The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-08-19
wonders Of the Far West.

ges.-Philadelphia Sunday Trims
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wonders Of the Far West
JOSH BMiags Reiafs his ErgcTisaes 5Tas' s-.i
Lake 10 Sal Fraacisc0-
From Ogden to Rheno, which IL the
point near which you begin to ascend
the Sierra Neyadas, thare IL about az
mutch sameness in the ground scenery
az thare IL in a gallon of skim milk
after it haz been suitably watered,
only now aud then w are shown q
rok which w are expekted to mag
inc resembles a pulpit, with hard
shell Baptist in it, or some stony pass
which va are knoidenshall told Il
WHARF the Devil slid down bill when
he waz a boy, with nothing to soften
the rigor ov the exehursun but an old
pair OF corduroy britches.
AItho' the whole distance from
Omaha or Kansas City to the feet or
the Sierra Nevqdas hiz many things
which are positively woudegphuil and
impressive, tbare IL 40 mistaking the
fakr that the most wonderphulI ov
all IL the the immensely m0notonous
distance
Itiz like reaekting upon eternity
For game, on this part Ov the
route, "a have TO be satisfied With 2
Eard monte and strap, al other liv-
ing game IL skarce-
For Injins w hav the intelekual,
not to say the profoundly neat Sos
hon, and the butiful; buJ unadorned
Piute.
Not to be faceshus, nor be kalled a
phool. | don't kno or emmy thing that
kreeps, krawls or wiggles, amung the
beast or reptiles, that kan outstyle
theze disgusting Offals ov humanity.
They are too low down IN the skale
ov importance to even be devlish,
and for vergin tilth, dozen ov them
soaked in a river, al AZ once, would
spred milsmatick desolashun thru
the land
/ don't ike Injun, bat j Do lav
yeller dog.
Theze Injins are the wust j hav
ever seen, they won't even pay to
kill off
wish all the eaeminaJe min w0r-
shippers, all the Hiawatea simpathet-
icks. could take a few hours amung
theze noble lazzaroni, it would be an
excellent Alternative TO their morbid
philanthropy.
The Piutes liv on ground nuts and
! grasshoppers with an occasional strip
( ped snaik, who hsz been so unfortun-
ate az to be wounded bi woods hog
and fall into their klutches.
They are too lazy to skratch-
All the walters at the eating-houses,
and all the chainbermaids at the
hotel are the peusive Chinese, they
Go all the mental work, they are the
washwimin of the western slope
( The politikal ekonomy ov kalefOr-
nv seems to me foots up in this way
The Chinese viii finally own the
whole country, for they seem TO be
doing all the work, getting all the
mummy, living on nothing, saving
every cent they git. and the white
pholks think they are Citing ritch
bi standing around with their hands
iu their pockets and bossing the job
/ The most festive people mee5, u
theze far western towns are the edi-
tors ov the papers, they are only un-
happy when tbare L but one ov them
in the same place, bat when the 9th
er phellow Gums in and starts a daily
paper, then skool begins.
They are generally rite lhemselfs
and each other up TO the SIX shooter
pitch, then meet on the street. IN the
most publiek place they kan hnd, and
blaze away, the consequence Il. at
/ least one pLuneral in fu days, and
the fuunyest part ov il IL, the surviv-
or il frequently the principal pail
bearer upon the oekashun,
/ This shows after all that tbev only
shoot each other out here out Oy
pure affeckshun.
At Rheno we left the Central Pa
click and took the road FOR Virginia
City.
Previous to leaving Virginia, i VS.
tied the oils ov the Enterprise, d
daily paper printed thaTe, and went
up into the editorial rooms, and was
shown bi the lokal editor the tabI,
on which be and the venerabl,
mark Twain" done up the morning
J cocktails for the reading pubiik-
!, Here IL WHARF Mark fust threw
J publik ink, and looked with a kin,
/ ov venerasbun on the spot, an,
: thought how mitch riteher be wa.
] then, and wondered if be waz ennI
happier.
| guess no happier, for hav beef
/ told that there IL more solid j0y .
J the square foot in Is dollars a Teel
; when d man IL making a reputashul
than in $500 dollars for the sam.
length Of time after biz reputashnn j
] manufactured.
On the little pine table the Jump
r ing Frog" waz written and natche.
j agin emmy other frog on the Paeifel
/, slope looked around for Jim Sml
ley, but Jim Smiley had gone.
t At Virginia sum or the rltehes
: silver mines are lokated, the sele
brated Comstock lead IL here, an
e the whole Mill on which the city
+ lokated IL honeycombed for a quartz