, 1890-03-30

and the Blenders used to be very thick in
an early day, but after a while the Ben
ders said they guessed they would have
to be excused. Even the Blenders had
to draw the line somewhere.
But now | am buying in Salt Lake.
Not a heavy venture, you understand.
Just the bUxofice receipts for one even
ing. l see 1t stated in the papers at $lO,-
600. Anyway | will let that 90. That
is near enough. When | see anything in
the papers | ask no more questions. | do
not think it is right. Patti and | have
both made it a rule this winter to put 10
at least one evening as an investment
where we happier to be. We are almost
sure 10 do well out of it, and we also get
better notices in the paper.
Patti is not looking so well this season
as she did when my father took ME to see
her 10 the prime of her life. Though
getting quite plain. it costs as much to
see her as ever it did. Her voice has a
metallic, or rather bi metallic, ring to it
nowadays, and she misses it by not work
ing in more topical songs and bright Ital-
ian gags.
| asked her about an old singer who
used to be with her. She said: "He was
remova to re ocean, where he keepa re
lighthouse. He learn to himself how to
manage re lighthouse one seasong; then
he try bv himself to star.
Now, if she would do some of those
things on the stage, it would pay her first
rate.
Last week | visited Wyoming a good
deal and met many old friends, all of
whom shook me warmly b. the hand as
soon as they saw me. | visited the CAPT
fnl and hpFh hpuaa1 olfnprnal TO- ~
hour out OF respect to my memory. /
will never say anything mean OF a mem
Der of the legislature again. A speech
of welcome was made by the gentleman
from Crook county, Mr.. Kellogg, the
Demosthenes OF the coming state. He
made statements about me that day which
in the paper read almost as good and
truthful as an epitaph.
Going over the hill, at Crow creek,
whose pertumed waters kiss the livery
stables and abattoirs at Camp Carlin.
three slender Sarah Bernhardt coyotes
came toward the train, looking wistiully
at me as who should say, Why, part
ner, how you rave fleshed up" Answer
ing them from the platform of the car, |
said: go east, young men, and flesh up
with the country" Honestly and serl-
ously. | do think that il the coyote
would change off and try the soft shell
crab for awhile, he would pick right up.
When | got to Laramie City the well
come was so warm that it almost wiped
out the memory of my shabby welcome
in New York harbor last summer on my
return from Europe, when ever my band
went back on me and got drunk at Coney
Island on the very money | had given
them to use in welcoming me home
AGAIN.
Winter has been a little severe along
the cattle ranges, and deceased cattle may
be seen extending their swollen abdo-
mems INTO the bright, crisp air as the train
rapidly whirls one along at the rate of
seven or eight miles per hour. The skin
ming of a frozen steer is something to
which | alluded awhile ago. Col. Buffalo
Bill, who served under Washington and
killed buffalo and baby elephants at Val
ley Forge, according to an Italian paper,
should have put this feature into his
show. Maybe he will when he reads this.
The COW gentleman first selects a quick
yet steady going mule, then he locks for
a dead steer. He does not have to look
very far. He now attaches one end of
the deceased to some permanent object.
This Is harder to find thar the steer, how
ever. tie then attaches his rope to the
hide OF the remains, having cut it with
his knife first. He next starts the mule
of, and a mile or so away he discovers
that the hide is entirely free from the cold
and pulseless remains.