Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-27


en- tried 1t tibet way, en- the surprises
wuz wuss than afore, eff tibet WIZ pos
sible. Many a Teller borned in Ar
kansaw who 'ud move into Texas in
the spring en- then back ag'ff to Ar
kansaw fer the winter, dividin' up his
time about half en- half between them
states, claimed Texas fer his big num-
bers in this deal. 1t wuz rally be-
wilderin' whayre some Of the folks had
lived. Some funny things happened
too One Teller made mistake en-
said, 'Cowley,' meanin' fer Cowley
county, Kan, whayre so many Of the
folks come from. Fellers 'ud make a
ten strike with Pennsylvany er South
Cnrliny. err Whyeming er Texas, er aney
place they'd been thet'ud count up big
p'ints, en- when they had 1t all figgereG
up Sally won out on this deal by sew
enteen whole p'ints. But it wuz rally
interestin' en- educatin' en- entertainin'
en- a mighty good scheme all aroun'.
EN- about this time in the evenin' a
leetle episode begun to be noticed EN-
made things look kind Of tragic fer a
SPELL When Lem Hull on the first deal
said he wuZ horned In Newbrasky, l
happened to be a-lookin' right square
at Lew Mullicks' wife (she air real
purity woman, en- l noticed tibet she
took to lookin' at i'm en- a-watchln'
i'm like r'thing. Seemed to me tibet
she never took her eyes often i'm the
rest of the evenin'. / thort 1t rather
pleged Lem leetle, SEEM how she
wuz a-lookin' at i'm en- a-starin at i'm
30. En- when he said Ohio in the
mex roun' she eyed i'm wuss'n ever. I
noticed they favored some aroun' the
eyes, but never dremp about 'em
n-bein' aney relation, fer Lem is q
great big, awkerd. overgrowed MAYER
lex whit needs curryin' en- shearin',
while she's list one of these here slim,
delicate women, ye know-good en- all
tibet, but made frail en- clingin like by
Mother Eaytcher.
'1Then the purfesser got up en- made
the crowd another leetle speech Ell said
tibet IL we'd be patient he'd like to try
fist one more deal on us, en- then he'd
turn us loose fer keeps. He pcrposed
givin' a nice, new brier root pipe to the
man en- purity new workbox to tho
woman thet had lived in the states
whose p'ints nd count up the most.
En- he a1ed all the men en- women tibet
wanted to enter the contest that way
to stan up-the men on one side en- the
women on the other.
"Wull, sir. thayre WIZ jist fourteen
men en- six women went into thet
thayre thing. en- the contest WIZ might
" spirited. toll ye. Some Of the men
had lived In ed NANNY ez twenty dit-
frunt states, en- two or three Of the wo-
men had lived in fifteen. Lem Hull
tried 1t, en- Lew MuIlicks' wife Jist sot
thayre with her eyes glued on to his
features. I'm Lem himself wuz no
SLOUGH at plny,n' in this deal. Begin
MIN with Eewbrasky. whayre be wuz
horned, he went east through Ioway en-
Eelinoi en- IndiEnny to Ohio en- then he
come back through Kentucky, Tennes-
see, Arkansaw. Nizzocry, Kansas en-
the Injun nation to Oklahomy-an on
'em good countin' states. He made
two hunderd en- nfty-tour p'ints, en-
about thet time Mary Mullicks looked
OF eft she thort he WIZ ten spot hero
en- 'ud win out shore. Then they went
along, no feller a-scorin' up with Lem
ontel they come to Prairie Dog Smith.
He's been ell over the world mighty
nigh. He begun with New Jersey,
whayre he wuE horned, en- he come
through Pennsylvany, Ohio, Indianny,
Eelinoi MiEzoory, Kansas en- so on west
to Californy In forty-nine. Crossed the
plains with OK team, he tole me artcr-
wards, en- went clear through to the
gold diggin's, which wuz shorely more'n
many Teller did. En- he stayed thayre
fer three yesr. en- then come back by
the way Of the istmuss. En- then he
went south durln' the war, en- come
west when 1t wuz over, takin in purity
near everything on the way. Wuz even
in Texas awhile, runnin' a sheep ranch
out west of San Antoine, whayre 1t new
err rains aney. l don't know how many
p'ints he did have when they counted
'em up, but it wuz nearly ez many ez
all the rest put together. En- the pipe
went to him fair en- square. Saw him
the other day, en- he's a-smokin' of it
yit.
EN- when it come the women's turn
en- they fggered up the p'ints, ole Mrs.
Langham got the workbox. She is a
soldiers wilder. en- thayre's whole
lot Of ole soldiers In the deestriet, en-
they wuz mighty pleased at her a-git-
tin 1t. Her man uuz with Sherman, I
guess, en- he got hurt purity bad down
thayre aroun' Atlanta. When she heerd
on it. blamed eff she didn't git right up
from her home in Ninnicsoty en- so to
him en- nuss him. But he died by en-
by en- left her a wilder. She's been
a-drawin' Of pension ever senee en-
says she thinks more Of 1t than aney
man she ever seen excep' Bin Lang
ham. She stayed down thayre In Geer-
gy fer a spell en- then worked hersef
west gradually ontel she got to Kan
sas, en- then 1t wuz only one jump over
into Oklahomy. OF course we wuz all
glad to gee her git the workbox, fer
she's fist the kind OF a woman to set
store By sich things-aIlus a-piecin'
quilts en- a-sewin' carpet rags en- 50
forth, en- ever ole soldier in the dees-
trict, Union en- Confederate, felt ez
proud ez could be of her en- OF the prr-
fesser fer a-honorin' her tibet away.
Some OF the wemen felt kind Of 5eal-