The Prescott daily news., 1909-01-26

pointers when the market turns again.
 Comes one Lasselle and makes great tale of mine and 1 with no time for him, but do set the office boy to look him up in Bradstreet
 These be busy days with a corner on parsnips.
 May tenth.
 The business of being director in Lasselles mine ended this day and to a great dinner that he giveth in my honor and my portrait on all the cards the which pleaseth me nightly and all complimented and congratulated and sly hints on my approaching mar riage to the which l all smiles for Lord the thing being done one must be of good courage.
 Quotations low, beshrew them. June seventh (the Mountains).
 Married this day and to do in a tur- moil wheat being all a-rage and me forced to go home to dress before noon. Did scarce know where 1 was with Extras being cried outside the church window and Ii. Nevil giving the bride away and on the wrong side of the market by my advice. The bride hystericky in the carriage and at the station wept so that was fair be- side myself Did bethink me to kiss her in the train, but small comfort to either. What will become of my af fairs l know not, this place being ali without stock reports and l half mac and with naught to pass the time. August tenth
 This do be the hottest summer in many years and lest 1 forget to set it down more mad dugs ttan can well be handled My wife very hystericky and forever in @ smock and declareth she would be dead and married life de lusion, the which opinion I take small ! .ssue with having my hands full of | business and Lasselle forever at my heels with our affair of the mine not. lo speak of ii. Neyil which waileth continually over how he was caught short in the month of June. Beshrew me if l repent not of June on mine own behalf but am determined to live properly and so have dispatched a messenger to my cousin Sarah Bad hinton asking that she come to keep mine house.
 August twentieth.
 Comes Sarah Badminton this day and Lord but plain woman, being flat like unto board from her heels up unto her head. Still she do seem worthy jade and good at heart and ever attentive when 1 will to converse and sitteth with me at a breakfast my wife being ever asleep till ten.
 Last night to the play where comes Lasselle and makes very merry and telleth jokes the which of great amuse- ment to my wife while l find no mirth therein.
 To my office where did buy and sell as usual
 | September sixteenth
 My wife not well and strangely in disposed towards me yawning unduly and complaining that life is dull, yet l gay enough for others and of a great | joy over riding horseback with Las selle.
 To my office and H. Nevil all excite ment over his margins.
 October twenty ninth.
 Returned this day from a trip to the coast and find my wife no better al though the doctor hath been with her each day. She saith the doctor advis- eth quiet until spring Comes Mrs Badminton her face all awry and will that l go with her to Carlsbad and my affairs so many as never was and never any lover of the sea. That which | causeth me great veXation that | have a wife and say fiatly to Mrs Badmin- | ton to ask the doctor if he can not take her 10 Carlsbad any money be- ing wiser than to travel with oats where they be now and chicken feed | going up to beat the band 1 November sixth.
 My wife most nervous and there be- ! ing no peace with her did discuss the same with Lasselle today and al- though unmarried yet did sympathize much and advise for me with a right good will telling me of place in southern France where he had been and the same beyond all else for the nerves only lonely but that not so bad | since he pIoposeth goiNg there this l winter himself and can see after my wife somewhat the which greatly to my relief and so home and did dis course thereon with Mistress Badmin- ton the which drew long face and l plain to see was dead against the nlan