Show V V BIG JOKERS V w V I Forty orty or r fifty Y years ear cs i ago o. o Oregon h had Q two re le men One was J Joe DC Lane IJane of or Buena BuenaVista BuenaVista Vista fame the tile J Senator Nesbitt Both Bolli were profound pin men boH it brave e men both very el true men both jolly joUy fellow s and they ther w wit went nt campaigning campaigning cam cam- together one a R Republican and the other othera a Democrat And Lane fuld Ke Nesbitt bitt that tha the people peo i pIG pie of Oregon so were wera a fl sincere in rc re a and d s simple people x they did lid not riot w want any nUj di display laj but just went along attending to t their cir o n business Nc bitt told Lane th that t unfortunately a g great eat many of them were worse than that that that-that that they were not not- thrift thrifty that they were not progressive that thc they had the old fa fashioned hion d Missouri fi idea o ot living Jiving in tumble ble down houses ottI s. s a 1 long V Wll way from ill all neighbors neigh neigh- bors bols if possible lc and he IC added that he could tell teU just by bj tho looks of t place whether the inhabitants tants there wera vere Republicans aris ans or Democrats So the conversation ran on until they drove up to a ahouse house to see if r t e could get some dinner And the C que question tiou was wh whether thel that parti particular r house honse belonged to a Democrat or 01 a Rep Republican Nesbitt said to Lane Laue Look around You see this yard all j ih b kept i neat even eyen the rude I fence in front of tit the dO l is whitewashed Everything ds is orderly 1 P f The fh J hid j o of the t 1 pa ng f. f at t the same tithe time Nesbitt continued Look at that lady ladi The chances are arc a n hundred to one this is a Republican Republican Re Re- publican place And while they discuss discuss- were T ing mg ana aim ga game le V as lie was wo was offering ottering to wag wager 1 that it was a a. a Democratic stron stronghold hold and andas Nesbitt as eagerly as as' as willing to wager that it iva ivaa was waR wasa a Republican n the la lady appeared at J the front door in hear hearing ng of the two men and calling to one ono of th tho children n said il V I you Here cre J u Joe Lane Jane go to the thc chicken ll house rind and get mea me a a couple ol of or fine 1 X N ift t o t thc iI b t although ha he had the thc chickens and it W was s afterward established that the thic lady was the daughter of one lone of the foremost fore fore- most st R Republicans of the state but in iii a moment of weakness she married a Democrat and a accepted her hot fate gracefully |