The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-28
TREMBELY EDS AWAKEN G.
BY FREDERIC BRUSH.

away below them to the village marked ~
the smoking tannery chimneys.
You've done well with Athe farm. Ed.
Everybody says 30. You mustn't get SICK
now. Whistle Lorena. : You know 4 always
like that
He started low and eweetiy, quavered and
broke down, arose hastily and walked out to
the barn. The mother watched him with
anxious eyes.
sssoss,s.,Ts
The GUNNER passed with sun and shower.
Large harvesfs followed and the Jannisons
.prospered. Ed came to enjoy comparative
peace In the village, for the inability to arouse
in him the least resistance made the game
| tiresome.
In September Mrs. Jamison was well
| enough to ride out, and one day Ed took her
to visit cousin down the river. He had
never, like other lads of his age. taken the
girls to ride, and this day he playfplly called
her his first girl-his sweetheart. He, whis-
tied the old tunes and initiated the roadside
birds and was happy
| The drive home brought them to the vile
lage just at lamp lighting Something un-
usual was happening. The main street was
| crowded with men and boys. Teams lined
both sides, and at the open windows and in
/ the yards and balconies the women chatted
! gaily.
what is the Celebration" asked Mrs.
/
| side.
Political meeting great speech. Better
| hurry in, or you won't get near. =
/ Ed proposed at once that they turn and
take the long route around the town, but
/ his mother would not hear OF it. They found
the crowd so dense in the maiu street that
i they could advance but "a little way at Q
time: and opposite the speakers platform
{ they came to a standstiH. Accompany of town
boys bored through, justling the people to
fright and left, shouting and blowing horns.
The leader,a tall young. fellow, struck the
Jamison horse across the nose with horn.
l Looking up, he saw who was the driver, and
his joy nearly overcome him.
"Trembley Ed, as I'm democrat" he
shouted. Come on, boys! Here's our camel
3 He'll scare to death here p
Perhaps they did not see that Eds COM
panion was a woman. The people fell back
I a little and looked on DULY. Some OF the
best men of the town were there, but mono
offered to interfere. Bystanders' justice is az
slow in getting under way as it is inexorabls
in its final action
The gang was in their 1iveliest mood. They
unbuckled the harness, tied the horses ears
tipped the wagon and howled and circled
One Of them threw a half eaten banana at
Ed. He ducked, and Mrs. Jan1ison screamed
and clapped her hands. to her eye. Ed sprans
| to his feet and drew the hands gently away
|
stem of the fruit had made ragged cut in
her cheek.
A country crowd takes up news as water
does wave motion. Within FIVE minutes IL
seemed that everybody in the place knew that
something was happening down in the square.
ED Jamison's fighting! Ed Jannison s
killed two men! There's an awful fight going
on in the square! Trembely Ed Janiison q
gone crazy"' So the rumors caught from
man to man.
Something was happening. Trembe1y Ed
Jamison was s'lickng' the Tannersville gang
one by one In twelve foot ring under the
wavering torchlights of the speakers stand,
while the speaker waited and wondered.
, 1t was minutes before the men about thu
S wagon fully believed their eyes, but when
they did Ed got fair play to the finish Three
of the. gang tried to wriggle into, the crowd
e but they we're tossed back into the circle and
q when they saw that escape was impossible
g fought gamely: but they were no match FOL
Q the sturdy hill boy Clean, regular living
hard work in the sunshine and a superior
: muscular inheritance were pitted agains
% them, but more potent than these was IL,
q unleashed spirit of the youth. Twas al
: if the dam that had caught and held all fh,
e6 manhood that should have flowed quietly ant
steadily through the growing years had sud
e denly given way.
This flood swept him along. He could no
e stop. When the last man, the tall leader
!. y went down, he swung on into the crowd Hk
:. a mailman. Three men laid hold of hin
y and shouted into his ears that it was all over
!, He recovered slowly and went to his mother
= = doctor was binding up her wound.
= People wondered afterward how she coul,
. have set there quietly in the midst of tn
:. noise and the joste and the sickening blows
= but Mrs. Jamson. deep III her troubles
= mother heart, knew that out Of that dust an,
cursing and pain another son was beinl
born to her.
ID When Trembely Ed took the seat beside her
S they hardly knew him. and as the crow,
parted widely to let him pass the pent VI
" rang UP to the hills ard on up to the hisl
ID feeling loosed into cheer after cheer tia
ID heart of the mother.