New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-14
SAVING THE COUNTRY.

| brass band Is far nom what he was last June. His
horn Is one Of those that winds around ono
like tho red streak BARRIERS pole, and II keeps
| getting bigger and bigger all the way from where
/ Il comes out Of his mouth TO the other end whcre
flares like Of those big csr-'rumDets that
stick up out Of the deck Of ocean steamer.
This horn winds around him prObsDl, ten or .
dozen times and since the first OF September he has
slept in 1t to wear and tear In getting it
of and on. The larger end must be nearly foot In
diameter; and sometimes when he Is playing II and
com TO a lac N The music where lhere ns-s
on the handles Of the notes II has harsh, metallic
cough which quite distressing. In other passages
II becomes more rational and he usually ends by
/ gctt ng It under control
Both parties out every night There Is
only the one band. night the Republicans have
II while the Democrats gather together anu yen, ana
the next evening the Democrats have concer' 'hils
the Republicans howl The party that h.s che band
VIII march up and down all the streets and wave
torches and do what they TO save the country,
and all the me the other party viii be up In an
alley hollcring' and doing what It can for the poor
country too. Then the next night this party will
parade and the other will boiler" He hoIered for
bis country through ten campaigns Will yet adorn
tomhstones in our cemeteries " Died November l,
1888, age foriy-wo years month and xeen days,
still brayely hollerng for his country
1t Is very pleasant have a little band Of patriots
gather together under your window on a calm even
I ing ana nOuer. IL Is ali right, OF course 10
about the hero Of the bloody battlefield and to put up
monuments to our statesmen ne also serves who only
stands and hollers.
1t IS good deal TO stand in the ddle Of the street
for two hours-sometmes threc-and boiler when
you don't know what you are hOIierng about Ihe
man who has hollered except when he has
run his foot into a chair rocker in the dark knows
but little about IT, He yelled because no felt liios
the hovled exfempore-but stand in front OF
livery stable and holer for your country I'll the CULVER
ing night air starts back IN fright IS another hing
political campaign In the States is more excit-
ing than I'm the Territories. because there the people
can't for much of anything and so do not taks
much interest In Il; but the subsequent proceed
ings not noticeable Being unable to vote
for President the enterprisng residents 81 the Ter
ritories always vote moving the county seat. and
after the election proceed TO move II few times,
whatever the vote may have been. This sometimes
Keeps up the excitement all winter. II is especially
Interesting for the county officers. They may go to
the court house In tho morning In Wild Cat City and
before two hours find themselves being joted along
the prairie drawn by four yoke of and the
Mayor OF Jack Rabbit Centre swearing at them be
cause they don't 20 faster while the Mayor OF Wild
Cat City looms up the horizon to the
al the head OF posse intent bringing back the
county capital A county register Of deeds may be-
gin 10 record deed in place and finish II ten
miles away II wheel doesn't break under the court
thing. I once knew register Of deeds who dated
his papers like this On the wing, December -.
1882. I hereby certify that the within, etc.'
1t is very dscoursging to an honest local editor
10 sit down TO write able article Tbs stability
of Our Territorial Institutions and have HIS window
darkened by the courthouse being drawn past on
the trot by enterprisng citizens from Prairie Flower
City.
man once came out 10 Excelsior. Dakota. small
place IN Yankon County. 70 paper The
copy he got out contained a long and wcll-wrtten
editorial The Permanent Character Of Our city's
Growth and that day they moved the court
house to Piper City. cyclone blew the gable-end of
the schoohouse and large wheat elevator burst and
the wheat ran all around and buried the rest Of the
town.
A courthouse in Dakota has but an uncertain ex-
stence. About the best II do Is follow the
crowd and keep going As soon as the county COM
missioners vote TO put wheels under IT, 1t knows that
its wanderngs to begin. In a country whore the
turf associations offer a purse for a court house
race, and divide them into LAO class, $50
class, etc. there isn't much encouragement for such
an Institution TO settle down.
Four years ago this fall tho county in which
I lived voted on the county seat question. On the
night Of the election the citizens Of Estelne made
the fatal mistake of stopping to through the wholly
unnecessary ceremony Of counting the vote Tho
citizens of Castlewood, rival town, were wiser
threw the baliotbox in the ash barrel when the polls
closed. got dray. drove to the courthouse which
siocd our on the praire coupe u.ii- ION Is
tene and loaded up the safes, books, records. etc..
and carried them away TO CastlewoOd. tea days
afterward Estelline gOf some sort of order nom
the court and went up and got the treasu'ers safe
and books including the himself and brought
them back Later, Castiewood received a dispense
ton from rival court and took the
treasurer's Office. Estelline got another writ and
brought it back. Castlewood pron pity habeas cor
NH
day in the spring a hind wheel came of the truck
where the road went through a low, wet place by
the river, and the safe and treasurer rolled OFF In
the mud. The treasurer TALKED loud for few min
utcs and sawed the air with big zigzag words
aud them the safe had landed right side up,
cluded to make the best of It The ground was so
wet tina; the safe could not be reloaded so The
treasurer opened bis office By the side of It with the
AID oi small liable and The nsiiheg winch lie lad
used for chair for the last two years
The treasurer was man who could raise himself
above his surroundings. by profession he ~ss
dentist He used 10 ill customers tooth with
some sort OF an iron preparation and charge him
two dollars for IT, and then II the filing dropped out
before the man got out of the Office he would drag
him back IN the chair and charge him three dollars
for putting IL In the second time. lie claimed that
a man who didn't know enough 10 keep his tongue
against the filing aud hold II In didn't deserve any
financial pity lie said who had tooth
filed effemnate anyhow. The proper way was
to have the tooth pulled, and he claimed that If
you ha. clear conscience another would grow In.
lie said this we'll established fact In dentistry
lie claimed, too, be the only In town with
a conscience In such condition that the cutting OF
a tooth a comparatively easy job lie posed
having cut four full sets Of teeth, With conscience
enough left for another lot and new head OF
hair. He also musician and the teacher OF
the EsteilIne brass band. lie explained 10 them
that when they finished piece Of music and came
TO two spots or some such sign, u meant to
repeat IL. ihey were always 10 icpeat When they
came TO Two spots. Therefore, II they got
started on a tvospo piece there such thing
stopping TIL they were tired out He would start
them on Pop Goes the Weasel Lni then, while
they we're repeating 1t again and again, he would
back TO HIS office and pull teeth. IL used TO be
a great RELIEF sometimes TO get out of the hearing
OF the band and listen to his customers shout and
utter other vehement cries he extracted their
teeth by one.
lie seemed enjoy himself while he had his
trcasurers Office out on the prairie by the safe. He
said he liked quiet. and after ufe's ttful excitement
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