The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-13
TAE KICKING KICKER.
The Boycott That Didn't WORKS. Life
Worth Living

The following extracts are made from the
last issue Of The Arizona Kicker:
"TBEY BoYcorT Us.-The fact that we
have been running The Kicker pretty much
as we pleased since the first number was
issued has given mortal offense to certain
people in this neighborhood We have been
kicked. licked, pounded, threatened, shot at
and bluffed right along, and have grown fat
on it,
ave came to stay.
Fact is. we've got to. We haven't any
thing to go on.
"Haying tried all other measures 10 make
us let 90, and having failed ingloriously in
each instance, it was determined TO boycott
MS in a social way. We have been chuck a
luck with the very cream of society since our
advent In fact, We have been most of the
cream
1T was decided few days ago by syndi-
cate OF the high toned that we must be SO
cially snubbed and crushed Accordingly
Mrs. Maj. Bazoo, Of Grizzly Heights, an
nounced recherche affair and invited every
| BODY in the set but Us 1t was given oft that
she feared our manners would disgrace the
| occasion, anu III tney uiuht Oui 'iO'H''
would.
| 1--WE weren't saying word. We saw the
bluff and went one better. On the night OF
the party the sheriff made haul Of three
| high toned prisoners at the house of Maj
| Bazoo. while half a dozen others broke for the
woods. We have got one great advantage
over the other creams of society. We left the
east by daylight and shook hands with the
sheriff as we started We are neither a
bicamist, eloper, cmbezzler, horse thief, Jail
bird or gambler We don't want to work
| this lever unless some one jumps on our col
| lar We have reduced tony society over half
since we came here by giving the sheriff
pointers We can run the other half out of
/ town in a week Mrs Mai BaZoo has called
to beg our pardon and express her deep dis
gust with herself. We have forgiven her,
knowing it will not happen again. As for
judge CahootS, who inspired the boycott and
set the crushing machine at work, we bear
him no luminosity. We will simply remark
that he is bigamist, incendiary, cmbezzler,
forger, periurer and highway robber. and we
have dispatched Piakerton to come and set
] him"
"Our amiable and gentlemany sheriff Gil
tered our Office day before yesterday in his
usual urbane manner and announced that he
must serve papers on us 1t was notice If
| q breach of promise suit against Us by the
widow Clixby, who alleges that We have been
| toying with her heart strings, and that 1t
will take 5000 Of our cash 10 settle her
thoughts back i'll the old channel.
at is another move on the part of oar en-
cmieS TO down us.
1--WE first met the widow Clixby twenty
eight days ago in Carriers grocery She
asked our opinion of behring's, and we asked
hers of soap She invited us to call at the
| house and see some poetry She had written
on the rise and fall of the mastodon. We
complied We called there three or four
times afterwards, but only as friend. On
one occasion the widow showed us a clipping
from an eastern paper TO the effect that 1t
was better for a man who had passed the age
Of % to marry widow, if he was to marry,
but we didn't bite.
1--WE know our gait Ii the widow CliXby
can prove TO the world that we have toyed
with her affections we'll cheerfully go 10 jail.
| We are not on the toy. The widow viii find
us no jack rabbit, and the enemies who have
| encouraged this new move may hear some
thing drop before the trial is over"
"wednesday evening as we put on our
Mother Hubbard and sat down by the open
window TO get breath Of air before retiring,
| sadness suddenly stole over us and in a few
minutes we found tears III our eyes The query
came TO us over and over again; Is life
worth livingF and as We thought Of the old
| homestead-the days of boyhood-the many
grayes-the changes Of thirty years-the
fountains of the deep were broken up and We
wept.
"Such moods do a man good They bring
him nearer heavens gate. We don't know
whether they come from disordered liver or
the near presence of a guardian angel, but we
always feel heap better afterwards We
no longer feel q spirit Of revenge We have
no greed We feel charity for all
"And as the bright beams of the harvest
moon steal into our Office window and throw
food Of silver light upon the dead ads ON
the imposing stone-as the south wind comes
signing around the corner of Jackass hill
and whispers to us the story Of household
graves-as the whip-poor-w wakes from
his sweet sleep in the rear Of Stevens dis
reputable dance house to call TO US to press
onward and Upward and be not discouraged,
we take down the Office fowl, wipe the falling
tears away, and seek our couch with the de-
TERMINATION to secure a pass from here to
Omaha and return or make il so hot for the
railroads that they will have to keep every
tie wet all the year round Detroit Free
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