The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-02-19

inc autumn breeze na0 Oeon play
ing hob in the vicinity Of Cape Nous.
am, and when the P. o. club gathered
to await the coming Of the morning
mail they became more or less
natural topic Of conversation. 1t was
Uncle 81 Peterby who opened the dis.
cussion with the remark that it
"Blowed some last night"
Eyes," said Bill Peavey, who had
Just come into town with barrel of
vinegar that was suspiciously popular.
Eyes, 1t blowed a heap up our way.
They tell me that up to Skate Heller
Jim Perkinses' Drilled Live Lobster
sign was took clean off the verandy
of his cafe an landed halfway up the
front O. the Baptist church steeple.
They had to call out tn hook an lad
der company to git it down."
LESS see, that's whar the Rev.
MacSwattem breaches. amt it, Bill?'
eaid Peterby.
"Yeh," replied Bill. Hes the fell
lar"
Don't see no cause for talsin' down
the sign, then" said Uncle 81. Il
heard the Rev. MacSwattem holdin'
!th over to the Ingleside camp meet
in one night lass summer, an he's a
br'iler all right. Ye could hear the
people sizzlin' afore he got halfway
through his firstly"
"Lcok out thar, Si!" came the post
masters voice from behind the coun-
ter. Its agin the rules O. this here
club to interjeck religion into these
here acrimonies. AS fed'ral Office
Lclder l can't have this here Office
@ mine used fer castin' slurs on no
American citizens, whatever their pre-
v.ous condition of spirituous servi-
tcod. This here Office is for the PEG.
lie, of tho people and by the people,
5.gosh!"
Il want maxim no criticisms O.
Eobody's religion" retorted Uncle
81. Il didn't say them Holsters didn't
Feed br'ilin'. All 1 says is that such
things is the facts"
WAL it's facts as makes trouble
In all kinds of arguments" said the
postmaster, "an' I'll thank ye kindly
to leave 'em out in the future. Speak
In of the wind, though, they was a
Teller in here this mornin' that says
the brass eagles been bowed off the
town hall UP to Hikem Corners, an
Is now standin' on his head on top
D Hank Wilbur's hayrick."
"'Taint the first time the 'Merican
eagles been stood On his head under
this administration" muttered Uncle
Silas, still smarting under tho post
masters rebuke.
''That'll do. silas Peterby," said. tho
postmaster. 1--WE don't want no Of.
fensive part'sanship here, neither. I
keep open house here an within
these walls all men Is born free and
equal in the persoot of life, liberty
and politics. If We want to make in
vijious remarks about how me an my
friends down to Washin'ton is runnin'
this gov 'ment We can go out into tho
woods an find stump to do it on.
but I warn We right here an now that
l amt goin' to tolerate no seedition
IN this here grocery"
"All the same, the mails been fif.
teen minutes late for five days run.
hin, an l got right as a free born
citizen O. this here republic to say
what l think O. the way your party
tends to business" persisted Uncle
Silas.
My party amt to blame II Jim
yolSum's boss gifts stun in her foot
last Friday, be they?' demanded the
postmaster. "'Taint the fault o. con.
g"ess that she's been lame ever since
not as knows on. I don't remem-
Der nothin' in the national platform
that accepts responsibility for lame
animiles injured in the persoot o
duty. Besides, Jim Yokum's a PROXY
'>ilionist; an if We think We can make
= party matter out of it, blame them
Tot me an NINE"
I'VE hadn't ought to gave him the
contrack for carryin' the mails" sale
Siias.
"Ee was the lowest bidder" retort
cd the postmaster.
"Ya-as, an the slowest driver" sal,
reterby.
"That amt none o. my business,
said the postmaster. "B'sides, wer,
Ialkin' about wind, Silas, there
anough O. that BLOWN around outsid
without your addin' none to the ger
eral supply"
ut never blows around here quit
as hard as 1t used to out in Arizona,
said the retired army officer, who wa
sitting en- the sugar barrel. II remen
Ter some years ago I was statione
out at Phoenix, and one day one &
those desert blasts came hiking acros
the country, blowing so hard that
lifted an express train bodily of th
Santa Fee track and blew 1t across t
he tracks Of the Southern Pacifi
t-irty-fve miles away, and before tn
;n.ineer knew what had happened tt
train rolled into Tucson as smooth 8
:, GU please. and bound east instead
west. Fortunately It hammered .