The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-12-02
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"She will go to night school and be-
come refnedT' ventured anxiously.
ut is this" said Kraft. punctuating
in puddle of spilled coffee with a
stiff forefnger Caesar had his Bru-
tus, the cotton has its bollworm, the
chorus girl has her Pittsburger. the
summer boarder has his poison ivy,
the hero has his Carnegie medal, art
has it's Morgan, the rose has its
Speak" ! interrupted, much per-
turbed. You do not think that Milly
will begin to Iace?'
Zone day." concluded Kraft solemn
ly. there will come to Cypher's for a
plate Of beans a millionaire lumber
man from Wisconsin,. and he will mar
ry Milly."
"Never!' exclaimed Judkns and
in horror.
"A lumbermanv' repeated Kraft
hoarsely
And millionaire lumbermanw 1
sighed despairingly.
"From Wisconsin, groaned Jud-
kins
We agreed that the awful fate SEEM
| ed to menace her. Few things were
less improbable. Milly. like some vast
virgin stretch Of pine woods, was
made to catch the lumberman's eye.
And we'll we knew the habits Of the
Badgers once fortune smiled upon
them. Straight to New York they hie
and lay their goods at the feet of the
girl who serves them beans in bean
cry. Why, the alphabet itself con-
nives. The Sunday newspapers head
liners work Is cut for him.
"Winsome Waitress Wins Wealthy
Wisconsin Woodsman"
For awhile we felt that Milly was
on the verge of being lost to us.
1t was our love of the unerring ar
tistic adjustment Of nature that in
spired us. We could not give her over
to lumberman doubly accursed by
wealth and provincialism We shud-
dered to think of Milly. with her voice
modulated and her elbows covered,
pouring tea in the marble tepee Of a
tree murderer. No! In Cypher's she
belonged-in the bacon smoke, the cab
bage perfume. the grand Wagnerian
chorus of hurled ironstone china and
rattling casters.
Our fears must have been prophetic,
for on that same evening the wildwood
discharged upon us Milly's preordain-
ed confiscator-our fee to adjustment
and order. But Alaska and not Wis
| hA h,ppH ~ hn vyici "a
tion.
We were at our supper OF beef stew
and dried apples when he trotted in as
If on the heels of a dog team and
made one of the mess ut our table.
With the freedom Of the camps he as
saulted our ears and claimed the fel,
lowship of men lost in the wilds Of 4
, hash house. We embraced him as u
specimen, and in three minutes we
had all but died for one another as
, friends.
He was rugged and bearded and
wind dried. He had just come off the
"trail," he said. at one Of the Nortf
, river ferries. l fancied | could SEE
the snow dust of Chilcoot yet powder
ing his shoulders And then he strew
, ed the table with the nuggets, stuffed
, ptarmigans, beadwork and seal pelt:
, of the returned Klondiker and begaI
to prate to as of his millions.
, Bank drafts for two Millions wa:
his summing up. land thousand
day piling up from my claims. Ant
now l want some beef stew and can
ned peaches. never got off the trail
since mushed out of Seattle. and In
hungry The stuff the niggers feet
you on Pulmans doesn't count fo'
gentlemen order what you want"
And then Milly loomed up with
thousand dishes on her bare arm
loomed up big and white and pink AM
awful as Mount ST. Elas-with smll
like day breaking in gulch. And til
Klondiker threw down his pelts an
nuggets as dross and let his jaw fa
halfway and stared ut her. You coul
almost see the diamond tiaras Oh Mi
Tvs brow and the hand embroidere
silk Paris gowns that he meant to bu
for her.
At last the bollworm had attacke
the cotton The poison ivy was reacl
ing out it's tendrils to intwine the sun
mer boarder. The millionaire lumbe
man, thinly disguised as the Alaska
miner was about to engulf our Mill
and upset natures adjustment.
Kraft was the first to act BE leape
up and pounded the Klondiker's bac
"Come out and drink be shouted
drink first and eat afterward" Ju'
kins seized one arm and the othe
Gayly. roaringly. irresistibly. IN jol
good fellow style we dragged him 1ro
the restaurant to cafe. stufhng II
pockets with his embalmed birds al
;. indigestible nuggets.
- There he rumbled roughly got
humored protest. THAT'S the girl I
D. nv money!" he declared. "She CT
IS eat out of my skillet the rest of n
K life. why. never see such d
at girl, I'm going back there and a
h. her to marry me- guess she Woi
el- want to sling hash any more when s
er sees the pile of dust I've got.
u you'll take another whisky al
er milk now," Kraft persuaded. wit
of Satan's smile, Il thought you
ed country fellows were better sports. >
vn Kraft spent his puny store of &C
ok at the bar and then gave Judkins a
ay me such an appealing look that
a went down to the last dime we had
IA toasting our guest.
Thor whom our ammunition "