Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-11-22
Sno o n. t,ro hundred dollars.

'Snore, says Beardsley, that's pat
terotic, and its munifel cent; but no
it won't do. There's got to be SOM
degree of popplearity. Since l fore
closed on Tim O'Rian I've lost m,
hold on the Irish element. though
o'runnin' Jones, but since his darte
got the deestrict school away from
Wright's darter there's been split il
the party. No, Snore, the issoo lie
with you and you only, and you mus
meet the Jedge' a L..
'Beardsley', says /, amusin' mysel
by taken last desprit measure, iii
considerin' a canderdate for any offiae
we must consider his qaalerfcaca
tions for that Office. My extensive
business responsibilities and dootie'
as man of property has not as We
given me no time to pay much atten
ton to the art of penmanship.'
'Snore,' says .Beardsley, 'ef you
can't ,orite you can talk
'Wa'al, gentlemen, there didni
seem to be nothin' further to be said
cancus was held, and / was nommera
ted; and after positively refusin' the
nommernation, my onwillingness was
declined, and l was acknowledged to
be run, after the usual form.
Gentlemen, there was various rea
sons why that campaign was calker
lated to be clost one. For more'n a
year young Hec AspiDwall, up on the
mountain, simultaneous with Mar
Junior here-Jedge Marlborough's son
not to speak of our little Parson
Waters and an ondefnite number oi
others, had all been a-holdin' court to
my daughter Fairblow It's singer
Ter fact, gentlemen, that before l mar
ried the present Mrs. Bacon, although
the town was full of purity gals, lively
and interestin' creeturs, she was the
one sought after And jest so it was
with our Fairblow. By the time that
gal got to be sixteen years old she was
so primmatoorly handsome and smart,
and so deuced faseernatin' in her ways,
that her ma and me-whose boodwar
adjnes the parlor-on Sunday nights
in especial, almost despaired o. keepin'
on her till she come o. age. But on that
pint Mrs. Bacon was strong, Fair
blow bein' our only child-which
Mrs Bacon on one occasion re-
grettin', Mrs Bacon says /,
madam a woman that has raised
sich a darter as that has done her
dooty'
'Ofall the pursooers of my darter's
affections, l was inclined at one time to
think most fav'rably of Mari Junior as
well ballasted young man-though a
member of the Dimmocracy-and car
rying an old head for business. But
Mrs. Bacon-and to me, gentlemen, a
woman's penetration in such matters
will never cease to be surprisen'-Mrs
Bacon informed that if Fairblow ever
consented to any of 'em, it would be
to our young Republican, Hec Aspin-
wall Your reasons, Mrs. Bacon
says l, and her reasons?' They are
proberbly jest as foolish, Snore,' says
Mrs. Bacon, resortin' to that playful
mood in which Mrs. Bacon and
myself sometimes INDUCES, as them for
which 1 married you.'
'Wa'al, Hec was as handsome dog
as ever you see, as tall and straight as
a Norwegian pine, with black mus
tache a-swoopin' down under as
straight-cut nose as ever adorned a
stattoote, but somehow it seemed as
though Fairblow had fairly took a
notion ag'in him. She had a good
word for Mari or Waters or any o. the
rest, but when it come to Hec, he was
too big or too rude or somethin', and
always a-fushin' up at him as eff she
was mad when he come in, until swan
sometimes felt like takin' up on the
young mans part. Howsomever, the
dog was puffectly able to manage his
own affairs, mind We, and there's no
KNOWN what might a happened, eff it
hadn't been for Mrs. Bacon's super
material instinct as to how things stood;
and in spite o. Marl's wooin' and Hec's
threatenin' and little Waters's whinin',
that unparalleled woman put her foot
down strong that Fairblow shouldn't
leave her fathers house with no man
till she come o. age.
1T chanced that Fairblow was jest a
dawnin' into her eighteenth year,
gentlemen, when l competed with the
Jedge on the campaign before mention
ed Il; aud it appears to me that it was
the very night of the caucus-a singer
larIy beautiful and starlight night,
gentlemen-tbat Mari and Hec and the
rest on 'em was a settin' around in the
| parlor afterwards, and Marl and Hec
was givin' it to each other party sharp
on polertics, and a-gittin'omcomftably
warm, teasin' Fairblow as to which
she'd keep company with on some per.
ticker occasion, until by-and-by the gal
fushes up and gives sort of Now
dare We p look to Hec, and says she,
'Of course | goes with the winnin
I party !! And the mint she'd said it she
give Hec the first sorry look that ever
| see but Hec stretches himself up
And so you shall, Fairblow,' says he
And so you shall, Fairblow,' says
little Mari; and them two simultane
Gus riz, and went out.
Gentlemen, in the campaign tha
follered, wherever see fit to lend an
old friend and constituent dollar, th'
Jedge lent him two. Where the Jedgt
lent two, Hec lent three. Where lie,
lent three, Mari Junior lent four, leavin
in many sech cases consid'able sur
plus of five dollars to be supplied b.
myself. Where / sought popplearit.
with the Irish element by six months
release OIL G foreclosure, the Jedg'
sent a new image over to the Catholi
church, say nothin' of attendin' papa
services four weeks regerlar with hi
} wife and darters. Where l obliged
= neighbor by the temporary loan of
hoe the Jedge accommodated with
spade, which responded to by ploug
on my part, the Jedge in turn reciprel
5 Gated by hoss-rake, until the Jedge'
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