West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-11-22
PRESTON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. NOVEMBER o. 1900

He stood for the stories all right. and
neither his friends or his enemies ATTEMPTED
to spoil their effects.
hat now that the campgn is over, il will
do no harm to tell the truth. In the FRS,
place, the first story abou, the Judge and
the fiddle is myth and has no foundation
whatever. The Judge says himself that he
never played fiddle IN his life and that.
besides, he has no car for music and could
not carry tune the width of room. But
the story was good one and i, was be.
lieved. AT number of places, where he
made speech, someone in the audience.
near the stage. would hand fiddle and a
bow up to him. lie always got out Of the
embarrassing situation cleverly. A, a bic
barbecue in Calhoun county. when the
fiddle was handed to him, while he was
speaking, he took it and handed /, over to
Old Sol. famous fiddler of those parts.
who scraped off few tunes out of soueekv
old fiddle. AT Hnuonsvlle, another mis-.
guided friend of the Judge poked a fiddle at
him. lie took it and pretended to be tuning
It, when two of the strings broke. The
Judge said that he would not take the time
to mend them, although he could do il
easily, aud tha, is how he got out of an en-.
barrassing situation agais. Judge Holt
says that about the only tune he knows is
Sweet Violets, and tha, when he tries to
whistle or sing that, il is necessary for him
to tell his friends what it rs, before they
recognize it. As TO the blackberry dumping
story and the goose picking story they were
equally as groundless as the fiddle tale
4 FUNNY INCIDENT.
good joke on himself aud the town of
Grafton is told by the Judge. lie arrived
in Grafton late one night. accompanied by
Secretary Will Byrne, of the Democratic
State Committee. They had several hours
to remain in the hilly town before their
train departed and SO they decided to 90 10
a hotel and secure room aud take a brief
rest, in which they stood much in need of.
They visited several hotels, but all of them
were full of guests and there was no room
for he gubernatorial candidate and the
committee secretary.
Finally they were directed to cheap
priced hotel. The clerk said he had a room
for them. II was small, to be sure, but it
was comfortable. They said that /, would
do and they were turned over to bell-bo
who led themu four flights of stair, through
narrow Railways, and ushered them into a
small room in the rear of the building.
II looked like veritahle ire-,rap, and
the Judge thought, about the dangers in case
of a ire during the night. lie said to the
boy before the latter went away: "Son, if
a fire breaks out in this house during the
night, you come straight to this room and
awake us, and will give one hundre.
dollar bill"
After the boy disappeared, the Judge
though, of the offer he had made to the
lad.
81 have put bad ideas into that youths
BRAIN remarked the Judge to Byrne.
GLOW, and in what way" inquired the
Secretary.
"why," replied the Judge, she might
decide 10 start FIRE and rescue us and hold
me 10 my promise
Soon both gentlemen were in bed and
sound asleep and in the morning, Byrne was
the hrst one to arise. II was dark in the
room, the lights being out and the blinds
down. Byrnc went TO the windows and
raised the blinds to let the light # day in.
lie beheld right outside the window terra
hrma covered with green swArd Mother
earth was so close TO the window that one
could step right ont onto the ground The
hotel was built smack up agsins, one of
those Grafton hills, and although it was
four stories high in front, one could step
out of the fourth story onto the earth with
the greatest ease.
1t IS needless TO say that both gentlemen
enjoyed hearty laugh over the joke.