Wichita eagle., 1888-10-02

urar, was opposin' ZEN. an'-wei, sorto
| helped 'em to meet. 'Twaa't my putt in,
| butt
"Yerel" cried Old Man Hydom, the APP
! pearance OF whose hard old face bruised
nose and dried blood had not improved
| That's neither yere nur yonder! H'ain't
nuthin' to do with givin' me the law on
Faint my putt in" interrupted Wicks,
shut l wisht you'd hold yore meuth, ole
man! Rot my putt id, but when Ohio. yere,
started over TO Hydo,n'o this Inornin' l sorto
! foliered along, KNOWN that he was goin' to
asst fer an take Bessie If he could. Wal,
was behind the sand piums when they met
! When ole man HydoIn come out, in a little
bit, thar was some right lively rarin' On the
| ole mans part, an, as hit WANT my putt in,
| stayed behind the sand phlms- Then when
| Ohio thar rared back an asst Bessie would she
! go with him anyhow, an she Jest putt her
hand On his arm en- srz, L willr she looked
SO much like Wei, then her father, thar,
| struck her."
Struck her!'
The words of the justice were almost a
| rear.
Eyes; want my putt in, an stayed be-
! hind the sand plums Ohio. thar, didn't need
me, fer be hauld off an Wal, look at the
| ole mans face. p
Enough NV this projicin'I1' cried Hyiom
! 81 want the law on
"An' you shall have h'itl" broke in the JUS
tice hoarsely. ''Srruck herr Seems like
Squire" said Weeks, ' faint my putt in,
but couldn't you marry couple that loves
each other, if some teller had lowed a IL
cense'd DO needed an brung hit along2
! 'Tw7a MT my putt in, butt
''Noln roared Cd Hydom. 'iIn-
The next moment Wicks was sitting astride
/ of Mr. Hydom, whose face was crowded into
the dirt and leaves in a shameful manner
''Spite Nv the objections Nv the girls
f1thers' asked Wicks
''If l didn't hear them objections"
To guard against the possibility of Hy-
donl's voice coming from the leaves and dirt
to the Justices hearing, Shores and Pottle,
the accomplished listeners, Snoved by COM
mon impulse, stood upon either side of Long
jim. Each had finger In a judicial ear
while the ceremony was performed that
made the clinging girl the wife OF the young
fellow from Ohio. q
'Hain't my putt in, !" said Wicks when the
released Hydo1l had risen to his feet, "but a
man who roaTs that away is liable to strain
HIMSELF"
The invectives and rnaledictions that the
blood and dirt covered man hurled at all
present did not disturb the eqsanimity of
any enc but the girl, who now chung
trembling to her newly made husband
''Pack yerselves out o the country quick
as tracks kin travel, fer I'll make hit too
hot to hold vel I'll never forgive We!
Pip
''Hydom," said the justice, slowly, ''you
wanted the law. Wal, the Revised Statutes
says that no man what won't fergive his
daughter that looks ike-wal, hit says he
sha'n't never fish in Red Hoss creek from end
TO end, an -
cam me an Shores an PottIe will back
the Revised Statutes, an see that they air
enforced" broke in Wiciis.
"You bet" agreed the renowned listeners.
''Never-ish-in Red Hoss-agina" gasped
old Hydom.
'Noap!'
Ten minutes later, after casting his eyes al
/ fernately upon his daughter and upon the
! placid, coffee colored surface of Red Horse
! creek, Hydom grunted out a reluctant for
/ giveness for the young couple.
esquire" said Wicks, 1--WE heard that the
| Revised Statutes have ben repealed"
''They have"
oval, good-by, Ohio!" Long Jim called,
as the young couple and Wicks and Hydom
/ were leaving, and Shores and Pottle were
casting their lines into the water again.
/ ''Never had no use fer Ohio, nohoEg, but I
/ wish you mighty welll"
"Why is he SO bitter against my staten tho
/ young groom asked presently.
''Wal," answered Wicks, him an Ire went
out together. an seems Hike hit was Ohio
/ soldiers we was allurs fightin', an hit was
Ohio soldiers that socked US into Ohio pris-
on, an'-wal, he h'aint had much use fer
/ Ohio sence."
''People say that look very much as my
mother did atmy aSe,' said Bessie, presently.
You do" answered Wicks. me an Long
Jin-wal, he was sorto half way engaged
to her when the war broke out, an we staid
in the Ohio prison so long everybody here
abouts lowed we was dead, an when we got
back yore NAV had married your paw, thar.
He WANT never so mighty pretty, either;
but womans"-
''Sho's buried On the slope in the shade Nv
the redbuds,n interrupted Old HAN Hydom,
/ gravely.
Il got married after a while" went on
Wicks, presently, ''but, some way, Jim never
followed my example"
AS the hook and sinker of Long Jim's line
entered the water with a gentle ''plunk,"
Pottle said, drawlingly:
Il reckon Wicks sorto loved that girls
mother long ago"
Me an him was PARTNERS then" answered
the justice. AN we both But whar was
l in my story! Oh, yes, as I was a-sayin'
when they organized the Lazy Mans club,
the season that the seventeen year locusses eft
up the crops, they 'iected Ike Rawson presi-
dent. Nobody else got a smell at holdin' the
Office. The badge Nv authority was big
Barlow knife. Wal, Ike was so lazy that he
wouldn't pack hit around. Tied string to
hit an had his little boy foller him about,
a-dTaggin' the Barlow"
The oft interrupted story was finished at
last, and Shores ard Po1tle, the accomplished
listeners, gazed solemnly into the coffee hued
waters of the best fishing hole in all Red
Horse creek, and, like patient Oliver Twist,
waited for more.
''She looked like her mother" they heard
I Long Jim mutter. Then tho capture Of q
( catfish concentrated the attention of all upon
tire business ~ hand-T. 7. Morgan in Frank
I Leslie.
Furnishing the Gods in China.
4 funny story illustrative Of Celestial sim
/ plicity Tor superstitionD comes from Foo
chow, il China. There is a joss house, or
temple, in taat city to which persons OF re-