The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-03-25

inform We that have decided to be an
alderman an some day ixpict to have
tn honor Ov iScOrtin' meself in car
riage to the United States Sinate,
where I'll be in a conjanial iliment, as
the poets say. Look at Sinator Hanna,
dyes think he'd be fool enough to 60
about Iambashtin shtOne walls an iron
fnces in order to be prize fighter,
whin he sees nice Imply safe in the
sinate chamber that he can fill with a
body full O. good dinners an draw a
riglar salary 'thout waitin' fur any
purse to he made up?"
"Yis, but Cody dear, yell made more
larnin' than what We have"
81 can cultivate larnin' just as aisy
as prize fghtin' Didn't we of'en till
me yersilf that the more schoolin' a
man has the better fighter he is those
days whin they battle so much wi
their tongues? Furthermore, me dear
uncle, let me call your attinshin to the
grand improvement in me spaich al
ridy an I've only been here month.
I'll be rig'lar Cha'ncey Depoo when
me year is up"
swell, Cody, acushla, I'm convinced
in me own mind that yer right. The
United States Sinate is certainly more
gintale than prize fghtin'. But before
l 60 let me tell ye what it was bate
COrbett"
"Now, put me foot down and said
no more prize fightin' gibb'rage fur me,
but I'll listen to the incident if it's very
interestin, so 60 ahead, but don't try
to infooence me from the sinate.'
swell, We see Corbett's trainer tould
him a great sacret; trick O. the per-
flesh, he called it, an makes him behave
that if he ates prunes, shtones and all
for thirty days afore the fight he'd be-
Oh! be jabers, l forgot that word, its
as big as today and tomorrow; let me
see, incurable, indurable, invurable-
that's it, invuIner'ble. Just mark that
word on yer slate, it III be good one
to hit snator with. Well he has Jim
film himsilf full O prunes, shtones
an all ivry NAL fur thirty days. Jim
sid himsif that he could fale the fruit
shtones all over him, an he thought
Fitz id break his knoOckles if he hit
him a body blow. But whin Fitz
landed his pile driver over the heart it
knocked all the prune shtones down on
the cardiac coochecoo vein O. the heart,
I think it is that the doctors called it.
Inyhow they had to git one O. thin X
ray machanes an shovel the prime
shtones from over it afore the pindu-
lum id move shtroke ag'in."
"Now, uncle, are ye givin' me some
Guild, shtale story about a man bein'
full O prunes whin he goes to fight the
battle ov his life?'
81 till We, Cody, it's true. Was MT
at the ringside, an did MT his poor, ould
heart broken father till me with his
own lips?"
"Well, uncle, that only shows me the
fOOlishnesS Ov priZe-tightin'. Now,
whin we come to see me agin just bring
along dixshunary with ye, fur yer
nevvy is goin' to git corner on all the
big words that drop from the Uranium
ov the congressional lights ov the u S.
Sinate. How's that fur shtarter from
yer nevvy? But wait till the big show
comes, mkt month, thin yell see yer
darlin' nevvy gnificanbandan
duated into the issintial compoundents
of an imbryo SinatOr."
ooh, but thin lasht few words were
tirrible on the poor man! His face
turned as pale as the wall O. me Gill.
An the look ov i'm was enough to
make even saloonkeeper weep. But
he's bin good uncle to me an i'll not
furgit i'm whin 1 do be Sinator."