The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-08-19
Minister Made Tracks.

Colonel Joe Meeks was n of the
pioneer settlers of Oregon" a a rep-
resentative from that far away state.
"A travelling preacher tackled the
colonel once, and opened up by asking
him If tracts had been literally dis
tributed through the section in which
he lived. The colonel played green,
and replied that there could be found a
fair %Sprinkling of tracts throughout the
entire territory, for Oregon was then q
territory.
Have you yourself a good supply?'
asked the preacher as he begun TO
tumble around in his s~addlebags, which
We're thrown across the rear Of his
saddle.
Lord, yes answered the colonel.
There's bar tracks, deer tracks. panth-
err tracks, coon tracks, and every other
kind of varmint, and the boys are now
hunting for the tracks of a pinted-nose
preacher, who disappeared the other
day with a horse which didn't legally
belong to him. If they catch him. there
will be a tight rope performance in
this neighborhood.' :
The preacher concluded that he had
a hard customer, and did not waste
time trying to convince him Of the evil
of his way"
Cured With Pills and Humor.
Representative Warnock. of Ohio. re-
lated this story as one Of the best he
had eve heard
ohio produces good physicians as
we'll as men in other professions and
trades, One of the wittiest physicians
L ever knew lived at a small place near
Cleveland. He was greatly liked and
his practice was very heavy.
Sometimes people would tell him
that they called him in more for the
fun that was in it than the virtue Of
his medicine. His wit was fully equal
to his skill, and it was dificult to saw
which did his patients the most good
his wit or his pills pellets.
AS he always did his best with both
at the same time they probably helped
each sother, just as 1t happened when
one OF his patients revolted at a mon
strous dose of physic and said:
why, my dear doctor, you don't,
mean such a dose as this for a gen.
tleman9
"oh, no. answered The doctor. It's.
for working people,"
A Psalm Singing Negro.
II hope the old coafeds had a royal
time at their reunion in vile, >.
said a representative from PeRnsy1-
vanfa, who spent a day in Washington
this week.
And 1 want to say right now that
no man who ever heard the old-time
rebel yell can ever forget it. More than
once that cussed yell made my hair
stand on end.
j II remember that while we were
around Nashville we got hold of a first.
class ~contraband negro. He had a de-
ctded religious leaning and was a shout
Ing Methodist as they call 1t down
south. The negro was very jealous In.
the cause and his lungs were not the
weakest. He kept up a continuous
singing.
"One day l asked him 10 cut ais notes
down q pitch or two. or lie might be
the cause OF letting the rebs down on,
US. He ceased for a time AMI then be-
gan:
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew the Lord
But uervants OF the Heavenly king
Should sound their Joys broad"
h niger had me ana I told him
to e ahead n yell his bln.ae.d head
off II he wished %.
Quay Had Others to Boost.
One Of the last letters dictated bx
enato Quay was to a constituent in
tlF- government printing once. who
wrote him asking his influence in Sc
curing a ransfer to the proof room.
The senator said:
Il am now as always willing to helm
my friends. but l cannot put In any
help for you, for 1 regard 81 a day as
good pay, and there are too many OF
my friends on the outside who need
Jobs.
Just spit on your haIdB and hold
to what you have and thank the Lord
and the republican party for what you
are already receiving"
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