The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-09-17

tlent WIN DamOn Wnen ne THNtu aoou'
her hair, her glorious eyes, aud swore
that he must nave her or die. lie did
nj even say that Damon would wish
he had died IL he did get her, which
was the best proof that he thought
Damon was about what the doctor or
dered. lie Clipped in for the ice cream,
the JOY rides, the theater tickets, the
flowers and such like junk that accom-
pany the swarming season, and when II
came = a show down. dug up for the
marriage license and paid the preacher,
Damon having become pretty thoroughly
strapped by the gait he had to 20 to ge,
her. II il not recorded that she was
worth il, that she was not a good hand
at making flapiacks and real neat when
Il anne TO swiftly and properly ahxing
Il clout 10 Damon Junior. The charity
of the ages compels the admission Of
all such wifely virtues, and anybody
who doesn Z is an ungallant pup and
wears cotton union suits. Anyhow II she
didn Z qualify in those things, II was
the business Of nobody except Damon
and IL il not recorded that he ever
registered n kick, except perhaps in.
side Of the walls of his own chosa, where
a man has u perfect right to put up II
protest at the way things are going ii
he wants 10. Mr.. and Mrs. Damon
seemed to get along alright, did their
part in the boosting the scholastic popu.
lation and to prove that race suicide
was a dangerous principle, and to keep
ahead of the grocer, and those others
who whined for their treasure on the
first Of the month. The records deal
kindly with this period, in regard 10
the way that Damon and Pythias occas'
%ioually sneaked OF for one good old.time
foot together. of the occasions when
they did such things NJ men of this day
do when they have the opportunity.
II the boys had been content with the
simple life. they would never have got.
ten into any trouble. hut being men they
had a hard time attending 10 their own
business. and Pythias was accused of
stuning the ballot box in precinct 20,
or something like that. II was pre-
>umed that he stuffed il the wrong way,
as he was duly indicted by the grand
Jury. and sentenced to a shortening OF
the cabela by Dionysius, who didn I he.
lieve u darned word about the freedom
OF the ballot unless it was free his way.
While pythias was in jail. Damon was
much worried. did all that he could TO
gc, the indictment Quashed and 10 sup
PLY his friend with Duke's Mixture aud
an occasional vial of Henry Clay. There
WASH 7 any supreme court 10 appeal To.
and it looked very much as though Ply.
thias was going TO be clipped ~ the ap.
pointed time. Seeing whore he was go
Ing 10 get his. Pythias wanted Ia 20
home and clear up his bills, and attend
to various other things that ought To
be fixed up when u man expects Ia be-
u long time dead. After trying every
scheme they could think Of 10 get him
lout, Damon finally made Il talk 10 Diony'
sius, saying that pythias was the mus
tard. the only original article, and that
being his chuIn. he would like 10 stay in
Jail while pythias went home aud got his
hair cut aud e bath. II Pvthins didn I
get back at the appointed time they
could cut his head on and he darned.
Dionysius had heard of the friendship oi
the two, and to see il they were as big
' chumps rs had been reported, agreed Il
the proposition. Damon took the place
9 OF pythias in Jail, and the condemned
man chartered an auto and hiked foi
home. where he attended to things a.
y u Thoughtful man would who was g"
" ing 10 parts unknown, not 10 return. !,
! was hard To tear himself away, The
baby had just cut his first tooth am
= Mrs. Pythias' hot cakes and pure p0rl
; sausage appealed to a man who had beer
q living in the cooler for months. When II
" came time TO start there was no gaso
line in town, and the best that Pythia'
7 could do was 10 charter n burro aud Il
: baseball bat aud start for the butcher
u shop that way.
In the mean time Damon had proven
himself II good Indian, and when Pythia'
' failed to show up told everybody thai
he must have gotten the pip or III,
IS grippe, and that he would he along il
plenty of time to take his appointed
part in the little carving bee that huc
been arranged for the amusement of the
Y people. hi and the aforesaid dear PEG
Pile agreed among themselves that Da
mon was the biggest sucker on record
ad that Pythias was not likely 10 show