The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1913-09-20

though there lurked about him the
hint Of unwonted ventures, etiquette
forbade it's mention. You see, In our
country that which man gives vol
unfairly is ofttimes later dissected
In smoky bunk houses or roughly
handled round pickering camphres,
but the privacies he guards are in
violate. Curiosity isn't exactly a lost
art but its practice isn't popular nor
hygienic.
Later l found him meditatively
whiting out on the porch, and as
the moment seemed propitious / in
CURED adroitly, did you have a good
time In Chicago, Bitter Rootr"
Bully" said he. relapsing into
weighty absorption.
"Whatd you dog ] inquired, with
almost the certainty OF appearing in
sistent
Don't you never read the papers,
he inquired, with such evident com
passion that "Kink" Martin and the
other boys snickered. This from
Bitter Root" who scorns literature
outside Of the Arkansas Printing"
as he terms the illustrations!
Guess III have TO show you my
press notices" and from a hip pocket
be produced fat bundle OF clippings
in a rubber band These he displayed
jealousy, and / stared agape, for
they were front pages OF great metro
politan dailies. married with red and
black scare heads. in which ! glimpsed
the words. Billings. OF Montana"
4" Bitter Root on Arbitration" "A
Loehinvar Out Of the West and
other things as puzzling.
Press notices. echoed "Kink"
scornfully. "Wouldn't that rope youi
He talks like Big Ike that went with
the Wild West show. When a punch
or gets so lazy he can't earn a living
by the sweat OF his pony he grows his
hair. goes on the stage busting glass
balls with shot cartridges and talks
about press notices Let's see 'em,
Billings. You pinch 'em as close 10
your stummick as though you held
cards in a strange poker game"
well, | have set In q strange game,
amongst aliens" said Billings, disre-
garding the request. land I've held the
high cards; also I've drawed out with
honors. rye sailed the medium high
seas with mutiny in the stokehole.
I've changed the laws OF labor, politics
and municipal economies. went out
OF Gods country right into the heart
OF the decaying east, aud by the APP
plication OF a running moose In a
hemp rope strangled oppression and
put 5000 men 10 work" He paused
ponderously. I'm an arbitrator"
THE deuce you arer' Indignantly
cried "Reddy," the cook. who says
SOP
Freddy" isn't up In syntaI, and his
unreasoning loyalty 10 Billings is an
established fact OF such standing that
his remarks afford no conjecture.
yes: I've cut into the nations peril
and the crying evil good and strong,
walking out from the stinks OF the
Union stockyards OF Chicago, into the
nmelight OF publicity via the drunk
and disorderly' route.
You see got those ten carloads
OF steers into the city all right. but
| was SO blame busy splattering
through the tracked up wastes OF the
COW pens and inhaling the sewer gas
OF the west side that / never got TO
see newspaper If Id "A read one,
here's what I'd IA found-namely,
the greatest. stubbornest, riotingest
strike ever known, which means a
heap for Chicago. she being the wet
nurse Of labor trouble
THE whole river front was tied up.
Nary a steamer had whistled inside
] the six mile crib for two weeks, and
5000 men was out. There was hold
ups and blood shedding and picketing,
which last is an alias for assault with
4 intents. aud altogether IL was a prime
+ place for a cowman on a quiet vaca-
4 tion-iust homcike and natural.
1T was at this point that ! enters,
I busting out OF the smoke OF the stock
yards. all sweet and beautiful. like
the gentle heroine in the play as she
I walks through the curtains az the
back OF the stage.
"Now. you know there's a heap OF
difference between the stockyards
and Chicago-it's just like coming
from Arkansas over into the United
/ States
well. soon as | sold the stock
hit for the lake front and began to
ground sluice the coal dust OF OF my
1 palate.
II was busy working my booze by.
draulic when | see an arid appearing
/ pilgrim 'longside looking thirsty as an
alkali Dat.
Get in says l. and the way be
obeyed orders looked like he'd had
military training. ! felt sort OF
drawed to him from the way he
handled his ticker: took II straight and
-unning over. then sopped his hands
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