The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-18

She picked over some small placards
that had been left by the ice cream
man and were intended to hang on the
wall. Her sober face frightened and
she ran to the kitchen. II have an idea
how We can get folks away from the
Shamrock" she said. Mother. you
fix some ham so we can make some
bang-up sandwiches tomorrow. Have
We got any good m~ustard?"
The Feehan chop house has the ad-
vantage of position, for il Is nearest
the cemetery gates and every customer
of the Shamrock has To pass its door,
and this made it the bitterer when they
did go by. The neXt morning Maggie
o the top of a p"asteboard hat box
and painted on il in struggling black
letters "A sandwich and cup of coffee
free to drivers Of hearses and hacks"
She nailed it on the corner of the build
ing and awaited results. A large flu
neral came out i'm the middle mornfng.
She counted II public carriages as they
went into the cemetery. When they
came out and turned toward the res
taurants she watched for the effect of
her stratagem with beating heart. The
first two drivers went by the sign and
pulled up at the Shamrock. The third
man hesitated, looked back and then
paused before the door of the chop
house. us that true?" he inquired, in
dicating the sign.
Come i'm and see" Maggie answered.
Sure. you amt afraid of us If you
can stand those old chunks that Roach
calls sandwiches"
The driver got down and told the oc-
cupants of his carriage that he had
landed them at the only good restaur-
ant at the cemetery and they alighted.
Maggie noted with joy that they were
four young men with some kind Of in
sigma about their necks. Their grief
was purely official and would not in
terfere with their appetites.
Ten Of the drivers saw the sign and
came To Maggie's door. Another. Who
was a personal friend OF Roach, passed
n the other carriages turned back
on the city road without stopping at
the eating houses.
Maggie felt she had ~triumphed. She
set the drivers down at the window ia
BILE and when the first wants of the
mourrers had been attended to she
took five cups OF her best coffee and a
great plate OF sandwiches 10 the drivers.
one fellow winked knowingly over his
cup and asked what she wanted Of him
now. You know well enough" she
answered. and II isn't more thar right
that some of you should stop here 10y
US instead Of taking all your folks To
that dirty Shamrock"
The drivers understood their parts
wen enough and during the next few
days business picked up so amazingly
the chop house that Mrs. Feehan
was obliged to send for Judy. who was
tending a baby at FdCewater. to come
home To help Maggie during the PUSHES
OF the afternoon, and the butcher and
the grocer took her orders with a new
Meanwhile Roach was wondering AZ
the sudden falling on in his custom.
ana when he learned that Maggie was
a bonus 20 the drivers ne i'm
meTiately put out a sign which offered
a tree hard boiled egg with every cup
or coffee. Some Of the drivers who
lked Roach or eggs. deserted Maggie.
nut the majority of them liked her
and her coffee. so they stiII dis
Snarge their passengers at her door.
It's a poor day when we don't feed go
or 90 mourners, Maggie said last week
20 the foreman OF the s~toneCutters. who
Is rtputed 10 be paying her his address,
Is, and II there h much sickness this
winter Wen be needing an addition 10
the house"
RAYMOND MAXWELL.