Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-05-31
FULLY SCOTT STORY.
sixth District POiiticlan Resented
Smashing Implication.


different persons for some time, is now
being told on Tully Scott, the Demo
cratic wheel horse of the sixth. dis
trict who practices law up at Ober-
lin.
Scott is prominent member of the
Knights of Pythias order and holds an
Office on the grand lodge finance COM
mittee. Scott is the only man from
Kansas who is connected with the
grand lodge committee. a few weeks |
ago the finance committee met at the |
headquarters of the order in Nash
vile. Scott was there. After the
business was disposed of the members
of the committee, and other officers of
the lodge, were invited to a banquet
at the invitation of the president of a
large publishing firm in Nashville
which prints good many reams of
paper every year for the K. P.'S.
The banquet was served at one of
the principal hotels and was a very
swell affair. The menu was served in
several courses. When it came the
proper time to serve the wine the
walters were busy serving everyone
| but Scott. They aSSiduouSly avoided
him. The slight had its effect and
Scott was decidedly angry but con-
trolled his temper and said nothing
but he was warm under the collar.
H The rest were making quite merry
D and paying no attention to the gentle
man from Kansas. Scott was just
4 about to ask one of the walters to
serve him when two large husky wait
erS entered the dining room bearing
H a large tray high above their heads.
The banqueterS saw it. Scott saw it..
All except Scott commenced a loud,
long applause. The walters bore the
tray directly toward. Scott and finally
deposited it on the table in front of
him. The tray was decorated with
flowers and greenstuff but there was
no wine on it.
What Scott found on the tray was a
large and much rusted Ratchet. He
looked at it. The banqueterS yelled,
they roared and they waved theiI
napkins. Scott's face flushed. He
was mad. He did not relish the joke
the reference to his being from the
7 state where Mrs, Nation smashed was
! not the joke to him that it was to the
i others. He wanted wine and what
/ was more he did not like to be the
/ butt of a joke for hundred or more
people at the same time. Scott knew
he had to do something and do tha
quick. He heard the laughter and thu
I applause ringing in his ears. He say
the Ratchet, old and rusted. He un
derstood the joke.
Scott looked across the banquet ia
bic for a second. He looked past tn
heads of the banqueterS opposite hin
and saw on the wall of the banque
room large, heavy plate glass mirror
Quick as a flash Scott graSped that oil
rusty Ratchet and hurled it with al
the force he possessed across the tabl
past the heads of the aStoniShed ban
queterS and straight for that plat
glass mirror.
The banqueters had seen the maj
from Kansas rise in his place an
I grasp the weapon of the "HOme DE
tenders. There was hush. Al
\ eyes were turned toward Scott. TIL
Ratchet went straight for its mark
There was crash. Instantly all eye
{ were turned toward the mirror.
! The Ratchet was buried in the cen
! ter of the glass and the banqueteT
/ saw it sticking there and quivering
/ The glass was Splintered in thouSan
: pieces.
/ Then the hundred pair of eyes
which had been watching the flight {
the Ratchet and it's sudden stop, wer
turned toward Scott. He stood at hi
place, his left hand on the banque
table, his body leaning forward an
/ his right hand in the air in the pos
ton that it was when the Ratchet LEI
it on its smashing expedition. Scot
stood there in the position of of an II
dian tomahawk thrower, his fac
Z flushed little, perhaps, but not
muscle moving.
! The banqueterS were spell-bound fC
a moment. Then they understood til
joke and the understood who the jok
was on. There was whirlwind of a.
plauSe as Scott seated himself an
reached for an olive as though nothir
had happened.
| OF course when Scott left the ban
quet room he stepped up to the hot
= clerk and offered to pay for the miro
but the president of the publishir
house, which had given the banque
n was ahead of him. The settlement fl
the injured mirror had been made.
strange part of it was that not sill
er of glass had fallen from the franz
The Ratchet was still buried in I'll
back of the mirror where it had Struc
and the thousand breaks in the gla:
radiated in every direction from tt
hatchet. The president of the pull
fishing house took the mirror, franz
Ratchet and all, and now has it in
glass case in his office on exhibition
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