The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-11-07

daylight when he got there. In canon
he built fire and paid on the ias'
score against his enemy, the rooster
Though he was n tough old specimen,
Archie never enjoyed meal more thah
Knowing that there was no train out
of Dugout till the next day, Archie ae-
cided to take 1t easy, making the t9wa Owl
late In the evening, after ApheT IA"
gone to bed. SO he stretched himself un-
der the mesquite bush and slept.
1t just happened that there was y
smallpox scare on in the town tb at t ths
old man Is afraid of, It's smallpox. ne
decided not to so to the hotel, put maar
camp just out of town. HIS daughter
insisted on going to the hotel.
Abner met friend os his. and they SCI
to talking about smallpox. and the frlenu
told him that "asphetity" was mighy
good disinfectant. Abner was al t,m go 80
go to the drug store to buy this stun, so
he had his acquaintance get IL lot nir mn
He sprinkled some in his coat ana
trousers. and rolled up in his blankets
Now If you have ever, been near u any
'asphetity," you know why the smallpox
germs Will go a long way round 10 aV 10Y,
It. Old Abner's disinfectant kept nm
awake, and as he wanted to have a good
t t,s with HieeR his Chickens in the morning
he got up, took off his outer CLONES, n,ie
hung them on a bush about fifty yards
from the camp. Then he slept ike d
log. ,,
Abnor was snoring loudly when Archie chic
a hungry hyena. He whitfield the as
phetity," and saw old Abner's clothes
hanging on the brush. Rejecting that
the longer old Abner stayed In bed rc 1he
hshed the clothes off the bush with II
long stick, and hid them under another
bush about quarter of mile away.
1t was an easy enough trio. for Archie
to learn, as he thought, what room ms
sweetheart had, and when everything
was quiet he began pecking pebbles at the
%ndSW 1T was p raised up Water a"S came
slashing out onto his head an. shoulders
and down his neck. He saw that the
face at the. window was covered with
| away, concluding that he must have Sc
lected the wrong window.
1t was an hour or so later that he
came back and this time he Mad had better better
that they should be married the first
thing in the morning. She was AFRAID
that they couldn't ge the ceremony per per-
tecause he was a very early riser. But
Archie assured her that he, believed old
Abner would stay pretty close TO camp
until she came over to get him ms preak-
After they had bid each other long
distance goodby, Archie hunted up the
Justice of the peace and found him to be
knot for them. He even gave Archie q
room in his own house. He always had
believed, he said that young, folks ought
| to have their own wav in these afairs.
~ divided they were old enough to know
their own minds. He liked to see the
| &C urse of true love run smoothly. Archie
| said he hoped it would run smoother In
! the future thar the road to Dugout.
During the ceremony, Archie and
Wayne expected every minute to see ola
| Abner burst through the door clad in his
blankets and whooping like a Comanche
Injgn; but he didn't come and when shS t the
| him what they had done. Nothing to
eat but few crackers :,ot and ha Hna g
wasn't in a frame of mind to bestow the
raternal blessing. He demanded that the
| Justice arrest Archie for breaking into
| lis coop and stealing his rooster but the
| Justice smoothed things over by buying
| all the chickens Abner had, and the old
| man said he'd let the matter drop II
Archie would go down and buy him some
| new clothes, and Mrs. Archie would get
| him his breakfast.-J. r. Britton, in Los
Angeles Times.