The Osceola times., 1888-04-21
All gentlemen attending this re-
oepiion viii be expected
10 wear q white shift.

"sThe inference was rs plain as the
pimples on Mrs. Judge Gildersleeve',
nose. They thought we hadn't white
shirt They thought we'd attend with
an army blanket thrown carelessly over
our shoulders. The object was to lei
US know that Mrs Judge Gildersleeve
didn't look upon us as knowing what
belonged to manners II was all right.
We didn't 90. As to whether the Gil.
dersleeve ring came out ahead opinions
differ. Our account of the party, head.
ed: Gathering Of Vultures. is still
going the rounds of the press. In that
article we proved Judge Gildersleeve
to be an embezzler and horse-thief.
and we adduced positive evidence that
Mrs. Judge was broken-down and
played-out fortune-teller who had been
compelled to skip from st. Louis.
The Judge called at the Kicker office
next day with shotgun. but when we
brought out more letters-proofs that
he had served time in three prisons,
and that Mrs. Judge still had the work.
house cut on her hair when she arrived
in Arizona, the Judge didn't shoot.
The Jackass Hill set next tried to
make us sing small. They got mad
because we weren't putting them in ev.
ery issue. Colonel Decker had two
shillngs' worth of repairs made to his
mule harness. and the Kicker didn't
notice it. Mrs. Prof rockingham
turned an old silk dress from topic.
bottom. and the Kicker didn' tcome out
with notice that she had received an.
other five-hundred-dollar dress from
Worth. Major Hornblower put q
porcelain doorknob on the front door
of his adobe. and the Kicker didn't
come out and list it as one Of the en-
terprises bound to bring in new settlers
and boom real estate. 1t was there
fore determined to down us. Lily
De Lisle. the red-headed daught.
er of the one-leggcd county
clerk. made her deJ'st. bat we were not
invited to the blowout. 1t was an ac.
tion intended to break our heart, and
we promptly cOuntered. ltwas on our
tip that the sheriff went up about ten
o. clock that evening and gathered in
two bigamists from New England, an
embezzler from Ohio and fugitive
from Chicago. all of whom were
looked upon as the cream of society
and were airing their frills and scol-
| Lone ~ tho craub 1e1lf
I'VE are here 10 stay. We put up
our own shanty with our own hands.
We board and lodge ourselves. and we
have not only got the cost Of our living
down so fine. but are getting our white
paper so cheap that we can mako
money on list of thirty subscribers
and three pages Of dead ads. We are
| going TO run the Kicker after our own
style, whether it pleases the bigbugs
on Jackass Hill or the half-starved
coyotes Of Poverty Hollow. While we
don banker after invitations to eucher
parties and church socials. we don't
propose to take a snub from any set
While we are willing to boom the
town we don't propose to sit mp nights
TO let the outside world know that
some citizen has added a bath-tub to
his dugout, or that some merchant has
| Just received fresh wad of bcd-tick-
ing.
There have been some hints thrown
out by the courthouse ring that we
arc to be starved out. Try ii on gentle
men, We are now fifteen dollars
ahead of the game, have paper enough
on hand for ten weeks. and our living
expenses last week footed up only
sixty-sevcn cents. We came to stick.
Detroit Free Press