The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-12-07


There is an old woman on Catharine
street who delights TO find a case that
all the doctors haYe failed to cure and
thea go to work with herbs roots, and
strange things, and try 10 effect at least
an Improvement. A few days ago she
got hold Of a girl with a stiff neck and
she offered an old negro named Uncle
Tom Kelly 80 cents TO go TO the woods
and bring her a hornets nest. This
was TO be STEPPED in vinegar and applied
to the neck. The old man spend several
days along the Holden road, and yester-
day he secured his prize and brought it
home in a basket. When he reached
the Central market he had a few little
purchases 10 make, and after getting
some tea at a grocery, lac placedthis
basket on a-barrel near the stove and
went out TO look for a beef-bone.
1t was a dull day for trade. The
grocer sat by the stove rubbing his bald
head. Ills clerk stood at the desk
balancing accounts, and three or four
men lounged around talking about the
new party that is to be founded ON the
ruins of Democracy. II was a serene
hour. One hundred and fifty hornets
had gone to roost in that nest for the
winter. The genial atmosphere began
to timber them up. One old veteran
opened his eyes, rubbed his legs and
said it was the shortest winter he had
ever kno VII in all his hornet days. A
second shook off his lethargy and
seconded the motion, and in five minutes
the whole nest Vas alive, and its own
ers were ready 10 sail out and inyesti-
gate. You don't have TO hit a hornet
with the broadside of an AK TO make
him mad. He's mad all over ell the
time, and he doesn't care n picayune
whether he tackles u humming bird or
an elephant.
The grocer was telling n of the men
that he and Gen. Grant were boys to-
gether, when he gave a sudden start Of
surprise. This was followed by several
other starts. Then he jumped Owe a
barrel of.sugar and yelled like Il Pawnee.
Some smiled, thinking lu Was after u
climax, but it wa only a minute .cfore
a solem old farmer jumped three feet
high and came down to roll oyer a job
lot Of washboards. Then the clerk
duckel his head and made a rush for
the door. lie didn't get there. One of
the other men who had been looking up
and down to see what could be the mat
ter, felt suddenly called upon to go
home. lie was going at the rate of
forty miles an hour when he collided
with the clerk and they rolled on the
floor. There was no use 10 tell the PEG.
pie in that store TO move on. They
couldn't tarry, TO w 'em. They all
felt that the rem was too high; and
that they must vacate the premises. A
yell over by TIE cheese-box was
answered by a war-whoop from the
showcase. \ howl from the kerosene
barrel neal the back door was answered
by wild gestures around the show
window.
The crowd went out together. Uncle
Tom vas just coming in with his beef
bone. When a larger body meets q
similar one the larger body knocks it
into the middle of next week. The old
man laid around in the slush until
everybody had stepped on him all
they wanted to, and then he sat up and
asked:
"Hav dey got the iiah all put out
yitg"
Some of the hornets sailed out doors
to fall by the wayside, and others
waited around on top OF barrels, and
baskets, and jars TO be slaughtered. 1t
was half an hour before tho last N
was disposed Of, and then Uncle Tom
walked in, picked up the nest, and
said:
"Mebbe dis will cure de stiffness in
dat gals neck, jist the same, but | tell
you I'ze got banged, an bumped, an
sot down on till 1t will take n hull midi
cal college all winter long to git me so |
kin Jump off n street-kyar,,n