Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-03-29


last Jung orater nonse ~ aa6
ssd. Lets put : belT foqad neek- =
The kunvenshun rheesed, Aout@d
apIaws. When silents was Eord =
ole mice gct np. and Sc n sller-
mice, who's 70 lie The bel q n ell =
Now, teller-sitiEsns. I ask. wh8s uoin
% abnlish Hell = HoW j. Il s. b doaes
AEf. L6ngnekkev sBeeested we Ret
kannun carrige, 1000 a1 bah,
zSd skuEg Z she'll ElIsd with y ssT nnd
splode IT rite in The niddle oi Tom
Tolal sed, let's boFry Nigsfy week
and tnrn the water 0n i. - fize
diffykulty, . moshnn wss ed
sek0nded 20 fekonsiEIdef o. xnsH. Il
Vas csrrid By 80 foF. 10 aginst. Mr.
Longnekker, Mr.. Kloppef. tise four Mr..
Blotes, two. Mr.. Germans and the two
Mr. Totals. Sec I. the vote to rekun-
sidder IS carried 10 the next proximo.
Being 20 much disapinted in the fust
vote, and seein what eEfeck my speech
had, sed Friends and feIler-sitizens: :
The sechun queshtun is of more impor-
tants than the furst. ft i, shall Mr..
Aikyhall King be bSuished from the
kountyi I'm opposed tot. I've knoBe
,Mr. King foF 40.yeaFs.s ! have rasteld
with him, and have got him Down twice
IN successin. wo0ldn't try him The
third time, becaws he got better and
better. new if rasteld with him the
third time he'd get me down. He is
not more than oae-f forth as strong as he
was 40 years ago. And yet he is able
to contend with Cola, the AnakIna,
Cyclops and Briareus at one time.
They may get him down at furst, but
he wsll get thrm all down If they con-
tinue the skullle. Severil times Betsy
is bin sick tpor thing, she couldn't heip
II, and Just about the time Mr.. King
would happen in. He would prescribe
like Doctor, and poor out sumthin
from bottel and say, give this to her
Il win do her good. II did,, Wunce
we had baby We thort was ded. Mr..
King give the old wamun who was wa
tin on Betsy sum stuff TO put on the baby
and the baby cum 10 life, Is z years ole,
and / wouldp,t give him for Beecher
and aif The uiher aooIiisl:sners ia the
world. Air ySd reddy3 for The quesh-
tun Z All who are 10 favor Of banishin
Mr.. King from the kounty will pleas
say I. Here Mr.. fetal asked ifhe mite
say q few wurds. Assent bein given,
he got upon the bale-box with me, Just
large enuff for two to stand on. See
he, 'tDe-eer beluvid brethren. I'm tuth
and toe.nail aginst this Alkyhall King.
II say banish him. I've bin drunkard.
never got dFpnk except when this fell
Ter made me get 30. or on hard slider.
What say you, Bruther Longnekkef, and
you uther brethren - The nine am
serd, we've all bin drunksFds. and that
feller King was the caws Of It." "Hear
that" seq Mr.. Total1 "No gentulman
would vote TO keep such teller in the
kounty." Inevef was much of Gus
sin man, becaws / didn't iern young.
But was mad, and l put il on him as
hard as | could. Sec !, s'd.ot yor irs-
fernally pictur," and kicked him of
the box. Sec i. ."I'li put the queshtun.
All who are in favor Of banishin Mr..
King will please say r.. Feeble sound,
I. San who are opposed to II please
say no. "A treEenjps shout went up,
mo-" A .connt showed 10 for; 90
aginst.. Just at this moment Mr.. Alky-
hall King came Id with lis carpet bag.
When told him what The meelin was
for. and what the vote was, he smiled Q
httle, aud sed !: "Puritanism's bound 70
crop out wuace in a while. Beecher
hates me. Don't think il anything 10
destroy family happiness and 10 kill
with = living death. But, gentlemen,
come let's take Nip :" The bar
keeper set il out, and we nipped, 80 Of
Us. Lookin around for such IS had not,
he spide the 10 brethren standin in a
corner. Not wushin 70 call them out Of
their names, he sed, Friends, wont you
take Nips" Mr.. Longnekker waved
his hand grsseiully and sed, "Tetch
not, taste not, handel moi" ''WeiI, :"
sed Mr.. King, "I've sum mintspies in
myIssck. perhaps goo rDuld eat them"
The 10 answered in the Affirmative. So
Mr., Kiag tpok ogt 10 pies and gve b
them. They sed they was rite nice,
but hsdD't quite enuf sesunipg. With
that. Mr.. King took out pint bottle
with "Helichsher" ritten on II, and pord
il on the pies. Then they sed they was
nice. Alter torkin and latin about Is
mInIts. Mr.. King sed, "Cum, gentle
men,flefs take anuthsr Nip" We all
excep the 10 brethren, went up and
nipt agin. Ms. King ls kind hearted
feller, and seein the 10 brethren still
standid of 70 themselves, went toYem
and sed, "Frends, amt got no more
mintspies, but here's lofe Of bred"
and as he sed It, be took from his car
pet bag Iofe Of bred which looked as
IL il might have bin baked from the
wheat that Joseph bort when Farryo
got skeered, because seven poor cows
swollerd seven fat cows. But. indede,
IL smeit rte nice. II had bin In good
kumpany. IL was cut, reddy, into ten
slices. Mr.. King kummenced al Mr.
Longnekker, be bein the spokesman of
the brethren, and then to the others.
BY the time. he bad given the tenth
Slice, Sumbody bollered, " choked--
Longnekkef 90 I've alwiz herd that
800 many kSoks spiIe The broth. and It's
q fact. IL theer had bin but one 10
strike Mt. LongneEker "a the back, The
bred wOsld have cnm dp or gorn down.
II Vas Mr. L6nghekker's own fait, for
he put himself in pC~ishun forit He
stood peFrendickalef on bis hine legs.
put his hodd n horry yzOntle posishan
and Jet bis arms hang down. which gave
him Nnm1&puhat ahp snnNrarce nfa kan0.