The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-11-15
On His Bridal Tour.

From chicago Times.
In the Palmer House lobby senOrOus voice
with marked Southern accent attracted atten-
ton to I; tall, grizzled-bearded man. He was
talking to some new acquaintance, picked up at
the bar or in the BARRIERS shop, and the remark
that attracted attention was this:
"Yes sab, old Henderson fed his cows on Stops
from the still house, and dinged if the calves
weren't drunk all the time"
His appearance half cOmical, half quaint, in
yited familiarity, and he was soon surrounded
by a number of men-StrangerS looking 1or
chance to guy some one. and thereby TO feel
more at home: country merchants and bearded
sheriffs out looking for some well-knOwn and
highly respected citizen who had doubtless
appropriated the cOuntry's money.
"Where are you frOm?" a merchant asked.
"Whar am from?'' Whar could SIGH man as
me be fromo I'm from Kaintucky. of course,
five miles from Mount Stirling whar they shoot
a man every court day. and stab Teller or two
whenever the grand jury holds session. Ever
down thereo Gods country. Grass an hOsses
and all sorts of things. Feller comes i'll thar
some time ago and got into row with the
county Judge and killed him, and blamed if he
want severely reprimanded. for he was
stranger you understand. The circuit jedge
gave him about as good a cussin' as you ever
heard a man git Told him right thar that we
didn't have any more people than we wanted to
kill ourselves; that times were hard. and that
we had no patience with an interlOper That's
exactly the way the circuit jedge put it to him,
and it served him right. too. He had no right to
come in thar shOOtn' folks
FOUND RELIGION UNREMUNERATIVE.
what is your name?' a sheriff asked.
".Jim Brent" Everybody knows me about
Mount Stirling Never hill an office. but sorter
took IL religious turn once and rid around tryln
to preach But p>haw. that diden't pay.
counted it up, and about all got for the work at
a six weeks revival that we hill in the Old Red
horn schOolhouse was three pairs OF home-knlt
socks and set of bed-tick suSpenders. con-
Guided that couldn't make a Twin at that. so
turned my attention to tralnn' fox MOUNDS.
Yes sab. and am here now on sort of bridal
I. tower
"Where is your wife?'' some one asked.
well she couldn't come very WE'LL so sot out
alone. / married widow. and jest about that
, time the Young chickens for the spring trade
begun to hatch and she lowed that she couldn't
leave home. SO away | come without her.
, reckon she is about as strrn' woman as you
ever seen, I've got grown son, and dinged il
she had been at my house two hours till she
grabbed him up by the britches and flung hin
Z over the fence. Yes, sab. powerful stlrrln
lady. I've had putty good time on this here
. bridal tower so fur When got on the train
n the conductor come round and asked me how
fur wanted to 90, and says |. jest as fur a.
s YOU do; don't make any difference to ne. 'Jes
keep on runnin and when you stop fur gOOt
r. I'll git off and not befO'.' He lowed that III
q train went to Cincinnati and told him to taxi
e me thar, and he did, and when l got thar
!. hoped on another train and told the teller e
e take me as fur as he went and he put me dow
s. in this town. And about now Pm gitt.n' sorte
q suspicious as to whuther l ever will git back t.
is old Stirling agn.''
= POLITICS QUIET ABOUT STIRLING.
n II suppose the political situation is quiet il
10 your State?" - , ,r,n, o,ton !;
III But she was lively for while. Want so Lively
H. though, down about Stirling. The folks ther
i'd are soberin down nightly we eHpec1ea ,t som som
10 disappointed. Along toward dinner Time 30
ut Sewer and Tom Dalton fit a little, and Tom ha
,e one eye gouged out and had to hunt around bt
. fo' he could find it, and Cap Hardin snapped
u pistol at Lit Powers. and Sam BriZzel choake
i'll Dan Radfel till his tongue lolled out. and M
AFT Pardue hit ALT Horn with Wagln spoke. an
- Watt Hill snatched out knife and cut hole
&c Tony Buck. but it want a big hole, and Day
If Martin knocked ye Moss down Dn6 me tS 500 30
g fun was nightly disappointed at the que. wa
> the thing went off, and SympathiZed with thel
sh and told them that it was all right, that time
" was hard and folks ought to be satisfied wit
70 what they could git; and jest then Teller name
w Nit Weaver comes up ana wants TO KNOW WIZ
at I've got to do with it, | lowed that had aDO'
no as much to do with it as he had and then we g
o mixed up somehow, and when they TUCK MI
% away he want as piert as he had been. al
y; shortly afterward some friend OF hlZn nande
to him one of his ears that he had lost in the fracu
ro Politics are about played out think. Wh
i0 dinged if | have found a DimOcrat since L lie
lis home. And this is powerful strange when yf
rs stop to ricOect that it want many days az
r.; when the DimOcrats owned the earth. well
LIS must be stirrin' round and git back home. Il
IN that new wife of mine won't know what has
on come of me. did think I'd step out sOmewhe
-. and win enough money at poker to pay TOR n
We tower, but they tell me that they lock folks
is for playin' in this town. have always nea
en- that Chicago was a tough place for a gentlem;
o., to stay in but didn't think that it could De
on bad as that Man has to be careful When ne
g- in a tough town. And that reminds me OF som
NO thin that took place jest after got on the ira
to leave home. / noticed nice lOOk1n' Tell
Sittn' not far in front of me and thought tn
in | knOwed him. but / kept on a Settin' thu
thinkin that l mOut be mistaken. Putty So
a school gal got on the train and set down a Il
= seats beyond the Teller, and the Teller look
at her a mint and then jumped off the tra
Then seed that he was Bill Owens. Yes, sa
and you bet he amt goin' to take no chance
-, Breckenridge mout not have improved the NOR;
Id of my community, but he has made folks
blamed sight more careful"