, 1896-12-04
THE SANDERS GIRL.

AAAuy w "Ao Az I'LL
to pass on the range when l was thar"
remarked the old cattleman meditative-
ly, "but, if SO be, I never notes 'em.
They shorely gets plumb by me in the
night"
The old gentleman had just thrown
down a daily paper. and even as he
spoke I read OH the turned page the
glarin2 headline. Romance In Real
Life" His recent literature was the
evident cause of his reflections.
"Of course" continued the old cat
tleman, turning for comfort to his inev-
table pipe and inching his chair more
and more into the shade of the porch,
"of course Mt sech epocks as some de-
graded sharp takes to dealin double in o
poker game, or the kyards begins to
come two at q clatter at faro bank, the
proceedin's frequent took on what you
all might call a hue Of romance, AL l
admits they was likely to get some hec-
tic myself. But. as l states, for what
one would brand as clean strain 70.
nance I amt recallin none."
How about those love affairs of your
YOUTH" I ventured. "They must have
existed"
(Which I don't deny" replied the
old gentleman between puffs-'that
back when I'm a colt in Tennessee I
has my flower scented days. But I don't
wed nothin. you notice. An even while
I'm ridin IN ropin at these yere young
female persons whom 1 has in my mind
thaS's never no romance to it, onless it's
in the fact that they all escapes me, an
! never do tie Il down once.
THAR was one lady for whom I af6re.
time yearns, which, if I'd done played
my hand plumb through. I reckon now
I might have reused out q romance or
somethin thrillin. I'd been due to get
up agin Jim Gales gun shore. You sees
this yere female weds Jim, an I will
say he makes the most restless an s'pi-
cious married man I ever encounters
"But Of course I knows my range, an
I knows my brand, an Is I makes a
spechulty Of payin no attention to Jim's
wife after the nuptials his trail an mine
never does CROSS once.
"But, speakin of love tangles, brings
to my memory q story which old San
nHsn' oniufls on u1' .ne snlne
snoMin 'na' . "on'ah sIal'y ID foo'iess
al o.saDie as q piopoSl'ioL
Cherokee Hall one day when Texas
Thompson il relatin how his wife NAL
treats him nh rings in a divorce ON him
down at Laredo. Always play 'em to
vel, yeie' LOW, soes VI e e
Ken AZ ne r"hs DIS mana over inc u ar Oh
r ar Neii' VIM .ookouI luz ohefokee,
.Neiiy, yere' ls the only l ever
meets VINO can % aepenoeo on 70 co"e
inne. every 'rip,
wn'cn ten.a'es' says oAo oa" Ell
tien.' whos sot'ih u . u. tne tinle. ah
Partlo young 1ema'es, ID = neap INV
oloIs nacheral' Ing sign. ., laihoo"
VIII mpe most OF en-. ror Myself
Ia snoreiy prefer % try an hoia a Duncn
u o"o ponies on d pau nish' una rue
nero on the near y, one anuy. D"e
ns ais, l moreh nan neger the tec
lions OF o female is migratory same %
Dunaioes usea 10 oe Deicre sney Was
Killed. an sortef eoes hoftn III the spring
an eontn as IN III ne Winter,
AS ior me- says ieAas thompson
wno moody toucnin them divorce
piays mis- wA1e Is makln DOWN q. Aale-
90, you can gamble passes an iemaie
up. NO matter now strong l nolas, II
looks like on the how downs they out
iucks me every time wherefore ! qoits
EN- cold an any gent VINO wants my
chance with females can shoreiy nave
the same.
'oh' l don's knowr remarks LOO
reefs sortef gettih IN on "nat 2 eeh.
efai play. I've oeen aii through tne
nero, an ! must say I deems women eas,
people every Time. Lney re a neAp nner
1oiks nan men an taithIuief.
wnicn ! oon aeny ienas ~, ~ nne
ioixs, says AeAss, ou' Wla' - a'.o" wv
IN 10 me- 10 nsIul. .hey uon s:ay
none. you can com nooole IN sue ,,ne
eM ~ a" m III" W. =, ~"
strikes you wnen you ioiis oo' IN 'ne
"o.nln ~ 'ney io e1, v~.,,-
Doc Poets to Faro Nell. who's perched
up on her stool BY cherokee 9 shoulder
what do yen all think o. Texas' yere'
a.maiignin OF you aext why yoo
pint him to tine example OF Dave TUT
an Benson Annaes Ihey a.! gets married.
an thar they oe' capefln along a. pesce,
fui - TWO s,4 snoo.ei. % tne Ssme oel..
ID, ! oon mir IN ns G-sSm
none. feplies Faio NetI ~ ~ ~
figns m ON .ne sqosIT ~
DER II snis yere MI - ~
IL ON on nlm su0e snsoVy !0ssAa s"Ht