The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-06
"RABY NINE"
TEstenira Rail-

Some of Il exchanges have been in
clined to speak with considerable lev
ity of the Bells boy-the kid-the
young scion of the naughty family of
O'Carruth. If these editors had the
care OF him hal We have they
wouldn't feel so funny;-we are Just
about worn out thinking about the
time his mother must be having get.
ting up with nights down in Mime
sofa. It's tongh to stretch your sym
patty 800 miles.
The Sioux Falls Leader makes n
of the worst breaks. 1t SAYS that we
think of "utilizing his six-horse-pow-
er voice to run the Bell outfit" and
that we csn then advertise "the only
power press in this section" This
may work with the little blossom of
the Clover family, but this cherub's
voice is too fleeing and delu,ive to
ever be tied to the lever of a webb
perfecting press. The Ipswich Ga
zette says we are going to run him
for governor of Dakota instead of
Sitting Bull. Thanks, for the sug-
gestion, he is working up to it now
he's speaker of the house. The
Clark Pilot thinks we won't feel so
funny about it after a while. We
don't. 1t says in another item that
"Carruth, of the Bell, has put burglar
alarms on his house. You need not
be afraid, Fred, children are too
plenty in Dakota for Kidnapping"
Wedon't know whether it is because
they are plenty or not but no one
has caught his kid mapping yet-not
in the night, any way. The Kimball
Graphic says the "little stranger
weighs but sever pounds, but when
Carruth trots him for seven mortal
hours some night and gets out in the
morning knee sprung, he will be
thankful that the baby is not a ten
FOUNDER" Yes its hard enough to
trot him-especialIy across a big
state like Minnesota. The Letcher
Blade remarks that the "Estelline
Bell family has a new little Bell, and
judging from the description Of its
lung power, written out by the proud
parent, it has the true ring" Yes, it
has the true ring now and pretty soon
it will have the teething ring. (When
anybody makes a poor pun at us we
can always make a worse one.) The
Keystone Optic thinks that we are
snow learning that the path of the
righteous is stony" We are also
learning that there is a rocking chair
in it, when we get up in the night
for the %peregorio dimijohn. The
Henry Eagle remarks among other
things that the peculiarities of the
offspring are "noted in the Bells last
issue at considerable length, especial,
ly the length of It's outer gown" We
have got used to that gown--the way
to handle it is to tie it in a knot be,
low the feet-the baby's feet. The
Wentworth Letter concludes that
"by scanning the columns of the
Estelline Bell, this week, one would
naturally suppose that Carruth had
recently became proprietor Of a brand
new baby boy" Their diagnosis of
the case would be correct. The La
Grace Courier takes hold of the sub.
ject and makes a terribly rocky pun
on it. We "see" and will also see
the editor Of the Courier the next
time we go up the Missouri in oul
Yacht. Meet us at the landing
The Altoona Eagle says that editor
Carruth, of the Estelline Bell, is busy
now a days trotting the baby and
singing those little songs he used tc
hear so many year ago when he was
young and charming" This is get
ting personal and the worst of it is
that the editor of the Eagle has seer
us and knows what ne is talking
about. That's all the irrevcrent re
marks that we have seen though
there may have been others-we hav;
been too busy lullabying the baby
lately to read the papers very care
fully.