The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-19

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stoves and IA furnace going all day in the
opera house. as well as the entire gas
service. including footlights. in order to
warm up for evening service, and ever
then we wore white sweaters and
shoulder breakfast shawls over II dress
suits on the stage.
Natural gas is getting less plentiful.
and the demand increased so that there
was great suffering from cold among the
poor. who had to return to the electric
light and cast aside their parlor gas logs
for the time. Heavy manufacturing en-
terprises also decrease the quantity Of
gas for home consumption. and as usual
the corporation sails gayly on while the
citizen has to go to bed to get warm.
sE-How strangely mankind does!
We go and beg on Bonded knees for
large corporations to colne and build
and do business in oar town to raise the
price Of L lots, and yet how long is it
before we write Il piece for the county
paper saying that we are driven to the
wall by these great corporations. ana that
We hate them like everything:
We are only children in this life,
dressed up il: mems clothes. and | hope
with DR.. Briggs that there is IA chance III
the future state for growth and develop.
,nent. | can see how | could grow in y
future state and add to what | now
know.
During the terrible reign of the cold
we met on IA train Il day bound west
the ratest thing | ever saw on earth
VIZ. a sissy" travelling man. Trave!
ing men are most generally business
men. Thcy have to be. They are mostly
pretty rugged, masculine men, witt,
voices that you ran hear the darkest
night that ever blew"
This Il was constantly running III
against things that We're just as rude rs
they could be. That was as tar as he
ever got. Some people were real hateful,
and he claimed that once his blood boiled
Ike everything.
Maybe it was the morning when he
took a sponge bath in the north end of
the sleeper at Pittsburg, as the train
took breakfast there. You must know
that the sponge bath facilities cannot be
just what one would wish on a sleeping
car, especially when one has TO do it in
the front doorway at a meal station with
the thermometer at IL degrees below. zero
and a great deal of passing in and ont.
Still he had probably promised some
dear one solemnly that he would battle
every morning if it cost him his life.
People filed past him filled with Won
der and amazement, and to each one he
said in IA light, thin. girlish. voice, beg
pardon. but would you mind shutting
that door,"
Nine of as. after we bad passed by
him. went to the other end of the car
and passed through again three times.
enjoying it heartily.
Once we met the man who brings in
the ice for the cooler. He was near the
young maj who was trying to bathe.
We had quite a long quarrel with the
iceman over the right of way. and oneof
our party jostled him rudely against the
young man, who was tryin: to towel his
back. The icelnan slipped, and his large
cake of ice and the great coarse tongs
also fell against him.
1t was horrible. The young man gave
a wild shrek, and with a moan of pain
his Boulanger whiskers went back in
side and it Is said have never come out
again.
Later on after breakfast | tried to
make up to him and be friendly, but he
turned upon me like a wild beast and
.Oh. bother."
| overheard yesterday the wall of the
snort, stout LAZY. She was looking at a
fashion magazine, but she could not find
anything To suit her.
Did you ever notice" she said 10 hey
companion, "A tall, litis young woman.
was so long WASTED that saa rrvcr
to 81. down at all, or to he sitting
on her foot # she did sit down. did You
ever notice that nothing is ever designed
Tor the short. stout woman in these mag
Etnei."
We'll, | do not remember ever to have
any designs for short. plump pee
said Ethel shooting her cool, spiral