Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-06-27
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sHARON's sCRAPE
| 1hs PRO Ten. Husband of nzixg Hill 81
| presses % Opinion 81 Iiuaself lovs
of Poetry. Vi 81;
| ia person MI. S sslhar On & inches md
aypirdu pois are at strang yaria nee with
the list OF his bonds or the record soi
bis loves. He is, to use d home phrase,
4 runt, I says the schicago Herald,
whose reporter interviewed him last
week. But if one peeps into his hat il i
/ will be seen that it numbers f.. His
legs, too, are stalwart, and his frame
compact. But Mr.. Sharon 5 chief charm
is his Mark Tapley like iollitys is the
face of adversely that some would think
| even SIC, 900 900 could not Offset. Par
Tor s held jolly little parfy the day
the senator left for Washingt ton. The
senator sat in his shirt-sleeves on the
side Of the bed, swinging his short legs
and smoking 8 cigar. II. G. Budd, an
fold San Francisco acquaintance, but
now a Chicagoan, sat in q big arm chair
! Morrow, OF the Pacific coast delegation,
sat in another big chair. With the
frankness or his kind and the training
|sof q Pacific coaster the laughing de
PENDANT" exclaimed Boys. it was "a
scrape and bad one; but, thank God,
I'm getting out of it. You fellows may
laugh, but what is it the poet Pope says:
r s.Yirtue she finds too painful an endeayor.
I Content to dwell in decencies forever. 4
! II admit it; I've been Indecent But
I'd like to know what you fellows
| would have done under the same cir
cumstances. .ss5 j..
There was painful silence, and Mr..
Budd reached for. the ebony stand.
/ - X es, said Nh. Sharon, lit was pref
! by tough to go or the stand admit that
had been such q fool: but what are
you going to do--be blaclS1nailed? Not
much" s
Somebody here suggested that per-
haps couple of Thousand dollars would
have fixed the thing up
"Oh, no; you don't know that crowd"
said Mr.. Sharon. "In the first place
the woman was bad and reckless. 7
! treated her honorably, as the world
| would call it. gave her Il splendid
income. But she wanted more. she
invaded my rooms; she pried into my
business secrets; she rummaged my pa
pers she stole my shirttail and buriedit
in the ground, with some wild 'spook'
idea Of getting me to marry her. OF
course that would disgust any man. I
saw [ was in a box, and resolved to
ay--;
100 ely like youthful hart or roe,
4 Over the hills where the spices grow.
I gave her $500 to call it square.
That WAS right, wasn't it, Jones?"
Senator Jones nodded.
"Well," continued the defendant"
s'it wasn't enough, and then she got that
scoundrel Nelson from Australia to egg
on her suit [ could have settled it at
any time for $40 ,0O0--$lO 900 to her and
$40, 000 to Nelson. But not one cent!
Millions for defense-not a cent for
tribute Is .fs
''But Senator said Mr.. Budd, s'econ-
orny. You surely have spent more than
that"
''To date, yes, / should say so, and
twice that. But [ will not be black
! mailed out Of cent. I paid that wom-
Ian we'll. gave her a small fortune. I
mean now not only to beat her black
mail suit. but will land her in the
penitentiary. / shall have both her and
Nelson indicted for conspiracy, and
send them to state prison if I can. And
am not sure, but I'll catch Tyler, too,
her counsel. ~
z'ssBut Senator" said one OF the party,
an old California stager, how did you
ever get into such snap"
''And you ask that" said the senator.
as he reached for the ebony stand.
What is it the poet Thompson says?"
she saw her charming, but he saw not hall
| The charms her downcast modesty concealed
"Who could resist it? I read the
Maid of Athens to her. She melted;
then the kiss, snatched hasty from the
sidelong maid, did the business. What
ever might have been lacking, $500 q
| month supplied" The object now is to
expose the conspiracy and get the leaders
in jail. I sent two men to Australia to
| huntup Nelson's record, the fellow who
got Miss Hill into the litigation.
found ne had been convicted Of forgery
there and sentenced to seven years
penal seryitude. I have detectives
travelling over the country hunting up
Miss HIPS earlier antecedents. j don't
care to crush the woman any more than
necessary, but if it were necessary We
would show her to have been an adven-
! turess from her twentieth year, That's
enough to say. Oh, I've been ready for
| her at every turn. What is it Pope says
ID the Wife of Bath :" a . u Is
| THE mouse that trusts to one poor hole
Can never be a mouse OF any soul {" =. .L
Il And as Mr.. Sharon quoted this gem
I his eyes shone with delight, and he in-,22
Nted his friends tot ebony stand.
Spare That Tree.
KS The waste of forest wood on this con-
[ tinent has been shamefully e1trayagant.
Forty years ago wood was very plenty,
land to the. farmer every tree was an