The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08

WC:at Tor play would 1t be-" asked
Dave Tut. doEbtfully as he arose and
bowed ettfly in return. Whatever for
a play would it 5e to rope up one of
Of these yere lecture sharps which the
same goes against ne other night over
IN Tuscon? Ee could stampede over
and put us UP .aik in the warehouse
OF the New York store, an I'm right yere
to say lecture would look mighty
ran through the room. 1t was plain that
metropolitan, that-aHay, and lay over
Red Dog like four kings an an ace"
Whatever was this we're party lectur-
in about?" asked .:ack Eooth.
Il never did hear tie first CT it," re-
piled Tut. ''Me an old Monte, the
stage driver. was oafyadin' stout Tue
sen when we struck this lecture game.
Il was about aa:i dealt out when we got
In on 1t. But, as far AS We made tab,
ne was raikin' shout Rcosia and Siberia,
an how they was pesterin' an a-piayin'
1t low nu the Jews. He had a layout
of maps and carried the whole racket,
from the deal box TO the check rack.
People as sabes lectures allowed be iurn-
ed as strong game with as high limit
as any lecturer that ever charged four
bits for back seat. The lecture sharp's
all right, if you-al! deems highly of the
scheme. If It's TIE sense of this yere
meetin' it won't take two days to cut this
shorthorn out cf the Tuscon herd and
drive him over yere."
Under other au' what one might call
more concrete condition of public
feeling" said Dec Feets, cutting rapidly
and automatically into the talk. 1.-The
suggestion of cur esteemed townsman
would be the best to be made But to my
mind this camp amt in no proper frame
Of mind for lecture on Russia. It'll
be full of fight. / sabes Russia as we'll
AS do an ace. Ihar's an old silver tip
they call the czar. which is their Ian
guage for the national chief of scouts,
and he's always rervadfn' round for
trouble. There's bound to be no end of
what you might oal, turmoil in a lecture
on Russia, and the sensibilities of Wolf
vile already narrowed are in no shape
to bear it. Now. I've been thinKin' while
my esteemed friend TUFTS been talkin',
an my idees bave followed off differ
ent wagon track. What we need is not
so much lecture which is only for a
Gay, but something lasting, like the ex-
ample Of a refined and elevated home life
In our midst. What Wolrville needs is
the mollifyin' inflooence of a woman. OF
SOUA sc VIC AdVC dIO ANCll, VIII 10 UlcdS-
antly present with us here, sitting back
thar on the monte table along side
Cherokee Hall, and the man never made
a moccasin track in Wolfville who does
MT prize an value Nell Thar amt
six-shooter in camp but what would
shoot itself to death in her defense. But
Nell's young, merely yearlin', as it
were. What we wants is the picture of
a happy household where the feminine
part thereof, in the triple capacity of
woman, wife and mother, may, while
cherishin' and carin' for her husband,
shed likewise a radiant inflOoence for
u.s.
"Whoopee for Doc Peets!' shouted
Faro Nell, waving her dark sombrero
over her black curls. "He talks better
than that book Cherokees shown me
how to read"
"Pausing only to thank our towns
woman" said Poets, bowling gallantly
to Faro Nell, who waves her hand in re-
turn, ''for her Endorsement, which is as
flattering as it is priceless, I stampedes
on to say that have learned from first
sources, indeed from that gent himself,
that one of the worthiest citizens of
Wolfville, sgd Killefer, who is on the
map as corral boss at the stage station,
has wife in Illinois. I would recon-
mend that Mr.. Killefer be requested to
bring on this estimable lady to keep
camp for him. The o. K. restaurant will
lose customer, the same being the joint
where Kif gets his daily con carne But
Rucker, the landlord, will not repine for
that. What will be his loss will be the
general gain, and for the good of Wolf
vile Rucker will make sacrifice. Mr.
Chairman, my suggestion takes the form
of motion"
(Which said motion" responded En-
right with such vigorous application of
his pistol to the purposes Of a gavel that
nervous spirited might well fear for the
result, which said motion, unless hears
objection, will go as it lays. Thar bein'
no objections, the chair declares it to be
the sense Of Wolfville that Sgd Killefer
bring his wife. What heaven has fined
together let no man"
'See yere, Mr.. Chairman" interposed
Killefer, with mixture of decision and
diffidence, II merely interferes to ask
whether, as the helpless victim Of this
onlooked-for upr!sin', do 1 get chance
TO be heard? OF course. if amt in this,
if it's regarded as the correct oaper to
Eand-well, why, amt got nothin' to
lay waste the future Of man who in his
lonely way is dom his best to play pore
say. I'm impugnin' no gents motives,
but I'm free to remark these we're pro-
ceedin's strikes me as the ehild of reck-
less caprice
II will say to our fellow tuwnsman,"
said Epfight, with much dignity, "that
thar's no disposition to force clay to
which he seems averse. II from any
knowlege we s'possd we entertained of
the possession of sperit on his part
which might rise to the aid of general
need-I shorely hopes makes my mean
in plain-we've overdealt the kyards,
ell we can do is to throw our hands in
the discard and shuttle aud deal again."
mot at all and no offense given took,
nor meant" retorteG Killefer as he bal
anced himself uneasily on his feet and
surveyed first Enrigbt and then Poets.
''I've the highest possible regard for the
chair, personal, and have frequent oc-
casion to remark that I regard Doc Poets
as the best dedicated man ever saw in
my life; but this yere lunge into my do
nestle arrangements needs to be ccnsid-
cred. You-all don't know the lady in
question; which she bein' my wife,
amt asoomin' DO airs when says do"
docs she look like me Kif?" asked
Faro Nell from her perch on the monte
table near Cherokee Hall.
"None whatever, Nell" responded Kill
lefer. "To be sure have not basked
in her society for several years. and my
memory is no DOUBT blurred by stamp
edes and parary fires. and cyclones and
iynchin's and other features Of a. frontier
career hit she nutS me- in mind oc