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Show SOMETHING LIKE A MIRACLE. Country Editor Says He Made Angry Woman See Reason. "I nm not afraid of any of these men who como Into the office to lick me, but I have always fought shy of an lrnto woman," declared a country editor yesterday who had come to town to confer with some of tho local politicians. "While I know of several fellows who havo been put to rout by women 1 have so far escaped whole and never enmo near but one licking by a wo" nn," ho continued. '"She was from a lltllo town down tho river whom I 1'ad wVItten up when sho married a iiijcanllst. Sho arrived In town wfh a big blacksnako whip and a tcmi vorked up to a white heat. "Slip ntinotincril she wns there to whip me to within an inch of my llf-I llf-I Meil to reason with her, but of co iirntl. She grew more angry each minute. "Finally I said, watching that wMp all tbt time, 'Now don't you see If you whip 1110 you will Jutd get Into a bigger big-ger scandal? I certainly will get even with ou by writing up tho story of hrw you did It ' "I had saved my life. Tho woman t! ought 0 nilnuto and thnn started for He door. 'Well. I mess 1 hnve given ion n good plfco of my mind anyway,' any-way,' Fhe declared cs(.s'io left. "For once my wit had saved me from either ninnlns or striking back af a woman, which I do nol th'uk a gentleman should do. Ch! cago Chronicle. |