The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-03-22
WHO Is HE?

Montana, like other countries, has its
chronic grumblels and others who continu-
ally an! perslstently misrepresent 1t, at
home and abroad. These men generally con-
slider themselves too good for this world, but
are very careful about exposing themselves to
chances that might possibly remove them to
another. In their conversations around the
camp fire, in their homes, or at the usual re-
sorts OF men in towns or cities, they confine
their remarks to short but expressive exple-
tives not at all tiattering to the country nor to
those living in 1t. AS a rule They are too la
w or too ignorant to transcribe their splene-
tic illusions upon paper and send them
abroad but occasionally one Of them will,
for a moment, become aroused from his nor
NAL slothtulness. and Selling some one else's
pen, paper and ink-for his indulgence in his
mu.tiludinous vices robs him of the means
to buy tliem-will empty bis ignorance and
gall to some eastern country paper. Of course
its editor, knowing no better, publishes the
lying trash as truth, and thus, unintentioualIy
does our territory injustice.
Wv I'm ', >" hNo NiiuiN ~
from a friend, at Pony, Madison county, a
letter clipped from a Maryland paper and
sent, by some par y east, to our Pony cor
respondent. This letter was written at
Walkeryille under date of Dec. 2, 1880. and
signed G. NJ. S. The writer, who is evident
ly a graduate of the "Sazarac Lying Club"
or Of some other as equally veracious society,
and a former resident of the eastern shore of
Maryland, which shore is made famous by
the immortal Tom Corwin, has strayed from
that God-forsaken locality, and being hustled
along by the throng that poured into Butte
during the past season brought up at Walk
erville, where he now is, unless he has taken
his departure for a lower and a hotter country
to which he is certainty gravitating. But we
will let this disciple of Munchausen tell the
story. He starts off as follows:
WALKERvILLE, Mont, Dec. 2, 1880.
DEAR EDIToR:-You may expect to get a
large letter from this region in a few DAYS,
giving you a sketch of the early life in Mon
tana, with an account of the mining opera
tions, &c. So You may consider this but a
drop of the flood of information that is to
follow.
&c. M. S." is no homeopathic. He deals
out his information in generous, heroic doses.
He is a follower of the old school founded in
the time of Noah, and nothing short of a
sflood of Information can exhaust his foun-
tain of intelligence. He don't propose to
let it all off at once, but starts a little stream
of the following size:
We are just on the top of the Rocky noun
tains, 5000 feet above the level of the sea.
The atmosphere is dry and light, and the
weather is the coolest | have ever seen.
Eight months out of the twelve the thermom-
eter stands SO to Is degrees below zero. I
have seen more snow here in July than |
ever saw in January IN old Maryland. So
you may imagine how the weather is here.
It's a pity &C. NJ. S." can not realize the
fact that he is nearer heaven now than he
will ever he again, and hat while there are
laws against Understandable lying, there is
none, save the moral law, which he evidently
ignores, to prevent him from committing sui
eide. While so near the 'golden gate'' he
ought not to let pass this opportunity to reach
out and enter it. Possibly, in view of the
fact that the thermometer stands SO to IS
degrees below zero eight months out of the
twelve" at the altitude where he now is, and
to find more ~congenial spirits he prefers to
go down rather than up.
OF Butte our conscientious G. M. S. does
not entertain a very high opinion. 1t will be
news not altogether flattering to our order
loving, church-going citizens to be told that
they are mostly gamblers and saloon keepers.
But here is what he says
Butte city is about two miles from here
and is made up mostly of gambling houses,
and liquor saloons. But it has two churches,
a Methodist and a Catholic church.
As c. Ms has evidently neglected to add
to his "food of information in regard t.
churches it may be as well for him to men
ton in his future lettersthat the Presbyterian
have one of the finest church edifices in the
country at this place and that the EPISCOPAL
ans have a large membership in the city and
hold regular Sabbath day services. These