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dispatch boat then lying here. swung
along. They halted for minute to study
the moves of their mates from the Ar
gentine ship and they instantly caught on
to what the trouble was. So they rolled
over to where the Argentine sailormen
stood before the window, and one of them,
pointing to the display. inquired:
You like?'
You see. the American man-o'war's
man puts that question equally to a Chi
naman, German, a Japanese. a Cinga-
lese, a Frenchman or the man of any
nation who doesn't speak English.
1.-The Argentine men-o'-war's men grim
ned showing their fine teeth. and, UNDER
standing the question, first nodded their
heads enthusiastically, and then shook
them negatively. as much as to say that
they liked all right, but weren't there
with the price.
Hey, come on In here. you fiatfeet.'
jovialy said one of the big coal beavers,
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doing SO he and the rest of his mates
actually gave the big coal HEAVIER the
hand salute. which, of course. is only
coming to an officer in any service The
big coal HEAVIER grinned at his mate and
said behind his hands:
H. l guess l amt no gentleman
Of the quarterback FIR once in my life or
nothin', hey matey?
Well. it's me t. snag out one o. them
and he tugged at the Argentine men and
pointed out a big collection of reddy
bears, large and small, hanging above
counter
Hey, you like?' he asked them.
They liked again all right and they
all apparently understood the meaning
Of the bears, too. for they pointed to a
Roosevelt portrait hanging in the store.
Stake 'em to q bear apiece. matey,'
said the second coal HEAVIER to the clerk
without SO much as asking the price of
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charge you Sc a dozen. II pick them
out. can let you have them for So
All right. You pick them OUT said
the hotel man.
Capt. Harrow picked out a dozen
chickens of the canary bird size
Here you are twelve prime broilers'
he said, with q leer.
Go ahead said the hotel man calmly.
Another Dozen
THE next dozen was. OF necessity.
larger.
"'Go on said the hotel man. Keep on
picking them out
and the third dozen was larger still.
The captain looked at his patron anx-
iously
Keep right on
THE next dozen was fine and plump.
and the next comprised the biggest and
| latest Of the chickens.
Keep right on picking them out, cap-
TAIN
he had ovefreached himself The hotel
| man bought his whole lot of chickens at
s.. and thus the captain lost on the spec
ulation $50 in cash. to say nothing of
feed and labor"
Apropos OF leap year. Robert Barr. the
Anglo-American novelist and editor. told
at dinner recently story about love-
"A man." he said. being profoundly In
love. consulted a philosopher
81 am in love- he complained, and 1
don't like it. It keeps ME from working.
from acquiring fame. Can you cure me?'
:" In the study OF astronomy said the
philosopher. stroking his gray beard, you
will find a cure for love. Contemplate the
planets. and in the infinite depths Of in
terstellar space the puniness of yourself
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roar. to the profound perturbation of the
more timorous travellers.
II saw that happen several times
In the progress of my idle, year-lons
ticed that. oddly enough. quite a few OF
the cowboys engaging in these fictitious
riotous doings didn't know how to play
the part. They weren't realistic at the
work. They weren't accustomed to howl
ing and yee-owIng and whoop-ee-ing.
So that to the discerning eye their per-
Torrance was stacy: they were palpably
just initiating.
well. that's the way it was with some
of these decidedly unbreezy western
business and professional men whom l
met on my pilgrimage.
A Stacy Imitation.
Look here said to quite a number
of them, after I'd failed utterly to find
any naturally breezy western men of that
class anywhere, buck up, some Of you
fellows. and be breezy. I've come all
the way out here to see at least Few
eally-and-truly breezy westerners.
haven't found even one yet. But don't
tell me that I've cherished a delusion
all my life. Be westernly breezy some OF
you--for heavens sake. be breezy
'And the western chaps. lounging
around their luxurious clubs. would laugh,
and then one or two of them. maybe.
Va
the fasteners fixed and unalterable con-
ception of a breezy man of the west.
Their efforts to do this all rang hollow;
they were of the stage stacy; the role
marifestly was dead-new to them: they
simply didn't know how to be breezy
western men, even when they were trying
their blamedest to amuse guest
mot that. all over the west. from
Helena to Santa Fee and from Omaha and
Denver to the slope. didn't find these
western fellows jovial. hospitable. hearty.
even rollicking. devil-may and some
times bit reckless. But such traits don't
express or embody breeziness. If ever
their or their forbears were westernly
breezy. after the breezy manner In which
they have been typifed. then they've wan
dered as far away from their type as
the present-day horse has from his
liz inches high, I understand. 1 found
them the bulliest fellows imaginable to
flock and foregather with. but. hang 1t all.
they simply were not never had been,
and could not be breezy, and. I'll tell you
what. it's a pretty hard thing for man
of my age to have to surrender and ut
terly lop of an idea that he gained in his
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earliest years and that chung to him
through his youth. manhood. middle age
and old-fogyhood-it certainly is!
1T made no difference where I went,
there was no chance for me to find the
type 7 was looking for with a Galahad-
ish ardOr. When l first started out 1
thought maybe I might find him in such
a place as Butte, for example. But the
fellows l met in Butte-and l reckon
met them all-had about as much breezi-
ness about them as you'd expect to find
at the Union League in Philadelphia.
Don't take me as meaning that they We're
SNUG, or dummyfied, or wallfowerish. or
anything Of that sort. Merely. they
weren't westernly breezy. as l had a per-
feet right to expect they'd be in such a
place as Butte; that's the idea I'm try
ing to convey. Breezy? Why, confound
EN-. those Butte fellows seemed to me
to spend most of their time conversing in
subdued tones among themselves about
motor car tours Of the Riviera they were
contemplating making, or dahabeiah eX-
cursions to the Nile! The Riviera and
the Nile-I had lovely chance to uncover
and unmask a supposititiously breezy
westerner in a crowd of westerners like
that hadn't /?
Same in Denver-where, by the way.
positively believe there are more fellows
VINO have their clothes made in London
than there are in New York Same in
Cheyenne-where. it seemed to me, most
OF the purely hypothetical breezy western
ers l met owned their own private cars:
and they think no more of spinning their
private cars to New York. to give their
wives and daughters a week of grand
opera. than We do Of going to Boston or
Washington. Same in Seattle, Spokane,
Tacoma. Portland. Albuquerque. Tucson,
Los Angeles. San Francisco-same every
where. for 1 only mention these places at
l was chasing a will-o'- tn -wisp.
and knew 1t long before / was half
through with my western pilgrimage.
Il ventured well OF the beaten western
track. and still my breezy western man
eluded me. Even in a mining Camp like
Goldfeld failed to find him. Men lined
up at the Goldfeld bars. of course talked
in tones of alcoholic buster. loudly and
boastfully sometimes: but men lined up
at bars talk that way everywhere. in New
York and Boston. as well as in Gold
field and Cripple Creek. The typical
westerners that / came
into contact with at Goldfield, however
weren't breezy: nothing like it. They
talked almost whisperingly about mines
and claims and improvements and stamp
mills and labor troubles and such like,
and th"y never got within hundred
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the giant Of the coal bunkers
''The astonished clerk promptly dis
mantled the window Of all the cards and
made them into large bundle, and the
coal HEAVIER pulled a big wad from be-
meath his mastering shirt and stripped
off $40 as if he'd been paying for a clay
pipe. The Argentine men-o'-war's men
watched his moves with wide eyes. !. Men
he picked up the big. neatly packed
to the main man among them they all
held out the palms Of their hands depre-
catingly. as If to indicate that 1t would
be impossible for them to accept such
an absolutely royal gift.
'Aw, take 'em. We ginney lobscousers,
said the coal HEAVIER. grinning. for he
knew that they couldn't understand a
word he said. or I'll give you a wallop
over the head with EN-
1.-THE leader of the >Argentinians then
graciously took the package, but before
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the one who had put the You like?' ques-
ton, and they all trooped into the SOU
venir store after him, the other American
coal HEAVIER fetching up the rear.
'Matey, said the first coal HEAVIER. ad-
dressing the store clerk, whats the price
of the cards in that Window
different prices" replied the clerk
airiv.
II said the price of the whole bunch -
beloved the coal HEAVIER.
''Of all the cards In the Window" gasped
the clerk.
You're some slow on signals, matey
but you got it now said the coal HEAVIER
That's what l mean
1.-THE clerk pulled the two large boards
around which the great stacks of picture
postals rested-there were hundreds of
the cards-and made a careful estimate.
There are just nineteen dollars
worth in this display window he said
Well, clear ship-I'I take EN- said
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keys comb: their eyes weren't hard and
steely; their hair wasn't cowlicky; their
hands weren't huge, hairy and calloused.
Why, in New York they looked just like
New Workers, and New Workers. of the
conservative cut. at that This, I felt
positive. wasn't nature; it was art. They'd
trimmed themselves up that way for their
visits to the east.
THE clothes they wore when they
visited New York were a thousand nauti-
cal miles from the clothes of my cOncep-
ton of the breezy westerner. They weren't
baggy. bulgy store clothes at all. In
fact the clothes Of these impOStOrS Gas
I considered them, because they wouldn't
act like themselves) who visited me In
New York were, while quiet In pattern
and material, uncOmmonly well-tailOred
and up-to-t he-hour. They didn't wear
immense brimmed sombreros. They wore
derbies like ours. or. in summer, straw
headgear of the conventional eastern
shape. Finally, they didn't wear boots.
For me. suffering under a keen sense of
their meanness in declining to be breezy
westerners SO I could study them, that
was the last straw: the miserable rene
gades positively declined to clomp around
on my rugs wearing boots!
Before the Eye Of Woman.
"In other respects these westerners-
they were from every section of the west
whom I met up with in New York irri-
tated me keenly. couldn't and didn't let
on that they irritated me, of course; but
they did. all the same. Why would you
believe it. lot of them actually insist
ed upon DOMINIC evening clothes for the
hotel dinner or when we went to the
theater. Oh. felt sure that they Were
'stringing' me, as the saying runs. And
they didn't even call their evening clothes
full dress suits They might have done
that much for me. anyhow. But they
didn't They called 'em evening clothes.
and they looked just as easy and trig
and spick-and-span in 'em as If they'd
been wearing evening clothes all their
lives They weren't little bit humble
under the piercing. whitening eye of the
most lordly hotel or restaurant head
waiter Not only that. but they knew
how to order dinners that were CASTRO
monte symphonies. They had an infal-
lible bunch for picking out the best the
atrical performance in town-why, plenty
of them even knew about and could talk
about Ibsen and Maeterlinck! Worse
than that some of them could hum
snatches from the Wagner operas! The
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was looking for. since the object of his
search was 1.-The breezy western man."
Il meant to track that fellow-the
breezy western man-to his lair II there
was any way of doing it," he said. But
/ might as we'll have gone in search of the
golden fleece or the apples Of the HeSper-
ides. Couldn't find him anywhere. no
matter how far 1 trekked from the beat
en- western track: and 1t certainly does
battle me where he keeps himself-that Is.
if he keeps himself at all: which maybe
he doesn't.
Type According to Fiction.
You see in the course of my New York
business life l had met thousands of
western fellows In New York: but none
of them was breezy. This. I don't mind
saying. caused me to feel somewhat i'm
posed upon. 1t didn't seem right or
square to me that these western chaps.
visiting New York. didn't make good, for
my study and diversion in this matter of
breeZiness-didn't act up to their parts. to
put it that way l knew. or thought l
knew, the western type Of man by read
ing and hearing about him. I'd always
read and heard that he was breezy.
blowy. blustery. gusty. a son of Boreas
born in a cyclone cellar. What. then. did
all these western fellows (mostly custo-
mers and agents of mine) mean by swing
ing along to New York and conversing
all of them. in that subdued. soft-pedal
tone of voice? What had they done with
the personally conducted cargo of prairie
breeze that I'd always understood they
packed about with them wherever they
went? Where had they jettisoned their
bag of canon wind that I'd always heard
was the most noticeable feature of their
personal equipment? For years l felt put
out about 1t. l felt as II they must be
testing with me. playing upon me. by thus
refusing to act up to the hearsay concep-
ton had formed of the breezy westerner.
IT concluded. in fact, that they were
acting unnatural out of a deliberate
malevolent design to thwart me in my
study of what I figured to be their
type 1 declared that they must have
carefully rehearsed the whole thing before
starting for the Atlantic seaboard.
In the first place, they didn't look any
thing like the breezy westerners of my
conception. Their faces weren't prairie.
or desert. or mountain tanned: they
didn't have sweeping. straggly. spread
eagle mustaches; their necks weren't
lined criss-cross-wise and red like tur-
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REPRESENTATIVE Ollie James Of
Kentucky was telling about it.

~ REPRESENTATIVE Ollie James of
R Kentucky was telling about it.
1.-The time when a man feels like
playing poker" he said. sis just about the
time when he feels like playing poker. II
YOU don't believe that. I'll give you an In
stance.
''Once when Henry Watterson went to
Europe he had, as voyage mate on the
steamer, an old Kentucky friend who
would rather play poker than sip mint
juleps For all his love for poker his al
ways was the barnyard game. and he
never did have AMY poker luck worth
shucks.
Mr.. Watterson knew all about his
friends love for poker and about his in
different work as a pokerist. and SO he
made up his mind to keep a sharp eye
to see that his friend didn't get mixed up
with any cheerful poker scientists on the
steamer ride. Mr.. Watterson knew that
IL his friend wasn't watched he'd be liable
TO sit into games with people who car
red their burglars kits right In their
hands, In full view OF the audience.
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20 IL wager that the natives with
whom they come into contact will
i be surprised to see the way our
men-o'-war's men blow their money down
yonder In South America" said a man
who used to be in the navy himself.
American bluejackets are the most OPEN
handed in the world. and foreign memo
wars men are always stunned by the dis
play of wealth and magnificence of
American sailors when they get into touch
with them. Folks in Washington had a
good chance to see how that worked out
when so many sailors from the big foreign
fleets visiting the jamestown exposition
came up here to Washington to look at
the Capital city. There were hundreds of
American men-o'-war's men in Washing
ton at that time too, and the meetings
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Special Correspondence OF The Star.

Special Correspondence Oh Inc cIdh-
NEW YORK. February Z, 1905.
~ AMBLING along in the mazes of
II political interview recently. Jimmy
L Woodruff-Timmy of the Noisy
Weskit-alluded. agreeably enough, to
William j. Bryan as that breezy western
man" That allusion struck me on ac-
count OF It's complete wrongness in de-
plotting Mr.. Bryan-who is anything else
on earth but breezy-and on account of
the utter archaicness of the expression
breezy western man." which is often
used over here, always more or less dis
painfully.
Where. really. is this breezy western
man? If he's breezy. what makes him So
and how does he act when he's breezy
breezier and breeziest? If he's really and
truly breezy. is his breeziness natural to
him. or does he get breezy just for fun?
What is the reason this fanciful charac-
ter. the breezy western man, remains in
hiding all the time? Does he live in a
breezy cave? Is some breezy mountain
top the sphere of his activities In the
breeding line? There are legends, more
or less credible. that the breezy western
man did exist in a former American
epoch In fact. he is embalmed. with all
of his explosive breeziness. in the ephem-
eral literature of several preceding gener-
ations: he was CONCEALED in the amber of
a type" But. If the breezy western man
ever was. hasn't 1.-THE wind blown him all
away" and, at this stage of it. isn't he
one with the dodo and the great aux of
the Andes?
Recently 1 talked with an elderly New
York man of business about the breezy
western man. This elderly merchant of
Manhattan. having grown rich, quit mer-
chandising a couple OF years ago and
started out to have look at the United
States. He had often travelled all over
Europe but. in his own country. he had
never been west of Pittsburg nor south of
Wash.ngton-which. by the way. is char
acteristic of many wealthy New Workers.
So he spent year traversfng his native
land from sea to sea and from lakes TO
gulf He learned a heap on the trip.
But he didn't find what he was looking
for. How could he have found what he
The Springdale news., 1908-11-20

merchandise for his and son s store at this place. In this time lie has travelled q distance of over f2000 miles, or nearly half cir cult of the world. and hauling a fre1ghtage of nearly one million pounds. The most remarkable feature about this feat IS the fact that in all his frei ght1ng he has used the same team and wagon.
 In the death of Henry l.. Can non, last week at his home near May the country has lost a sincere friend, the cause of edu- cation an able worker and champ ion. It was the writers good fortune to know this young man since the happy days of our child hood, when we together were chums at school. We respect ed him then for hls truthful ness and honesty, and as he grew older he developed a manly and dignified charac- ter, whose urbane and courteous manners, and whose unquestion- ed integrity, gave to him the very highest place in the estima- tion of all who knew him. When he arrived at manhood's estate he selected teaching as his life's vocation, and in this work he proved himself to be a splendid thinker and an instructor of rare ability. He had an optomistic temperament, always looking on the bright side of things and no music was half so sweet to him as
The Springdale news., 1908-11-20

are visiting their uncle, William Carlock, of Spring Valley today.
 Irwin Hughes Is soliciting or ders for a firm of tailors III Chi cago. He is meeting with mark ed success.
 Rev. Jessie Loving delivered a very interesting and instructive sermon to a large congregation at Buckeye Sunday.
 Mir. Proctor has rented his big farm on Brush Creek to Marion Roberts of Buckeye. Mir. Rob- erts is an up-to-date farmer and MT. Proctor was very fortunate in securing him for a tenant.
 Edward Morris, who sold his fruit farm here a few months ago and went to Oklahoma to To- cate future home, IS back again in his old neigh borhood. He has bought the Peter Morris farm near Langley, consideration 5000. Mr. Morris says that he found no country that suited him as well as the hills of old Arkansas. And when he heard that We had such bright prospects for rail- road he just cou dn't stay away.
 Squire Carlo5 d wife are visiting at Hu l'..
 Hinte Vaug elieves that he is the cham Il freighter ol Northwest {. kansas. In the past four years he has made BOG trips to Fay vile and other towns along he Frisco fol
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SOUTH SPRINGDALE.

Nov. 17.-"From over the hills and far away old Boreas came down upon us last week and for a few days had his own way, driv- ing the mercury down in the ther- mometer to where 1t was pinch ing cold-and our predictions for warm days through November seemed to fall flat, but the sun IS shining bright and the balmy south wind blows again, and old Boreas has gone back to his northern lair, and our Shingle still hangs out for more warm days.
 Fires along the railroad right of-way have been quite frequent since the grass and weeds have become dry and have caused no little uneasineSS to those living close to the track. Sunday a passing train set fire to the dry leaves Tn Plummer's wood lot and burned It over, doing no ma terIal damage more than burning the dry leaves and dead grass. 
 How nice and airy the school house grounds look since the fence has been taken away and If everybody i'll town would turn their grounds out as some have already done, Springdale would be one of the prettieSt little towns in the state, and when the spring days come again all fresh and blooming, the flowers along her walks would smell all the sweet. CT while the birds in the tree tops would sing more cheeful and musical.
 Don't Worry had the pleasure of meeting Mir. Jackson, of Ben ton County, who is visiting at tht home of l.. NJ. Bratton, hi, brother-in-law.
 Bro. Smitherman is keeping bachelor hall these days while his wife is making a visit witt the fam of one of their son. who 'res at New Haven, Mo. west of St. Louis. But wouldn' this be a lonely old world thougl If there were no women in 1t ant man had to bach all the time
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ing from an attack of pneumonia. The school is getting along nicely under the management of Prof. Terrence as principal and Miss Mollie Dean as assistant. There will be fishing party at w. K. Hughes next Friday night for the benefit of the church.
 Prof. Vorhees and family are packing up to move to Oklahoma. w. F. Little, Irene and Annie Glover are on the sick list.
 Lou Murphy returned from Westville last Thursday where she went to visit her sister.
 The stork left baby girl at Vim. Emmerson last Tuesday, mother and baby are getting along nicely.
 Christina Began and grand daughter went to Fayetteville last Saturday on business. Clare Johnson gave his friends d party last Thursday evening on his birthday.
 ZJ. A. Walker shipped car load of cattle to St. Louis last week
 Aunt Lydia Males left last Sunday for Doxey, Okla, to spend the winter with her son.
 J. L. Bryan and family will leave in a few weeks for Texas to spend the winter. Mrs. Bryan Is improving rapidly in health.
 N. Stansbury and wife had the pleasure of a visit from the lat ter's brother and wife from Jop- lin, Mo-, last week.
 Isaac Napier and family moved to this place from Hazel \ alley last week.
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