Tombstone epitaph., 1892-04-10
DOS CABEzAs.
Dos CABEzAs, April !, '92.

ANSh tASosSt haAf foSt sho" aho rlNNtt with occasional glimpses of sunshine. It has been anything but pleasant. And yet why should we complaint Our visitor, Charles Washeim, who in the flash days when men were ready to kill each other over town lots, not worth nickle apiece now, held high offices among us, has spent since then several years in Nevada, where the temperature goes down to 9 degrees below zero. What bowling there would be if we had single night as cold as that? We are so used to fine weather that few stormy days make us grumble. Ten years ago a mining expert left three feet of snow in Lead vile, Colorado, to report on mines here, Supposing that we enjoyed perpetual summer he wore light shoes. On seeing two inches of snow the morning after his arrival he cursed our ''abominable climate" iu the regu- lar swearer's silly style of relieving himself. We ought to be coutented. MT. Washeim says that of all the places he has been in Dos Cabezas on the whole, has the most desirable cli- mate of any of them, and when our day of prosperity dawns he is coming back to live in sight of the Two Heads, which people eighty to one hundred miles away can see towering above all other mountains in view.
 It Is true that cattle are suffering from the present fitful weather. As shown by their curling, glossy hair they were recuperating- It will not hurt steers or young stock. but num- bers of old cows that might have lived will sink under it.
 SOME CATTLE WILL DIE
 from a singular cause. We have a very early mountain grass, known as Pod Californica, which stock greatly relish. It is in small widely scattered punches. In favorable spots it is now ten inches high and in full head, its seed ripening in most years before the end of April. Some weeks ago old cows used to the range, which had come through the winter in good con- dition, began to hunt for this favorite grass. Though the juicy bites were far apart the hunters kept on, and soon became so footsore that they could scarcely move. Now in these cold days they are likely 10 die. We see something of this kind happening all the time, with men as the victims. They arc making a living, but they want to get rich, and throwing up certainty for an alluring mirage they go down with crash, sometimes alas even by their own hands.
 My readsr. if you are doing well be satisfied; do not throw away reality to grasp a shadow. Keep the fact in view that it is very ticklish matter to paint the tail of live eagle bright yermillion color, even when his chain seems to make him respectful and quiet.
 ON IRRIGATED, RICH SOILS
 the pod grass alluded to above is really valuable. With water it grows twenty inches high and so thick on the ground that it would easily yield two tons of hay per acre. It has no coarse stalks and it's earliness gives it special value. As it withers when the soil gets dry it is not good all-round range grass. If it could be easily propagated it would be a blessing in spring. but it's small seeds rarely grow on rough, dry hill-sides.
 MIGRATORY BIRDS.
 Usually robins and bluebirds winter here, but instinct kept them away this season. A year ago crested blue jays were with us for the first and ouiy uinc- IL ID habusohe ofu, little smaller than the common jay The latter never leaves. They are shy, but if I whistle, seven or eight come at once. They rob the Lests oi small inseciiierous birds and kill their young, but then they kill so many bugs and insects themselves that it pays to spare them- Even men have bad principles and habits which we have to wink at or we would always be in hot water.
 The Wbippoorwill arrives about March 18th, mockiDg birds month | later, with king birds in their wake. About May 3d humming birds are