New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-05
The Trouble Bill Bracs Made.

The Trouble Bill Bracs Made.
The Old Settler saw the Sheriff look
ing at one of the circus pictures and
laughing rs if he would burst. The
picture was that of an elephant and
camel walking side by side, and man
on horseback following them. I.
Said the Sheriff: ''That picture put
me in mind of the time that Jim Stark
went down to take care of young Bill
Brace when Bill had a spell of the i'm
Jams. That was the funniest thing that
ever happened to Pike County, but l
hadn't thought of it in ten years, and l
had to howl.
maybe it's twenty years ago, and
maybe it's more, but anyhow, young
Bill Brace, after turning a good farm
and three or four of the best horses
there was in the county into Jersey rum
and absorbing the most OF it himself,
somehow or other got the jim-jams.
They took him home to his old mans.
The old gentleman kept u tavern along
the river road, and never let anything
bother his head much, and no more did
the old lady. They took young Bits
little indisposition as q matter OF course,
and got along with him we'll enough for
day or two; but when he got to in
sistine that the old man was a snake
| which it was his bounden duty to club
to death, and that the old lady was q
| surperauous kitten that must be
drowned, and forthwith proceeded to
perform his duty with singleness and
tenacity of purpose that nearly TIL.
umphed, they concluded that he had
better be handed over to more vigorous
and persuasive methods of treatment,
and they called in the hired man and
the neighbors.
"Jim Stark, who lived all over the
county, happened to be in that locality
about that time, and he volunteered to
90 and sit up with young Bill at least
one night. Jim was II little given, once
in while, to taking a drop too much
himself Believing that he wouldn't
have very pleasant or quiet evening!
with his patient, he thought he would
take small vial of nerve-fortifier
along, and he did.
"I'hey had young Bill in q front bed
room of the tavern. on the ground floor.
The house was built close to the edge OF
the road. 1t was y warm summer 5
night, and the front window was raised
to it's full hight. All the folks in the
house went to bed and left Jim alone
with young Bill. The patientwas com
parativcly quiet, and jim began tC
think he was to have y pleasant watch.
''Tcn o'clock hatl passed, and, with
the exception of an occasional howl,
and the emphatic expression of the be-
lief that the room was full of fighting
cats, young Bill had given jim no un.
easincss. About - o'clock young Bill
gave q yell that would have scared 9
panther into fits. Jim was laying back
in q chair, in the act OF strengthening
his nerves once more. He turned rounc
and saw Bill sitting up in bed, staring
wild at the window. Jim looked in thai
direction himself If Bills yell would
have thrown a panther into fits, tho
one that Jim gave would have killed il
stone dead. There, with its heat
showed through the open window, ant
with its trunk waving slowly to and fro
and its ears Hopping, was an elephant
and at its side stood u camel. In les:
than q second Jim was in under the
bed, yelling murder at the top OF hi
voice The hired man slept over head
and hearing the noise, rushed down
The first thing that met his gaze wa
the elephant and the camel. Then HI
thought he had the jams, and with :
terrible howl he went out Of {: bacl
window and made for the barn. Th'
uproar awoke the old man and woman
and they came tearing into the room
The elephant and camel were the frs
things they saw. They tumbled owe
one another in their haste to get out
and added their bowls to Bills, jim s
and the hired man s.. The old lady 60
out of the house and ran mile up tn
road to Granny Cusword's. Sh
aroused the people there and yelled:
''Don't come out or you'll git EN-
I've got 'em, the ole mans got 'em
Jim Stark's got 'cm and the hire
mans ten! We all got 'em O. Bill
Who under the blessed canopy'd
thunk they was ketchin? Don't com
out, an I'll kinder hide in the wood
shed!
! "Well, in the midst of the excite
ment at the tavern, 4 man on horse
back rode up. He soon straightene
things. You see there had been 4 Gil
Gus down to Stroudsburgh, and it ha,
pulled up at night to come on to Milford
The elephant and camel had bee
chained together, and the keeper rod
along on horseback He got tired an
sleepy, and just before he reache
Braces had fallen asleep in his saddle
His horse had turned into Braces barn
yard and stopped, and the elephant an
the camel went on. Seeing the ligh
in the window, the elephant went to in
vestigating matters and gave the Who'll
house the jim-jams." Ed. Mott IN n
Y. San.