Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-22
A Race for n KjsS.
Row NEVADA WOMAN CURED HER HUSBAND OF
TIPPIING

"A Race Tor n HiSs.
Row NEVADA WOMAN CURED HER HUSBAND OF
TIPPLING.
Prom ths Virginia City Enterprise.
butter pedd!er from Honey lake relates with
great glee how neighbor of his was cured of
too frequently tipping the gin bottle. This
neighbor married a young, handsome and
spirited lady. and for month or two all went
well in the house and about the farm; then the
husband fell back into his old tricks The wife
demonstrated and for time the husband re-
formed Presently, however she became salts
fed that the bottle tipping was again going
on. When she spoke to her husband about the
matter he sw0re that the aroma she detected
was that Of collie medicine he taking, he
having developed most intractabe collie, for
the relief of which he had brought home and
paTadCd a bottle of medicine.
The wife was confident that there was kent
somewhere about The premises a considerable
store OF very different Kind of medicine She
kept her own counsel. and at the same time
strict watch. In a day or two she discovered
under a maDger IN the barn the secret hoard
She said nothing of the discovery to her nus
band.
Soon after the husband lad business at a
neiehnors some two miles away On his return
ne was somewhat surprised at seeing a note
pinned upon his front door He hastily ad-
VaIfced and read as follows:
Ben: You Will nni the key az tie house where
You Keep your colo metcinh- / nave taken Kitty
and gone home TO my mother Father md brother
BOD Wi! come Tomorrow for the trunk in which 1
have packed my things. NELLIE
The husband rushed TO the barn. At glance
he saw that Kitty his wife's mare and the side
saddle were gone. Darting to the manger he
hauled ont his corpulent demijOhn of gin and
suspended from its neck found the key OF the
hor
:, Iring the key he sent the delniiobn whiz
Zln- aud crashing against post of the barn
Bounding forth he ran to and mounted the
horse he had left standing in front of his house
Away he dashed. IT. was ten miles to the
house OF his fatbeT-il-law and he was deter
mined to overtake his wife before she could
Teach II or Kill a horse in the attempt
Said the butter man: Now | seed Ben's
wife come over the hill. half mile south of NV
house en- her little mare Kitty, and begin to
perform sOme queer abOlutions After she'd
got over the brow o the ,lil she paced up an
down the road for time; then she rid up and
looked over the ridge for a while After Iookin'
a bit she turned about and rid up and down
the read few times; then went up to the brow
o the hill again. So she kept dom and once
or twice she got of and led Kitty up to the top
of the kill.
waitin' for somebody, or mad lost something
while on her way to her fathers place some
four miles beyond my house. | was Just about
to walk out that way when l seed her wheel
to ply her whip.
I'm half minute she was fyin' past nv
place like wild woman. l stood at my front
gate by the roadside, ready to holler out at her
TO Know what was up but, bless YOU
she never looked toards me- Her ewes seemed
sOt in her head. her face was pale. and at eyery
jump she let into Kitty with her whip. | swar
her ridin' skirt fairly cracked as she bounded
past
''Jist then heerd tremendous clatter be-
IN. in
over the pitch of the hill on his big black boss
like a wild COmanche. He was ridin' with loose
reins leanin away for ard and diggin' his big
spurs into his horse like he'd rip his insides
out.
HE passed by with hair and coat-tais saln'
back in the wind and never turnin' his head to
Fight nor left. l Thought seed murder i'm his
eye. l tell you, million thoughts went
through my brain in a second All the stories
I'd ever heerd about jealous husbands and in
sane husbands ent through nv head i'm lump
and DO believe il I'd had my gun in nv hand
I'D have taken wing shot at him on suspicion
II see Nell look back once and then lay the
whip on Kitty hotte'n ever Ben was goin like
the wind. knowed Nell was headed for her
fathers. and seed plain a. day that Ben would
get her fore she was safe landed.
''At last he was upon her 1t was then neck
and neck for a time, with Ben reachin' out for
horses gradually slowed up till they finally
stophet- l. mounted my gate-post all of a
trembie. expectin' to see somethin' dreadful
HAPPEN
They stopped in the road talkin' nigh onto
half an hour. then seed Ben lean over and
Nell lean over till thar two heads come together
Nv hat the mischief says l. 'kissin' instead
OF KILN Well. that sort O fracas gifts me,'
Alter the head-bumpin the pair turned about
and came slowly jOggin' along back
"As they passed me called out to Ben to
know what In the living lingo it all meant
Ben began to stammer something. bout half OF
which never got out through his big beard,
when Neli sings out to me: Only a race for a
kiss. and giyin Kitty a cut that made her
bound ten feet, she called out to Ben: Come
On. race to the top of the hill for another,'
and away they both went
That was five year ago. and never knowed
the meann OF that wild, harun-scarum ride till
bout three months ago. when the story bout
the collie medicine leaked out among the VIM
men folks. For a good while after the ride
hoWsuIneyer. remember OF the neghbOr men
wOnderin what had come over Ben that-he had
smut down on his gin all of a sudden. and
wouldn't so much as take glass O. Oregon
cider.
ITO this day NO doubt Ben thinks he had a
desperate chase after Nell and narrer escape
OF her gittfn' into the home den long with her
DIG brother, her father and his mother-in-law:
and sc never said a word to him bout how she
fooled long under the brow o. the hill"