The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-12-02

could talk freely with the natives, We
by rolling it around his mind for som,
time he succeeded in polishing it unit
he felt justified in trying it on a new &C
| quaintance in about this shape:
Men along the river tell me they fire.
| guently have chills and fever, and tina
the climate don't allow the men to b.
very active, yet can't see any sign tha
the younger women suffer in that way
NO, said Sam Mazzitt, the man ad.
dressed, as he mOtioned the visitor to g
seat on the log on which he was resting
in front of his own door. Il reckon
here he paused to puff contemplatively
on his pipe-"I reckon the Lord thinks
somebody down here ought to have a
chance to be spry."
Jack made a mental note of this fol-
his intended book. and then, doubted
whether it would do.
Fact is" Sam went on, after little
more reflection, gals amt out in the
woods an swamps as much as men, an
they don't drink"-puff-"no chaw"-
puff-"nor smoke; leastways, not many
of them takes to smokin' till they've
been disappointed in love. Say, stran-
ScI, WucIC yOuA OWu pipe: IL gu Il
coal Of fire out here for to light it. "
Then he turned toward the house and
shouted "Lizzie!"
please don't trouble YOURSELF" said
Jack, hastily. Il don't smoke"
The man looked sidewise quickly and
suspiciously.
What's that? Don't smoke? Well,
some don't; but it's poo.y bad for 'em
in these parts. Tubbacker keeps off the
chills an fever"
Jack was about to unfold a theory,
which he had formed since his arrival
on the river, that tobacco, which every
one seemed to use, was probably one of
the causes of malarial complaints, by
making the liver torpid, when he heard
a voice saying:
What do you want of me, pOp?"
Jack turned and saw in the doorway
of the log house a specimen of that por-
ton of the population that had seemed
to him specially interesting. 1t was a
girl in faded calico dress: but Jack won
dered what the young fellows in his
town at home would have said could
they have seen her. There were some
very good-lOOking girls in that town.
Jack and the other boys had often looked
at them admiringly for an hour at
time, when they should have been lis
tening to the sermon which the minister
was preaching that self-same hour, but
none of them were like this girl. Yet
she was not different from many whom
he had CHANGED to see during his short
trips ashore-merely rich olive COM
pleXion, large. warm, dark eyes, and a
great deal OF black hair, with head set
firmly on a shapely neck. How could
she be daughter of the thin, sallow,
wrinkled, awkward man beside him?
She must have inherited her good looks
and figure from her mother. Jack re-
solved that he would improve the chance
acquaintance, if possible, to see if there
might not be something in the idea of
inheritance by sex.
Its nothin', Lizzie, gal," said the
father; Il was goin' to git you to fetch
but a coal to light the strangers pipe,
out it seems he don't smoke. Say, my
friend, I know it amt any of my bust
ness, but didn't you ever smoker"
oh, yes" said Jack with a laugh.
"Once, when l was about II years old,
I smoked about an inch of a cigar. It
answered me for life; can taste it
now, or whenever think of it.
oh, ! see," said the man, with a
kind though plying look; cigars amt
safe. II you'd begun on pipe, now,
you'd have been gettin' as much COM
fort out of tubbacker by this time as
me-"
Meanwhile, the girl had come from
the house and stood in front Of her
father, listening to the conversation
and looking at the visitor without any
show of embarrassment. This seemed
odd to Jack. II up in New Hampshire
he had stopped at so common and shah
by q place to speak to q native who did
not know him, the women Of the family
would have regarded him from afar of,
and looked uncomfortable il they
CHANGED to meet him face to face. But
this girl looked him full in the face, as
pleasantly and with as little concern as
IL he had been an old acquaintance, and
said:
Pop gets so much comfort out OF his
pipe that like to see him smoke.
Jack quickly determined that he
would like to talk with q girl like that
a girl who made SO little fuss about get
ting acquainted. He had already found
that formal introductions were not In
fashion among the humber residents
along the river, and that no one seemed
to have any distrust Of q man who at
tended to his business and did not con-
Germ himself unduly with other peoples
Affairs. It was as delightful ~ It was