The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-21

Colonel. ST went to bed that night
knowing that the Majah wouldn't be
two minutes behind me, and that he
was a keen shot with the pistol.
wind of our coming duel got watt
ed about, and when we met next
mawning there were a hundred spec
tators on the ground. 1t was a glorious
maWning, Sah-a glorious maWning to
die in the cause of woman's rights
and I never felt mo- like a hero than
when I toed the mark and faced the
Majah- I must say for him that he
was ready to yield up his life to beat
his mother-in-law, and that I could
not detect a tremor as he stood there
and waited for the word.
81 did not seek his death, but 1 was
determined to pink him, and at the
word 1 fired and plugged him through
the shoulder. His bullet tore the
cloth on my shoulder. I walked up
to him as he lay on the ground and
extended my hand, and he took it and
said:
g 'KurneI Bunker. this need not have
happened if had only had my wits
about me. We will amend your wo-
mans right bill so as to exclude my
mother-in-law,e and then I will work
ike mailer to help you pass it. We
ought to have thought of that be-
fore
That's what we did, sah-amended
the bill, and the maJah let it be widely
known that he favored it, but my
troubles were not over with yet. A
member of the house, elected from a
back county, sent word to me that un-
less I included all nevis over two
years old in the amendment he would
fight the bill tooth and toenail. He
was making a fool of the thing, and
vet he seemed to be perfectly honest
but to drop in on him, and this 1
finally did. His name was Saunders,
and I says to him.
Il don't exactly see how you get
women and nevis mixed up in the
way you do, and would like an ex-
PLANTATION.
!" KurneI Bunker, did you ever see
my Wife?' he asks.
" Never. sab, but you may give her
:" She wouldn't dun know what to
brains of a rabbit My old mewl
knows mo- in mint than she'll ever
know in all her life. That's why I'm
saying that if she gifts the privilege of
the ballot he orter have it, If you |
can't fix it that way then I'm agin |
your bill first and last and all the |
time.
1T was no use trying to argue with
a man like that. and 1 decided to scare
him Then and there 1 challenged |
him to a duel and may be shot for
a possun, sab, if he didn't accept befo'
the words were fairly out of my
mouth! He had heard of the other
affair, of co'se but that hadn't phased
him a bit. He chose pistols, my fav-
Orite weapon, and WouIo nave gone
out at o'clock in the afternoon.
1--WE were on the ground at sunrise,
and the fellow hadn't lost any of his
cheek. He gave me chance to apoi-
ogize - me, Colonel Bunker! = ana
when I shook my head he toed the
mark with a smile on his face. I'd
have bet a thousand to one that
pinked him, but it didn't turn out that
way. on the contrary, he pinked me
and escaped my bullet. and that gave
nv enemies new courage and they
went at it and defeated my bill by
large majority.
me that he would have cheerfully
signed the measure had it passed, but
# was not to be-not to be, sab. In
tha first place, it was twenty years too
soon, and in the next the nevis had
a champion who COULD shoot
straighter that could, even if he
conIdn't talk as we'll. And now, sab,
and now, being it's about my time to
iiil And 1IiV we niPped-(C Copyright 1905.
bv T. c. McClure.)