Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1875-09-24
RALSTON'S HOME.
The Morning After q Banquet
to q Party Of Sixty Dis
tinguished Men.

Il natl Commercial.
Il do not suppose that in the future
there will be any such unions and re
unions of business men Is at Ralston's
Without going there, . stranger got nc
adequate impression Of the coast. Al
Ralston's board he saw the soul of the
coast, the ensinery exposed, the cheerful
heart and great imagination which over
came obstacles by the splendor of theil
combinations. The host all night was
'|quiet and unobtrusive, yet the animating
presence and cause Of the sssemblage.
Now that he is deal, LIE Roi est mort
but not yet Vive lie Roi!
The next day was Sunday. Belmont
was empty Of the crowd. I arose at day
break and strolled again through the long
suit of the lower floor, picked up book
from the library, fondled the big 1ogs.
discovered the mineral water collection
and tasted New Almaden Vichy, Pacific
Congress, Idaho Soda, and the Salts o.
Saratoga; yet we were all used up. One
Englit Imam could only say, feeling his
temples: "'Stor'nary! Most 'Stor'nary!"
We lay around on the porches on Chinese
chairs, and felt the parch and thirst en-
tailed by too much riches.
Ralston came down. He was in the
habit Of feasting thus day after day. He
cried out, cheerfully "Down?, Heigh |?
kcow what ails you fellows. You want
some of the hair off the dog that bit you
'aet night. Tom!'
He made us glass of something potent
ial 10 seek spirits at the bottom of the
we'll. where they had dropped, and we
had appetite for Breakfasts bird, sole,
toast, coffee. At the breakfast table we
were half dozen. There were Edgar
Mills, brother of d. O.: Capt. Hartshorne,
General Hutchinson and the two Brit0ns.
One of these-Brereton, fine fellow-af
terward married an American lady, and is
still resident in California. The whole
party took the big Kimbell wagon, hung
ION native leather between bows of native
lash, and Ralston had the reins, fourth
hand. We dashed off through the country
between the bay and the sea, threading
Spring Valley, where were the dams TO
supply San Francisco with drinking
water. The rich bay trees threw their
branches over the narrow road, the glist
Iening oaks shut in the way. Our athletic
driver brushed the branches aside, and the
melted horses, feeling his wish upon their
strength, obeyed his will.
The California sun came out. Here
and there we stopped for reintroduction
10 some neighbors whom we had met the
night before; many places that we saw
were more elegant than Ralston's, and it
was apparent that he had missed tie
greatest seasoning of life's enjoyments
AN appreciation of woman at her best,
IN her disinterested and large nature. He
was married to a lady of abundant good.
ness and Intelligence; but he was like the
late Samuel Colt of Hartford, in this re-
specific had lived too athletic and mas
culine life to form . just conception of
woman as friend and fellow mind, His
pursuits were 80 wholly material that
they shut the wife out Of their secrets.
Besides. it is rare that marriage with 90
great wealth - Ralston had 10 happy
choice. remember that the homestead
of D. O. Mills was, although sitter If.
fair, moro domestic than Ralston's house ;
his wife and children were parts of the
walk and talk. 1t was not % elaborate,
though moro beautiful than Ralston's and
better furnished, a. to preclude the proba-