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Show i ' , GAMBLIN' SPIRIT IN MOGADORE ' r.V KITCHEL PIXLE1 (Our Own special Oorrespondcait.) MOQADOHE. Nov 11. The gam-hlin' gam-hlin' spirit suro ;rlps this community, and the brotherhood of man Idee is shaky on its leps. It's account of business rivalry between Zeph Collins and Noah Atwater, proceries, oils, loo cr am. coal and gon. mdse. It starts with Zeph cuttln' his Ice cream to 5 cts. the dish, but when folks gets to droppln' Into Zept B numerous Noah cuts his ice cream to 5 cts. with two spoons to the dish, and the way the two-spoon idee worked was a fine tribute to business eff tenancy. Iown comes Zeph to two spoons, and the way all Mogradore takes to - ice cream indicates ruin to both Zeph I and Noah, so they jrits together in i Sam Smythe's home-brew cave, and lifiii bain' how-come-ye-BO forms a armistiss. It lasts only over one night, how-BUmever, how-BUmever, as when they gits liome their wives reminds 'em that Mrs. Collins hacl just beat Mrs. Atw.it. r out of the Sorosls presidency. and both families resumes war without notice. First thing. Zeph puts a big Shang-hi Shang-hi rooster in his front store window, with a basin of shelled corn, and of-1 ffirs $5 prize to anyone guessing: the number of kernels the bird will eat on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Gee! the crowds watchln' than rooster reaches clean across the road and backs up against Atwater's very store front. Mrs. Atwater heated six gals, of water, but thoy caught her-before she got to the upstairs window Wit I her nefarious designs on the crowd. But it floored Noah only (he flrBl week. He sends down to a brother-in-law In Kentucky and gits or. ot them Dixieland buzzards what won't lot you shoot because of their general appetlght. Noah puts the ugly critter in his front window, buys w 'IjCSbb a lot of condemned sassages over at 'arren and offers luO to the party 'who'll guess how long that buzzard' I will cat sassages and nothln' else. To ; date, commercial circles is rattled and society wrenched by the gam-! gam-! 1 111' spirit as promoted by the ease : with which condemned sassages Is devoured by that almighty homely! Kentucky busxmrd, and civilization ! seems doomed unless there's a strong; move for moral uplift. |