Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-04

an. bein's they had plenty OF money. HI
was glad TO see EN-. Well. some o. the
fellers was all right, but more OF EN- was
hogs bout ticker. an they was the wust
lot O. billed owls you ever see In less'n
no time.
Moonlight solos.
Even at that, things would have been
all right an smooth 'nough II them Owls
had kept into the cellar where the bar was,
but when they commenced to feel skittlsh
out they come an circulated round 'mongst
the summer boarders on the piazzys an
down where they was a-playin' crockay.
The wimmen they all got skeered an ran
in the house. an some o. the men they set
out to drive the owls off. The Owls was all
fighters, though, an pretty soon there was
a grand mix-up, endin' with the Owls on
top an the summer boarders goin' up to
Ellsworth in automobiles after the con-
stables. While they were gone the Owls
set on the piazzy and sung a song 1 heard
up here to Bangor oncet. somethin' like
this:
Hail, hail. the gangs all here;
What the hell do we care.
"Hi, he sees how things @as goln'. an
tried to get the gang to go board o. their
steamboat, but they wouldn't go till they'd
had mother drink all round. They got the
~drink-two or three Of 'em, an Jest startin'
for the boat when up drove three buck
boards loaded with the wimmen o. the
Woman's Christian Temperance union, that
was goin' to hold their annual meetin' an
picnic at HIS place. They wasn't young
wimmen, nor good lookin', but
them Owls they grabbed holt of 'em an
give each Of 'em a hug an a kiss. Then
the Owls started for Bangor, wavin' bot
ties an singin' their song.
'Things was lookin' pretty bad for HI an
his house about then. The temperance VIM
men swore they'd have the law onto him
for sellin' Ticker an close up the house, an
they sot right down there an drawed up
some res'lootions condemnln' Hi and his
place. an the Owls an the that
fetched 'em. an sent copies to the county
attorney an all the papers in Hancock
county. Then they eat their picnic grub an
said some prayers an hoped onto their
buckboards an went home, sayin' as how
the place was too contaminated with vice
an crime for decent folks to stay In.
Inside o. six hours the sheriff was there
with two dep'ties. an they cleaned out HIS
bar of bout 5000 with o. good Ticker an
carted it off. Next term o. Court HI was
fined 800 an costs an told that II ne was
caught ag'in he'd get sixty days into ELS
worth jail.
A Change of base.
NOW. that would a-be'n enough to
stop most any man I'm sellin' ticker, but
{ only made Hi mad, an he put in
mother stock, but this time he hid it
away where he thought the sheriff could
not find II. He closed up the bar an put
a sign onto the door sayin':
"'N ticker sold here to Owls nor no
one e~lse-gone out o. bizness.'
Down In the cove near the hotel the
old schooner Ariel, that Hi used to go in
fore his dad died an left him all the
prop'ty, was hauled up, an twas board
her that HI put his new stock o. Ticker.
He got old Asa Hickborn to make false
floors in her after house.. an fix up hides
under her ceilin' an put up in the fore
peak an other places. an hid away the
Ticker that fashion. Then he piled up bar
rels 'midships right under the main hatch,
an dumped a lot o. ballast on top O.
'em. When he wanted some to sell he
used to go down board the Ariel an fetch
up a few bottles to a time, an that way
he stood off the temperance folks for a
whole year. They knoWedf he was a%-sellin'.
but they couldn't seem to get onto his
hidin' place. HI an old Asa Hickbor was
the only two that was in the secret.
This scheme worked complete, Sticks
an cells back. till long in the second sum-
mer, when one night, Jest after HI had
put bout a thousan' dollars wurth O.
ticker board o. the schooner, there come
up a blow that ripped things up gin'rally