The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-03-23
FOR YELLOW GOLF.

When the stage went light," hey ran
out the small buckboari; but wien there
were more than four p;ssenges, the big
mud-wsgon was put u." This was a
blackboard day, for then was not sin
gle passenger. What vas mere to the
point, as the Gold Butte Mining Com
pany regarded il, was the under the dri-
ver's eat was box with en thousand in
the newest Of new tens nd tFenties in
it.
The driver had looked pry ,Iue when
be drove his four mustarys from the
postofice, where he tool On a very
Hat leather bag, which spoke loud
ly Of the incapacity or liancIination
of the Thimble Spring peole for letter
writing-oyer TO the raillad station,
whore he waste take on thoox. Things
were going all wrong at hoe. That wss
why his brown face lookedso haggard I;
that was why be held so loosely the
lines -; that was why hschewed so
hard on the bit of . plug iihs mouth,
Such hard scratchin' ] never seed
afore,R was what he had sal as he had
listlessly thrown the mail-lg into the
wagon can't git no decenfob nova
days. Nothin ter be had prospec.in'
tried thet time an ag'in f git any
thing, it peters out inside q week. /
might make 4 strike over tsSand Guleh
but it's burned long wspf, an men
Sue an the kids hez moveso often at
we can't raise nothin' ter Dve on now.
Why in sam Hill did Sue " ter git that
rheumatic jes' now, wheHwe's 50 hard
up, an afore she weaned tebaby7 It's
= shame. Why can't Pi gin sOme.hin'
ter do9-grest, big, lunnesded cuss. Ef
he'd a brother, poor'n a COW, dye
think I'd 90 an live chin, an live on
him, till thar warn'aothin' ter eat in
the house? sho, lac Springer, you'er q
blamed fool Bill rn't done that. He
amt ter blame fe,ittin' his leg brok~
that time. BIls Il right, but he's on
lucky. Bin tryird a month to git a job
an can't git inJwhere. He's villin ter
work; he'd snd croteh-deep in the
creek, all day lg. washin' out tailen's'
eff he could ma his salt at it. Tried il
fer six weeks, didn't git enough ter
buy a pair of m boots. Whoa, Buck
skin, He'd jai right inter the station
platform eff v didn't saw his teeth
out"
And then thoox was taken on, and
the express ant had something to say.
That 'somethi' was not to Zach Spring
er's liking. Bchewed harder than ever
on the bit org, and sawed the hard
mouths Of thaustsngs by an unneces-
sary yanking the reins- II was pos
tive relief to- able at last to whack
his,iash dowIpon the sides Of the ner-
yous brutes a turn them loose for the
forty-mile ruso Gold Butte. Why had
he needed aectnre from q hireling OF
the express mpany, and why should
that smoothwled agent have looked at
him with su dark suspicion
They thi COS got stood up down
ter Black Rks las time had big load
O. gold thatneed to be preached 10 eve.
nv time gcut now with full box. The
stcop-shoulred, desk-settin' hounds
I'd like ter se one o. 'em handlin' the
ribbons VIII thar'sa Winchester lcokin
at 'em with eye as big as bar'l-head
Can't tell uthey wouldn't give in. Th'
sweet-scepi, calf-skin booted young Ia
dies ThaEn't man among EN- :"
Zach sprger's indignation was il
more comste possession of him thar
had been J feeling of blueness a littl
earlier. Wat be had delivered himsel
of lust nowas not what he would hay
said had voiced his true sentiment
with referee to the express agents lee
ture. In stween the words ran tn
thought tk they had suspected hin
of having hand in the Black Rocks rot
berry. 1t h come to him before in whs
he called Z fleff-handed way, and n
had had Ger outbursts Of righteous in
dignation,ut none in which the uphea'
al was soreat as that of the presen
Had that en- the reason the stage con
pany hadn't down his pay to sixty
month ? ie chances were that it was
il was toolamed mean for lot ofswin'
Ike the people, to he thought,
come it high-hsndediy over a poe
man whsonly wanted his own An
wouldn't serve them just right if
The vile dust of the desert rolled u
from thaustang's hoofs in little puf
and sprs of it, powder fine, followe
the turnf the wheels half way up, thei
to be eght by the breeze and drifte
behind ia long.cloud that followed th
buckboa like haunting spirit. SOM
times, abe light breeze shifted, It can
back up, the blackboard and its drive
ike heg thoughts on the conscience
q guilty an
1t wod serve them Just right Besid'
that. on think-ten thousand VIII!
would people down in Mexico
Gauteuia, where be would fiy, know
care if omebody up in far-otf Nevae
had duped box off his blackboard ar
. gone bk and got it afer few days
maybe. week 1t would have to be
dark NIT, wouldn't it? You couldn'tI
= and gel box ike that in the day TIN
e and te it anywhere, for the who
countrwould be out looking for the M
who hs it. Maybe month that wou
be betr. It would all blow over by tn
time. It's see would it ? Ten thousaI
was sood deal. Those stage-stopPs
were ways striking the box on {
wrons ay. They never got 30 much
that srne haul In two months, tn
> -penos two months; but it would ha
10 berll hidden
J AMI he thought stuck to him, desp