The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-01-18

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the seed in the soil and sees the waiting
for the harvest: e g the next years
wood cut and piled this year; sees that
fences drains and barns are built for the
future. lie learns to be sa~lf-sacrificing
now, that he may have an abundance at
some future time.
THAT AWFULLY BAD BOY.
And How He Plays It ON the Fears
of q Deceived Parent,
Peck's Milwaukee Sun.
81 guess your pas losses in the silver
mine has made him crazy, Invent
they" said the grocery man to the bad
boy, as he came in the store with his
eye winkers singed off, and powder
marks on his face, and began to play or
the harmonica, a he sat down on the
end ola stick of stove wood and bal
anced himself.
"Oh, ] guess not. lie has hedged.
He got in with a deacon of another
church, and sold some Of his stock to
him, and pa saws if I keep my com
demn mouth shut he will unload the
whole of it, if the church holds out.
He goes to a new church every night
there is . prayer meeting, and makes ma
so with him, TO give him tone, and after
meeting she talks with the sisters about
how to piece a silk bed quilt, while pa
gets in his work selling silver stock. |
don't know what he will order some
more stock from the factory, if he sells
all he has got" and the boy went on
playing There's Land that is Fairer
than Day"
but what was he skipping up street
for the other night with his hat of, grab
bling at his coattails as though they were
on fire? l thought l never saw a pussy
man run any faster. And what was the
celebration down on your street about
thattlme? thought the world was COM
kept away from the boy, for fear he
woald explode.
30, that "a only a Fenian scare.
Nothin' serious. You see pa is d sort OF
half Englishman. He claims to be an
American citizen, when he wan s of.
ice, but when they talk about adraft he
claims to be a subject OF Great Britain,
mi he SAW they can't touch him. Pa is
q darned smart man, and don't you for
get it. There don't any of them get
ahead of pa much. Well, pa has said a
good deal about the wicked Fenians,
and that they ought to be pulled, and ali
that, and when [ read the story in the
papers about the explosion in the Brit
ish parliament pa was hot. He said tho
damerish was running the whole world.
lie didn't say it at the table or our hired
girl would have knocked him silly with
q spoonful of mashed potatoes, cause
she's a nirish girl, and she can lick any
N'nulIsfp I, ii, f1yc ~, i. ID, ,N;l 49,
ought to have been somebody there to
have taken that bomb and throwed it in
the sewer before itexploded. He said if
he ever should see a bomb he shouidgrab
It right up and throw it away where it
wouldn't hurt anybody. Pa has me
read the papers to him nights, cause his
eyes have got splinters in sem, and after
l &C read all there was in the paper |
made up a lot more aud pretended to
read it, ABOUT how it was rumored that
the Fenians here III Milwaukee were
going to place dynamite bombs at every
house were an Englishmun lived, and
ut given signal blow them all up. Pa
looked pale around the gills, but he
said he wasn't scared. Pa and ma were
going to call on a she deacon that has
lots of money in the bank, to see if she
didn't want to invest in a dead-sure pay.
| HI SIiNCI llll.fC. anu LIE anu INV CuUtn
concluded to give them n send-otf. We
got my big black %iniy-rubbey football and
painted "Dinymight'' in big white let.
ters on it, and tied a piece oftarred rope
to it for Il fuse, and got q ti~re.cracker,
one of those old Fourth of July horse
scarers, and q basket full orb, oxen glass
We put the football in front of the step
lit the tarrea sope, and got under the
step with the firecracher ami basket
where they go down into the basement
Pa and ma got III the front door and
down the steps, and pa saw the foot bal
and the barning fuse, and he said, 'Grea,
God! Hammer, we are blowed up!' ant
he started to run, and ma she stopped
to look at it. Just as pa started to run |
touched of the tirecracker, and my chun
arranged 1t to porlr out the broken glass
on the brick pavement just as the ire
cracker went OFT. Well, every.
thing went just as we expected
med the football, and concluded it was
not dangerous, and was just giving it 6
kick as the tirecracker went Off, and tbs
glass fell, and the tirecracker was so nea,
her that it scared her, and when pa
Looked around ma was flying across the
sidewalk, and pa heard the noise anG
he thought the house was blown tt
atoms. o, you'd a dide to see him &C
around the corner You could playcro.
kay on his Goat-tail, and his face was as
pale as mas when she goes to a party
But ma didn't scare much. AS quick as
she stopped against the hitching pos
she new it was us boys, and she came
down there, and maybe she didn't man
me: ] cried and tried to gain her sym
pathy by telling her the t~irecracker went
off hntnrn If H,no It1n nt,l ,r,.~ -.
eyebrows of, but she didn't let UP unit
Ipromised to 90 and find pa. l tell YOU
my ma ought to be engaged by the Efit
ish government to hunt out the DIV.
Mantle tiends. She would corral them
in two, minutes. If pa had as much
sand ,as:Ma has got, it would be warm
weather for me-. Well, me and my chum
| went and headed pa off or l guess he
would be running yet. We got him up
by the lake shore, and he wanted tC
know if the house fell down. He salt
he would leave it to me if he ever sale
anything against the Fenians, and 1 toiI
him he had always claimed that the Fe-
mans were the incest men in the world
and itGeemed to I Alieve him verymuch
When he got home and found the house
there he was tickleGa and when ma cali.
ed him an old bald headed coward, and
said it was only a Joke of the boys witt
q foot ball, he laughed right ou1 and sale
he knew it all the time, and he ran 1c
see il ma would De scared. And Their
he wanted to hug me but il wasn't m,
night to hug and | went down to the
theatre. Pa don't amount to much
when there is trouble,
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Betten. chan LaRgtry.
The Washington CORRESPONDENT ofthe
st. Louis Globe-Democrat. in speakin,
of the recent chiarty ball at "Castl,
| Stewart" in WASHINGTON. saws. Al