Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-07-17
The Ras, HOY.

OF raisons and walt Tor your pay tlil
/ draw my pension r
Pension II said the grocery man,
@what are you giving me? What
are you going 70 get q pension for IS
Holding horses for the cavalry
at the armory during the Milwaukee
riot and carrying baked beans, said
the boy, as he took q salt pickle out
of barrel. II was down at the ar
mory every day, and when the cayal
nv would come in from a scout
would hold horses, and when any
body wanted painful of baked beans
sent to The armory | had to carry
them. | suppose there amt a bet
ter bean carrier in this town, but
there is too much danger in holding
horses. / have got wounds all over
my feet, where horses stepped on
me. | asked the Governor if he
didn't think / could get pension,
and he said it wouldn't do any hurt
to make application. He said PEG
pie had asked for pension from the
government for less than being walk
ed on by horses"
DWELL, let me give you pointer"
said the grocery man as he covered
up the pickle barrel, and laid piece
of bar of railroad iron on top oft.
"You won't get no pension and you
won't get no raisons. But where is
your pa ? He hasn't showed up for
ten days.
ave don't know where pa is, but
we have telegraphed to several places
to try and head him off, but we
can't find him, He started for the
woods just rs soon as it began to
rain dead Polax, and he Is safe I'M
less he has run against tree. You
see, pa has been taking q good deal
of interest in the labor question, and
he has attended all the meetings and
drank some beer, and he has told
the men in the saloons that all they
had to do was To get mp and make
the fur fly, and the bloated capital
ist would cry 'penuck,' and grant
anything. He was in favor of di-
viding up all the money in the coun-
try every thirty days. He told the
Polax to go down to Bay View and
then the soldiers would run. When
they started to clean ont the sol
diers, pa got in street car to ride
down there, cause he was tired work
ing his jaw. When the soldiers fired |
on the mob, and the crowd began to
run, pa crawled under the seat of
the car, and just then the off mule
began to kick the tin dashboard of |
the car and pa thought it was artil
lery or dynamite, and he began to
pray and he crawled out Of the win
dow and run. The mob yelled and
pa thought it wuz after him, and he
whooped u up pretty lively for fat
man, and passed the Milwaukee Gar
den just as the police was clubbing
the mob there, and pa got hit, of
course, and he kept running. Ma
thinks he will stop when lie gets to
the Mississippi River, cause pa new
er was very fond OF water"
"By gracious, l am sorry your pa
has gone" said the grocery man.
"Not particularly because he owes
me for groceries, but | always hate
to see the head Of family leave
such great responsibilities on boy.
Now you viii have to support the
family, won't you ~
"Well, suppose l shall have to
do the managing said the boy.
:'But me- is no SLOUGH. She has al
ready got two boarders, and can
work q meat market man that | am
acquainted with for liver. Ma can
cook liver in more different ways
than anybody. She's fooled the
boarders three days on liver, and
they think they have had spring
chicken, la mode beef and spring
lamb with mint sauce. We have
got six hens and I am going to
trade my roller skates offor roost-