Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-04-07
roN DAKOTA TERRITORY. SATURDAY EVENING.

q l ssrschsd my head out ofths cur
tain I ssw four othsr hsads q eagerly
reaehed out from sehes births 70 hear
the. oo0clusios ofths story. Ons bead
: fsasIs oos instantly dsappsarsd 90
my lsoking around, but . certain
Of her window curtain
showed an unabated intesest. The
oily two utterly disintsrestsd men
were the one man and the ether man.
The one man dstsshing himself lan-
suidly from the window-Cy Dun
haml
..Yes. Cy never had either convic-
or -psrfessions lister get drunk and
10 round With pc, niscous womin.
Sor,er like tho prodigal con, only :
little more 90, ez fur ez l kin Judge
from the facts cz stated to me. Well
-Cy one day pe,ered out down, At
Little Rock, and was cent up yer for
intermsn.. Tho fameriy, being proud
like, Of course didn't spare any mon
|ey on that funeral, and it was-now
between you and me--about ez
shapsly aud tirst. .claas aud prime mess
affair e. ever sew. Wilkins bed
put in his extrys. He he'd put on
! on ,hat prodigsl's face the A touch
he'd hlm Fixed up with : christians
hope. Well-is waz about the turn
ing -poiut, for thar waz some talk At
Dea Iibbet's about reQ'lar confer
ence meetin' regardia' it, But i
wasn', ,bct which made him onpop-
lar"
Another silence-no expression for
reflection from the face Of the Other
Man Of the least desire to know what
ultimately settled the unpopularity Of
the undertaken. But from the curtains
OF the various berths several eager
aud ono or two essn wrathful faces,
snxions for the result.
The Other Man Qazily recurring to
I tt-ehe lost topic) Well, what made him
onpoplar?
The One Man Quietly -E1trys, l
think-that is, suPpoSe-not know
ing (cau,iously) oil the facts. When
Mrs, Widdecombe lost her husband
bout two months ago-though she'd
been through the valley of the shadder
Of death tWice-this bein' her third
marriage, hevin' been John Bakers
wilder
The Other Man with an intense
expression Of interes,) No, you're
foolin' me!
The One Man (solemnly)-Ef | was
to appear before my maker Tomorrow,
yes! she was the widder of Barker.
Tho Other Man Well, l swow.
The Que Maxwell this widder
Widdccombe, she put up big fun
eral for the deceased. The had Will
kins, and their endeFtaker just laid
himself out. Just spread himself.
Onfort' t'natelv perhaps fort'nstly in
the ways on .PIovidsnce-one Of
Widdecombc's old friends, doctor
up thar in Chicago, comes down to
the funeral. He goes up WITH the
fliends TO look at the diseased, smilin'
. peaceful sort Of heavinly smile, and
Everybody sayin, he's gone to meet
his reward, aud this yer friend turns
found, short and sudden On the widder,
settcn' in her pew, and kinder enjoy.
ing, - wimen will. Ill the compli-
nents paid the corpse, ard he says,
says he:
.What did you say your husband
died OF, marm?"
"Consumption,' she rays, wiping
her eyes, poor crit.sr; consumption
7-gailopin' consumption"
sConsumption DO id" sez he.
bein' profsne kind Of Chicago doc
tor, and not bein' ever under convic-
ton. "Thet man died Of strychnine
Look at thet face. Look at tbet con
tortion of them facial muscles. Thet
arychnine. Thet's riscrs Sadouicus'
(thst's what. he said; he was always
sorter profanc.)
aWhy, Doctors" s.ys the widder
.the.-tbet il his last smile, It's .
II Christians resigration."
q .Thet be blowed; don't tell me,
sez be, ..Hell is full or that kind o.
resignation. It's pizon. And II
;. -" Why, dcrn my skin, yes We are
eyes, it's Joliet. Wall, now, who't
hev thought we'd been nigh on 10 sl
hour?
/ Two or three anxious passenger
! from their bertha: "Say, look yer
s.ranger! Old man! what becsm
|. Of
But the One Man and the Othe
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