Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-08-29

was swinging my red-and-blue
clubs under the pepper-tree at the
hack Of the railroad station. This !
aid because had theory that exer-
pise was good for man living on
desert. The lazy Mexicans and most
Of the Americans thereabouts had no
ruddy glow on their faces. They we're
ali sallow. What | wanted was rud.
d. glow.
My ied,and.blue clubs cireled about
very pre,tily that day. and the ruddy
GLOW came. also dripping epidermis
and big desire 10 sit down in the
shade 81 tie pepper-tree and blow to.
bacco smoke, The tree WAS small
one When tie station tank ran over,
which Was not often. its roots receiy.
a litIle moisture So il grew, slowly.
Al soon as ! dropped my clubs a
s0ueal ~ disgust went up from some.
where. and, az turned about, saw
small. broWn head dart behind
cactus l,Hea rock.
/ said nothing. but leaned back in
my seat. pulled my sombrcro down
0gsr MS taee and slammed sleep,
with one half closed eye on tho rock
and the be cactus shrubs, No tse.
You can not gel an Apache out 81 his
holr ii that way.
Nest day, with my beautiful exrr-
els theory s'.l. bristiiug IN my brain.
Isarnrl quickly while la the midst 81
ms club swinging, and saw the wide.
opcnryta aud gaping mouth ofther,ln.
R1gst .ittle savage | had ever bpheii.
H. sprang about and ilr4i behind the
rork, buy not too quickly for me 10
read .NNN Family Flour ia large
rrl letters 81 hls back His one short
garment MAs cotton sack, with
hoige %. through il COR his head aud
arm.
Come. TAds. I crist christening
him ID thar Hre.ing swand with 4
ntur that stuck 10 hmm All hts lie,
.ou, 81 that And jumped Behind
the rock swinging Az opru hand that
did net grasp tic Hour sack as had
intended i should
Who're wha hr wee savage
like lizard. hc had darted from
sight somrahcro IN that little patch
q rurks Hnd cactus. though there did
Htst appear 70 be cover enough there
70 ennernl q jAckrahbit
THE sp.ntK must scratch him.
Thought ~ looked al the prirkly
cactus Ill, lid not know then how
Apaoits rIt up wifh such small itri.
ta'luns Not wanting 70 g!Yn the boy
uur~aa-.Hry torture, went back 10
ny cnnr Throwing my eyes about
again leaugh' another tlrrttueglinpro
Of TIE brown head az il lodged behind
tie rnrk
Tads mus; have been disappointed
next day Tor there was no rltib.Hw!ng.
ifg nndcr the pepprr.tree. Tho duties
81 Telegraph agent lny too heavily
upon me and tho sun lay too heavily
upon The desert. / saw Tnds steal
away from his lair about two hours
es'cr my usual exercise time and walk
down the saud.drifts with a DETECTED
az, his one garment Tapping IN the
hot wind.
Wild nature like his was proof
against such sunres as the toothsomc
eoniection, the golden orange. or the
menly peanut found that out by
trial tn the course of the next week.
but an old lack,kniie won him over
That was something his Apache mind
eolIa grasp. Il was greater delight
70 hlm than the red-and.blue clubs.
sworn friends from that day were
Iads and l. His talk was n ridicu-
lous mixture Of English. Spanish and
AnnTnu md hta
t,hroaty. But | understood him.
indhn.like, he said little II WINS,
therefore, easy 20 get along with him.
ne would sit for hours on high
stool listening 10 the "tunk.tunk-
tuhk Of my sounder. The telegraph
was nm awful mystery TO him at first,
ana I squelched his imagination: but
NC solved theproblem at last. A man
away on IN the mountains spoke with
~ hnger TO me. and | spoke back to
nun That was his idea Of 1t, and IL
was not q bad one, either. The hum.
mlhgs Of the wires overhead were the
voices otpeople with ponderous fingers,
Wy they were not OF this world.
:, How the cowboys laughed when
ton.
That tenderfoot's queer one"
they said Of me.
The despised Apache could not
crawl into their hearts--not even il he
were 6-year old.
He'll steal everything the tender
i p'.1 got, they pleasantly avcrred.
nut he did not.
When Tads left the station OF an
evening, his little brown feet battered
straight over the roads to the wicki-
ups' half a mile away. In time he
huts. 80" ~ W w
Pity vell," was what Tads would
gunt to me every day when he came
saiSyLy into the Office, and greeted him
NUN q friendly, "How.de.do9" Then
t ~ would shrugh his shoulder in way
mat would wrinkle tho three KS in.
" such bewildering folds that you
tboald not have read them unless you
h had known what they were before.