, 1885-09-20
SOME wmYroREs.
a Reason Tor Coming Back TO wyoming
TO STAY.

a Reason Tor Coming Back TO wyoming
to stay.
Yesterday n party of old-timers were
lounging in front Of the Inter Ocean, and
they talked Of the good days gone when
they could get up in the morning and see
former acquantances osclllating in the
wind between three poles tied together at
the top and spread out at the bottom, and
stood up on the plains adjacent; of the
times when Indians fooled around and
acted as if they wanted to get shot and
did, and all the other fun and glory of the
distant heretofore. Then they branched
of into discussing the fact that lots Of PEG
pie have gone away from here swearing
that they would never come back again
sowe mole, and then invariably rode all
the way IRON the nirkle plated east TO this
point to prove that they had exceeded the
cold.drawn facts in the case very much.
One ancient barnacle said. well, | ca1
tell you the reason for that. Go on"
grunted the chorus.
You see, when a Teller gifts out here
and stays awhile, he sprter forgits how
emery it is out east. Fact is, home, whar
a nlan was born and raised, ia a pooty
good place TIL he gifts something better,
aud out here that better comes to him SO
kinder gradually that he don't know he's
got it till one day he finds out be has
more money than his daddy ever had, and
he remembers the places he used to 20
afishin when he was a boy, aud
the good times he had taking the
gals 10 singin' %scnoOl, and the old woods
whar he went a squirt huutin', and the
bucket ia the well, and one thing er
nuther like that. And he remembers
hat his mother and his old maid sister,
and the boys that cut him cut of his other
s~weethearts, have never seen his Jolly
lttle wife and the kids, and he takes it
into his head that he'll Just go out Thar
and show EN- of. and p%aralyze EN- by
buyin' a farm hat belonged to people who
used to put on style over him, and would
not think Of his coming TO sec their girl
because he wasn't rich enough. Then,
hnst thing you know. he has cleaned up
hi. stuff aud he's gone. He gifts thar aud
the old fishing places are dried up, or they
ain NOR half as big as they used 10 be,
and its monstrous lonesome. The boys
amt boys any more. and the most Of EN-
amt there, and the girls are married and
more interested in their own kids and
think his and his wife aiu't no great
shakes anyhow and his mother, who is So
glad to see him, has grown sorter child
ish, and his old maid sister is dead gone
on Methodist preachers and strawberry
festivals for the church. and works
SO hard for both that she amt
at home much and is too tired
when she is at home to pay any
attention to him or his kids, and all
society and nature seems to be as selfish
as the rankest strangers would be, He
dom buy the farm, because il don't look
like ii was worth half what they ask for
it, but he rents a place in town and tries
to be friendly and n~eighburly. Still
people don't seem 10 treat him as if he
ever did live there, except about six fell
lers who set around and take a drink
whenever he asks them 10 do it. and none
of EN- ure worth the ammunition that
would kill EN-, because they've never
had ri: up and git enough to git out Of
that sleepy old town. All this lays heavy
on his stomach. and his wife and the
kids talk about how smill the people are.
and arc astonishcd to see Chinese m ne -
except hat it hasn't got any square holes
in the middle Of tin use around there
and because he smokes a 10 cent cigar,
the people say he's putin On sty..e, He
never did smoke a nickle stink,r in his
life, and he's as Ira d Of one
us he would be Of the bite OF a
RATHER. All these things pile up
on him till he begins to feel like a homeo
pathic dose Of consumption medicine, and
so one day after a neighbor has tried to
trade a ringboned spawned critter
with its tail broke and hip shot
to him Tor a sound horse, and
a woman t%hree-qnrters of a mile away
has sent her red healed, dirty -nosed brat
past tue grocery 400 yards TO borrowea
piece Of scrubbin' soap and a tea cup OF
salt. he packs for Wyoming, aud the next
man who says Gods country to him,
meanin the east, has to 20 and soak his
jaw in arnica water and take a lay off for
three days. The sun and the broad plains,
the snowy mountains and the fresh air,
the open hands and the big hearts, the
freedom and the ciyility OF the boundless
west, are good enough for him thencef1r
ward md forever, one and inseparable,
amen, and he don't care a d-n who
knows IT."
The celebrated Thos. Keene cigar at
/ Shaw'g