The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28

they were wearing their white hunting
trousers behind side before, as IL ware.
They have one man at The Alters
who wears a pair Of white duck riding
panties, gored or something at the hips,
and so tight at the knee that it takes
two walters to seat him at the table
one to hold the chair and one to hook
his legs up under the roof Of the table.
His father made his money by building
a large sausage mill in New York, and
then succeeded in having an ordinance
passed outlawing every dog in town.
He soon grew vastly rich, and his son,
st. George Tart Paddock, now talks
fuently in the purest stable English
and eats his porridge with a crop.
In a burst Of merriment a beaUti
full young girl called him only a pant
sey blossom That took away his joy
Of living there. No one could look at
him without laughing, for the trousers
were gathered and so full at the waist
band that his little coat stuck curled
up at the tail like a nasturtium,
But I could tell you something
quite odd about the country at Colorado
Springs" he added. You will not
nowtice it at first, but at lahst you be
gin to nowtice that the air is SO thin
and so rare and pure that one is often
deceived in distances,
"Once there was a fellow out there
If [ am not taking up your time "a feI-
low who started TO ride"-We allowed
him to tell it, for he enjoyed it, and he
told it very we'll, but when we got the
cue to laugh great hot tears as large as
huckleberries stood in Burbank's eyes,
and he went to bed with a hot water
cloth on his head.
Laramie City is a good town also. 1t
is one of the two cities of the new state.
Henry V. S. Groesbeck, who succeeded
me on the woolsack as justice of the
peace there, is nov chief justice Of the
State. This should be a lesson to the
boys of America and teach them 70
keep their eyes on ne. l met Judge
Groesbeck, and he told me that q pro-
longed effort to make head or tail out
Of my docket bad fitted him for Chief
Justice of the State.
Judge Groesbcck was succeeded by
DIR. Hayford, who wires me to day that
his thirteenth child has just registered
at his house and secured rooms.
Edward Ivinson, with whom [ used
to do my banking while I was running
The Boomerang, secured an impetus
then which has made him a wealthy
retired banker who goes to the Holy
Land every year and can tell you all
about the earth, world or globe which
we nhabjt, and of what parts it is com
pOsed-viz., land and water.
None Of his cashiers ever went to
Canada. That was understood when
the cashier was hired.
Colonel William Horatio Roat isn0w
a ~connoisseur and buyer Of rare wild
animals in a live State. He does not
aim to be literary. but he has the fac
ulty Of ~conversing freely and writing
letters with ideas in them, and he does
it without the use Of a compendium
He had gone with q carload Of live elk
when l vas there, but he buys every
thing Of the heavens above or the earth
beneath or the waters under the earth.
He will fill an order for anything
from a prairie dog to the grizzly bear,
and would be glad if some little boy
who wishes TO know the business would
accept a position as care taker OF a
grown up bear. The last boy was per
f6ctly satisfactory, but according to
the contract, he will have to be shipped
inside another bear just sold to Fair
mount park.
James Milton Sherrod is still onh hand,
a neatly dressed squaw man, whose
face, as the California editor said Of
James Whitcomb Riley, one has TO be
come gently acclimated to.
lie has q queer habit while engaged
in deep thought or conversation Of roll
ing a small ball Of wagon wheel tar
between bis thumb and forefnger.
| Many a time he has been engaged in
conversation with me, say at the uni
versity or the penitentiary, and he
would halt, look wildly about, tears
fill his great moss agate eyes, and he
| would say: Excuse me q moment; l
want to step over to town and get a
new piece OF tar. I can't riccoIect
when I'm cut O. tar. Tar is my inspira
ton, understand? Ican't coat scripter,
I can't reconcile. I'm like a COW that's
lost her cud. amt with a d"
He was the first to greet me when I
landed in Laramie years and years
| ago and tell me that Laramie was the
orI- tnmn that had narticla OF nrns-