The morning news., 1889-05-09
3en Butler Badly Bothered.
From the Washtnoton Post


II was up at state fair at Manchester
n. H., said ex-Gov. Warmoth of Louisiana
| the other day, away back in 1873. 1t was the
usual sort of a New England fair-au agri
cultural horse trot With brass band and political
speeches. Ben Butler was up for the speech
Tne audience was on the grand stand, one side
the race tracS, and Ben Butler and the rest of
us big guns in the judges stand on the other
side
" 'Fellow,cittzens OF my native state. began
the bold Ben, i shall address you to-day on the
subject of federal, state aud municipal taxa.
ton.
Butler sailed along and had got we'll warmed
up when corn-fed farmer drove along the
track with twenty yoke of oxen and cart piled
up with corn, pumpkins, and other farm
products and couple OF buxom country girls
on top He was proud of that turnout and
took his the getting by the grand stand. OF
course Butler had to stop till IL got out of the
once more. BY that time another farmer had
got jealous of the impression the first one had
made, and he came iee-hawing down the track
with thirty yoke of cattle and still bigger cart
loaded away up with big squashPs and pump
kins and four slaShing looking red.cheeked girls
on his load. each oue holding a red ear of corn
in her hand Well that outfit m de a big sen.
sation on the grand stand and attracted mora
attention than Jim Robinson driving a twenty
horse circus chariot woult OF course Butler
had 70 stop again He was getting mad.
Can't this thing he stoppedT lie asked, I
don't want to be headed Off bv every Jake in
New Hampshire who wants to make a holy
show of himself
so some one was sent of no the track TO
stop flu ther Interruptions, and Butler got along
a. far as hfthly. and was getting red ia the face
wnen what should come along the tra:k but an.
other caravan. This one had nearly forty yoke
of oxen, every one o seven footer, as sleek as
bulls and as fat as butter. The cart was full OF
ample butter, schoolmarms, and tie grant STAND
knew them all. and went wild with delight To
say that Butl-r was mad would be useless. He
got bis eyes almost wide open.
ana ,F fzfa
shows come along, said he I'll leave the plat
form. will be Id If am going to be bro
ken in upon every ten minutes
This time a messenger was sent w the track
who headed on all the rest of the procession
and Butler went along swimmingly for a quar-
ter Of au hour longer when a big brass band
struck up back ~ the grand stand. II was
visiting band from somewhere up state: IL
thought 1t was some pumpkins, and it Just put
in and blew for dear life Lord, what a noise il
made But Butter wasn'r going to be phased
by Dig brass band even II twothirds Of the
crowd were cranlns their neckS for a sight II
the music ans. just Ell the ire bells over In
Manchester sci up an Internal clang- whaugns
ana every engine IN tn city bad paraded ont
into tue fair grOu dS Down the track they tore
al full speed, one after another, fires up. smoke
rolling ont OF ths stacks, bells changing. and
horses laying their bellies almost on t1e ground
while avery boy in Manchester chased along
behind yelling like demons, and the Rra ID
stand nnibling over each other 10 see where
the ire was
That was tho end Of it. Butler tore up bis
notes aud danced all over the platform. blue
with rage, and swe ring like "a trooper, while
climbed down behind the stand where | could
laugh"
A SMART GAMBLER Al Port Costa, by the aid
OF loaded dice and an electric battery hidden
bene lth the table, turned up skies whenever he
pleased. aud was On the high road 20 winning
fortune when the police raidci the place
Hoods sarsaparilla Is peculiar TO itself