The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-07

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them II tho dam0
Thought shout the ehaR the seiler-you know
wot's his name
al writes the poetry stun about s.thc ashes o.
dead hopes"
An how the folks through this dark world o.
sin an Misty gropes
An when the last one burned-set stu now,
stranger, don't you rise:
Its 1cs' this blame tcrbscca smoke got il my
pesky eyesl
ALTERED INTENTIONS.
How the Oowbows Came to Ex-
hibit the Circus Elephant.
Ever since sunset tho prairie breeze
had famed fever flushed little face.
Bolt upright in a splint-bottomed chair
BY the bedside, q man had fallen asleep
again and again, In spite of his de-
termination to remain awake. But,
Notwithstanding his WEAKNESS. he had
slept lightly, and had often awakened
1t the sound Of faint moan. or the
touch Of the night wind as It softly
stirred the erect and unruly wisps OF
his mop Of tangled hair, and often
seemed to him, half waking. like the
soft. caressing touch Of childish
fingers. Every time he woke with an
anxious start he saw that the fever
bright eyes of the sick child were fixed
longing upon the pictured handful up
on the wall, as it futtered In tho gentle
night wind. And. each. time when the
man had cooled the parched lips with
water or patted the scanty pillow, the
child had piped:
Tell me more bout the ole elephant
pappy!"
{ And the man had told again OF tho
old elephant-how he was almost as
big as the shock" and was dirt-col-
ored, and had long, white tusks and
great big Happy ears, and had trunk
that he swung from side to side as he
walked.
AN he likes little boys-don't hep
Likes 'em first-ratey' the man
would answer. Thinks q heap OF
semv'
And the fever-bright eyes OF the
child would be bent more eagerly up
on the long bill that futtered on the
wall. and, in spite Of his loving anxi.
,ty, the man would nod. his head
would slowly sink forward on his breast,
and he would be asleep from sheer
WEAKNESS.
Presently, Is the candle burned al
most out, the east grew gray. then
lighter. A turtle-dove, that had
winged her way through the misty
half darkness to resting-place upon
tho topmoot strand of tho settlers
piece Of barbed-wire fence, greeted the
coming morning with her soft solemn
5000 wool
II they had looked from tho window
Of the " shack" and the gray OF the
morning had turned little moro to
gold. the settler and the sick child
night have seen q novel procession
passing along the section-road. quar-.
ter OF mile away. There were quccr
canyas-wrapped vehicles and queere,
blanketed animals that looked strange
enough in the coming light, but which,
denuded Of their wrappings in the
glare OF the sunlight and on the main
street Of Range City. would blossom
out into the more or less gorgeous
chariots, cages and curiosities Of q
circus-paradc.
This last crawling end OF the process.
sion was dimly discerned by little
squad Of broad-hatted, jangle-spurred
horsemen, whose galloping cayuse
ponies had carried them swiftly across
the prairie in the direction in which
the circus was slowly taking its way.
Thar! cried one Of the cowboys
rs they reached the forks where the
littlo-worn by-road that passed the
settlers cabin left the section-road.
THAR they air! Come onr'
The squad seemed on the point Of
dRshing along the section-road in the
wake Of the circus
Hold on thar. Scotty!' cried tho
Oldest man of the group. We've
got"
but thar's elephant, Sladc!'' in.
terrupted the first speaker, with an al
moet boyish enthusiasm. '.Ketched ,
glimpse Nv him among tho wagons
jist as"
Never mind the elephant" brok,
In old Slade. We've got other bust
ness on hand jest now. Got to ketcl
= glimpse NV granger. stead OF al
elephant, an sorto-"
''Sorto start y granger procession!
cried another Of the broad-hattet
ones.
Yes" growled Scotty, ..it'l be
procession that'll start quick and go a
tearin'. H'ain't got no time to progi.
now!'
You bet! Specially when thar
. elephant as big's q house movin
down the road away from Vi" sal.
another.
'''Twon't take but little bit, sait
old Slade. I'VE kin"
- But s'poseD he shows fight
Reckon he'll cut up rusty. or"
LET him cut oil he durn pleases!'
broke in Scotty. savagely. LET hin
cut! We're able fer him, all the same
Changers IL granger!'
Changers wore grangers. and there
fore entitled TO little but indignities q
the hands Of the cowboys and '.cattl.
kings" Though. legally. grangers
"a the csttle-men scorpfully denomi
nate tho squattsrs and homesteaders
have > right on tho range. they a.
regarded - interlopers, and tho littl'
patches Of prairie that they are brave
" and t0ilsomely trying to CONVEX
into fertile farms are regarded - D
much stolen from the rightful feeding
grounds Of the catt'