Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-04-17
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Copyright, 1906 by the S. S. Mcclure Col
- OMEWHERE in the depths of
u the big city, where the unquiet
n drcgS are forever being shaken
together, young Murray and the
captain had met and become friends.
Both were at the lowest cbb possible
to their fortunes. both had fallen from
at least an intermediate heaven of re-
Spectability and Importance, and both
were typical products of the mon
strous and peculiar social curriculum
of their OverWcening and bumptious
civic alma mater.
The captain was no longer a captain.
one of those sudden moral cataclysms
that sometimes sweep the city had
hurled him from a high and profitable
position In the police department, rip
ping off hc badge and buttons and
washing Into the hands of his lawyers
the solid pieces of real estate that his
frugality had enabled him to accumu-
late. The passing of the flood left him
low and dry
One month after his disqualification Il
saloon keeper plucked him by the neck
from his free lunch counter as Il tabby
pluckS strange kitten from her nest
and cast him asphaltward. This seems
low enough But after that he ac-
quired a pair of cloth top, button con
grcsS CATERS and wrote complaining
letters to the newspapers. And then
he fought the attendant at the me-
nicipal lodging house who tried to
give him bath. When Murray first
saw him he was holding the hand of
an Italian woman who sold apples and
garlic on Essex street and quoting the
words of a song book ballad.
Murray's fall had been more Luci-
fcrian if less spectacular. All the
pretty. tiny little kickshaws of Gotham
had once been his The mcgaphOne
man roars out at you to observe the
house of his uncle on grand ana
rcvcrcd avenue. but there had been an
awful row about something. and the
prince had been escorted to the door by
the butler, which in said avenue is
equivalent to the impact of the avun
cular shoe. a weak Prince Hal, with
out Inheritance or sword, he driftcd
downward to met his humOrlcss Fal-
streets with him.
One evening they sat on a bench in
little downtown park. The great
bulk of the captain, which starvation
seemed to increase, drawing irony in
stead of pity to his petitions for all.
was hcapcd against the arm of the
bench in a shapcleSs mass. His red
face. spotted by tufts of vermilion,
week Old whiskers and topped by a
Sagging white straw hat, looked in the
gloom like one of those structures that
you may observe in Il dark Third ave
nue. window challenging your imagt-
nation to say whether it be some
thing recent in the way of ladies' hats
or strawberry shortcake. \ tight
drawn belt last relic of his official
spruceuess. made Il deep furrow in his
circumference. The captains shoes
were buttonlcss. In smOthcred bass
he cursed his star of i'll luck.
Murray, at his side was shrunk into
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tlon.
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tam ou bet your llIe II was! Lave
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hey
Il admit we failed, sighed Murray.
Il was sure Malone would he good for
one more free lunch after the way he
talked baseball with me the last time
! spent nickel IN his establishment
Il had this hand" said the captain,
extending the unfortunate member
81 had this hand on the drumstick Of
n turkey and two sardine sandwiches
when them walters grabbed us"
Il was within two inches Of the