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Also he bought a new stove for his Sunday-School room , and a lot of pictures for the church walls , among others `` Wide Awake and Fast Asleep , '' `` Simply to Thy Cross , '' and `` The Old Oaken Bucket . '' He gave to the school a cabinet organ with more stops than most of the children could count . -LSB- Illustration : A desert Scorpion , outcast by society and proud of it -RSB- A year ago a new reporter brought in this item : `` Joseph Nevison , of South McAlester , I. T. , is visiting his mother , Mrs. Julia Nevison , at 234 South Fifth Street . '' We sent the reporter out for more about Joe Nevison and at noon George Kirwin hurried down to the little home below the tracks . From these two searchers after truth we learned that Joe Nevison 's mother had brought him home from the Indian Territory mortally sick . Half-a-dozen of us who had played with him as boys went to see him that evening , and found a wan , haggard man with burned-out black eyes , lying in a clean white bed . He seemed to know each of us for a moment and spoke to us through his delirium in a tired , piping voice -- like the voice of the little boy who had been our leader .