i HE WAS A COACHMAN VET.
Once oa a time thtrf wore two men.
AmbltlOUl Dick nJ tta uKhtlass Hw,
ju.d both drove coaetus for a boss
And .i-yid together .Itch axd MM)
Around th Ik-en- otnhle thry
fpnt many A rough I ' h.iipy day:
Tt.ty lauishs t uni another"! joke
And or. cluy ','.! had chummy smokes.
At last Pn-k left and Ben remained.
And after ynrs had Waxed and waned
J'here to the !abl mine u man
To blrs a bandnume coach und iras.
Hen was the driver. ir'. the same.
Tough, rouich and naJy as bin name;
The gentleman, well dressed, and prottd.
Was eed With awe by ail the crowd.
Bat something Ie his fiico or tone
Appealed lo Drive? Ben alone;
He'd s.n the gentleman before
put where and wheal Ha watched Bin
moro.
Alor.it they rode, B thinking who
Could be that Stylish "gent" he kr.ew;
Then came a flash of m rr.orr quick
"Why, bless my heart he's my old Pick."
With hand held out nnd beaming eyee.
Bet turned around In glad mr prise;
Why. Dick I Hid chum' TMh It a Joy
I'm glad to see you. fhake, old 1 I"
The gentloman Per coldly eyed!
Ills kid gloved hand Hayed at his side.
'Why. ruck! I'm Ben Ben Hick. vrm
know
Tour coaching pari tier Long ago."
Til pom'tier ieemed no! to ihere
Ben's pleasure at th meeting thi re;
"Bxcuae me, Mr. Hick," said he,
"But please clrlve on. Tou t stopr. I
e."
"Why, Pick! Don't you remember when
We both were coachmen," answered Hen
"Yes," said the mar,, "but you forget
My frknd, that you're a ouchnian yL"
This little tnle may show young eyea,
How with ambition men may r'.ss.
Put, all ike eame, we tiblnk Hen Hick
Was more n gentleman thai: Pick.
A men toe proud to condescend
To greet r. old but numote menu.
Mat have sr.nu- brains. Innoath
hi h
But he's a snob for u.11 of that.
H. '. IW.ge. In Chicago Ihilly Ban.
jktWh ilfiiYhifllf"""
i East-Sido Tbonpsto'i Petition
ip Tly Margu rite Stabler.
-Af-a.f -oj- -th- -Ttrfy
JT was not u pretty story; It wan more.
It was fraught with that prlmi
ve niggednesa one gets on Impres
sion of along with cutting prairie
winds, bucking broncoa, the craok of
u revolver, the whir of a bullet.
The fellow! name was Thompson,
and he could handle abunoh of steers
with the best of them, but there was
afi air of metroiolitanlam about him
Lat assorted 111 with his surroundings.
And although he drank harder, swore
better, snd went t ougher thau any man
dt them, he had neer been able to live
down his nickname of "East-Side"
Thompar x Under the Influence of roll
ing prairies, the boundless sweep of
(flood and uky, m Intimacy with the
elements, and rerlanoe upon nothing
but his own wit and courage, ft nun
grows to be a strong aagaeloh
creature, so different from OnT cir
cumscribed Ideas of a mnn that, for
want of a better term, we call him a
"cow-puncher."
The Three-X outfit of cow-punchera
hud been on the trail more than a
month, and, according to all preoedYnt
jnd reason, the rains should have set
in weeks before, but they held not. The
ga-nss thnt had sprung up w ith the first
.wrly showers had seared and died be- ;
fore the next rain came to keep it
alive. The shallow, sluggish little
streams of brackish water that crawled
along the Ixittom of their beds, which
the year before had been swollen be
yond their banks, finally gave out Ut
terly, In every direction the white
alkali plain glistened away to the
meeting line of the sky in an inflnltnds
of Isolation. The oldest Inhabitant In
idl the country round could not recall
B winter that equaled this In dry
ness. How lelt Nevada w as then a new stwte
anel the population migratory. Wil
son, the boss of the outfit, had hoped
to get out of the sagebrush country
and strike the California line some
where ubove Bodie by the end of the
first month out, but there was no rain,
iifl water, and the plains lay in open
cfacka. Day after day the sun nroas,
smiled down upon the parched little
bunch of men and cattle 14 long hours
as he sailed across a cloudless sky, se
renely unconscious of the maledictions
hurled agnlnst him, while the bare,
hrjrnlng prairie stored back In un
blinking deflanc-A, There were gor
geous stlnsets every evening moments
when the great fiery laH seemed almost
to stand stfTl to give a long backward
gtanee before dropping out of sight,
nnd with a Midas touch turn nil the
world to molten gold. Hut to the
played-out cow-puncher sunset means
nothing but bedtime bedtime after a
hard, parched, hopeless day. There
were clear, chaste moonlight nights
of wondrous radiance, too, but the
rfloon was seen only In the early morn
ing, when they rose to another day,
more hard, more parched, more heipe
lcss. The cattle mere anatomical
charts by this time went staggering
about In crazy circles, too wenk to
need watching, the three Xs on their
flanks reduced to half the original BUtC
by the shriveling of the hide, or fell
heavily to the earth to rise again, after
tunny seasons of sun and shower, ns
prairie flowers and salt grnss. Their
bellowing w-ns reduced to a moan u!
most human in Its misery, for the one
voice common to all created things,
animal or human, Is the voice of suffer
ing. The Mlssourlnn, a great, hulking
young fellow, Wns first of the men to
show signs of weakening. Thnt is th
most terrible moment In all like experi
ences, when the men who have held on
grimly nnd endured together sec one
of their number losing his grip. This
hnd been nn ill-assorted outfit when
They started out with tho cattle ncross
the plains, but standing together,
shoulder to shoulckr, defying death
against fearfid odds knlls a man deey-
It Into the life of his fellow. Among
three men there was no spoken sym
pathy, no overt ntt of kindness, but
in their very i5tiUenness was that frriin
meet of all iacrlflces, eneh man en
durin(f in stole silence in order that he
might not intrude his own suffering
upon his already overcrowded neigh
bor. The clinching of the lips to sup
press a KTonn when one ia thirst -wnd-dened
may require more heroism than
facing n cannon with flair flying and
drums beating, Inasmuch as "he that
ruleth his own spirit is greater than
he thrt taketh u city."
At last one dny the Mtssourian pav
out utterly. lie whs not of the cow
boy build in the first place, but Ids
splendid horsemanship and enthusiasm
had induced Wilson, the boss, or
"Yankee Hill," as he 'was called, to take
him on. In hta delirium he lay and
cried for water, day ami night. He
blubbered and begged for water, nnd
called upon the names of those he had
known in his childhood. Every man
went about his own business, which
was largely the formulating of fervent
and eloquent onths anent the heat,
the drought nnd the delay: nnd ap
parently no one heard his cries. Wnter
was the one thing he wanted, and the
one thing he could not get. so. after
they hud put hta boots under his head
tj make hltn comfortable, they let him
hIoiio. I'nder ordinary cireumtanoe
a Mlssourian more or less wns of no
greut consequence to Trinket' Bill,
but this break in the rnnks shattered
the Inst vestige of hope'. Whatever
may have been done after that In the
effort to keep up their spirits wag mere
bravado, for each mnn foresaw tT
end.
The Missonrinn hnd been a qnlet
eor. In the camp, and no one hail ever
heard him talk much, but
now he !
talked Incessantly In the soft, thick
drawl of the south. And always of
home scene,, the memories of boyhood
that whetted the edge of their tor
ture till it was beyond all endnrlng.
Sow he was fishing along some stream
and swearing' in round terms at some
"fat-headed nigger" for searing the
flsfci now he was In school struggling
with some problem he could never
solve lieyosd "carry seven." Alwayi
eohermt enough to call up memories)
In their own minds of s youth, mil
spent for the most part. They could
not move farthor away becauee they
were camped under the only shade In
eight. They thought of dragging him
off beyond ear -shot, but while every
one would ha-re been glad to have It
done, no man could do It himself. Their
horny hands had grown gentle In their
mtnlaterfng touchoa.
Sseape wns long since out of the
question, for the horses were worse off
than the tnenj not one of them could
aarry a saddle, much lees a rider. Each
man had saved! a Tast charge In hla
revolve, knowing that that perhaps
Would be thefr only deliverance fro si
ft death too horrible to nam. All but
"Jast-Slrla," who, when a decision had
fb he mane between himself and hla
ftorsa, had led her out behind a little
nocHrity and put his Inst eharge
through her game little heart. Now
he must make his eH In some other
way, if he? would let hla dlsemlsodled
spirit pnss on unincumbered by n sun
pnrehed frame. The knife he carried
In hta boot was a miserable hack of
a thing, fit only for sharing tohacem
or chunking baoon, lie felt u momen
tiirv reirret a he ran his flnirera alone
iu jap edges that B man with his
rp.or,i should be dblhred to make hla
end with so mean a weapon. The big
Swede In a moment of madness hnd
raised his pistol as If It hnd been a
ug, saying: "Wul, boys, here's to a
wetter country I" Hut he had not shot.
The oold Iron seemed to cool the rnh
nesi of his brnln, nnd the mirage erf
hope lured them of t day farther.
After the? second day the Mlssoiri
sn'e talk begnn td grow less, his rav
ing subsided Into a weak, Incoherent
babbling; at last It ceased altogether,
and he lay staring wlde-eyexl into the
relentless sky. As they had done
every thing ele, they did this silently,
stoically. A shallow bid was scoox-d
out anel tlie canvas taken off the
wagon for a winding sheet. When
tho broken circle closed In i .round
the open grave, the Ixrne cleared hi
throat and said: "Hoys, before we go
any farther, some one must make a
prayer, sale?"
They sabed, but although every
mnn s soul might be consumed wltn a
voiceless cry to some power above
himself for the repose of the departed
soul, and release from a Mke fate,
they were all dumb when confronted
by the thought of taking the name of
God reverently. Instinctively they
turned to "East-Ride. "
"It's your lend, 'Enst-Sids,' " they
said. And "Bast-Side," groping blind
ly bnckwarel toward the memories of
his youth, tried to recall something
of religious import Slowly through
his desiccated brain percolated a line
from a church hymn: "Greenland's
ley Mountains," but, although the
thought was pleasant in this burning
desert, the words were not to the
point besides, thnt was nil ho kiiew
of It. Ho shook his head sorrowfully.
"In the beginning" he thought he
had struck tho right lead there "In
the beginning, Oeid created " Iut
ngnln he was stuck and coukl go no
further.
"Lend up, 'East-Side!'" they urged.
Then the light broke. The backward
groping had brought him down to
the days of tiis childhood, to the
words his grandfather had been wont
to say. as with bowed heads the fam
ily, to the third and fourth genera
tion, was gathered ground Ills table
on Thanksgiving dny. Po, under the
burning sun, whose only shadow was
cast by the flocks of carrion birds
that circled above the remrrant of the
outfits they stood over the grave of
their dead companion, wnittng for a
like fate. or death by their own hands,
to be torn by soyotes perhaps be
fore the brcnth was out of. their
bodies, tho six gaunt men with
bowed, uncovered heads, while "East
Side" pronounced in solemn tones:
"Oh, Lord, for what we are about
to receive make ns devoutly thankful.
Amen."
A prayer was a prayer to "East
Side." Anything that began with
"Lord" in reverent terms and ended
with "amen" was a prayer. Ills
grandfather hnd been a godly man,
and he had Bald It, therefore it wan
appropriate on this ooeaaion. The
effect won the SHmo upon the others,
for the words smacked of the phrase
ology of the wandering exhortern
they had heard.
After the passing of the Mlssourlnn
there was even less to do; tho men
were more taciturn with each other,
but there was noticeably less pro
fanity among them, possibly because
jealously and the exertion was un
necessary, or beCSUS" their mouths
were too dry to articulate, many
words. It wns now six weeks since
they had act out across the "sink,"
expecting to get the cattle off their
hands and have a little "time" in the
city before starting back to the camp,
bat the wlld-yed, sorry-looking
things seemed unpromising enough
now eun for s glue factory.
As "East-Pide" lay on the ground
looking up through the holes In his
hat they stood upright and walked
no more than wns absolutely neces
sary, for that required an expendi
ture of strength lazily watching the
(locks of birds that swooped nnd
psised In the nlr above him. he dis
covered or thought he did. that they
enst a shadow ngninst the sky a tiny
gray shadow that he watched for the
utter lack of anything else to watch,
When tho birds flew lower, the shadow
neemed to grow larger and darker.
With a wild whoop he sprung to his
feet, forgetting the value of harlor
ing his strength ns he grasped tlie
import of that shadow. It wan a
cloud! Every man sprang up at that
tiny speck and went to work with
white fnce and unsteady hands. The
speck grew larger and the men
worked harder; every hole or trough
that led to the hnsin was cleared for
action so that not one precious drop
might be lost. Their words were few
but kindly se they scraped away,
with one eye on tho ground nnd the
other on the cloud slowly but unmis
takably growing larger and coming
their way.
' Duringthe night those sun-scorched
dreamers dreamed of moist winds,
and rain drops pattering gently until
they made a soaking downpour. But
they had often dreamed that dreamed
it when their parched tongues hung
out of their mouths and cracked for
dryness. By this time they had grown
wary; even In their sleep they were
on their guard end not to be beguiled
Into believing.
When a last in the early morning
the rain did came, with the first put
tering drops every man forgot every
thing In the world but the all-consuming
passion to slake his burning
thirst; until their bats had caught
enough to drain, they sucked their
shirt sleeves Then, becnuse his own
need ftr that last charge wns no long
er Imperative, the outfit boss drew a
bead on the likeliest animal In the
herd, and they feasted royally. Joy
ously, uproariously on steak snd wa
ter. And in the exuberance of their
glee no one noticed that for con
venience' they had chosen the mound
that covered the Mlssourlnn for their
table.
After the fn1 every man lay down
In his trench, which wns now filled
with water, nnd soaked, sonked
through to the marrow, rousing him
self only to drain his hat, then fall
ing back nnd soaking more. And
when, after 24 hours of soaking, they
got up out of their trenches each water-logged
man was a firm believer in
the efficacy of prayer. Kan Francisco
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