The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-23

where no white man had ever been
before. AS soon as we landed we
knowed we'd struck it rich. Gentle
men, there was millions of acres, all
cut, and ready for the market"
"Might 1 inquire who cut it?" ill.,
terrogated the heavy man, solemnly.
been there"
1.-THE polar bears had gnawed it off,
searching for honey!" replied the
stranger, calmly. 1.-THE bees settles
thick in walnut all through that
country, and the bears bites down
the trees to get the stuff. I tell you,
sir, a man can get rich in n season
there, if he'd plant them trees full o.
bees at different heights in them
trees!"
"What would he want the bees at
diffferents heights for?" asked an
other.
"You don't want your walnut tim
Der all the saEie lengths, do you?" re-
torted the stranger. where there
is a bees nest there's where the
bears going to bite. So, if a man
puts in his bees at the proper heights
from the ground, he's going to get
the timber any length he wants it,"
"True ,, assented the heavy man.
$50 on with your thunder shower"
"Well, as I was telling you, We
started right in, and in three weeks
we were richer than any eight men
in the states. There was no end to
the luck! Everything went our way
from the start. We had all the logs
down on the dock and were only
waiting for the boat to come and
take US off, when I seen clouds max
ing to north'ard and l knOwed it was
going it settle in for thick weather.
[ told my son to look out, and in less
than half an hour there broke the
doegondest storm l ever seed. Rain!
Why, gentlemen, it rained so hard
into the muzzle of my gun that it
busted the derned thing at the
breecb! Yes, sir! And the water
began to rise on us, too. Talk about
your floods down South! Why, gen
'lemen, the water rose so rapidly in
our ouse that it flowed up the CHM
icy and streamed three hundred
feet up in the air! We got it both
ways that trip, UP and down."
"Do we understand that you are
relating facts within the scope Of
your experience" demanded the
heavy man with his mouth wide
open.
partially mine and partially my
sons" answered the unabasbed
stranger. II watched it go up, and
my son watched it come down! The
man don't live who was qnick
enough to watch both ways at the
same time! Rain! Gentlemen, I
won't deceive you about that storm.
I'll draw it very mild. There We're
things about it that you might not
believe. Those details I will leave
out. But you can get some idea of
how it rained when / tell you that
we put out a barrel without any
heads into it, and it rained into the
bunghoie Of that barrel faster than it
could run out at both ends!!"
(Which of you saw that?" inquired
the listener.
"We each watched an end, my son
and me-" returned the stranger.
"I'm telling you about a storm now,
gentlemen. But the worst of all was
the lightning. 1t wasn't in streaks,
it just stood still in one flash, and
when it got through you should have
taken a look at that timber! That
was chopped into the finest
sawdust you ever got your eyes on!
Fine as snuff! Wasn't a stick left
half an inch long! You never saw
anything like it! There was over
billion dollars gone! We
thought we might save the sawdust
to mix paints with and cave a couple
o. million out ofthe wreck, but while
were thinking that over, the
wind sprang up, and then there was
music! I've seen some wind in my
lime, but no such wind as that ever
olOwed before or anywhere else!
Well, you cal get an imperfect no
ion OF how that wind blew when [
ell you that it blowed that sawdust
light back into its former shape, and
when that storm passed off, there
stood them trees just where they
stood before the bees got after themW
II suppose you had to wait until
he bears bit the trees down again.
yOu?" asked a bystander.
mo bear could ever bite them
rees again." replied the stranger
nournfuliy. "That wind packed
hem so hard that a bear couldn't get
claw in if he had a buzz saw to help
i'm for a starter"
"Then the bees are pretty safe in
hat section now, [ take it." observed
mother interested listener.
"That was the worst Of ALL" re-
urned the stranger. "Gentlemen,
very bee on the northern coast of
was blown inside out, his
ones was melted by the electricity
nd his honey making power washed
way by the rain."
did you manage to keep dry?"
sked the heavy man, with a sigh of F.,
elief, as the narrative was concluded. =
"Gentlemen, being as you wasn't
'ere, I've got an opportunity to de-
live you. But I won't. 1 didn't
eep dry. I haven't been dry since.
m not dry now. If I was, I'd re-
.procate your kind hospitality by
citing Of 'em up. AS it is
And he went out of the saloon, (
drinks ahead and with six or
ght glasses following him.-Brook-
n Eagle.
A sensible young lady made the ,
request to her friends: "Do 2
lay me down by the ripping e
side, lest babbling lovers ?
AXE me from my dreams, nor in the i.
'autiful cemeteries in the valleys,
st sightseers, coming over epitaphs, E