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The discouragement in the House-Alliance camps became so apparent that Kelly sent his chief lieutenant, Wellman, successor to the fugitive Rivers, to House and to David Hull with a message. It was delivered to Hull in this form: "The old man says he wants you to stop going round with your chin knocking against your knees. He says everybody is saying you have given up the fight."
Many others took naturally to the rough life of a soldier, and enlisting under soldiers' guise followed the drum on foot or in the saddle, and encamped on the bare ground with a knapsack for a pillow and no covering from the cold and rain but a brown army blanket. One of these heroines was Miss Louisa Wellman of Iowa.
In 1852, George Wellman completed his first working model of his self top card stripper one of the most valuable inventions of the present century; Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, visited Lowell; and the Legislature of Massachusetts enacted the first prohibitory liquor law. The City Hall was reconstructed in 1853. The Lowell Jail was built in 1856. Thomas H. Benton visited Lowell in 1857.
One evening when Walter came lounging over to the veranda, Lydia was busy indoors, but later she stepped to the door in time to hear Paul say, laughing: "Well, for all that, he's not so good as Wellman Phelps' stenographer." "How so?" asked the boy, alert for a pleasantry from his elder.
The following summer, just as he was about to start, a fierce storm destroyed his balloon shed and injured the balloon. Before necessary repairs could be accomplished Admiral Peary discovered the Pole and the purpose of the expedition was at an end. Wellman, however, had become deeply interested in aeronautics and, balked in one ambition, set out to accomplish another.
That was to him the sole criterion. It did not matter to him that Mr. Heinzman controlled the largest interests in the western part of the state he "couldn't hit a balloon"; nor that young Wellman was looked upon as worthless and a loafer he was well up among the first five. Nearly everybody smoked something. The tobacco smelled good in the open air.
The jury acquitted, and Wellman, aghast, followed them downstairs to inquire how such a thing were possible. The jurors said that they had agreed to disclose nothing of their deliberations. "But," explained Wellman, "you see, in a way I am your attorney, and I want to know how to do better next time. She had offered to plead guilty if she could get off with twenty years!"
"Will you say it was going thirty miles an hour?" inquired Wellman with a glance at the jury. "Why, yes, I will say that it was." "Will you say it was going forty?" "Yes." "Fifty?" "Yes, I will say so." "Seventy?" "Yes." "Eighty?" "Yes," responded the young lady with a countenance absolutely devoid of expression. "A hundred?" inquired the lawyer with a thrill of eager triumph in his voice.
We most earnestly hope you will consider this call, not as purely formal, but as from the hearts of the people. We are, very cordially yours, In behalf of the Church, PROFESSOR WELLMAN, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. "What do you think of that?" asked the minister again. "The salary is just the same, isn't it?"
There was a significant hush in the court-room Then the witness, with a patient smile and a slight lifting of her pretty eyebrows, remarked quietly: "Mr. Wellman, don't you think we have carried our little joke far enough?"
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