Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01

lncandescent and superb, against the SKY
"Thst," said the trooper, "is Old Faithful.
He goes off every IS minutes to the minute,
plays for i've minutes and sends up q
column of water 150 feet high. By
the time YOU have looked at all the other
geysers he will be ready to play"
So we looked and we wondered at the Bee
hive, whose mouth is built up exactly like
hive; at the Turban (Which is not in the
least like a turbanl and at many, many
other geysers, hot holes and springs. Some
OF them rumbled, some hissed, some went of
spasmodlcally, and others lay dead still In
sheets of sapphire and beryl. Would you
believe that even these terrible creatures
would have to be guarded by the troopers
to prevent the irreverent American from
chipping the cones to pieces, or, worse still,
making the geyser sick? If you take OF
soft soap small barrelful and drop it down
a geyser's mouth, that geyser will presently
be forced to lay all before you and for days
alterward will be of an lrritatei and in
constant stomach. When they told me the
tale L was filled with sympathy. Now !
wish that had stolen soap and tried the ex-
pertinent on some lonely little beast far
away in the woods. 1t sounds so probable
and SO human.
The Giantess in Trouble.
Yet he would be bold man who would
administer emetics to the Giantess. She is
fat-lipped, having no mouth; she looks like
a pool, 30 feet long and 30 wide, and there
is no ornameDtation about her. At irregu-
lar intervals she speaks and sends up col
umn of water over 200 feet high to begin
with, then she is angry for a day and half
sometimes for two days. Owing to her pc
euliarity of going mad in the night, not
many of the people have seen the Giantess
at her finest; but the clamor of her unrest,
men say. shakes the wooden hotel and echoes
like thunder among the hills.
When L saw her trouble was brewing. The
pool bubbled iuriously, and at fve-minute
intervals sank foot or two, then rose,
washed over the rim, and huge steam bub-
bles broke OIL the top. Just before an erup-
tlon the water entirely disappeared from
view. Nota beEe-Whepever you see the
water lie down in geyser mouth get away
as fast as you can. L saw tiny little geyser
suck in its baby breath in this way, and in
stlnct made me retire while it hooted after
me.
Leaving the Giantess to swear and spit
and thrash about, we went over to Old
Faithful, who, by reason of his faithfulness,
has benches close to him whence you may
Comfortably watch. At the appointed hour
we heard the water flying up and down the
mouth with the sob OF a wave in cave.
A Column of Diamonds.
Then came the preliminary gouts, then a
roar and a rush, and that glitering column
of diamonds rose, quivered a moment, and
stood still for minute. Then it broke, and
the rest was a confused snarl of water not 80
feet high. All the young ladies-not more
than 20-in the tourist band remarked that
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writing their names in the bottoms of shall
low pools that sowed the ground. Nature
fixes the insult indeliblv, and the after
years shall learn that Hattie, ""Sadie,"
"Mamie, Sophie" and SO forth have taken
out their hairpins and scrawled in the face
of Old Faithful.
The congregation returned to the hotel to
put down their impressions in diaries and
notebooks. which they wrote up ostentatious-
" in the verandas. 1t was a sweltering hot
day, albeit we stood somewhat higher than
the level of Simla, and I left that raw pine
creaking caravansary for the cool shade of
a clump of pines between whose trunks
glimmered tents. A batch OF United States
troopers came down the road and flung
themselves across the country into their
rough lines. The Mclean cavalryman can
ride, though he keeps his accoutrements pig
fashion and his horse COW fashion.
Soldiers and Cowboys.
was free of that camp in five minutes
free to play with the heavy, lumpy carpines,
have the saddles stripped, and punch the
horses knowingly in the ribs. One of the
men had been in the fight with "Wrap-U Up
His-Tail, and he told me how that great
chief his horses tail tied in red calico, swag-
gered in front of the United States cavalry,
all to single combat. But he
was slam, and few of his tribe with him.
There's no use in an Indian, anyway"
concluded my friend.
A couple of cowboys-real cowboys
jingled through the camp amid shower of
mild chaf They were on their way to
Cook City, 1 fancy, and I know that they
never washed. But they were picturesque
ruffians, exceedingly, with long spurs,
hooked stirrups, slouch hats, fur weather
cloth over their knees and pistol butts Just
easy to hand.
1.-THE cowboys goin' under before long,"
said my friend. "Soon as the country's
settled up he'll have togo. But he's mighty
useful now. What would we do without
the cowboy?"
"As how?" said !, and the camp laughed.
"He has the money. We have the skill,
He comes in winter to play poker at the
military posts. We play poker-a few.
When he's lost his money we make him
drink and let him 60. Sometimes we get
the wrong man."
Caught the Wrong Cowboy.
And he told me a tale of an innocent cow
boy who turned up, cleaned out, at an army
post, and played poker for Sc hours. But it
was the post that was cleaned out when that
long-halred Caucasian removed himself,
heavy with everybody's pay and declining
the proffered liquor.
"Noaw," said the historian, "I don't play
with no cowboy unless he's a little bit drunk
first
Ere 1 departed gathered from more than
one man that significant fact that up to 100
yards he ielt absolutely secure behind mis-
revolver.
SIN England, understand" quoth the
timber youth from the South-''in England
a man aren't allowed to play with
no firearms. He's got to be taught all that
when he enlists. I didn't want much teach
ing how to shoot straight lore 1 served
Uncle Sam. And that's just where it is.
But you was talking about your Horse
Guards now?"
Iexplained 1 briefly some peculiarities of
equipment connected with our crackest
crack cavalry. l grieve to saw the camp
roarec.
Take EN- over swampy ground. Let 'em
run around bit an work the starch out Of
'eni, and then, Almighty, if we wouldn't
plug 'em at ease I'd eat their horses"
Cavalry Behind the Trees.
"But suppose they engaged in the open7"
said I.
Engaged in hadesl Not If there was q
tree trunk within 20 miles. They couldn't
engage in the ooen."
Gentlemen, the officers, have you ever
considered the existence on earth,
subseq uent to the year 1864. of cavalry. who.