The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1891-10-01

with being . guest at the Copeland
and reporting crops In fine condition.
10 the Slate valley, but he was never
interviewed by Q real city reporter.
He wondered what the boys ut home
would say when they read IL. He
would have stayed with the reporter
all day if,he had not q heard man
behind him say "PIumb's comet"
"Plumb's come" ."Plumb's come"
passed around the lobby like 3
talismanic signal. And the colonel
Joined the procession that was head
ed toward the senator. He was a
little heavier aud q little paler than
the day when Col. Hucks voted for
him In the legislature, but other
wise he was unchanged. He leaned
forward and took the old man by the
hand and put his hand on his
shoulder. al hear you've been help
ing Polk pass the force bill. colonel,
said the great man smiling. "YOUr
pension comes all right now, don't
it? Did you get that horse book
you sent for? spoke to Rusk about
1t, and he said he'd answer you.
Why, hello there, Jim, how are
your" and the colonel found him
self explaining to the fellows around
him how he had written to Plumb
for one Of Jerry Rusk's horse books,
and how he had got q letter from
Rusk saying that they were all out
but that m m m and the hum OF
other voices drowned his own.
At night when Plumb was on the
rostrum Col. Hucks was tired, AMI
his applause, instead Of being what
the papers call cloud aud cOntinu-
ed !" was of the kind which mods the
head and nudges the man sitting
next him and claps the hands. He
followed the senator pretty closely
and when the speaker alluded to
those ION whose hesds have fallen
the snow which never melts," the
colonel had caught his eye and the
pathos of the remark brought the
moisture to his own. After that the
old man nearly nodded his head off
with appreciation. When ice Ady
roasted the alliance the colonel felt
rested and his royal whoop led the
applause and its echo was the last to
die when the speech closed.
When he got back to his county
seat the next day he hunted up the
local republican paper in whose
columns that week appeared this
item:
Col. william Hucks, the war. horse
OF Center township, was in town last
week on his return from the state
republican league convention and
made this Office a pleasant call. tul.
Hucks has been training with I'll"
alliance for the past eighteen months
but authorizes Us to say that h- j.
back in the fold and hopes that the
ninety and nine will rrjnic'' with
him. Uncle Billy raised tue biggest
crop Of wheat ever raised on SLATE
creek and his 200 acre corn field was
sold by him this morning for SIS All
acre. He left the wherewi'hal To
pay for one years subscription Ia
this great family newspaper. Uncle
Billy, you're daisy here ourGF
As he drove into the yard That
night he noticed his old regimental
flag waving over tn. door. Inside
he saw that "mother" had brought
out the pictures OF Grant and Sher-
man and Lincoln which she put
away last year and had hung them
in the best room with little Link
faded blue soldiers cap In the Gen.
ter Of the group.
"Did you have nice time at To-
peky, William" "Yes, mother,
and after a little pause he added, ~
he looked at the little cap and at the
flag, which now and then tapped i'm
the door, ian" say. mother, his soul
goes marchene on"
For Col. William Hucks was never
what you would call q soft man
wiz A. White, IN Eidorddo RepUb-
EcUn