Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-06-13

Can you reach?" his wife called
from below. She was busy kccning her
part Of the paste away from the ma
hogany table.
"Reach?' echoed Mr.. Wigglesworth,
in a concentrated voice, what We
s'pose I'm up here for, anyway Think
I'm addressing the county convention?
Want me to move an amendment In
favor Of woman's suffrage, don't YEP"
Then the hassock turned slightly, as
the worm Is said to do, and in catching
his balance and breath Mr., Wiggles-
worth jerked the paper out Of his wife's
grasp. The paper turneda smart corner
and tapped up against the wall and
chung in clammy and tenacious EN-
brace.
"What We do that for?' shouted Mr.,
Wigglesworth, as loud Us the uncer-
tain hassock would permit.
IL didn't go to-" returned his
frightened wife, and with what alacrity
she was mistress Of she unpeeled the
cold and dcathlike sheet,
Nov you let It alone, dye hear?'
warned her husband, and acting upon
his direction Mrs Wigglesworth re-
tired to the far side Of the room, where
she watched him In q species Of fasciu-
alton. This Is the tragedy that speedi-
ly unfolded itself before herr
Mrs. Wigglesworth, feeling more and
more the trcacherous character Of the
hassock, held his knees at that angle
which gives tocven the strongest mar
an appearance Of weakness. His arms
were thrust out to their full capacity
and, though at Q distance, Mrs Wig
ellsworth could feel their dreadful
ache. First, her husband pressed his
end Of tho strip close up to the bor-
der; the lower end caught on also at
the same instant but In quite another
part Of the room, and by the time Mr..
tv,o.i,,,.,o,tl. had ...aL,J ..,.l..i..
"'ss 'ea",." 49," 's".',. p"'n.us
same moment muttering something
hear. hut conldn,t distinctlv tho IN.
per end came away and tapped down
Having NOR. noste thsrs thon H. vifa
ia ,hon,h, onrla ha Ia, ~ 49, ta,a
hoad Il sinrls aftsrnoon NJ Wiz
r,aswnr,h,s cer n,onta ,,non NJ lsis .uo, %
action ~ hc irenyio,llv snatebsI a,
,ha roner WON. M, onlvy cla.r,,, MI;
Via e H. vita NJ, ny e wan nan"tr s ~ =
tho pe b;rsd Oil who nromntlv onanaJ
No L;tc,,on ,loor 70 90 Il * m;nh,
40. ha ,h,o ~ hoor .t;,, n,o;nor rh :
NJ Wioglssworth With M a,rras,
nass ,hatnoho5v oo,,ld avo;a na.:',."
snanked the nois, si,a y th m,s, ~ ~
auains, M w, au'Il md d, slammed II With
b6th hands iii the creation. ~ Auhr.,,
paords,au,s f,rov VIM al, 49, 4,
Dearasieys fancy ran all INTO each
other.
Now tx the lower end chirped
Mrs Nigglesworth from the distance.
This was one Of those things that
were better left unsaid. Mr., Wiggles-
worth had stood on that uncertain has
sock till his knees appeared perman-
emily fixed ut half-cock, his arms were
stretched clean out OF their legitimate
precincts, his head was bursting with
the hot air of tho upper strata, and per.
splration glued Ills garments SO close to
him that he appeared to have been
boru that way. When this gratuitous
direction burst cooingly from his wife's
liz, H.. f..tai, "a :, ,,..1 ~
lower end of the papor. and on tbs in.
slant the hassosl, W it'll n low iendisb
chuclsle, turns over on the other side
Mr.. Wiz rlesvorta had anlv TINA Tor
one cell hui IL vas full crown in ma,
paper letting E, 60 its hold ID an trans