Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-31
Z LODGE Valley.

could net change it it., L nae "a tho"sa'i"
votes. or was President of a board of party
canvassers SO expert in the latteredays.,. 1et,
with timid feelings of one regardful anu
ohedient to the laws of nature ia their Vafl-
Gus bearings, ! venture the remark, lroli
nv stand point or the Warm Spring creek
that hoary-headed winter, whose residence
is at the North Pole, with posaessiohs'eh-7
closed with icebergs, has estrayea' 1foh'
home and needs rounding up and branding
Now while I write, the 18th Of May, IT,, he
comes over mountain tops, hill tops ana Tree
tons. dancing along with the, unseen lnaJes-
ty of the winds, scattering the Haky,' do"''
of Polar regions along his pathway, ana ue-
void Of. natural shame-unmindful, OF the
conventional rules of good society-torgef-
full of almanac edicts. and u~nbldden, SO laf
as heard from, seats himself down IN the
lap of spring. Aud there he sits. cold-hea1l-
ed. audacious and cruel, un.leedlng tie
pleading voices of the Lambs Oh yonder hlll-
side. who are crying "naa, naa,2' appealing
to their .vssm clad mothers for protection
There he. sits, forbidding gentle spring.
in the ETHEREAL miltlncss OF her dlsposluoh:
from assuming her accustomed duties ID
the. household Of the season, temperlng ilall
stones into rain drops, planting the laAI-
scape with flower beds, and to becSon the
feathered songsters from the wilderness
shade. Z" where the woodbine twineth" TO
witness the little seeds burst asunder tfelr
grave clothes, climbing to blisstul helgh's
Of reproduction, sown broadcast by the
h~usband,nan to give a feast to all, even TO
the locust grasshopper.
And there he sits, frigedly looking into
the face of spring, until beasts cover De-
hind willows, birds have the lockjaw, and
the spears of grain that have ventured
above the earthly coyerlid, are as red-headed
as Joe Bowers brothers wife's baby, way
down in Pike. And he still sits there, one
hand tieing white caps OF snow on the heaos
Of the tallest mountains, fastened, with ever
green ribbons, and the other putting on the
foot of The hill, hose Of the same material,
unfashionable for either spring or summer
wear, When he is to depart for his home
to stand sentinel at the grave of.sSir JOIN
Franklin. no one knows. The SUM-, when
ever he can crowd himself through4the clouds
of winter friends, bids him go, but the moon
runs high, and right in the pathway of the
sun, asks winter to stay to notice her grand
~fullness soon to trauspire; and SO it IS ex-
pected that winter will linger a few days
until the moon shall Wane, losing her IA,
tluence over the weather, the sun scorchlng
her skirts and driving her southwark, then
looking over the shoulders Of spring May
into The eye Of summer June, winter vii
Journey homeWard, q thousand b%abbllne
brooks laughing at his exploits, while the
earth will crawl southwark III its rolls OF
daily whirligig tb receive the more vertical
and powerful rays of old Sol. These are
hopes born of wishes. Surprising he don't
go, and causes the crops to ripen late, and
the Minnesota, Manitoba. Kansas, CT Bitter
Root grasshoppers shall fileage,. and, like
fourth cousins, visit us again. 1t is not I'M
probable. If they come and again savage
our fields, what shall we do? If we could
save in some way our, two dollars, or two
t and a halt per day, placer digggings to re-
a pair to, it would afford some relief. But
these are the Inheritance of the Mongolian,
, worse than locust grasshopper, for the lattel
, will not hide or eat gold or silver, as tie
Chinaman does to carry it into the land OF
Josh. What SHALL, we do then The legis
{ lature won't let us fish in the highland
streams. of Montana, even on your own pos
sessions, with only a rotten sea-ggrass line
{ while Mongolians. are driving the tinny
tribe from almost every babbling brook