The Falls City tribune., 1906-04-27

les, the stock ranch up on the Bitter
Root, the other mines that had been
worked but little and with crude ap-
plances the irrigation and land i'm
provement enterprises, and the big tim
Der tracts.
Il got something OF an idea OF 1t
when Uncle Peter took me around sum-
| mer before last, and learned lot
more getting the stuff together with
| Coplen. Now, I'm ready to buckle
| down to it," He looked at Uncle Peter,
| hungry for a word of encouragement
! to soothe the hurts the old man had
put upon him.
But all Uncle Peter would say was:
THAT sounds very we'll" compelling
| the inference that he regarded sound
and substance as phenomena not nee
| essarily related.
But give me chance. Uncle Peter
Just don't jump on me too hard for a
year."
We'll. | know that country. There's
| big chances for young man with
| brains-understand7 that has got all
| the high-living nonsense blasted out OF
his upper levels--but it takes work
You may do something-there are
white blackbirds-but you're on a
nasty piece OF roadbed-curves all
| down on the outside-wheels fattened
under every truck. and you've had her
down in the corner 80 long doubt
| II you can even slow up say nothin'
of reversin. And think of me gettin'
fooled that way at my time OF life"
| he continued. as IL in confidence to
himself. But then, / always was a
terrible poor judge Of human nature" I"
Well. have your own way; but I'll
fool you again, while you're coppering
me- You watch, that's all ask. Just
sit around and talk wise about me all
you want to. but watch. Now, I must
go down and get to work with Fouts.
| Thank the Lord, we didn't have to
welsh either. any more than Mrs. Give
up there did"
You won't touch any more stock;
you won't get that money from Shep-
ler?"
Il won't; | won't go near Shepler,
promise you. Now you'll believe me
in one thing, | know you will, Uncle
! Peter" He went over to the old man
Il want TO thank you for pulling me
up on that play as you did last night
ou saved me, and I'm more grateful
{ to you than can yay. But for you I'd
have gone in and dug the hole deeper"
He made the old man shake hands
! with him though Uncle Peters hand
remained limp and cheerless you
can shake on that, at least. You saved
me, and | thank you for it.
We'll, I'm glad you got some
sense answered the old man. grudg-
don't do anything but consume--in'
cludin men. II the west stopped pro-
ducin' men fur you. you'd be as bad
OF as IL it stopped producin' food.
You can't grow big man on this
island any more than you can grow
wheat out there on Broadway. You're
all right. You folks have your uses.
| amt like one of these crazy fools
that thinks you're rascals and all like
that; but my point is that you don't
get the fun out of life You don't get
the big feelins. Out in the west
they're the flesh and blood and bone;
and you people here, meanin no disre-
spect-you're the dmples and wrinkles
and-the warts. You spend and gam
BILE back and forth with that money
we raise and dig out OF the ground,
and you think you're gettin' the best
end of it. but you amt. | found that
out 81 years ago this spring. | had
crazy fool notion then to go back there
even when | hadn't gone broke-and
done we'll to go. And that's why
wanted that boy back there. And
that's why I'm mighty proud of him
to see he's so hot to go and take hold
like knew he would be-"
That's excellent Now, Mr.. Bines
like him and | dare say you've done
the best thing for him, unusual as II
was. But don't grind him. Might il
not be well to ease up little after he's
out there? You might let 1t be under
stood that | am willing TO finance any
of those propositions there literally
NO, no-that ain't the way to han
die him. Say, | don't expect to quit
cussin' him fur another 30 days yet
want him to think he amt got {
friend on earth but himself Why, IL
have made this play just as have
done, Mr.. Shepler, If there hadn't beer
a chance to get back a cent of it-i
we'd had to go plumb broke-back tC
the west in an emigrant car, will
: bologna and crackers to eat that
what I'd have done No, sir. no hell
fur him!"
Aren't you a little hard on him."
Not bit, don't | know the stock
and know just what he needs: Mos
} men you couldn't treat as I'm treatin
t him; but with him, the harder yo,
hear down on him the more you'll sc
out of him. That was the way witt
: his ga-he was a different man afte
p things got to comm too easy fur him
] This fellow. the way I'm treatin' him
2 will keep his head even after he get
things comm easy again. or / miss m!
7 guess. He thinks / despise him now