The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-07-18


BEARD.
BY permission s. S. Mcclure
sonal satisfaction | can only say that
he is the fust man that was not salts
fed with squoezin MY hand. If this
should not answer, there is one thing
more l would do rather than get a lick
i'll. | have all along expected To die a
widow, but as Mr. :. is rather good
lookin than otherwise | must say ]
don't care if we compromise the matter
really, Mr. Printer, | cant help
blushin--but lit must come out-I-
but widowed mCdcsty-w if / must,
| must-wouldn' hc-maybn snrtcr let
tho old grudge drap if | was to consent
to bc-be-his wife? | know he's a
fightin man and would rather fight
than eat, but isn't ma,1yin better than
fightin, though it sometimes runs into
it? And | don t think, upon the whole,
that 10 he sich Il bad match neither.
I'm not over 90 and am inst 4 feet in
my bare feet and not much more round
the girth, and for color | wouldn't turn
my back to nary girl i'll Lost township
But after all, maybe I'm countin my
chickens before they're hatched and
dreaniin of matrimonial bliss when the
only alternative reserved for mo is a
lickin. JET tells me the way these fire
eaters do is to give the challenged party
choice Of weapons, etc, which loin
the case I'll tell you III confidence that
l never fights with anything bat broom.
sticks or hot water or IA shoyclful of
Goals or some such thing. the former of
which, bein somewhat like shIllalah,
may not be Objectionable to him. / will
give him choice, however, in one thing
and that is whether when we fight
shall wear breeches or he petticoats "
or course these letters threw the gal
liant gentleman from Tyrone into Il state
of wrath His pride and, as he CON
ceived it, his honor having been as
sailed, it is not strange he felt like
shifting blood. Even less sensitive
man would have been more on les.
aroused. Meanwhile under the name of
Cathleen the marriage Of Rebecca
Shields was celebrated in rhyme in the
columns Of The Journal. More the mad
dened auditor of state could not endure,
and, hunting up Francis, the editor of
the paper he demanded the name Of the
author. Although the letters and poetry
Were the joint work of Lincoln, Mary
Todd and Julia Jayne, yet Mr.. Lincoln
assumed all the authorship, and the
challenge to fight speedily followed.
"At the time Shields determined to
press Lincoln for amends or fight, " re-
lated Judge Matheny to me several years
ago, 1.-THE latter was in the town of
fremont, i'll Tazewell county, attending
court. The hot headed and impetuous
Irishman and his hackers had hired a
wagon and started over the Drairies to
find Lincoln and commence with him
the correspondence of the code, when
Judge Logan, who was Lincoln's law
partner at that time, rushed into my of
flee and i'll good deal of excitement
communicated to me what he had
learned of the Shields crowd and their
mission. go down to Beek's stable, -
he said, and tell them to give you
their swiftest horse. Then distance
those fellows before they reach Lincoln
and get him into trap even if you
have to drive the horse to death. /
got into buggy and struck out for the
north. BY dusk l had caught up with
the Shields party, and by lying down
i'll my vehicle SO that l could not be
seen and driving around them / sue.
ceeded in reaching a point ahead in the
road without in the least awakening
their suspicious. l reached Tremon,
early i'll the morning and was the first
to apprise Lincoln of what was in store
for him.
At first he was disposed to treat ths