The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1908-09-30

ing a musket in the service of his
country.
At the close of the civil war Private
Gable, barely eighteen returned to his
home. only to find that death had de-
stroyed Its happiness. His father had
died, leaving his widowed mother Il de-
pendent upon him. 1t was then philo-
sophically he realized that labor alone
could win for him. and he stuck to 1t
with rigid integrity In turn he be-
came brakeman and fireman. Finally
his determination and faithfuness won
him dremalfs place on one OF the
fast New York Central runs" If ever
he was dissatisfied with the work, no
one was the wiser.
Railroading In those days was not
what it is in these advanced times.
Then 1t meant that one was possessed
of all the evil habits that fall to the
! lot of man. David Gable was more or
less contaminated 10y contact with his
rough. ribald companions of the rail,
and he glided moderately into the bad
habits of his kind. He drank and
"gamboled" with the rest of the boys;
but, by nature not being vicious and
low, the influences WerI not hopeleSSly
deadening to the better qualities of his
character TO his mother he was al
ways the strong good hearted, manly
boy better than all the other sons in
the world. She believed In him. He
worshipcd her, and 1t was not until he
was well up in the twenties that he
stopped to think that she was not the
only good woman In the world who de-
served respect
Up in Albany lived the Widow Cole
man and her two pretty daughters.
Mrs. Coleman's husband died on the
battlefield, and she. like many women
in the north and the south after years
of moderate prosperity was compelled
to support herself and her family. She
, had been a pretty woman. and one
readily could see where her daughters
; got their personal attractiveness.
Not many doors from the bolsterous
! little eating house In which the rail
road men snatched their meals as they
: went through the widow opened
( book and news stand. Her home was
r on the floor above the stand, and 1t
r was there she brought her little girls
: to womanhood Good looking. harum
| SCuEHiU Dave ' ul)lt SuW IIdntGS AOlc-
n man one evening as he dropped in to
purchase IA newspaper. 1t was at the
end of June in 1876. and the country
: was in the throes OF excitement over
the first news of the Custer massacre
on the Little Big Horn river.
Gable was deeply interested, for he
had seen Custer fighting at the front
in the sixties. Frances Coleman, the
prettiest girl he had ever seen, sold
him the newspaper After that, he
seldom went through Albany without
visiting the little book shop.
Tempestuous, even arrogant in love,
Cable, once convinced that he cared for
her, lost no time in claiming her.
whether or no. In less than three
months after the Custer massacre they
were married.
Defeated rivals unanimously and en-
viously observed that the handsOmest
fireman on the road had conquered the
most outrageous little coquette be-
he tween New York and Buffalo. AS n
n matter of fact, she had loved him
I'd from the start; the others served as
it, thorns with which she delightedly
er pricked his heart into subsection
% The young husband settled down. re-
of nounced all of his undesirable habits
re and became a new man with such sur
as prlsing suddenncss thu his friends
be marveled and -derided. year OF
lie. happiness followed. He grew accus
ar. toned to her frivolous ways, over
ed looked her merry whimsicalities and
lis gave her the full length of free
is rope" as he called it, He was con
lis tented and consequently careless Shit
IN chafed under the Indifference and in hel
Is. resentment believed the worst or him
lis Turmoil succeeded peace md content
IN ment. and in the end David Cable
en- driven to distraction. weakly aban
az doned the domestic battlefield and fec
tn to the far west, giving up home gool
Int wages and all for the sake of freedom
ly. such as it was. He ignored her letter!
m and entreaties, but in all those months
ce that he was away from heF Hr nevel
I'D ceased TO regret the impulse that nae
to defeated him Nevertheless he coul'
not make up his mind to go back ant
ri. resume the life Of torture her jealous.
nd had begotten.
It'll Then the unexpected happened.
ed letter was received containing the com
ne mand to come home and care for III
Die wife and baby. At once David Cable
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