Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-23

State. Our relations, Mr.. Ardmore
| viii not be social. but purely official
Do you accept the terms?"
| II do; and I warn you now that
shall never resign"
II have heard papa say that life is
short and the tenure OF office uncer
tain. I can remove you at any time !
please. Now do you understand that
| this is serious business? There's like
ly to be lot OF trouble, and no time
for asking questions. 30 when say it's
SO it's so.''
ITS So" repeated Ardmore docilely
Now, here's the sheriff at Kildare
on our side Of the line, who writes
to say that he is powerless to catch
Applewetght. He's afraid of the dark
that man. You see, the grand jury in
Dilwell county-that's kildare, YOU
know-has indicted Appleweight as a
common outlaw, but the grand Jurors
were all friends of Appleweight and
the indictment was onl yto satisfy law
and-order sentiment and appease the
Wonan's Civic League of Raleigh.
Now papa doesn't mean / don't
want to offend these Appleweight peo-
pie by meddling in this business. Papa
wants Governor Osborne to arrest Ap-
pleweight in South Carolina; but 1
don't believe Governor Osborne will
dare to do anything about It, Now, Mr..
Ardmore, am not going to have papa
called coward by anybody, particu-
larly by South Carolina people, after
Uhaf nsh -
state"
why, what did he say?"
He said in a speech at Charleston
last winter that no people who fry
their meat can ever amount to any
thing, and he meant US! can never
forgive him for that; besides. his
daughter is the stuck-upest thing!
And I'd like Barbara Osborne to tell
me how she got into the Colonial
Danes, and what call she has to be
inspector-general of the Granddaugh-
tiers Of the Mexican War; for I've
heard my grandfather Dangerfield say
many time that old Colonel Osborne
and his South Carolina regiment new
er did go outside Of Charleston until
the war was over and the American
army had come back home"
Only one tiny fist this time: Ard
more was sure of it. Her Indignation
against the Osbornes was SO sincere,
the pouting petulance to which it
diminished SO like childs and the
gravity of the offense so novel in his
simple experiences, that Ardmore was
bound in chains before her speech was
finished. The little drawl with which
she concluded gave heightened signifi-
canoe to her last three words, so that
1t seemed that all the veterans of the
war with Mexico trudged by, bearing
the flag of North Carolina and no 9TH
er banner.
Governor Osborne is Contempt
BILE ruff1an," declared Ardmore with
deep feeling.
Miss Dangerfeld nodded judicial
approval. and settled back in her
chair the better to contemplate her
new secretary, and said:
I'm Daughter of the Confederacy
and a Colonial Dame. What are your"
IAsuppose you'll never speak to me
again; papa sent three expensive sub.
stitutes to the Civil War"
Three! Horrible!"
Two of them deserted, and one fell
into the Potomac on his way south
and was drowned I guess they didn't
do you folks much harm"
We'll forgive you that; but what
did your ancestors do in the Revolu-
tion?''
I'm ashamed to say that my great
grandfather was poor guesser. He
died during Washington's second adj
ministration still believing the Revo.
luton failure"
do you speak of the war of 1861
as the Rebellion or as the war be-
tween the states? advise you to be
careful what you say and Miss Jer-
~ Dangerfeld was severe.
II don't believe I ever mentioned
1t either way, so I'm willing to take
your word for it,
THE second form is correct, Mr..
Ardmore. When well-bred Southern
people say Rebellion, they refer to
the uprising Of 1776 against the Brit
ish oppressor"
Good. I'm sure shall never get
them mixed. Now that you are the
governor, what are you going to do
first about Appleweight?'
Give written-that is to say, papa
wrote before he went away, a strong
letter to Governor Osborne, complain
ing that Appleweight was hiding in
South Carolina and was running
across the state line to rob and muir
der people in North Carolina. Papa
told Governor Osborne that he must
break up the Appleweight crowd or he
would do something about it himself.
It's splendid letter; you would think
that even coward like Governor Os-
borne would do something after get
ting such letter.
did he answer the letter."
Answer it? He never got it! Papa
didn't send it; that's the reason.
Papa's the lsindest man in the world,
and he must have been afraid of hurt
ing Governor Osborne's feelings. He
wrote the letter, expecting to send it,
but when he went off to New Orleans
he told Mr.. Bassford to hold it till he
got back. He had even signed it-you
can read it If you like"
1t was undoubtedly a vigorous epis-
tie, and Ardmore felt the thrill of it's
rhetorical sentences as he read. The
official letter paper on which it was
fyDeWritteO and the ciopaiuro of