The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-04
sHARoN's sCRAPE.

sHARoN's sCRAPE.
h Pro Tenn. Husband OF MISS Hill liz
presses an Opinion of Hianself-His love
OF Poetry.
In person Mr.. Sharon's inches and
avoirdupois are atstrange variance with
the list of his bonds or the record OF
his loves. He is, to use a home phrase.
"a runt," says the Chicago Herald,
whose reporter interviewed him last
week. But if n peeps into his hat it
will be seen that it numbers II. His
legs, too, are stalwart, and his frame
compact. Mr.. Sharon's Grief charm
is his Mark Tapley-like jollity is the
face of adversely that some would think
even $40, 900 900 could not offset. Par
lor S held a jolly little party the day
the senator left for Washington. The
senator sat in his shirt-sleeves on the
side of the bed, swinging his short legs
and smoking a cigar. M. G. Budd, an
old San francisco acquaintance, but
now q Chicagoan, sat in o big arm chair.
Morrow, of the Pacific coast delegation,
sat in another big chair. With the
f%rankness or his kind and the training
OF q Pacific coaster the laughing 'tde-
PENDANT" exclaimed: 4Boys. it was O
scrape and a bad one; but, thank God,
I'm getting out of it. You fellows may
laugh, but what is 1.-THE poet Pope says:
Virtue she finds too painful an enacavor.
Content to dwell in decencies forever.
II admit it; I've been Indecent. But
I'd like to know what you fellows
would have done under the same cir
cumstances." /
There wasa painful silence, and MI.
Budd reached for the ebony stand.
"Yes," said Mr.. Sharon, at was pref
" tough to go on the stand admit that
| had been such q fool; but what are
you going to, do-be blackmailed? Not
much"
Somebody here suggested that per-
haps a couple of Thousand dollars would
have fixed the thing up.
oh, no; you don't know that crowd,'
said MI. Sharon. "In the first place
the woman was bad and reckless. I
treated her honorably, as the: world
would call it. I gave her o. splendid
income. But she wanted more. She
invaded my rooms; she pried into my
business secrets; she rummaged my pa
pers ;she stole my shirt-tail and buriedit
in the ground, with some wild sspook'
idea OF getting me to marry her. OF
course that would disgust any man. T
saw l was in. q box, and resolved to
fly
ely like . youthful hart or roe,
Over the bills 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
lit wasn't enough, and then shegot that
s%coundrel Nelson from Australia to e
on her suit. I could have settled It at
any time for $50 ,000-$1O, 0OOto her and
$40, 900 to Nelson. But not one cent!
Millions for defense-not 9 cent for
tribute"
but Senator said Mr.. Budd, "econ-
omy. You surely have spentmore than
that"
ITO date, yes, / should say SO, and
twice that. But / will not be black
mailed out of cent. i paid that wem-
an we'll. 1 gave her a small fortune. L
mean now not only to beat her black.
mail snit, but I will land her lii tie
~penitentiary. I shall have both herand
Nelson indicted for conspiracy, and
send them to state prison i'll can. And
| am not sure but I'll catch Tyler, too,
her counsel"
"But senator" said one OF. the party,
an old California stager, how did you
ever getinto such q snap?H&
And you ask that!p said the senator,
as he reached for the ebony stand.
What is it the poet Thompson says?s
saw her charming, but he sawnot half
The charms her downcast modosty concealed
who. could resist it2 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 a
month supplied" The obiectno is Ia
expose the conspiracy and5get the leaders
in jail l sent two men.toS Australia to.
hunt upNeilson's record, the fellow who
got Miss Hill into the litigation. /
found he had been convicted of forgery
there and sentenced to saven years
penal sersitude. I have. detectives
travelling over the country hunting up.
Miss Hills earlier a~ntecedents. I don't
care to crush the woman any 1nore than
necessary, but if it we're necessary we
would.show her to have. been, az Sadven-
turess from her twentieth year. That's
enoughto say. Oh, I've been ready for
herat every turn. What, is ii Pope says
IN the Wife Of Bath 2"
Il ~ .r,,E $3.50 aS EaE-NEGEgEE5