Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-14
GEN. BULLER IN AMERICA
THE STORY OF A HUNTING TRIP IN
WESTERN IOWA.
Now Famous Englishmnn Showed the
Good Side of His Nature by
His Generosity.

Humboldt Qowa) Corr. Chicago Times Herald.
Jim" Farback sat cracker box in
the grocery store and told simple story
Of great Engiishman, who has kept the
world interested in his dongs for several
months.
He was a big-bug Englishman." he said.
Some kind of a sir. He didn't care no
more for money than he did for dirt. He
used to come to Humboldt most every fall
and hunt chickens and ducks, and 1 used
to drive him and his crew out over the
northwest part of the state for about a
week or so and back some new way to
Humboldt When was it? Well, ] guess
the last time he was here must have been
about 10 or 10 1t was some years be-
fore the railroads. anyway, except the one
that had got to Algona.
He wasn't one of your stuck-up Eng
nshmen that cam find nothing good enough
for him-and eating and sleeping in coun-
try ShantfeS was pretty tough them days.
ihere wasn't a house from about seven
miles above AlgOna to the Minnesota line
except the sod tavern, they called it,
and even that wasn't no palace. Their
house well was right in the barnyard. But
Butler chat was the Englishman's namey,
ne wouldn't allow nobody to kick or make
fun OF the places where We put up.
He had an awful easy way with him
that made the women folks get over their
iirst scare right off. The last time he was
here we We're up in kossuth county. and
we thought we would make the sod tavern
Tor all night. We got there at milking
Time and l went to the barnyard, where
the man and his wife were milking. Says
/: Can we stay here tonight Wal, l
guess So says he Then he hollered to his
woman, and she gave him such dressing
down as l don't care to tell in the way
she done 1t. She said there want no -four
IN the mouse, nor no meat. nor no tea, nor
no coffee, nor no sugar, nor no nothing,
i'm, to ct
We'll, just soon as / got my breath
went back to the wagon and showed Butler
a house off west, about five miles, 1 guess,
and We drove over there pretty fast When
We got up to the door three pigs run .out,
ana pretty soon a woman came from the
back room, and my. but she was dirty. She
had been thinking up the cracks with mud,
and the house just did look dreadful
Butler says: Can we stay here all
night?'
Wall she says. I guess you'll have to,
for Their amt no other place. but We hain't
got nothing to eat but butter and some
biscuit l can made, and We hain't got but
these two rooms and this one bed
so Butler he begun right off to clean
out the kitchen and he built fire, and
the woman tidied herself up as we'll as she
could and made a big batch Of biscuit and
showed Butler how to twist hay and stuff
the stove while she slipped out to milk the
COW. Her husband wasn't at home.
pretty soon she came running in, and
says she: L guess you burnt the biscuit by
the smell outdoors And, sure emo gh, they
was as black as coal.
Well. says he, you have got more
-four. Make some more, and l won't burn
them But hold on. he says, let me- count
them biscuits before you fling them away
All right And she threw them out.
Say, did you ever sit around aud watch
a meal cook When you was just starving
and then gee your supper urn into a dead
coal! 1t makes the sap run out of my
mouth now to think of 1t. WELL the next
a rio onlt Ia
and the woman cooked duck and couple
of chickens that We brought, and we Just
eat awful. and that woman seemed Just as
happy as if we was all her own blood ard
kin.
when bedtime came we carried in a lot
of hay and spread it on the iloor. and with
our blankets and big supper and being tired
We slept first rate. We had took our boots
off. We never slept in cur boots-it sweat
our feet too much
The next morning when we came to set
tie up Butler asked how much the bill was
She said: Well, | dunno. 1t seems as If [
ought to have something. but You put il
the chickens and the duck, and all these
other chickens you are leaving me, and YOU
main made no bother, ard have told Ee so
1nany things that's a-Soia' on i'll the world
But after some urging she said mebbe two
shilin' apiece would be about right. and
throw in the horses.
We'll. sir, you ought to have seen that
Englishman stare He turned red in the
face and spoke up Kind of sharp like. and
says: Woman, be you crazy? Two shiIlin'
apiece - chickens - ducks - throw in the
horses, and he pulled out his wallet
Here, says he, here's Sc: that's for the
men; and here is another for the team and
here is fifty cents for the biscuit | burnt
and don't you never keep hunter for less
tEan a dollar, for if he amt rich he's
THROWN away money, and you might as
we'll have some Of it anybody
Wen, Sir. that poor woman shook lust
Ike as if she had a spell. She said she
hadht seen so much real money all sum
mer, and she hadn't seen silver haif-dollar
since the first year of the war NV stars
but We thought a lot of that Teller
hadn never heard him swear fiji that
day But when We left that cabin for long
time he didn't seem to hear or see ANYTHING
but Kept looking off straight ahead like
when all of a sudden he broke out: 1T isn't
r1ght-1ts blarsted crime-that gives one
so much and another so little And from
that he went on for half an nour | guess
running from Bible talk to cuss words and
talking about the poor and the rich in a
way can tell; but 1T was so touching and
SO Kind that 1 liked it all; even the cuss
words seemed all right to me then, though
never swear.
"Say-that fellow is in South Africa now.
/ See" ''"'
For 1t was Gen. Sir Redvers Henry Bull
Ter.