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THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER. ORRflnM
Stories of
By Elmo
Great Scouts Watson
, Western Newspaper Union.
"YELLOWSTONE" KELLY AND
no KlfLt. "OLD SWEETNESS
n whs the year 1783. Tiie hostile
owns, uuu surrounded Fort Stevensou
u., and any white wun who went
uc aione went to his death. When
the mail was sent to Fort Buford, 218
"lies away, a full company of sol
uiers went along to guard it. One
uay, while the troops were out on a
scout, important dispatches came
w men tiad to be delivered at once, and
there was no one who would dare at
tempt tiie hazardous journey.
A V0UI1IZ ni!in. nnmoil Tilths c?
Kelly, learning of this, went to the
vummaiiiung oftcer and offered to get
them through alone. Kelly was a
New Yorker who had come west seek
ing adventure. Because of his youth,
the scouts around the fort had nick
named him "The Kid," and now these
men told him he would be scalped he
fore he was a mile from the post, lie
laughed at them.
"I guess 'Old Sweetness' and I can
take care of any Sioux who jumps
us!" he said. "Old Sweetness" was
his pet name for his favorite rifle.
A few hours later Kelly walked into
Fort Berthold, IS miles from Steven
son. The Mandan, Gros Ventre and
Ankara Indians, camped about that
post for protection against the Sioux,
gathered about in admiration of his
daring, for they lived in terror of the
Dakota warriors.
Kelly stopped at Certliold only long
- ei mid then pushed on to
liuford, 200 miles away. Four miles
from Berthold he came to a timbered
valley. When he readied the bottom,
a buJlet whizzed past his ears. As
the scout dropped behind a log, three
Sioux warriors rushed him. "Old
Sweetness" spoke three times and the
warriors dropped in their tracks.
Kelly returned to Fort Berthold and
told of his adventure. The friendlv
Indians were wild with joy, and after
that they called Kelly "The Little Man
With the Strong Heart."
The scout started again for Fort
Buford and delivered the dispatches
without further adventure. He be
came the regular mail carrier, hut the
Sioux were so frightened of his
"strong medicine" that they never at
tacked him again.
Kelly remained in the United States
service as a scout until 1SS3. He was
n lieutenant of volunteers in the
Spanish-American war and in the
I'bilippines the old Indian scout, as --aptain
of the Filipino scouts, added
further to his laurels of war before
he retired as a fighting man. "
Why Men Hate Shops.
"Of course." said the floorwalker in
the big department store somewhat
apologetically to the clerk at the
stocking counter, "I suppose it's talk
ing against my own sex, but you can't
tell me men are more ellieient than
women, at least not in the stores.
"When a man comes hi here be
neer tnniKs of coming to me and
asking where lie can find the desired
article. Instead he roams all around
the store, asks salesgirls who aren't
supposed to know the different de
partments and gets mad generally
because lie doesn't get what be want's
in a hurry. That's one of the reasons
why men hate to shop. They don't
use their heads at all." New York
Sim.
Sharkskin "Shoe Leather."
Recent tests of sharkskin uppers for
shoes by the United States bureau of
standards were made in a way both
ingenious and practical. Pairs were
made to order, with one upjier of kid
and the other upper of shark leather,
and those were worn by employees of
the bureau. It was found that the
shark leather wore better and longer
than the kid. It has a be special ad
vantage of being waterproof. It is
officially announced that shark hides
yield leather of high qualitv, suitable
for many purposes and attractive for
traveling bags, brief cases, desk sets
and the like. When the value of the
livers for "coil liver" oil and the avail
ability of the flesh as a meal for feed
ing animals are taken into considera
tion, it seems obvious that there is an
important future ahead of shark
fishery.
Limit of Incompetency.
The worst incompetent ill any busi
ness is the person who is so cock
sure lie knows everything that he
doesn't take the time to lenrn any.
thing. This applies to employer as
"en as employee,
""i cairn of r,ii n:
,r wiavuvereo.
li 1 , , 0t tiilt-a,i is the dried
jince of a low shrub, which grows in
;;,. 11 ls ver-v valuable and scarce,
f i the amount of balm yielded by one
shrub never exceeds 00 drops a day
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