The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-05-24
RISING SUN CECIL COUNTY. MD. FRIDAY MAY 24. 1901.

had first entered into Mr.. Gaylord's
life-if it is correct to speak in terms
so emotional concerning the associa-
tion of a man and his valet-Gaylord
had writhed under his ministrations.
Now he sat like lamb while Stubbs
arrayed him and had even, to his
Wallets secret delight, sharply repri-
manded him for lack of attention to
some small detail. Under this treat
ment Stubbs began to feel quite at
home, and If he had entertained any
secret apprehension about the gentility
of his patron they now disappeared.
One day, however, a cloud appeared
on Stubbs' horizon. 1t may or may not
have been bigger than mans hand.
Stubs was not in a position to say,
because for some time he paid no at
tention to it whatever. The first thing
he noticed was that every morning
Mr.. Gaylord was avid for his paper
and that he turned to the Washington
news and read it feverishly. Later on
the valet observed that strange anX-
iety lay upon the whole city. Excited
groups talked and gesticulated to-
gether on the street corners. Men lin
gered long in the barber shops, ha-
ranguing. The hotel rotundas were
thronged at night and apparently not
for purposes of pleasure. Miners
thrOnged the city by the thousand
fresh from the camps. Bulletins We're
eagerly read in the clubs and the
newspaper windows. The rooms of
hive with men.
One morning the papers printed the
news that India had suspended the
coinage Of silver. That day there were
three suicides at Rico and two at Ou-
ray, and perhaps some others else
where ST which no one took note. The
air was electric with presage of disas-
ter. Gaylord ate nothing all day, and
that evening he staid in his room, n
thing he had not done since he return
ed from Chicago. About this time Col
orado began to make new fashions for
itself. BereSford invited his friends
to dine with him under the auspices of
the sheriff. So they came, all the merry
old FOUNDERS, and drank good wine un-
der the nose of the sheriff, who drank
as much as anybody. In fact, Mrs
Beresford, in her corn colored satin,
held aloft an iridescent goblet of
twisted glass in her hand and cried
''To the sheriff. and the company
drained the amber liquid to him, while
he came in from an anteroom to bow
his acknowledgements.
Up in the camps hard luck dinners
became the rage. One dinner was Civ
en- at Rico to which ten penniless men
sat down who had been millionaires or
well on the way to be such the week
before, The food they ate was obtain
ed on credit, and they sent out tele-
gram asking for passes to Denver,
which they got, for it had been only
a month before that they had had the
president of the road and 20 other good
fellows up to drink champagne and eat
venison with them.
The days passed feverishly. Men
waited for the final blow. 1t came. The
Sherman act was repealed. The gov
ernment no longer guaranteed the pur-
chase of silver.
Gaylord came to Stubbs with the old
whimsical smile about his face.
''I'm done for" he said I'm clean
ed out, Stubbs. But there's a lot Of
others travelling my road. and I'm not
going to feel lonesome. I'm simply 60
ing to pack my grip and get out. I've
got a little money that 1 can honestly
use, though most Of what 1 have in
the bank will have to go to paying off
the men at the mines and settling up
matters, and I've this to say, Stubbs,
to you. If you want to go with me.
you may. l brought you over here, and
you may share my fortunes to the end
if you wish, but give you fair warm
ing they'll be misfortunes from this
time on for awhile. OF course I'll get
on my feet again somehow, but don't
know when nor where nor how. I'm
used to roughing it, and 1 don't mind,
at least 1 wouldn't mind but for one
thing, but that's neither here nor there.
Now, what will you do? I'm with you,
Stubbs. Say your say"
"Why sir" said the man, touched
by his employers misfortunes, there's