Arizona republican., 1900-12-16

was, but he walked feebly-his usual mode of travel was a jolly dog-trot- around the poor, badly furnished, un- tidy room, putting things to rights, Ee said, but many wouldn't admire his taste At any rate, I hardly think he would be employed to decorate any of the big show windows on Washington street.
 Noon came and he was still alone. His sweetheart had not come, either, so he had a touch or two of the blues and wondered if he was getting ra- ligion, and felt very much as though the sides of his stomach were rubbing together.
 He tried lunching off love-which is a mighty poor substitute for bread and beef, a good deal like tightening ones waist strap-and when he had settled his mind on that So he did not heed the ravenous demands from the interior department, he felt better and soon af- ter took a journey into dreamland.
 By and bye-but what is the use in dragging this yarn out any farther? His experience was nothing new or strange. This wicked world is full of such; every life has it's little romance,
  sweeter-or makes us worse. Its guess which. way it is going to go very much like a woman's throwing. The next morning he read all about it in the papers, for these reporters are omnipresent, and know far more about it than we do ourselves. They his sweetheart and his nurse, the man who had brought him so low-had | eloped
 | Since then, as Randall often said him self, he had not been just right"
 He was stunned for awhile, and then he became delirlous and hysterical, un- | til he heard some one say the besl thing to do would be to put him in an | asylum. Then he calmed down at once, and in a few days he was out again and at work. But the old shop had lost it's attractions, and so he sold 1 lt and came west, that Elysium for the uneasy. the reckless and the ambitious. l He had but little money then, for the eIopers had taken all he had carefully laid away, as well as his watch.
 I took him to lodging house, gave him money to pay for bath, feed ani | lodging, and told him to come arounI 1 the office the next morning.
 He was there, clean and glad. He was fifty and he looked it. His h2il was gray and his forehead wrinkled. There were little lines beginning at the outer corners of his eyes and spreading out over the temples, like the | spars of a fan.
 "Well. Randall. old boy, what have | you been doing the last fifteen years?
 I asked, as he seated himself on the edge of a table, pushed his hands dow Il as deep as possible in his pockets. and began to swing his ponderous feet.
 Bin a-tryin' to git married" he an
 swered gravely. "Soons I learned ful sure thet any feller could git woman
 fur the asllin' I sez to myself, l sez
 I'll have one. Be fool to wait any
 longer. Don't you think?
 I thought so, and after careful!
 rolling a cigarette, he continued
 "Bachin' ain't what it's cracked up tC
 be. I'll jest be joe-bobbed if 'tis. No
 body ito talk to, nobody to spend you1 | money on, no one t0-to-hug, vol
 know. Even when you die there won
 be no woman on tother side to mee
 you-just have to wander round ;h'
 woods or the heavenly range like
 ole blind maverick.
 ''One day I wrote to the Climax.
 paper w'Ot makes marriages for folks and in about a week the mail man gal loped up to my ole cabin up in tn
 mountains wonder, an said: Here
 yer mail. A even hundred letters Must bin writin' to the marriage bu reau, ain't you? Flaw! haw! haW!'
 "Gee-eIy! there was a hundrei , sure's shootin'. I sez to myself, l seZ
 Now, who are they from, l wonder
 Amt got but two relations on this sil the grave, and I ain't heard from them
 either on 'em since. Hes was a pup. Hello! here's one from New York
 and one from Virginny, and seYentsel from Bosting. Gee-ely! I wondered what they's all about. Jim Skinner he's my neighbor up in the mountains {, lives about ten miles beyant, wis tellin me not long before that they hs' a sort of a new woman, CT somethln | down east what didn't care to marr. no more But, jimminy he's jas alvin, g. course. Guess when wcm -' , gets so they don't want no more mar rvin' the millenyum'll soon conie a
 snortin.
 ''I he'd some mighty interestin rcadin l up in that ole cabin fur about si! t nights and days. Didn't dc anothe l derned thing but read that lityratT t fur d week. Didn't take much stoc' t ir many on 'em, but one was jest L"
 sweet for anything. Want to hear It. I was very anxious to hear it and = read it. Her2 it is:
 e My deer friend: l saw name l t Climax with many others but m t, ninde seems to wonder uT the line Tc one place. I Miss Lillie Garner al s visiting my Sister in laws at present
 am drs ssmake.
 ''I have eddication to let me live. bu
 your eddfcaticn far super to mine. Il flor l am no predicament nor pie 5 didiion I am nothin but just simpi = dressmake. if you take the trouble = answer this you will be surprise V n pretty girl I no marry before l T g fiirt, just a sympathizin soul Her' h hopin to hear from you QIicl."