Arizona republican., 1906-04-01
Little James
GA rudimentary lesson on the subjec;
 of steamboat piloting)

GA rudimentary lesson on the subjec; of steamboat piloting.)
 They's Lots of Fokes in tn salt River Valley whIcn can't stand Pros
 perity none. Things has been Iooicin' | good here fer a long time, till some | of tn Fokes is gettin' Restlous an
 they size fer tn Good Ole Days when everybody wus Raisin' Hell an Scrap in Ter Irrigashun Wotter an tryin 70
 git it by Coart Orders when ther wusn't none in tn river.
 They sez; This nere life's too ta!n- fer us. This here Fowler's to blame fer all these Roseate ProspeX Les
 brake off of tn Reservashun an sn back to Fust Principles agin They
 ain't no Amusement in havn' every
 thing tn way you want it. Resolved
 at they is more Happiness in Persooi
 n they is in Posseshun."
 Some otnerns they sez: Les down
 Fowler an take aholt Ourselfs. He.-
 q Sittin' all tn glory. Les Show tb'
 Government at they is able men ouf
 here besides Fowler. We can show
 'em at Crate Ability is Indigenous to
 tn Soil out here; at this Rejun t~
 Lousy with Talent. Les give Fowler
 a back sect fer a while"
 This Remines me of a story wunst
 at Senter Foral1er tole me when I wuc
 took to him to see what a Reel Senter
 looks like. He tole me about a Inci~
 dent of his Boyhood Days He sez
 James, l wus Borned at Hillsbor"
 down on tn Ohio River. with a an,
 bishun 10 be a Steem Bote Pilatp
 When l got old enuff to Sneek onsr
 Botes, I ust to Ride fum wun Landir' to anothern, and got AquainteG wIth'
 everybody. I got to be sich Fermilycr
 Figger at last at they let me Ride in tn Glass House on top of tn Boto where tn' Pilate Rools Spreme an hs got sos at he called me Joe ust ia
 set an Watch him as he turned th' big Wheel this way an that a Con- trollin' tn Destinies of Everybody aboard an I ust to wonder if he didn't look like God.
 "Wunst I ast him an sez: Say, can't I Hold tn' Wheel fer a little While? He looked at me Skornfle an ! replize: 'They's Hundred People an'
 more'n s300.00O Cargow aboard After while we come to a Long Stretch where tn River was brod an deep an tn Wotter run smooth. Tn Pilate he raised me to tn 7th Heven of De- | lite by Sayin' Joe, now you can hold | th' Wheel fer a while 1 jumped up | an Seezed it an tn Pilate he sat 1 down an smoked an fell into a DoZe.
 I held tn Wheel till I got tired an | got Wonderin' if tn Steembote cud- l dent a got along without me all to- l gether. l got Overcome by tn Monot- | ny of my Occypashun an Cride out to tn Pilate, Which way snail I turn this here Wheel now? The Pilate he l jumped up like he was Shot an he yeils with a oath If you darst to turn | that Wheel. I'll throw you overheard | among tn Shark which infests tn l River between here an Cinsnat' | When it needs turnin' He turn it mV- 1 self It's a mans job to turn tn Wheel. l A boy can Hold it all Rite"
 That's tn way it is with Mister Fowlers Job. Tn Wotter Users Asso- | ciashun Wheel needs a good deel or | Turnin' jist now, wun way an a nutn- CT an some times it has to be turrei!
 offal Student an Hard. They's ShoieS | on this side an RoX on that, an tn | Current is Ruff an Crooked. Af.- | While when Everything gifts jist Rt-
 an when tn Wheel don't haf to be | turned none. but held still, it'll he saf- | to let Some of tn fellers ats now l Clammerin' to take Holt, git in an 1 hold tn Wheel.
 LITTLE JAMES.