Telegram-herald., 1891-03-22

$40 -

-sss. Sol axa hozne Agsaa after n
onph- We nAd srveraI eminent men al
cur ba1a0es- The yenrllofa-sf, va
Was ~ have been ne hfs II the party
could not come. aud 80 | was invited /
had short notice. bat tat Is TIE lat Of
rrss greatness / clo~eted nyself with
fns SsuSy fellar's Guide for two hours,
and then taxing half hour with an
elocuuonlst was IN nne form, with a
good appetite, at q % p. IN Removing
a souch u sadness and gravy from the
back Of my dress eost I sailed forth
We had souse sherry IN the ante room
while ws took "a cur rubbers. and ths
dinner was very good indeed, barring
young man who had begun dining a ht-
Ito zoo early IN the Afternoon and who
was therefore about an octave ahead Of
the music ali the evening. He burned
OF one lobe OF his whiskers while light
ing nis cigar, and it smelled so that
three OF our guests went home httle
lOpslded and cast down. SO did the
young man
tie reminded nae somehow % Young
and budding ass used 10 know, whose
father was At one time governor OF a
western territory. The governor did not
know any too much. He did not know
hardly anything. Sometimes he would
almost know something. but would be
come nervous and forget what IL was.
''Once he found that he would have to
receive q great man offi<ially at his man
sion. and his wife WA away. She was
on a westbound trtfn which would reach
the capital at abSnt the time of the re-
ception- So tss wired her, care of the
conductor, Laat she must arrive in full
dress
But low,
''She decided at once, for she was a
woman OF decision. even If she did nc
look well in full dress. She went 10 tn,
express car and asked 10 be alone. The
eSpressman said wherefore. She said
she was the wife OF the governor of the
territory and would be alone. She de
sired u dress. He hesitated but left,
telling her that when the train got 10
Antelope he would have to open the car
to let OF deceased party who was billed
10 THAI place. She said she would be all
nicely dressed by that time.
But she was not. Being woman.
ard rather gothic also, she was delayed
somewhat, and as the train rounded &
sharp curve (of its OWN now and then
she would fall out of her party dress
and have 10 climb back again and tuck
in shoulder blade or two ever and
anon.
80 when the train got TO Antelope,
and King Solomon's Temple Lodge, r.
A. NJ, had come down to the depot 10
take charge Of the remains Of the
deceased brother. it found highly
middle aged lady dressing IN the car.
and holding long. tan colored wisp
of hair in her teeth, while she held an
other wisp straight up and groomed it
with wire brush.
The Masons had band also, and
while this oompah-oompah orchestra
played dIrge and the expressnan hand
Ell ont the package for Antelope he kept
his back toward the dressing room. 1t
was sad sight. On the one hand were
death and the trappings of woe; on the
other. i'll concealed charms and the trap
pings of a reception. But it showed nerve
and frmness, among other things, and
the incident is still referred to by old
timers and pointed to with pride by old
settlers who glory in the days when even
officials were ready at all times to &C;
upon an emergency.
Speech last night. say. ............. $40 %
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G1iance out ......................-. 20
Brot forward .............. ....... &c
so to date l am square in the whole
deal. though have placed rather a mod
crate value on the bon honsme and rather