The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-21


previous to my getting the horse il
happened in this town that three hen
coops were raided; four clothes lines
stripped; three men ASA ulted; two
hoss stolen, five tramps locked up, and
| gram stolen from two barns. Besides
Inns the usual crowd gathered at the
posloInce, and at least five hundred lies
were told and five thousand oaths
used. Have You heard that there has
peen any increase over this record?"
Moo
linen my example has not been a
pern1c1ouS one has it?'
The minister drew long breath nd
shook his head and went away. Tt
| seemed sinful to him for a church dea-
con TO own and drive a horse that
could get there is 2:27, and yet Deacon
ingram was too heavy for him on the
argument
Among IT, several widows in town
who might marry again if thew GOT
ne chance-that is, if some worthy
man came along and said he was
ready to die for them-was a Mrs
HaiIcneL. She was forty-five years old.
fortably well off.
' very nice man. the deacon isl she al
am ny o repIled to her questioners; and when
obsSer UnS naentloned her name to him his
Ihe Widow Mitchell? She's a real
s san and If she ever marries again I hope
sitS gets good husband
One day Mrs. Mitchell and two other
S wiuo"s happened to be in the store at the
see that they Were being properly served
a io 10 remark that his horse Frank had
6 6revIo the whole county the dust on the
joking way: III
IA good many people are asking why 1
don't get married again. Ny excuse is
'n .aJv | am e waiting"
blushing widows.
For some widow to get a horse that
can pass me on the road"
tho 80 u Are sa1e and We are safer was
The e WidowS M sHPef was the only widow
years old and could get up up a gait of three 20
niles an hour when the weather was
frosty and the going good. She also had
out. ~ ~
CHI nhe evening Of the meeting at the store
kept livery stable in a town fifty miles
away away 1t was the first letter she had
nd grn h for b 5w0 sered read #
laughed Ugh and I said to himself:
is a nice man. I believe
Within week after receiving her
prot brothers tq reply the Widow Mitchell went
While there a horse arrived for her. He
was Was lean and long and flea-bitten. He
fchn ieob boHt e 5 rfe that eGnd
lions that came with him the Widow
you'd have shed tears of grief and morti-
Put on the CAD and wake him up, and
Ineh get strong and steady pull the
lines The harder you pull the faster he
will co.
In half an hour the woman's face wore
day for two weeks. and then She She drove drove
fIp111ea Her friends :s nodded to her and
the equine and laughed and said:
w., II am a man of my word. Why didn't
yo ooEg get better h1rse? p,
ing reply.
No one suspected what was in the wind
They saw the widow riding out evening
after evening, but it only to nudge
ohter and wonder if the plug would be
found 9hS, dead in his stall next morning.
deacon and his fast stopper overhauled
the widow on the road, and they came
what's the lowest figure?'
Two hundredr' was replied.
Give you a dollar and half in store |
trader
When he 1ogged along for about forty
in his rear and looked back to see the |
widow bearing down upon him.
Bless me. but her old crowbait is run
Then after a few seconds: mo, he |
snt Why; she's going to race me with !
She was. She had narrowed a light |
buggy, pinned her hat on with four pins, |
ines. Three cuts with the whip had |
awakened plug from his dreams of the |
rs it a racer" called the deacon.
ut isl
For forty rods it was an even thing and |
he deacon was amazed al the driving and
he pace. He began to fall behind and at
he end of a mile he was only within
shouting distance.
WAS it fair?' asked the widow as he
,ame up.
Fair? Fair? NY dear woman, I shall
lot wait to call upon you this evening.
VIII you be my wife,"
Such was the answer of a good and
1onest man. and as they rode slowly
the whipporwills sang and
cupid turned handsprings--(Cop
913, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
ate.)