Show GEORGE ROSS A little go good 0 A fortune cornea comes to sim him aly I 1 it few weeks back knocked nt fit the door of it ft little lexi newspaper shaper down lit in albuquerque wid mid called out the name of georgo george rois in an aged aehl and obscure man mail with it a sallow hungry countenance and thin faded h hair who was setting type nt at one of the c ues cues all present heard the voice find and knew its import the foreman dropped his rule the hie pressman dropped his the local editor hastily stood up 1 blushed 1 shed and ami looked ns as it if I 1 11 lie ll e thought otilit there must be it mistake in ill the pel person Soll culled called for tile compositors laid inid down their heir sticks and after a moment 8 laze daze nil gathered kindly around all alie old tali man in his writer by the window ow and chook his hand heartily and alid called him governor hiis sallow face fiti finished shed a little with ariti triumph I 1 liis his liand w was is observed to tremble slightly and there was more than n trace of moisture moist nrc in ili his el ci c presently a half grown groseil girl gir 1 biresh resh faced and modest avith lc school tool books in her arm walking rapidly halt half running aug in fact cl a appeared eq red at I 1 t the door 0 glanced incredulously av round around 11 the room and ic then with cr oil papi can an it be true on lier lips darted between the inen and was folded fondly in the old mans arnis anus then a wet rel li aired boy with a 1 stone bruise ort on his heel and one nue suspender holding his bis trousers dashon in ill from the street and shouted i say pop I 1 dont belie e it theold alie oad only smiled while the girl I 1 clicked the boy you kyou mind your own business was ivas the lie brotherly ri response as and then taking tailing li jig fathers land hand lie he s said aid say aie you Te vernor of 1 I gneal guem I 1 shall be pr pretty etty 8 soon oon j the ile old type sli aliu uger er lets all in go home mid and see mother ex senator george ilos lim haa been for ilia many I 1 e cirs it journeyman journeyman an printer er L Ti holding ollin artemes 0 cases in ill the various newspaper offices of albuquerque quer que whore lie be earned a sit subsistence asis by no lie means luxurious for a large family who found the delightful li fitful and salubrious climate of new mexico inc increase their appetite much faster than their revenues nis his appointment to the very honorable office of GoNer governor nor of the territory at 2000 a byear ear after being mon fr kolar aged with t the e lish of calumny an annl 1 subjected for years yeara to scorn and humiliations humiliation would assume the character char acler of a grand historical re refuge rcy euge perhaps only that eliat the p general and lid gratification fi n everywhere every invests I 1 if f wih willi te me nature of nil an atonement to think hink that chiq poor old man mail drudging in obscurity for a hare bare subsistence had occa occupied pied the proud position of united states senator for four years had for a little time fairly filled the eyes of all the world in one of the most memorable scenes cenes s of american history had once raised the pour poor faith eiith f fail ill is ife that hall had waited wailed for I 1 him ill 1 in I that new mexico lice shan shanty I 1 book cooking lug and cleaning and patching for it a large ar e family of children to tile the highest highe et social position in ill the lind land iff after ifor the pr wife to think that I 1 lie le cound could now le lead ad her triumphant over every calumny fitial the shanty in albuquerque to the old ye vice regal ei 1 I palace in tile the ancient city of tie the holy icil y faith ell it seems all tIl lNell blessed detri retribution I 1 it 10 zi a reparation it was ivas seventeen years ago that senator ross loss voted inay nay of on the question of convicting the president of tile united states st ates of f high crimes anil and misdemeanors ord and since that vote till the hour of liis ills appointment by president cleveland to be governor ov of new kew 31 mexico exico he be has scarcely had bad a days luck pushed by poverty and alid public scorn f from from post to pill pillar arand and from pillar to post again he be his has bouc one through enough 0 to break breah the fortitude of a a martar r and sour tho the tem temper per of a saint yet lie is neither broken nor soured 1 I hid somehow shinshon soi nshon tile the ifa impression thamous was a tall gaunt abuit cadaverous specimen of the kansas statesman d on oil tile physical pattern of senator plumb iol loose mind was as crammed with all soils of rarities wiliest lari ties and nd whose heair though honest was vilia the iho tent scat of fill all perversity I 1 choti thought hi 14 I 1 should know ehnow the man mail nily anywhere where I 1 thou thought alit I 1 hall had met many duplicates of him in tamper encoe conventions and among among e greenback agitators gita tors acin being T in santa lc fe a few fen daa disna s elf ter ills his inauguration I 1 was stan standing diun tit at the entrance of the cabill capital al cloter hotel il hit 11 f fates of CS tile the liaa mi a side adjacent to tile the old vice vicc regal palace in which the governor of the tel still lifs ims his residence and office ithen I 1 saw my illy old acquaintance 1 10 cc gov sheldon whom iooss succeeded e eded lihn topped stopped by a stranger vi lie ho engaged him in conversation in front 0 of i tile the palace sheldon ii gener generally nIly considered it notably handsome man mail and bears a acry er striking resemblance to cai field is tthomas ito is as his warm friend and had booked lint liim for the governorship before lie he is was as shot was vias from distri district et too in ili ohio though lie he had b been cen lit living inin a new orleans since the war and had represented a Lousi louisiana alla district in ill COD Congi several terms the person i ho ire slopped to speak to him was ip patently si it is arll ell ed middle aged win man rither rather undersized but willi a flue fine head and a 1 I linn nervous u well ell set llauro 1 ilis his attire was as etc elegant 0 ant and was ii pro is ith ease ills his movements cements were direct simple tine unconsciously ly graceful there ivila bout about hill the lie fir air ofa of n fine intellectual genial gentleman I 1 conal concluded hu 1 atas as 0 one if c of tit the e prosperous 1 ros ile to it s la liwcos I 1 of tho the rity eity but blit 4 I 1 11 ill at lily bidic t said Th rits the new Cov governor emor Ill that gov koss io I 1 just walked over and shook hands will him and made his act acquaintance it aelita fcc ucc aud and lie he tool look life inc into the executive ollice where we ue chatted for more liter than nn nil hour I 1 confess I 1 was ivas so gratified to filid lie is not tile lantern ja huud is e I 1 old scour gis I 1 fancied that I 1 I 1 fell in love with villi li nn lie ile is a t liandi handzo 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