Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-09
Il FIRST WOM4N,
HsIeonsed to Mining Camp iii the Far
West.

It was day of iollifcation at Car
bondale, Col, being the advent OF the
first wagon, the first woman, and the
first board from the mill.
It would have been interesting to the
reader to have witnessed the electrify-
ing effect on the men In the camp when
word was passed along the line that
woman was coming. Long before she
was within mile of the camp knots OF
men were gathered here and there
watching, looking in the direction from
whence the wagon was to come. As
she hove in sight, each one gathered
around his or their camp as when az
alarm had been sounded in a prairie
dog town. Within few Yards of the
outside habitation the woman aliClted,
and accompanied by her husband pro-
ceeded toward the County Clerks Office.
ct had been ADVERTISED that the dona-
lion of a town lot would be given the
first woman who came in Curious
eyes were watching her every step as
she approached the Clerks quarters.
But the crowd which had gathered
around the Office for mali receded
respectfully from each side of the on
trance. As she passed in, Co Fer
guson serenely doomed up, and, sailing
out among the boys, agisated a recap
ton.
Seized by the inspiration hundred
hats were removed from heads of noble
structure and design, siluriated some
what perhAes, and a hundred horny
palms passed over the unkem2t locks
tosmooth them down, vests wore pulled
down. and hundred p,.ir OF eyes ran
down the respective owners digging
clothes" proudly inspecting the in
evitabls ball stitch" which reioined
the dismembered seam or LalG in place
the PStOA R conspicuous dimensions
By a hook of common consent the
Colonel was the nan selected 80 make
the reception speech UReasiyy plum
ing his mustache with cerbonate-stained
fingers, the Colonel approached her
and, followed by the uncovered heads,
he inadvertently yanked frog from his
throat and began:
THE SPEECH OF WELCOME.
Respected Madam" and hundred heads
nodded assent Appealing again TO bis mus
tache for the needed inspiration the Colonel
resumed again: Respected Madam-5he
Illuminating specter of this most fascinating
OCCASION" And a hundred heads bobhed
serenely again in assent Pluming again
the source of inspiration, the halting Colonel
staggered on: sFoot prints Of thine,
which have first fallen on our carboniferous
Eoil we welcome thee. Mercury in her
aerial fight trails through the starry a. Chi
traves of heaven, to trail over the silurian
outorops of Garfield county, which has
become sacred to uB from toll, vicssitudes
and privations. 1t is ours by right of dis
covery, and you are welcome. We are con-
versant with your sex and some of us have
been victimi0ed- We have learned to love
and cherish in memory the tiny fingers
which were rubbed over our biscuits in
other days and we languish for the same
The deicacy of sewing on bottoms (thimble-
less) is ours, and our toil-stained robes bear
the traces of the silurian outcrop. For
months we have been here surrounded by
the beautiful crystalline pearls of heaven,
which have banked about and around US
and our only solace has been the chirp of
the camp bird and the weird wailings of the
metamorphic blasts We have long antici-
pated the daisy, struggling through the
snowy depths to comfort US, as the day
drew near when we laid by our snow-shoes
on the limestone Lodges, but this occasion is
most sublime, undreamed of and uaprece
dented in tho history of our new country.
Thou hast come upon us like perfume
feig hted breath of the gentle spring time,
and thou art the shrine to which we bow
and bring tribute, and in behalf Of these, my
partners in the struggle, who stand before
you with uncovered heads, some of them
glistening like a FURNISHED disc in the
Glurian sunlight, heads which have been
robbed of capillary traces from inevitable
contact. I again say, welcome"
And she dropped. -DenUer Ne,Cs.