Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-09-03
Union depot restaurant and timdly took seat by hel

side
"IIave the honor he said hesita tingly "of-'
i Have the honor" the bashful reporter began
again, "of addressing Miss Anthony
"Yoopa" shrieked the astonished girl, in tone of as
tonishment, elbow dare you Address me- indeed
Oh La she cried family and showing evident signs
willing into the reporters arms, "I'm such gddy
thing, don't know what am saying
The reporter blushing violently bostered her girlish
| form up with his elbow said:
| 81 would like to ask, before making any inquiries
into your own connection with this sad business al
Brooklyn, how is it that Anna Dickinson is not mixed
| up in itE
The damsel boed potato small size and after one
two convulsive movements of the neck and throat
"She doesn't know anything about it hasn't heard q
word of it. She's up in northwest York State making
stump speeches for Greeley yet and ecturing on the
party that will lead to Grants disgrace and Greeleys
success. She Bless, you, she won't hear about this
Brooklyn business till the next sensation is nearly
with. Anna ought TO leave the rostrum she's getting
too old Let me see," the Colonel said musingy. 81
came to this country soon after the battle of Bunker
Hill; Anna was here when come; was a wee bit OF
thing then, and she was in long dresses and had left
school. will be nineteen next May; dear me, how
time flies; shall soon be woman! That makes
Anna at least 2 if she's day But love her dearly
Colonel weeping hes the only person in this great
wide world who can rememberwhen was born, and
if she dies how ber-leak this world will be-
And she dropped her classically shaped head the
reporters shoulderand sobbed softly, blowing cracker
crumbs and and scraps Of onion his coat collar.
'DOn u, ne SAID, don't distress yourself MISS An
thony, pray you Compose yourself, there's a man
looking at us. DON'T Ny dear Susan"
"Ycooop" she went off again, and Immediately be
came SO rigid that the thermometer in the went
down q few degrees. "Sr, do not trihe with young
girls feelings"
TT is currently reported" the reporter said, that
Mr.. Tilton is one of your ardent admirers?'
"G0 'way!" said Miss Anthony, "Don't say word
TO me! What awful fuss everybody makes about
that, anyhow. Why, have had, since first began to
make lectures 1896 offers of marriage of which 726
were in the city of Chicago. One of them was from
young ship carpenter Mr. Tuttle builder of the yatch
Sko0p Tout. Dear Tut; he such delightful story
teller But he away and married the cook of the
Skoop Tout
"Is there any truth in that story that Bessie tells
about your sitting in Mr. Tiltons lap?" the reporter
qucried.
"Naw.w-w"' she snarled "There isn't one syllable
Of truth in it. and that girl s nasty, hateful deceit
full little idiot. always told Tilton that she would
catch us some timc she always sneaking around.
She made that lie out of whole cloth. In the first
place, even if had been sitting Tiltons lap which
sOemnly deny, she couldn't have seen from the
door, for were sitting in the corner behind the
door, In the second place, she didn't open the door
and look in for it locked and in the third place
door for Bessie Twas sitting in the rocking chair at the
other end of the So that's all the truth there is
in that story
At this interesting juncture the train bell rang and
the conductor shouted all aboard The gallant Colonel
kicked the reporter for making her talk much she
couldn't eat any supper crammed her pocket full of to-
mattusses and bread, and sayagely refusing to pay
porters truck, abradng her shins frightfully, and
gathering her skirts, climbed the and scolded
blister knot in the paneng before the train got to
the top of the grade.