Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-31
IN A LOGGasG CAMP.


Bill Nye. who n ~ lives in Hudson,
Wis, lately visited logging camp, aud
writes II 1t az follows ~ the Denver
Opi"ioa:
pot up at Bootjack camp. on the rag
ing Willow Ilver, where the gay plu M
aged cbipinunk and the spruce gum
have their home.
Winter IN the pine woods IL frauoht
with fua and frolio. It is more tranquil
xItn fatigue than funds, however. Ta,s
winter n man IN the Mt'higau aud WIS.,
oonsin lumber camps could arise at 4:30
a.m., eat a patent ptilfui OF dried APP
ples soaked with Young Hyson aud
sweetened with Persian glucose, 10 out
10 he timber with a lantern, Kew down
she giants of the forest. with snow up
TO the pit of his stomach, tIil the gray
owl In the gathering gloom whooped aud
hooted IN deris,on, and all for Sl2 per
month and stewsd pruucs. / did NOT
try to accumulate wealth while was IN
camp. / Just allowed others 90 enter
into the mad rush and wreoch fortune
from the baud Of fate while | STUDIED
human nature and the cook. had u
good many pleasant days there, too.
read such literary works ~ could had
around tue camp, and smoked ths roy IL
Havana smoking tobacco Uf the cookie.
lnose who have not numbered ~Iucn ao
not know much Of true Joy and sylvan
smokinR tooacc,.
iney ars noy using very good grade
of the weed in the lumber regions tuis
winter. When l say lumber regions
do not refer entirely TO the circumstance
Of a weak tack. Monkey wrcnch, oil
c.n and screw driver cent with this Joke;
also rules for working 10 IN all kinds Of
goods The tobacco used by the pine
choppers of the northern forest 10 called
the Scandinavian. do not knew why
they call IL that, unless IL 10 because you
oan smoke IN Wisconsin and smell II In
Scandihoovia.
When night came We would gather
around the blazing IRE and talk over old
times and smoke this tobacco. ismoked
il until last week; then l bought new
mouth and resolved ~ lead u different
life. | shall never forget the evenings
We spent together IN that log shack In
the heart Of the forest. hey are craven
ON my memory where tines efacing
fingers cannet monkey With them. We
would most always converse. fne cre9
talked the Norwegian language, aud l
am using the English languages mostly
this winter. So eacn enjoyed himself
in his own quiet way. Tns seemed 10
throw the Norwegians . good deal to-
vether. IL also threw me good deal To-
gether. Tue Scandinavians soon learn
our WAYS and our Language, bat prior To
that they are quite ciannish.
The co pk, however, was an Ohio man.
He spoke the Ssndusky dialect with a
rich, not brown flavor tuat did me much
good, so thai after had talked with the
crew a few hoars la English and re
caived their harsh, corduroy replies IN
Norske. i gladly lied to the cook snanty
There | could rapidly change To the
smoothly flowing sentences peculiar to
the Oaio tongue, and while I ate the
oommon twisted doaghnut of commerce
We would talk on and on of the pleasant
DAYS we had spent iu our own native
land. talked TO him Of bis old home
till the tears wou unblddsa start. a.
he rolled out the dough With comn,on
BuaweisSr be.r bottle and shed the
scalding tears into the four barrel.
Tears are Always unavsiilng. but sofue-
times / think they are more 30 when
they are shed into barrel Of honr. He
war 64 0HSs w RCts A&' Wttse ss~~-
tears on the slightest provocstion or
any thing else. Once l told him some
thi % touching that his eyes werr
blinded with tears for the nonce.
Then took q pie and stole away %
that he could Ne left aione with his
sorrow,
He used 10 grind the coffee at am.
The coffee mill Was nailed up against
partition on the opposite side from my
bed. That 10 one reason did nos STAY
any longer at the camp. it takes about
an hour 10 grind csfiee enough for thirty
men, and aa my ear was generally against
the pine boards when the cook began, u
rufiisd nay slumbsrs and made me mo-
roer man.
We had three men at the camp vhc
snor~d. IL they had snored IN my ov 2
language could have endured IT, bus y
was entirely unintellisibls 30 me - y
vas. Sill Il wssn't bad. either. They
snored ON differeRt keys, and ssill there
was harmony In it--A kind Of chime o.
/ imported snorr, ~ ID we're. ! used y
| lie and listen 81 IL for hours. Then tns
cook would becin his coifee mtii over
| ture, and would arise.
when I GOT b .ms slept fr-m Mosda,
morning 10 Wash 'ngtoa's birthdsy, with
out food or va o..