The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-23
Bill Nye Discusses Camping.Out.

and nothing purifies the blood quicker
or makes q SIDE of bacon taste more
like snipe on toast than the crisp ozone
that floats through the hills and forests
where man can monkey DER the green
grass without violating q city ordi-
nance.
The picnic is an aggravation. 1t has
just enough of civilization to be a
nuisance, and not enough barbarism to
make lie seem a luxury. If our aim
be 10 lean up against a tree all day in
a short seersucker Goa and ditto pant.
aloons that segregate while we are fes-
tooning the hammock. the picnic is the
thing. Ii we desire to 60 home at
night with a jelly symphony on each
knee and a thousand legged worm in
each ear. we may look upon the picnic
as a success.
But to those who wish to forget the
past and live only in the blooming
present, to get careless of gain and
breathe brand-new air that has never
ncen used. to appease an irri!ated
liver, or straighten out q torpd lung,
let me saw, pick out a high, dry cline,
where there are trout enough to give
YOU an excuse for going there, take
what is absolutely necessary inc no
more. and then stay there long enough
to have some fun.
Ii we p chic, we wear ourselves out
trying to have a good time, so hat we
can tell about it when we get back,
but we do not actually get acquainted
with each other before we have to quit
and return.
To camp IS to change the whole pro-
gramme of life. and to stop long
enough in the never-ending conflict
for dollars and distinction to get a full
breath and look over the field. Still it
is not always smooth sailing. To camp
is sometimes to show the material of
VIII CHI we are made. The dude at
home is the dude in camp. and wher-
ever he goes az demonstrates that he
was made for naught. l do not know
what a camping party would do w tn a
dude unless they used him to bait a
bcar-trap. and even then it would be
taking o mean advantage of the bear.
The bear certainly has some rights
which we are bound in all decency to
respect.
James Milton Sherrod sad he had a
peculiar experience once while he was
IN camp on the Foudre, in Colorado.
ave went over from Larmy," said
he. ".n July, eight years ago-four Of
US. There was me and Charcoal
Brown. and old Joe and young Joe
Connoy. We had Just got comfortable
down on the Lower Fork. put of the
reach of everybody, and sixty miles
from a doctor. when Charcoal Brown
got SEX. Well, we had had a big time
Of q N,,, .nor in, a friy,o y-oI,rsalf COMM
thing about it. Long in the nigh
Brown began 70 groan, and whoop
and holler. and | made a diagnosis o:
him. He d dn have much sand any
how. He was trying to git a pension
from the government on the ground!
OF desertion and failure to prov de. OF
some such blame thing or other, SO
didn't feel much sympathy for him
But when II t the gas and examined
HIM. l found that he had a large feyel
on hand. and there we was without
doggone thing in the house but a jug
of en- grant whiskr and a paper o,
cond t on powders for the mule. l wa
a good deaf ratified at first to know
what the dickens to do fur him. The
whisky wouldn'tdo him any good, and
besides, if he was goin' to have a lons
spell of sickness we needed it fur thu
watchers.
wall. it was rough. I'd think of
thousand things that was good flu
fevers. and then I'd remember that W,
hadn't got EN-. Finally old Joe say
to me: James, why don't We soak hi
feet:?' says he. Soak nuthin',' says ]
what would We soak 'em imp We ha'
a ~long-handle frying-pan. and we coul,
heat water in it. of curse. but it wa
too Smaller to do any good, anyhow
SO we abandoned that synops S RICH
off. First / thought I'd try the condi
ton powders in him, but / hated to g
into a case and prescribe sc reckless
Finally | thought about q case Q
rheumatic that Ihad up in Bitter Cree
year, ago. and how the boys fl led thei
socks W tn hot ashes. and put EN- al
over me, and | got over it. So we be
gun to skirm's h round the tent, fo
socks. and l hope l may be teetotali
skun if there was a blame sock in tn
whole syndicate. En- fur me. ! neve
wore EN-, hut | did think young 10
would be fixed. He wasn't. though
Sa d he didn't want to be considere
: proud and high-strung, SO he left hi
I SOCNS AZ uoulG.
Then we begun to look around
and finally decided that Brown woul
9 die pretty soon if we didn't break II
the fever: so we concluded to take a
t the ashes under the campfire, iii u
his clo7c. which was loose. tie HI
sleeves at the WI st and his pants {
the ankles. give him a dash of cond
. ton powders and little VIII sky t
e take the taste out OF his mouth. an
4 then see what e,osted nature would dt
G so we stood Brown up agin Il tire
t and poured hos ashes down his bac
til he begun to fit his cloze prett
: cu,ck. and then we laid him down
d the tent and covered him up VT
every thing we had in cur humele co
z Everyth ng worked well II he begu
d to perspiratc. and then there was mus
5 and don't YOU forget it. That kind
: soaked the ashes, don't you sec. an
. made a I've that would take the peelir
off a telegraph pole,
u s.Charcoal Brown Jest S IMPLY riz l
: and uttered a shrill whoop that iarrt
q the geology of Colorado, and made II
e blood run cold. The goose flesh RI {
g old Joe Connoy til you could har
:. your hat on him anywhere, 1t W
IS awful.
\ Brown stood up on his feet, al
- threw things. and cussed us TIL we #
10 . ashamed Of ourselves. Eve seen sic
4 ness a good deal in my time, but
- give it to you straight never seen
- invalid stand up in the loneliness
the N ght, far from home and fl enc
. with the concentrated I've oozing {