The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1908-10-17
The Conpany's
Announcer.

was klllcu III HIS Noih tiiS o'h>A''S AN-s |
1t to some of the dead mans friends to
inform his family of their loss Now
an especial person is appointed to the
position of announcer of calamity. The
announcer is usually selected for his
tact and benevolent appearance. HIS
duties are certainly not attractive. To
20 to the home of woman, to near
her singing at her work, to see her
children playing about the cabin, and
| tell that the husband and father has
been mashed between two cars Is
| about as hard task as sympathetic
person can perform.
| Thomas Nolan was announcer at that
! point on the V. r. and X. railroad where
the shops are located and held the po-
sition SO long and his duties became so
we'll known that his simple appear
ance at workman's bone was all
the announcement needed. Indeed, he
could not walk through a street lined
with cabins but each housewife would
watch him with beating heart, fearing
that he was looking for her.
railway company's employ, had been
in America ten years, and. having
learned his trade and become so pro
icient as to earn good wages he sent
to Ireland for Mary Maloney, his sweet
heart He had loved Mary when she
was sixteen. raw girl, and found her
at twenty-six u full blown woman.
When he looked at her he felt that his
wait and work had been we'll rewarded.
All went we'll till children came,
and, with the Group and the measles
and the constant attention they need
ed even when well, Mary's nerves
. began to take on an edge and she lost
her eQuanimity. When Pat came home
In the evening, tired with standing
: over a machine all day and an occa-
sional depression in lifting some heavy
weight he would find her cross and
irritable. He was good natured chap,
full of Irish humor, and would usually
try to laugh his wife out of the com
plants she poured forth. But such
work Is harder than handling machin-
|. cry, be 1t ever so heavy, and after a
t while Pat began to get irritable him
O self.
II At last there came a breach. The
r pair had quarreled most of one night,
but in the morning Pat tried to make
1t up with his wife.
eyer havin' hard time of 1t, Mary
know, with the constant cookin' and
SEWN for the children and havin' tc
keep 'em from dom the thousand
things they shouldn't do all day Ions
till they're asleep at night, but dom
the wife of every Workman who has
children have to bear the same? And
them as hasn't children are awful en-
vious Of them that has. Try and TAXI
more reasonable view of 1t, Mary
Think of how well yer off to have
| man to earn Twin for you and thu
| children and how bad 1t would be If
| were takin' away from you and 20,
| had to work for a Twin as well as lool
out for the children"
She turned away from him In
huff, and he was obliged to go to hi
work with the breach still open. Mar
Az spent the morning brooding. She con
Ct sidered that she'd married the wron
u man. She recalled the hot words b
lu had said to her during the night an
either forgot the hotter words she ha
said to him or considered them justi
ay spoken. Toward noon she began
ln cool down. Pat never came home
'ei dinner, and perhaps 1t was as well II
ia day that he did not, for she was Nc
ID In a condition to avoid treating hi
III harshly. By evening she would
~ ready to at least drop the quarre
Ii IT, fhrnuOh a
y" ess of making up. Pat often wishe
they could end their misunderstanding
:" as they used to, by lovers kisses, b'
,en the time for that seemed past
When the hour for Pat to come hon
ie. for the evening drew near Mary begt
."s to feel uncomfortable. She wished
'e 20 to him and throw her arms arouI
his neck and say that she had act
"horrid" and all that, but somehow 81
=, couldn't. Perhaps she thought that
she did IL would only encourage Pat
-" "tyrannize" over her In future. b
80. she made a nice dish of beefsteak a
, =, onions for Pats supper He was We
fond Of the combination and by givi
him the dish she could get the comic
of a confession without really maxi
IN It.
"a She was standing over the supI
,., when something. she knew not VIII
nr. prompted her to turn her head
Ems look out through the open door
ad,. cabin stood alone and she had an
an INSTRUCTED view. There came Tom
hev Ian, the company's announcer, max
.aga straight for her cabin.
nm A few minutes later there was a 8
r+u- on the threshold. Mary did not hear
that for she lay on the floor in a swoon.
t,on was not Tom NoIan's step, for he
elds passed on without entering the cal
It was Mary's husband. who ente
aoiI. and saw her lying, white and rigid.
ror the floor. He was terribly frightene'
uted MARY, darlin'. what's happened
corn yer
seed Whether It was the sound of her
corn bands voice or the time for rev.
4 - oxano1 haP