Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-08
THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS.
An Explicit Answer Which Satisfied
Farmer UhIander of Nebraska.

From the New York Sun.
Uhlander fits his name, which is Swedish.
He has farm ten or twelve miles down
from Wahoo. toward Clear Creek precinct,
fine big farm, where he raises some of
the best crops of corn in Saunders county.
Two men went up from Omaha to hunt
Jack snipe in Saunders county with a Wa
hoo man who knew every foot of land in
the county, and where every snipe spent
the night. They We're business men, and
the only time they could devote to hunting
wtas Sunday When 80 O'Clock came,
bringing the dull gray dawn across the
ragged brown hills and the sere corn
fields, the three hunters set out for the long
row of swamps. ponds. marshes and
slOughs that ended in the finest and big
gest OF all, the forty-ac-e muck hole that
lay on both sides of the road across l-k-
lander'S farm, where it was forbidden to
hunt
Luck wasn't very good. and the day was
yet shy of mid morning when the driver
struck the road that divided Uhlan 1er's
marsh in two They stopped. and one of
the omaha men got co.. He hauled I'D his
hip boots ard struck through the swamp
straight toward Uhlsnders house which
stood on the knoll just beyond the water
He hadn't gone three steps before there
was scalp. and a iprOwn-backed snipt
was ricochetting out of danger. The swamp
was full of them, and the hunter was so
a
minute that he didn't see Uhlander coming
down from the house. Chlander had start
ed apparently at the first crack of the gum
tie is as fine Sweda as ever spen. his
money in Ben Rupp's drug store buying c.
p Alcohol for Meiicine' His ewes arr
blue and his hair yellow. AMI in from. of
MS ears there grows 4 bush of whistler
that is of Il color cross between his eyes
and his hair. lhlander had been disturbed
while he was taking his ease in .he restful
bosom OF his family. lie came down to
protest wearing the iltt-Jot toned, wooden
soled. unhecied slippers dear to his race
Dut mighty loor projection in wet country
AS he scufffed along he shouted in his even.
matter-of-fact way: Hay. nay, hayr' at
intervals that marked time with the re-
ports OF the Omaha mans gun.
The omaha man saw Uhlaudc- coming
and with one glance out of the tail of his
eye he took in the wooden slippers. Then
ne went on shooting The snipe were thick
ana not wild He keI,t plckin, them I'D all
over the swamp. and all aroun the c.Ige Of
II hlandar danced in mis- wooden shoes
and shouted: Hang. hang"' At last the
Omaha man got the last s-,.;.e II fell close
10 Whel = talander was standing and as he
picked i up h seemed - notic. the farmer
for the FIRST time. II had been going ON for
1uiiy hfteea minutes. and Uhlapdar was
What dye WANT" asked the Omab,
man, as he Strengthened up with his last
snipe.
''vael." irawled Uhlarder. CAV laik 10
pond on son lax
Inc utterly uhspeilahln sing-sonr # it
caught the Omaha man arr. ne shouted:
NV hal 49,
Chlander repeated it.
On. aid the Omaha man. chats one
OF the 1nalienable rights and privileges
guarante-"l II every citizen OF tins country
by the Constitution of the United States to
every cltlz.n of America who i; Il nan free
born, OF lawful age and vel! re commended
anu gives 1t tEc-E strictly- in charge ever 20
walk SUI l."
VI c9;u5e, said IhliHdrr Without
another worl he turned ami walkcl back
to his house. -
pays 20 be explicit"