The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1907-01-09

the black sheep of the family
When / were boy of years
used to run away from school to be
by myself and think. l don't talk
unless it be of beneflt. I like go
ing in caves. and seeing mountains
and watercourses. | laid off to 60
around the world some time and see
them all. l don't like cities where
there are lot of people,
But surely after your experience
you want people around you now
Mter the earthquake everybody
looked good to me-"
Sure, they all do look good to
me, but don't want th0m too close.
Yesterday some strange ladies came
to camp. They tried to kiss DR..
Stinchfeld. He said they might
want to kiss me, too. If they do
will run.
You strike me uncannily cold
!
Hicks flushed. I'm not unsympa-
thetic. l am kind when l can do
for people. The sick like always to
have me around. There was a sick
| lady in the house where l were stop
ping and she would let no enc lift
| her but me. But ii man had his
| friend die and went around with 4
can't be near him. | cant do for
him. l don't know what ails him.
How about the rats that make
you shudder now TO even think off"
did the papers say that" he ex-
claimed in surprise. THE rats
didn't worry me. They only bother
ed me-
Analysis with him is painful
process, but l managed finally to
extract his meaning. The rats BOTH
cred him as d Shoe, ny; don't both
er me" might us. They We're the
little knowing rascals who had stol-
en- his much-prized tobacco and who
tried to get in his ears. He laugh
ed in the telling as if he We're tick
led at their cuteness. AS for the
blackness, that bothered him only
as some heavy, dense screen might.
ri inn III Of
pretending illimitable darkness.
But Notwithstanding the very mar
row range of his intelligence and
sensibilities, it must not detracI
from the magnitude of the feat ac-
tually performed.
The thinking part of the Bakers
field community have worn them
the report became current tina,
Hicks had Cherokee blood in his
veins they sighed with intense re-
lief. "Ah, that explains it, But
it does not. Hicks has not a droI
of Indian blood in him, SO he in
formed me. As far back as he car
; remember, ON both sides, he comes
from the mountainous regions Of
: Virginia and Kentucky. And while
he may have some resemblance tt
the Indian in the high cheek bones
and the swarthiness of his complex
ion, that's as far as it goes. In re
pose, his large grey-blue eyes have
a bullying. wild-eyed expression. Blu
when he smiles his face become
transformed. There is certain
: fine Willingness about the man, ig
g uorant as he is. At the corners o
! his eyes and mouth come thOs
i downward wrinkles that are seel
: who have suffered, and have a sens
of humor.
I He is a type of the Bushwhacker
/ found so often in the civil war, il
: the companies made up of men from
q the region to which Hicks belongs
1 men incapable of comprehensiv
t warfare, but within limited rang
q displaying rare ingenuity and in
\ domitable will. That will Hicks ha
j to an exaggerated freak degree. T
: realize his astounding feat, however
: you must realize the nature of tn
2 rescue and the condition in whic
) he survived. A good deal is du
. the careful efforts of Dr. Stinchfiel
,. and his men, and more depende
J upon the entombed himself No on
!, but a man possessed of some marke
/, characteristic could have come on
2 in the perfect mental and physics
condition AS Whitaker, the BE-
kersfeld stage driver. puts 1t:
= There never was anything quite s
I bad as this that came out quite s
!. good as this heah."
y To lose but one-half pound in fl
teen DAYS. To have DuIse and ten