The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-11-12
HE WAS NOT n HUMORJST.


From me Dctrot Free Pyess
II Is not always the Eastern tcndcrfoot who
| is made TO suffer. and the bold bad '4gcr is not
always tho who reaps the benefit In it'll q
deals between the two. Sometimes tho cfrete
East gcts hold Of the Western "rustcr" and
makes 1t very interesting for him even at tho
la,ters own game.
Mr.. Hraly had been for years sheep raiser
| and wool promoter of California and the Pacific
| coast later. however. going into the business
| OF purchasing sheep on the coast for the Utah
and Wyoming trade. These California sheep.
when at home. feed over the ed placer grounds
Of the Golden state. eating the rich grass that
valleys. where once in the flush times of thirty
odd years ago the miners Of the great Col;
Tor gold during 'i the Wee Week. and on Sunday did
| their washing or lynched some one by request.
ping corral has been erected at Laramie CITY,,
| wyoming Territory. where all home and for
that eS y sS%ns among e sheep
t h4own a. a the s scab This tank is virtually
sulphur. arsenic. soda. and other political OPP
p2nen,ss Of TT the scab. AZ this great watering
with their fam lies. 4 great many OF them, were
from California. and some were our own sheep.
see the never out eng Of w Mae $
trough was clear of dip there was ~ Sod mcnt'
Of black ,and Black sand does not c ;ba the
tices the metallic glitter, of that material ho
naturally goes after gold pan and begins to
priscd to lind that he got from 90 to 50 cents to
the pan in fine gold He set an old timer to
| sl2pcr day in dust for a week. -
Then a large; oc,tagcnal chunk of ,ttrut truth began
to creep into Mr.. Heuly intellect. The dipping
dirt to, speak Of, but the Boston people who
to them glorious. golden fortune. Mr. Hcaly
came to this conclnsion at once, and. acting
| fast as a hack could carry him he went to one
of tho largest wool cmporiums and securing
handled faciiie coast WOOL exciusiyely '''
J., Mr. , Heaiy said he wanted to speak to the
iant matter Ho was shown into tho conserya-
tory whe ere The managing editor was beatng
| for his wool. Mr.. Healy waited patiently till
ne GOULD gu got the eye of The speake;r When he
have made dstSve G Sd hat desire to
get upon at once. 1t will bring you millions Of
You viii use me e White V IL naymcnt for the the dS
Goyery. II give this TO you want 100000.
50 out OF your establi fh,aent eseept to go 10
EuT I3 when you feel Ike IT to buy Venus ; de;
5i rae" %oath viii com Sif oW"s IN to
your Golfers in golden stream.
ons mses S% a SSSu nr
81 Of hs sand Gr
dicions in buyng Of men whose ranges are in
fhe old gqshss of The eG
| pan averages two pounds of sand and you
have from So 0O0. 900 TO 81, 900 600 per year, DO
yod tumble you o y 9la grizzly moss ne Of MAS
noble duke of the Kingdom of codilsh!'.,
Do r. mmrmured the sage. Do II
He took Mr. Hcaly out to tho rear OF. tho
great securing rink and showed him where
| two Cinnamon We're at work with gold pans.
You think, Mr. Healy." said he, that am
You do not know me. Yon! are in error. am
an old forty miner myself. 1 came home by
| know black sand with little. fine rubies and
| flour gold in 1t rs well as you do. have been
| on tn is little racket now for some years. and L
| the growing coat of California sheep WAS
| in many instances bonanza. People thought
| was monkeying with stocks or dabb.in@ in
oil when they saw how was getting ahead,
| but Just told them that was temperate and
| shaved myself. and used an oil stove and went
! without hired girl. and wore cclluloid cuffs
| believe made my money that way. They con-
| Guided was writing humorous articles for tho
| New York papers at million dollars apiece.
and allowed them to think so. All my neigh
| bors think am m illionairc humorist in dis
f"ise; but am not. | pledge YOU my word
noble delegate from the sn pess of The;
Rocky Mountains. fuzzy exponent of Il thrifty
| young commonwealth, am not humorst L
and by an upright lie trying TO so live that
| when my summons comes to join the innumer-
| able caravan and some more things like that
shall not 20 like the quarry slave at night with
| a head on me like corner bracket. but -sus-
| tanned and soothed like a Mormon apostle in
the numerous bosom Of his family, approach
my doom. That's the klnd q tropical shrub
| from Calnvcras county am
| Then Mr.. Healy went away. He had mover
| been thrown in contact with the people of Mas
| sachusetts before. and. unless important bust
| ness calls him there again he will spend his
| dec ming years in the great, wide trusting.
| and humane West