The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 285, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 15, 1903 Page: 3 of 4
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The Heretic.
On* whisper of the Holy Ghost
Out welsh* for me • thousand tomes;
And I mast heed that private word.
Mot Plato's. Swendenborr’a. nor
Rome's
Lot no tradition (111 my ears
With prate of evil and of food.
Nor superstition cloak my sight
Of beauty with a bigot's hood.
Beyond the shadow of tho porch
I -hear the wind among the trees;
Tho river babbling In the clove.
And that great sound that Is the sea's.
Give me the freedom of the earth.
The leisure of the light afid air.
That this enduring soul some part
Of their serenity may share!
meat, with one bundrpd acres of land,
tor the sum* above mentioned.
It was nearly thirty-eight years ago
that Oen. Robert E. Lee received from
Oen. U. S. Grant, bis generous con-
queror, a reply to his note offering
to surrender and rode rapidly into the
village of Appomattox Court House
to seek the representative of the fed*
oral force*.
For I. my brother, so would live
That I may keep the eider law
Of beauty and of certitude.
Of daring love and blameless awe.
—Bliss Carman in the Century
As Is now well known, there wero
no spectacular scenes In the surren*
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Her Secret, and His
The family call me Babbles, be-
cause I tell too many things and
have fluffy hair. ! feel that I am a
blot on the family escutcheon; for
I've never done anything fine or no-
ble; while Lucy Lee, my sister, went
to Smiths, and came home with her
notebooks full of wonderful state-
ments.
Omar Khayyam la my Persian pus-
*Y cat.
Every year on Jan. 3 we Etart for
the City of Mexico. The main office
of the Randolph Explosive company
is there. Father ia president,of the
company and goes there to look after
the business. Lacy Lee goes to look
after him, to put in his studs. I go
to look after. Lucy Lee.
By Jan. 6 we reached El Paso,
crossed the Rio Grande and bad got-
ten Into Mexican territory. I looked
out upon vast stretches of alkaline
plains decorated with cacti, until I
felt Mke a large prickly cactus, my-
self, and turned to Lucy Lee for
«olace. -
Now, Lucy Lee had a grand game,
which she invented for railroad Jour-
neys. She took a large sheet of pa-
per and blocked it off into squares
corresponding to the berths. Then
she would look at the passengers
with half-closed eyes and write
things in the squares.
And ao she wrote until every soul
in the Electra was put into one of
the neat squares. Every soul but
one.
"Lucy Lee,” I murmured. “You
haven’t put Lower 3 into his gqqare.'"
“Is there any one In Lower tf" •
“Well, rather,” I replied. "You old
sneak.”
Then Lucy Lee let her big eyes
rest studiously on Lower 3. “He
looks aa If he might be Marcus An re-
liua about to write out bis noble re-
flections.”
"Nonsense.’* 1 didn’t know who
Marcus Aurelius was. “I think he has
done something desperate and is run-
ning away frpm It.” He had a look
•r
m
r
hi'
Opened hie valiee.
la hi* eyes that made as# waa; to
go up aad say, “Never mind, it will
all come out right.”
The train was pvillag into the City
z/sr ™a;“E‘a:;nn
sell! Lacy l*ee
It
carried it out
4 ,<.1 » I
Cassius lived on the gloomy super-
stition that all men are black sheep
until proven white. —
“Cassius Pullman.” I cried. “That's
nonsense. It's been taken by mis*,
take.”
Then father came in to get brushed
and the thing was explained to him.
At such times it was not necessary
to look-him-up-in Dunn’a agency. The
explosive business was written in tho
blue Are of his eye and In his bias-
ing voice.
“Cassius, you will please find Mias
Randolph’s wearing apparel at once.”
Marcus Aurelius jumped to hla Met,
opened hla valise, tumbled his things
about and produced a roll of muslin.
It was mine. I seised it
"Sir,” blazed my father, “what la
the meaning of this.”
"It means,” said Marcus Aurelius,
“that there has been an absurd mis-
take. I'm not exactly iu the souvenir
business."
Then Cassius put in. “I put Lower
3’s things in your daughter’s seat
when I was making hla berth.”
“And In the transfer 1 got more
than belongs to me.”
The car roared loud and merrily as
only n enr of gentlemen rovers can.
Things are free and easy south of
the Rio Grande.
“City of Mexico,” called the con-
ductor.
Father hustled his brood into the
carriage, and we spun rapidly toward
the Iturblde.
And so the Incident was closed. But
U was reopened with a ' startling
stroke. That night, rolled up in the
gown, I found 9100,000. It was in the
new one-thouaand-dollar hills as fresh
as from a bank.
Into what black mystery had 1 been
woven?
The next morning I waa up bright
and early. As Lucy Lee and father
were sluggards. I tucked Omar under
my arm and we started over to the
cafe at the Jardla. In the patio of
the hotel I bought a great bunch of
roses and a basket of strawberries.
As we entered the cafe, I saw Mar-
cus Aurelius eating hla breakfast At
the same moment two men. who en-
tered behind me, were speaking in
Spanish.
“The telegram said; ‘Brown eyes,
smooth shaven, six feet' There’s our
man.”
With the tail of my eye I saw dark
blue uniforms and buttons stamped
with the emblem bf the republic. The
arm of the law waa about to stretch
forth and pluck—whoa! *.
I stopped gayly over to the table
where the man with the brown eyes
“Marcus, dear,” and I laid my band
heavily and dog my seal ring into his
knuckles. “Here are strawberries for
our breakfast.” I took the seat facing
him. Then I said, scarcely moving
my lips: “The police are behind.
Don’t turn.”
. Two brown faces stared down at
ua, stolidly as Aztec gods.
"Pardon us. Bettor its, bat this gea-
and one of thorn laid bis
on Marcus.
Mitt, if you please-aad this
Is my husband.” If I had
bad a thousand hatbands. 1 could not
have been £aughtler.
"We’re wrong. Ter—— ”
Terrazas," said the
j*v,
**me
rtfL.
1 replied, "and 1
M " . '
to know to whom
Ska money belongs.”
“It belongs to the First National
Bank of Kansas City. I was cashier
them” Then he smiled. “But It got
Into year bundle by mistake.”
“I didn’t know Just how to receive
it, unless you meant it for alimony.”
“Alimony!” he stared.
“Do you like my looks?” 1 said.
“My color seheme. I hope you do, for
I’m your wife.”
I told him the marriage law of the
hot countries and how he had been
entangled. *
He stared.
“This Is startllag." But I could see
that he was not much frightened. ‘T
had expected to merry another girl
down here. She was to have corns by
Eagle Paw, but this came instead.”
He handed me n telegram, which
read; “Decided not to come. Risk too
greet. Good luck to you. Adelaide.”
“Tho money was for her,” he said
quietly. , ’
The business energy-of my father
descended in an enormous mantle
upon my shoulders. “You must get
out of the city at once. The train
for Vera Crus starts In half an hour.
We'll go to the ticket office at ones.
At Vera Cruz you can get your steam-
or for Central America."
When I went back to the cafe
father and Lacy Lee were eating
breakfast. Father was devouring his
Herald. “Another poor fellow gone
astray; and the First National Bank
of Kansas City is out $100,000. The
paper says he’s here in Mexico.”
“Oh. Babbles.” cried Lucy Lee. “it
must have been that bad-looking man
that got off at Chihuahua.”
I said nothing; and still It Is a fam-
ily legend, that I can't keep n thing
over thirty second*.
That afternoon the Wells-Fargo
Express company forwarded to the
"The police are behind. Don’t turn.”
First National Bank of Kansas City
a package. It. contained 9100,000.—
H. Morris, in Los Angeles Times
Here’s Hopin’I
Year ain’t been the very best—
Purty hard by trouble pressed;
But the rough wsy. leads to rest—
Here's hopin'!
Maybe craps wus short; the rills
Couldn't turn the silent mills;
Here's hopin'!
Where we planted roues sweet
Thorns come up an' pricked the feet;
But this old world's hard to beat—
Here's hopin'!
P’r'ape the bulldln* that ws planned
'Gainst the cyclone couldn't stand;
But. thank God. we've got the land—
Here’s hopin’!
Maybe flowers we hoped to save
Have been scattered on a grave;
But the heart's still bestin’ brave—
Here's hopin'!
That we'll eee the mornln’ light;
That the very darkest night
Can't hide Heaven from our sight—
Here's hopin'!
—Frank Stanton.
An Authority.
Peter McArthur was ones talking
with a friend, when ha quoted an-
other man as financial authority. His
friend disputed the right of the per-
son quoted to be considered an ex-
pert Mr. McArthur Insisted that the
man had a right to speak like aa
oracle.
“What is yov/r definition of an au-
thority?” asked his friend.
"My Idea of an authority,” retort-
ed Mr. McArthur, “Is a person who
bluffs beyond my limit”—New York
Times. s.
A Man of
The angry father kicks the young
man from the front steps.
"Sir,” says the youa* man, picking
himself up. ”1 would like to call your
attention to the goods handled by my
house. We maks the beet line of soft-
rubber soles and heels
find anywhere.”
Father goes back to the hease, rub-
bing bli chin and wondering whether,
he has not
o wel«i
genius Into his family
after an.
Key to the «f
Flypp (at the
WHERE LEE GAVE UP
House at Appomattox in Which Gen. Grant Arranged Ti
of Surrender With the Defeated Southern Leader,
la Offered For Sale.
Unless prompt steps are taken by
this government,, one of the most In-
teresting and valuable of the histor-
ical relics of the nation will bo lost
to the people. Congress has been
asked to appropriate 93d,000 to buy
it.
The relio In question is the house
at Appomattox in which Generals
Ulysses 8. Grant and Robert E. Lee
er spurs nor sword, for which latter
omission he apologised \p Gen. Lee.
I*ee was fifty-eight years old, six feet
in height, hair and beard gray; he had
on a handsome new uniform, buttoned
to the throat, with three stars on each
side of the coHar; fine top boots, haad-
some spurs and elegant new gaunt-
lets. He looked every inch the de-
scendant of King Robert Bruce that he
At Gen. Lee's request the terms of
surrender, which were quickly agreed,
upon, were reduced to writing. These*
provided that roils in duplicate of all
the officers and men be made out-
one set to be given to an officer desig-
nated by Gen. Grant, the other to one* _
similarly chosen by Gen.* Lee; the
officers were to give their individual
parole, company and regimental com-
manders to sign for their men; arms,
artillery and public property were to
be parked, stacked and turned over to
an officer designated to receive them.
They did not embrace the-tide arms
w/f—-
THE SUpBENUB HOUSE AT APPOrtATTTX-
der of Lee. The apple tree, however,
has been removed bit by bit by the
hands of relic hunters until only a
tablet marks the spot where Lee re-
ceived bis summons from Grant.
Oen. Lee, Col. Marshall of hla staff:
the federal officers and a mounted or-
derly rode to the court house, and,
meeting Mr. Wllmer McLean, a resi-
dent of the village, told him Gen. Lee
wanted the uae of a room in tome
house. Mr. McLean took the party
to his home, a comfortable two-story
brick dwelling with a veranda across
its entire front. Gen. Lee was ush-
ered Into a room on the left of the
hall, where about one o’clock he was
frlnedL&y Gen. Grant, his staff, and
Gena. SKertdan and Ord. ........—v
The federal commander sat at a
marble-top table in the cental of the
room, Lee at,a smalfcoval table near
the front window. The casual observer
would never have grasped the true
state of affairs. From the demeanor
of the officers private horses nor bag-
gage. Aa soon as this had been drawn
up Gen. Lee wrote a note acknowledg-
ing his acquiescence in 1^
These formalities being concluded
with businesslike promptness, Lee al-
luded to the destitute condition of his
men and Grant at once made the offer,
which was accepted, to Issue rations to
the Confederates. These were the sup-
plies Intended for Lee’s army which
had been captured by federal cavalry.
Ai Gen. Lee's request the men wbo
owned horses in the cavalry and artil-
lery were allowed to reclaim them.
The Southern chieftain rode back to
his men to tell them what he had
done. With cheeks streaming with
tears they crowded aroynd him,, and
In that hour of bitter grief accorded
him a heartfelt and k>yat devotion ex-
perienced by few commanders in the
heyday of their success.
The following day Oen. Lee issued
bis farewell orders, mounted Traveller
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•f the two men he would have seen in
Lee the victor and Grant the van-
quished. The latter, nbt yet forty-
three years of age, waa five feet eight
Inches tall, with slightly
shoulders, nut browi
abuttoned. showing vest
and, with his staff, slowly made hla
way to Richmond, where he received a
welcome which exceeded even that of
hie devoted followers at Appomattox.
But Lee’s great heart waa broken, and
In a little more than ive y«
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Newton, W. B. The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 285, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 15, 1903, newspaper, April 15, 1903; Mineral Wells, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1039511/m1/3/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.