The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-05

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2sls=z zt=szzs@ e.=s~--sSS All all events it begai
wsth the coming of the Flint twins e
Discerd, arizona. where we two anC
Others had already foregathered
Discord isn't poetic, even to lool
lick upon II was close to the Mexi
c;4il border where I've always noted
human morals to sicken Then there
wasn't enough women about TO keeI
tis bright. Hi 4 word too much nose
paint, too little hair-dve. Discord
M@s 1 sort of Potter's fsii for human
hopes
The Fl,nts came to town in q
rssaest SORT of hand=a-hand fashion.
ltNas Just tew days ,tter Marx Give
scsgled sl,Wsl t. make buns, pies,
gisger bread and colice-cake She
MIS- young delectable rs her cookies,
and Discord treasured her from the
start She could have made a living
in iud-pies. The Flints were
lllcdium sized men, quick, small
footed, slope sllouldered and low
voiced They seemed conditioned
ana sophisticated. but my good friend,
Dilsay Leeds. remarked
/ ia always been dead-set against
splittin human packages into twins
The ANIMALS Of mankind prove that
there amt more than enough virtues
ssllrlied on per nativity. Look at
Abe Lincoln rowi There's my stvle
6f 4 man in all respects. bat suppose
he'd had to diyvv the cristnin facilita-
lions with an Ike"
Now YOU take them twins, Steve
and Martin, Didsey VENT roll
etla together and bile en- down 70
lightweight figure. n&you'd haveone
good gent, nqG world-whipper,
biita good average kmale mammal"
But what's the matter with 'em
n5w, Didset | inquired They
deseng ~ FIR, graceful with their
likker and carry same genial-as be-
comes strangers
"1'here you are that's just i'll" Didsey
exclaimed with victorious spirit
4 What
Z. YOU don't say he You don't say
This here Mart or This here Steve stacks
up into pretty good gent, but they
Didsey has a convincing way. Not
ior a month or so We're any of Us able TO tell
the twins apart, and they didn help great
deal in the matter Of distinguishing garments
They weren IT alike inside, however. pres
entity began to develop the case this way: i
either Of the Flints said anything with point
and delicacy, it was Steve; ii either tarried
long at Biltong's bar during working hours,
ii was Steve; ii only one was working the
claim at any time, il wasn't Steve; if either
countenance lit up like dance-hall-it
wasn't Martins. Close familiarity with a
pair of true-hatched honey-bees will finally
enable YOU To tell them apart. SO it was with
the brothers. Say, four months. and every
bDdyinthe settlementunderstood that Steve
was the luxury and Martin the substance.
Oh the latter's love for bis weaker, flasher
half well, opinion is still divided in Dis
cord some holding it godly and some insane.
y Martin early showed town-spirit, pre-
serving a coneliness about his cabin and an
unobfrusive but seemingly sincere interest
in thesluck of all men. As natural d family
man asI ever knew, he was-even habits, a
hard worker, a man who loved the cabin
doorway and approach clean and Towering
just the quiet type Of human value that
would rejoice the heart Of hne woman for
half century.
A busy night at Biltong six months after
The twins set up in DiScord. !. Steve had
beer packing Biltongs hell-seepage in two
ounce jolts, since the staring day broke over
the eastern fringe. Moreover, be had been
gaining momentum in this sort Of thing for
several days, while Martin worked the claim;
60 that now he carried burden like house
boat on a burro. His laugh naturally
yipping and fluent had lost its melody. 1t
would have made the reputation Of a villain
on the boards hard as parror tone, that
laugh. 1t made me think Of disks Of metal
humping down steel stairs. There
was look in his eye, too, of a man whose
soul has been fumed out for the nonce, and
whose body doesn't care. Steve had shown
1uite formidable class for treatments at Bill
longs. but nothing like this, heretofore.
Martin entered in mid -evening, stepped up
Is his brother and talked low, rather sug-
,esting than pleading.
The answer silenced the bar-room pen
.trating poison in words. 1t burned and
,urred IN rnen's minds, without destroying
tseIf :,
aDon't mind what he says now, iellers,
Martin begged, turzing TO US. lis lace was