Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-09-29
BEATEN BY A cow.
The Consequence Of Losing a Pair
of Pants During a Campaign.


souri, when he was running for Con
stable and how he was beaten. In
an unguarded moment he opened
the flood gates of his memory and
told the boys in the court house his
experience.
When he went to Missouri from
Kentucky everything in the country
was primitive. The people lived in
log cabins containing only one room,
and conducted themselves generally
after the manner Of pioneers every
where; but the methods of Office
seekers were the same there as in
more civilized communities.
Maxwell wanted to he Constable
of his Township, and to ingratiate
himself with the voters, would ride
around the county, stopping at the
different cabins and chop wood for
the old man, milk the cows for the
old lady, and after the outside chores
were done, 60 inside and pat the
| tow-heads of the children. Ere.
quently in order to effect a perma-
nent lodgment in the affections of
/ the parents, he would use his mus
tache upon the Shiny face of the
youngest born; and in all ways he
made himself SO agreeable and pop
ular that his election was considered
certain.
One evening just before nightfall
he arrived at a newly. built cabin and
found the lady Of the house milking
the COW. He assisted her in the
work CT putting away the milk, and,
meanwhile, learned that the husband
had gone to the river with a load of
hay and would not be back for some
days. However, conciliating the
wife was equivalent to getting the
husbands vote, and he determined to
stay over night and talk politics.
The cabin, as was said, had been but
lately erected, and all the cracks be-
tween the logs were not yet filled up
with the chips and mud with which
Jog cabins we're made air-tight. A
bed was made for him on the floor
on one side of the cabin, and near his
bed was Il large open space, through
which the air ct an Autumn night
blew with uncomfortable chillncss.
file did what seemed best at the TIM,
and stuffed his pants into the crack.
which proceeding kept out the Wind
and gave him comfortable sleep.
1t happened, however, that the cow
which he had helped milk the even
ing before came browsing around
the house, aud found the legs of the
pants hanging outside. These she
seized upon AS delicate morsel, and
probably passed a delicious night in
enjoyment of the forked portion Of
the garment. A piece cf cloth i'm.
pregnated with salty prrspiration be
ing deIicacy to which her appetite
had long been stranger. When
morning came and he began to dress,
he discovered that only enough of
his pants to pull on was lett, and
that from the extreme upper portion
of the thighs downward they were
utterly 6estroyed-not vestige re.
naming. The master of the house
was away wearing the only pair of
which he was possessed, and there
being no neighbors from whom to
borrow or beg, he was forced to ride
of Ia highlander, without the small
consolation of tartan and bag pipes.
The figure he cut when entering
the next settlement was the admira-
ton of the ingenious backwoods-
men, but it was rapidly limited
abroad by the opposing candidate
that he was trying to introduce
French fashions.
His popularity Immediately suf-
fered decline, and rather than sub.
ject himself to the ridicule which
would follow true version of the
occurrence, he withdrew from the
contest, and has looked upon a COW
ever since as possible factor in
county politics.
Silver City Dem Ocratic Primaries.
On Saturday night, after people