The Red Cloud chief., 1905-01-27

,r its travels by n series of brilliant
iaslles and terror smitten hnlts, came
within a few yards of him, sat up with
lnivering nose and eyes alight with
fearful imaginings and vanished. "A fash
# fluffy brown and white. Shadows
rev longer: a cricket chirped and heard
answers: there was Il woodland stir OF
breezes. and the pair of robins left the
Branches overhead in eager fight, va
eating before the arrival of q flock OF
blackbirds Fastening thither ere the
eventide should he upon them. The
blackbirds came, chattered, gossipcd,
Quarreled and beat each other with
their wings above the mokcr sitting
on the top fence rail.
But he had remembered. a thousand
miles to the east it was commencement
day, seven years &c Il day from his
own commencement.
Five years ago, on another June aft
ernoon, Il young man from the east had
alighted on the platform of the station
north of Plattville and, entering the
rickety omnibus that fingered there
seeking whom 1t might rattle to deaf
ness, demanded to be driven to the
Herald building. 1t did not strike the
driver that the newcomer was pre-
cisely a gay young man when he climb
ed into the omnibus, bat an hour later,
as he stood in the doorway OF the d.
fee he had indicated as his destination,
depression seemed to have settled into
the marrow of his bones.
PiattviIle was instantly alert to the
strangers presence, and interesting CON
lectures were hazarded all day long ut
the back door Of Martins Dry Goods
Emporium Ohis was the club during
the day.. and at supper the new ar
rival and his probable purposes were
discussed over every table in the town.
Upon inquiry he had Informed Judd
Bennett, the driver Of The omnibus,
that he had come to stay. Naturally
such a declaration caused 4 sensation.
as people did not come to Plattville to
live except through the inadvertcncy or
being born there. In addition the young
mans appearance and attire were re-
ported to be extraordinary. Many or
the curious, among them most OF the
marriagCabic females of the place, took
occasion to pass and repass the sign OF
the Carlow County Herald during the
evening.
Meanwhile the stranger was seated
in the dingy office upstairs with his
head bowed low on his arms. Twilight
stole through the dirty window panes
and faded into darkness. Night filled
the room. He did not move. The young
man from the east had bought the Her
Md from an agcnt-had bought ii with
out ever having been within Il hundred
miles of Plattville. The Herald was
an alleged weekly which had some
times appeared within five days of its
declared date of publication and some
times missed fire altogether. 1t was a
thorn in the side of every patriot of
Carlow county, and Carlow people. aft
err supporting the paper loyalty ana
long. had ut last given it up and sub
scribed for the Gazette, published in
the n%cighboring county of Amo. The
former proprietor of the Herald. a
s%urreptitious gentleman with a goatee,
had taken the precaution OF leaving
Plattville forever OH the afternoon pre-
ceding his successors arrival. The
young man from the east had vastly
overpaid for his purchase. Moreover
the price he had paid for it was all the
money he had in the world.
The mex morning he. went bitterly tc
work. He hired Il compassion from
Rouen, n young man named Parker
who set type all night long and helped
him pursue advertisements all day
The citizens shook their heads pessi
unsteady. They had about given III
, the idea that the Herald could evel
, amount to anything, and they betrayed
, an innocent but caustic doubt of abil
ity in any stranger.
One day the new editor left a note oil
: his door: "Will return in fifteen min
utes."
Mr.. Rodney McCune, a politician from
the neighboring county of Gaines, hap
. pening to be in Plattville on an erran'
. to his henchmen, found the note ant
. wrote beneath the message the scath
Ing inquiry, WHY
=, When he discovered this addendum
:, the editor smiled for the first time sine
:, his advent and reported the incident ii
, his next issue, using the rubric "Wh,
. Has the Herald Returned to LifeT' a
. a text for a rousing editorial on hon
a esty in politics, a subject of which h
y already knew something. The politica
district to which Carlow belonged wa
= governed by a limited number of ger
- tlemen whose wealth was ever on tn
q increase, and honesty in politics wa