The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-27

| SO hot that he could not turn it back III
quite a long spell, but after awhile. by
the use of a towel. he managed to turf
it off enough SO that only a small stream
came from it, and he filled a china cuspi
dor with water. also the wash basin and
his valise. This he did while trying tc
empty the basin out of the window. A
great deal of the water was spilled when
he stepped On the Halford sauce bottle
again.
He emptied the basin while the cuspi.
dor was films and then emptied it while
the basin wcs filling.
Sometimes ii going back and forth he
did not step q. the Haiford bottle at all.
He does not remember how many
times he did these round trips, but as the
gray dawn aegan 70 stt.l tl.aidlv across
the sullen SKY there stood ut the open
easement a tall man with a pale. intel
lectual face and in a simple. fiuttering
and severely plain neglicee with wet
sleeves. He was just pouring the last
pitcher of hot water ont 1t the window,
and below lay che body Of the watchdog
drowned.
/ The watchdog lay with CLASSY eyes
chained to the house. and the watchiog's
honest lark was peeled off in faces
Ehere the hot water had struck him.
That pale and interesting man was the
Euthor Of these lines.
At first | thought | would say it was
Mr.. Burbank. but now as | thinl. Il over
and remember his many kindly acts to-
ward me. and the artist is liable to make
a picture of him. | am brought to see
that it would be Il great wrong.
The moral OF the above incident is that
the man VINO Is wise and who has been
abroad as far as Escanaba. Mich, or F.
quimalt, B. G., will open the escape
valve of a radiator when il acts that way
and let the hot water squirt and squirt
and squirt" He will not try to save the
carpet.
Now Whatcom and Fairtaven together
constitute a beautiful semicircle about
Bellingham bay iii the new state oi
Washington. F~airhaven is quiet Just
now, a good place to think in or bring
up a family, but it fears not. 1t is gen
orally believed that James Hill is wait
ing till property gets low enough to buy
readily. then will scoopit in and establish
the terminus of the Great Northern rail-
road there. Should he do this he would
one of the ple~asantest private towns
on the coast.
do not know whether he will do so Or
not. Some think he will, and some think
he will not. Iqpce lived in a town for
time and held two lots with the
hope that Mr.. Gould would build there
and erect large shops employing over IA
men, but Mr.. Gould died with
out having done SO. Finally l exchanged
he lots for an agents prospectus of The
and Horse Doctor Book" and be-
gan to canvass for the same at IS PER
cent of the receipts.
Fairhaven and New Whatcom with a
1 transcontinental road would be a gree
success. All they lack is people. That
5 true OF this whole region.
More honest sweat and less scanning Uf
he horizon for railroads would No-s
we'll. Tie growth of all the cities of l..
northwest even in the three years
visited it is astonishing ever to
me who has mede a solemn promise that
10 will n,ytr be astonished.
There VS. Y a better time for the
lissatisiel nan of the safes to come.
de should not expect 10 make IL coInpe-
ency while playin" high fva'and wait
ne for his lots to go up, but come here
With his working clothes and go in to :
win. If you buy a lot, buy it for a 90
ear investment and not for the purpose
# selling it tomorrow for a bank to build ,
H..