The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-01-12

! laws of the machine closer and closer to-
gethcr. Six bands OF hoop iron are then
wrapped around it, and it is ready for market
Birmingham is the most remarkable city
In the south. Ii is more like booming min
ing town than anything else, and looks like
Lcadville in the flush times. When we rode
into the city it was n remarkable transition
! from tho old style of Alabama towns. Red
mouthcd furnaces yawned like sleepy giants,
and painted the solnber sky gauGy crimson
with their hot breath. Busy people might
have been seen here and there, going some
where instead Of waiting patiently for some
body TO walk around them, or looking re-
proaChfully 1T strangers who had been
brought up to business habits
Birmingham is Il young Kansas City, and
has city lots staked out SO far west, and Kan
saS City has 50 many extending east, that
there is really only a narrow strip OF ground
between the two towns and it Is being rap
idly bought up. \ new railroad connects the
two young giants, and few choice lots in
either place will be n good investment for
those who have become weary of putting
their money into Canadian tourists.
Birmingham reminds me SO forcibly of
booming mining town that ! remarked to Mr..
Riley, as wo got off tho train, that all we
needed to carry out the similarity was an
earnest lynching party In less than twenty
four hours crowd of 5000 people made a
party call to the Jail for the purpose OF ex-
tending the neck Of gentleman named
HAYES, but after twenty people had been
killed and wounded by the officers they re-
treated Several strangers who had never
seen q man lynchcd, and wanted to be able
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they got homo by telling about it, went to
the entertainment, returning later on by the
way of the undertaker's store
Mr. HAYES was man who had an earnest
nature and "A large red elm club, with which
he ever and anon attracted the attention of
his wife when he wanted to communicate a
disagrecable truth to her. But he would most
always feel real sorry about it afterward,
and one time after he had broken two Of his
wife's ribs in this way, he told her he could
see that he had perhaps been hasty and given
her needless pain, and he believed chat lie had
better divide up his attentions between her
and another woman, 20 that one Of them
could recover while he gently rebuied the
other
So ho married another woman, and this
created a personal feeling between the two,
for no tlTle wife can bear to know that her
souls idol is lavshing his kicks on another.
Night after night the first vito would sit up
all alone counting tho tagging hours, all the
time knowing full well that her rival was
getting all the largo blue wclts over the back
which had in the happy past been hers and
hers alone. They had two little girls, which
Mr. Halves was in the habit OF kissing in
public and kicking across the freside
occasionally, and so, when little
May was found lying dead on the
shore Of East lake, Mr.. Halves was
placed in Jail. While we wero in Birning-
ham the citizens Of the town dragged the lake
and found the first Mrs. Halves at the bot
tom, with q large quantity of railroad iron
attached to her. That was partly what Gre
ated feeling against Mr.. Hawes and 50 a
great many Of his old neiGhborS went up to
the all to present him with the freedom of
tho New Jerusalen, but they were foiled.
Several Of them were so much 50 that they
will never wholly recover from. its effects.
Mr.. Halves did wrong III the first instance in
marrying two women. When man marricS
two women he Is already on the downward
road "Ono wife seems TO call for another"
in such case, and then i'll feeling arises. Mr..
HAYES, of course, then tried TO Obyiate the
wife he had at first married, and now people
dislike him for 1t,
Mr., Halves made a mistake, also, in marry
ing II woman, anyway lie should have
married II southern hotel carpet, and then
little beating wouldn't have been out Of place,
though of course it might have aroused sus-
picion.
No man should accumulate family with a
view toward eradicating them as soon as he
becomes weary Of them and desires to become
the head OF another family, for whom he has
higher regard And so Mr. Halves is in a
very trying position Mt this time He may
wake up most any morning now, and find
himself in a ielons grave. This ought to DO
q solemn warming to little boys and girls who
may be tempted TO wipe out previous family
IL order TO become more solid, as | may say,
with recent one,
We are having good time scootiug about
over the country, changing cars two or three
times in one night, and in other ways enjoy
ing ourselves to the utmost We sleep days,
lecture evenings, and at night abandon our
selves to changing cars. At first we devoted
the first half of the night to orations BAN
quets and demonstrations, but now we have
quit. Having but one stomach apiece, and
having about six months of this tour looming
up ahead, with its prospective mirth, music
and quail on toast, we have register ed large,
hot vow on the hotal register hereafter to
substitute ON such occasions our new agent,
who has four stomachs and valise, together