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AFTER THE STORM.
Sunlight, alter all the etorin
Over bill and glade,
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liAHKKR is an old friend of mine
und tbit) story is not told with
any malicious iutentiou. Not for
(be world would I do anything to
rupture the bond of friendship
which has existed between us for
many years.
I have bad a talk with Barker
in refereitce to it, and he aava he
does not mind, provided I handle
the thing in a ueal and intelligent
way, and do not exaggerate, which
I shall certainly be carelul not to
do.
Barker is employed in a bank
during the day. He lias never
made it very clear to mejnst what
the nature of his occupation is in
that institution, but he can be
seen at any time between the
hours of ten and three seuted on
a high stool him! waving a long
black ruler, lam informed that
he uses the ruler once in a while
to draw tines with, und even puts
down an occasional llgiire in a
large book that is always open in
front of him; but this is only hear-
say, and as I have promised to
confine this narrative strictly to
facts I would rattier not make
auy positive statement uboul it.
But while it may be well to give
some short insight into the uai tire
of Barker’s daily pursuits and the
general tenor of his existence, it
is by no means essential to the
full comprehension of the events
witli which this story deals, ns
the scene is laid entirely after the
set of the sttn, at which time Bar-
ker ceases to be an ordinary being
and becomes a bicycle fiend of the
most desperate description.
Barker’s bicycle is a machine of
the most approved pattern, and is
eqipped with the latest appliances
for securing speed, safety aud
grace1 There was one point how-
ever, on which he experienced
great annoyance. He cotild never
find a device which would exer-
cise a sufficiently startling effect
on the pedestrians and make them
jump out of liis way inns lively a
manner as he would like.
“A bell ain’t worth a cent, you
know,’’ lie would say. “People
are getting 10 used to them that
they don’t pay any attention to
’em. I ran over three little boys,
one dog and an old Indy last week,
and its getting to be a nuisance.’’
I said I thought it was, and tiiat
I had no doubt the three little
boys, the dog and the old lady
also thought so.
“It is an outrngc,” said Barker,
“when a man cannot go along the
street without being tipped over
by some people who don’t look
where they are going. There
ought to be some law against it.
Now, what I want on my bicycle
is some sort of a tiling that will
show the people who go rustling
aronnd the streets at night, that
they don’t own the whole town.”
“] do not mind telling you,
though,” added Barker, “that it
will take a pretty smart man to
invent something that will fill the
bill. You see, it is got to be
something out of the ordinary run.
The only way that I can make
them move now is to yell at them,
and there’s too much work about
that.”
“Well, Barker,” said I, “I am
not an extraordinary smart man.
but if yelling at them makes them
move 1 can fix yon.”
“Howl”
“Carry a phonograph,” said I.
Barker stood for a few momeuts
in profound meditation, then he
slapped me on the back with ev-
ery appearance of great enlhusi-
asm.
“Perkins,” said he, “you’re an
inventive genius. Now, here I’ve
been puzzling my brains a month
about this and couldn’t hit on a
simple little schema like that. I
will go aud get a phonograph right
away.”
“There is one thing about it,
Barker,” said I, “and that is thai
phonographs cost a good deal of
money.”
“What do I care for that!” said
he. “I’d rather pay a hundred
dollars titan to he constantly in
danger from those reckless peo-
ple.”
grapbl Darting into a near-by bi-
cycle shop I hired a wheel in fev-
erish baste aud sped up the avenue
in pursuit of the tleeliug figure in
gray. In the dim distance I could
hear I lie howl of the fiendish
thing us it sped on through the
night and as I spun over the as-
phalt witli the speed of the wind
the space between us lessened
and I began to catch the medley
of shouts that were pouring forth
from the vicinity of Barker’s han-
dle bars. He had evidently loaded
it with a variety of expressions
suitable for all sorts of emergen-
cies, and the thing was spitting
them out with nn intelligence that
bordered on the mar velons.
“Would yon be so kiud, miss,”
it said, with the air of a Chester-
field, as a woman of the fat und
forty persuasion stepped in the
way, “aa to turn to Die right a lit-
tle! Aw, thanks!”
And the woman smiled at Bar-
ker. 8be thought he was such a
polite young man. A few rods
further on a small boy darted
across the street beneath the
flickering rays of an electric light.
“Hi, therel” yelled the phono-
graph, “get a move on yon now—
y[! yi! yi I” whereupon the boy
was convinced be was being pur-
sued by a lunatic and fled down
a side street.
“Barker,” said I,solemnly, push
ing my wheel uloug side ot him by
a tremendous effort, “you bud
better take that thing off.”
"Why, how do you dot’’said lie;
“take it off! VVhyt’’
“Because I am morally certain,”
I said, “that it is a violation of
ordinance No. 4021. If one of
those mounted policemen come
along and that thing howls at him
you’ll go to jail.”
But Barker evidently thought
that was all nonsense. He didn’t
cure if it violated the whole coun-
cil series from A to izzurd. lie
had got hold of an elegant thing,
and was going to stick to it, und I
was a gay sort of a man to recom-
mend it to him aud then advise
him to give it up. All this time
the phonograph was talking in a
tone of deep disgust to a heavy
individual who was pedaling along
in a leisurely way just in front of
us, aud who must ha ve been stone
deaf or he would certainly have
clamored off and punched Barker’s
head.
Then 1 was initiated into the
mysteries of the thing, and saw
Imw, by pushing a small attach-
ment down so that it rubbed on
the front wheel the mechanism ol
phonograph was made to revolve,
and it shouted out whatever was
in it nntil Die clump was released.
Barker said he had talked into it
half a day, and it was evidently
well supplied with vocabulary.
Bv the time we got to the elub,
both of ns—Barker was in a state
of hilarious delight, and half of the
dogs, children and old ladies In
town were on the verge of frenzy.
Of course, all the other fellows in
thu club had to learn about it, and
Barker pushed his machine around
aud made the phonograph curse
them and all their relatives to the
10th generation, which scorned to
afford them the most unbounded
pleasure.
As a fitting conclusion to even-
ing’s entertainment we all went
tip stairs, and I regret to say that
Barker, after placing the phono-
graph carefully on a table beside
him, got as drunk ns a lord, and
shouted in a very scandalous and
disgraceful way.
After it was all orer I took him
home and put him to bed, and
while doing tbis he informed me
in a maudlin aud disconnected
way tha*. be was going out riding
the next eveuing with thetwoOnt-
ter girls, daughters of old man
Coupon Cutter, one of the diree
tors in the bank, and be wished I
would happen to drop around and
ride with the big one, so he could
talk to the little one. He said
that I was his only friend, and
that he loved the little. He did
not love her in an ordinary way,
either, hut in a way no man ever
loved before.
Now, I like Barker, and he is a
friend of mine, and ns a matter of
course it was only common cliari
ty In help him out in a case like
that. So I gave him a lot of good
advice about how to doctor his
head in Iho rooming, which he re-
ceived with a very bad grace, and
promised to he in the neighbor-
hood of old Cutter’s next evening
without fail.
to be in high spirits, and was par-
ticularly jolly when they wet me.
I wauled to ask him about the
phonograph, hut hesitated to do
ao. lie immediately mentioned
the matter himself, however, nod
explained that the youngest Miss
Cutler was infatuated with the
thing, and had insisted on having
it put ou her bicycle, and that they
wero all anxiously waiting for
something to get in the way so
she could give it a trial. I after
ward discovered that Barker had
represented to them that the
whole thing was his own idea, and
they declared that ho was won-
derfully ingenious.
We had gouu just about three
blocks, Barker and “the little one’’
being in front, and the elder Miss
Cutter and myself in the rear,
when a man tried to cross the
street in front of us.
“Hooray! gimme another drink!”
said the phouograph in a ghastly
counterfeit of Barker’s voice.
The man gazed up in astonish-
ment and fell into the gaiter. Bar-
ker’s wheel wabbled violently aud
1 coiDd see that bis nerved ban
crumbled, while 1 felt a shiver
along my spiue as I took in the
situation.
“Her golder hair was hanging
down hsr h—h—hie—back!” sang
the instrument in Barkers well
known treble. Evidently the “little
one” couldu’t loosen the clamp.
Drops of sweat stood on Bar-
ker’s brow, and he tried to turn it
off as a joke.
“Funny, ain’t it!” said lie, “nev-
er cuu tell what it will say.”
“You are a liar!’’ screamed the
phonograph. “Come ’long now
and pass the whisk.”
I could see the “little one” turn
pale, and the elder Miss Cutter
was looking daggers at Barker.
“Tra la la, Ira la la, wow, wow.
whoop-peel’’ said the phonograph.
“Say,” it continued, in a confi-
dential whisper, “I’m stuck on the
—hie—prettiest—hie—girl—”
“Take it off!’’ growled Barker,
making a lunge at the instrument,
but his equilibrium was gone ami
tie fell into an ignominuus heap on
the pavement.
“Ho! hoi .ton are drunk!’’ the
machine shrieked, derisively, us
we darted on und left him.
“Mr. Perkins,” said the elder
Miss Cutter, dismounting, and
pointing imperiously in the direr
tion of her sister’s wheel, “take
Dial thing off!”
I obeyed tier with Die almost
alacrity, and cast it at the dark
spot where its owner was repos-
ing.
“Now,” said the elder Miss Cut-
ter, “take us home, sir.”
And so 1 did. and when old man
Cutter looked at mo in an inquir-
ing way over the tops of his eye-
glasses I felt as guilty as a man
who had robbedu hank and sirang
led Die janitor. .
They didn’t ask me to come in
so I went off' to hunt up Barker.
I found him sitliug on the curb-
stone pounding at something with
a brick.
“Wliat is that!” I asked.
“I never saw a man who conld
ask so muny questions,” suid lie,
sulkily, nod then climbed on his
bicycle and rode away; and now I
understand that the board of di-
rectors have become economical
and cut down bis salary.—New
Orleans Times Democrat.
Ballard’H Snow Liniment.
This invaluable remedy is one
Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
Absolutely pure
FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC BRIEFS
tie in every honse-
cure your rhenma-
rs
. c
Stoves, Tinware and Housefurnishing Goods.
Has in slock * tin* line of Refrigerator*, Wstcr Coolers, lro-ere*m Plotters tad many
othtr dtsirahl* artirlos for fsmily use Coil and txtroint my stock.;
III.
I was a little late in getting off
and had hardly got within sight of
Dio house on the following night
when I met the two girls and Bar-
ker coming toward me.He seemed
that ought to
hold. It will
tism. neuralgia, sprains, cuts, brui
bps, bnrne, frosted feet and ears,
sore throat and sore chest. If you
have lame back it will cure it. It
penetrates to Die seat of the dis-
ease. It will cure stiff joints and
contracted muscles after all other
remedies have failed. Those who
tiave been cripples for years,
have used Ballard's Snow Liniment
and thrown away their crutches
and been able to work aa well as
ever. It will cure you. Price GO
cents.
Sold by Ehlinger & Keynolds.-l
A humble hoy with shining pail
went singing gaily down the vale,
to where the eow with a brindle
tail, on the alfalfa did regale. A
bumble bee did gaily sail, over the
soft and stiady vale to where the
boy with a shining pail was milk-
ing the eow with a brindle tail.
The bee lit down on Die cow’s left
ear; her feet flew through the at-
mospere, and through the leaves
of a cottonwood tree, the boy
soared into eternity.—Sealy News.
The greatest men learn the most
by the fewest experiences.
—Dr. E. 8. Hoatiu r of Victioria died
in that city July 30.
—A pontottie has been established at
Tallulah, Childress county.
—The next annual session of the
grand lodge of A. O. U. W. will be held
at Dallas.
—G. Boluns, an old und respected
citizen of Schulenburg, died in that
town July 20.
—The republicans of Washington
county have placed a full county ticket
in nomination.
—Hereafter all vags and bums found
in Houston will be given employment
on the streets.
—On thy morning of July 30 Miss
Mattie Collins, living near Troy, Bell
county, dropped dead.
—Jon T. McCord, sheriff of Rusk
county, died July 30 at his home, six
miles west of Henderson.
—The white man's union convention,
which met In Wharton on July 28, nom-
inated a full county ticket.
—Eleven miles of wire fence were cut
on the F. plains pasture, in Floyd coun-
ty, s few nights ago. No clew.
—George Magnon of Laredo, aged 2B
years, met death in that city July 2U
by shooting himself through the heart.
—The Twenty-ninth senatorial con-
vention, in session at Wiohita Falls on
July 28, nominated Judge Goss by ac-
clamation.
—The new government silver certfl-
cates for one dollar have recently made
their appearance in some of tile Larger
cities in Texas.
—The various labor organizations in
Houston are making great preparations
for celebrating Labor Day, Monday,
September 7, 18DC.
—A party of Bremond's young men
went fishing a day or so ago and cap-
tured an alligator, his length measur-
ing 10 feet tl inches.
—Dr. A. J. Flint of Marion county
has been nominated for a floater in the
district composed of the counties of
Bowie, Mariou and Cass.
—Burglars entered the hardware
store of A. B. Carr, Jr., at Caldwell, a
tight or mo ago. took a lot of sixshoot,-
ers aud ammunition and skipped.
—Owing to the present dry hot wind
and heat in Hunt county not more than
a yield of one-quarter of a bale of cot-
ton to the acre is expected this year.
—John Cawlfield, a member of the
Travis county populist executive com-
mittee, has tendered his resignation as
such and announced that he will vote
for McKinley.
—Emit Gruber, a German living in
Galveston, In anger and jealousy shot
and killed his wife then shot and killed
himself. Four little children were thus
made orphans.
—The 12 vear-old daughter of J. T.
Victory of Uladewater, Gregg county,
was bitten on the arm by a small black
spider a few days ago. from the effects
of which she lias since died.
—Houston commenced a war against
all clogs In that city without a paid up
tax tag on the collar around his neck.
The delinquent canines are to be the
recipients of powder and ball.
—Fire at Waco on the morning of
August 2 destroyed the brick row of
business houses on South Fourth street,
lnoludiug all the houses from the alley
to Mary street. Loss, $100,000.
—Rev. Thos. Baoon, an old and high-
ly esteemed citizen of Bell oounty, re-
siding near Killeen, while visiting a
friend near by a day or two ago, and
while in conversation fell over and ex-
pired.
—It is rumored that R. W. Stay ton
has withdrawn from the race for state
land commissioner, which leaves A. J.
Baker, the present land commissioner,
a very good chance for a second term in
that office,
—Two attempts have been made with-
in the past few days to wreck passen-
ger trains on the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe railroad near Caldwell, but
each time the scheme of the wreckers
has been foiled.
—A few nights ago, just before day-
light, the Beach Hill school house near
Hemphill, Sabine eounty, was set on
fire by some unknown party and totally
destroyed. The building had just been
seated with patent desks.
—By the explosion of a lamp on the
3d inst. at the home of Mr. P. L. Brax-
ter near Bynum, Hill county, his 13-
yetr-old daughter, Verna, was burned
to death by her clothing becoming ig-
nited from the flames and oil.
—Rev. Thomas II. Bacon, a Baptist
minister, aged 72, living near Nolan-
vllle, Bell oounty, died of heart trouble
a day or twp ago. He had lived in
Texas sixty years and was a member of
the Baptist church for fifty years.
—While playing with a pistol an
evening or two ago, Lee, the 16-year-
old daughter of Rodney Foster resid-
ing near Thornton, Limestone county,
was accidentally shot In the left breast,
inflicting a serious though not fatal
wound.
-Two miners became involved in a
difficulty at the coal mine* In Webb
county a day or two ago and, one w us
July 29 two men died from heat in
Cincinnati, O.
The Deposit bank at Dennison, Ohio,
has closed its doors.
Several persons died in St. lands from
excessive heat July 29.
The Columbus (Ohio) buggy company
has made an assignment.
The thermometer in Chicago, July 29,
indicated 100° in the shade.
The populists national headquarters
is now located in Washington, D. C.
It is rumored that the Turkish gov-
ernment contemplates the issue of pa-
per money.
A special from Vera Cruz, Mexico,
states that yellow fever has appeared
in that city.
The president has recognized Alex-
ander Roland as British vice consul at
Sabine Pass, Tex.
Alabama's first bale of new cotton
appeared in Selma on July 28 and sold
for 9 cents per pound.
It Is reported that alienation of di-
plomatic sympathy from the Cretans is
distinctly perceptible.
The Right Hon. Sir William Grove,
D. C. L„ D. D. L., P. C„ F. R. B., died
in London on the 2d inst.
Justice Pratt of the appellate su-
preme court of New York died at Roch-
ester, Mass., on the 3d inst., aged 08.
A Berlin dispatch to the London
Standard of July 31 says that the pow-
ers have no intention of blockading
Crete.
Jose de Anzoategin, consul general
of Peru ut the City of Mexico, died
of heart trouble in that city on the
1st inst.
The noted filibustering steamer Lau-
rada has beeu sold to Antonio Reubens
of Wilmington, Del., an agent for the
Cubans.
The wool commission firm of W. D.
Eaton & Co. of Boston, Mass., has
made an assignment, with liabilities of
$240,(8)0.
It is stated that the harvest has been
a failure throughout the most fertile
grain producing districts in the south
of Russia.
W. P. Bolder, D. D., secretary of the
International missionary union, died
of paralysis at Clifton Springs, N. Y.,
August 1.
The Emerson & Fisher company of
Cincinnati, O., manufacturers of bug-
gies and carriages, have made an as-
signment.
The British house of lords on July 31
passed to its second reading the Irish
land bill, after eight hours' debate, but
without division.
L. A. Del plain, chairman of the First
congressional democratic committee of
West Virginia, couldn't vote for llryau
and has resigned.
Mason 1*. Mills, ex-commander of the
department of the Iowa G. A. R., and
one of the most prominent lawyers in
that state, is dead.
The list of killed and wounded in the
railroad collision ut Atlantic City on
July 30, foots up forty-seven killed and
forty-three injured.
Owing to the fall in the pfiee of cof-
fee exports from Brazil to the United
St ales and Europe huve been suspend-
ed for the present.
The Merchants' bank of Canada on
the 3d inst. withdrew $100,000 in gold
from the subtreasury in New York for
shipment to Canada.
A rumor is in circulation that J. S.
Morton, secretary of agriculture, will
be a candidate for the sound money
nomination for president.
The Russian loan of 1.000,000.000
francs ($200,000,(8)0), recently issued by
the Rothschilds in Paris, has been cov-
ered twenty, five times oVer.
During the storm on the night of
July 27 at Cecil, Pa., a hoarding house,
with sixteen miners, was washed away
aud the occupants drowned.
The state election held in Alabama
on the 3d inst. resulted in the election
of Joseph F. Johnson, democrat, by a
majority of from 35,000 to 35,000.
The populists of Indiana in state con-
tion at Indinapolis July 28, adhered to
the straight middle-of-tlie-road policy
and nominated a full state ticket.
One or two evenings after Ibis
I was crossing Howard avenue
when I heard a voice—Barker's
voice, lint with an unfamiliar nasal
twang about it—hallooing at me:
“Look out, therel’’
Involuntarily I started. There
was an nnobnnlnesa about It—a
weird and unnatural emphasis. It
waa a voice pregnant with the
ting of authority, and as I stepped
quickly to one aids there shot
by me a vision of gray wolf stock-
ings, sweater and cyoliug cap
with which I waa pretty well ac-
quainted. So he had actually
rigged up bis wheel with a phono-
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The advantage of
a policeman over a
burglar is that the of-
ficer has the law on
his side. Health kaa
the same advantage
over disease. The
Law of Nature is for
people to be healthy.
When they are sick,
Nature helps to cure
k them. Nature's law
is the guide for cur-
ing sick people.
There is no wav but
Nature’s way. what
the doctors call many
different diseases
Nature cures in one
way; by nourishing
the whole body with
good, pure, rich, red
blood. That la Nature’s way of curing
scrofula, erysipelas, kidney and liver com-
plaint.” consumption and every form of
eruptive and wasting disease. When you
want to help Nature with medicine the med
lclne must work the same way as Nature
works, then It has the laws of Nature on Its
werful.
seriously stabbed. An officer, while covery’s wonderful cures. It assists Nature
attempting to make an arrest, w as as- according to her own laws ;
vaulted by the miners who rescued the
prisoner.
■—An attempt waa mode a night or
two ago to assassinate Mr. Rich Mayfield
while aaleep at hit home near Mush eta,
Bosque oounty. A Winchester wee
used bat misted its mark. A Mr. Bu-
ford has been arrested charged with
the deed.
Mr. Bob Parker of PitUvllle, Wal-
ler oounty, on the 3d Inst., shot and
killed Irlt wife with a pistol and then
killed himself with the same weapon.
The cause of the deed It not known.
(Several small children are orphaned by
the tragedy.
-Burglars entered the hardware
store of tawrenoe A Smith and the
clothing store of B. J. Baskin at Cam-
eron. a night or two ago. aud knives
razors and revolver* to the amount of
$400 or $000 were taken from the hard-
ware store and several suits of clothing
from the clothing stars. _
^V^FfiJKTSsBj. Medic-
coven
mecording to her own iawi; u i» «««•' -
tide and Nature helpa it: it new
power to the nutritive and blood making or-
gana to create a large quantity *' ~“
healthy blood which drives evi
disease nut of the system an
strong healthy tiasue* and sol id
“ Discovery
form of bloon-mseese mm ;»• "
even cure* consumption. It l» *h<* ("jftrj*
radical cure for that dlseaaer forts aod te»tl-
aony to prove it.
'■ I would like to let! the (. hole wortd what vour
Golden Medical Piacoyeryhaa done for me_
The docto
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Edmonson, P. E. The La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 13, 1896, newspaper, August 13, 1896; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth997370/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.