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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1904)
- - - 0- - - - - - THE K.NIGHT OF THE GOLDEN HAIR The sun rolled UI from on east or red , 'rho worlll was fresh and fair , when summoned loud from his truckle bed The Knight or the Golden Hair. They garbled him stout In lids doubled worll. They laced his scorlot spoon And forth ho strode In the dimpling morn And called for hIs trusty spoon. 4 . _ - _ - _ - _ - _ _ HIs trencher ho scraped In minutes ten 4 . . . _ _ _ _ _ _ . " "M M ' ' ' - - - - - ( 1'W08 a bowl or mush , I \\'IS. But faith and forsooth , the best or mon have flourished on fare like this , Then away . away , for he could not stay ; Oood-hy to the breakfast board ; A thousand ventures abroad by day Were waiting his knightly IIwor1. Ho vanquished many a wily foe , , . And hacked him limb from limb ( ; Ahl tiger ! and lion ho laId full low In the depths or the woodshed grIm. . In nil the waste or the yard was naught ' . He did not bravely dare ; Dragons nllli giants and trolls he sOllsht' , i 'rhls Knight or the Oolllon lIah' i At last when the West with pink was soft And till sun rode high no more , He captive fell to a spell ho oft Had battled In vnlll bofore. Assailed by 1\ host or drowsy charms lie ylellled to magic deep . AIIII locked secure In his motllm"s arm , Was seized by the wizard SIt-lip. -Edwin L Sabin In "oman's home Companion _ y " " " -i _ M 'W V V .IVYIYIV./4 - - - . y\ LVC O fr , , . , .Z . J \ ION II. i i \ \ . \ , ' ' " Sf l'UR17U HvZLOC// \ , , , \ \ \ ( , \ . _ IWlllAJY.5 I I - . .1' " ' - . - . _ ' " 0. . . _ _ _ ' _ J1 -y , - - - - . . . . . . - - . 7 . . . . , . _ , .r , _ . Copyright 1901 , by Dally The circus tent was patched and yellow , barely big enough for ono ring , with n disreputable fly for the haIr dozen cages which blade up the menagerie , yet everybody felt the cir cols itself n providence , coming , as it . did , just the reels that the quarrel betwixt the Deans and the Hounslo got near the shooting pitch. Clingstone , the social center of nIl Brush Creek , lay where the big road crossed the river , which was navi . gable six months of the year. Other months Drusll Creek depended upon the mall.rider for it3 news and upon itself for its tllversions. Naturally the diversions mn through a sliding scale from fighting to courUng. Since the IJonn.lIounsley affair embraced both , it divided Brush Creek folk into two opposing and well-matched I I a d " - j1 rancor"O. . , , \ IIII II ; , . . . t' . , . - h R\L E I { " E vVItSO ' "Jump-but don't holler when ybu hear the lion roar. " camps. One said old Squire Jack } Kounsle ought to get down on his knees ] und give special thanks that a stirring fellow such CIS Dud Bean Wt1' , well known to he , wanted to take his daughter Dee oft his hands , add. ing with something of asperity , that for its own part , it didn't know what Dud saw in her-ho certainly would . . . got the worst of the hurgain. To this the other retorted with equal rancor i : -"O. - - , " " - Story Publishing ComDan that If Bud was stirring , all the other Beans since the year one had been nobodies , so it was pretty certain his industry couldn't Inst-Squiro Jack HOllnsle was merely proving himself the wise and far-sighted man they had always taken him to bo , in refusing to let Dee-short for Belindn-aven speak any more to Dud. That was the talk , understand , in corn-planting time. By August , the circus season , it was very much 3harp. or and more sulphurous Kind people , I after- their habit , had carried things back anti forth between . the high con tending parties , until Squire Jack was ready to foam at the mouth it : you said Dean in his hearing , and Bud swallowed hard , and looked intently over your : head if you so much as mentioned that Squire Jack had traded Horses again. The circus came to Clingstone . That meant the coming in of everybody else within 11 radius of twenty miles Clingstone housewives began cooldng the day after the bllls were put up , and when the day itself came , had their tables set at eleven o'clock - Squire Jack brought in every soul on -tho place , all packed in the two horse wagon , along with a sack of meal , an other sacks of cabbage , potatoes and apples. The sacks were ali for his sister Jenny , at whose house he would leave his women foIls tQ gossip and get dinner , while he himself kept l a sharp lookout for that pestilent llud Dean. Squire Jack meant to get there so long ahead of Dud that Dud would have no chance to find out Beo's whereabouts It nettled him not a little that as ho came to the ford the ferryman said , grinning : "My soul , Squire Jack ! Looks like your a-chas. In' Bud Dean. Ho's jest about two minutes ahead. ' Bee , who was pale and pretty , with dreamy meek blue eye , smiled hopefull ' -it was a good omen , Dud's getting thus ahead of Pap. He had sent her a message the night before , mysterious as it was laconic , "Jump-but don't holler when you hear the lion roar , " it ran Dee did not in the least understand It- but then it was not for her to u:1der. stand things-she meant always to leave that to Dud. sun she could not help speculating on it , when she was safe in her : eat inside the tent. and had. seen Bud 1:1) past twice or three times without co much as looking her way. Somehow ho seemed to bo chumming mightily with the circus tol1t-hQ went in and out at pleasure , sat for brief whiles where ho chose , and guyed the clowr with a famlllar case really astound' ing. ing.BQe Bee sat dreaming all through the performance , waiting for something- she did not know what Her heart sank as the f.lIy party filed out at the tent , and sun she had no sign ( rom Dud. She thought her father was going straight home. That was Squire Jaclc's Intention-but ho had traded horses three times that day , getting boot and a better horse every time , so he was in the humor for any sort of pleasant extravagance. When he heard the ringmaster shout' lug from his perch on a gay wagon , that the night show would bo unlike and ever so much better than the day one , he thrust a fistful of silver inside the ticket window , saying with a grim laugh : "I'm w111in' to pay money jest to find out how slick you fellers can 1113. " Bee felt her dying hope suddenly reprieved then , but she was near crying when the night show ended , and still Dud had made no sign. Dee was glad the mules trotted their best und made the wagon jounce and bounce so there could be no tallcing- I I Lize Pardue had come with them , and she knew was fairly aching to twit her with Bud's open alllng away. Squire Jack had distanced most of the other homing vehicles , when all at once one corner of the wagon sank down , spilling the occupants in a long row , before the team could be check- cd. A lynch-pin had dropped out and let the hind wheel run off. As Squire Jack Was searching for it , lantern in hand , a man came galloping towards him , shouting aloud : "Run , everybody . body , for your lives ! The 11on's loose ! Cage got turned over ! Run : Ie'l1 kill you ! Run ! " The road ran through the woods. From the depths of them behind the richer there came a succession of bloodcurdling howls. The Squire rose to the emergency He had his horse-the new horse , in charge of Tommy , his elaest son. He also had the two mules-and nine people to carry off on them. In a wink he had stripped the mules of gear , set Tom my astride one or them , with his wife behind the lad , and little Sue , his youngest daughter on before. Decle mule , he knew , would save them if i anything could-she was both sure footed and speedy. He was not so certain about Tige , Deck's partner , still there was nothing for it but to - CKE75 BUY TI'HETS ra I RALEIGH WILSON , cf I . \1 I I II I I I . "I'm wlilln' to pay money : Jest to find out how slick you fellers can lie. " back on her , boy Dilly , Lizo and brother Johnny , botof \ whom out. yelled the llon. That left Doc , and her Aunt Maria , the most fearful soul alive , for riders behind upon the new horse. The quire mounted the beast , clucked to him , and got him near tno remaining hind wheel , which Aunt Maria had mounted and to which she clung despairingly. Aunt Maria I weighed two hundred , and stoid five . foot two Is it any wonder that when the Squire checked up at the end of two breathless miles , Bee , who should " \ "Ii have been perched behind Aunt J Marin , was nowhere visible ? \J I \ 01' is it any marvel that some two hours later , a minister in the country town was reading the marriage serve ice in behalf of a disheveled bride , and an exultant groom. When the knot was tied hard and fast as law. and gospel could do it , there was s. . per , very late , and very merry , at the town's finest hotel. The circus prc prietor gave it-ho was , it turned out , a running Dean , Bud's elder brother , who had run away many years before , in the waIte of a circus. He had worlc cd his WILY up , and at last became so indispensable that when the proprietor died his last words to his weeping widow were : "SUcle to the country circuit-and don't forget to marry Bean. Dean , a born showman , did not in the least mind sinking his name out of hearing for the good of his son/ but some stirrings of either affection 01' curiosity bad made him write to Bud and find out how the land lay , before . . fore the "Second-Greatest-Show" came to Cllngstone. Af3 for detalls-they were never quite clear to an 'body. Lizo Pardue maintains to this day that Dee was such a fool site simply fell off the horse and lay there , uncertain as to whether she was to he eaten . or mar- : i ried. The story , of course , got into the ' . , \ . 1 , . . . . . . . . papers , and helped the show to draw so well that at the end of the next [ season the proprietors sent to a very new and very pink Bean a sliver love ing cup with roaring lions for bane dIes. Stranger still , Squire Jack Hounsle drank egg-nogs out of that same loving cup-and in drinking washed down the last t I ace of enmity toward his son-in-law. SHE GOT THEM MIXED Explanation Dawned Rapidly on Mine of Housewife. A lady walked Into a grocer's shop one day with her sleeves turned up t.C\ . _ , her elbows and a fighting light In lieI ' , I eyes. "This .ere , " she observed with I a sniff , as she banged a piece of yellowy . lowy substance on the counter , "is the soap that does the washill' 01 itself ; the soap what makes ev'ry' wash in' day a kind of glorified bean feast ; the soap what Bits all ' the linen nl3 white as snow and as sweet as a hazlenut by dinner time , and lets the happy housewife spend the rest oi the clay playin' with the children , and . here am I been scrubbin' three mor tal hours with that lump , and ain't. got so much lather out of it as I could glt from a brickbat" "I beg your pardon , " remarked the grocer , "hut it isn't the soap. Your little boy' came . in here yesterday for half a pound 01 : both soap and cheese ; that's the I I cheese. " - t"\ \ "The cheese ! " gasped the lady : ( l " ' "That accounts for the other thing , ' " \ then. "The other thing ? " queried the gro / cer. I "Yes , the other thing , " came the . I ' reply , "I was lllyin' awake halt the night wonderin' what it was made the Welsh rabbit we had for supper taste - : so funny.-Kansas City Independent i ' . , The Lovers' Quarrel. - Since you desire that we should part Amd taking each his own , Should render buck with honest heart . , What was the other'l' loan. ; _ Before my gems , which at your feet : . I poured , I want those kisses sweet . : : : : . . I gave hundredfold : ; . . . Then when In turn you claim your due " You will not find that I withhold AU those I had from you -\Iarlln Durke. , . , ' , His Degree. ' j Dean Russell of the Teachers' aol loge has had a new honorary degree thrust upon him by a cockney serving maid in his emplo She was showing ing his gown to a visitor the other day. Taking it down from the place where it hung , she turned it about to display all of its points , and exclaim cd , with the ring of intense pride in her tones : "That's the robe he wore when he t took his Hell , Hell , Dee.NoVYok I Commercial. ' 'l r