The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-27

/ I'm ready to chip in. I never knew the
/ captain TO kick about his groceries but
/ once and then you can't say he was
/ kicking at us''-the grocer grinned. He
/ had some melons sent up from Dali
| lens and from our place the same day
and he thought our melons were Dali
/ lens and gave him fits for sending him
such mUsh; but when he found they
were ours, he looked them over again
and said they were just a little SOFT
That's like the time he was on the
+ jury the eX-judge took up the word.
The defendant was a Grand Army
man; but. as I heard later. the cap
tain mixed him UP with the plaintiff.
and there was no moving him by any
evidence. He began to tell things he
had heard Of the Twelfth regiment
/ this fellows regiment. how they came
charging down and rescued his COM
pany, and company A. this fellows
company, were in the thick of it. oh.
he made the most stirring speech Won
could imagine; and that man. says
ne, was the second lieutenant of com
pany A Do you thing I'm going back
on hIm| That's all right SAYS the
foreman, but I've always understood
1t was the other fellow. HOLSTER, was
lieutenant of company A. That foored
the captain They brought in a YER
dict in ten minutes"
We'll, ] like a man to stand up for
his friends said the banker. even if
he does slip a cog sometimes. And I
think now is the time for his friends
to stand by the captain. We don't
want him to leave the neighborhood-''
A chorus Interrupted him. Of course
not; the captain was so obliging. so
Sood to the children. All the women
consulted him about their gardens. If
the WaterWoTks or the electricity i'm a
mouse went wrong. the captain was al
ways available until the mechanical
doctor could come. He had put out one
hre with a garden hose. He had cured
1nnumeTable sticking drawers (scorn-
ing compensation for such an obvious
nelghbOrly duty. he had put in panes
of glass and planed off doors and mend /
ed sidewalks, and he kept three hatch !
cts to lend. No. the captain was too 1
good a neighbor to lose.
At laiSt yCus could hip him wild this
years installment-" said Patsy. " it's ]
SVEN years they give EN- TO pay And /
as friend Old ask the privilege to be /
on the paper And Ofm thinkin' twill .
maybe cheer the captain uD a bit, he's
Citing rale dOwnhearted and discour- /
aged 1CU see his eyes in a failin' q !
little. as Is only suitable for his axe.
but it hurts him. and only yistiddy a
lady-Oi won't name her-he done a
chair safe for her. uphOlstering it raIe
nate. to my mOind. but she found fault
wild it: and he TUX aft fifty cinfs TO
satisfy her It hurried him. He saws.
She's the second in wan wake saws
he; Dim lOSin' me grip says he And
he worries about old Hetty Corners.
has lived Wild him and his wife liver
since the war. Oi guess. She lost her
little savings finding 'em to a cousin
He tried his Dist to kaDe her from il.
but twas no good. You'd ought to seen
10 To- h h
WTitin' thot man. OnlUckiIy he'd skip
ped before he got 1t. so twas wastd
lolke- And We know he's lost three old
fTInds this same year. includin' his old /
sineral. The old man died down IN
Ohio and by some mishtake il didn't
git into the papers. ThOt cut the cap
tain They're forcittin' US saws he.
its tonne for Us to be gettin' aft the
stage: there amt nothin' more for US
TO do OF think the sooner we kin git
-hot paper up the betther. For the mon
was wild last night, he'd thot horror Of
debt and he didn't know which way
to turn Owe been IoOkin' fur him all
day. He talked Ioike he wud turn over
the whole property to the city and 90
out to SOphy. But she's got wan sick
man on her hands says he. she hadn't
ought to have another, And what'H be-
come Of poor Hetty2 I don't see no way
DUtt SAYS he
But he was around this morning"
said the grocer telling funny stories:
he had got new one. real funny /
That's only his sand the ey-iUdze
Interrupted. Il had q talk with him /
this afternoon. He was in bad wav-
But wasn't it just like him2 Of course
wouldn't charge for a little neighborIy
advice like that; and just a little while
before I came out Hetty was over with ]
package from the captain-he'd sent {
ne little cHamDfeT tool Of his I'd al