The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-04-09

10 have been issued by the i rs. Natura
bank OF Salt Lake. In the hurry and
rush at the door | took it while relea.s.
ing M piece to myself.
would not ask 10 have the amount
made good tntier ordinary circumstances.
but we are So far from home and carriage
hire is - steep here in California that we
feei a Etti. crippled by the loss.
Spring opens beautifully in this state.
We rode down from the Summit in the
night, after a long journey through a
winter season of unusual severi.r. and
when the day dawned we were in the
Sacramento valley. with the song of the
bobcli,lk and the scent of violets in the
air. 1t is hard to describe how two
worn and frozen men. after weeks of un-
interrnpte . storm and frost, blinded. b,
the dazzling snow and ice. hailed With
wet eyes end croupy welcome the green
grass and the spring as they burst uoon
us in a moment.
Close your eyes at Truckee, dear reader.
ana tell the porter to call you at Sacra-
mento. Go to sleep where tie snow is
20 feet deep and wake up in the fresh
where the odor of newly plowed
heic5 can greet Your peeled and frozen
hose; then you will know that even in
TINS world there is sometimes for zach
hearta he a compensating JOY.
sam Davis is still farming at Carson
and running The Appeal.
lie Keeps his subscription list written
on the Wall of his office. and sometimes
when the plastering falls down as many
as seven or eight subscriptions expire.
Once he moved into another building
and the old one became a boarding house.
Inc poor invalid who used the old office
as a bedroom says lie is still ANNOYED by
sam. who comes there at all hours Of the
night to look over the old subscription
list.
1t is still more awkward" saws the
lnvalld, because lny couch is in the way.
ahd often wake up in the night to find
sam standing on the bed, and with one
lan on my chest to steady himself by
10 Is changing the address OF a sub
Mr.. Davis has for many wears given
lis en- to the cultivation of fine
attic, mostly Holsteins. There is little
bout the rise and fall of the Holstein
nat he does not know. Recently. how
yer, he has been, he SAYS. cruelty
'ronSed by a man who has been His
i1end. Sam has done much for him. but F.,
Fehtuary last he sold sam a cow that !
ad no front teeth in the upper jaw.
tie said Il good deal about it and tried j.:
, from the man, but could not .
FRANCISCO Journalists sent him circu- !,
RS ana price lists for artificial teeth !
lat would tit the COW. but he would not
ugh and refused to be comforted.
by and by Joseph I. Goodman offered
Oct with sam 500 against all the :.
utch lunches required by Joe during :.
$ natural lifetime that no COW had front j.
eth on the upper jaw. and the two men -
ent out around Oakland trying to find =
COW SO that they could ascertain. II :.
as a pleasing picture, those two middle =
'ed married men going about Oakland
curing at the jewelry stores and every 6
here if they kept a COW. :,
once they found one on her wav to her "
ork. She met them pleasantly, as all
5ilf3fnlans meet a stranger. and passed
, thanking that was the end of it, but a,
IN said how was the time and started
after her, for lie knew as soon as he
It her that it was a COW. which shows =,
he Is no only possessed Of great
erary Resources. but is full of general on
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sam had a heavy gray overcoat on at W,
time, but he pressed on. The COW 10
IKE into a run, which threw her milky
y first on one side and then the udder
she ran. She was a low set COW, with
at tripe facilities, and could not run ne
n much grace, but after we had #,
tched Sam awhile as he ran it was a