The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-16

of his distinguished appearance,
for / have noticed in my profession
that that is the most important part
of an interview, as far as the person
interviewed is concerned. Then |
came to my leading question:
"Will you please tell the readers
of the --- q will fill in the
name when l have sold the article)
why you do not rest in your grave,
but haunt"
"Siri' he shouted Indignantly.
"You have no right to ask such a
question. 1t is no affair of yours
"Mr. Symonds, / answered re-
spectfully, but with dignity" II am
not asking this to satisfy my own
curiosity. For me it suffices that
you do haunt and do come here at
an hour which for any one not in
your condition of life, or-or-Or
death, would be unseemly. It is
solely in my professional capacity
rs reporter, to satisfy the craving
for information of the great Ameri-
can people, as exemplifed in the
readers of the-whatever paper
buys my story-that / ask you this
question
at is nevertheless a question no
gentleman would ask" he answered
hotly.
Still preserving my calm, in spite
of his language, l replied, "Mr. Sy-
monds, in the celebrated divorce
trial, in which you e counsel for
the plaintiff, you asked infinitely
more impertinent questions in the
discharge of your duties than 1 am
now asked in the discharge of
mine"
The ghost WINGED. l had known
nothing of this particular Miffiin-
Scarborough case, yet of divorce
trials in general 1 knew enough to
make the assertion confidently. For
a minute the ghost sat silent, pom
dering, abashed.
"Are all your questions as search
ingl" he asked at length, humbly.
"All," l answered firmly, to dis
pei any lingering erroneous hopes
he might entertain. l smiled at his
dismay, a smile perhaps as irritat-
ing to him as his detached or dis
embodied smile had been to me. It
was my triumph, and 1 showed it,
perhaps too plainly, forgetting one
resource of a ghost for ~extricating
himself from unpleasant predica-
ments.
Not another word was spoken, but
all at once l found myself again
looking through the window, the
view, this time, not even INSTRUCTED
by a smile.
never saw Mr.. Symonds again.
Evidently the complications Of our
fin de steele civilization we're too
much for him. Kenneth Brown in
Magnia.
CONSERVATIVE SHEPHERDS.
Many Weak Lunged Men Follow the DC.
cupation In California.
The California shepherd is an in.
dividual almost entirely unknown
to the rest of the world. Even the
residents of the state hardly know
IF his existence, while the cowboy
has a world wide fame. The reason
for it is not hard to find. 1t Is be
cause the men are different in al
most every way, particularly in dis
position. And, after all, the differ
ence is to a large extent caused by
the animals they care for.
The villainous cowboy who would
rather fight than eat and thinks
that the noblest things in the worl(
are forms of dissipation can get NJ
satisfaction for his nature in caring
for such gentle creatures as sheep
He wants something that he cal
swear at, like a vicious steer, tina
would be only too glad to gore hin
to death if he would let it. H
wants to dash wildly over the rang
On a pony as vicious as the steer-o
himself, for that matter-and rid
through small settlements like
demon. The beasts in his care ar
not easily hurt, and he can abus
them as much as he feels like b,
lassoing them, throwing them dow
and branding them. There is nothini
that gives cowboy pleasur
as branding a bull that has give,
him considerable trouble. He like
to see the creature squirm in agon.
as he presses the hot iron into it
flesh. To kill one that is demoraliz
ing to the herd is the height of hi
delight.
In marked contrast to this ind
vidual is the sheep herder-that is
The majority Of sheep herders. T
be sure, there are some almost a
bad as the cowboys, but they ar
for the most part men who are en-
ployed by ranchers for SO much
month and are delegated to the wor
as they might be to any other wor
on the ranch. But they don't lik
it. The real sheep herder, and he
largely in the majority, is the ma
who follows it in preference to any
thing else. A man who is attache
, to the work would rather waite
loo-- - A. l,111 @I~a- I4 4Lo 1900