Show FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH wede swede spent two years tears in Tind icat anz mg ills brothers Honeg honesty ty so 1 I practiced law once in silverton colo said one cue of the passengers in in the smoking room of the pullman I 1 and had bad a case that struck me as a model exhibition of faithfulness A swede was mail carrier over oter the pass to the 0 other side of the de range etwas it was not a long trip but it was a severe one made on foot and with the danger in winter from heavy snows added to its difficulty andrew carried the mail fora for a year then one day he be failed to reach home bome there were valuable letters in his bis sack back and the inference that he be had bad de camped was wag strong on the night he should have come into silverton his brother fresh from scandinavia and unable to speak english got off the biage As county attorney I 1 had to break the news to the boy and stood by while he wept rewards Ee wards were offered for andrew and I 1 sent out parties to search the pass but to no effect A miner claimed to have seen him a week later in leadville but we got no more trace of him the brother refused to believe that andrew had done wrong and spent his days tramping the canyons searching for his brothers body we tried to get him to go to work but he be didiot did not yield until by his shortness of funds he was starved to it in the summer when most of the snow was off he searched again but in vain during the winter he be worked but when the second spring came he renewed hiss his lonely tram trappings pings up the trail we thought him demented but he be cared not cot for our opinions one day in august lie he walked along at the base of a cliff and saw a boot sticking out from some debris he uncovered it and his search was ended that evening he came into town with the mail sack much stained but intact and his brothers coat the grave he dug with the rough stone he be afterward put at its head is up tho tha canyon yet it took two years to vindicate his brothers name but he be did not begrudge it when it was danehe done he went back to his native land chicago times herald |