The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-10

save him several plugs of the strongest
kind of weed. such stuff as is generally
labeled 'Workingman's Pride, or Sail
ors' Delight but Ben. he didn't get
sick-gobbled the brown slabs up and
whisked his stub tail contentedly as
though asking for more
"One of the sawyers at the mill was
a big Swede called Address, or some
thing that sounded like that, and An
dress l might say. before the coming
Of the goat was the cock of the walk
as the big tobacco chewer. Address
chewed plug cut, cross cut, long cut
cigars and pipe ashes: he had tobacco
in His mouth from morning to night,
kept the quid slowed away in the hol-
low of his cheek wheE eating. and half
the time went to bed with it still i'm his
jaws. Address liked notoriety, and it
was pleasing to his vanity to hear the
men speak of him as the greatest to-
bacco chewer they had ever seen, so
you will readily appreciate that when
Ben came on the scene the big Swede
was not tickled to death
" Dat got him. bane one fule to
chew 'bac' with me; l bane could beat
him much, Address said one evening
when the boys I'D at the cOmmissary
began to tease him about Ben taking
his laurels. The paymaster, who could
dlN d1S ste liC CUdIlCc LOT Il JOke. UGAlO
the Swede's remark, and the happy
thought occurred TO him to have a 20
baccO chewing contest between Address
and the goat. Address. when the prop
ositiOn was made TO him, seemed TO
swell with Importance. Would he chew
tobacco against that old, measly goat ?
Why. sure. he would. and glad 10 do
it, too, and as for the goat why he'd
a-been willing if it was tin-can chew
ing contest
The match was arranged for a Sun
day, when all the men were off and
had a chance to see the fun. and the
ring for the queer combat was pitched
down i'm front of the company store.
Two big jars. each filled with loose to-
bacco, were place don the ground in
The center of the space roped off, and
the paymaster and myself were present
to act as judges
Betting was lively on the contest.
and as the goats full powers were still
only matter of guesswOrk the Swede
was the favorite. Well, it was 10
O'Clock on a bright Sabbath morning
when the jars Of tobacco were set out
in the inclosed space and the Swede
and the goat were placed In the ring.
The Swede, the better to fit himself
for the game, had abstained from to-
baccO for a whole day. and he smiled
disdainfully as his blue eyes rested on
the goat, which was stretching and
straining on a rope held in his mas
ter's hand at the edge of the ring. in
an endeavor to get at what was to
him prize breakfast food.
''The two champions entered the ring.
Address getting in unassitcd ana Ben
being lifted over the ropes The Swede
squatted down alongside his jar, dug In
ham-like fist and drew out enough
loose tobacco to fill a pound paper
sack. He quickly worked the strings
stuff into q huge Quid showed ii into
his mouth, and began to move his jaws
violently.
''The goat pursued quite a different
course: he loped TO his Jar, introduced
his mouth to the wide-open neck. and
started in, not to chew the tobacco. but
to eat it. Before Address had reduced
his first mouthfui to pulp Ben was
leading handsomely. and the Swede. In
mad endeavor TO regain lost ground
adm avert such a calamity as being
beaten by a goat. took out the tobacco
with both hands, put it into his mouth
and swallowed il as fast as he could
Just as the goat was doing. But goats
are queerly constituted; their stonachs
are made to stand anything from a
cream puff TO a colored supplement
and while Ben got along famously OF
the tobacco diet. poor Address soon be-
gan TO show the effects OF his over
eating First the big Scandinavian
face lost its rudy hue and turned a
sickly yellow his harids. Still convey