The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-10

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fet. mother. I'm tired out. Good night
What. Sagasta. o and that old
widow drinking and ~carousing together
at 2 o'clock in the morning. you. sa-
gasta. a husband and father OF three
children and a pillar I'm the a Pedro
church and the premier Of Spain. a pref
ty premier you are going of on an all
night debauch with the queen regent
and coming home so dead drunk in the
morning that you try to knock the
chandelier down md set the house on
fire and burn your wife and children all
up. / must say I admire your taste.
and she so years old IL she's a day and
as homely as a woodshed. I didn't think
it Of her. ! couldn't have believed 1t.
don't tell me. Sagasta. you know very
we'll"
Now, mother. mother. listen to rea-
son. II was a special cabinet meeting
at the palace to consider the crisis and
all the ministers were there with her
majesty. I've been working on the
crisis all day like a slave, mother. but
! took time to reserve you q family box
for the Easter bull fight. Good night"
What, Sagasta! A box for the bull
fight. that's very kind Of you ! must say
when you know 1 haven't got a single
solitary thing to wear to the bull fight,
not a blessed stitch to my back have I
got, and neither have the children. and
Sonora De LONE just home from WASH
ington with IL trunks and sc bandboxes,
and Sonora Weyler flaming out to kill.
and emo Woodford but thank heaven
that nasty thing is going to Paris to-
morrow she and all her brats, I made
Madrid too hot for her. I've done that
much for my country. hats the kind of
a firm, calm. patient. dignified. states
manlike patriotic hairpin I am, Sagasta,
and don't you forget 1t. ! wonder what
the queen regents going to wear to the
bull fight. to think I can't go because I
haven't got a thing to put on, not a
thing. Sagasta, you know 1t very well
and I'll have you understand hat I
simply won't GO in a barrel. I'd like to
see myself going to a bull fight in a
barrel, I positively won't and shan't do
anything OF the kind. Sagasta, you can
take the children to the bull fight in
barrels II you insist upon II but count
me out Of the procession, I wouldn't go
to heaven in a barrel and to think you
wouldn't eve give me 200 pesetas to
~ ti' tiiifS Il dpCofuttly ntCu lit
can't possibly get along without, you
old"
There, there, mother, you know my
salary is three months overdue and the
treasury is as empty as a m
trado's stomach. But you shall have
the 200 pesetas in the morning. Good
night. love-"
Two hundred pesetas. Sagasta. good
ness gracious what's the man thinking
of, he knows very we'll I've got to have
500 at the very least, the hat costs $50
pesetas itself and there's the heliotrope
opera cloak and the gloves and the belts
and sashes and the mousseline de sole
ties and the ruchs and fichus and great
heavens l nearly forgot the children.
I'll have to take them to Roostersy's
children's Quitting department the
very first thing In the morning, come
row. Sagasta. make IL 500 that's a good
old Saggy darling. why sakes alive you
just ought to see Sonora De Lome's real
French kid pique-Y
Hang il all. mother. call II $50 pese-
tas and stop. Good night"
Say 300 Sagasta. not a peseta less
will I take. just think I am actually
knocking off 200 pesetas. who e
heard of such a thing, what would the
neighbors say. it's simply scandalous.
/ wouldn't do IL for any other man in
the world but my dear kind old Sagasta
only 300 pesetas, darling, talk about the
charity and philanthropy of your great
noble-hearted women, that's the kind of
Clara Barton I am-300. Sagasta, 300 do
I hear, 300 am I offered, 800, last chance.
are you all done, 300 will you max it.
Let her go at 800. Good night.
mother"
And little enough that Is. 800 pesetas
indeed, it's a shame and a disgrace. u
1 suppose I've got to bear it inc to
think you can go to sleep after treating
your wife in this shabby fashion, with
such a crime on my conscience 1
couldn't no more sleep, drat the man
g~asta!"
What is II now"
What did the queen regent have on
at the cabinet meeting?"
"Esto debe atribuirse. how should I
know what she had on? I tell you We
were talking crisis all night and l must
say her majesty displayed more back
bone han j ever dreamed Of. Good
night"
Displayed her backbone. Sagasta. the
miserable wretch n you told me 1t
was a cabinet meeting and not a low
necked function, you've given yourself
dead away. old man. what's that you
say. sir. I'll scream at h top of my
lungs at much as ever ] please, 1 guess
my lungs are my own to do what 1
please with. I gave my heart and hand
to a rut but ! saved my lungs from
the wreck and don't o forget II. now
see there what you've done. you've
walked the baby up. l knew you would
all the while. l said so from the N,ry
start. scream right on my poor little
infnta Maria Isabella Flotilla Sagas-
TIA, your unnatural father shan't sleep
as long as us great powers can inter-
vene. there'l be nc armistice in this
family tonight. not an armistice, you
old hypocrite. there's a hot thing In