Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-04-03

unite good qualifications as candidate
with the necessary qualities for sue
cessful official.
The Piute in March or April does not
go down cellar and bring up his giadiola
or remove the banking from the side of
his villa. He does not mulch the aspar-
agus bed or prune the pie plant or rake
the front yard or salt the hens. He does
not even wipe his heart broken and neg
lected nose. He makes no especial
change in his great life work, because
spring has came. He still looks serious
and like a man who is laboring under
the impression that he is about to be-
come the parent of a thought. These
children of the Piute brave never ma
ture. They do not take their places in
the history or the school readers of our
common country. the Piute wears a
bright red lap robe over his person, and
generally stiff Quaker hat with leath-
er band. His hair is very thick, black
and coarse, and is mostly cut off square
in the neck by means of an adj, judge,
or possibly it is eaten off by moths. The
Piute is never bald during life. After
he is dead he becomes bald and beloved.
johnson Sides is well known Piute
who had the pleasure of meeting me at
Reno. He said he was great admirer
of mine and had all my writings in a
scrap book at home. He also said that
he wished would come and lecture for
his tribe. | afterwards learned that he
was an earnest and hopeful liar from
l. oil
| Also no home.
Mr.. Sides at one time became quite
civilized, distinguishing himself from his
tribe by reading the Bible and combining
his shirt tail to the narrow confines of a
| pair of cavalry trousers instead of Civ
| ing it to the irresponsible breeze as other
Piutes did. He now established an hotel
up the valley in the Sierras and decided
to lead life of industry. He built eli
hosiery called the Shack-de- Poker Hunt
| US, and advertised in The Carson APP
peal, paper even the editor of which
Mr.. Sam. Davis, says fills him with won.
der and amazement when he knows that
people actually subscribe fer it. Very
soon Piutes began to come TO the Shack
| to spend the heated term. Every Piutt
who took The Appeal saw the advertise
ment, which went on to state that no
and cold water could be got into every
room in the house and that electric bells
baths, silver voiced chambermaids, over
charges aid everything else connecte,
with first class hotel could be founC
at this place. So the Piute people LOCKED
up their own homes and, ejecting tn
cat, they spat on the fire and movet
to the new summer hotel. They tool
their friends with them. They had n
money, but they knew johnson Side
and they visited him all summer
In the fall Mr.. Sides closed the house
and taking a rubber cuspidor. with
capacity of two gallons, he resumed hi
blanket and went back to live with hi
tribe. When the butcher wagon cam
the next day the driver found a motto
of sale. and in the language of Sol Smitl
Russell, Good reasons given for sell
ing"
Mr.. Sides had been temperance maj
now for year. at least externally, bu
with the humiliation of this great finan
cial wreck came wild desire to fee {
the maddening bowl, having been mon
keying with the madding crowd al
summer. So silently he concealed a bot
tie of Reno embaiming fluid and secrete,
himself behind a tree, where he wa
asked TO join himself in social nip. 81
had hardly wiped away an idle tear witt
the corner of his blanket and replace,
the stopper in his tear jug when tn
local representative of the Z. c. J. E. 7
A. of Reno came upon him. He was re
ported to the lodge. and his characte
babe fair TO be smirched so badly tina
nothing but saltpeter and consisten