The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-12-25

I'm roadmonkeyine for the Plot. III nave ye 10 know
he said any damned pea-soup that thinks CAM
do 1t can step up right now So after that 1t waf
good Shedding for me.
''The camp was always swept before I got there
and the boys knew what hymns they wanted to sing
Jesus. Lover of My Soul. Is that they liked
That's damned fine tune Pilot said one of them
night Why don't they have tunes like that In the
showsI Let's sing her again. so sang again. an6
morning they started In the dark for thel
work they sang AGAIN.
"other refuge have none,
Hangs my helpless soul Thee
Leave. oh leave not alone
stil and comfort mo"
And when heard that song coming back through
all the solemn whiteness of the woods knew wher
my work was. and made up my mind that some day
i would give all my time TO It.
II urged the boys to come 10 church when they were
In town, and day three of them did-Spiked boots
mackinnw coats and all. The town was used enough
TO lumber jacks and river pigs but only Oh the streets
and In the saloons
Pilot, they said while wns shaking hands with
them, we just wanted to whether you would give
US as good welcome here we give you In camp,
but guess you have
"They would to my house until one day
after the drive thirty OF them showed up all at
1t II hard squeeze getting them In but my wife
and made them welcome and as they stood up TO
one of them handed me slip OF paper. 1t was
draft for S52
"'You didn't ask us for money, Pilot lie said but
we wanted you to liked the way you have been
standing by us And before could thank them they
had run out of the house whooplng and yelling Ike
lot of boys
"After moved to BemidjI found I'd have to gel
after the saloons before could do much for the
boys. | believe 1t was the worst town the nap.
There were thirty-slx saloons. gambling hells End
doing business in town of fifteen hundred per
sons. Finally went round to the keepers OF the
places.
Boys | said I'm going to close you up. Your
business Is bad and you know It, but I'll have you
know Im fighting your business and not you.
'All right, Higgins they sad close away
81 spoke In my church. in meetings OF all the
churches, in town meetings and finally in the very
streets themselves. At last the citizens got reused
and they forced the Council to close up the places
after 1t all l met Johnny Strong on the
street
I'm going away. Higgins he said.
" i warned you. Johnny. / said.
You did. Higgins, he said. I'm going East to
run a hotel and I'm going to take Mamie Blake from
Breens place with me-
You'll let marry you, Johnny
1" Not now, Higgins. Some day maybe II she
stands by me. I'm going to give her a square deal
She's too good for this
"Strong's got big hotel now. and Mamies standing
by him the way that kind OF a VIII II the
second man she loves has d spark manhood In him
He can near make up TO her for what the 1rSt
did"
The Tragedy Of Dead Molly.
They are all his purlshIoners apparently the salooI
keepers. the gamblers. the of the town. a,
surely the lumberJacks and the river pigs. Very
simply he tells OF going to the Of dead Molly
she had asked him 10 do getting out the Bible which
had her right name written the fly lenf. and
sending it back to the mother with letter that told
nothing of Molly's life of the dose Of blue vtrld
that had ended it.
Also In the line Of his duty he II the
long journey lie made to take Pete crushed in tbe fa
ond journey to help Pete when the doctors could d.
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