The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

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M4SgN Crandallville. Besides about to marry
90 VERY sees girl and o his se
that rural community, where most people enjoyed
quite remarkable length of life and tongue felt grateful
qenng of their blood at the thought of it and talked Of the
eomey couple until they were actually red in the face
beyond its latitude Nick the of musician with
really sublime genius for the violin He had won the daughter
figure and his wonderful gift he
70 cot small ainine in music II set his feet IN the right
however twenty express wild
mby the old Guarneru that was the only thing OF value
my good passing the of Bessie
the night before he left had but lately come to
had something good to Having been to prayer
violin coming from the omen window Of the Hammerton house
The old that to
leaned
the WALL quite alone in the darkness and listened had
always mighty o I the
gardens of youth and the music that to like
putting his whole heart those tender old ballads At the last
As M od ou sn hes e the for
boy day, with his
his shoulder did him until had and
singular bit of history led up to our meeting
Separated from his command in of the charges at Chick
inside the lines of the north of
Snodgras hill The Union soldier in that of the field
was mystery no" ne got tnere ne must nave craMleu
ames through the smoke and ruin half mile from
condition. with his skull fractured piece of she'll He had
lost his and hat cursg soldiers do when their
battle The him
touched their hearts, for they took him
could tell them his where he from the
clew it. He like whose mind has given
energy thing
gets kind of mental astigmasm in which, coming to-
the rays of thought focus imperfeety.
perception that of him. He would sit
and quiet for time and then off of curses the
strange profanity had of his old habit of speech
He could express only one hougha fixed fOrua-repeated
After little back army n a
and there nobody able him. They
him hoping would into recognition
seemed to get understanding of what
perceptions
he was hungry or thirsty and and
But the brief legend of his love
those that lent themselves reckless and violent
One big soldiers
tent of an Ohio regiment in They were all on
pushing get All stood silent their faces lifted and lit
with feeling Nick Gath had got his hands violin
and playing with all the masterfu God had
clear OF and mad come out OF It's ruined castle to look
sound Of it There was no break or heanc as the tide of
the north melody
The strains of RObin Adair Anne Laurie"
the Banks Braes Bonnie
still air of that autumn afternoon thrilling the
The low, and the call
them lifted until the
made off muttering and unnindful
thought the men whispered
they watched him walking slowly field
down, I saw him in
way life long in camp
bi i an b @ oS + one h enae ever
he He had been problem and mystery;
and there those who crossed themselves
spirit. The in wing
the rid of their
Ten after the in a
Religion regarded
that neighborhood and minded in
people in their of mig
with which they
worthy a
the
picnics meetings,
could not thinking
q relish
stralaced, God ALT
lacked cheerfuness probably
providing possible enter
satisfy the vould
but their singing help to Christian I
study having
hour ice in the
to recog
all aspiring talent of the
My wife had into
leaking, feeling real
home member
A won fiddler a town
he though he O to MA for