The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-09-14
KEEPING THEIR END UP.
How the Great Vests Marvels r
Apt to Multiply.

How b Great Vests Marvels are
Apt to Multiply.
As last Tuesdays west bound train
passed Cape Horn, a large party of Eng.
llshmen, of the Observation-Disclosures
variety, crowded out on the platform
and loudly expressed their dissatisfac-
zion at the scenery, which was s'not al
all rp to the guide-books, you know, by
jewel"
AS they returned to their seats to en-.
10y a jolly good British all-around grum.
BILE, entirely obliyious of the indignant
glances of the native passengers, a
m~eek-looking, gentle-voiced journalist
from Frisco approached from the other
end of the car nd..volunteered to.give the
tourists some valuable facts concerning
the country. In an ingenious and plaus-
ible way, he answered their questions in
a n that reduced our critics from
over-the-pond to acondition of profound
amazement, not to say awe.
The next morning the journalist was
informed by the reporter that a com
mittee of gentlemen wished to see him
in the baggage-car. AS he entered he
found a dozen travellers, all native and
to the manner born, waiting to receive
MIN hat in hand. The spokesman ad-
vanced and said:
"You are the party who was giving
those globe t~rotters in the real sleeper
some points about the coast, I believer
! am sir" said the quill-driver,
modestly.
"You told them, l understand" con-
l. kynrNnl kl1 nI~-s.ro-- EAl-l - -
was 10000 feet hight"
'aThe same"
"You divulged the well-known fact
that trains on this road were often de-
tanned four days by herds of buffalo,
and thai they frequently have to use a
eating gua on the cowcatcher to pre-
vent the locomotive being pushed of
the track by the grizzly bears?"
Eyes, sir"
You further acquainted them with
b circumstance that the Digger In
dams live to the average age of 204, and
that the ratification Of the air on the
plains is such that an ordinary pin looks
like a telegraph pole at the distance OF
torty-two miles?"
II think / wedged that in" respond.
ed b newspaper man.
And we are informed they all made
vi your statement Ina
at the Palace Hotel an average of two
walters per day were shot hv the guests
Tor bringing cold soup-ehp"
They did"
"And, finally, we believe that you are
the originator of that beautiful-tba,
b.e-a-utiful-er-fact regarding that fal.
len redwood tree up at Mariposa-]
mean the hollow one into which the
SIX horse-stage drives, and comes oul
of a knot-hole 1855 feet further
alone?"
II told them all about it,"
Just SO! just sol" said the committee.
man, grasping the patriots hand and
producing a well-illed buckskin bag
and l am instructed by this committee
of your fellow-countrvman to present
you with this slight token of our appre.
citation of the noble manner in which
you hsve vindieated the honor of oul
noble land; God bless you, STRIP
Gentlemen" said the true Califor.
Man, much affected, 81 understand your
feelings, and although l blush to be re-
warded for simply doing my duty, 1 &C.
cept the gift as a sacred trust to be de.
voted to the further exaltation of oul
common country"
SIN what way?" asked the chairman,
earnestly.
why, | am going back to rope those
fellows into a little game of studhorse
poker And us he left the car they
gave him q cheer that nearly shook the
train off tho rails