The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 18, 1917, Page 15

forehed like rain-drops chasin’ down a winder pane. “But I'm a little ahe@ uv my story,” he sed, putten’ her in reverse a min- nite. ‘That wuz the furst uv the be- ginin’ uv this dingbusted Nonparteshun Leeg. It started rite thar—rite thar in Bizmarck. When them farmers got home they started in to agitate—to tell lize to thur nabers—to besmurch the fare naim uv the politishuns uv.the stait. Thay went frum farm to farm, frum township to township an’ frum - county to county—went in theze ding- fizzled little tin lizzies an’ it wuzzent long till tin lizzies wuz a-snorten all over the - stait. .Thay =hornswoggled theze ignurunt farmers to jine the or- ganizashun an’ maid ’'em pay about nine dollars a year fur the privelege uv bein’ told how to vote—think uv it, how to vote.” Crafty pauzed a minnit. “Why, we had bin payin’ out that much ever year for years to git to tell *em how to vote ourselves, an’ here thay goze an’ pays that much to git to be told how to vote.” Did you ever hear ennything like it?” I admitted that I never did, an’ I wuz nigh onto sixty,’if I wuz a day. “But we didn’'t think thay wuz goin’ to cut enny ice, so we pade no atten- shun to 'em. An’ then the campaign opened up, an’ believe me it wuz sum campaign, too. Thay had munny to throw at the burds, an’ thay throwed it. Thay held about five hundred meetin’s over . the stait, thay held about a hundred picnics in the summer an’ a week before the eleckshun thay hired a special trane an’ went tearin’ up an’ down thru the state like a bunch uv crowfoot injins. Thay kep it up till midnite uv the day before eleckshun.” Crafty stopped agin. A sigh shuck hiz big frame like an earthquake shak- in’ a sky-scraper. “The rest uy the story iz—" CRAFTY FASCINATED AT SIGHT OF LIZZIE Jist here a strange sound rent the quiet, mountain air. It sounded sum- thin’ like a duck a-quackin’, or like Jerkin’ a barbed wire across a loose splinter on a white-oak rail. Crafty sot up with a start, helt hiz breth, while hiz big heart pounded desperately in hiz heavin’ brest. “Sounds like one uv them tin lizzies, now,” he sed. We listened in silence a minnit, an’ shore anuf, we cud here the “put, put, put, put” cumin’ up the canon. Then we heard the *q-u-a-c-k, q-u-a-c-k, q-u-a-c-k” agin’ an’ the “put-put-in’* becum planer. s Crafty turned around 'an’ looked down the canon an’ we both sot in ded silence. Purty sune thar it cum, dash- $n’ around a curve in the road. It wusx a tin lizzy. Crafty never tuck hiz ize offen it. When it got a little closer we cud see a couple uv seedy lookin’ men fn the frunt seet an’ a couple uv sun- burned women in the back seet. On the runin’ boards uv the car wuz all kinds uv junk, sich ag tent, fryin’ pans, camp stools an’ so forth. The tin lizzy wuz covered with dust. Crafty kep twistin’ hiz hed, keepin’ hiz ize on the lzzy, ax she approached. “Q-u-a-c-k, q-u-a-c-k,” she went agin, jist as she got even with us. Then she slowed down, while the enjine raced as she wuz put into low; then she turn- ed out into a level spot an’ stopped about 20 feet above us. The folks commenced to git eut. I glanced at the tag on the hind axel an’ thar wuz “N.-D. 46766.” I looked around at Crafty an’ he sot - in a crumpled heap. He had eviden seen the tag, too. I sed nuthin’ fur seed it wuz no time to be sayin’ nuthin’, The folks got out an’ stretched thur legs an’ arms an’ begin to onload thur Junk, One uv the fellers cum to the back end uv-the lizzy an’ begin to ontie a sack uv grub. I waz a-watchin’ him an’ at the saim time peerin’ at Crafty auten'the cofner uv my left I, Crafty wuz lookin’ at 'em, too, outen two nar- row slits uv ize. The feller that wuz ontiein’ the sack, turned sorter facin’ us an’ I seed a red-whijte-an’-blue but- ton about the size uv adollar, pinned ‘| on hiz coat.” I tuck a gecon’ look an’ I cud see az plane as nuthin' the words, “We'll Stick.” " ; CRAFTY GETS SICK VERY. SUDDENLY I wanted to scream, but sed nuthin’. Crafty seen it too—an’ sed nuthin'. I onconsurnedly picked up anuther seegar an’ lit it. Crafty put hiz han’ to hiz hed, looked pail an’ hiz lips quivered. “I'm not feelin’ very well, Mr. Head,” he sed. ‘T think we'd better git to town az quick az we can. I'm afraid I'm takin’ anuther wun uv ‘my nervus spells.” I cud see frum the way hiz han’s wuz a-shakin’ that he wuz rite an’ not wanten’ him to dy on my han’s up thar in the mountains I sed “alrite”. ‘We got up an’ put our laprobes in the car, Crafty pitched the box uv seegars behind the seet an’ we got in an’ start- ed. Now I want to say rite here, Mr. Editur, that I've took sum desperate rides in my life but never tuck wun az | desperate az this. I've rode Mexican mustangs thru cacktus, muskeet an’ thorn bushes, a-buckin’ ever jump in the rode but that seamed like riden in a hearse compared to this. The way we cum down that mountain wood a-maid the hare stan’ strate up on Blarney Oldfool's hed. I held onto the seet. with both han’s while the car swayed frum left to rite and frum rite back to left. -Crafty wuz grippin’ onto the wheel like a drownin man holdin’ onto a straw. Hiz ize wuz a-stickin’ outen hiz.hed like the ize uv a darkey passin’ a graveyard at midnite an’ hiz foot wuz a settin’ flat down on the ex- celerator. He never slowed up fur curves, narrow places nor nuthin’, RIP GETS A LUNCH OUT OF IT, ANYWAY ‘When we struck the mane rode 1 tuck wun quick glance behind.” All 1 cud see wuz a colum uv dust rizen oufen the canen that reminded me uv a2 lazy cyclone trailin’ its way cross the planes uv'Kansas. On we went, past Rainbow falls like a flash, over Ute pass like & mad devil, down around the gharp curves we roar- ed, turnin’ the corners on two wheels an’ maikin’ the rocks scatter down the hillside. 'We past /fon springs like an express trane passin’.a sod shanty in-| western Nebraska. On we flew past the soda springs, on thru Manitou, on thru Colorado City, while ‘peeple stood on the street corners with thur mouthes open or scuttled across the street ahed uv us lke rats runin’ frum a burnin’ barn. An’ on we swept across the bridge into Colorado Springs like the winds across a western plane., We stopped sudenly in frunt uv the Elk Horn an’ climbed outen the ear. “T've.got to git to my room,” sed Crafty, an’ he started wobblin’ towards the door. I took wun look at the lunch layin’ in the back uv the car—then looked at Crafty agin’, Jist az 'he went thru the door, Then I reached over an’ got the lunch, stuck it under my coat, reached back and fished a han’full uv seegars outen the box, an’ went down into the park back uv the hotel, sot down on a bench ar’ had the feast uv my life. 1 never seed Crafty no more fur a Yoors Trooly, RIPP. (T be continued in & subsequent issue.) HARVEST HANDS WANTED LEAGAUE MEMBERS ATTENTION The League harvest is ready but we need help. 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