Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-09


 MIR. CHARLES sPOONER ENTERED. like as we took our way to the Kicker office and sat down to write an edl- torial on the annexation of the United States to Canada.
 We felt balminess steal over us as we wrote.
 We had thoughts of raising the sal ary of our agricultural editor and won dered to ourself if it would spoil his industrious spirit.
 We have kept our horse editor on S7 week for the last year in order that he should not be tempted to commit matrimony, but we wondered now if the time hadn't come to raise him a dollar a week and let him become the head of a family.
 MT. John Schwartz, the druggist, came in and called us liar, but our balminess remained.
 Mir Jerry White, the saloonist drop ped in to say that he would riddle our carcass If we had anything more to say about him in the Kicker, but we only laughed and winked at him,
 It seemed as if nothing could trou- ble us or put us out of temper, It was one of those days when one looks around him and realizes that this is q good old world and doesn't want to take chances on the next.
 We were never In better fettle for writing. We, had advanced fifteen reasons why 1t would be a good thing for Canada to get hold of this coun- try and were hunting around for the other fifteen when the sanctum door swung back and MT. Charles Spooner entered. We noticed that he had q gun in his hand and that there were signs of mental excitement in his face, but as this is the way with half our callers we paid no particular atten- tion to him.
 MT. Spooner, it should be explained, landed in Giyeadam Gulch about three months ago He had watched the slow but sure approach of that re sistless thing called civilization, and he had bucked against 1t. He wanted old times to stay with us and to keep the new far away. He looked over the town. thought the soil was fer tile and hltched his cayuse to the nearest post The late deceased, as we must now speak of him, didn't lose any time getting to work. He used his guns right and left to reduce the next census, and he was soon known as a ripr0arer. To do him justice, he had sand-ots of sand.
 Drove Him Out of Town.
 We are secretary of the local vigi- lance committee The late deceased was given a fair show to make his mark, and then 1t became our painful duty to notify him in writing to light out and hit higher attitudes. He re- fused at first to go. but one night, after standing on barrel with q noosed rope around his neck for ten minutes, he changed his mind He didn't seem to blame anybody in par tlcular at that time. but after getting. away he felt humiliated and laid 1t ali to us personally. He had now come for his revenge. but of course we could not read his mind.
 The late deceased opened the inter view by announcing that If we desired to kneel in prayer he could spare us three minutes to ask forgiveness for all the mean things we had ever done in our life We told him that 1t would take three weeks to make any sort of a job of 1t, but he refused to see the humor fin our remarks. He then an nounced that he had come a distance of hundred miles to shoot us into the other land and ordered us to elevate our hands. Up they went. Any editor in this part of the west who is worthy of the name can talk with his hanh up as we'll as down.
 We tried to be entertaining to our caller. We told him two or three good jokes and hoped to see him laugh with us. but he continued to treat the mat, ger as d serious affair. We had just started in on the best yarn of all whel he called time on us and began blaz- Ing away Why he didn't gather us to our fathers and leave the only good