Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-01-24

Kitchen where YOU are sitting now,
and rolled up their sleeves and helped
me wash the dishes, They were CALI
Ing me Uncle jim before they had been
here an hour Well the people down
there persuaded Bob % give a lecture
10 Livingston ana drove In the whole
forty miles to hear Il. When the Ice
lure was over bob came up 10 me nj
the hotel and asked me what / thought
Of it Mr. lngeraoll, said /, Il don't
ike to tell you J Ike "A man that
speaks his mind, said he. 60 on
Wei. Mr.. Ingrs0ll said I, 4 think
you're making a grloyous mistake IN
standing ub there ana hurting the feel
lugs OF almost the whole audience, Just
for the sake Of the one or two that
thinks as you DO. At FIRST ! thought
be was going TO come back at me, and
don't doubt that be would have tied
me up Ia short order but all Of sud
den he laughed right out In his joYal
way and took my arm and said, Mr.
Georges let's have q drink He was
the most loyable man / ever met, IN
spite Of his doctrines"
Now this would have been interest
ing enough under ordinary cirCum-
stances but here was o man who had
entertained Kipllng exchanged stories
with him, even eaten with him, and
was not talking about II. I was sure
there was something Wrong,and hast
enod at once TO remind him
Jim q had forgotten the Mr. Georges
in my eagerness), did Kipllng really
catch az many fish as he claimed, down
In the canyong'
Again the look Of pain and annoy
ance, and again the switching OFF.
ROOSEVELT THE ONLY
STRAIGHT ONE"
Fishing In the canyon isn't what ii
used TO be before the coal mines up
az Horr began dumping their taillngs
In the river. Roscoe Conhing caught
the biggest FISH that q tourist ever
caught In the canyon, lie was a great
hand with the rod, but In my opinion
much oyerrated as public man. lie
had the nerve 20 cheat me out OF the
price OF n case Of beer Ordered It for
a couple of coach loads OF his party
and then drove off without paying for
H. These politicians are slippery ones,
anyhow Roosevelt seems to me to be
the only straight one In the lot. He
has hunted all over here, you know
never met him. myself but he used
often 10 put NJ with Yancy over In
Pleasant valley I remember more than
ten years ago that Yancy told me that
he liked young fellow named Rose.
felt who came over hunting from pa.
kOta, better than any Of the other
hunters that stopped with him, because
he always looked after his own horse
and never Kicked about the beds or
meals Did YOU ever hear OF the time
that the tenderfoOt tried to cheat Yam
cy by offering 10 pay his reckoning Of
$40 with hundred-dolar bank note,
and Yancy fooled him by giving him
the $50 change In silver, which he hap
pened to have on hand? Yancy is q
Sly one Another time"
! almost despqired Of his ever talking
~ Kipling, but resolved on one more
effort
Jim ! Interrupted, udely enough
as remembered afterward, "is it really
true, as lilplhg tells that YOU saw
a squnw burned at the stake when you
lived with the lndIans?"
AT once he lost hs assumed air OF
sprightllness, and the look Of tired
resignation that his face had worn
when | came again appeared, He tried
TO dodge no longer
Il knew you'd ask that. as soon as |
saw you, he said Everyone asks II
sooner or later, / didn't understand
IT at FIRST, ana then one day, the edi-
tor 0f one OF the Butte papers sent me
copy Of the book, with the chapter
about me marked, | had almost for
gotten the little Engllshman, and / GER
tainly never expected he would get to
he so famous"