The morning news., 1893-12-31
PLAYING SEVEN up = ? =
FOR A WIDOW.
w. e. Lewis. in the ohioago Tanes.

1t was just thirteen year ago that we
has our Christmas weddin' at Springer" /"
said theRev. Thomas North. He was
sitting in the office of the Transit house
at the stock yards chewing reminiscent
cigar. more prop'ly speakin, we got
ready to have it. We was fooled, an it
was all on account of woman not know
in of her own mind. Ration has
the marryin and we has the laugh on us,
1t was a white Christmas, too, ana was
nohin' short Of a bird of a day for we'd
din or any kind of ascelebration fittin'
for Christmas, an the boys feel that bad
over bein' chiseled out of it that way
that it takes till'past New Years for the
heft of 'em to git sober-them as didn't
lose any blood. You cut a man or shoot
him some an he sobers right away. 1t
looks like the booze goes out with the
gore.
But wasn't amin to give you no
lecture on medicine, nor yit on the uncer-
tain ways of women, though | amt sayin'
that neither subject hasn't pints of in
terest to the observer. -.f
''It was like this: Out Of Springer
about ten miles lived the Widder Cave
She was about the only detached piece of
womanKind in Colfax county. The 9TH
ers is either married or too young. Mrs.
Cave hadn't been a widder always, you
bet. Her man was buried the September
before We planted Cave in shape. You
can string your bets behind that proposi-
tion, an win 'em one two. We sends
down to Vegas an gifts the Hot Springs
hotel band am reads all kinds Of burial
services over him, playin' 'em from
the Masonic ritual either way an aEcop-
perrin of none Which / alwers looked
upon it as exemplifyin' the public spirit
which has made Springer the lily of the
west In sayin' this l amt detractin'
none from the just an proper claims of
my own camp, which just now is Tascosa,
but do want to say that for pure an un-
defiled moonycipeal advancement an
push you strikes the fountain head of it
all at Springer Whether it's a lynchin
of two-card man or killer in 1880 to build
ing of young ladies' seminary in 1890,
you finds the Springer public sentiment
abreast Of the enterprise. am the people
is in up to the cinches from start to
close up
when man sIdead three months in the
restless, eager west he's been dead a long
time. Mrs Cave was some younger than
the old man. She was woman that did
you good TO look at She was what l
calls wholesome-lookin' woman, an she
could throw an brand a calf or hang up
side of beef as convenient as she could
pour tea. Many Time Sne'S packed old
Cave into the house when he's too full TO
even fall off a horse Na'chally speakin',
sich a woman as that want goin' track
in around single an no one chasin' up
her trail. She could have married forty
men in Springer alone, an as many more
in Ration, if She had been willin', and
there hadn't been popular prejudice
agin sich proceedin'.
'It was the day before Christmas in
1880, an Bill Siddons he drops into Bob
Stepp's saloon an he says in kind Of a
'to-who-it-may-consa way:
"'Gents, to-morrer / lows TO marry
Mrs. Cave, an you alls be an the same is
hereby invited to be present an, witness
the ceremony to the beat of your knowl-
edge an belief, SO help you God'
"Siddons onst plays a engagement as
deputy marshal at San Marcial an he
took pride an JOY In the correct way he
could reel of legal notices. You wouldn' t
know Bill now. He is stoppin' here at
the Transit house with me, havin' come
in with car load Of steers. AT that time
was a reckless, perishin' worm Of the
dust myself, an was engaged in dealin'