The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-26

wiped OF the egg and with it Some Of the
burned cork, so that during the rest Of
the lay he looked like black bronoho
with one calico eye.
AT last Little Eva, having seen
some angels who appeared to be about
northwest of where sat. in the gallery,
passed away. Mr. Sinclair sobbed in
the bedding quite awhile, and Uncle
Tom wiped his watch eye copiously. 1t
was n tough scene. All Mt once n dead
rat took Uncle Tom under the butt Of
the car and fell with nauseating thud
Oh the breast of the corpse.
on should have seen tho remains
hop out of her auction bed and flee
across the stage in her robe dc mutt,
which she had evidently outgrown a
good deal
81 heard her cursing Uncle Tom aft
erward for permitting the rat to fall on
her. thus knocking out the pathetic and
foot ong somble' of the play. 1t was Il
sore finale indeed.
The following morning l learned
that the company had sought to Jump
the town, as it was put to me. So
made bill and sued out q writ of at
tachment before myself, being J. P,
for the advertising had done for them
"The officer seized ono bloodhound
and a deathbed. I had long wished
to endow bed i'll the Laramie City
hospital, so l had Little Eva's death
bed Numbered, the omelets removed and
sent it to the hospital.
Tho bloodhound l kept for several
years. honestly think he tried to re.
form, but it was not possible. He
yearned for the applause of multitudes
and the approval of the press. Life in
my watermelon patch seemed tame to
him, for some nights no one came, and
then he would be taciturn all the next
day, sometimes biting an Old Subscriber
or Veritas or Taxpayer and causing me
great trouble i'll every way
FINALLY his mind began to wander
In fancy no was again chasing Eliza
and her little one across the frozen
stream.
Then with fiendish yelp he would
bound forward and bite at mark-a
birth mark if he could find one
''This went on that way for n long
time until at last he became unpopular
with the public schools, having thinned
ono day, us tho October weather hogan
to paint the willows and cottonwoods
along the streams and glorify the
sumac i'll the canyons, Othcllo, my de-
mented bloodhound, got his medicine
at the hands of one of my staff named
VoX Populi the calf of whose leg had
been severely fluted by my dramatic but
i'll guided dog.
He is buried to the eastward of
Laramie, OH the crest of tho first foot
hills near the grave of Big Steve, who
also died by request of many citizens.
Since then tho stage, though not so
often upheld by obscure parties as it
used to be, is greatly advanced and inn
proved, think, in the Rocky mountain
country"
Another correspondent, who is fool
ing with tho metallic baths and geo.
logical beverages ut Saratoga, wrote
mo i'll July to know what 1 thought of
buying up a lot of Saratoga chips ut
John Morrissey's old store and wait
ing for an advance during the racing
season. He says that he has scon the
Saratoga chip during the racing weeks,
when the market was very feverish, and
especially the blue and red varieties
very high.
It would he we'll to get feu quarts
or these Saratoga chips, no doubt, and il
the blue ones could be quietly cornered
Ill early July each year good results
might accrue. Do it by all means,
Amos, unless some ono else is quietly
doing the Same thing.
1t would Inc just as well, however,
to watch the papers meantime and SEQ
whether all the senator's are in their
places ut the capitol. Staple groceries,
like sugar and Saratoga chips. should
DO looked after sharply whom tho senate
is loose.
visited the senate chamber last wear
and had 80 lead pencils borrowed in
one day and never returned. While in
Washington eternal vigilance is also tho
price of the umbrella.
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