The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-10
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more of life ! might, in that time
draw near enough to true Romance
10 touch the hem of her robe.
Up from ships men come, and from
waste places and forest and road and
garret and cellar TO maunder 10 me In
strangely distributed words Of the
things they have seen and considered.
The recording of their tales is no more
Than matter of ears and fingers.
There arc only two fates dread-deaf-
ness and writer's cramp. The hand is
vet steady; let the ear bear the blame
if these printed words be not in the
order they were delivered to me by
fortune.
Biography shall claim you but an in
stani-l first knew Hunky when he was
head waiter at Chubb s little beefsteak
restaurant and cafe on Third avenue,
There was only one waiter besides.
Then, successively. j caromed against
him in the little streets of the Big City
after his trip to Alaska, his voyage as
cook with q treasure seeking expedi-
ticn to the Caribbean, and his failure
as a pearl fisher in the Arkansas river
Between these dashes into the land of
adventure he usually came back to
Chubb S for u while Chubb g was q
port for him when gales blew too high;
but when you dined there and Hunky
went for your steak you never knew
whether be would come to anchor in
the kitchen or in the Malayan archi-
pciago. You wouldn t care for his de-
scription-he was soft of voice and hard
of face. and rarely had to use more
than enc eye to quell any approach TO
disturbance among Chubb' g custom
cTs.
One night found Hunky standing at
corner of Twenty-third street and
Third avenue after an absence of sew.
cral months. In ten minutes we had a
little round table between us in a quiet
corner. and my ears began to get busy.
i leave out my sly ruses and feints to
draw Hunky's s word-of mouth blows
it ali came to something like this:
Speaking OF the next election, said
Hunky, "did you ever know much about
indians? No! don t mean the Cooper,
Beade. cigar store or Laughing Water
kind mean the modern lndian-the
kind that takes Greek prizes in col
leges and scalps the halfbaclI Oh the
other side in football games. The kind
that cats macuroons and tea in the
afternoons with the daughter Of the
professor of biology and fills up on
gIasshoppers aud fried rattlesnake
when they get back to the ancestral
wickiup.
Well, they ain Z so bad. like 'em
better than most foreigners that have
come over in the last few hundred
years. One thing about the Indian is
race he .waps all his own vices for
them of the pale .faces-and he retains
are enough q call out the reserves
whenever he lets 'em loose. But the
imported foreigners adopt our virtues
and keep their own vices-and it's GO
ing to take our whole standing army
some day to police that gang.
- But let me tell YOU about the trip
took to Mexico with High Jack
Suakefeeder, a Cherokee twice re-
moved graduate OF a Pennsylvania
college and the latest thing in pointed
toed. rubber-hceed, patent kid moe
casins and Madras huuting-shirt with
turned back cuffs. He was friend
of mine. met him in Tahlequah when
! was out there during the land boom.
and we got thick He had got all there
was out of college and had come back
to lead his people. out or Egypt He
was "A man of first-elass style and
wrote essays, aud had been invited TO
visit rich guys houses in Boston and
such places
''There was a Cherokee girl in Mus.
cogce that High Jack was foolish
about He took me TO see her few
times. Her name was Florence Blue
Teather-but you want 10 clear your
mind Of all ideas OF squaws with nose
rings aud army blankets. This Young
lady was whiier than you are, and bet
ter educated than / ever was. You
couIdn Z. have told her from any of
the girls shopping in the swell Third
avenue stores. / liked her so we'll that
| got 10 calling on her now and then
when High Jack WASH Z along. which
is the way Of friends in such matters.
She was educated at the Muscogee col.
Iege and had made specially Of
let's see-eth-yes ethnologv. That IS
thc art that goes back and traces the
descent Of different races of people.
leading up from iclly-fisb through
monkeys and up to the o 'Briens. High
Jack had took up that line. too, and
had read papers about il before all
kinds of riotous assenblies-Chautau-
quas and Choctnws and chowder par
ties. and such. Having a mutual taste
for musty information like that was
what made 'em like each other, / sup
pose. But | don't know! What they
call cougeniality of tastes aiu't nj.
ways it. Now. when Miss Blue Feather
and me was talking together. listened
to her affidavits about the first fami