The Holly chieftain., June 28, 1901, Image 2

About The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987

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INDEPENDENCE DAY
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The Best of It |
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A J\:venile Sketch ,
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Independence Day i
The Crosspatch Man was sick azain,
and this time it must be pretty bad
for all the morning Meredith had been
watching the servants spread straw |
Lefore the house and mutfle the b]g,{
shiny doorbell
“Poor man!®*mamma said, pitingly.
“He is sick so often!’ l
But he’s a Crosspatch Man!"™ mut
tered Meredith stifly. Then he re- |
pented and looked as shamefaced as a |
very little boy with a very round, dim- |
pled face could look I'm so sorry |
he's ve-ry sick,” he said slowly. *I
='pose it hurts even Crosspatch Men.”
Mamma did not notice. She was
having her little noon “‘gossip” with |
papa, and they were still talking about
their Invalid neighbor |
“It isn’t quite so bad as it seems, |
¥ou Know,” papa was saying. “He al
wavs has the straw laid down and
things muffled when he has one of |
his worse nervous attacks. It doesn't |
mean all that it does in most cases. |
He is terribly afflicted by noise at al
most any time.’
“Noise! 1 should think so!” That
was from Meredith, who pricked up
hfs ears at the word. Didn't he know
how the Crosspatch Man telt 'bout a
noise? Dido't he belong to the Rudd
Street Second? Wasn't he captain?
And oh, my, the times he'd seen the
Crosspatch Man a-scowling and a
fuming when they marched past his
window!
“But Fourth of July will be a terri-
Hile day to him—poor man!"” went on
mamma's gentle voice. That made
Meredith start a little. He had been
thinking about Fourth o' July, too.
(Did he think of much of anything
elsa nowadays?) He had been going
over in his mind all the glorious pro
gram of the day. For the Rudd Street
Second was going to celebrate in a
worthy manner. They were going to
even outdo themselves this year—and
hadn’t they had the proud honor of
belng the noisest street in the city for
two Fourth o' Julys a-running? Let
‘em just walt till they heard this
Fourth o’ July!
i It was three days off. That would
aive the Crosspatch Man time to have
the straw taken up and the bell un-
MEREDITH STOOD IN SHEER
AMAZEMENT,
muffled, for his worst “times” never
lasted more than two or three days.
“Then he’'ll have to cotton up his
ears,” mused Meredith, philogsophic
ally, watching the big foreign servant
that wore a turban go back and forth
past the Crosspatch Man's window.
The house Meredith lived in and the
Crosspatch Man's house were quite
close together, so it was easy to watch
things.
Unfortunately for an invalid with
the terrible affliction called “nerves,”
Rudd Street was a regular nest of
boys. They were boys everywhere on
it. You ran against boys when you
went east, and hoys ran against you
when you went west. Boys sprang up
fn the most unexpected places. The
‘houses seemcd to bLe running over
! with boys. And really, there was at '
least one boy—and cn an average two !
or three—in every house on Meredith's
side, except in the Crosspatch Man's |
| house. Oh, dear me, no, there weren't |
| any boys there! l
| On the other side of 'the street you !
had to skip the “middlest” house and {
Miss Quilhot and Miss Eromathea's—
| oh, ves, and the minister’s house, of
‘ which Miss Quilhot and Miss Eroma- |
| thea were old ‘maids, and the minister
! —oh, no, he wasmtt an old maid, but
V' you couldn't expect him to have boys
in the house, for how could he ever !
write his sermons?
| So it was, as | =aid, an unfortunate
street to hav: “nerves” on. And the !
Crosspatch Man kad so many! |
| The three days between soon went |
away, and it was the night—thz very !
night—before it! There were only a |
few hours more, for, of course, you :
didnt’ have to wait till the sun rose on
Fourth of July.
Meredith had drilled the Rudd
Street Second for the last time and
dispersed his men He was on his
way home to supper. Going by the
Crosspatch Man's house, he heard
volces distinctly issuing from an open
| window. He couldn’t help hearing, it |
was so quiet in the street. Perhaps it |
| was the “lull before the storm.” '
“The sahib cannot bear t,"” a gentle |
soothing voice was saying, but Mere- ;
dith recognized the indignation mixed |
with the pity in it. “The sahib will |
be again sick.” ‘
Then came Meredith's astonishment, [
for the Crosspatch Man’s voice was |
answering, and it was quite calm and |
gentle; and it said: l
“oOt course I shall be sick again, |
Hari!l've made a!l my plans to perish. ‘
But whel can you expect? The Ilttle
chaps must have their Fourth o' July. |
I was a little chap myself—once. Shut
the window, Hari. There's a suspicion
of a draught.”
Meredith stood still in sheer amaze- I
ment, and watched the turban-man
close the window. He was a little
chap himself once, the Crosspatch
Man was! And how kind his voice
had sounded, too. It made him sorry
for the crasspatch Man—sorrier than
he had ever been before.
“He's a-dreadin’ it like sixty. He's
'spectin’ to perish,” Meredith said i
aloud. “It's goin’ to make him sick, |
of course—that’s what he said to the |
turban-man. An’ he was a little chap l
once, an’ his voice was kind an’ tired
out.”
Then Meredith went home and
perched himself up on the banister
post in the hall, to think. That was
where he always thought things—big
things, you know. This was, oh my,
such a big thing!
“I'm cap'n, mused Meredith, knit
ting his little fair brows. *[ can say,
‘Go, an' thou ghost,’} like the man in
the Bible; but they’ll be dreadful
dis'pointed, the Rudd Street Seconds ‘
will be. Still—well, he sick an’ he
had a kind spot in his voice, an’ he
used to be a little chap too, so of
course he used to bang things an’
make noises. I don’t think he sound
ed much like a Crosspatch Man.”
In a little while, after a little more
tough thinking, Meredith slipped
down and out of the door, up the
street. He got together the Rudd
Street Seconds and made a little
speech, as a captain may, to'hls men.
The next day the city and all Amer
ica celebrated Fourth o' July, and
Rudd Street was famous again, but
this time for being the very quietest
street in all the city! There were just
as many boys in it, too, as ever.
The Crosspatch Man’s white, ner- |
vous face smoothed and calmed as the ‘
day wore on, and at last it actually
smiled in a gentle way, as if he was
thinking about something pleasant. |
And the captain of the Rudd Street
Seconds and his brave men, drilling
and popping and banging in a distant
street, were happy, too.—Annie Ham
ilton Donnell. _
PATTI FEARS AERIAL TRIP.
| Invited to Go Up In Balloon, She Declines
| at Last Moment.
| Adelina Patti accepted an invitation
| to a balloon trip with a party compris
| ing Muriel Wilson, the Duchess of
| Sutherland; Princess Polignac, born
| Singer; Grand Duke Alexis and Ed
| ouard Detaille, but when the hour to
| start came Paitti’s heart failed her and
| she begged to be excused. She drove
| home confess#z sheer fright. The
| rest of the party went up, but owing to
| a slight accident remained only forty
{ minutes, landing within ten miles of
| the starting place.
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Qualities of the Ideal Actress.
| Mrs. Kendal thus tellingly cpit-l
t omizes the qualities essential to a
woman seeking renown on the stage:
| “The face of a goddess, the strength of
| a lion, the figure of a Venus, the voice
of a dove, the temper of an angel, the
| grace of & swan. the agility of an ante
lope and the skin of a rhinocerous.”
It is said herc that few women lack
this combination, barring the last
named quality
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The New Bicycle.
Bicyele manufacturers state that the bi- |
cycle for this year will be practically the
| same model as Iw, as improvement geems
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flatulency, or sour stomach, and you will
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He—Your father ought to know what
1 have to say to him. I have been com
ing here so lonz She—l am afrald he
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The summer school established several
years ago in Denver by Professor Dick
has steadlly grown in numbers and rep
| utatfon. Last yoor 150 teachers from Col
{ orado, Wyominz Nebraska and other
| western states vled themselves of fts
| advantages. The prospects are thaf this
number will be zreatly exceeded this
year. For studints who desire to pre
| pare themselves better for fall examin
ations, or for teachers who wish to per
fect themselves in some particulur line
of study, no betier school exists,
The new member of the 'West Denver
board of education after an elaborate
examination says the board is not so
black as it has been painted. Yet it is
said that the original board of education
is the blackboard
It you wish to have beautiful, clear
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the famous bag hlue. |E
| “Yes, when I put away my overcoat !
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| Some Kansas statistician has figured |
! that every baby is worth $1L.0% to the |
| state. It is safc to say he didn't accept !
l the parent’s figures. |
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