Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-09

mountains, and by not saying anything al
all except to issue his orders, and at table
ask some one to "please pass those mo.
lasses," or something like that, which did
not arouse political hostility, be was chosen
| as q reserved and non-commlttal candidate
| from that county and elected.
| He went with the other members of the
Legislature. When the proper time came,
and as they all got off at Cheyenne, he did
the same, but it leaked out afterward that he
| had bought ticket and checked his trunk
to Washington, thinking he was elected to
Congress. He had quite a hard time getting
his trunk back, but as his whiskers were
quite long, the front Of his shirt did not
show very much, and so he got along very
well till his other shirt got back from WASH
lngton.
AGRICULTURE A POOR FOLLOWING,
have never regarded agriculture on the
Laramie plains as success, though In other
parts of the Territory, where the season is
longer, it may be better. Few crops can grow
successfully at height of over 1000 feet on
the coarse soil of this great plateau without
irrigation, or even with it, for winter always
fingers in the lap OF spring there until it oc-
casons great deal of talk, and SO the sum-
mer is very brief indeed.
For one who has tried to build himself up
by means of dumbbells and sewer gas, this
dry, exhilarating, champagney air is better
than summer at Saratoga at $6 per day.
The air is crisp and clear It also has the
faculty of making distant objects appear to
be much nearer than they air. When got
as far as Omaha, a stock grower told me that
he could give good story regarding that
popularity of the mountain air. 1t seemed
that an Englishman once went to the West,
and int he rt1nr Inp OF ho cfa ta6
out to walk to the Medicine Bow Mountains
before break fast "They are 40 miles away,
Think" said he. "And SO along toward
noon he gave it up. On the way back he
came to a little irrigating ditch. where
cowboy discovered him removing his cloth
ing and getting ready to swim across. What
are you going to do?' asked the cowboy. L
am getting ready to swim the river. the
Englishman replied straightway. You
can't fool me any more with your internal
optical illusions
AN oFT-REPEATED TALE,
In Denver Leadville man called my at
tention to the contiguity of the Rocky
Mountains, and said would be fooled if 1
judged by appearances in this dry, bracing
atmosphere. 81 could give you a good story
regarding that popularity of the mountain
air." said he, and then he told me the same
story the Omaha stock grower told, word for
word.
AS 1 did not talk much on the way up to
Cheyenne and seemed rather naughty and
reserved, boy OH the train who acts as
peanut purveyor and lIterateur for the road,
took me to be an Eastern man making my
first visit to the West so he spoke to me Of
the wonderful resources of Colorado and
Wyoming, also of the health giving atmos-
phere and how it could take hold of physi-
cal wreck and put him in the prize ring in
side OF year. "The air is enormously
clear, too" he said, as he dropped copy OF
"Velvet Vice" into the seat by q silver
haired clergyman, and "How to Treat Dis
eases of Horses and Swine" into the seat
near a young lady who was on her way to
visit friends in California. "You would
get fooled on it every time. I could give
you good story regarding that popularity
OF the mountain air" said he, and then he
told me the Omaha stockgrower's story, YER
batim ct literatim.
1t is good story, and designed, as I
judge, to illustrate in forcible manner the
extreme rarity of the air more than the e1-
treme rarity of the story itself.
The fora of Wyoming is diversified and
beautiful, though on the plains it is almost
odorless. Several kinds of cactus are found,
either of which, when in full bloom, are