The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-12-13
The Man from ''Old Kyhog. -

This man was from Cuyahoga county,
There can DO no doubt about it, for as he
sat in the Hamilton & Dayton depot, with
big, black sachel between his cowhide
boots, he yawned and said to himself:
'After all, there is no place like old
Kyhog."
He had been over in Kentucky to see
some relatives. There's no doubt of it, for
he soon yawned again and remarked:
"Well, them Kentuckers are Gurus folks.
but I kinder got tired o staying"
He had weed on his ancient plug hat.
At least twenty years had rolled over the
brim of that hat. It was faded, denied.
bruised and battered, and Chief Joseph
or Sitting Bull would have scorned to
shoot man wearing it. The man was a
widower. There can he no doubt about
it, for he placed the hat on the bench be-
side him, blew his nose in squcaky way,
and said:
"Life is funny, isn't it! While Hammer
is flying around in heaven and feeling no
pain I'm sitting here with my old spine
all twisted out of shape"
About this time half dozen other
people entered the room Among them a
young woman with ahatchct.face and eyes
the color of No. Government envelope.
She sat down near him with her hand
sachel and shawl, gave him one swift look
of contempt. and then fastened her eye
on the opposite wall.
The man from old Kyhog Strengthened
up at once and drew up his feet, gave his
coat-collar vank, and bestowed upon
her long, lingering look. She didn't
mind it. Then he took up his hat and
st1oked the weed. She never took her
gaze. off the wall. He coughed. Result
900.
death is sad thing" he finally OBJ
served, holding his hat In both hands.
If it was, she did not seem to know it..
"Yes-ah, it sewers up families, breaks
up ties, and causes strong men TO cry" he
went on, as a melting,expression came over
his face. She was as motionless as stone
man of Colorado, though she sat but three
feetaway.
"But,' resumed the old man, as he
leaned toward her, "the human heart
can't stay busted. She may throb and
pine for time, but she sooner or later
returns to billed dinners and hankcring
after love again. Hammer was good
wife. She was small eater, great sav-
er, and her funeral expenses were thity-
nine dollars, saying nothing what
the watchers ate up. Nevertheless.
can't allus mourn for Hammer, and must
take second wife to my bosom--I must
have some one to doat on"
She waited for him to finish, and then,
wheeling round on him, with her nose as
sharp as knife and her eyes winking
forty times minute, she Kissed:
"You dried-up old idiot, don't give me
any more such talk, or I'll claw your
eyes out!'
He fell back in lump, mouth open
and eyes expressing twenty-seven diff
ferent grades of amazement. It was full
two minutes before he knew what hit
him, and by that time the young wo-
man had started out to inquire about her
train.
"Thcrc goes person." began the old
man, watching her sail away-"there
goes person who will no sooner 20 to
heaven when she dies than I will 20 from
here to London tonight, and don't you
forget it,
He fell into dreamy state, and hardly
realized his surrounding for the next fif-
teen minutes. Then he was aroused by
the presence of a woman about forty years
old, who asked him if train left that
depot for Dayton.
"She does, she docs!'' he replied in a
heap, and at the same time hitching along
for her to SIT down. She sat. He was
only seventeen seconds forgetting his ex-
perience with the hatchet-faced woman,
He looked at this one, estimated her
weight at 1851 pounds, her temper at
mild and her heart at tender, and she
hadn't seen much more of him than his
feet when he tenderly asked:
Madam, are you going up in old
Kyhog?"
"N-no, SIR: she replied.
"Were you ever there?"
"No, sir"
"Well, it's q gorgeous county,, madam.
There's rivers, and brcezcs, and land
scapes, and mountains, and dells. and
waving forests. You ought to come up
there" .-.''
"Yes," she passively answered.
!. fright up in the beautifullest part of
old Kyhog is lovely farm. The house
is red, trimmed, with white. There's
knobs on the doors that cost shilling
apiece. There are carpets on no less
than two floors. Sunflowers wave around
the house, horses and cattle wave around
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