Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 18, Ed. 1, Sunday, June 10, 1883 Page: 2 of 10
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M dEIBIE TRANSPORTER.
(INDIAN AND STOCJC .IOVKNAL.)
Gno. W. Mafi-ct Editor & Tropr.
Lai'i: Mekhitt Local Editor.
Subscription $1 per Year In Advance.
Cheyenne & Aiapatioe Agency Darlington Indian Ter.
TII12 IIAO HOY.
Peck's bun.
"Say I thought you was going to
tr to loud a different lifo" said tho
grocery man to the bad boy as the
youth came in with his pockets full of
angle worms and wanted to borrow a
bnking powder can to put them into
while " ho went fishing and ho held :i
long angle worm up by tho tail and let
it wiggle so it frightened a girl that
had come in after two cents worth of
yoast so she dropped her pitcher and
went out of tho grocory as though she
was chased by an anaconda.
"1 am going to lead a diiVorcnt life
but a boy can't change his whole course
of life in a minute can he? Grown
persons have to go on probation for six
months beforo they can lead a differ-
ent lifo and half the time they loso
their cud beforo tho six months expire
mid hare to commence again. When
it is so allired hard for a man that is
endowed withsonso to break oil' being
bad you should n't expect too much
from a boy. But I am doing as well as
could be expected. I ain't half as bad
as I was. (Josh why don't you burn
a rag. That yeast that tho girl spilled
on the lloor smells liko it was sick. 1
should think that bread that was raised
with that yeast would smell like this
cooking butter you sell to hired girls."
"Well never you mind tho cooking
butter. I know my business. If peo-
ple want to use poor butter when they
havo company and then blow up tho
grocer beforo" folks I can stand it if
they can. But what is this 1 hear
about your pa lighting a duel with the
minister in your back yard and wound-
ing him in tho log and then trying to
drown himself in tho cistern? One of
your now neighbors was in hero this
morning and told me there was murder
in the air at your house last night and
thoy were going to havo the police
pull your place as a disorderly house.
I think you were at tho bottom of tho
whole business."
"O it's all a darn Ho and theso
neighbors will iind they better keep
still about us or wo will lie about them
a littlo. You see sinco pa got that
blacking on his faco he don't go out
any and to make it pleasant for him
ma invited in a few friends to spend
tho evening. Ma lias got up around
and the baby is a daisy only it smells
liko a goat on account of drinking tho
goat's milk. Ma invited tho minister
among the rest and after supper the
men wont up into pa's library to talk.
O you think I am bad don't you but
of the nine men at our house last
night I am an angel compared with
what they were when they were boys.
I got in tho bath-room to untangle mT
iisli lino and it is next to pa's room
and I could hear everything they said
but I wont away 'cause I thought the
conversation would hurt my morals.
Thoy would all steal when they were
boys but darned if I over stole. Pa
has stolo over a hundred wagon loads
of water-melons one deacon used to
rob orchards anothor one shot tame
ducks belonging to a farmer and an-
othor tipped over grindstones in front
of tho villago store at night and
broke thorn and run anothor used to
stoal oggs and go out in tho woods
and boil thorn and tho minister was
the worst of tho lot causo ho took a
soino with somo othor boys and wont
to a stream whore a neighbor was rais-
ing brook trout andcloanedthe stroiim
out and to ward off suspicion ho wont
to tho man the noxt day and paid him
a dollar to let him fish in tho stream
and thon kicked becauso thero woro no
trout and tho owner found tho trout
woro stolon and laid it to somo Dutch
boys. I wondered when those men
woro tolling their experience if they
ovor thought of it now whon thoy
woro proaching and praying and tak-
ing up collections. I "should think
thoy wouldn't say a boy was going to
hell right oil' causo ho was a littlo
wild now days whon ho has such an
example. Well lately somobody has
been burgling our chicken coop and
pa loaded nnold muskot with rock salt
and said ho would (ill tho follow full of
salt if ho caught him and while they
were talking up stairs ma heard a
rooster squawk and she went to the
stairway and told pa thero was some-
body in the hen house. Pa jumped up
and told tho visitors to follow him and
they would seo a man running down
the all 03 full of Halt and he rushed out
with the mm and tho crowd followed
him. Pa is shorter than the rest
and ho passed under tho first wire
clothes lino in tho yard all right
and was going for the hen house on a
jump when his neck caught the second
wire clothes-lino just as the minister
and two of tho deacons caught their
necks under the other wire. You know
how a wire hitting a man on tho throat
will set him back head over anpetite.
Well sir 1 was looking out ' io back
window and 1 wouldn toe positive but
I think they all turned double back sum-
mersaults and struck on their ears.
Anywav pa did and Xht gun must
havo been cocked or it struck the
hammer on a stone for it wont oil" and
it was pointed towards the house and
three of tho visitors got salted. The
minister was hit the worst one pieco of
salt taking him in the hind leg and tho
other in tho back and ho yelled as
though it was dynamite. I suppose
when you shoot a man with salt it
smarts liko when you get corned beef
brine on your chapped hands. They
all yelled and pa seemed to havo been
knocked silly someway for he pranced
around and seemed to think ho had
killed them. Ho swore sit the wire
clothes line and then I missed pa and
heard a splash like when you throw a
cat in tl3 river and then I thought of
tho cistern and I went down and we
took pa by the collar and pulled him
out. () he was awful damp. No sir
it was no duel at all but a naxident
and I didn't have anything to do with
it. The gun wasn't loaded to kill and
tho salt only went through the skin
but those men did yell. Maybe it was
my chum that stirred up the chickens
but I don't know lie has not com-
menced to load a different lifo yet and
ho might think it would mako our folks
sick if nothing occurred to make them
pa' attention. I think where a family
has been having a good deal of exer-
cise the way ours has it hurts them to
break off too suddenly. But tho visi-
tors went home real quick after we
got pa out of the cistern and tho min-
ister told ma ho always felt when he
was in our house as thougn he was on
the verge of a yawning cratei ready
to bo engulfed any minute and he
guessed ho wouldn't come any more.
Pa changed his clothes and told ma to
have them wire clothes lines changed
for rope ones. 1 think it is hard to
suit pa don't you?"
O your pa is all right. What he
needs is rest. But why are you not
working at the livery stable? You
haven'c been discharged havo you?"
And tiie groceryman laid a little lump
of concentrated lye that looked like
maple sugar on a cake of sugar that
hail boon broken knowing the boy
would nibble it.
"No sir I was not discharged but
when a livery man lends me a kicking
horse to take my girl out riding that
settles it. I asked tho boss if I couldn't
havo a quiet horse that would drive
hisself if I wound the lines around the
whip and ho let mo have one ho said
would go all day without driving. You
know now it is when a fellow takes a
girl out riding ho don't want his mind
occupied holding linos. Well J got my
girl in and wo wont out on the White-
fish Bay road and it was jui?t beforo
dark and wo rode along undor the
trees and I wound the lines around
the whip and put one arm around my
girl and patted her under tho chin
with my othor hand and her mouth
looked so good and her blue eyes
looked up at mo and twinkled as much
as to daro mo to kiss hor and 1 was
all of a tremble and then my hand
wandorod around by her oar audi drew
her head up to mo and gavo her a
smack. Sav that was no kind of a
horso to givo to a 3'oung fellow to take
a girl out riding. Just as T smacked
her I felt as 'though tho buggy had
been struck with a pile driver and whon
I lookod at tho horse ho was running
away and kicking tho buggy and the
lines woro dragging on tho ground.
I was scared 1 tell you. 1 wanted to
jump out but my girl throw hor arms
around my nock and screamed and
said wo would dio togother and just
as wo woro going to dio tho buggy
struck a fonco and tho horso broke
loose and went oil' leaving us in the
buggy tumbled down by the dash
board but wo were not hurt. The old
horso stopped and went to ehewinjr
grass and ho looked up at me as though
he wanted to say 'philopeno. l tried
to catch him but he wouldn't catch
and then we waited till daik and walk-
ed homo and I told the livery man
what 1 thought of such treatment and
he said if I had attended to my driving
and not kissed the gill 1 would have
been all right. lie said 1 ought to have
told him 1 wanted ahorse that wouldn't
shy at kissing but how did 1
know 1 was going to get up courage to
kiss her. A livery man ought to take
it for granted th it when a young fel-
low goes out with a girl he is going to
kiss her and givo a horse according.
But 1 quit him at once. I won't won
for a man that hasn't got souse. Gosh!
What kind of maple sugar is that? Je-
rusalem whew givo mo somo water.
0 my it is taking the skin off my
mouth."
Tho grocery man got him somo
water and seemed sorry that the
boy had taken tho lump of concen-
trated lie by mistake and when the
boy wont out tho grocery man pound-
ed his hands on his knees and laughed
and presently he went out in front of
the store and found asign "Fresh Let is
been nicked more'n a week tuffer'n
tripe.
Our Mexican Nolyhbors.
Di'inorest's Monthly for June.
Tho several railroad lines which arc
now being constructed in Mexico to
connect with our southwestern trans-
portation sstem will effect great
changes no"t only in that country but
in its relations to the United States.
Local rebellions and brigandage can-
not exist in a courtry with a great rail-
way system and the backward civiliza-
tion of Mexico in the past has been due
to the insecurity of life and property
because of the impotence of the central
government to suppress rebellions in
the distant provinces and put an end
to the robbers and bandits who make
travel unsafe. Tho accession of Presi-
dent Diaz to povor marked the begin-
ning of a new era in Mexico. True lie
overthrew the previous government by
force but he goverened well and wise-
ly and the executive who succeeded
him again weilds authority with his
support. Diaz it is understood will
again bo President when the executive
now in power retires. For obvious
reasons the Mexicans have been
suspicious of our goverment and
have extended special trade favors to
England France and Germany which
they have heretofore witheld for us. Re-
cently however a new treaty has been
negotiated but is not yet indorsed by
our senate. Before its ratification the
real ruler of Mexico ex-President Diaz
has paid us a visit. lie has traveled
through all parts of our country and
has been received with great consider-
ation by our leading citizens. lie evi-
dently realizes that tho time has come
when a better feeling should exist be-
tween tho two nations. While it is
probably tho destiny of Mexico event-
ually to fall into the possession of the
United States the thinking portion of
our people do not care at present to ex-
tend our boundary much farther to the
south. Sonora am1 Chihuahua the
northern states of Mexico would doub-
loss bo valuable acquisitions as they
comprise amouintainous region full of
gold silver and copper mines of great
potential value. But tho mongrel race
which inhabits tho greater part of Mex-
ico would not make desirable American
citizens nor havo they yet proved them-
selves suited to a republican form of
government. The only annexation
that would be popular with all classes
and to which thero will bo no opposi-
tion would bo that of tho Dominion of
Canada for tho people of our own race
and have been trained to forms of gov-
ernment similar to our own.
l'on-iuul-Ink Fill rJotimn.
John Walsh In Cincinnati News .Jmunul.
I would invoke tho thunders of
heaven drag down the lightning from
the clouds and hurl them with all tho
destructive fury of an enraged Jupiter
at graceless and accursed England.
Sooner than seo Ireland another year
dragging hor chains boforc tho world
had I tho lovor of Archimedes T would
mako Ireland tho fulcrum to lift Eng-
land bottom upward and immerse her
for twenty-four hours in tho sea.
True mid Ktilrtu JouriiuliHin.
New York World.
The Brooklyn Eagle alluding to tho
change in the proprietorship of Tho
World comments on the mistaken idea
of supposing that becauso a man has
plenty of money he can successfully
conduct a newspaper. "Capitalists
might purchase every existing news-
paper in the country to-day" says the
Eagle and to-morrow a trained jour-
nalist with a good conscience; fair
ability and credit for a hand-press and
a few reams of paper would arise to
speak for the public and would destroy
all the capital put into the organs."
This is true. The people arc quick
to discover when a newspaper is de-
signed to promote other interests than
their own. They may read such a pa-
per but they will not bo guided or in-
lluenced by its opinions and they will
mistrust its motives even when it is
sincere.
A newspaper to wield power must
bo made lor all rather than one man
for the whole people. It must carry to
the minds of its readers the conviction
that it is earnestly the friend of popu-
lar rights and not tho champion of in-
dividual schemes.
Men who havo special enterprises to
promote make a mistake when they se-
cure the control of newspapers for that
purpose. The moment their hand is
recognized the weapon it holds becomes
harmless.
The people are the capital of an hon-
est newspaper. It is their friend and
they givo it its success. Money en-
ables a trained journalist to add
strength and interest to his paper and
to make it more deserving of popular
support. But all the money in the
world will not as the Eagle says give
inlluence power and success to a news-
paper that speaks for special interests
and not for the public good.
Slio Wouldn't bo a Nun.
Demorc-t's Monthly for .Juno.
A young lady in Montreal entered a
convent in that city but she soon tired
of the monotony and pettiness of the
dull lifo she was leading. She now
wishes to be released from her vows
but tho church refuses and under con-
vent laws she will be oxcommunicated
if she enters the world again without a
dispensation from the pope. This is
really a matter in which the civil law
should inteifere. In a period of des-
pondency and physical weakness such
as frequently occurs in the lives of
young women they arc peculiarly
susceptible to abnormal religious in-
lluences. At such times they enter
convents a step they soon after veiy
bitterly regret. They have become
without any crime prisoners for life.
There should be a commission in every
state to make annual visitations of all
nunneries so as to see that no woman
is kept in bondage who desires to live
in the world in which she was born.
Nothing is so cruel as a life-long im-
prisonment in a cheerless nunnery
shut out from the love and sympathy
oi ones leiiow-beings. jmo doubt many
nuns find a relief from the monotony
of their life in charitable and religious
work; but all women shut out from tho
ties of home and doomed to live with-
out husband or children must suffer
from their unnatural isolation and the
community should see to it that if they
should wish to unshackle their bonds
they should be allowed to go free.
SoiiHUtioiuil .Journal inn;.
Tl'XIlb Mfnilf-'B.
A Houston paper referring to tho
death of a lady says she was overtaken
Ly a fatal attack that ended in death.
That a fatal attack should ever end in
death seems so wildly improbable that
tho matter requires investigation. If
however it should be shown that tho
fatal attack really did end in death
then we arc prepared to believe an al-
most incredible statement in a San
Antonio paper that there were poor
starving and indigent paupers in that
city who needed food. It startles oven
the most caroless to read that in this
ago and country there are not only
paupers but that theso paupers are
poor. Not only that but wo are
called on to credit tho statement that
the poor paupers are in indigent cir-
cumstances. This is as far as our
credulity will permit us to go. Tho
final assertion that theso poor indigent
and starving paupers need food tran-
scends tho bounds of tho most extrava-
gant sensationalism. If journals of
standing continue to mako such reek-
loss assertions sooner or later tho read-
ing public will loso confidence in them.
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Maffet, Geo. W. Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 18, Ed. 1, Sunday, June 10, 1883, newspaper, June 10, 1883; Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency, Darlington, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc70561/m1/2/?q=wichita+falls: accessed June 20, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.