Show ONE OF THE VICTIMS Old Maids Interest In the Tale Did Not Last Long By and by the train carpe along to where a cyclone had passed two days before uprooting trees and leveling fences and sweeping houses off the face of the earth and a young man who had passed through the tragedy got aboard Of course we were all anxious to hear all about It but a woman 40 years old who was evidently evident-ly an old maid was more anxious than any of the rest Sho got tho young man down beside her and begun a Now you must tell mo Just how It occurred and what you thought and did Whero were you when the cyclone came In a farmhouse maam Asleep t No maam I was sitting up courtIng court-Ing a girl Hum Sitting up at midnight eh1 Yesm Sally was sitting on my lap and I had my arm around her waist when we heard a great roaring and I dont caro to hear any moro sir announced the oJd maid as she stiffly drew herself up and hitched along Dont you want to hear how tho house went No sir And how Sally was blown right off my knees leaving me there with nobody no-body to hold No sir There came an awful roaring and 4 one of liar shoos was found a mile away yesterday how how And then we dragged him oft to the smoking car to tell the rest and tho r old maid looked out of tho window and I wouldnt speak to anyone In tho car 1 Democrat for an hour aftorSt Louis Globs |