Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-04
TALE OF THE THREE BARRELS
THE PURCHASE BY MIR. JAS,
w. OWENS.
What The Auctioneer Had To Say
of His Early Lie, Political
And Otherwise.

IT
politicians VOTED not of the strenuous
DAYS that were TO come. the days when
the whangadoddle whineth and erieth
for its first born, the redoubtable, the
onnipresent James w. Owens was on
the scene. Even as the coming up of
the sun and the going down thereof
was he present.
His presence, his alertness and his
energy which he was expanding was
worthy of the cause for which il was
being expended, for he was thinking
of the days of campaign when men
thirst with exceeding thirst and make
use of that which is extracted from
that rye for which Maryland is noted.
On the day in question there was be-
ing offered for sale at the door of the
Court House barrels of concentrated
essence of tanglefoot warranted to re-
move the lining from the strongest
copper kettle or turn home into a
bowling wilderness. This aforesaid
concentrated essence was as a drug
very much drug on the market at
the time, for there was no campaign
being waged.
Mr.. Owens, however, as casually
mentioned before, was thinking of the
paigners; therefore was he present at
the sale. The auctioneer had become
so excited that he was
JUMPING UP AND DOWN
~ like Bill Bailey shooting for
~ home with the children cry
I1ll ing for new automobile.
r. ~ In the bright lexicon of
VI youth which contained the
X history of his many ups and
IS downs, but no failures, there
81 /were many touching Incl
ND~ dents-he was arrested, how
Xxx ever, for each touch, at so
TX much per touch. He told of
Il the early days when he re
ceived
a START
in life by reason of boil nA
er exploding at a very I'M 4ShSA
expected time. During M@MA
the many years that fol. M0EXlikf{
lowed he had wandered farAJ SfN
and near mostly near Jail. W.T.
His travelling was largely done on his
PRIVATE CAR,
4s..... ! which was often provided with
all the delicacies of the season
and some of them very much out OF
season, as they are not always locked
mp. Illuminating thusly he now and
then received bid from the admiring
throng. Mr. Owens being present with
the goods at each and every stage OF
the game. Stirring up the contents
of the barrels and an interest of the
throng at the same time, the auction
eer proceeded with his lay, although
there was no hen present. lie said
that he was
A PLANE
NA man and never made any
@T4s's 1SsIsSTT1 boasts as TO the beauty
WI with which he had been
favored. He related the last instance
of q game of dice in which he had en-
gagged, and mentioned the fact that
before he had been playing very long
there was
A HORSE
on him and he was forced to ~
hasten home and have it re-
moved. OF course he did not NA1sA~
wish to be thought too much of a
good thing, but he well remembered
the day he had gone to a football
game as
A ROOTER.
He had shouted so hard that he
& burst three buttons from his
1S-Wwpanting brain. And then, to
cap il all he was shanghaied and had
TO make a round trip on the
EMMA GILES,
which caused him to enter esslE-N
fleetwood shed to shed sew
eral tears. BY this time he was in
full swing and bids we're coming in
like snowflakes in July. MIR. Owens
was slowly but surely gaining the as
in the matter of bids and it
looked as though he would canter
home a winner, when someone took
the stud from his expansive shirt
bosom. There was some excitement
for a time, but it soon subsidized as
someone in the crowd gave his
DIAMONDBACK
8 and the merry auction proceed
Aed. Potential potentialities had
ito win at last and Mr.. Owens
captured the ,entire layout of
tanglefoot at price which will
guarantee its proper disbursement at
the proper time and by the proper
people. AS the shades of night were
falling fast, Mr.. Owens engaged in
some plans for the new
city building as he was not particu-
Iarly pleased with the
REAR ELEVATION.
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