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Show 'JlEiliillFRESII, ES, Write! a Touching Epistle From a Cross, load Station For BympatiiT tad Help. EE WAS CSE OF THE PILGBIKl Proad tad Hopsfal Wu the 8Ux Lai Sii and SerioaJ It ths Fiilsh. Sovewiif.re xk ar LarmnE 41 !f, ) ANI KoNfim Mill WtT. I'tahTck.. Nor. I, isuo. ) F.Jltor of ih Salt Uxc Times: Df..h Sir I m ia a deperat nod deplorable lit anil uniea you come to my Tvtcm p ti. q. therm will be a yawning yawn-ing gap in Tiik TtMt nct Saturday ia th place vt my valuable contrtbu-lion. contrtbu-lion. I may be compelled to Bit a cell in the local jail of F.ureka instead of d)l ii in a in the aforesaid Iwuc. Or. I may be deal. Allow m to evplal to you. Early ami gay a meadow lark I re Una. day morning to join Goodwin's pilgrims at the Walker house. My wifa being at first reluctant 10 lei me go on a political po-litical errand, gave at Ul hr cooaenl when he learned that I wa la be tn th company of JMayor rVott, J mitre Power. K linririur IV'xt Mf. shal Dyer and other gentlemen reputedl tor their patriotism and sobrirty. I never saw herso .ier to help m off aa on that identical morning and sh withheld her parting kiaa nolil sh reaohd the gat, to the end that the neighbor might are it. When I reached tha hotel W found an animated croup aiirroundin the bar and aa I had hern pcmuaited in partake of the trip I thought II Included all the Incidentals pertaining thereto, and consequently 1 joined tho throng. When duly forltlliHl 1 plaitni myself at the head of the proremuvn and mrrh4 to the depot in an ulstnr and hlgd spirits. The ulster Is now In pawn aud mr spirit broken. V.Nerylhing was merry as a wexlding lie 1 1 until we reached Eureka. Thera) at royal riileiUtniiiml was tendered n pilgrims, at which tha hple Iowa) aeemed to lie prwernl, lu th mldl of the feast somebody called for ths) ll-m. Jeremiah Freh la reHind to th tuiwit. "The dear lailiea. God tl.-e Iheni" .Vow I am a modest man and woul'l hare preferred to remain aloaa with my n pat. but it would hav Imicii uinnllfsily unfair to dUappoinl so large and enthutUstlc an audienrai thai rlaiiiored for am. So I cm iurward anil remarked In uliunce Mh. ( iiaimmai, l.4!irsiGtm r.x.-lllsa d.tllcate task you Itnpoa 'I ui me, to apeak to tha dear ladle, tjotl bleMthni; but I iiippoiMi my reputation repu-tation as a bulge of fcmliilno charms ha precaded me. and you wish to bo-hold bo-hold n face to face. Applause Now, lei ni ilrclare r glit hera tha platform on which this pi grim ataada ia this campaign. 1 m too broad a man tt love merely a woman. I am ia lota with th whole si't, lUapturnne ap-plans ap-plans r Never has lady appealvd to na . without n-irlvl ig a rlis.rons rMpoaaai and none eier t isII. Whi living. 1 am sorry to tar, (A volra: So am 1 la U decline t( thai nineteenth century. I bear within my manly boaotn the spirit of the knight' errand aud cavalier of the seventeenth renlitry, and would gj forth to do battle this minute with any chump who should dar to envy mm Ih fasi'inalliig glanrr now rivatted upon mil by tha fair ladle ot this audlenra, Kirnan ) Let all the men of L'lah vote) for Judge Goml win, but glv m. yea, give me, the dear la-lit, God blrta them, or give me death Deafening applause followed my peroration. per-oration. "1 bat night I could scarcely sleep a wink, so full ww 1 of glory and other thing. Hut like Lucifer, I full, and I sin down yet. Tlie net! morning morn-ing I received a telegram reading thuat Mat? I.asa Crrv. tvt. l. JeaKMUH FassM. Ptlrtm. KnreW - iin ait fiir-ber mull y4 esplaln yuur einduct nt m niubU Naaa. Accordingly I dldnt go any further hut neither did I com any nearer. The fact 1 I cannot. I depended upon the public spirit of tha LlU-ral party la sustain me while advocating their causa) and when 1 was cut oS from tb pil-griuit pil-griuit I w stranded I deed a rail road pat anil IH 50 to get out of hare. Meantime I am wandering la this latitude lati-tude and longitnd to keep out of reach of mm hnmt In KuT" and also to mnaa over the tutor. It I, don't Invent a plausible Ii fur my wife pretty sooo, or fail to hear from TmbV , Tim as, 1 wonder If It would not b aa ; opportune moment to commit swnsa- . tional suicide, fa th Utter ease) l hall glr yon th benefit of a scoop, I bnt for heaven's salt duo t forgot lh 1 pass and V) rV). Yours, hopefully, JrsrwiAH Fbbmh. |