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Show SmoKe From the WeeKly Tipe. They came into Zion at the same time, Tex and Nimrod, when this section survived a vast inundation inunda-tion of lawyers, mostly from countiy towns, in 1891. Tex and Nimrod were not lawyers; they were jurists; they said so. The' same billow which unloaded them on our shores left Nebraska and Kansas, respectively, in mourning. Their tale of hard luck would wrench tears from a man-eating Apache. Tex and Nimrod, jurists, came to refresh the legal ozone of Zion at the same time that Cyclone Riley ambled in. Cyclone Riley is the caliope-voiced caliope-voiced oration builder who referred to 'a client as being as innocent as an unborn babe on its mother's breast. Lawyers Patterson and Nelson were also items in the influx of '91. They are now in jail. Judge Silver of the same era stole $104,000 worth of mining stock from bis partner and the sheriff seized him. Lawyer Mopler, likewise like-wise of '91, fleeing precipitately from a bellicose creditor, pitched his tent in Oklahoma and was made mayor of the village. But all this has little to do with Tex and Nimrod, save as a more or less gloomy background which makes their dual career shine out the more transluscently. Tex and Nimrod were beautiful to look upon when they came within our portals. Immense and pompous was Nimrod; lofty and dignified was Tex. Both wore garments of Prince Albert architecture archi-tecture and silken helmets. As each one realized that, barring himself, the other was the greatest of living jurists they formed a partnership. This was in the winter. The chief asset of the two statesmen was a prodigality of intellect, so they lived conjointly in a room on South Main street, high above some uncertain stairs which quaked beneath the ponderous pon-derous tread of Nimrod. It was their wont to sleep until a late hour, as clients were not clamoring clam-oring for them, and they did not have sufficient : lucre to provide breakfast. A Semetic artizan with whiskers received two overcoats. This for three days kept the gaunt form of famishment from bursting into the room. Daily they brushed the : Prince Alberts and the silken hats with untiring assiduity. Nimrod defended a man who tried to depopulate State street and received the highwayman's high-wayman's six shooter in payment. After this had gone to the Hebrew, the roseate hues disappeared from the horizon. i Then Tex was the proud absorber of an In- spiration. With burnished hat and habiliments he made a detour upon a South Main street hbtel and invaded the table d'hote for two months. At the end of that time thp landlady gave orders to the waiters not to allow Tex to swoop into the dining room. But Tex was an adroit young man and every once in a wljile he would sweep aside all impediments and reach a table. The waiters refused to serve him. In the meantime Tex would eat all the crackers and pickles on the table. He said afterwards they made his stomach sore. During these days Nimrod had been active. He had made the acquaintance of a dressmaker, for whom his beautiful stage presence had a wonderful won-derful charm. Occasionally she invited him to dinner. Whenever this happened, Nimrod would hint, with fast throbbing heart, that he would be unable to come as he had an engagement with his friend, Judge Tex. During these crucial moments mo-ments his respiration would pass the speed limit of a motor cycle. "Bring your friend, the Judge," the dressmaker would say, suavely. In this way they figured on securing at least two meals a week. The bleak winter winds were doing coy tricks at this time with the overcoatlesB formB of Tex and Nimrod. Also the landlord had taken the blankets from their room for the accommodation of a guest who occasionally paid his rent. The dressmaker had gone away to visit hor folks. 1 Then, sudden fortune beamed upon them. The H keeper of a small restaurant on Main street hired Nimrod to stand between his soup counter and an attaching creditor. He agreed to give Nimrod jH and Tex all the meals they wished so long as they could sidetrack the attachment. Their ef- jH forts were heroic, both ways. The chickens and H porterhouses they destroyed made the keeper of H the restaurant dizzy. Not knowing how soon the H unkind creditor would intervene and puncture the H game, they would frequently get up in the middle jH of the night and grapple with a robust meal. At jl the end of ten days, the creditor closed the res- jH taurant, and the stars went out. H v t 3v H One day a man from Nebraska was arrested on H behalf of the public safety and sent for Tex. Tex H brushed with care the Prince Albert, which was beginning to gleam like the morning face of a yokel, and hastened to the police station, shad- owed by Nimrod. He found that the Nebraskan was the proud possessor of $25 in money. He H agreed to give Tex the whole sum if he encom- M passed his liberation, or $12.50 if the matter went to the District court. The hearing was set for M ten o'clock the next morning. All the rest of M that day they faced the wintry blizzards chestily M and with joy. Although they did not dine that M day, in the evening they mounted the stairs to the H dormer chamber with jubilant tread and slept pro- M foundly and dreamed beautiful dreams. The next morning they arose early, leaping out, as it were, upon the bosom of the dawn. The H silken hats and Prince Alberts survived a care- ful scrutiny and a vigorous agitation from the H firm brush. Both shaved with a razor Nimrod H had been unable to hock, and prepared, to go hurtling against the police court tripod with noble H and immaculate bearing. M &v & v H At the door consternation seized them. The H door was locked from the outside. In vain they H battered and stormed at the portal to liberty. H Eventually a wayfarer on Main street saw at a H third story window two figures in black with H wildly waving arms, and mounted the stairs in re- sponse to their voicy appeals for help. Upon in- H spection he informed Nimrod and Tex that the H door had a nice new adjustment in the way of a H healthy looking padlock. He agreed to call the H landlord and soon that ill-savored personality H was in evidence without. They plead, as angels M might have plead, and raved for the removal of the padlock. Their eloquence was so vivid and burning that it would have melted the Rhodian M collosus. But the landlord was obdurate. He said they would remain there until they paid the rent. M He went away. H That was a very chilly winter day. For hours M they stood at the open window, shivering be- M aeath their Prince Alberts, peering at the passing M throngs in the hope of seeing some kind fraternal M spirit who might be induced to come to their res- M cue. They saw no one with the good Samara- H tan aspect, so they resumed the Titanic uproar. M "Eventually the landlord, fearing that the building ,!H would topple over under the strain and become a IjH complete wreck, released them. That was at 11 f o'clock. H While Nimrod held parlance with the landlord, jH Tex dashed madly up to the police station. They H informed him that his client had been discharged. H Tex leaned against the Judge's tripod and am- bushed a sob. M ? y 3 Early the next morning, had they been awake, M the citizens of Murray might have seen two tall forms, silken-helmeted, black-coated, moving on and on, their dignified figures looming bleakly in the fast falling snow. A. K. N. .-M |