The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-12
HEFELI HOME,
In the Quiet Retreat Of the
Wasatch Mountains.
Far from the Maddening Crowd and the
Electric Light Tax Collector.

OltY, on saturday morning laSU.
What a bright morning
The only black spot that 1 could dis
Germ on the pellucid eXpAnce of ceru-
lean canopy was the alleged piece of
poetry in The MORNING DISPATCH in
the fourteen lines of which l had tried
to convey breath of the volume OF
good feeling l entertained then-and
ALWAYS will entertain-for the good
people of Provo.
Why, if anybody were to hire me from
January l, 1892, Throwing the ma
tional Presidential election excitement
OF that November into the bargain, J
till the next bicentennial of this great
and glorious RepuDlic-I could not say
any more than, provo be blessed"
No, sir Provo is blessed.
Blessed with victorious Democrats.
Blessed with sensible, though defeated,
Republicans.
Blessed with more land less than
Italian skies and equable temperature.
Blessed with Surroundings of fruit
fulness as luXuriant as are the aspira-
lions OF the people.
Blessed, above all, with sturdy men,
lovely women, and promising children,
who will contribute towards making
Provo the city of southern Utah.
But all this does not tell you
How | came up the mountain sides
into the valley.
I'll tell you, although | know almost
to modest surety that [ shouldn t.
1t was 'Dolph' Boshard.
He got on time"
He knew of my philosophical pro-
penSites, and he knew that If | were
let loose among the unsophiSticated
Democrats, innocent Republicans, and
guileless Liberals of the Garden City,
would paralyze them, one and all, into
buying copy of CAS- You Like It,"
They | mean the variOusly cOgno-
menaied gentlemen above illustrated
took a book, or SAID they would take
one, anyhow.
know, Brother Boshard did, proba-
bly, to make his quartet partners Pyae
for it.
But am up IN the canyon now.
Brother "Dolph'' would insist on
taking me out Of Provo.
lSQito coce-"Shows his good judg
ment.
The best way he could get at it was
by hiring little buggy. There was a
time when Bro. b. didn't have buggy.
That was before the "boom.' Long
before It, too. For "Dolph'' was care
ful not to engage in wildcat bust
ness enterprises. Peaches, (Oh, the
Lord knows how many my boy ate of
the countersD and apples { have moth
ing to say and grapes (the temperate
people can talk now)-alI in profusion,
but in no more profuse pr0fuSiOn than
was the kindness of all Provo, scattered
around me AS prOmiscuously land more
sol than was the rhy ming and rhy thm-
ing of that sonnet in The DISPATCH,
which | left behind me, all the same as
Mary's little lamb.
Since | came up here to Wasatch
county again, you quite naturally ex-
pect me to tell you something abort it.
Why, bless your soul! We don't know
ANYTHING. President hatch is still in
the balance, and whether he be found
wanting or not, | know not. In fact,
the Wasatch county people lOlson OF
no Olson wanted him. This l can
predicate On sure assurance.
How | came up to the valley? Why,
the best | could. The best was Brother
BoShard's elegant One-hOrSe rig as faI
up as the Toll Gate. He wouldn't
let loose of me. | wonder If [ owe him
ANYTHING yet. Ii | do it's his own fault
he didn't get it out of me; for he had
three hours OF solid talk out of me. AL
the way up the hills and all the good peo-
pie of Provo who know the difference
between him and me know that we
didn't have much time between that
horse of his and that tongue of mine, to
find out how many hundred votes the
Liberals in Weber County got from then
alleged Republican allies.
Well, l GOT here, anyhow. You
should have seen me. Particularly
when at VIM. Bagley's place at Charles
ton, | GOT Is yeaT-old boy to saddle a
horse. to take me OF as hind end freight,
hanging on for dear life land 70 centSl.
scrambing all over the sagebrush-cIad
hill, at an angle of $50 (more or Less.
| felt like jumping off, but l could
barely crawl off, at the last end of the
road. when the animal gave out
and | painted for relief, 1t was ride
for the Lord only knows, how many
blessings over all those ATTITUDES, alti-
tudes and equestarlan attitudes. Ii
ever there was a DonkegSOte, was one.
Yes, was Sancho Pansa Ia Pansey,
or IA Pensee). III short, | was such Il
remembrance of reminiscent MONITOR
grttulneSs that ] am still at this table
of mine wondering whether it is the
altitude of Wasatcn county or the lati-
tude of Utah county that renders Provo
valley desirable cOncOmItant, or
peaceful competitor of, Provo city.
Well, | crawled up here, anyway. |
am happy, and l am still happier, al
though knowing that there are yet
some people IN the lovely, Sweetly-em-
powered, fragrantly-engardened, fruit
fullv-enorcharded Provo city, who do
not know that there can be more
peaceful, more blissful, more healthful,
more beautiful, more hopeful place
than Provo city.
/, for one don't know.
Put me down for an ignore Cignor-
anus is the Latin, first person, plural,
you must KNOW
Provo means II prove" 81 try" 81
test Well, I've proved her true, Eve
tried her beautiful, I've tested her
noble.
God bless herl
The metropolis of southern Utah!
The very place of which we read in
Proverbs x:22, The blessing OF the
Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no
SORROW with it.
As to Brother Hatch, l still know
nothing. May be you'll let me know
ior a certainty; or Mr.. Olson may.
Still the grass grows into hay, the
grain is drying, the cows ale having
CALVES, and | am,
Yours fraternally,
LEO HEFELI.
MIDWAY, August 10, 1891.