.53 cents per
pound, $S7.1 per bale, or $242. 939 $50
This year 7,260,033 bales were marketed
70 Jan. l, the average price realized was
500 cents per pound, 5000 per bale, or
$221. 1858, 4O6.
The planters shipped to market S6l ,S41
bales of cotton more by Jan. / this year
than last and received for them S21. $50
S44 less money. In other words, owing to
the lower price, induced by over-produc-
ton, the people of the South have lost on
cotton shipped to market by Jan. l this
year, the total value of S61 ,S41 bales name
ly, $32, ,102, and $21, 5S094 besides. max
ing grand toal loss of $54, 305 046.
To further illustrate the ruinous effect
OF oVer-planting we make the following
summary of crops and prices:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-22
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. JANUARY p, 1898

door OF one of them open, and. grasping
hold OF part OF the door. I drew myself
inside. My strength here gave out, and
once more / tainted. l did not remember
anything more until / one morning found
myself in a cheap lodging house in city,
and those about me called me daft. I was
in rags, and as mechanically felt for my
letter and ring. ] found that they were
gone. l was stunned. but, throwing all
my remaining manhood into action, l
started out TO look for employment.
searched hard, but no one would give me
work, and I came to Mexico, beating
trains and begging my food. in the hopes
that some one would give me some kind
of employment here. That is all"