The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-01-04

I lieve me. Il want two weeks before q
letter came a-saying that my box was
safe. They had been going TO sell Il In
Pueblo. but that map that shipped IL he
wouI<Int let EN- lie had Il shipped
back 10 Kansas City; he said he thought
| I'D turn up some day. Ye sec when
was In Pueblo looking for Il, II hadn't
| got there. There was nine dollars m
iifty-five cents 70 pay on the box before
| we could get Il. Tommy
and I thogether hadn't got 50
much As that; but they took off the So
cents, and some folks helped me TO
make il up; and when that box come,
there was every thing in il exactly : I'd
put 'em IN most a year before, only one
o. the nat-irons had slipped on To the
looking-glass an brokeit but the old
clock il went right along jest : good 5
ever; an all my bed quilts was dry's
could be. Ii wasa comfort to me, get
ting that box. II seemed s IL we had
something then. I've sold most o. my
bed-quiits now-I had some real hand
some ones; but they was dreadful heavy
to lug around andwe've wanted money
pretty bad sometimes. I've some o. my
best clothes, too. hain'tever suffered (;
We've always been took care Of"
From Lake City Grandma and Tom
my went back to Los Animas, where
they made comfortable livIng-Tom-
my by . hauling" with his wagon and
horses, and Grandma by taking in
washing.
1--WE was doing first rate,r she said
with an expression of something as near
regret as her face was capable Of, - an
l wish we'd never come away; but
Tommy he got in with old man Nolan;
old man Molan's an old miner; he's n
first rate miner, they say, too,
ef he want so old he's going on sev-
cnty now; he's mined all over
California m made heap Of money in
his turn but he's always fooled it away.
He was full o. comm up into the mines,
an Tommy he got so full ont too,
didn't try to keep him. He's all I've
got; so we come on. But it-seemed like
home down in Los Animas, the farmers
wagons coming into town every Satur-
day with vegetables and all sorts Of
green stuff; q like 70 90 back there,
but | hear they're moving away from
there TERRIBLE
"Oh yes, Grandma,-I said, "there
isn't much Of town left there now.
That was one Of the towns built up for
few months by the railroad. dare
say there will not be house TO be seen
there in year from now"
She sighed and shook her head, say
ing:
"Well it does beat all; 1 liked Los
Animas. wish we'd stayed there"
twas on the journey from Los Animas
to veta that they had had the tertSble
experience of being showed up in the
canyon. In Veta they had stayed for a
month or two; then they had followed
the advancing railroad to Wagon Greek,
and now to its present terminus, Gar
land City.
"They do say there wont be any town
here, for more n year or so, :" she said,
looking anxiously at me; " that they're
going on way down 10 the Rio Grande
River. But some seems to think thcre'll
always be enough TO keep a town going
here suppose we shall go wherever
old man Nolan goes, though. Tom
my's so took up with him; an | don't
know > | care he's good old man, II
he want SO crazy about mining; he's
TO work building now; he's a good hand
to work. old's he is. II we only had 4
church here, wouldn't mind about any
thing; they sayIthere isn't any Sunday
in Colorado, but | tell them Gods here
the same : everywhere: and folks that
wants to keep Sunday III keep Sunday
wherever they be; but churches is a
help. Hev We got good churches to the
Springs?"
"On yes, Grandma" said, "more
than we know what TO do with. There
are nine different churches there; each
man can 90 to the kind he likes best
A look Of yearning came over her face.
"That's the place I'D like to 20 "a"
she said. "I've always thought I'D like
to live there. But Tommy, he wants to
20 where old man Nolan goes; and |
sha'n't keep him; he's all I've got. an
he's got his health first rate now; that's
all care for
In the afternoon carried to grandma
piece Of raspberry short-cake from a
workmcn's picnic dinner, TO which
had the good fortune TO be invited.
"Oh, that does look good" she said
with childlike pleasure. "Thank you
for bringing il to me-" and as was
slowly walking away, she called after
me-
"Didn't | tell you | was always took
care of2r
Late In the day we drove back to the
lonely Summit House for the night, and
the next morning we went again over
the wonderful curving railroad down
the pass. Going down seemed even
more marvellous than going up, and the
views were all finer seen from above,
than from below. But far more lasting
and vivid than my memory of the beauty
and grandeur and triumph Of the road