Show from arom the diary of a faithful contributor by guess who dear doer doc well I 1 also got back tile the old cat and the bad penny have nothing on roe me I 1 had a most wonderful trip i 1 saw a considerable portion of our great g reat country I 1 saw the great wheat and corp fields of kansas the he cotton and oil fields of texas the rice fields of louisiana the great shipping docks of houston and new orleans the great railroad center of kansas city the royal gorge in the canjoe or of the colorado the historic and interesting inter 2 city of new orleans the water melons and of the entire southland and a most magnificent con antion of the chosen people of this land to wit the representatives of tile the democratic party in convention assembled but during pra practically all of this trip there were some thing s we have here at homo home that I 1 missed misled and that I 1 was nas very grateful to get back to that we have in abundance here in sevier valley and that is clear fresh air good drinking water f friendly mountains and the best people on oil earth seat S eat pure lun unadulterated adulte rated sweat damp sticky adhesive sweat swe sweat that runs in hi streams and sweat that gathers in pools sweat of any kind color or grade that you want almen listen doc no kidding I 1 sweat enough while in texas and new orleans orlean to imitate ate any acre tract of desert land in of utah and at that I 1 may add that I 1 enjoyed every every trickle of it akl I 1 tell you about the old gray ri ahat that w was s in attendance at the convention well there was a band at the convention from the western part of te texas teas as it was a cowboy band jat at least they were vere arc dressed sed that way they had labels on their chaps showing they were the old gray mare band they had the old gray mare with them and their favorite tune was the old od gray grav mare she aint what site she used to be this alli old gray mare had been around lot of circuses circuses and they had a right looking girl aiding her and the old gray mare would come into the hall ahead of the procession whenever there thare was a demonstration 6 or parade f for or al and go up and down clown the aisles and never as much as flicker her ter tail with half a dozen bands playing ana people yelling their leads heads off I 1 for A al I 1 smith sh she e was some gray ray mare I 1 tell you well they had brought a w LN ith them f from rom the ranch to look after the old gray mare when she was not on paraded parade the name was mathew one night during the convention I 1 went outside to have a smoke when I 1 got outside I 1 saw a crowd of pennsylvania guys some birds from delaware and a large number of boston nigh brows gathered in a big circle 1 I t thought maybe a fight vas on so I 1 j rushed through the circle to see if any of my gang was mixed up in it and needing help inside the circle was the old gray mare seated on tone old gray niage mare was mathew the coon he had bad gotten too much texa corn juice and get off the horse he was wa entertaining the yankees yankee by singing over anti and oer again ag ain that old cowboy son song bury me ale on a lonely prairie one apil meaning lady from pittsburgh said he just splendid so typically we western tern just like you read about in zane grays books the next morn mom ing I 1 met mathew anatlie leading the old gray mare aroun around d and I 1 askea him what was the chadee to buy a colt from the old gray mare 11 1 I know replied math mathew 17 this ole gray mare lie he aint nevah had no colt since we had him 11 I 1 wass was sick twice on the trip doc ind and I 1 am here to tell you I 1 was sick I 1 will explain to you how hov it came ill up fo 0 you can call see for yo yourself just th tho C predicament I 1 got into there were of course a number of nights when iwas I 1 was more or less indisposed f for 0 various reasons reason but not really sick lick I 1 could al always alays ays navigate when the tie convention adjourned adjourn sd on friday there mas atas an immediate scatter scattering inz to all parts of tile the countey crowded trains wele leaving I 1 every fifteen minutes from the union depot everybody was a running around in circles circle s senator king state chairman drap rr r r J F tolton of 0 beaver baver and I 1 were to take a 10 train for new orleans I 1 reached the depot first the other boys had my grip with all L the contents therein contained so I 1 went down to get my wheel loaded and find my illy pullman the porter put me on oil no 0 2 car and I 1 should have been on no 7 71 way down on the ot other che r end of the thain I 1 climbed on and went into the smoker to wait for the rest of the gang an petty p pi etty soon five other fellows came into tile the smoker all of them from mississippi amoni among them being U S senator stephn stephens from that state 1 I began to think I 1 train I 1 pulled out i was as on the wrong so my ticket and looked it over and concluded I 1 was all right and thou thought gIt I 1 had shoved it back into my hip but there was so 90 much prince aloert and such as that in my pocket that chat I 1 had shoved it back into the crack of the seat enste instead ad pretty soon the rhe conductor canie came wound and yelled v aled zicke tickets ts the mississippi L lissis sippi boys presented theirs promptly prompt I 1 xv still till Vim fumbling bling for mine tile the conductor began to frown and get ini impatient patient I 1 got pale and I 1 tell you do doc c I 1 vas as really sick I 1 tried to hedge ww wit him hy bv asking if he had seen senator king del draper drape r biank tolton or any of them boys bov he refit refused sed t to 0 I 1 be oe diverted liver ted get your ticket bv that time I 1 had been through al all ity pockets my lily credentials my aliv letter from from my various wonie women n back hone e I 1 including anna anti and was about to 0 ty try lumping out of the window when I 1 had a 1 uden inspiration 1 I put I 1 is under the seat cat I 1 told him sure canouch there it wa A all 11 the comment the conductor made was is so some soe e of these ha aith it democrat sure lauve queer wilen when ile he had left and I 1 bc beadi alk to tn feel normal rm 11 again I 1 remarked to the misi 1 I sure feel relieve I 1 was r adrai d 1 would have lave to appeal IPPI al t b you senator stephens rc aepli gentlemen accents clit we are ara ed d in mild bouthern a I 1 ad vou all found your ticker auh uh nio alo feel relieved at A tin this s we re uns una point abit I 1 said goo good d night nig ax anti and went 0 nto into another nother ii car and found my ivr 0 r sentor the other time I 1 ww was sick was the morning of ti the tie ath we were wem climb ing in up golf soldier fler summit anil and the lie enari peer lost control of the train fw f a few nii nute and we began to lip back down everybody was wa gettlin gett g ettima liv read ready t out except me th the e I 1 porter had my pant panta and was pre sing sans them |