The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-14
OCCASIONAL TALK.
GHOLsON AND INTER
MEDIATE POINTS.
Two Good Men Troubled by the
Buzzing of IA Nee 1--WE Nights
spent with the Wen with the
HOe-KindIy Treated,


Mr.. News MAN:-Did l tell you e
bout my trip up the river? | dom
mean Salt river but the Brazos river
Wal if | didn't | now will | went vi
the Dallas road till got ter the forks
and thar | took the fork that goes W
ter Ghoson Valley. met er few ole
rusty cusses" on the road and bother
ed EN- by sxing EN- whar they lived
The..fust man Nv any big self import
snce that met wus Joe Smith, the
Democratic leader in Chalk Bluff. He
amt no kin ter Brigham Young's Joe
Smith but he loves women just err bout
as well. When drove up ter the
house Mrs. Smith left the premises.
She said the reason she dun it wus
cause she thought | wus err book
agent. l don't no had anything err
bout me what looked Ike err book
agent. If she bad err said | talked
like er book agent would
er said she alluded to my lying quail
ties Torreckly Joe cum up with er
hoe on his shoulder and er long face
in frunt Nv his head, fur it wus gettin'
monsrrous dry fur rain. Joe spoke to
me like | belonged ter him and spoke
ter him like wus orful glad he didn't
belong ter me. He axed me ter stay
all night and l fooled him by doing
it. All the time | wus thar Joe wus er
fitting er bee what WIS er buzzing
Ground his head. 1t wus an office
persuading bee. The bee wanted Joe
ter run fer county commissioner, but
Joe didn't give the bee no satis.ac-
ton while wus thar. The only thing
Joe wants the Office for is an excuse
ter cum ter town. His excuse ulster
be the lodge, but the lodge folks bilt
er lodge house close by and cut Joes
excuse into right in the middle. If it
wusn't fer lodges lots er old married
fellers would suffer fer ex.
cuses ter leave home at mite.
But | staid all mite with Joe and wus
treated nifty good by him and his'n.
| always get better treatment er way
from home that | dus at home, Next
early | started fur the other
cod Nv my journey, travelled over
roads what never travelled before
and may bee never will any more
God knows. All er long the road the
husbandman wus er fighting old Gen.
eraI Green and his nifty hosts. saw
OTIS Nv women working in the fields
in the hot sun. 1t made me feel bad
but not bad er huff ter make me get
ou' and take their place. 1t made me
think er nu her thought and it wus
his. That no man should marry er
girl and take her from her parents
house and take her ter his own and
make er Roman slave out NV her. If
er man cant take care Nv err woman
ike she ought ter be took care NV he
had better let her stay with the
Did folks. But 1 went
IN revolving in my mind the vital is
'ues now sjitating our people. Ter
'ectly | got ter the Aquills creek. L
want ter say that the commissioners
,ourt deserves credit for erecting SIGH
substantial bridge over that danger
Jus stream. Its er good strong bridge
and will be thar when sum dr. US amt.
Many beautiful farms greet my eyes
On both sides in the road. On and
IN | drove till l cum to Uncle Billy
Umberson's house. Uncle Billy
surely had not read in the Bible er
bout that Teller that built his house on
he sand and the rain descended and
it er way Or If he had read
t dun like lots ar US fellers dus-dis.
regarded examples. 1t wus er bout
lime fur the woman in the kitchen ter
ing the dinner bell so / got out so
Gould be thar at the ringing. So |
got down and terrectly Uncle Billy
sum frum sum whar, he said he wus
rum the field. We talked and talked
md all the time we wus err talk
ng l noticed Uncle Billy |
making some familisr gestures
When | came to find out he was both.
red with some kind Nv er bee that
Toe Smith was-Uncle Billy useter be
county commissioner, but he worked |
20 hard ter straiten crooked roads that
lie got crooked his self and his con.
tituency twisted him out NV his Office
Now ha % fryipr 20 o.o.zI Ill Wy