St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-05-27
WITH HIS BOOTS ON.

stable door and our mule still kicking
Abe had died with his boots on. 1t isn'i
exactly glorious death to fall by the heels
OF mule. but it was the best Abe could do
He had become weary of this locality and
had planned to steal our mule and ride
hence. Itcost US s2S to bury the late de.
ceased, and il there are any more men
around here who want to die with their
boots on we hope they will keep clear OF
our mule. Abe was buried in a decent
fashion and with his feet incased i'll his old
brogans. We did it hoping it might make
him bit happier on the other side of the
great divide
WE CAN'T Do IT.-Three weeks ago our
esteemed fellow tcwnsman, Colonel White.
repainted the front of his saloon on Mouuis
avenue. Two days ago he stopped his sub
scription to THE KICKER because the inn
provement had not been chronicIed. We
understand that ex-J Judge Williams is also
down on us because we failed to mention
the fact that he had put down 80 feet of
board sidewalk. Six months ago, when we
changed from a local to metropolitan
Journal, we gave notice of change of pol
acy. In carrying out that policy we must
esehew such local matters as our laundress
scaidlng her left thumb Major Green set
ting out new hitching post, Colonel Clark
building kitchen to his house or the Hon
Joseph Burns cutting a new doorway at
the back of his real estate Office. We shall
even refuse to mention the receipt of tur-
nips, potatoes or butter sent in by our
country friends and well wishers. Not one
OF the great New York journals would
Jhlnk OF announcing that the editor had
been presented with box of celluloid col
n a hnft 20, IL,
some grocer had laid three bars of beautiful
soap on his table. There isn't a single
journal in Chicago, Philadelphia or Boston
which acknowledges the gift of a fresh
niince pie or chronicles the fact that the
popular MIR. Blank has extended his saloon
counter % feet and put in beer cooler cost
ing SIS.
He FOUND Us.-Just before noon on |
wednesday we received word by telephone
from Lone Tree that astranger who had been !
hanging around that town for several davs |
and making many inquiries about us had /
started for this town on a faded and wind /
broken mule. 1t was added that he had
two guns and knife and blood in his eve.
and that we had better look out When we
know for sure that a eritter is camping on
our trail, we feel like having if over with
as soon as possible. After dinner we mount
ed our mule and rode out to meet the
stranger We sighted him while he was
yet q mile away. He found us at about
the same time As soon as our mule. know
ing what was coming, began to ambIe and
cayort, the stranger grew discouraged and
turned tail When we got within 40 rods
of him, he vacated his mule and took to
the scrub, and while we are no physiogno-
mist it is our firm belief that he was bad
ly frightened man. We also disrnounted
and ran him for mile, but he seemed to
have an electric motor in each boot We
Brought his mule into town with us, but no
one can identify the beast. He looks like
a Mormon mule, but may have come from
the Bad Lands of New Mexico We shall
sell him at auction next Tuesday for the
benefit of the sewerage fund. We were
disappointed in the stranger, but of course
we can't expect things to always go our
way. He ought to at least subscribe for THE
KICKER for the bother and trouble we went
to in the matter.