The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-09-11


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I could see. ] suppose it was tha
tournament and his riding so well
though ! never could understand VIII
men make so much of sports. Blu
after 1t happened o didn't hea
nearly so many people talking agains
Jasper Holt. think, too. our bein;
so good as to ride around the tract
with him had something to do with il
People say you were not ashamed AM
they had a good look al him and say
the possibilities. They say he wa
asked. yes. Just actually begged. tt
come in the next tournament and ride
but he wouldn't do it. He hasn't ap
peared that way since you left. Hs
Just went about his business grarely
and everybody began to have a To-
of respect for him. They say he has
done a lot Of good to those men he
has living on his place. and they sim
ply worship him. Somebody told
James there wasn't one of them but
would give his life for him any day
Well, that's something, OF course
Strange we never heard about it be
fore. Why, people used to be actually
afraid OF him and his men. But he
has been doing some splendid things
here lately. When Mr.. Whateley died,
Just before the harvest, and Mrs.
Whateley was left to look after her
five little children he took his full
force of men over 10 her place and
harvested everything, and fixed up
things u great deal better than they
were ever fixed up before. for Mr..
Whateiey wasn't much Of a manager.
And when Lucy Whitcorn was lost for
three days he organized his men and
went out and searched till he found
her. They took hold Of hands and
marched across country, through the
wheat fields, over every spot so the,
couldn't miss her; and her grand.
mother just put her arms around Jas
per Hollis neck and cried and kissed
him when he brought Lucy back
asleep in his arms.
But the greatest thing was when
he made the raid on the saloons. You
remember Slosson's and The. Three
Geese? They used to have terrible
carouses there. Slosson built a con-
cert rccra, over his saloon, and ad.
yertised- ID balls and dinners there,
and The &c Geese got a moving
picture 6 over their place; and
between Il they made a pretty fair
I'll bottomless pit in Hawk
Valley for a while. People got to-
and talked about 1t, and said
ought to be done to stop
1t, and Sale White even started a
petition about 1t and got some people
to sign, but it was lear election and
no one dared do much. Then one
when things were at their height
m dthere had been a shooting affair
or two. we heard the silver whistle of
Jasper Hollis men, and the whole
OF them cantared by on
horseback. They vent like g streak
IN their dark horsea, and they rode
up to The Thre Geese and
2a:sc ::STs soSS =Sw-s
what was happening they hal marched
nto the bar room and the concert hall
Ind taken possession. They hand
'uffed everybody in the place and
FOUND .sthem, men and voman and
hen they set to work and empt,ed
,ut all the liquor and turned the big
ire hose into every tia there
wasn't a smell OF whisky lott. and it
vas cleaner than it eve was since It
vas built. They vent to SIcssnn's and
lid the same thing. Slosson. and
raven of Tho Three Geese, they put
nto jail, and some of the others who
lad been most criminal. and they
the whole place. out Jasper
Holt took some Of the prisoners to his
house and kept them there till
10 reformed them, and he has been
keeping an eye on them right along
,ver since. a course after that peo-
Die rallied around him and were only
90 glad to be counted In with him.
rhey all admired his nerve, and they
saw he could make things go. 20 they
-ub 1i00 W WOSA 0AlO A0oS 11SO4AAh ILL.,
made him mayor 6ssthe town, and he
has reformed everything In the place,
III you wouldn't know il for the came
.cwn. Now, that's the preface and I
ught to have told you long ago. little
5 Ter. but / suppose / waa ashamed TO.
ier all I had said.
But now I'm coming to the real
story, the one that brings the tears
to, my eyes and makas me feal ike
sobhing; and I have to stop writing
and 60 and kiss my baby beforesi can
80 on.
This morntng 1T seems a weas
ngoyI . at my desk writing my pa
per for the club meeting. Bah,
was cut in tho yard in his whits romp
i and his little white hat. with hi:
nasu that James hfpught hin
from Chicago on his last trip. The win
dow vas oasen aud 4 cnnids zee him
gathering sleayes and carrying tnam Ii
his cart to the sidewalk, where h,
dumped them ii q pile 1t the edge Q
the road. had been having . terrible
search for = word III the dictionary
and when u toGkSa up sgAin ! saw bah
IBtandin gout in tho midGis OF tbs fba'
mo- ding away with ali his miylit +