The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-08-26
GAG OF NO CO."

ny Walking 10 Gne END OF bn6 Ozark recess
In the mountain; and before they turned
back the place was named "No Go. !"
But gold was thereabout, and the stream
that tumbled down from the height pro-
vided water for the delivers pans.
Therefore "No Go" became busting
settlement, though it did not change it's
name to something indicative of its pros
perity. A stamp-mill was being built,
and machinery was beginning to take
the place of mems arms in the processes
of mining Some of the miners had de-
serted their cabins and taken to board
ing at the Spread Eagle, house made
OF planed boards, and containing o
painted bar-room.
Supper was over at the Spread Eagle,
and the mistress, leaning her back
against the bar and her elbows on it,
carelessly faced q crowd of her boarders
and others. A few of these rough resi-
dents of emo Go" knew that her name
was Agnes Brinkley, but the Brinkley
was hardly ever heard, and the Agnes
was In common usage shortened to Ag.
She was not over thirty, and her face
was not hideous. Her blindest friends
could claim nothing further for her
looks. She was six feet in height. her
form was ungainly and muscular, her
red hair was cropped like a mans, and
her coarse features were freckled and
weather marked. Her heavy eyebrows
were now lifted in surprise, for the bar
loom assemblage was not only larger
than usual SO early in the evening, but
the men stood in clump, instead of
sprawling over benches, chairs and ia
bles.
I'D like to be told what ye mean by
GRIMM an sneakin' round yer like q
pack o hungry wolves Ag said: "Yeve
had yer grub, hain't YEP"
The voice was harsh, but good-na-
tured, and the rude words were under
stood by all to be joose Her question
brought q hesitant spokesman to the
front. He went so far toward taking off
his hat as to push it to the back of his
head, and said:
'Its this way, Ag. The boys has
been thinkin as they'd like to give We
a kind O. testi-moni-yal, specially sence
ye had the bar-room painted. They feels
yer public spirit. Wal, it's come to a
head, an it's out thar in the wagin. We
did expec' to bring ledge Low up from
Pmkeyvllle to make q presentashing
speech, but he's got % hung jewry in a
boss case and can't come. So we'll les
have it brung right in, without no more
talk."
Some of the men went out and lifted a
big mirror from wagon in front of the
house. They had trouble getting it
through the doorway without scraping
che gilt off the heavy frame. Ag's face
flushed when she saw it, which might
have been taken as evidence of delight.
out her suddenly lowered brows and com
pressed lips would have warned the COM
pany OF an outbreak if they had not been
too busy with the mirror to observe her
Ahey leaned it carefully against the wall,
crowdlng IN front of one another to see
themselves in it, and then turned to-
ward Ag. Her black aspect drove the
tollity out of their faces. The last time
any of them had seen her look like that
was when she broke O pitcher and the
Plnkeyville champions head.
''Stan' aside" the spokesman cried,
with brave attempt at hilahty, ''an'
give Ag view of herself"
They stifly obeyed, cycling the en-
Gagged woman. She seized bottle Of
whisky by the neck with one brawny
hand and flung it with all her might at
the mirror, shattering both plate and
missile and scattering the beverage on
the wall.
'"Ihar's my feelin's, fully expressed, 9
she said, replacing her elbows on the
bar, swelling her broad chest and glar-
ing at the astounded miners. "Hevin'
been lnsulted in my own house I makes
torcible remark. The frames left an
We kin tote it right out, er I'll crunch it. "
why, Ag--" the spokesman began.
II never made no claim ez WASH t ez
homeiy ez a hedgehog" she interrupted,
and her short. bristling hair seemed to
be rising like quilts on the ugly beast
mentioned, 'an' / knowed / was rough
er'n the toughest of We. Very we'll
We mustn't make no sport of my looks,
however. Ye might o 'spicioned as
wouldn't take no such joke. A glass for
me to look in! Why, cuss We, why didn't
We have me photographed, an done
with it?"
81 sw'ar we didn't mean nothin' on
civil, Ag-all the hoysV sw'ar we
The spokesman looked around for con-
tirmation and support. aud saw that
those IN the rear were breaking quietly
for the door. It was plain that Ag was
in fury, and would not long control
herself. Bottles and glasses were within
her reach, and knife and revolver were
known to hang under the bar. A close
observer of her character had described
her as ''hell ON impulse" In her pres
ant condition she was extra hazardous.
The retreat became stampede when she
threw out her arm toward the weapons,
and she was left alone.
The retreaters came together under q
shed few rods from the Spread Eagle.
High indignation was profanely ex-
pressed, and proposition to mob Ar
and burn her house was received with
an enthusiastic "Hooray." But con-
sentative voice said that she was not
much to blame, taking the view of the
matter that she did, and it was a good
time for them to make an experiment. in
forbearance.
can what in thunder would we do Ell
the Spread Eagle was gone, an not
another bar III No Cor"
That remark presented startling
truth and no more was heard about
destroying Ag's house. Then somebody
laughed with an infectious cha, ha, and
the womans exploit came quickly into
favor as piece of rare fun. This view
OF the matter prevailed when Billy Wilk,
otherwise William Wilkinson joined the
group.
Billy Wiki was not too young to have
beard; his flannel shirt was as red an6
coarse as anybody's, his long boots as
heavy; and his soft hat as slouchy: vet he
lacked some of the accomplishments Of
his comrades. He could not swear as
glibly, he was constantly lapsing into
good English, and he could not drink the