The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-16
The Gentleman From Indiana
BY BOOTH T4RKYNCToN
Copyright by Doubleday & Mcclure Co., 1900.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
bar. Jee's buggy has been recently washed.
Congratulations, Jee.'"
There's thrilling information!' shouted
the foreman. "Thatll touch the gentle read
to the marrow. The boss had to use some
pretty rotten copy himself. but he never got
as low as that. But well use IT.; oh. we'll
use it! II we don't get her out he'll have
setback, but II they show her to him It'll
kill him. If it doesn't. and he gets well,
ho'll kill us. But we'll use 1t, Ross. Don't
read any more to US, though; feel weaker
than did, and wasn't strong before. Go
down and set 1t all up"
Mr.. Schof1eld rejoined with an injured air,
and yet hopefully :'Id like to see what you
think of the poetry-it seemed all right to
me, but I reckon you amt ever the best
judge Of your own work. Shall I read it?'
The foreman only glanced at him in silence,
and the young man took this for assent. II
haven't made up any name for 1t yet"
30, the orphan boy stood on the hill,
The wind blew cold and very chilli"
Glancing at his auditors. he was a trife
abashed to observe a glaze upon the eyes Of
Mr.. Parker, while a purple tide rose above
his neck-band and unnaturally distended his
throat and temples With a placative little
laugh. Mr.. Schofeld remarked II git the
swing to her all right, I reckon, but some
how 1t doesn't sound SO kind Of good when
was Wrltlng IT,. TQer9 was NO response,
and he went On hurriedly:
but there he saw the little rill-1"
The poet paused to say, with another
| amiable laugh: Its sort Of hard to git out
Of them Ill. hill, chill rhymes once you strike
EN-. It runs on like this:
That curved and splattered around the hill I"
Il guess that's all right to use hill twice;
don't you reckon SO?
And the orphan he stodd there until
The wind and all gave him chilli
And he sickened-'"
That day Ross read no moro, for the tall
printer, seemingly incapable Of coherent
Speech kicked the desk impotently threw
his arms above his head. and, his companions
confidently looking to see him foam at the
mouth. lost his balance and toppled over
backward, his extensive legs waving wildly
in the air as he struck the floor. Mr.. Scho-
field fed.
Parker made no effort to rise, but lay
slaring at the ceiling. breathing hard. He
remained in that position for long time,
| until finally the glaze wore away from his
eyes and more rational expression settled
over his features. Mr.. Fisbee addressed him
timidly: ''You don't think we could reduce
the size Of the sheet?"
1T would kill him." answered his pros
! trate companion. We've go to fill her solid
| how. How that man has worked! It was
genius. He just floated around the county
! and soaked in items, and he wrote editorials
! that people read. One things certain: we
can't do it. We're running his paper for him,
| and when he gets able to read, it'll hurt him
| bad. Mighty few knew how much pride he
| had In it. Has it struck you that now would
| be a precious good time for it to occur to
| Rod McCune to come out Of his hole? Sup
| pose we go by the board, whate to stop him
What's to stop him, anyway Who knows
where the boss put those copies and affidavlts,
and If we did know, would we know the best
way to use EN-? II we did, what's to keep
! the Herald alive until McCuns lifts his head Z
And If we don't stop him, the Carlow County
Herald 1s finished. Something's got to be
| done'
| No one realized this more poignantly than
Mr.. Fisbee, but no one was less capable OF
| doing something of his own initiation. And
| although the Tuesday issue was forthcoming,
| embarrassingly pale in spo:s-most spots-Mr.
Martin remarked rather publicly that the
! Items were not what you might call stirring,
and that the unpatented pages put him In
mind of Jones' field in winter with a dozen
| chunks Of coal dropped in the snow. And
| his observations on the later issues Of the
week Qssues which were put forth with a
| suggestion OF spasm, and possibly to the per-
manent injury Of Mr.. Parker's health, he
repeated here. Indeed. Mr.. Tisbee, Parker
the luckless Mr.. schoffield, and the young
| Tipworthy may be not untruthfully likened
to q band of devoted mariners lost In the
cold and garing regions OF d Journalistic
| Greenland; limitless plains OF empty white
paper extending about them as far as the
eye could reach, whilo life depended upon
their making these terrible voids productive
| and they shrank appalled, from the task
knowing no means to fertilize the barrens
having no talent to bring the still SHOWS into
harvest and already feeling-in the chill o
Mr.. Martins remarks-a touch Of tho fros
that might wither them.
It was Fsbee who caught the first glimpse
Of q relief expedition clipping the rough seas
on its lively way to rescue them, and, al
though his first glimpse OF the jaunty pennan
Of the relieving vessel was over the shoulde,
Of an iceberg, nothing was surer than thai
the craft was flying to them with all goot
and joyous speed. The Iceberg just mentioned
assumed--by no melting process, one may b.
sure-the form Of a long letter, hrst post
marked at Rouen, and It's latter substauc,
was as follows:
Henry and ! have aIwys believed you q,
assRs"' Of n' yous 'G ID
to remain with you; how you COMMANDED, 1an
and how her conscience told her she shouit
> stay aud share your life in spite of our loni
} care of her, but that she yielded to you
wishes and our entreaty. What have 70,
ever done for her and what have you to of
fer her? She is our daughter. and needles
to say, we shall still take care Of her, for n
one believes you capable Of It, even in tha
miserable place, and. Of course, in time sh
will return to her better wisdom. her home
and her duty. 1 need scarcely say we hav
t given UP the happy months we. had planned t
: stay at home to pray, that her preposterou
mania will wear itself out in Short order
as she will find herself united for the ridic
5 ulous task which she insists upon attemptn
! against the earnest wishes Of US who hay
8 been moro than father and mother to her. O
tion for us. and of her gratitude, which W
do not waIit-we only want her to stay wit
us. Please, please try to make her com
back to us-we cannot bear it long. If 20
are a man you will send her to us soon. He
4 excuse for not returning on the day We wire
, , may as we'll tell you now that our intentio
1 to 60 was formed in order to bring affair
. to crisis and to draw her away from you
inf1uence-we always dreaded her visit to 20
and held 1t off for years)--her excuse was ths
t. your best friend, and, as understand i
in that Christian country Of yours-'a charm
ing place to take girl like her--and sh
: would not leave you In your distress unit
e moro was known Of the mans Injuries. An
now she insists-and you will know It frol
- her by the next mail-on returning to Plat
i ing your newspaper, and she says she know
y you are III difficulties over 1t. and 1t Is he
). | moral obligatiOn-as by some Wild reasonin
y of her own she considers herself responsible
for your rufiing patrons having been alon
q when he was shotr-to go down and help.~
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