The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-02-05

Mrs. Yerger-"You have no 1dea
how much trouble ! have with my old
man. didn't think it was possible
for him TO get any sillier than be was
already, but l was mistaken"
What is he up to now?"
"He is always up to some new fool
ishness. He is just running the loire
business into the ground. I wolll
like to know all that goes on in these
lodge rooms"
81 would too. Judge Peterby comes
home every night about 1 O'Clock
smelling of whisky and beer, and when
ask him what sort of a smell it is,
he has the impudence to tell me it is
incense which they use in their mystic
ceremonies"
"I'vs noticed the same smell about
Col. Yerger. He, too, said it was in
cense, and the effect it had on me
proved it was incense, because / be-
came incensed as soon as ! smelt it.
We poor women eve find out any
lodge secret, for even if a man is ever
SO talkative, when he comes home
from the lodge he is not in a condition
to talk. Idon't know what Col. Terger
has been doing to deserve it. but they
have made him a Grand Sachem?"
What in the world is that2"
81 don't know. That's some new
order he has joined. He already be-
longs to the Order of the Yelled Night
caps, and the Order of the 'Idiotic Red
Muffs and three or more Ku-Klux
gangs"
"How did you find out that he S
Grand Sachem? Does he talk in his
Sleep"
No. Day before yesterday was his
birthday. Just as We were getting up
from the supper table there came two
knocks at the door, and adeep, grave
like voice said, is the Grand Sachem
in his wigwam?' Col. Yerger opened
shedoor, and there was Gus de Smith,
Kosciusko Murphy, Nose Schaum-
berg, Gilhooly Hostetter McGinnis,
old Judge Pennybunker and a lot of
those reprobates. They came into
the room in Indian file, and said: is
our red sister well?' Just think of it,"
"Td have scalped them with a fire
shovel" said Mrs. Peterby.
"Then Gilhooly struck an attitude
and said: Most noble Grand Sachem,
this is thy birthday, and thy red
brethren, the noble red braves now
present in his wigwam, in consequence
of the high esteem they have for their
noble brother, and his great services
to the lodge, do present thee, noble
savage, with this gold headed walking
cane. Lean on it most worthy son of
the forest on thy strollin the direction
OF the happy hunting grounds behind
the setting sun"
"Do you allow such proceedings in
your house, Mrs. Yerger? Why would
have scalded them. I'd have exter-
minated them"
81 couldn't help it. Col. Yerger was
very much moved. He saidit was the
happiest moments OF his life, but that
his heart was too full for u%tterance,
and turning to me he had the impu.
dence to say, handing me a quarter:
Here. noble squaw, take this string of
wampun, go to the corner grocery,
with the tin GROWER, and bring some
beer that l may make merry with my
red brethren of the forest. Be seated,
braves"
~ would hayemopped the floor with
him."
"And for a week afterwards he put
on lots of airs. When | wanted him
to walk up and down with the baby
he said it was not the business Of a
warrior to carry the papoose around.
For d whole week that wretched man
talked dime novel talk to me until /
threatened to invite mother to come
and stay with us. That took the
nonsense out of the Grand Sachem."
"What silly fools these men are"
"Well, amt they?"-Texas Siftings.