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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, APRIL 27, 1899. down and and smilis' smil.-l More than once from his office window j her girlhood, s MAN WITH THE TENTH the n«: mercy mwvy that mm looks looks down on those who are strangers to hunger | he had had his workmen pointed out to 1 She opened eqiiick coming dusk of the tropical and want. I want no money but what | him in an intoxicated condition. It hard.' ebony She opened table. the casket that lay on the table. One by one she drew out I honestly earn For three years I have ! encd him against the man Robson, and | ebony the treasures night, Ot was it that barred the way ? . the treasures it contained. A lock of been a laborer here. here I l have 1.- never ----- ------ com .'colonel, walking the lines of the plained, even when a portion of each served to temper his charity with preju brown hair seamed with silver threads, dice. a ring and a little bible, stained with the month’s wages went to __________ satisfy the purse I Tenth, j, ««nuc he nc sat mere While there he heard the patter tears of a woman w hose portion had Lpol down where a soldier lay. of the man who stands first and highest of slippered feet, and the next moment a -f ------ • - ■ . next moment a been widowhood and poverty. To her Lelay; but he guarded still in your employ. 1 Never one _ ___ morning pair of soft white hands were clasped as, Uperin his right hand. have I missed a day that the mills were around his neck, and the smiling face of daughter sitting here in the dainty cham ber the past came back. She saw her dK colonel raid: "This soldier fought running; runninor! never nevee have k«..® 1 i been - late ,-i- until ie. his wife pressed close to his own. self struggling for work and instruction. dar under my command. yesterday morning. I ran all the way and _________ j--------- - — mm with wun me all He held uvi her face the rays ot of me the then sought out Mr. Mandel and told ' setting sun falling across it away from ' Her dream of becoming a queen of song. him why I was late. I took courage ! him and looked long and earnestly on to That night the first audience she had -------- ——fi, v».«XJ VCtlllK.3l.iy t/Il IXJ faced, how it came back. The sea of l—J heard •---- J that ■' ■ ...... ‘ because I 1 had little - bairns SS, the lovely young head in the first dawn curious faces awaiting to applaud or crowd around his board. I told him Hers was a life condemn as they willed. ,is the man whose voice I heard that another child had come to us when of happy wifehood. without a shadow, not a wish that had Howard Warren, with a friend, heard the thick of the battle toduy ; the dawn was breaking, and becaused I her sing that night,'and the marvelous, Jost mv regiment, sir—the Ninth, had no money to employ the medical help not been granted. “Are you well, Alma, my darling? thrilling music of her voice went |l fight with the Tenth, if I may! and was obliged to do for my dear wife Have you and baby well enjoyed every straight to his heart and reigned there L were falling to right and left, what a mother's hand should do. He moment of this perfect day ?’’ he asked. today. His marriage ran the proverbial le bullets around us flew; listened and then told me if I would give A chill came over him. He thought of gauntlet of nine days comment, and okedat him sharply; he simply said, him a dollar of my week's payjthat he the agony of Janies Robson’s face when he then was forgotten. His bride was jvduty I'd like to do.’ would not enter the complaint against had said, “I shall show you such mercy as beautiful and well dowered with grace ■ Beit so,’ I answered, ‘serve with the me." you have shown to me.” What could and amiability. His wealth and social For a moment an uneasy thought shot come to them, sheltered, he thought _ by standing did the rest. Tenth---- ’ nJ he disappeared from sight, through Howard Warren's mind. If the mantle of wealth and influence? His A sudden resolve had gro wn in her mind, say he fought with a gallant will; this man had spokethe truth then his ( face still bore impress of the uneasiness and she laid the sacred momentos within saw him no more till tonight. overseer had told him falsely, yet how ] which those words had occassioned. the casket and sought her couch. could he lielieve a nian of whom he knew , His wife noted the careworn look, and The morning dawned bright and clear. w hour ago before me he stood, I nothing’ save that he was one of the exclaimed anxiously : The rays of the sun danced merrily over ]is voice was steady and low; many who passed daily in and out of “Why, Howard, are you ill ? I am sure leaf and bud, and stole in the hovel 1 find my regiment now,’ he said, of his large factory buildings. you must lie. Tell me. dear, what has homes of poverty row, so named because fvoti will give me leave to go. your The man went on. happened at the factory ? To whom of every resident there in the narrow alley Jut lest my captain should think “Yesterday a child came to us. This all the world should vou tell if not to was a victim of misfortunes caprice. shirked, morning Heaven robbed me of my boy, your own little wife." Most of the men earned small wages in All you write him a line to say my Jamie, the idol of my life, for whom She drew his face down on her shoulder the mill and factories close by, the great fought with the Tenth, under I have labored until my limbs almost re and kissed it many times. er portion of which lay in the till of command, fuse to move. He left us, our beloved I “Your anxiety is greater than my ail- Thomas Hickey when Saturday night md have done my duty today?" bairn. Oh God, how can I bear it ?” and ments,” he answered lightly. "There came around. Half starved children luicklv I wrote (this paper would show his limbs shook in his extremity. “You was an unpleasant scene at mv office lined its doorways, and woman to whom let He had done his soldierly part); have a child, Howard Warren. Look at I tonight. One of our men has been late every hope of joy was shattered, living, |t little I thought to find him here, him to night as he lies in his cradle of to his work for a second time, and I was breathing until the reaper came to end iVith a strav shot in his heart. lace and satin, and then if you can re obliged to compel his discharge. Really, their struggle. Down near the lower end of the row’ Ie served with us—with our dead member a strong man’s grief at all think I feel sorry for him, darling, but rule is of my child, who died because of want rule. Were I to over look it once it dwelt Janies Robson and his family. him rest; md give him a comrade’s place.” and exposure Think of it, the crumbs would establish a precedent and cause From the low black rafters hung the e man who had fought with the Tenth from you table that your silky lap dog trouble to my manager. This man Rob grim of ages. On an iron bed lay the seemed to smile, would not touch might have saved my son's case seems to be a severe one, and wife and mother, and around the room boy." but that he grew insolent I should have were scattered neighbors and friends. is he lay with his upturned face. the The mill owner looked at his watch tried to help him otherwise.” Near the bed, on two rickety chairs, rest ley slipped the paper he never would ed arude pine coffin containing little Jamie, and made an uneasy movement. The His wife ’ s hands were clasped in his need a boy of three years, “More saint than words of his employee touched him, yet own. ,'nto his hand again, he wished him to go. To real grief he “Are you sure, Howard, that you did child,” his father had said, verily too id the colonel passed slowly along Death has had been a stranger until now. Yet some just right ?” sheasked, when he had liar, fair to remain on earth. lines SORROW ’S ANGEL given him a beauty that an artist could intangible intuition made him know that rated the details of the incident. '0 cheer his drooping men. not hope to duplicate. The little silken "Assuredly. I have every confidence IITTEN FOR THB “TILLAMOOK HEAD this man's sorrow was genuine. For a moment he was prompted to in Mr. Wandel's management. Yet I curls covered a brow so much like chisled LIGHT” IIY MATTIE E. BUCKLEY. forget the rules established during his can not get his face out of my mind when marble that one would doubt if it ever father's ownership, when he himself was he spoke of his dead child. Incidentally had felt the warm breath of life in its In the doorway of an office in a large awav at college, but the next moment the whole day has been a trying one. A veins. The women gathered nearer the dory of New York citv two men are coffin, and a ragged child laid a bunch of anding. Both faces wore an angry the indifferent hardness so natural to large consignment of goods gone astray, prairie flowers in the waxen hands. Some him came back and his tone took on a owing to official carelessness. Then, jwn, the elders not unmixed with anx- chilly coldness, which cut away the Iasi too, a telegram saying that father’s one attempted a hymn, then broke down ty and dispair. save one aged women wrho sang in a "Then you will not take me back,’’ he hope which had grown in the heart of health is none the best. I shall take the quivering voice; the stricken man. midnight train and go straight to his saying. “You will have no word from “Parden me, Robson, but rule is rule hotel. I enjoy my home so much, dar “There’s a land that is fairer than e because your superintendent hates here. You were complaining of the in. ling. Every moment spent with my wife day.” No one noticed that a shadow le and spurns us men as worms tinder justice of providence a few moments | and boy is an earthly heaven. So you fell across the door way until a voice is feet. It is such justice that too often since. Now when it takes away one see I have been cross and felt selfish to joined the weak attempt at singing. And lakes the factory rooms the spawning burden from your shoulders yon com- leave you. Bv the wav, do not think of such a voice, higher and sweeter it arose, round of anarchy and socialism.” untit it reached every nook of the squalid He stands up before his employer, a plain like an unreasonable child. Of my unpleasent experience of today. It is apartment. course it is a loss to have a boy taken, fit theme for you, Alma. Those peo no lan of nerve and brawn, ill clad and ill They held their breath and gazed at ¡ept, a man of the populace upon whom but it makes one less mouth to feed. In ple of the lower order of civilization the singer, who now stood at the foot of fact you inprovident helpless creatures should not for a moment engross vour he iron heel of proverty had left its the bier bearing in her hands a wreath of tamp a constant but unwelcome guest. would be better off if every tie was thoughts. Come let us forget poverty fragrant tube roses. broken that what you earned could go row and its denizens and turn to things Howard Warren was not the man to She sang on to the end with the cadence on your own backs and to sustain the more pleasant. Take me to our boy, tand long the angry’ language of this of her sweet voice echoing until the spring life that labored for it. Were I you I Biess his little heart. Really the first day lan, of whom his time keeper had twice should lie glad that God took a child I hecalls me papa shall be known and com winds playing through the broken panes »inplained. He left his office table to could never hope to educate, that would memorated as a holiday in our factories. of glass seemed to waft it heavenward : :ome nearer to him and answered calmly “ We shall meet on that beautiful grow up like thousands of law breaking It's three years since father deeded me shore.’’ )ut in a firm tone : specimens whose names and crosses fi the property and he shall see that I have Her hood had fallen back, disclosing “You will pardon me, Robson, if I de the criminal record. You should look"" been a practical steward, By the way, the rare beauty of her countenance, the cline to hear any comments on the He never finished the sentence. The awaiting you large grey eyes filled with unshed tears, ¡actions of my manager. You have twice other had sprung forward and clutched there is your charity fund Take it, dear, speaking the sympathy of a nature that in my private drawer, violated our rules and you are aware of his arm as in an iron vice. and use it as you will." went out to all things in grief. She [the penalty such transgression of them “Hush, for God’s sake, don’t say that. “As 1 will, Howard ? May I spend it placed ber flowers over the dead child's ■entails. There are hundreds of men He my Jamie, my baby, would never just as I wish ? You are so kind. Will breast and then bent and kissed the waiting to take any vacancy that may have been that. A criminal, not from vou never ask me or censure me for in. quiet sleeper. The father came and knelt ¡occur here. Out of sympathy for your me but from her, my sweet wife, did he vesting it according to the dictates of and touched her hand as one touches family I allowed the first complaint to inherit his goodness that he has always my heart ?” some holy shrine. pass unnoticed. No excuses please, the seemed more saint than child, and the “Never, my wife. It is vours, whether “ You are very kind, lady. We thank I barroom yonder could tell the best story other, know that though worn w.th toil for a new bonnet or for to make some you. More we cannot say. Our hearts I probably. If you men would give the and privation, cursed and driven with I one of your numerous aid societies the are too full.” i wages to your families instead of to such noverv I will work for them untd mv life She passed on to the mother and took institutions, poverty row would not lie goes out, for they, even that bit of cold clay I richer.” “Thanks." she answered slowly, "It the toil worn hands in her own and adorned with so many hungry faced at home, they are dearer to me than life, spoke low. j will not be any thing for myself.” children. You but reap what you sow aye, dearer to me than my soul itself. “ You are in trouble. I am so sorry. j They entered hand in hand the nursery broad cast. Bah, I have no pity for His agony had spent itself He paused of baby Will, named for the grandfather, j You will accept something from my such as you.’’ and started to leave the room. I shall whose wealth he would one day inherit. • hand. Just for little Jamie’s sake," and The veins stood out like whip cords on g() now. I have raid all there «. to say, A handsome child whose ten months of I she laid a heavy purse in the woman’s the forehead of his listener. Not until maybe more than I should have said existence had seemed like a short sum- hand. “Take it, and to-morrow I will the last words of the cruel taunt had and, perhaps, you are not to blame th. mer’s day to the loving parents. j send you something more comfortable.” been said did he utter a word in defence, vou To not understand. I have asked The yr ung father bent down and kissed | Tears choked back the words of then, as his employer waved his hand VOU for work and you refuse. In a week . the baby sleeper in his dainty lace can- ■ thanks of the mother. toward the open doorway, the words timelmav not have a roof over my head opied bed. Another picture arose slowly ! The hand of James Robson rested for a that prudence and self will had long kept but mark you there will come a time before him. Another's idol, as this was I moment on her head. It seemed like a under restrain, burst out as a storm that vou will remember my words when his own, lying dead in poverty row silent benediction. sweeps over a plain, dropping into the j "Just a cuild of the lower order of civil- ( “ May God remember you as you have broad dialect taught away back among shown me. Iam not a prophet, but I , ization," as he had said to his wife a few us to-day. We do not know whom we t’ie Scottish hills of his boyhood’s home. feel that that time will come.’ H”°"' moments before, but high enough in his thank, but to us you are Sorrow’s "Aye, ye have no pity in your heart, Cd his hand to his hat andI l*nt h- way I purity and innocence to form a part of Angel. God bless yo-.' lady." I the angel band that are made fit for J On the morrow came a load of bedding you sav—ye aristocrats who reap a pro God’s eternity. Better thoughts swayed and groceries. Thus had she spent her fit from every drop of sweat that pours him. < annual charity fund. She had sown from the men you employ. Listen, once, "I will reconsider this man’s dis- little. Did she dream how she would reap while I stoop to answer to the vile charge," he said to himself, and for the the harvest of the noble deed ? charge of leaving my wages at that den time he meant it. . ••••••• across the street where robbery and evidence . ........ _ Three yearn have gone by since that crime go hand in hand. As God hears from among the f Long after her husband’s departure, nge of the conservator g thinking morning and the family of Howard War ’nc never has the foot of Jim Robson Alma Warren rat in her room f ' ’' „ , ofladynmtore rah« ’«>arii .nto hi, ren are spending a few weeks at one of crossed its threshold. The few shillings the library and droppe^ over his last words. For hours all the ( the fashionable I reaches. I have earned daily have gone to keep my servants had gone to their rooms and consunt. before the great house was dark and silent, I The long summer day has drawn to a family from the work house. The cream ^d“Xs Office close, and the clouds betoken a storm. of those shillings have been skimmed by him. They whispere^him^^ save in this where she spent some of the Out on the sand the water birds are happiest hours ot her life. The story of j the man who gets the lion share of the screaming and the dark clouds are long lines of rich brackets such poverty in their midst clung to her Wonev on your pay roll. Rich men give I covered the carved shelves massing together while Inrid streaks mind. Her husband's words had awak liberally to] grand churches to help of blue flame break through them. [t was the first note -or ened a train of memories long lain dor- maintain princely colleges, but you 1 been called to observe Nearer and nearer it comes, when a mant; had swept aside the curtains of never come to poverty row. That is no ' shipofthefactonesth^ woman's cry arouses some of the fright, from the past. She, too. had been one of the place for vr dainty creatures. The vile Robson’s words. T „ lower order of civilization, a child of enerl guests. air our hungry faced children breathe Howard Warren comes breathless into vour table might haie • The poverty stricken parents before her mar would choke the owners of palace homes. their midst in the large parlor. ha(1 riage with the son of William Warren. . Have ve ever been hungry, Howard War. were perpetually " My child!" he gasps hoarsely. " Has As she sat there she remembered what j anyone seen my boy, my little Will. My ran ." To stand and hear a child’s cry only child of a weal h> P of him her husband and his order had forgotten, God. he is out in the storm.” for bread ? That is agony, when honest never heard the e^ n !1 that the name of Alma Grayson had not manhood that cannot steal from a pas. defined so plainly. Some one comes in. been in society 's blue book when I k had •erby or store is deemed an outcast to ve , though he doubted some of “ The boat is gone, Mr Warren. Could . .,ro,. wooed her and his wealth had entirely he have loosened the chain ?" factory owners, aye. seemingly, to God [ statements. '^Vthraw of themills. divorced her from the old araod.t.on. of j i ' A barroom had sprung Almighty himself. I wai reared by a . pe«d within a stones throw o chris»ain mother, but sometimes I doubt f ----------------------- ---- —~ Everyone rushes out, but nothing can be seen but sand, blown hither and | thither, and the moan of the angry waters. " Help!’’ cried the mill owner. “Money is no object. Help me to search for my bov.’’ “ There is one man here who can swim. Robson is bis name. Here he is He works near the beach," some one save. in the gloom of the dying dav they came together face to face. The words he had last heard from this man came back to Warren’s mind. " Such mercy as you have shown will I show to you." “ Robson,” he cried, “You will forget; you will save my boy. There is the boat out in the waves. Quick, for God's sake. I cannot swim.” Robson shook off the hand of the mill owner. “It is madness to attempt it. You have another child they say. M hy mur- mer it this is takeu. That is what you said to me when my heart was stunned with grief. My life would be nothing in those waves.” Howard Warren fell on the sands. “Oh, my God, givemebackmy boy, my little Will." A woman came near them. She had heard Robson’s words. A dark cloak had been thrown over her evening dress. In her distress she threw off the outer garment and knelt at Robson s feet. Her little white hands were stretched to. ward him and her words came to him through the fury of the storm: “For my sake, save our boy. You called me Sorrow's Angel once when your Jamie died." The man looked into her face. “ You; you. Oh, God, I did not know,’’ and throwing off his coat reached for the rope and knotted it about his waist. “ Tell her, my wife, that I died for her —she that came in our trouble. I did not know at first. God forgive me.” lie threw himself into the water. Thrice he was hurled against the beach, but he swam out again. His breath came in gasps. Floating timbers struck against him while the waters rocked under him, when the surging of the waves seemed to beat into his brain. Away out on the glistening water he saw the frail boat swaying back and fotth. Once, when the lightning lit up the seething mass, he saw a child's head and hands that seemed tangled in the rojies of the shell. If he could but live to reach it. The next time the light shot out he saw that he was nearing. Gasp ing, struggling, making the noblest effort possible, he lifted his voice long and loud. It rang out and reached the drowning child. "Cheer up, little man. Don’t let go. I’m coming. Be a man, Will." And the weak answer reached him through the wild tumult of tile storm: “Mamma, my own mamma.” "Aye, for mamma, lad; for the kiss shegave my dead Jamie, when I give her her child in her arms she will know what it was to me.” The throng on the beach see him near the boat, and the child was held up aloft in one hand as he starts to return. The rope is drawn rapidly shoreward. A grnnd holy hush. Then, as he nears the shore, a loud cheer goes up and reaches the man whose strength is almost apent. The shore is reached and he places the child in Alma Warren's arms. A mother’s prayer goes up for the brave preserver who falls to the beach, the blood gush ing from mouth and nostrils. For days his life hangs in the balance. Eminant doctors came and went, and one morning he opened his eyes to see around his lied the watchers who had never wavered in their care. His old employer touched his hand. “You must lie quiet, Robson ; not one word. I will do the talking. You’re all right now ; but it was a hard pull. Your wife and baby is all right,” as the eyes of the sick man turned to them at the foot of the bed. A woman’s soft hand reached over and lay in his. "I want to thank you,’’ the man murmured. "I did not know at first; forgive me.” "Nay, Roljnon, it is you who must for- give. You spoke but just, and if your words were twice as hard I deserved them from you. We won’t speak of it any more ; only let me say this : We need a good, honest manager, Robson, a man who has courage to do what is right, and near by to the mills is the old Holmes place, with garden anil a nice coxy house. You remember. The place is a gift to you and your wife from Alma, my wife, and w hen vou are able to be out again you shall take your place as manager of our mills. Not a bad ex change. is it, my man, but only a small enstallment of my gratitude, and that poluted poverty row will pass out of existence forever, for I intend to erect good comfortable houses for my workmen. This has taught me a lesson I shall never forget. My wife, in her sympathy for all things grieving and un happy was nobler than I could ever h«|>e to b»,” In the eyes of the wick man came a glad light of gratitude and with n murmured, "Sorrow’s Angel." he fell asleep to wak. en to strength. PROFESSION AL CARDS. ß L. EDDY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, T illamook , O regon . yy H. cool’ER. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. OREGON. TILLAMOOK J. MAY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, T illamook , O begon , rp H. GOYNE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Office: Opposite Court House, T illamook , O regon . (JLAUDE THAYER, ATTORNEY-AT- LA W, T illamook , O kkoon . (J. J. 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