Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-07-10
#. +. GRAFTON,
BY JULIUS MAUTz.

Ddn1eT Stlll WUFCs Wv oio -
the free lunch and the home OF the
bravado?"
On this great day we are accustom-
ed to leave our business to hired men,
and burn with patriotism and ginger
bop. fill ourselves with patriotic fer
vor and beer, shout the battle-cry OF
freedom, and GO home when the day
Is done with our eye-winkers burned
off, to sleep with a consciousness that
a great duty has been performed, and
that we have bank notes to pay to-
morrow. And why do we do this?
Why is it that on this particular day
we lose our cud, kick up the dust
and perspire through our linen coats
and get the galloping headache?
Lend me your ears and ! will tale
unfold, whose lghtest words will har-
row up your corn ground, freeze your
young blooded stock, and make each
hairpin stand on end, like quills on a
fretful porcupine? Many, many
years ago, before voluntary bank
ruptcy had been invented, a solitary
horseman might have been seen
standing on Plymouth Rock, gazing
into the country, and his whole being
trembling with emotion. He was
looking for Indians. Not that he
needed any Indians in his business;
but he was looking for Indians all the
same. 1t was strongly suspected that
the I. It's, who landed on Plymouth
Rock, were the first nine of an arch
cry club, who had been sent over to
shoot match with the Indians. He
was 7. r. and that was his prog
ress. Coming here with good rec
ommendation from his last place,
he had the appearance of a tramp,
his shoes being run over at the heel,
and his coat rusty. In a canal boat
hard by was the balance of the gang,
passing the time in the absence Of
the boss by playing croquet, wonder
ing If he could find good place for
them to hold their turnout. Present.
ly the leader of the gang, who was
on the rock, raised his hat and waived
the excursionist to come ashore. The
party on the boat laid down their
mallets after marking the score on a
slate, weighed anchor, on a pair of
spring balances, touched the canal
horse on the tail with hop pole and
steemed into port. This was the
landing of the L. T.'s. This was the
first church excursion of which his
tory speaks. These heroes fed from
home, because they were not allowed
to worship in their own way. They
wanted a place where they could be
sprinkled or immersed just as they
pleased. Where they could be Pres
byterians, or Methodists, or Demo-
Gratis, or Baptists or Republicans, or
Second Hand Adventists, or Green
hackers, or L. rs, or anything else.
They wanted place where one bal
lot-box suffer was as good as another.
So they finally went to Banner from
Plymouth Rock, and afterwards dis
covered Boise Basin and Hog'em, and
other places too numerous to men
ton. The progress of these 7. Us
from their landing till they had de-
scendants enough to make pretty
fair showing in free fight, is famii-
lar to all readers of profane history.
How sad it is to think that there are
so few who do not understand the
origin of the letters T. rs. Allow
me to explain. They are the initials
OF two Latin words-Tehilogrimm,
Torohogeras. In English, Pilgrims
Progress. Therefore we are the orig
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