Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-03
A SAD TALE.

self IN his Sunday School attire in
purple and fine linen, or cloth an.
preaching thereunto in fneness Of
texture and cash value, but when ba
went and gazed into the vacant hitb. |
erto abiding place of his Sabbath
suit' ne waxed very wroth and smote
the air with burning and potent words
foreign to the vocabulary of all Sun
oay schools that teacheth the com.
mahdment-" Swear not, for he that
monkeyeth with the forbidden cuss
words shall come to grief and his
days shall be numbered like unto the
hair on a bald-headed sinner" His
royal robes had gone, and he feared
the place that knew them would know
them no more forever, and the thought
caused him much pain and sorrow
and gnashing of teeth. They had
been gobbled, along with his dude
hat OF the crusher breed, tog ether
with divers and sundry other articles,
such as purple, imm acuate white and
other shades of socks, etc. The robes
had been gobbled, but who the COB
bier could be Mr.. Smith wot NOT.
About that time the sum of 81, the
hard shekels of Mr.. Upper, vanished,
and three or four shirts, the fine linen
of one John Jesseson. Now it ham
pened also that along with the wear
ing apparel of the aforesaid Chas.
Wesley Smith there disappeared
hair watch chain, and but for this the
gobbler never would have been COB
bled by the cruel hand of the Sheriff.
The chain proved to be giveaway,
and brought forth chain of circum-
stances that fastened themselves
around weary pilgrim. This should
be a lesson to US ala warning we
should heed while endeavoring to
make an honest living by gathering
up the wearing apparel and other
valuables that belongeth to or are
claimed by people who essay to put
| ~, ;re - E,o olo+boz D,o
and secure secretion of the gobbled
goods is the best policy, and he who
heedeth not the injunction shall come
to grief and the lodging house the
Sheriff keeps. 1t appeareth that at
the time the divers and laundried ar.
ticles of wearing apparel and the
glittering shekels vanished from sight
a man with pleasant face and winning
manners had been making pilgrlmages
from house to house wiring, and max
ing as good as new, chairs of all de-
grees of decrepitude that had been
placed on the retired list and were
drawing pensions for past services
The chair surgeon after few days
goeth to the holy town of Quartzburg
suburb of and hard by the classic
city of Idaho. The aforesaid chair
surgeon getteth dry and in order tc
keep up the system of joyful irriga
ton complained of in the Scriptures
he pawneth to Owen DAILY the afore
said chain so he could pungle forth
the lucre and not be daily owen the
dispenser of the irrigation fluid, anc
it came to pass that he receiveth OF
the chain aforesaid two big, brigh
. new dollars, and thereon he maketl
merry and whoopeth wild and dis
turbing war whoop in the hlthert'
quiet and holy burg of quartz, an'
the seriously sanctimonious denizen
, thereof were surprised muchly, ant
, wondered thereat. 1t came to pas
7 in the course of human events and
7 few short days that Owen j. (Jee
whiz) Daley loaned the aforesal'
watch chain (made of hair unto Chrl
Christopher Columbus) Spiegel, an
shortly thereafter Christopher Colum
g bus maketh pilgrimage to ldah
: CITY. Charles Wesley Smith meet
\, eth him and greeteth him, and gazet
at the chain. Charles Wesley di
o then and there question him closel
d like unto lawyer and getteth into'
nation that starteth Deputy Sheri
Z Carter TO the ancient city of Hogel
and he nabbeth the chair man wit
e the cruel hand with which unfeehn
s law provideth him and on last Tue'
y day night lambeth in the class
Il city of Idaho with his man and lodt
e eth hun in the house across the wa
n where board and lodging cometh fre
a and the weary are at rest.
!" Bright and early Wednesday NOR
It two innocent little kids, such as al
IS of the kingdom of heaven, straye
"a under Masonic Hall in the time hol
uL;da and UO seek