The Anaconda standard., 1899-09-14
This and That
Mere and There

the southern sky not a wisp of poison
Gus smoke could be seen, nor fleCk of
vapor, and all was quiet in the main
thoroughfare of Meaderville. The
street car bowled, according to regula-
tion and custom, around the last curve
before entering the old smelter village
and the motorman looked ito the
right of him and to the left of him
and straight ahead of him." and the
track all seemed clear The Pickering
twilight deceptively led him on, and
he was unconscious of the impending
clash. Through the dim vista he peer
ed, and his face took on that tense,
drawn aspect as his eyes beheld some
strange object between the tracks just
below Gunderson's big store. Clang,
clang, clang! went the bell, and the
motorman looked hard straight ahead,
not once looking on either side of the
street-ft was the garb of a man he
saw, and he rang the bell some more.
The statue-like attitude of the man
between the rails disturbed his peace
or mind and he forgot all about the
pretty lawn dress and alpine hat and
long feather he saw up the road at the
big bend. Clang went the bell as he
beat the sole of his shoe down upon the
peg that rings the gong; but the man
defied the lightning and all it's agents.
Hi, there! Git there, Off the track!
Hi, there!" Still the man stood and
the car approached at slackened speed,
and the motorman rang the bell some
more. The car stopped Is inches from
the object of the CONSERVATION and
the motorman set brakes and jumped
off the platform.
Say, partner, 'smatter? Can't you
hear? The cars here. Move on"
No move, and the motOrman laid
hands on the mans shoulder-the man
fell and there was the most frightened
motorman this side of Cleveland I'm |
I1r ,Ir@x, - T. ~
in Meaderville and he saw the man |
fall. He was at the scene before the |
motorman realized that he was the
big end of joke perpetrated by a |
crowd of youngsters. 1t was dummy, |
but the motorman has said nothing |
about it, probably never will unless |
some one bribes him to talk about it. |
Occasionally the school board de-
scends from its lofty plane of dignity
to indulge in a bit of revelry, and then
the laugh is on some one. This au-
gust body was listening to the reading |
by Clerk Richards of some commu1i-
cations, when suddenly the clerk ceas-
ed to read. He contracted his eye
brows, readjusted his spectacles. twist
ed his chair just enough to add TO his |
confusion, and then broke out with:
This is some sort of Dutch name
and-I-"
Tut tut, there" calculated Chair
man Mueller. go easy on the Dutch.
Let me translate it if you are stalled"
The chairman took the sheet Uf
manuscript, looked carefully up and |
down and across. and then read,
"Transatlantic'' without an effort The
clerk attempted to resume the read !
ing, but the chairman insisted that the
Englishman who couldn't make cut
the word transatlantic" without the
assistance of a German interpreter
should be called to account at the first |
bar.
After Sol Levy had fished all day in
Race Track creek and walked about &c
miles in the sun and mosquitoes, his
companions in camp asked him about
his success.
'Oh, l got four-that's ALL"
How big are they?"
Ones column long, another about
half a column, another about a stick
and the other only two lines"
The two young men who approached
a clothing store We're, from appear
ances, not long in from the range. |
They read the same signs and admired
the sights in concert In front of the
store stood a mild faced representative
of Ole Oleson's beloved land, and he
stood up like a statue looking straight
across the street at girl selling cigars
|
glass. The rural visitors in their de-
light and evident satisfaction Of the
surroundings concluded that the mild
faced youth was dummy, and forth
with began to examine the clothes he
wore
Say, Jim, that ere is all right, by
gum. Looks like good cloth. Wonder
what it's worth?"
Yep, want a suit like that. Amt
it got a tag on?"
The mild face did not change, and
the rigid outlines of curious express
sion would lead nine out of 10 men
into the belief that it was the face of
a bisque dummy. simultaneously both
of the young men took hold of the coat
tails and began to feel of the cloth,
just as anybody else would do when
making a purchase whether he kn1vs
anything about textures or not.
How do they dress up these dunn
mics, anyway" asked one of the other.
who admitted that he didn't know,
but suggested that they look into The
thing Just to find out, nohow."
The girl in the window opposite had
charmed the mild faced man, who did
not or could not hear what the Caua-
try lads were saying.
The curious one, the one who asked
about the construction of the dummy,
squared about in front of the dun
my and began to unbutton the vest.
Hare, mare, yo go hal, and then
the ruralsts concluded that probably
after all they had run into something
entirely new Instead of investigating
further, much less explaining to tEe
dummy" they bolted into the store
and asked the first clerk they met
where that air burned dummy vas
made at"
The obliging clerk, who had watched
the proceeding from the start said:
THAT Is imported"
I'VE want a suit apiece just like that
on the dummy. You Butte fellers as
can afford dummies what talks be get
ting right up tew the head of the class,
bent yOu?"
The clerk did not answer the uues-
ton. because the big young Sn EIDE
broke in to fOrcibly explain to the lis
itors that he was not a dummy. rot by
a kilometer, and then the sale was
spoiled, for it took the entire clerical
Of hn ay,I !