Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-04-26


real lodge. we had no difffcslty in carry
ing on e dozen different kinds ct .yiilainy
unuiolested during the absence OF our
respected parents.
7 Il shall not give in detail all the.
idiotic things we did during the meet
ing of the secret conclave I,remember-
one frightfully cold winter night when.
some lunatic proposed that we should
have a foot race, and that every one
should take of his shoes and stockings
and race barefoot in the freezing snow.
! The race was to be of dura ton rather
than for any particular distance, and we
were TO see which boy could stand it,
or run 1.-THE longest IN the snow with
| his bare feet We all started of in
I great spirits, and nobody liked to give
up. Every body forgot that the further
we went the further we would have TO
walk back.
by the time we got q quarter OF
mile from the village two OF the boys
were crying quietly and every bods's feet
were red and half frozen. Then some
body suggested that perhaps we had bet
ter turn back, and turn back we did.
'fhe disastrous march OF Napoleon from
4 Moscow was nothing compared TO
that horrible tramp back 20 the viii
lage. 1t is a wonder to me To this day
that amputstion was not necessary for
the legs of half the boys in the VII.
lage. Our feet were SO swollen when
we got back that 1t was impossible TO
put on our shoes, although most OF us
managed to draw on our stockings, and
in that way we limped of to our several
homes.
That, however, | must say TO the credit
4 OF the boys. was about the only joke
they ever played on themselves during
the meeting of the secret conclave.
After that the jokes we're on the other
people. One OF the most successful of
these was the robbery of a cellar that
belonged to the father Of one OF our
boys. The son Of his father assisted
manfulty during this crime and. in fact,
IL was through his Intervention that we
managed to bring the thing TO such a
successful conclusion. This man had
the largest apple orchard that was any
whore near the village, and during the
winter there was stored in the cellar any
amount OF fine apples. do not remem.
ber who it was that first thought OF the
robbery. The boy said that there were
lots Of apples in his fathers cellar and
he proposed that we should all go up and
have as MANY as we could eat. This
was at once assented to, and we were
eating the apples in the cellar when the
thought of robbing the ranch occurred
to somebody. Near the house of the
owner Of the apples there lived q mar
who had been elected chaplain OF the
lodge Of Good Templars. He was a seri
olis-minded man and he owned q cellar
So II was at once proposed that we should
at once transfer the apples from the one
cellar into the other. We got couple
of bushel baskets that two boys coulc
carry between them, and every one Sc
to work with a will. In those days ther,
were no fears of robbers in the village
and 1t was quite easy to get into AM
house in the place.
Somebody entered the chaplaint
house and opened the cellar door, and
then we worked with a vim that W.
would never have shown il the labor has
been legitimate. After about an houl
of hard labor we transferred ever,
apple from the one cellar into another
closed things up as they were befor,
and made for our respective homes. Tn,
wonder of this thing was that. SO man,
of the boys being engaged in IL, tn,
truth of the matter was never discov
cred TO this day. There was an awfu
row raised about the robbery, and tn,
matter was put in the hands of con
stable. We had a constable in that vii
lage who represented the law, and h,
started out to find the perpetrators o
the vile deed, and began by arrestin,
various innocent persons who bore bat
regulations and who lived on the out
skirts of the village.
When the chaplain discovered tha
somebody had left a wagon load or SO o
; apples in his cellar, the good mai
thoues AT srst that It was donation
I party, hut ~hen the news OF the appl,
: robbery got around ne came To the orig
inal proprietorof the applesand told hin
what he had found in his cellar. Bein,
! neighbors. the two had not such a goes
opinion of each other as they ought !.
= have had. and the original owner OF tn,
: apples received the Information that the,
y had been mystefiously transferred Z,
+ his neighiDrs cellar with sniff OF In
dignant disbelief. He was not slow II
i saying that " he had not put the matte
9 so promptly in the hands OF the law th'
d other would not have discovered the ap
y plies SO OPPORTUNITY in his cellar -Thi
: remark promised 10 lead 10 suit 70
= slaIider, and the whole. Eiliage,was 80
? by the ears. However. mutual friend
e.. stepped in and the affair was compro
u missed, but the real culprits were neye
= discovered. and the chaplain and. the ar
= Pile owner little shought thst their owl
z two lads had been mainly -espoRsibl
q for the mysterious .. trans.sS.-Luk
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