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Show B OIBP Or A BROKEN HEART. H End al Iba rar.onat AlUadast of H Clrorse St. Vallman. H This man died of broken btt. H iay the CklPto Cnronlelo. Il was H ft iillam II Johnson, doorkeeper, mti- H tenter aeftmr and general all-round j tbru in the lata Ocorgo M. Puli- H ihd impo'lnc offices In the Pullman Hj Duilillnt. Johnson wu Terr black, H fa i her tall and aomewbat ungainly In H aia movement uut faithful and trusl- H worth) to the Iful degree. Johnson H Kill be remembered by many, for all H the strangers or unknown persons who H loufht m Interview with the palace H -ar magnate hid first to encounter and H sxplaln the nalnre of tbelr bualneaa H to the dark-lined doorkeeper. When H II r lullmn died a few month! ago H and hi will waa made public It wai H found h had bequeathed the faithful H Mr Johnson (be eum of 12.000. The H latter had been In the mllllonalre'a H tervlre for 20 yeara or more, and he H had never been found wantlnit. He H look large eherka to the bank and H brought bk the money; ho warded off H 'ranka and borea. he nccompanlod hit H rmployer on frequent and extensive H travel, and attended tn financial and H r.tri.-r errand without ever kiting the H ulUhtnt cause for auaplclon n to his H Edell'y or honeetr. Aa Mr. Johnion H waa not 10 natty In lila set-up or ao H prefoareailruc In appearance aa aomo H other Afro-Americana, It la said that H dm" and again frlenda and aaaoclatet of Mr Pullman threw out hint! that H Johnion waa not exactly the tyl of H factotum to occupy ao confidential and exalted a poaltlon, but tbo palaco car B magnate Invariably turned a deaf ear Hj to all these hlnla. Johnson autted him, j and. no matter what othari might H think. Johnson would continue to work for him and be In no dancer of losing H bis Job na long aa he llred. Hut death H tame more swiftly to the rich man than Hj Johnson thought possible. And when H the first shock of grief wai over and H thlnga began to take a turn with a new H president at the head, Johnson learned H one day that hla place waa gone. TJit H It was that broke his heart. He had H long since coma to regard It ai a life H position, the tenure of which would H only be Interrupted by old age, and then In the natural course of thtnga, H a pension would certainly follow. And H It dotllillesa would .lave been so If Mr. B Pullman had llred a few years longer. H Johnson wandered about rallied and dated tor dsya It waa hard for him Hj to realise the facta, lie was nut of Hj employment and growing too old to H expect much encouragement In looking Hj elsewhere for work. With teara In hla B eyes he broko the newa to his wife and H children. At length he found some H trivial employment about one of the H big railway stations, at wagra which H are usually paid lo ordinary porters, H but sorrow continued to weigh heavily H on him. and day by day he grew more H melancholy and despondent. He knew that he would.be remembered In Mr, B - - .l'uUmik'wlU,.butiloiKm'Tot H" Ihlnklna; this was no compensation for 1 the loss of his position. Just about the time Johnson came Into his legacy H of 12 000 he took to hla bed and died to hla friends say of a broken heart |