The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-12-04
ERRORS.

Errors in matters which either are
history, or one day Will be such. are
grievously common. Men who ought
to know better make most remarkable
statements about things. and then
wonder at the derision hey excite.
For instance, at one of the noon-day
political meetings a hectic gentleman
who seemed to he right in the conf
dence of great many great men, anG
who told about them with rapid-firc
speech, took up the question of the
United States army. and declared that
it isn't anything like the army of Valley
Forge and Bunker Hill. but that it has
dwindled to sort of select dancing
club in blue clothes. He suggested that
there are no campaigns any more. He
alluded TO certain occasions when he
charged that the army had set out to
conquer two dollars worth of coffee
cooling Indians and had spent S12. .OOO.-
900 in doing it, the chief result being to
give several regiments outing yaca-
lions in good trout countries. The
speaker kept on at this rate and was
applauded right along. Intoxicated by
the success of his generalities. he com
mitted the errorof particuiariZation. He
declared that, for instance, the recent
alleged outbreak in .Jackson's Hole was
4 war without bloodshed, in which no
man was injured or rendered uncom-
Portable
This is a great error, rs can readily
he proved by consulting with William
Crary. MIR. Crary is young man who
lives in once-bOoming town, where he
sold real estate in an addition called
Iialcyon Heights-a poetic place, with
Il hricbyard in it ard a great future and
I big cornfield before it. Mr.. Crary is Il .
man who is always out after experience,
and when the first intimation came
from Jackson's Hole that there was d
chance for an aspiring coroner up that
way. he decided to go out and look
at the killing and get some souvenirs.
lie arrived in ReNburg with a deter
mination to sell his life as dearly as POS
sible. and to get good assortment of
kodak pictures in furtherance of the
transaction.
At ReXburg appeared one Lewis, an
elector in the precinct, who represent
n that the horse he offered for sale WAS
ind and gentle. ard also rapid. Crar-
Had bought his fare in the stage. bt
he opportunity to purchase a. hors'
might not present itself later, so h.
bundled his cargo uVon the vehicle
and. with the assurance that he wouId
tell Gen Coppinger. who was some
where over near the foothills that a
staGcful of Iieutennnts was coming. he
':tarted away gaNly-
Now, the plain facts of it are that
Lewis was a feTocious; liar. The horse
was ore of those big-bcncd. l-an-foOt-
ID ECaSts which. three minutes after he
iug mounted. resolve themselves each
into one vast ridge pole. ard which shove
alorg at Il floumdcrin@ motion which
shakes Il mans boots off unless he il
wary and experienced. These animals
Churn. pound. Eruise and stupcfy the
rider in half the time required by the
elephant to accomplish Il similar pur-
pose. Mr.. Crary lasted three miles. and
when the stage drew up he mournfully
declared that his spirited animal had
thrown him and he had sprained his
ankle. The beast had done nothing of
the kind, but Crarv knew his men.
Immediately there was wild conten-
tion among those four lieutenants,
who. detached from their commands,
were now en- route to join them. Every
one of them wanted to win glory by
conquering the urddened stecd of the
Idaho desert. Naseby, of Angel island,
won and the other three diSgustedly
settled back to lie to one another about
the experiences in horsebreaking which
they had had since leaving the Point
Naseby rushed on ahead. and in n min
ute or two was out of sight while Crary.
in semi-recumbent attitude in Nase-
bv's seat wondered what the army man
would do to get out of it. He found oU'
in ; minutes. At the next turn in the
trail they found Naseby lying in
swoOn beside the way, the vicious an
imal standing near. Tho proper re
storativeS brought the false Naseby out
of his fraudulent faint. and he re
lated with great circumstance how the
horse had bolted ard had leaped an ir-
rigation ditch 40 feet broad, had waltzcd
all over the neighboring country. and
had finally stood straight up in the air
on one hind leg, and. reaching around
rearward with the other, had kicked
Naseby in the small of the back until he
felt life oozing out of him.
In deIirium of delight the other
officers insisted that Naseby didn't
know how to ride anything more vlo-
lent than Greek fishing skin on the
Sacramento river, and they insisted on
showing him how the thing should be
done. Grissette, coming from Fort
Robinson. obtained the great favor OF
the next mount. and as the remaining
two soldier men yelled encouragement
and directions at him Naseby under his
breath legged Crary To keep still about
the horrible truth of the horrible beast
1T is an honor he said, Ito be
thrown and butchered up by n vicious
horse, but to be battered up and down
like a pebble in child's rattle by a
tbunderous clumsy beast that wouidn l
run away il dynamite was exploded
under il is to he guilty of conduct un-
becoming an officer and gentleman
oh. of all the torturing things OF TINS
life. that load of equine lumber is the
worst. HI. Grissettc:" aloud, don't give
him too much head or he'll get awaS