Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-09-19

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van an ter-holes an wind-breaks.
Principles that'll lay on
|3M III fat an top the market
linn in Boston, ii queer the
- hull game in country
.yrare playin' it is tangled up with In
AIMS gold mines, r range-stuff. In the
abort-grass country, doggy principles
arc sure a source of loss, until they get
hardened up SOS to- git out and rustic.
With the push. Now, this Humane-So-
.iety-Tnjun-R elief-Corps form of dom
Cood-harmless, you'd say, as we set
mere by the grub-wagon; but swear
20 Godfrey's Gulch, the worst throw
1 down ever got in a social way grow
ad out of a combination Of them two
highly proper idees with Oberlin
College gal / met up to Chamberlain.
This Was the way of it: The 80. NJ"
Mr.. Elkins, I mean, Of the J-Up-An'-
Down Ranch, was called to Sioux Falls
as witness in a case of selling con-
Tersation-water to the Injuns, an cas-
ually landed a juicy contract with
Uncle Sam f'r supplyin' beef-issue cat
tie over on the Rosebud. The Pierre
4 firm of politicians he outbid, havin'
things framed up pretty good, as they
thought, on the delivery, at once hops
to him with a proposition to pay him
] dknow how much money an take it
off his hands. Havin' pongshong FIR
dom business on velvet, the o. M.
snaps 'em up instantaneous, an comes
home to Wolf Nose Crick smilin' like
he'd swaIlered the canary, an sends
me to Chamberlain to see that the
contract is carried out as fer as prop
er.
go up. Aconite," he says, ean' re-
member that while the J-Up-An'Dow
at don't feel bound to demand any
reforms, its interests must be protect
ed. Any sort of cattle the Pierre crowd
can make look like prime steers to the
inspector, goes with us. But" he goes
on, "our names and not theirs are on
the contract. These inspectors" says
ne, "bein' picked out on their merits
at Washington, to look after the in
terests of the government an the noble
red 1t would be unpatriotic If not
Lees Majesty to cavil at their judg-
ment on steers, especially If it coin
cldes with that of Senator Whaley's
men at Pierre Therefore, far be 1t
from us to knock But be leery that
we don't get stuck for non-perform-
ance: which we can't afford Seer"
1t was purity plain to a man who'd
matrickelated as night-wrangler, an
graduated at 1t on the J-Up-An' Down,
an | went heart-free an conscience
clear, seem my duty perfectly plain.
Now at Chamberlain was this Ober-
lin College lady. who had some kind of
an infamed conscience on the Injun
question. an was dead stuck on dumb
animals an their rights. She was one
OF the kind you don't see out here
blue eyes, you know. yellow hair, the
KIND Of complexion that don't outlive
many hot winds; an she had lots of
pitchers around her, of young folks in
aer classes, an people with mortar
BOARD hats an black nighties, r strip
ed sweaters. She was irrupting into
the Injun question via Chamberlain.
Her thought was that the Injuns was
really Twin correct IS fur as they had
chance an that we orto copy their
ways, instid OF maxim them tag along
after our'n.
Maybe that's So" says I, "but I've
took the Kelley cure twice now. an
please excuse me-!
She looked kinder dazed Fl a min
ute. an then LATED, an said somethin'
about the sardonic huTnor OF the from
tier.
had been asked to give exhibi-
ZION OF broncho Dustin at the ranch
Where she was stayin' an she was
asltatin' herself about the bronks'
leelin's. / told her that it was just
friendly rivalry between the puncher
an the bronx, an how. out on the
Ssnch, the gentle critters d come up
an hang around by the hour, a-nicker-
IN IT some O. the gang to go out an
bust EN-.
1t reminds me" she says, .'of my
oforher's pointers begging to go hunt
ing"
Same principle" says /.
II seemed to ease her mind, an feel
IL as did toward her, wouldn't have
aer worry FIR anything. Then she
found out that was a graduate of the
ulsh school OF Higgsville, Kansas, an
uSeo TO know what quadratics was, an
.lat my way Of emitting the English
IanSuage was just an acquired man
uersm, like the hock-action of a
suAng-halted boss, an she warmed up
70 me right smart, both then an after,
never askin' to see my diploma, an
nesun interFogatin' me about the beef
issue; an discussin' the Injun question
IKE lifelong friend Wherat, jump
ed the game.
OUT for all that. about this time
0ecome subject to attacks of blue eyes
=. ;" yellow hair, accompanied by YER
S Sso' Dlind-staggers, bots, ringin' in
o ears-like low coEfabulatin' talk,
a,neer interspersed with little bubbles
VI latture-an' a sense o. guilt when.