Show Whoop La As a DEMOCRAT man stood this morning morn-ing in the hallway of the residence of T C Armstrong the wellknown grain and provision merchant discussing with that gentleman the high price of hops and the genteman scarcity of measles both men were suddenly sud-denly confronted by three excited women armed with mops brooms and rolling pins and driven out through the backdoor back-door and over into the barnyard where they were held astonished prisoners Vlr Armstrong knew of no plot to assassinate assas-sinate either and the newspaper man was sure that the barometric pressure was not abnormally low and both were puzzled to understand the strange proceeding pro-ceeding when suddenly the guard was released and the prisoners admitted to the house again to learn the news that Mrs T C Armstrong had presented her husband with a fourteenpound bouncing boy baby the image of his father the joy of his mother the pet of the whole family and the envy of the spindle shanked baldheaded newspaper man Joy reigns in the house of Armstrong and the price of hops is down again |