Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-05-01

oii @ 1he oanks OF tle hco hi'or, bad
iia'uiy ~ SGv peSnh 10 snow .fe pfo'i'
ISc lIlat IS uc,cendaht' N!nnlpcG, more
.iiaI .nan iullll,a Oh DeIhg Tue caplta' oil Con-
'iaI a,r Nalaua'
thaV u"Y Oh oegihhnl5s had t"ati'Tn
OF us own, some oi which nave 'lisap
Peared ALREADY IN" all OF Which are
iaieu i1! "vch'uRily 10 pass away. For one
Ihl'S, the Neo'erh man Is fast dying
ouVi inc rai!wnyS' rather than the 50
rooms; nave Aii'e.' him' 10 some extent
nc sun survives IL inc Convoy OF Mon
tana ano INC hSc,'y mountains; but no
Wr.,cr mas 80 i"r L@l e'tEer the lelnerity
or IAe :trehSlh Oh imagination to invest
nln Wl'h 'he nctHtrsGnc and some
tlihoS lTllucf coof'hS OF mat romance
III "h'ch Epe w es'crhe' h'S been panteo
ior US
among theSe FEATURES 50 rapidly pass
lns away hoDc WAS mo!e constantly u
r"'' o' VIC 'c"n", aau none more char'
sc,l4sV'c sc,'l4sV'c an" h"-'TeHb!'' man the nat.
oo'to'n9p' n""'F-!o"eM2' stern-wheei
Pfopel!Tr tr''e "''nccf i'll me West
Vi cNI!'lat'nn W.ich rs yet railways
were NOT creeping up thr shallow
waters ol some strraM hnrdly broai Ter
tnah inc steamer Itscn' crashing through
tno o'erhdnslhg DfahcheS' shooting
raPius anu jumping san'i banks, never
saie nom Shags' WITH ITS driving
Wheei gasilcd aaa hangled oy tDe foat'
ing driit-tlmoer' 1t held brayely on its
way, carryihG supplies lor the dlStam
SET 'ieihehts' lime vas no great object,
70 lohg ~ II got "ar' Inc pre- ent
writer wen remembers IN 1914 spending
tnree uayS III gett'DG over sixty miles 0i
tne SnaEy pehdS ana torIuouS TWISTS oi
She heu Lake Lakc river rom Or0oKslon TO
urahu FORKS IN Northern Dakota, IN
JUST such steamer NOW the railways
nave prlNeh IL away lar northward ana
WeS'"ar'i' norm as iar Us tAe oasKatche-
wan ana INC feaee RIVER ana wes' as
lar rs 'he smalier tributaries OF tic
leIloWstone ana the missouri
burlng tnG summer OF lo'o' we VIII
say one OF lneSe steamers was making
us way down The Ked RIVER OF the
NORTH 'or Fargo In desgn anu ap'
pearahcn u was OF tne usual "os 'ern
tyPe. -N''l 'np heu hlVeF is OF lhe
salne Snher"l orHer as most streams ol
inc NesV--a swallow |lgIag OF n
eIFeai'', "pParenliy gong nowhere III
particular o"t, l"f t'l that' N us own
ieiSureiy 'aShlon' showing It's own
business Ner! "c,' as " heaos north
warn lor h'hG " ,'ihepeg; no" "ide'
lar or oak pro" lis banks, and there q
belt of willow bending down into the
yellow brown waters, WITH few soli-
tary IGS shantirS nj VIDE intervals tell
Of the settlers presence.
There are nut few passengers on tho
cabin deck OF the Steamer-one or two
officers oS the Hudson Bay Company
going on to their posts in the wider
ness, = number of farmers and emf
grants Intending to take up home-
stHads il Manitoba, One of the HUI
son Bay Company's officers has with
him his young wife and child, tiny
girl three years old-a pretty, pratt
tling' fearless. ia mating young
woman, She is everybody's pet, from
~ ~ ~ 80; La' u" ,i' int "nu ,,,L;oh ti'Jo
towers above the vessel, down to the
grizzled, grimy deck hands, whose ao-
qua,n'ar'tt qdn tbe sIo ,,, n"s ,i oono'" VI ''i'i
% Om th tho '"s 49, 'O"'1 % 'OIN ,;. ,ouor doo,.
h;tLo rn' sho ,oI, 80 VI h.o '' ,oi.o ' 'oTn, In,
49, " aLS o"I ."s o"o, ."".n ~ no.
HOA'o' 'A0 i'''S "''u 'nloo N'on y
nound chained han. and foot. ...,sv
are nm their wav to be tried at largo.
ami the Sheriff who has affected thar
canture never leaves them, for thew are
known 10 be desperate. Certainly there
is no lamb-like innoc, nee about them.
They constantly talk 10 one another,
and 70 the sheriff. whom they call Bill,
and who. TO do him Justice. enters fully
and svmnatheticollv into all of the ey-
nloitS of the Shows They are con-
!essed rutfians andbullies and thev don't
seem ashamed of il. They guess the
game is nm. and they accent there fate,
NOT cbeerfully but as matter OF
course, They swear, in a copious and
characteristics vocabulary of their own,
aoainst their III luck: but they have rot
Mar at last, and they know it:
The little child came to them and
looked at them curiously; they looked
silently at her. They had probably