Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-08


Nh Mrs. Hillyer met Jim kenner
III III on the main street OF the vii
lage near the warehouse and
paused to chat with him. I'm still
workin on yore case" she told him.
1.-THE only trouble is that you are too
backward to help. l serve you up with
different gravy at every meal an keep
1 you on the sideboard to eat cold 'twixt
meals. but eff you don't come up some
time an take hand she'll want a
! change o. diet"
Kenner's honest face Redeemed. I'm
afeard I'm gittin' too old, Mrs. Hill
yer" he laughed in high pleasure. II
give you my word, worry all the time
about my age
"Worry?' she laughed. What does
age amount to? The older man gifts
in this life the younger he is in the
next, an, from all accounts, the next
Is better an keeps body ut stand
| still. Lord, you don't look like fell
Ter that worries about anything unless
it's fer the lack O. some devilnent.
Mr.. Hillyer's told me how you love to
gag old Hanks. reckon since Bobs
done the way he has you'll have 1t in
fer the old man, or, rather, he'll have
1t In fer you all, beca'se Mr.. Hillyer
says Hanks predicted from the first
that Bob I'D come to no good. l hain't
seed Mr.. HiIlyer since Mrs. Dugan
told me about 1t. but it'll worry I'm
like rips, fer, you know, jest day be-
fore yesterday he let Bob have another
two thousand to enlarge his business
on. Enlarge. l say. A boy O. that age
ort to be spanked fer what he's done
Jest when folks was braggin' on i'm,
an"
"Why, Mrs. IIillyer" -Kenner's eyes
were wide open in astonishment -
"what are you talkin' about?"
'Talkin' about? Jim Kenner. do you
mean to tell me that you, the biggest
man gossiper in Dariey. don't know
what Bob Hanks has gone and done?"
I'm at the fust OF It. Mrs. Hillyer"
well. he simply got that little or
phan gal, Dora May. somen' or other,
from Louisville. out o. Mrs Styles
boardin' school last night an driv 'er
in buggy to Springtown an got
country preacher to marry EN-
Good Lord. Mrs Hillyer,''
That's what he done went on Mrs.
Hillyer. "They spent the night at the
preachers house. tuck breakfast, an
drtv back to barley. They've put up
permanent at the Johnston House. Mrs.
Dugan went up and seed whar Bob
had registered r. O. Hanks and Lady
bless you! An that chit OF gal in
short dresses hardly below the knee!
Mrs. Dugan says while she was thar
a-lookin' old Hanks come In as yalar
as squash an axed if they had riZ
yet The clerk told i'm no-that the
bridegroom had told i'm TO say that he
was not at home to any callers. an eff
1t was about business they wanted to
see I'm to refer 'em to his head sales
any wonder his daddy wouldn't set i'm
up In business? The wust big head on
earth is the sort that young boys has
when they think they can start In to
raisin' family. Bob couldn't stand
prosperity, / reckon. Mrs. Dugan says
Mrs. Styles has dismissed school fer
the rest o. the week an is walkin' |
about the campus on her hands with
Ter feet in the air. 1t seems that the
gal was put In Mrs. Styles care by /
some kin O. her'n, an the old lady don't I
know what she's to do about it. Thar's /
o,,S hot 70
gal is anyway. Mrs. Styles is afeard |
1t will bust up the institution. Mrs. /
Dugan says it will help the school /
that folks will send Their scrub gals
thar to git 'em married of. Hain't they
heard 1t at the warehouseY'
'They hadn't when left about twen-
ty minutes ago, Mrs. Hillyer."
well, won't stop you. / see Mrs.
Stillman leanin' over the fence without
a bonnet or shawl in this wind. I'll go
an ease 'er up. l know yo're eechin'
to tell it to yore gang"
A few minutes after kenner had ex-
ploded his information Mt the office old
Hanks came in. He was pale, and his
skin looked as dry as old parchment,
but he was eating roasted peanuts,
breaking the husks with steady. prong
like finger nails. He sat down with
out word and dropped handful OF
hulls into the stove.
"Jim," he said suddenly to Kenner,
what did you ever do about that ac-
count Bill Haskill was a-owin' your"
II got it yet" said Kenner, throwing
4 knowing smile around the room.
well, eff you'll discount 1t enough to
make it interesting, III buy It I've
got I'm tied up with piece o land o
his'n, an want the land"
II reckon we kin make q DEAL" said J
the cotton buyer as he wiped smile
from his faciie mouth with his long
hand. II reckon you heard that Bob
had taken to hisself helpmeet9'
The group hung on the old mans re- /
,ly. Hanks crushed another peanut in
his hand and raised the best part Of 1t
% his lips. i
II don't care what he does" he said.
Y told you all you'd make fool Of
i'm, an now I reckon you see l was
light" He was staring accusingly at +
Iillyer. You started it," he blurted \
,ut "Thar amt one boy in forty mil
ion that kin keep from gittin' the big I
read with sech responsibilities put on