News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-02-08
NE S0RreR. KINDER REMEMBERS

comforture OF July Ia d great city
that month OF glarlng, shrlyellng
heat, beating down ana radIated by
day and stored up tor TIE night In
stone and brick walks, asphalt, stone
and brick pavemenUs, winch do not
find sufficient hours of darkness be-
tween sun and SUD, To commence to
cool off.
1t meant those other days also,
when, with the sun in seml-oOscurlty
OF cloud, that Wiling, drenching hu-
nudity that Is lar worse to endure
than the dryer, more intense heat, a
condition that had kept the amDu-
lance pretty busy gathering up the
heat prosJratlon Gases here and there
day alter day us the heat continued.
He mad tor month alter month met
the daily Call TO work, way up In the
heat OF d sixth floor Office ana thank
ed his lucky stars Unat it was SO
rather than be found IN The ranks OF
the great army of unemployed walk
ing the streets. La THAI office swell
tered scores OF others under the same
conditions as his own, but none of
these had, like ne, tor two years been
counting the weeks as they dragged
by, waiting ior the day oil the year,
vacation DAY, TO come with the MINDS
eye turning constantly up to the hills
was just before hlm.
Every day HAD seen him at his desk
since that last Time of going, 80 long
before, and the clock and calendar
hand would hang back so. He had
walked the streets hurriedly, seeking
the shady side and the narrow alleys,
where the sun has but little chance,
the odor OF sun baked asphalt pave
ment in his nOstrlls, say nothing OF
those other doors OF various sizes
which those same alleys are so sue
cessiul in developing. In his ears was
the ever present below of the ice
man, the ring of the Hickey Pokey
mans bell, the call of the umbrella
artist, the cry of the "Any Old Rags"
man, the Disseminating strains OF the
hurdy.gurdy, the hoarse cries OF the
bawling bucksters with "sugar corn"
''sweet potats," Jersey tomats," etc,
the shouting of a regiment OF a half
naked street gamin, the clang OF the
trolly gongs and the rip and roar of
street traffic, all IN d smudge OF soft
coal smoke, while within was the
CHATTER of scores of typewriters and
the hum of voices. All in all, a condi-
ton not calculated to enhance
good Datured frame of mind and
serving to still more wildly bring to
mind the peace and quiet of tamil
lar Vermont landscape ana to get
the hankeri..g factor to working over
time.
He had trolleyed to the parks after
business hours on many hot night,
there melting into the mass OF steam
Ing humanity, suffering under the al
titude of the mercury and the delu-
sion that they were enjoying them
selves. On an occasional Saturday
afternoon he had believed that
more extended trolley trip would be
just the thing his automobile not
yet out OF the factory but he had
found it was a fake as one half the
trolly was found to be baking in
the scorching sun, while the other
half was long since claimed, staked
and held with a steadfastness that
would do credit to an oldtime west
ern squatter. He had hung his head
over The rail of one of the bridges
ana gazed with rebelious stomach
(of course his eyes did the gazing in
reality into that yellow, Shiny, slug
gish stream-.icking the filthy shores
of sewage, coal-yards, factories and
tried ito forget it," forget that he
was drinking that and right in mid
summer too. His interior struck up
that once familiar song Take Back
Your Gold" but that would hardly
do, so he moved on, got grewsome
and kept a close watch, scanning
from week to week the printed death
list, almost as if he wondered if his
own name might appear included in
that list of nearly five hundred that
were recorded every seven days as
having stacked arms and surrendered,
going on that long parole to a bet
ter country, let the where be as it
might. For had he not seen scores
of milk dealers sent to jail for adul-
terating their milk? Marketmen ditto
TOR unduly preserving" their meat.
The butter men prosecuted for palm
ing off cleo The ice cream men i'm
prisoned for using poison fruit Juice
and coloring stuff? The bottlers and
brewers brought low for far too much
OF the wrong acids in their beer? The
pure spring water" men fined for
selling water that wouldn't recognize
a spring as parental relative if one
should be met, face to face ? Hadn't
the great metropolis literally sunk
millions in a sand liberation plant
and crowned it with gigantic success
in creating fresh typhoid epidemic
because OF their importing sand from
fever stricken locality?
Oh yes, all this and much more as
the days were counted, bringing final
~ that 2lst of July, when he would
throw business to the winds and hike
away to Vermont and the LamoiAe
Valley-his native heath-the land
of DrOmian tho 10 nd M haro N ~ 20 s,7oh