The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-08-30

VINO nrSt put tne OBEY out OF
the marriage contract-here it is as
is was told by Lum Speeler, the re-
formed drummer, who said he read
it at the depot while he was waiting
| for his train, which was two hours
l late:
1t was sure swell affair. This A.
H. Asuerus was no piker. When he
put on show it was de riguer ant
CONNIE il faute from the potted palms
to the guests souvenirs, and this was
to be the biggest blowout that had
ever been put over in the land of the
Modes and Persians. For A. H.
Asuerus was feeling good. Things
had been coming his way for some
time. He had been killing off some
hundreds of thousands of his enemies
yearly for the, three years that he had
been on the job and had extended his
culture from India even unto Ethio-
pia, over a hundred and seven and
twenty provinces, or total of one
hundred and twenty-seven, as the last
trial balance of the royal books plain
ly showed.
So A. H. Asuerus felt there was
something coming to him in the way
of praise, incense and honor from the
folks in his own town, lest they for
get Who was Who in Persia. At the
same time as he had been drawing
pretty heavily on the taxpayers for
the sinews of war and expected to |
make a few more drafts on them just |
as soon as he could dig up some
more enemies to conquer, he thought
it just as well to beat the tomtoms
and agitate and loud timbrels for
them, so that they might forget the
royal drafts that had been and would
be blowing in on them. So he told
the chamberlain to cut loose, regard
less. What did he care for expense?
Give 'em the time of their lives. Let
the name of this town be Wide Open
for a hundred and four score days,
4.
He didn't have to say it the second
time. A. H. was no repeater. What
he said went, and he meant it just
that way. And you may believe those
Persian boys went to it. They played
the game from Soda to Hook, with
the sky for limit and nothing short
of it.
And it wound up with a 7-day eat
ing and drinking match in the kings
was the kings own treat.
By this time feeling good" wouldn't
begin to describe the fine mood that a
old Asuerus had worked himself up to.
Everybody was there-it was "a feast
unto all the people that were present :,
in Shusham, both great and SMALL"
bar none, and che gave them drink ',
in vessels of gold, the vessels being u
diverse one from the other"-just +"
think of that-"and royal wine in "
according to the state of a.
The king" And you can imagine what a
state he was in without much guess
ng. At that he was a gentlemanly N
I'D sport-he gave it out cold that if D
here were any prohibitionists there he tc
lidn't want them compelled" and he al
appointed to the officers of his house, n
hat they should do according to every 81
mans pleasure" Some politician, was tf
\. H. TT
But, say, the decorations-they were ~
imply immense. Gorgeous isn't the -
vord. The big feed was pulled off in III
he court of the garden of the kings :"
alace, and there were white, green
nd blue hangings his col A'
eye colors-"f fastened with cords of
ne linen and purple rings and pill -
ars of MARBLE" and if any of the ..
uests went under they had "beds of u
old and silver, upon pavement of !"
ed and blue and white and black iii
larble" to sleep it off in and start ~
l fresh in the morning.
There was hardly anything that A. S''
|. A. Asuerus overlooked-it was a iie
ing head that he was thinking with al
o keep the women from messing a
,und and spelling the fun ne had M
ashti, his queen, stake them off an 90
her part of the palace-away over ~
the east wing, where they couldn't W.
ear the noise-and he gave them ~
tile spread all to themselves with 90
nix tea and nectar and charlotte u
Isses-that was Vashti's treat. 1t ~
as all schemed out to a gnat's heel :,
r royal orgie that would make -
erything that had ever happened ~: 81,
that time before look like deuce ~
ct. Apparently he hadn't overlook ~ ~
a bet. They'd know who was the ~ ~
e Boss in Persia after that, and nc
mistake. So he lay back and toss ~.
down his royal goblets and was -,
killed. to the limit with himself.
And just about that time he got
Bump. Such a bump The shot ''eA