The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-04-03

other than gold also glisten Now anybody
can detect that for himself with half an eye
There are baldheads and celluloid, to cite only
two; and it is of celluloid collars | would
speak
The subject should be approached with CIR
cur,specton. | once knew man TO De de-
feated for the Governership OF state be-
cause of levity in regard to celluloid collar
not that he wore one but that some hend IN
human form spread the report that he did.
And he laughed at first, not deigning dental
Mark well what followed, friends. In rural
districts they smashed him for being a dude,
on the other hand a very considerable element
in the cities laughed raucously at the preten-
tions of a statesman whose nneteen-inch
neck was fretted by cellulod In vain did he
ramp and roar and deny. The landslide bore
him down From the moment the whisper
started, his career was as dead as any DOOR
nail
This moving recital is by way of introduce
ing the sheriff of Bill Green county, VINO
never wore "a collar at all-at least, not one
of the detachable kind Celluloid enters later.
About two months after his election he sat
one day in his office in Dodge City, playing
pitch with the county attorney, the tax col
ector and Judge Sam Brazzleton. Sam was
a LAWYER but every lawyer in Western Texas
is "iudge" There is no valid reason why
they should not have occupied their minds
with pitch. None of them had anything to
do. Sans practice was confined TO pounding
the desk in front of the jury box 10 smith
Greens when pleading at court sittings for the
acouittal of some hapess wight who was
shree crops and seven children behind livali-
hood the tax collector knew it was idle folly
TO 90 after Arrears, more certain suicide than
hanging. and as for the other two Bill Green
county had been so good for the past three
months that their Jobs were sinecures.
The Sheriffs office was in the court house
"a big, two-story structure, surrounded by
an iron fence and the town square. The citl-
zens of Bill Green used the fence hitch
ing rail when they came to Dodge City.
'Woww said the Sheriff wipng the per-
SEPARATION from his neck. He tilted back IN
his chair to consult a thermometer from
nail. "toly cats, boys! it's a lO3."
The month was June. the hour 2 o'clock in
the afternoon The square lay under two
inches of red powdery dust the sun smote
on tin roofs and wooden awnings; the air
pulsated: Dodge City dozed TO droning of
flies. it's merchants and idlers sunk in spe-
cies of coma gathered on stools in the shade
There entered Lewis of the Spade Ranch
ushering a man of about 30 years tall and OF
remarkable tenuity. Said Lewis: "Howdy
Sam shake hands with Mr. Gus Peeler Sher-
iff Bud Gary, Mr.. Peeer. Them other two
gentlemen are Mr. Evans and Mr.. White.
The introduction having been punctiliously
acknowledged the Sheriff asked, Hospitality:
would you-all like TO have drink = On
which the stranger raised hand, opining that
the heat was too cruel.
He was dressed like cowman, in a gray
suit without a coat, wide brown felt hat, rid
inc boots. tapering at the heels-a soberly
alert man. of strong features and hard sort
of affability. Sheriff Gary observed that he
wore a cellulOid collar, without tie.
"Are they keeping you pretty busy?' in
CURED Mr. Peeler, nodding toward an array
of placards ON the wall.
The Sheriff shook his head sadly.
"Bill Green county" he said, "is like
young ladies seminary only more so. No sir,
I've been i'm office eight weeks and my only
duties so far have been to lend Seth Long two
dollars Oh yes--a hester did blow in here
from Cara and asked me to go find his dog
for him Say Lewis that fellow was like to
cuss me out
Mr.. Peeer INDUCED in a slow smile, meas
uring the Sheriff meanwhile with his gray
eyes, That observant official had opportun-
ity to note that there were splotches of brown
in them
''The laugh was on Bud" Lewis cut in. "He
was lust bound to be Sheriff Ran twice be-
fore. Mr. Peeler. and got licked so hard both
times it Jared all his knfolks back in Ar
kansas. But he just kept a-coming until we
all got tired and put him in to be rid of him.
Hes slayer, them Peeler quered.
"Stayer is his middle name" said Judge
Sam Hell stay with anything. I've seen
him draw two cards TO flush when every
body was raising"
They all laughed, and the owner of the
Spade leaned over to whisper in the lawyers
ear Sam showed back his chair with aacrity,
nstantaneously smoothing his features to the
portentous expression reserved for clients,
which he had copied from a photograph of