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THE WAIF OF DEAD WOOD. |
l£ow .“The Pride of tbe Family” |
Came to the Black Hill**,
ilis Untimely DeaJk.
The proprietors of a sa
lon in Deadwoud, and their industri
ous visitors also, were for a moment di
verted from the contemplation of sun
dry piles of ‘ chips" and some other
matters pertaining to gambliug, by ttie
appearadee of a small boy in they,
midst, an uncommon boir
too, common boy would
have gone of his own accord into the
Minerva saloon.
“Acting chap, where did you come
from, and who are you, anyhow ?”
“My name's Jim, and I cum up(here
from Cheyenue to make stamps like
all the rest. Don’t you want a boy here,
boss ?" v
“A boy ! Major, do you hear that ?
The boy wants a place here. Jim’s bis
name, he says."
“Yes, and I reckon we’d best take
him, too ; only what’ll we do with him?
that’s what I don’t know. Jim, where’s
your folks?"
“Dun no —home, I spect."
“And where’s that?”
“I don’t like to 5 tell you that; acd
you don’t know ’em —my folks—so
what’s the dse in 1011111’ all about ’em,
eh V*
, “That boy is sharp, Major, sharp!
And you want a place here, boy, do
you ?"
“Yes, bo s; I’m lookin’ For a place.
I can shine boots, and do ’most any
thin'" I never cusses and swears but
I like to smoke cigar butts aud whole
oues, too."
“Shine, can you ? Now 1 ct’s see how
you can shina before we hire you for
Eteady work."
Aud Major Showers left tho “look
out" seat at the faro game to test the
capacity of tho small boy who wished
for a place. Major Showers was a gam
bler — a faro dealer; and his partner,
“Doc" Puffer, had.earned the curses,
because he had been the ruin of more
than one poor fellow.
This boy, Jim, was certainly the on
ly small boy without an owner in Dead
wood. It was a wonder how such a
little waif came away here in the Black
Hills. His own statement of it was
perhaps as good as any.
“1 jeot kept a cornin’ till I got here,
boss; that’s the way it was.”
And that shine of yours, Jim, ain’t
;juite up to what we’re used to here ;
but improve. You see,
wo care what it costs, but we must
liav% tl best."
That was the only bargain ever made
with the boy but he became presently,
and curiously, too, part and narcel of
tho establishment. Like a rare paint
ing or a cariosity, tue lad became an
attraction. His quaint, old-manish
ways and sayings caused many a rough
customer, and those better bred, too, to
stop and wonder at the boy.
“Whoso little cuss is he, Doc ask
ed Joe Buuee, a Dead wood terror, as he
watched the boy till he wholly forgot
aud neglected bis faro chips.
“Mine and Major’s."
“Young fellow, what’s your name ?"
“Jim."
“Jim what ? out with it, quick,
or
“Jim —I don’t like to tell, so I don’t,
mamma wouldn’t like mo to tell
n6ither. She said how 1 was going to
be the pride of the family some day, if
1 was a good fcoy. Oh, I wish I
could jest sec my mamma, jest oust. —
O—oh
And a torrent of tears told the ear
nest love of the lad for his far away
mother. Other eyes, total strangers to
isuch sensations, were puzzled at the ef**
■feet of-the boy’s tears.
“L'efc the little chap alone, Joe!
You’ve made him cry —and I won’t
haye it,” said Doc, sharply.
I “I didn’t go to hurt his feelin’s, Doc;
I only wanted to call the little cuss by
his full name.”
The desperado was actually trying to
soothe and caress the lad.
“Then call hiur Jim Pride, if you
want to —aud let him alone.”
And so he was called Jim Pride af
ter that. Avery nice boy in his ways,
he remained too, in spite of the fearful
'Ufa around him. And those gamblers
of the Minerva saloon were presently
S3 watchful and jealous of the welfare
aud good morals of their boy as a lover
would be of his mistress.
“The boy don’t know anything bad,
and he ain’t agoing to learn it from
you,” was the quietus Doc and his re
volver put upon the wickedness of more
(than one too talkative desperado.
“Why don’t you setup a Sunday
school lot the boys here? Vv T hen me
and little Jiui here takes a hand you’ll
have to call in the checks and close the
game, eh, Doc ?”
From no greater cause than this ban
tor of Joe Bunce, with the laugh of
others arouud the gaming table, came
uot words, and then the inevitable re
volvers. There was in a moment curs
ing, shooting, yells, anu the terrfio ups
ratof a frontier bar-room fight. Fi
nally the noise ceased and the crowd
came slowly together aguin. The faro
dealer, took hig seat again
“Nobody hurt, gentlemen. Now wo’ll
go on again with the game.”
it was then that somebody pointed to
a corner. A little bunch of clothes lay
there behind a ehair.
‘ Oh, God!” said the dealer, spring
ing, uy aud throwing away his bos and
e .rd-. “It’s our httle boy, Jim. Dead!
yes, dead ! and I wish it was me ! I
wish it was me and not him I”
The next day Dead wood had a funer
al—a very sad one! There was a small
rough coffin into which the entire pop
ulation of the town gazed earnestly and
tearfully. Many rough and some cruel
bauds suddenly became strangely ten°
dor and wished to help bear away that
coffin.
No one knew the boy’s real name;'
but there is a marb'o slab at his grave
vVasita tender chord in the gam„
bier’s heart that prompted this inscripi
tion ?” *
“Under this bit of turf, under this for-,
est tree,
Waiting for God Jo caT, lies the piide
of the family.”
Slow Evarts ltu:is His Farm.
It is not strange that Mr. Evarts
doesn’t make money off his farm. Hor
ace Greeley and 11. W. Beecher failed
because they were not conteut to let
their workmen run the farm, but must
needs put their own absurd ideas in
practice. Mr. Evarts fails because his
manager is unable to understand him,
and gets confused as soon as Mr. Ev<-
arts makes his appearance and begins
to talk. Last year, for instance, Mr.
Evarts said to his manager, the very
first morning af the summer vacation ;
“Patsey, it becomes necessary, in
view o f ' the superabundance of foreign
and deleterious elements among those
green and waving uprights, to place
the charger in front of the utonsil with
the branching and numerous support
ers, and have the latter agitate the sur
face of the naturally productive soil."
Patsoy said, “Surr ?”
“The astounding density of various
species of the human head," continued
Mr. Evarts, after a start of vexation,
succeeded by a period of profound
thought, “it is something, I am free to
confess, much beyond my comprehen
sion. I have combated Lucy Stone
singly aud alone for threo successive
hours ; I have even communed with the
stolid and peculiarly happy idiocy of
Gideon Welles ; but I never saw the
like of this. It is worse than the jury
in the Beecher trial. Isy the ghost of
William fell, the man’s a horse !"
“Is it a horse you want, sur ?" suit;
Patsey, a happy light dawning upon
him.
“The exact purpose of the creation
of such beings," pursued Mr. Evarts,
heedless of the interruption, “is a some
thing which will, perhaps, be revealec
at sometime in the far distant future.
I should like to trace the theory of
Darwin in this creature. I should like
to compare him with the lower species,
if, happily, there are any lower; I wish
I had an orangoutang here.”
“We haven’t one on the farrum, sir,”
said Patsey, with some haste. “They—
they was sold by mistake, sur, last win
ter, along wid do petatys."
“Cease, barbarian I" said Mr. Ev
arts with towering scorn, evidently pro
voked beyond endurance. “Upon my
soul, you have as little knowledge of
farm work as the Hon. Benjamin But
ler has of politics."
Mr. Evarts rushed wildly into the
house.
“I think," said Patsey, after wasting
another precious half hour in profound
thought, “I think Musther Evarts
wants me to harness the oxin to the
carriage and put the colts to the Ibay
wagon."
And a!! in the world that Mr. Evarts
wautea was that Patsey should cultivate
the oorn.
Nine Raps.
A prominent seeker after the truths
of spiritualism, from San Joes, happen
ed to be in town last Monday, and to
stay one night at a hotel which shall
be nameless, says a late number of the
San Francisco Hotel Gazette. It was
the gentleman’s belief that wherever he
went, sooner or later, ho would receive
some communication, so he was not a
bit surprised that before the night was
over he should be awakened by hear
ing a gentle rapping somewhere in the
room. Ho aat up in bed sleepy, yet
satisfied, and asked—
“ Who’s there ?"
There was no answer, and the queer
noise stopped.
“Anybody there ?" he asked again.
No answer.
“It must have been a spirit,” he said
to himself. “I must be a medium. I
will try. (Aloud) If thero’s a spirit
in the room, it will signify the same by
saying ‘aye’—no, that’s not what I
mean. If there’s a spirit in the room it
will please rap three times."
Sure enough, three very distinct raps
wore given in the direction of the bu
reau. I
“Is it the spirit of my sister ?”
No answer.
“Is it the spirt of my mother ?”
Three raps.
“Ar 6 you happy?”
Niue raps.
“Do you want anything?”
A succession of very loud raps.
“Will you give me any oommunica*'
tions if I get up ?”
No answer.
“Shall I hear from you to.morrow ?”
Raps very loud in the direction of
the door.
“Shall I ever see you ?”
Then the raps came from outside the
door. He waited a little while longer,
but no answer came, so thinking the
spirit had evidently gone, he turned
over, congratulating himself on his new
found mediumship, and went to sleep.
On getting up in the morning, he
found that the spirit of his mother had
carried off his watch aud purse, his
trowsers r.nd great coat.
What Shs Ashed Tciuiny.
He was nam and Thomas and she was
named Jane. They sat on a hotel baL
cony yesterday for three long hours and
giving themselves dead away as being
out of towners. Ah they sat down
Thomas took one ot Jane’s bauds. She
al!owed that sort of thing to go on
without a word of protest, and the flax
eu-haired youth finally seized the other
one. They talked and talked, and look
ed down upon the street, and sighed,
and the hours slipped away. At the
end of the third hour she said :
“Tommy, dearest, I want to ask you
something.”
“Ask me a hundred—a thousand—
a million things !” he exclaimed m re
ply.
“Well, Tommy, I’ve got an awful
cold in my head,” she continued, “and
if I drew one of my hands away and
wiped my nose would you think 1 was
mad ? I’ve either got to do that, Tom
my, or let my nose wipe itself. Just one
wipe, Tommy, and then you may have
it back.”
Tommy released her hand, though he
hated to, and her nose was softly and
duly wiped.
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