Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-06-23
A SAD SCENE.
Awful Results Of Wearing a
Homemade Necktie.
Noble Sacrifice Of Young Man Who
Tried to Please.
His Best Girl-Noise Which II Created
on Street.
A SAD SCENE.

One of the saddest sights that have
seen for many a long day was a scene
| witnessed on Water street. on dav
last week. | have visited Bellevue
and other large hospitals of the coun-
try and have seen sights that would
make the ordinary mortal shudder:
scenes that leave an impression upon a
mans mind as long as he lives. But
such things must be expected, and in
the slums of the larger cities where
crime and vice go hand in hand one
expects to see suffering and mental
anguish, but down in a Puritanical
city like Augusta where good moral
influence predominates, the traveller
along the highway is wholly unpre-
pared for such scenes and they strike
him more forcibly.
There are so many cases in this world
where sympathy is misplaced and
abused that when a genuine case does
come to ones notice it fails to receive
the amount of sympathy it deserves
and then the world is called cold and
unsympathetic, grasping and mer-
cenary, and the people are looked upon
as fiint-hearted and calloused
But there was no installing the case.
it appealed to the best nature of man.
kind at a glance. The world recog-
nizes the hero in any walk of life from
the humblest worker with his dinner
pail to the banker with his millions
and respects him accordingly. That
this man was a hero there is no question
of doubt. He was more than that. He
was a martyr and stood his suffering
untlnchingly and without a murmur
The man who shouldered a musket at
his cOuntry's call and invaded the
bamboo SWamps of Luzon or pene-
trated the tangled jungles of Cuba
was no more hero in my eyes than
this Wcll-drcSSeI young man who
walked the streets Of the Capital city.
last week, the target Of all eyes ana
the innocent cause of sarcastic re-
marks. one could see by the express
sion on his face that he was well
aware of the attention he was attract
ing and also painfully aware of the
awful noise and boisterousness that his
advent into town had caused, but he
never fiinched. His face wore that
calm, serene, mobile expression that
one often sees on the face of a book
canvasser or q lightning rod agent He
simply had Il duty to perform and was
performing it, and when that great
book of modern heroes is made up |
shall expect to see that young mans
name well up toward the top of the
column.
My attention was first attracted to
this case long before l saw il. | was
sitting in my office when | heard at
first low ana distinct grumbIing like
distant thunder, then more boisterous
noises like steam caliope or street
band. | dropped my work and crancd
my neck to see whence came this
| hilarity ana very soon the young man
hove in sight.
Then I saw what was the cause of
all this disturbing of the peace. 1t was
a young man coming down the street,
| trying to wear home made necktie,
which his best girl had crocheted for
| him out Of colored Irvine. 1t was 4
| more gaudy hue than ever an artist
| tried to work off on a long suffering
public for Italian sunset. Pink and
| green, and the pinllest pink that | have
| ever seen outside of a child'S toy paint
| box 1t was a fOur-in-hand or four
| in-two-hands crocheted after the fash
ion Of Il fascinator with big openwork
rings in it. Noisy, why you could hear
| it Vel every step he took. | don't
wonder a horse whinnied and SHE'D
| when he saw it. 1t loomed up like the
| headlight on a locomotive and was
| loud enough to keep the neighbors
awake like crying child. 1t was an
| awful noisy tie and | have wondered
over since how he escaped being ar
rested for creating a disturbance or
the street.
But you couldn't help plying the
F: poor fellow for he was between the devil
and the deep sea, pretty hard place &c
put a young man you will admit. Ii
was a case of girl versus people for il
ne refused to wear the tie the girl
would be mad and if he wore it the
people would be mad. So of the two
| evils he chose the least and chung &c
the Girl and the tie, but after he gets
married and moves into fiat o.
| LAYER. why, things viii be different
and wife will have SO much to do
carrying wood and water and otherwist
| interesting herself in domestic amuse-
ments like hunting for buffalo bugs
and trading with peddlars that she viii
not have much time to build monstros-
| ity neckties.
! And then the dear boy will breath
! easier. AS I previously remarked il
| was one of the saddest cases L ever
| saw and called for a good deal of nerve
on his part But then. a man who en-
| tiers the matrimonial market must have
a nerve that creosote will have no ef-
feet on for he takes chances that would
scare a man with good eyesight &c
| death But this fellow was all right fol-
everybody says love is blind.
No., ON