The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-14

a long looking over.
sit was just as you said,'' he replied
as the tears started afresh.
"You mean that the Unsophisticated
Innocents were a lot OF 1okers?''
'Yesh. 1t was in a room over a
shaloon, and they--they joked with
me- Mrs. Bowsher. I wash never sho
insulted in my life. I would have
given a thousand dollars to get home,
but they wouldn't let me. When I
wanted to go they rolled me on the
floor. Think of it. Mrs. Bowser-
rolling me. your husband-Mr. Bow
ser. on the hoor!"
didn't 1 tell you it was all a
fake?'
'sYesh, you did. but I didn't believe
you. I thought you didn't know
Bowsheer-perfectiy awful. they
asked me to get up and shpeak, and
when I rose they pelted me wiz
onions and Eaters and yelled me
down. Think of their hitting me on
my bald head wiz a 'tater!"
A wave of emotion swept over him
at the recollection and he sobbed
aloud. Mrs. BOwser patted him on
the head. and the cat came and rub
bed against his leg, but it was five
minutes before he could go on.
s'They wouldn't listen to my ad-
dress, but howled me down and shout
fellers. and they made me buy bout
two kegs of beer When I said I
wouldn't buy any more they rolled
me on the floor and pulled my coat
tail off. Think of that. Mrs. Bowser!"
Eyes, I'm thinking"
Think Of a great big loafer grab
bling hold of me and swinging me
around and tearing my coattail off!
Don't you think I can have him sent
to prison for that? And they didn't
stop there. They tore all the buttons
off my vest and rode me around the
room on a bench. How dare they do
such things to Mr.. Bowsher-how
ssyVeu. YOU are not fatally injured,
are your" she asked after a, silence
during which the tears chased each
other down his cheeks.
at guess not. I've got about forty
bumps and bruises, but I guess I will
live through it. But what about my
feelings. Mrs. Bowser-what about my
feelings? I shall never get over it.
they make me buy two kegs of beer
OFF one of my coattails. Then they shing
a shong bout Bowsher and Towsher
and Wowsher, and everybody laughs
and yells. Mrs. Bowsher-'
But what did you drink?' she inter
rupted.
s'Nozzing tan. got mad and
wouldn't drink and then they held me
down on the floor and poured beer
down my neck Poured almost keg
of beer down my neck!
"And have you had enough of the
Unsophisticated Innocents?'
II have, Mrs. Bowser-I have. From
this time forward whatever you tell me
to do shall do. You know best about
all things. You-you are wise womans
and I'm-I'm a, fool. Mrs. Bow-ow-
sher, I never in all my life loved you
ash do-do-"
He rose up with the intention of
adding an embrace to his words, but
lurched aside and sat down on the floor
with great jar, and leaning his back
against the wall he was soon sound
asleep. Mrs. Bowser left him there and
went to bed. At what hour he followed
her she did not know, but she certainly
expected to find him in a humble and
contrite mood when she a.woke. A sur
prise awaited her. AS he got out of
bed at the usual hour he said:
at seems a mighty funny thing that
I can't go out to a club of an evening
without this house being all upset.
Here we are, half an hour late this
Innocents last night" she
replied.
"Of course I did, and never had
such honor and Difference paid me be- |
fore. I was 1T with the biggest kind of
an T. and I suppose you will be jeal- |
Gus about it!"-(Copyright 1905, by T. |
c. McClure.)