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About Talent news. (Talent, Or.) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1892)
•<*- VOL. I. DECEMBER 1,1892. NO. 21. The TALENT NE .VS is published the pens» . Both were to be buriid the n I . lowing »lay. The garni h rs hired parti» - 1st. anil 15th. of (inch month Terms: 25 cents a year. to dig a grave tor Big Dan ami t !:♦• w»»ik EDWARD ROBISON, Editor. was »lone. i he justice of the peace al*»» employed a man to prepare a grave t< r Entered at the Talent Post Otlice a* second the luckless road-pad, but before !.»• be class mail matter. gan his work, was told by a friend th: t j lie would get nothing but county scrip, ‘ THE FARMER FEEDS THEM ALL.” i which could not be cashed for two-bits on The proud who walk With haughty tread, I th»* dollar. That was ♦ nough ; the man Or ride in carriage gay, threw Up t he job but »lid nt take th»* t roil I»- The humble ones who i ow the head 1 le to inform his employ» r. In the im an And meekly move away, Dwell they in hut or palace grand, time the justice had prepared a rough In camp or courtly hall, coflin, bad his chaige conveyed to the The poor, the r.cii, throughout the land, 4 grave vard, or “Bom Hill as the min The farmer feeds tnem all. ers »-ailed it, f«»uml a grave already pi«-- Vain fools who>.- voices in tin* street pared, consigned the l>>dy to its «¡ui< t Are raised in endless chime, The wise whose pow’rn are strained to meet resting ¡»lace sml tetir«-«!. It was nearly daik when the gambler* The exigence of time; The men w ho roll the ball of stat**, in solemn prosession, bort* tin. body’ <>t And those who twine tin* ball, Big Dan upto the burial hill, hut imag The ruled and rulers, small and great, ine tlwir surprise when they found that The farmer feeds them all. bis grave was a»rea«ly occupied. 11« ir The seer who wakes the golden lyre i was a dilemma. I heir first thought wa- 'lo heaven’s melodi s, Ami those whose hearts an tom-bed with tire, to oust the present occupant ami ¡list: II , the lightful claimant, but finally, seeing That rolls like surging sens, Who toil for love, who toil tor greed, through the leal nature ot the case, they Who honor ireedom’s call, conclude«! to dig another grave. So tho-e What’er their mu on or their creed, while handed gain‘»b-rs, each t.iking hi Tl»e farmer f veils them all. I turn. Worked industriously. On« ot tlieii RKFItAIN. ■ number was at one« di-p.tt« la <1 to tT»«- In vain the pride of high degree camp for several bottles of w hi *kry , with Without his aid would fall, The countless throngs on land ami sea, the aid of which they madcfa i pro The farmer feeds them all. gresH. but it was well into the night be- —Selected. . fore the body of Big Dan was consigned to its resting ¡dace. “JUMPING” A GRAVE. • • S. Shei man’s amusing account of “steal An association has I •■«•a form«*il in I’ufLdo ing a grave,” in last issue, reminds the N. Y. ,known a* tla* Buffalo < Ui-troimnii»- \ «.»• writer (the associate editor), ot a similar ciation,«-onipo-»-'l of physicians ami sei« nti-t«. From the name, one would be lc»i to think it incident which not only relieved death of a soviet v of gouty gourmands. Xot so. II i »* ii its usually solemn features. but turned it object is pur« lx hcivntitic to »liscowr, bx ex into an affair of levity. It happened in periment, articles of fo<>»! nuitiiblv for man, the summer ot ISfid, in tin* then lively other than thorn in common tt-»*. Their bill of fair includes such j»o siblx saxory «1» b» - a mining camp of (’anyon (’¡tv, Oregon. svtip. stew•«! skunk, “!:••• «1 cot; -t.i!’ .« One niglit-during a broil in a gambling pc.ppx i»roile»l ruts, horse flesh, woorlcouck put!»-,an den, a monte dealer, famidarly known as u’lcworm soup, fri»*»i spith-rs, oxx!-«»u-toast, I* .«n “Bi ' Dan,” was killed. The same night bread, ¡»ore -«»up, bird- eggs, -nak»- >oti|»an>l a rough attempted to hold up a miner in numerous <»th«-r more or !• - 11»• -t!<••«• , <• »lain By tin- x\ay it i f»<un«l m-•» ary, at» the suberbs of the town, but th»- latter i ties. ban«|U» t, to have ready nt hand a -nu h being on the alert, the road-agent was pumj»- as a relieving f« attire. Th» :r • xp ii shot through the head ami the b ulv given 1 meats will be xvatchv I with inh r» -t. over to the proper authorities. Now Big Last week’s Tntiii!inr^A\, an :n otinl Dan was a noted character among the of all extensive tumble <av« in Cu'iiiiibti*, gamblers and had considerable money ; i (’ah, lately discoxen »1, in widt h w<*i» co ample ¡»reparations were made for his found «»ver a ton of human bom - — r» li* burial ; but the other candidate for funer of an ancient race. al honors was without money and ¡»er consci¡ueiice w ithout friends, ami was, ot Chicago is to have a ID inch t« b ■< « | « Coin sc, to be buried at the county * ex I