Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-11

and then he launched forth into the
relation of another incident of his
early youth illustrating of the struggle
of the triumph of private morals. This
story concerned an incident which
happened in the Office of his father,
who was justice of the peace, coroner,
sheriff and chief of police in the local
Village, in fact, tAs rerscnitication Of
government. This unreasonable parent
objected to his son going to fishing
on school days, and one day when the
latter had done so, the youth decided
to spend the night on an ancient settee
in his fathers office. He did not know
that a man had been stabbed to death
and that the body had been placed in
that Office for the exercise of his faith
er's duties as coroner the next day.
Young Mark gained the settee with
out incident, but as his eyes became
accustomed to the. faint light of the
room he thought that he perceived an
unusual occupant. lie firmly resolved
to dismiss the idea by the exercise
of moral courage. He turned to the
wall, resolved TO count thousand and
hoping that the vision would disap-
pear. He turned again towards the
object and in the square of light form
ed by the rays Of the neon through
the window pane, he perceived a
marble hand. He again turned to
the wall, but for a short period only
and upon another gaze the square
light had travelled so that an arm and
part of head could be seen. Again
and again moral courage struggled
with terror, but upon slast glance,
the full torso and face were revealed,
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Moral courage disintergrated amid
breaking and cracking window sash.
After bringing in a story of how
hs had been induced to buy horse
for TWENTY-FIVE dollars at an auction
bv the assurance that it was a genu-
inc Mexican plug, said in a manner
which made him deirse a Mexican
plug OF all things, his adviser turning
OUT 10 be the auctioneer's brother, the
speaker reverted to his book. 'It is
a matter of the profoundest apprehen-
sion and the most gloomy forebod-
ings, but here the speaker was moved
to warn his hearers against the dam
forget anything.
There was man of his acquaint-
ance. he said, who remembered things
SO ln1l no COulu AiCN0l lNil ~ SlOl1 10
the end because other things were sug-
gested as he went along lie had an
absorbingly interesting story, the
speaker said, about his grandfather
and q ram, but they never did know
just how that story ended. The ram
was in a field and his grandfather
went TO see that ram. He came to
the field and before he reached the
A.. 4as So fLs
grass. He stopped to pick up that
ten cents. The ram saw his attitude
and took it for an invitation he start
ed for the mans grandfather, but just
at this point the story teller became
diverted as to which Smith was the
one who was standing by at the time.
This lead to most thorough and de-
tailed discussion of the various
Smiths, their pedigree and connections
and various details by which he con-
cluded that this was John Smith and
not James Smith. The discussion am
plified and ramified and lasted unit,
bedtime and it is nowhere recorded
what happened after the ram started,
for the story teller's grandfather.
Mark found at this point that he
had not brought books Of his own
writings, but some others books and
showed som9 desire to conclude his
remarks. but so loud wassthe demand
for his continued presence, that he
remained and told how, at the Naval
Academy yesterday morning he had
been obliged to throw away his ciagr
for fear he would set a rock on FIRE.
He had thought and felt nautical all
day, he said, and this suggested the
story of the man who having stayed
away from home with the boys until
a late hour, had entered : heAving