The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 30, 1887, Page 6

eman was engaged in on the top of one of poles on Sutter te funt of the pole stood Xof men and small boys raion, which always pai little knot of curi- contentedly on his nily as unconcerned are that a false move- at any moment, dash him bEatones beneath, a brnisnd foorpse. H-did not even are of the curious gazera less dia he seem to ob- and very wiry-looking years of age, who was the street apparently is own though's and mation to his surr und- the tall man neared the pole, little group of sight-seers attract his attention, and, unconsciously, he cast his in the direction in which oking. ance rested on the lineman remarkable change in 00 took place. A ghostly pread his fva'ures; a shud- hrough his frame, causing ly to quiver; his knees Menable to sustain the weight and with a hoarse moan ground. With the aid man who was ing. an | , who chan that way, | the fainting man and | to @ neighboring saloon, | the application of cold ing his lips with a | he soon showed signs of janesa, gentlemen,” said the | § the color began to return ks; I am sorry for the caused you, bat it was e it =I ought not to have | P° asked the reporter. ot te have looked up,."" re- r, and as he suid these BA me pallor ane ned to creep c and his eyes assumed if under the spell of ection. that a story lay at man’ straige actions, t { him, pvitioponth to answer, Re dreadai! to re- eet which wus evidently the memory of an intense js strength returved, and sail: “1 confess that my strange, but after your T feel that it is due to ald explain their cause. | N bthe one ol.jection to telb | and that is I am never ar to the eve hich I am without passing experienco-wimilar to that hav jst witressed. H w- Reling has passed over now, ELean relate the story, if it Aeon. . felt certain that it d him to proceet, and, ther preface, the stranger old th + fo. Towing story: F to-day in a large mer ee, but twenty-three years late-ro.fer by trade and | vecupation in the Siate | » I prefer not to tell you i where I xm now working, and do not wish Mil to the curious ques- y friends and fellow- t it is my story that I rest you and not my ws ‘as I was about to say. it -three years ago, and p tweaty-four years of took the contract Sapte Of a Methodist | village in Warren | A sent me there to about one bhun- ne. I molding, near working. The | light and off-red old, but I was a0- | rk ng at much greater id had no fear or thourh. A light breeze was blow- h below, but where I was the of the wind was, of course, much Poger. I was wearing a broad- mmed straw hat to protec my eyes from the sun, and was whistling con- tentedlv as I punched the holes in my sla es with the point of my hammer and drove in the nails with the other end. But perhaps you do not know what a slater’s hammer is, do you? I thought not. “I will describe it, then, as other- wise you will hardly understand what Iam about to tell you You see the hammer is mate something like a short pick, about eight or ten inches in lengih, with a very fine sharp point atone end and ha nmer-headed at the other. The point is made fine, so that | by striking a light and quick blow you can pierce a slate without chipping or cracking it “As I was saying. I was at work, as heediess of danger as though it did not exist, when a slight gust of wind caught the rim of my hat and raised it from my head. Momentarily forget- ful of where I was I threw my hand behind me in an effort to catch it. The xction was a slight one, bu: it nearly cost me my life, and that by the most horrible of deaths, The pla: king of the scaffold on which I stood was very narrow, and I was standing near tho outer edge. If you have ever sto»d on ® narrow foothold, even on or near the ground, you will know what a trifling thing will cause you to lose your balance. You must remember that Thad my hammer in my hand. “Well, sir, the weight of the ham- mer and the effort of throwing out my arm behind me cansed me to lose my balance. I tottered; my body bent backward; I fell, my heels on the edg- of the planks, and in an instant I saw myself in imagination bleeding and crushed out of all semblance of hu- manity on the ground beneath me. It all passed in @ second. How. it hap- pened I can hardly tell. Ihad no thought of saving my life Ihad no idea that it could be saved. I hai, in fact, no thought of any thing. I have heard of drowning men catohing at straws; I don't believe they do any thing of the kind. I believe from my own experience that the man who be- Neves himself in the immediate pres- ence of sudden and violent death by accident catches at nothing, but throws out his arms unconsciously with an involuntary aetion of the mus- cles founded in despair. At least that was the case with me. “It was just this way; my body was bent backward over the edge, and it seomed as if nothing could save me, when wi f just such @ despairing ac- tion as Ihave described, I threw out my arm, and as I did so, I felt that in my terror and despair I bad driven the point of the hammer, which I still held in my hand, deep inte the gare | above my head, which served te bin together the upright timbers of the , scaffulding, and hardly knowing what ; did, with this slight support I drew ' myself toward the steeple, and us I felt tay feet once more on solid foundation. Taank enconscious on the scaffold. “How long I remained in that con- dition I do not know; it was probably not more than a few minates; but when I regained consciousness I felt that my nerve was all T rose and crawled cautiously down the lad- der. which I bad ascended so confident- ly a short time before. “Twas not then s coward. Idon't believe [am a coward now. I have no fear of death or danger, but since that day I have never again been able to ascend a ladder. I can not even look down on the street from an up- per window without having come over me the same feeling whose effects you have just witnessed. I was compeled to give up the trade to which I had been brought up and seek other em- ployment. You many think me a cow- ard, but Iam not. [have no fear of any thing. The feeling that comes over me is simply physical. It is associated with my recollection of the horror of that moment, aud is absolutely uncon- trolable. I not only can not work at ot look down any elevation, but I can not even see others doing so. The sight of a child looking out of an up- per story widow will affuct me in the manner you have just secn and I will fall as if taken by acataleptic fit; in fact, the doctors tell me that my weak- | ness is asort of catalepsy, produced by the absolute shattering of my nervous system on the occasion to which I have narrated. I know my weakness, and therefore avoid looking | at any thing of that kind, and I don’t | know what possessed me to look up at that lineman just now.""—Alia Cali- fornia. —_—— 2 6 Go. sulk, . us ea es, And general debt octors disag. ec «sto the relative value ot Cod Liver G1i and Ly pophosp! ites—the one suppiving stieng h and flesh; the other giving herve power, an. acting as a tonic to the digeste and cntire svstem. But in scou's Emulsion ot Cod Liver Oil with UL pophosphntes, the two are combined, and the effect is wonde:tul, Thousands who have derived no permanent benefit trom other preparations have been cured by its use. Lhis isnot an assumption, but tacts that are substantiated by the expertence oa the past ten years and he endorements of thousaud- ot the best rhysicians threughout the country. at. am, -—C’ (taking ais first we. fair to mid- lin’ How , *"—Judge. —Aisska his one newspaper—the Juneau Free Press; and the editor has it all his own way, don’t Juneau?— Chiengo Journal —A young mother looked through twenty-six different novels tofind a name for her girl baby, and finally set- ued on Marier. —Pupil (to music-teacher) —*Here is a note with a ‘v’ over it; whatdoyou callthat?” Teacher (absentmindedly) —“A five-dollar note." —‘Say, pa,"’ said Mabel, “when they trim a yacht’s sails do they fix them up with ribbons and things so as to make the boat look pretty for the race?''— Washington Critic, —Superstitious people claim that a death is sure to follow the howling of adog, It depends a good deal, we ~hould say, on the kind of a whack one gets atthe dog.—Osl Cily Blissard. —‘I» literature there seens to be a man constantly catching our ideas.” sail a writer. “Yes,"" some one re- joined, “and the trouble is he catches them before you do.’’—Arkansaw Traveler —Gueest (at an evening party, mis- taking another guest fora waiter) — “Will you briug an ice, please?" 5 o- ond Guest (with hauteur)—*You are very cool, sir.” Guest—*'Yes, I'm cool enough. The foe is for the young ladly."* —A piece of court-plaster on a pretty girl’s cheek is very mich out of place, but it doesn’t improve matters much wien her beau goes home at two o’cluck in the morning with it on the end of his nose.—Chicago Sunday Na- tional. —L wyer—“Your uncle makes you his sole heir, but the will stipulates that the sum of $100 mus: be buried with him. H.-ir (fecling!y)—-*The old man was eccentiic, but his wishes must be respected. of course. I'll write a check for the amount.""—WN. F. Sus. —Parent—“‘Who is the laziest bov in your class, Johnny?” Johnny—“1 dunno."" “1 should think you woul: know. When all the others ars in- dustriously writing or studving their lessons, who is he who sits idly in his seat and watches the rest, instead of working himself?’ *‘The teacher."’— Texas Biftings. —A Base-ball Argument. —Sam: “Don't tole me dat, Frank Dar wax sree men 02 b:sea, an’ you couldn't ketch dat bai. De kind ob balls you want is codtish-ball, an’ den we couldn't git ‘em past your mouth wid- out dey wasin a grip-sack. You nebber ketehed sethin’ onless it was de measles. Go way dar!" —Judge. —Said Mra. Smith, who had om: to spend the day. to little Elith: ‘Are you glad te see me again, Etith?" Edith—“Yea, m'm; and mamma's giad, ‘oof’ Mra. Smiith—‘4s she?" Edith— “Yea, m'm; she said she hoped you'd come to-diy and have it over with.” Mamma biushesecariet, but Mra Smith simply smiles. — Boston Jranscript. —Averse to the Dairy Made— Ollymargesing better Duteeriy utter Made from soap fat and leaf-lard grey: But you can't make choose Out of azle-grease, Becaase it ain't built that whey. —Puch —Pleasures of Travel. —Fair Tourist | —“And haven't you been away this summer at all?" Qnaha Man— “Haven't stirred a step from O.naha"’ “What a shame! During all this warm weather I have been up in Mani- toba"" “Pleasant up there?” “D-- lightful; perfectly delicious. 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