Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12
KINGS $3.50

SlOW-lnOvlng stream. Westward the,
track came into view around a thinly-
wooded hillside, with a clearing here
and there, in which some low cabins
We're scattered.
With this cheerful outlook to greet
him at three points of the compass,
Lambert turned him to the north. There
was a siding with u switch at each end,
but, as. three or four rails were missing
opposite the west end of the platform,
it stood to reason that the railway COM
pany found the other all that was neces-
sary to the traffic of SO busting a place
rs Tugaloo. A brown freight car stood
on the siding with wide-opened doors,
and some household goods doomed in
plain sight. "There is more honesty
in this community than the United
Statesmarshal would give us to believe"
thought Lambert, as he recalled the ex-
tract from a recent report which was
shown him at department headquarters.
He laid his satchel and sword upon the
platform, and, wrapping his blue cir
cular about his shoulders, took q few
steps forward and a peep into the in
terror of the car. From the midst of
bedsteads, bureaus and cheap old-fash-
Toned furniture, a quantity of bedding
had been hauled out upon the floor, and
from the midst of the bedding q woolly
head protruded-that of a negro fast
asleep.
Beyond the car stood a dusty open
square 1ordered on three sides by dingy
wooden structures, some of two stories,
but most of them only one in height. A
wooden sidewalk framed the square in
some places, and in others only indica-
tons of it's former presence were to be
seen. The sidewalk was hordered by a
rude railing, to which, 1t was evident,
horses end mules were tethered during
business hours, for at one of the rails,
eyen now, sprawled upon the soft, hoof-
paved dust, n long-eared q%uadruped
was half hanging by the bride rein,
willis the dilapidated saddle had worked
around during the night until it set
tied upon the animals side.
Judging from such signs OF legends
as were visible over the doorways OF
Tugaloo, Lambert's impressions were
that the vending of intoxicating drinks
was the principal industry, as there
were three saloons to one store devoted
to general (which estab'
lishment, painted white and with an al,
of prosperity and a flock of cotton bale:
around it, bore the sign of l. Cohen, ant
told pathetically that the pioneers of ;
relentless and ope-sided trade had al
ready made their Judgment in the mids'
OF n helpless community.
1t was sunrise, and not q soul was APP
parently astir. A street led away north
ward at right angles to the main from
Of the square, and struggling horses
lined it at intervals on either side. Ont
Of these, with a belfry, at the corner o
the plaza, seemed to be n meeting hous,
Of some kind, possibly the pro tempor'
substitute for the county courthouse
thought Lambert, for the center of tn
square was still heaped with charret
and blacl1ened beams and bricks wher
once the courthouse stood.
AS for the camp or quarters of h;
future comrades and associates, Lam
bert could see nothing that in the leas
lesembled a military station, and, d,
what he could, the boy found it impos
sible to down the family heartsick
homesick feeling that speedily took pos
session Of him. A dog would have bee
welcome as companion, but there wa
not even o stray dog. For a momen
Lambert thought of srousinE the negro