The Meeker herald., 1888-02-11
Pap was u t.-d Zip Wan.

Pap was ~ t.-d Up Wan.
One day We stopped by little creek
near Fort fetterman, Wyo., for dinner.
Another covered wagon, headed west,
was already camped there and boy
WIS taking care Of the horses, while u
girl aboAt fourteen years old was frying
some bacon over fire near the wagon.
We mnnaged 10 scrape an acquaintance
with the girl, and asked her il she and
her brother We're travelling alone.
"Oh. no. she replied; Pap an nam
ARE in the wagon. pap's laid up and
mains doctorin' Inn.
"liurt In an accident ~
"Yes, MI bnnged up. Other fellow
n sight quieker'n pap lowed he Was.
Lor' but lie did make some l.yely mo-
tions "
"Nhat was ihe trou Lin p
"Oh," jes' n fight. Say, | want 10
know II the men keep ge,,in' wus the
furler west you git ?r
"Well, it's hard To say. DO they seem
toyr
That's about IL. When We lived b,cl,
In Pennsylvania pap lowed ho could
lick any man In Minlin county, an he
used 10 do II, too, lection days, an
Fourth o. Ju!ys. an camp mec,in's.
Three months ago We pulled out for the
West, and says pap: 4 shall leave a
line o. men on cruiclies from Lewiston,
ia. 10 liozemnn, Mont. shall tie To-
gcihsr the AllrrRhanefs and the Rockies
hy u line o. cripples. shall unite t!ic
Last and the West with spawned a;!i
Uusted up fighters | shall shut up the
optics and iiltt.n out tile smcllrrb ni
these Western gal01is and learn EN-
that all III. bal men don't roost west %
the Mississippi. Pap said he was pizcn
1n Western blowhiTis. and thoy wanted
10 sling low when he had his boots on"
"Wrll. was he Us sucscsslGi rs lie cS-
pcctcd Ia beg
Not by good BIT. lie pounded a
man all IN pieces near r.,,sburg ani
licked two more ernzsiu' Ohio. They
seemed to get tougher In Indiana. but
plp whaici u LIVERY stable man at De.
catur aud chased rippceanoe country
farmcg mi!G'n half. When we
struck lllluoyI thry 'prIgcd 10 git stiil
wuss. an rap only kinder tired uut
three oF four oi 'oin an didn't Hex 'cm
rcgIcr. ThcH We crossed tie MissNp-
at Burlington, an . man that WI, Load
ing lumber down by the river kinder
tired plp out. Then - man NJ O,tum-
way that run s'lo1n pretty near licked
pln Trg'lrr, ani NJ Osccoll he'd got
pounded II hc hadn't run. SIN hv
didn't g,it hurt iuuch till VIC h,iucl Scw.
| hrsatn
"l'hcy got siili worse did they -
! That gln't no name for IL. ~ Fro
mon, onr 81 the county commissioner
came down where We cimpci an put
IL all over pap ia about ten minutes,
an at Long Pine Pap shook his fist -,
ihr conductor ~ u passenger iai!n iha;
was guln' past an the conductor stopped
his train an come oyrT an whnlci pap
t.ii H. slucaici. At valentine the
principal II the schools chased him out
o. the school yard wh'u We tried TO
camp there. an ut chairun he picked
nu the mn,ur q liltl. when they was
IiDlu' 80 trad. horses. an tile mayor
up'n Elckri II 'n him thou, pulliu lis
coat Of sayin' wdsd. SIN pap wasn't
laid up uli ~. struck Wyoming. Back
here " l.usk pap 60, u,lkin' with q lit
,ir Teller bout religion. l'ap's Pres
p,;crilu an the little Teller said lie
wasn't no,hin'. but hc leaned towards
the 'Piscopals and never took much
stock In rrcspciorilns. Then pap
jumped up couple % times an told tile
lit;!c Teller To look out cause lie was u
comm. An then pap went for him
with his head down. an gosh, son uTicr
seen the motions that little icllcr made .
Pap was licked fore hc got his second
wind. bu, somehow the cuss was ~ lit
tlc lie KEEP u ilghtin' him In place o. run
MIN Ike hc orier. aud the conscience
was mem NAM had to hist Him into the
wag'n an iiN up some plas;ers Ior lin
an rub him with hoss lin'mcnt. I don't
know what's gon' TO become % pap II
he keeps u pi,chin' into EN-. II pears
that the fuuler west We git the wuss
they git an IL looks 'sif fore we git up
10 IIolrmau that we'd have to bury pap.
Pap lows If he could strike u Quaker
settlement he would he all right. but
there don't seem to he none out this
way. To man mp tree It looks sit
pap was busted community !''-Frod
Carruth in Chicago Tribune.
When an editor makes u mistake in
his paper all the world sees IL and calls
him liar. When private citizen
makes mistake nobody sees 1t except
few friends. aud they come around
and ask the editor To keep ii out uf tile
paper When the private citizen dies.
the editor is asked TO write uf all his
good qualities and leave ont the bad.
When the editor dies, the private citi-
zen says. Now that old liar viii get his
deserts. oil City Derrick.
The Cheyenne journal saws: Keep
it In mind that the hundreds of thou.
sands Of cows that have gone 10 the
block this wear are out of the producing