Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-06-20
mr.. LockWood's Grievance.


ter few vigorous sentences, and put it
I watched him for day or two; and
It last he saw me looking q him. He
said: go s@sNA "a ~ II % q : rssssA .
II reckon you think am excited about
something2 WellI ami I am going out to
Salt Lake 10 kill . man." !
an aeedl How terrible!ss What's the,
matter4" - Z 60 ~ / Z -
swell, you see-by the way, do you
know Jim Stebbinss"
ammo! I think not"
y ssWcll, this is the way it came about;
Twelve years ago jim and were friends
and whenI got married jim mad me q
present Of the most splendid silver cake
basket you ever saw in your life."
That's not what you're going to kill
him for is it2" . ,4zs g&2
"Of course not! And felt so grateful
that took him by the hand, and said !:
Jim! III give you 8 cske-basket as hand
some as that whenever you're married, -
sure as my names Jonathan Lockwood
Made him a solemn pledge, you know.
sDid he marry subsequently " SIS:
"Marry2 O thunder! Let m6ten you :
About year after he went, to Utah and
became Mormon. Within a month he
sent me cards for his wedding with Han
nah Watson. So went sout, bought q
sublime cake-baskct, and forwarded it by
express. Two weeks later he wrote to
me to say that Hannah's sister; Ethelber-
ia, had been sealed to HIM, and he asked
me out to the wedding" -
''Did you .;o9'' 80
mo; but sent him another majestic
cake-basket. But hardly had a fortnight
elapsed before Stevens telegraphed to me
that as odd Mrs. Watson, Hannah's and
Ethelberta's mother, seemed SO. lonely,
now the girls were gone, he had conclud-
ed to annex her also. He promised to
send full particulars by mail. That night
a third Respondent cake-basket went
West III charge Of the express company,
"You have paid him three to one, then2'
"Three2 Wait till I get through. Well,
I heard nothing more from him for q year
or two, when one day cards came for his
marriage with Louisa G. Carboy. I was
pretty poor about that time, and hardly
able to make presents to anybody, but
had pledged my word, and so out went
another imposing cake basket"
"Did he get it?"5
Is NHo wrote aud said his darling Louisa
Thoughtful was Beautiful and he added q
postscript, in which he mentioned that he
had arranged for etfecting further con
solidatioa on the following Thursday with
Helen Montgomery oBilkersham, relic Of
old Bilkersham, the popular hatter.'''. 81
Nni0 WI, rncnOnf1 %
II did. I borrowed some money of 8
friend and promptly forwarded the most
stupendous cakc-baske l could buy
But at the same time wrote to him ano
asked him if he didn't think it was almos,
time to knock off. He replied and said he
was sorry had such narrow views o.
,natrimony, particularly as he had every
thing ready for another marriage on thu
following Tuesday with Mary Jane VIII
berforce, charming girl with property.
''You didn't send one to her, did you?'
''Of course! couldn't break my word
She got the most impressive cake-baske
I could lay my hands on. Well, Stevens
didn't stop there. That was two years ago
He has married eight times since, and
have come to time promptly with tn,
tCdhe-DdShttS. wen, SlIs tlAItc udyS dtEeO
received notice that he was going to mar
ry again."
"Again9"
Yes, again That, you know, lets hin
out! What does the man mean2 Does b.
suppose I own a cake-basket factory
where they turn EN- out with a crank
Does he suppose that have mine wher
we excavate cake-baskets by the bushe1
Has he got an idea that cake baskets grow
on tree, and all I've got to SO is t.
knock 'em down with apole when they ar
ripe? Why, he's an unmitigated asst AM
as he won't let me off from my promise
I'm going out to massacre him: You un
derstand? Inless than three days there;
be dozen or so widows in Salt Lake go
4 ing to see man named Stevens buried !!
| Then Mr.. lockwood turned gloomil
away, sharpened his knife again on hi
boot and relapsed into silence.
| 1t soas little hard on him, thin]
myself.-Mar. Adeler.