The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-23

like 1t a bit an she KEEP naggin' about 1t
until told her if she thought more of her
folks than she did uf me 70 go an live with
'ern and stay there. We hadn't anything
yit 'cept my mare an buggy an ] took IT
an let 'er go. That's when her brother
come mighty nigh shootin' me. but my
folks air list as good fightin' stock as
his'n. l guess he knowed IL er ned
plugged me that night at meetin.. fu
know his uncle peppered old Milt Goodin
full uf holes down along the road TO Haw-
kinses mill oncet and they come danger
near hangin' him an they would "a II IL
hadn't a bin fur his folks. That's the time
Ike Clay got shot in the breast an some
body laid fur Ace Biddle an blowed his
brains out with a shotgun. Ace was a
purity good Teller an wuzzent mixed up In
the muss at all an there always has been
a sort of prejudice agin' my wife's folks
fur killin's him ever since, fur they're the
ones who done 1t and everybody thinks
Ace wuz innocent.
'sYu' wouldn't believe this is the first
time / ever rid on the cars, would yu l
didn't know they could go so thunderin
fast until I got on 'em. Say. wouldn't IL
take all the taller out'n' Teller III ne
try to jump off uf one uf them cars when
they're goin' like the devil chasin rouno
the meetin' house. Say. If / had my mare
He STONED. opened his half closed eyes.
glanced at a newspaper lying in an empty
seat by his side and then started after the
train-caller, who had escaped, to hnish
his story.
The wit and humor OF express messen-
gers and agents are shown in package
that arrived at the office of the Adams Ex-
press Company. in this city, yesterday.
The package is, more properly speaking, a
pair of canvas overalls, Familiarity known
to the express men rs "the pants that
George Washington wore when he cut the
cherry tree" and. judging from their ap-
parent age they may have been in exist
ence longer than that-possibly as far back
as the time when Eve was created for
Adams express company.
The pants are more or less of curiosity.
They are not wrapped or packed, but are
tied up and filled with paper {the way bill
s449, 0O0) in each leg. The pants are covered
with tags. showing the hundreds of per-
sons that have received them and the hun
dreds Of Offices they have passed through.
and it would take a brave guess to decide
where they will stop. They have evidently
been on the road for many weeks. During
that time they have passed through Chi
cago, st. Louis. New York, Boston and
hundreds of intermediate places.
Among the individuals they have been
addressed to are Governor Roosevelt, or
New York, ex-President Cleveland. Dr.
Parkhurst Mayor Ziegenheim, of st. Louis,
Senator Hanna, the Franklin Literary So
ciety. of Burlington, Ia, and Carter FL.
Harrison, of Chicago. Evidently all these
persons duly received the pants and dis
patched them again on their never-endng
| trip.
The evident destination Is South Africa,
| for one tag bears the address: loom Paul,
| Pretoria, Boerdom, South Africa" They
are destined to go by way of the Paris ex-
position. for one wit has written the fol-
lowing on the way bill:
''Send me on at rapid rate
| To every old office in the United States;
| Then on to Paris and let me be
TIL Oo,n Paul Kruger calls for me-"