Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-17

of the visitors
A FTER the bride and groom and the preacher and
the women had disappeared the Doc went to
the front door, about dozen mad and muddy
men were rushing up the steps,
their business known and let's talk this thing over
quietly and reasonably AS the poet says:
West is west and is east,
And wrong wrong and right is right,
And the dogs may take the wedding feast
That doesn't arouse your appetite
Am l to understand that you in the words of
PolOnluS, have daughter, sir?
The girls father was an anxious looking with
that pointed good deal to the northeast and
he threw out strong hints about funeral pro-
cessions unless he could have his own way
MY friend said the Doc So don't want to break
into anybodys pantry or tread preserves that
kept for some other mans private |
father myself, and | sympathize with you; but why
permit the ambiguity of the manumission to super
sede the heterogeneousness of the homogenety when
1T is quite apparent that there is present danger
of a recrudeScenCe of the nascent subservience or
of the tentativeness of the juxtaposition?
The old man. who had acted nervous, didn't
to believe than half of it and said he had
picion that the wedding going up stairs and
also that he intended to go up and see for himself
HOLD on just moment, my friends" said the
IA Doc, t:kng little bottle from his pocket and
shaking 1T. . You see here before you common vial
or bottle He held it up between his thumb and
forefnger Keep your eye on it steadily and be
not deceived. In the words of the poet, What the
eye perceives the mind believes l have in this
small bottle that Which lovers have died tor and
which babies have cried for that which naves have
fought over, and geese have been shot / will
not attempt, gents to deceive you have here what
could do without 1t saves life, and it takes
life. 1t is mans greatest friend and his most treach-
enemy Gents, it is water commonly supposed
to be combination of oxygen and hydrogen
He spread his thumb and n, finger apart then, and
teresed by that time and the Doc asked the old
for his hat Holding it up everybody could see it,
he said
will acl- cornebody Knife
Angel Willie passed his up, and the Doc said:
Il will now cut this piece of headgear in small
strips wave little wand which shall pluck out of
the circumambient air, and the owner will find his
hat unchanged, on the gatepost. Watch closely!
"Here!" yelled the old man as the Doc made long
slash "Confound you! you'll pay for that,
THE Doc made another cash, and then the farmer
made rush for hi 4: but suddenly stopped, gave
howl and started back with his hands his face
l noticed at the same time that the room began to
fill up with blush kind of smoke which started
everybody to sneezing and gasping. In half min
ute more there was a general miX-up and was kept
too busy for awhile to notice what the others
doing. The fellow who had me in his grip was big
and ungente, and it a lucky thing that hap
pened to remember little jiu tsu trick which the
Doc had been teaching me at odd moments for a
week or two. When got my thumb on the right spot
there quick results accompanied by loud yell.
That very nicely done, Zachariah," said the
Doc when he and l met the porch.
Angel Willie and the others looked good deal
the worse for wear when assembled inside after
the bride people had departed
The bride and groom agreed to let Clytie and the
Doc and me ride with them to Rymersburg, where
they going to spend their honeymoon We got
away about ten o'clock. 1t was still raining and
darker than the outlook of who invests his last
dollar in mining stock. AS going out the
gate, leaving the Monte Cristo Company behind and
badly crippled, the Doc said:
1T saddens to think of the depravty of that
driver. l am almost positive he was intoxicated
To be continued next Sunday