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From a wheezy old hand organ
en me htrains of the old soup, "In the
Sweet By and By." The inrong on the
street surged and eddied about vae
place where the droning sound came
from. A little circle formed about
the comer and over the rim of this,
new comers craned as they formed
other layers to the ever thickening'
rim of human beings-
The author of the music was an old
man. He sat on a tfamp fctool and
held his beloved hand organ in his
lap. His right arm went round and
round feteadily, as though it were a
rod on the drive wheels of an engine.
His face was old and wrinkled and
his beard hung from it like the mil
dewed moss from a weather beaten
roof. His matted hair hung in a
grizzly thatch, hiding a little the hor
rid vacancy of his bightless, orbless
eyes.
One frcrawny hand shakingly held
to the unsympathetic crowd, grasped
a tin cup in which now and again the
hoarded pennies of some youngster
rattled loudly, as the young man,
whose heart had not yet been seared
with the hot iron of indifference,
dropped his dream of candy into the
beggar's cup.
Past the sightless old man marched
the pageant of humanity. The swish
of silken skirts reached his sharpened
old ears, and also the dull drag of rags
nnil ralicn. -the merrv laugh of the
light hearted and the sighs of
weary and hopeless. He heard
cursing of drunken men and
ribald speech of lewd women,
the
the
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braggadocio of youth and the whining
of old age.
Hut the sightless old man was
spared the worst cuise of it all. He
could hear all the misery and the
merriment about him. but thanks be
to whatever gods there be, he could
not see the hard faces of those who
looked upon him in 'his misery and
rags. He could not see the faces set
as a flint, or see the pitiless eyes of the
more fortunate human beings about
him glare at him.
He only heard the dull monotony
of the strains of that song, ..which
doubtless meant something to him,
blind and a beggar:
"In the sweet by and by
We shall meet on that beautiful
shore."
and the clinks of coins in the tin cup
before him.
On another corner stood a fiddler.
Over the quhering strings of a cheap
fiddle, for it would be a sacrilege to
call it a violin, he drew his rasping
bow. The fiddle Equealed and whined
and shuddered like a lost soul in out
er darkness.
The man was young, but his right
hand was missing. To the poor
maimed stump was strapped the bow
which he drew across his instrument
of torture. The crowd, ever rea-y to
see something outre and bizarre,
crowded and trampled about him on
the stone pavement. Some of the peo
ple in the crowd hummed the popular
airs played by the wandering musi
cian, and some called off the changes
in the dance as the musician played
fast and furious, old country dance
tunes.
After the crowd had gathered in
sufficient force to make it paying, the
man passed his old hat around and
gathered what he could of the smalt
gleanings of change from rtie pockets
of those who had two hands to help
them fight their way through the
world. His harvest was light, and yet
the gleaning in many fields evidently
was sufficient to keep body and soul
together, for the man's face was sleek
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and fat and he looked not a whit less
comfortable than many who looked
curiously at his musical performance.
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And yet farther down the street
stood a man about whom the people
would not congregate. He stood there
with his face marred and changed
from all semblance of a human being.
Out to the shuddering- public
he held shoe strings and lead pencils,
hegging in. piteous tones for the hur
rying throng to buy. In horror a few
took from the old man the things he
had to .ell and gave him in turn
coins to keep the life burning in his
wrecked and tottering frame.
And the wonder of it is why such
men cling to life so tenaciously. Old
and forsaken, hideous and brushed
hither and thither, the scum on the
great sea of humanity, it is a wonder
that they do not slip out of life into
the beyond, through some self-sought
loop hole. Yet still, life seems as
sweet to them as to those who lie and
bask in the sunlight of prosperity.
The never ending clinging to life is a
wonderful thing. We all cling to this
world of sunlight and trees, this world
of prairies and mountains, and deserts
and seas with all the rorces of our
natures. We sing of ti.e home beyond,
of the rest that is to be, but alas we
fear to approach the gate that leads
out. Rather do we love to walk the
dirt paved streets of this city and live
in wooden dwellings, or mayhap, the
sod-walled house, than stoop to enter
through the grave door a dream city
of golden paves and glittering houses
studded with diamonds and pearls.
SPEND AUGUST IN THE BLACK
HILLS.
Go first to Hot Springe. There you
can-bathe, ride, bicycle, climb moun
tains, dance and play tennis to your
heart's content. It your limbs are stiff,
your kidneys out of order or if you are
troubled with ezzema or any other form
of skin disease, a month at Hot Springs
will make a new man of you.
Sylvan Lake and Speartish are within
a comparatively short distance of Hot
Sorintro and every one who visits the
Black Hill should see them. Sylvan
Lake is, the prettiests and coo!eeet sum
mer resort in the west Speartish is
reached after a railroad ride that ranks
among the experiences of a lifetime
There is nothing like it anywhere else on
the globe.
Daring August, the Burlington route
will ran two low-rate excursions to Hot
Springe: one on the 9th. the other on the
36th of that month. Tickets Will be
sold at one fare half rates and will be
good to return any time within 30 days.
Organize a party. Arrange about
your hotel accommodations at Hot
Springs; arrange for ticket at B. &. M.
depot or city ticket office, corner 10th
and O streets.
G. W. Bonxell,C. P. & T. A.
Aug. 26.
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SIONS FOR SUMMER OF 1893.
Rock Island, III, and return, $1345,
national encampment union veterans'
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Return limit, August 20.
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Uniform Rank K. of P. Date of meet
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