Bent County register., 1888-12-29

| pihihe case 10 ull Ter my DIM
ner." said dilapidated man, as he
came into the office.
lizard luck this summer?"
"You. bet. Just walked INTO town.
Say, reckon | can get chance 10 snb
on something few days?"
"oh, yes, good chance"
81 amt had no luck since / had
paper of my own when l first struck
the Territory"
what made you quit the bust.
ness?n
Monkey work. You see there
was prominent citizen of the place
and heavy advertiser named Beasly.
He went east to get complete new
stock of bar fixtures for his place of
business. One day while he was
gone another prominent citizen. who
took six copies of the paper and sent
them 10 friends whose name was Ne
Cam, was seen on, riding with Beas-
ley's wife. l thought it would be
thunderin' smart to write it mp an
boom the street sales of the paper,
though there'd never been a copy
sold on the streets since it was start
ed. So wrote column an cou
pie o sticks fall asful sensational
an smart. an then went an set it
Just fore slid it into the forms /
kinder got TO lookin' at it an won,
derin' thought I'd get somebody
else's opinion. So 1 showed the
proof to Jim Tanslewood Jim read
it and laughed an snorted till
thought lie would bust, and then says
he chuck it in Then let Hen
Clark look at 1t an he couldn't
more'n half read it, it tickled him So
Then he looked up an says he: Old
boss, that's blame good-sock it in
showed il tos lot more lcsdin' cit
liens and they all lowed it was a
good joke on old Beasley and Me
Cam. an that Mrs Beaslev would
he ,ickled go death over 1t. The only
'isinp ,hes ass,iei in was some said
h1 ( K ip,' AMI some, sock i, In
I .hc'ies~. ihongh, old man Perkins
the as- the principal Of the school)
Bid san. '>hoye her in An Elder
glodaeti De WAS ouly minister
Sunda,,) said. 'young man, play IL
on 'em - 20 right ahead with vour ra,
KILN an I'm cussed ef / don't stick
part of it into my sermon ne1r Sab
bath
SO | went back an hung the chase
round it and drove in tn. quoiDs
with the stove poker an jabbed some
Dutchmsn into the ads an swore
little, an h'isted up the forms am
sponged off the bottom of 'em with
my SHIRT sleeve, an pnt 'em on the
press. Then | planed 'em down with
a piece of fioorIn'. cussed the boy
'cause the roller wouldn't distribute,
an jerked the old lever, cussed more
when saw the paper an laid it On
the dry goods box l used for a stone.
'Just then Mccain came in an
lowed he'd read that funny business
bout him. While he was gettlp'
through it (he read mighty slow, bu;
a blame sight better'n I wished he
could) jim Tanglewood dropped in
an read 1t like he'd never seed it be-
fore an shook his head an said it
might be funny but he couldn't see
it that way, an he lowed that Ne
Cam wouldn't when he got through
it. Then Hen Clark ran through it
an looked gloomy, an wanted to
know eff il was too late to take out
his ad. that week. He said to stop
bis paper anyhow, he couldn't stand
no such scandal. He reckoned Nc
Cam would rip when he got through
it. Old man Perkins an Elder Blod-
gett put their noses up in the air an
p'inted at McCann an made big
motions with their arms 'sif they
were tellin' me TO look out when he
got through.
Well, when I got bout forty, pa
pers printed-I reckon, mebby the
edition was half or two-thirds off
Mccain got through, an looked
round sort O. mixe:i-up like. Quite
q n Il Il,