The Coalgate Courier. (Coalgate, Indian Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1903 Page: 3 of 10
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CHAPTER Vl— Continued
"Hate to lose you" said the Judge
politely — "hate to lose you of course
hut then a young: man’s got to make
his way he's got to get his start”
Franklin rose and turned toward the
elder man "If you please Judge”
said he "get the committee appointed
for to-nle’t If you can I’ll take the
examination now’
"Yes? You are In a hurry!”
"Then to-morrow I’ll go over and
aay good-bye to my sister and the
next day I think I’ll follow the wagons
West I’ve- not much to put In a
wagon so I can go by rail The road’s
away west of the Missouri now and
my letter comes from the very last
station at the head of the track”
"So?” said the Judge "Well that
ought to be far enough sure if you
go clean t the Jumping-off place”
CHAPTER VII
The New World
Franklin crossed the Missouri river
that dividing stream known to a gen-
eration of Western men simply as “the
River” and acknowledged as the boun-
dary between the old and the new the
known and untried - When he de-
scended from the rude train he needed
no one to tell him he had come to
Ellisvllle Me was at the limit the
edge the boundary! "Well friend”
said the fireman' who was oiling the
engine as he passed and who grinned
amiably as he spoke "you’re sure at
the front now"
Franklin had not advised his friend
Batterslelgh of hts intended arrival
but as he looked bout him he saw
that he had little need for any guide
Ellisvllle as an actual town did not
yet exist A rude shanty or two and
a line of tents Indicated the course of
a coming street More than forty
cow ponies stood In the Cottage corral
or In the street near by Afar there
swelled the sound of morning revel-
ries Rubbed his head and made
After breakfast Franklin paused for
a moment at the hotel office almost as
large and empty as the dining room
Different men now and then came and
passed him by each seeming to have
some business of his own The clerk
at the hotel asked him If he wanted
to locate some land - Still another
stranger a florid and loosely clad
young man "with a mild blue eye ap-
proached him and held some converse
Mornin’ friend” said the young
min
"Good morning” said Franklin
"I allow you’re just In on the front”
said the other
“Yes” said Franklin "I came on
the last train”
“Stay long?”
"Well as to that” said Franklin "I
hardly know but I shall look around
a bit"
"I didn’t know but maybe you’d like
to go south o’ here to Plum Center
I run the stage line down there about
forty-six miles twict a week That’s
my livery barn over there — second
wooden building In the town Sam’s
my name Sam Poston ft you want
to go down there come over and I’ll
fix you up”
Franklin replied that he would be
glad to do so in case be had the need
and was about to turn away He was
interrupted by the other who stopped
him with an explosive “Say!”
"Yes” said Franklin
"Did you notice that girl in the din-
ing room pony-built like slick black-
haired dark eyes— wears glasses? Say
that's the smoothest girl west of the
river She’s waitin’ In the hotel here
but say” (confidentially) "she taught
’ school onct— yes sir You know I’m
gone on that girl the worst way If
you get a chanct to put in a word for
me you do It won’t you?”'
Franklin was somewhat Impressed
with the swiftness of acquaintance-
ships In this new land but he retained
his own tactfulness and made polite
assurance of aid should it become pos-
sible '
"I’d be mighty obliged” said his
new-found friend "Seems like I lose
my nertd every time I try to say a
‘ word to that girl Do you want a
team?”
"Thank you” said Franklin Jbut I
hardly think so I went to find my
friend Colonel Batterslelgh and I un-
derstand he lives not very far away"
"Oh you mean old Batty Yes he
lives Just out south a little ways—
Section No 9 southeast quarter”
Franklin passed on In the direction
which bad been pointed out to him
looking about him at the strange new
country in which he felt the proprie-
torship of early discovery
As Franklin was walking on busy
with the Impressions of his new world
he became conscious of rapid boof-
beats coming up behind him and turn-
ed to see a horseman careering across
the open In his direction with no ap-
parent object In view beyond that of
making all the noise possible to be
made by the freckled-faced cowboy
who had been up all night but still
had some vitality which needed vent
"Eeeeee-yow-heeeeee!” yelled the
cowboy both spurring and reining his
supple cringing steed' “Eeeeeee-ylp-yeeeee!”
’ Thus vociferating he rode
straight at the footman with appar-
ently the deliberate wish to ride him
down Finding that he failed to create
a panic he pulled up with the pony’s
nose almost over Franklin’s shoulder
"Hello stranger" cried the rider
cheerfully “where are you goin’ this
bright an’ happy mornin’?”
Franklin made no immediate reply
and the cowboy resumed
“Have a chaw?” he said affably and
looked surprised when Franklin thank-
ed him but did not accept
"Say” said the cowboy after
time “say I reckon I kin lick you”
"Do you think so?” said Franklin
calmly pulling up his shoulders and
feeling no alarm
“Shorely I do” said the other "I
reckon I kin lick you er beat you
shootln’ er throw you down”
"Friend” said Franklin "get down
off that horse and I’ll give you a little
wrestle to see who rides What’s your
name anyhow?”
"Whoa!” said the other “Name’s
Curly" He was on the ground as he
said this last and throwing the bridle
over the horse's neck The animal
stood as though anchored Curly cast
his hat upon the ground and trod upon
it in a sort of ecstasy of combat He
rushed at Franklin without argument
or premeditation
sundry exclamations of surprise
The latter had not attended coun-
try school for nothing Stepping light-
ly aside he caught his ready opponent
as he passed and with one arm about
his neck gave him a specimen of the
“hiplock” which sent him in the air
over his own shoulder The cowboy
came down much in a heap but pres'
ently sat up his hair somewhat
rumpled and sandy He rubbed his
bead and made sundry exclamations
of surprise “Huh!” said he “Well
I’m d d! Now how you s’pose that
happened You kain’t do that again”
he said to Franklin finally
"Shouldn’t wonder if I could” said
Franklin langhlng
"Look out ter me — I’m cornin’!”
cried Curly
They met more fairly this time and
Franklin found that he had an antag-
onist of little skill In the game of
wrestling but of a surprising wiry
bodily strength Time and again the
cowboy writhed away from the hold
and came back again with the light of
battle in his eye It was only after
several moments that he succumbed
this time to the Insidious "grapevine”
He fell so sharply that Franklin had
difficulty in breaking tree in order not
to fall upon him The cowboy lay
prone for a moment then got up and
dusted off his hat
"Mount friend” said he throwing
the bridle back over the horse’s neck
without other word "You done It
fair!” '
- "I'll tell you what we’ll do” said
Franklin extending his hand "We'll
just both walk along together a way
if you don't mind I’ll get me
horse pretty Soon You see I'm a new
man here — just got In this morning
and I haven’t had time to look around
much yet - I thought I'd go out and
meet my frieud and perhaps then we
could talk over such things together
"Shore” said Curly "Why didn’t
you tell me? Say ole Batty he’s
crazy to ketch a whole lot o’ bosses
out'n a band o’ wild hosses down to
the Beaver Creek He always a-want-in’
me to help him ketch them hosses
"Batterslelgh is fond of horses” said
Franklin “and he’s a rider too”
"That’s so” admitted Curly "He
kin ride You orter see him when he
gits his full outfit on sword an' pistol
by bis side uh-huh!”
"He has a horse then?”
"Has a boss? Has a hoss — has —
what? Why o’ course he has a boss'
Is there anybody that ain’t got a
hoss?”
"Well I haven’t” said Franklin
"You got this one” said Curly
"How?” said Frank puzzled
"Why you won him”
"Oh pshaw!” said Franklin "Non-
sense! I wasn’t wrestling for your
horse only for a ride Besides I
didn’t have any horse put up against
yours I couldn’t lose anything"
That’s so” said Curly “I hadn’t
thought of that Bay you seem like a
white sort o’ feller Tell you what I’ll
Just do with you I think a heap o’ my
Baddle an’ long's you ain’t got no
saddle yet that you have got used to
like it don’t make much difference to
you if you get another saddle But you
Just take thjs here hoss along No
that’s all right I kin git me another
back to the corral just as good as this
one Jim Parsons feller on the big
bunch o’ cows that come up from the
San Marcos this spring why he got
killed night before last I’ll just take
one o’ his hosses I reckon I kin fix
k so’st you kin git his saddle If you
take a notion to It"
Franklin looked twice to see if there
was affectation in this calm statement
bat was forced with a certain horror
to believe that his new acquaintance
spoke of this as a matter of fact and
as nothing startling He bad made no
comment when he was prevented from
doing so by the exclamation of the
cowboy who pointed out ahead
’’There’s Batty's place” said he "an
there’s Batty himself Git up quick
git up an’ ride in like a gentleman
It’s bad luck to walk”
Franklin laughed and taking the
reins swung himself into the Baddle
with the ease of the cavalry mount
though with the old-fashioned grasp at
the cantle with the ends of the reins
in his right hand '
’Well that’s a d d funny way
glttin' on top of a hoss” said Curly
Are you 'ffald the saddle's goln’ to
git away from you? Better be 'frald
’bout the hoss — Git up Bronch!”
He slapped the horse on the hip
with his hat and gave the latter a
whirl In the air with a shrill
Whoooop-eee!” which was all that re-
mained needful to set the horse off on
a series of wild stiff-legged plunges —
the “bucking” of which Franklin had
heard so much a maneuver peculiar
to the half-wild Western horses and
one which is at the first' experience a
desperately difficult one for even
skilful horseman to overcome (t per-
haps did not occur to Curly tnat he
was inflicting any hardship upon the
newcomer and perhaps he d I not
really anticipate what followed yj the
part either of the horse or Its'-ftiTvl
Had Franklin not been a good rider
and accustomed to keeping his head
while sitting half-broken mounts he
must have suffered almost Instantane-
ous defeat in this sudden encounter
The horse threw his head down far be-
tween his fore legs at the start and
then went angling and zigzagging
away over the hard ground In a wild
career of humpbacked antics which
jarred Franklin to the marrow of his
bones The air became sclntlllant and
luminously red His head seemed
filled with loose liquid bis spine
turned Into a column of mere gela-
tine The thudding of the hoofs was
so rapid and so punishing to his
senses that for a moment he did not
realize where he actually was Yet
with the sheer instinct of horseman-
ship he clung to the saddle in some
fashion until finally he was fairly
forced to relax the muscular strain
and so by accident fell into the secret
of the seat — loose yielding not tense
and strung
"Go it go it — whooop-e-e-e!” cried
Curly Boraewbere out In a dark world
"Ee-eikee-hooo! Set hlm fair pard-
ner! Set him fair now! Let go that
leather! Ride him straight up! That's
right!”
(To be continued)
MAKING A PUMPKIN PIE
Here’s a Description of How Grand
mother Did It f
Does any one remember the pump-
kin plea which grandmother used to
make? Grandmother opened the
pumpkin and took out its works and
peeled and sliced It and put it In the
kettle where It was boiled until It was
soft and mushy but not too musby
Later she pressed the result through
tbe holes In a colander and ‘when she
had dished out a portion for immediate
use Vhe was ready to begin - the
construction of tbe pumpkin pie A
big and squire iron bake sheet was
lined with flour crust which covered
the bottom of the pan and reached up
along the four edges until the pastry
could look over the rim Then she
put an egg and a sufficient amount of
sweet milk In among the pumpkin and
added & whole lot of black molasses
and a plncb of salt and a big lot of
ginger and a pinch and a half of
grated nutmeg to the concoction and
when these bad been stirred in among
tbe milk and tbe pumpkin the mass
of ingredients was poured into the
bake pan and tbe pan was closed up
InBlde of the oven to be cremated
while the children waited outside with
the water oozing from our mouths
until the wonderful experiment was
completed
And nobody except some few of us
lucky old chaps ever tasted anything
like one of those pumpkin pies It
was deep and spicy and sweet and
satisfying It was more like a pump-
kin pudding so thick It was and
wholly like unto ambrosia steeped In
nectar bo toothsome It was and
when we think of those great squares
of pumpkin pie which found their way
down our ravenous gullet we wonder
bow It is that modern boys manage
to live at all without pumpkin pie—
Bangor News
Cholera Decimates Army
The increase of the death rate In
the army to 1549 per 1000 during tbe
fiscal year Is chargeable to cholera
which carried off three and a half men
to the 1000
FOOLS AND RICHES
Most rich people are
means but of ends
not men cd
A tract Is a pamphlet not to read
but to give to your friends
Real wealth consists In having plen-
ty of the right kind of supplies
Poverty Is a curse and the poorest
man Is the paltry soul with a lot o!
money
Civilization means the multiplica-
tion of wants Christianity the im-
provement of their quality
Frank Crane pastor of Union
church Worcester Mass In a recent
talk on "The Poor Fool and the Fool
Rich” said:
From a good deal of religious teach-
ing we gather that If you are good
you'll get rich and If you get rich
'twill be a great pity
The whole trouble lies In our defini-
tion of riches Riches consists not in
money but in two things character
and friendships
Dives was a fool because ht
thought when he had become rich
that he was through whereas to be
rich is to be just begun
There are two kinds of fools about
money the father who burns up his
life In getting It and tbe son who
burns up his life In getting rid of it
Why should little Willie be- taught
In Sabbath school to be good so that
be may get on and the Hon William
In his old age be exhorted to tremble
because he has got on?
JOTTINGS
A very popular couple — two dollars
Many a man Is looking for work
who doesn't want It
Never Judge the weather by the
predictions of a prophet
Many a man Is unhappy only be-
cause he believes himself so
Better be a big peg In a little hole
than a little peg In a big hole
Most women take too much medi-
cine and some men don't take enough
It might be just as well to remem-
ber that fast men are usually slow
pay
‘ If you would have lasting fame
don’t give the world 'a chance to for-
get you
Women don’t think much of a doe
tor unless -he has a dozen different
shades of pills In Btock
Man proposes and woman accepts—
and in after years they wonder hou
the fool killer happened to overlook
them
A sack of flour and a barrel of po-
tatoes will convert a poor family
quicker than a carload of gospel
tracts
A man has less confidence In tbe as-
sertions he makes when his wife It
present than he has when she hap
pens to be absent
LOG CABIN PHILOSOPHY
Lots er us kin see another’s woe
but w’en It comes ter feelln’ fer it
we got our ban’s full already
De righteous bez a hard row tei
hoe but he eatln’ co’nbread en pot
licker w’en de wicked gnawin’ a file
Advice Is de cheapest t’ing in dt
worl’ en yet folks would sooner pay a
high price fer trouble dan take de bes
advice free
Jedgment day will come too soon
fer lots er us We won’t more dan
git ter sleep good ’fo’ we’ll baiter git
up en raise sand
In dis day en time- we ain’t only
not got faith enough ter move moun
talus but not half enough ter move
w’en house rent come due
Take all de great men er dis worl
dat lived en died sence de creatloq en
etan’ ’em In a row en Adam would
be so close to us dat we'd batter put
up a sign on de apple tree "No Tres-
passin’ on dese Premises” — Washing-
ton Post
DON’T FOR EVERY DAY
Don't sigh too often over servants'
shortcomings
Don’t start nervously if a child
makes a noise or breaks a dish — keep
your worry f-r broken bones
Don’t go to bed late at night and
rise at daybreak and imagine that
every hour taken from sleep Is an
hour gained
Don't always be doing something
lave Intermittent attacks of Idling To
understand how to relax Is to under-
stand how to strengthen nerves
Don’t fret and don’t worry are the
most healthful of maxims
Don't exhaust all your nerve force
over petty cares Each time that
woman loses control over herself her
nerves her temper she loses Just a
little nervous force Just a little pbysi
cal well being
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Repairs Kept For
COALCATI! : s CO US
WILSON’S MEAT MARKET
PorK Veal Sfluaiff
and Lard always on Hand
llorth Main St
Furniture and StOVeS
SECOND HAND GOODS
DOUGHT AND SOLD
H SNEDDEN ® SONS
Coalate Ind Tr
Connate Roller
ABC
V Bonham Proprietor
Don’t Hooitato
To un oar loo tfrtinf terries vfaca
you here busfnca to transact Abroad
We efier you rood aervko aad courteous
treatment Our rates are nominal
Choctaw Telephono Company
Tbo elderly man with the diamond
horse-shoe scarfpln and the thick-
soled brilliantly polished shoes who
was sitting near the door rolled his
unlighted cigar around in bis mouth
and turned to his companion
“Yes” he said “you might say that
It was a gift If a dog has got any-
thing in btm I can bring it out I
know just how to handle' ’em It
makes me sick to think of the good
dogs that are running loose around
the town that ain’t got a particle of
ejercation — dogs with Bense that only
wants a little training to be a credit
to the man that owns ’em I can take
dog and make a gentleman of him
Now that dog out there ”
He opened tbe car door admitting
a rush of cold air that made the wom-
an shiver who was hanging to tbe
strap over his head and gazed out on
the rear platform where a bright In
telllgent-looking collie was sitting ro-
colvtng the admiration of tbe platform
passengers with an air of dignity min-
gled with satisfaction
"Is he all right?” Inquired the other
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"He’s all right” said the dog’s own-
er as the dog half rose and wagged
his tail furiously "Only” be added
with a Bevere eye on tbe dog "he’s
taking up too much room there Sup-
pose you turn around and lie down
there in that corner so’st there’s room
for somebody else on that platform
besides you” he suggested and the
dog promptly turned around and
crawled to the corner Indicated where
be curled himself up in tbe smallest
possible space
"There” said the man triumphant-
ly "all he wants Is a hint” He leaned
back in his seat forgetting to close
the door
"Isn’t it wonderful!” exclaimed one
of tbe standing women addres:ing the
one who bad shivered
"Very” replied she changing hands
on her strap and sighing wearily "It’s
a pity though that there aren’t some
capable dogs that would take ft man
and make a gentleman of him” She
looked at tbo dog’B owner as she spoke
and he appeared uncomfortable
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