Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-11

aces women bow from their Carriafe
10 someone across the street He sees
q group OF men laughing loudly 90 some
Joke.
lie begins to feel chccrlcss among
the crowd He can no longer respond
To- the brightness round him. His in
sirnihcance begins 90 torture him. But
he knows he has uo right 20 expect q
bo noticed by these people. ho has
done nothing for his country and very
little for himself lie has read NJ great
men. and he has seen them go through
the streets and he has been one of
many a cheering crowd hut he has
always boon outside. He has never
been able 90 get 20 the from line, even
Of q crowd.
Ana nov as he shufnos along the
street he begins 10 be appalled, by his
isolation What would these people
eyer 90 tor hme They are anxious
to avoid touching him He begins to
hate them BE feels inclined 10 stop q
lady going into q shop. ed 60 tell her
he Is hungry and tu ass for copper
But me- has never begged. and he Is
AFRAID Co start So he begins instead TO
despise these people who avoid him AZ
they PASS. and his humility gives place
TO arrogance. and he Is happier.
But when he comes to "A throng OF
brightly dressed women crowding the
pavement opposit. a shop window filed
with CAV coiors, he steps With his old
d.ffdcnce into the road. Then he
hears shout. and as he turns he sees
q harson nolrlv on TO him. He tries
90 avoid H. but the horse knocks him
down. and he Hes half stunned on the
road
III
Men rush towards the horse One
backs IL. and another supports the old
mans head. aud shouts 10 a boy To run
for "A policeman An Immediately
dressed youth in frock-coat and top-hat
suggests carrying the old man into a
shop Women look pityingly az him.
one forces her way through the crowd.
and when she sees the panied face and
the white hair her color goes, and she
turns away quickly.
Policemen arrive, and non take their
coats off ana wrap them round the old
man; and so they carry him into a
shop Brandy is given TO him, and
anxious people ask him how he feels
and whether he is badly lurt
The ambulance Us sent tor ana i'm
few minutes there ls he insisten, ring
ing of a bell. and the traffic is stopped
TO make way for the hurr, ing motor
ambulance People ask what IS tho
matter. and they are told that an old
man has broken his he's. and the crowd
Crews outside the shln. But the mo.
tor ambulance scattcrs H. and directly
IL stops the doors arc opened and the
stretchcr taken out.
And soon the old man Is carried out
of the shop bound 10 the etretcher. 10
is very white but strangely cheerful.
and he looks gratefully ac the crowl
hp Ia wi q. H.
lance. The frock-coated young man
tells him TO cheer up. and women look
kindly at him
The doors are shut. AMI again the
traffic is held up. and everything makes
way for the motor ambulance carrying
this almost penniless old man to the
hospital Motor cars sWerve aside TO let
him pass a carriage and pair wait
patiently TO give him a clear crossing
at the corner A hanson that may be
carrying a cabinet minister pulls quick
ly out of the way
Triumphantly he rushcs through the
city. At last he IS important He cares
little about the paining leg lie Is not
lonely now or frightened. He does not
think unkindly Of anyone. He rcmom-
bers the anxious faces OF the crowd.
and he can see the plying locks Of the
women. He hears the rolc Of the traf-
hc outside, and he knows that 10 is
going faster than anyone else and that
for once he Is the most important man
in the street.
He does not know h. IS import mt
only because he is dying He is not I'm
much pain. He only feels weak and
helpless. He bears no grudce against
the driver Of the hanson. Re would
not have missed this ride for any