New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-05-22

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He called on the schoolmaster next day
\ to ease his mind in regard to- an agricul-
tural problem which this had suggested
Say, profess" he remarked, {: I've bin
La readin' in Toms ioggerafy that the
yearth hez got a rot-tatery motion and
| thought I'd jest ak you ct maybe that
wasn't the cause of the pertaty rot e.
How Tom Marshal Gleareda Kentucky
Bar-RO0nl.
Tom Marshall was noted practical
eker, at all times and under all cir um
stances. An excellent story Of his abil-
ity in this respect is furnished by Mr.
Childs, of lexington. Kentucky. Mr..
Childs had just gone from the old town
of Harrod, who was the first settler Of
Kentucky after Daniel Boone, and the
chief inn in that old .'burghn was newly
exchanged for the Phoenix Hotel, of Lex
ing+on. In the new hands it grew very
popular: in part, because the best chicken,
ham and eggs, and S'peach and honey
| OF the Sta.e was to be found there, and
in part because sweet little Des, or Des-
demona, or Puss, as she was variouslyt
called, was the landlord s daughter.
Southern idlers of means are the
supreme loafers of the earth, but the ex-
tent they loafed to get glimpse Of her
was awful on the supply of chairs and
fireplace room that one hotel could offer.
Leslie McMurtry, very pale and spirit
ual young gentleman from the old place
of abode, was the worst OF these, and a
| young gent who comes as an unlimited
visitor and boards free at a crack hotel,
because Puss and I used to play hide
and seek out and under the beds, YOU
know" soon becomes tlresome The love-
| ~ girl soon had a friend and ally in Tom
Marshall. It was the day of Christmas
Eve, and deep snow had fallen, but
Leslie McM., had come in the Harrods-
burg stage-'.just to see how you arc, you
know, and brought a pretty lace collar
out of fathers store for Puss, we used to
play, you know, etc."
Desdemona, with red cheeks, was seen
to lie in wait for Congressman Marshall,
i at dinner-:able, and lead him away
somewhere. Afternoon has come. and
the great old-fasbioned fireplace OF the
sirtingroom was so piled with hickory
and maple logs, and to sit near it made
such an intense smell of burning panta-
looms, that there was no longer that chief
bore, who. to talk to you comfortably
stands between you and the fire. But
wide. as the half circle had to be, to pen
in that fire, it existed, and not another
chair could be got in, from jamb to
jamb, by any process of squeezing. Tom.
Marshall came in with his accidental sort
of way, bat popular as he was, and M. C.
too, not chair was hitched back one
inch to give him room. The day was
very cold, and every guest and loafer was
bearing all the heat that Kentucky Jeans
pantaloons could. Center of the arc, with
legs wide apart and smiling as if the
Phoenix existed on his patronage, was
Leslie McAi. Tom Marshall disliked the
lad, for he had once most unexpectedly
been foored by him. It was on the former
visit, and Tom had been swearing with
his usual extemporaneous profuseness.
Do you know God, Mr.. MARSHALL
Mot personally" said Tom, with a
wink around his admirers.
"Then l Think said Leslie Mem.
!" that you make very free with stran-
gers
Tom touched the landlord on the
shoulder, in that congeential way ALWAYS
understood to mean 6 Mint Julepsn in
summer and "brandy cocktail hot 2 in
this season. They went out and each
took something" Tin "a tumbler,) and
then Tom said: " Wouldn't you like to
clear out some of those loafers who never
pay dime to the house?'
Very much,' said portly Mr.. Childs.
Then you get mad and just cut up
strong at anything that l do, SAID Hon.
Tom
They went in, and Tom carried from a
table in the bar-room seeming grocer's
parcelin brown paper that might con
tain about four pounds. He squeezed
I into the circle at the landlords corner
and remarked as he kept turning about
to save his coat tails from scorching.
What a capital day for huntingr %
There was a chorus of assent, and
leslie Mem, who would as soon thought
of holding a live rattlesnake as a gun.
said "Ca-p-i-t-a-l; I have lust
bought four pounds of Dup Points best rife
POWDER" and he tore off a corner of
his parcel and poured out handful and
threw it under the fire.
/ An explosion followed that lifted every
Imam slightly from his seat and scattered
ashes all over the hearth with some live