The Bessemer indicator., 1894-02-17
1T IS ONLY A DREAM.
AND YET DREAMS OFTEN COME
TRUE.
What steel worker who has just re-
turned from the mountains related
in this Office a few evenings ago
He saw the crack of coming doom
and the return Of better times.

partner, to run in on you this way with
out even so much as knocking on the
door" he said, as he sat down in the
only good chair in the office and un-
tremendously piled his big feet upon
the papers scattered about on the desk,
thinking perhaps that there was a lack
of paper weights. He was big, broad
shouldered fellow shabbily dressed,
though he wore big diamond pin
which was so bright that it would make
you sneeZe to look at 1t. His manner
was about as uncouth as his attire,
though there was good humored air
about him, which, taken with his frank
address and honest voice made one
rather like him.
81 want to tell you about little
dream had the other night" he went
ON TO say, "and If you want to kind of
make it public it will be all o. X. with
me. I'm steel worker, or rather l
was II steel worker in the good old days
gone by. but like lots of other good
men l was driven out by Tiddlede
Winks Robinson and took to the hills
to prospect.
II see you've got your eye on this big
shirt stud" he said. fondly gazing al
the diamond We'll. you cant have
it for nothing. traded my rights in
last summers diggens for that thing and
guess got cheated. but l told the
boys would come back wearing dia-
monds, and here am.
We'll as l was going to say, had
a dream absut the big steel works the
other night as lay in my lonesome
miners's cabin. I'd been readin the
papers how the works had started up
and how the management was think
ing of running up lot of greasers from
Mexico to make up the crowd necessary
to run the thing. lay down bound to
start the next morning. In my dream
started May LIST next. That's ahead
of the hounds, but that's when sta rted
and although it seems strange we some
times foresee things in our slumbers.
II came over the prairie on foot and
it was dusk when struck the town,
There was a mighty big hullaballoo
raised for some reason and see great
pile of dry goods boxes stacked in the
street and bucket after bucket of oil
was thrown on. Thinks |. what's up?
Suppose they know I'm a comm? But
just then the crowd yelled as the match
was touched to the pile and the biggest
bonfire ever see in all my born days
roared and famed and lit the whole
country; all Pueblo came up to see
what was up. Pretty soon the man got
on barrel which had been turned up
to answer for platform. and the first
thing he said was, This day, Bessemer,
hast thou been surely blest for Super
intendent Robinson is fred And then
while pandemonium was turned loose
came to myself and saw through the
whole business.
The oppressor of mems rights WAS
bounced and Bessemer was once more
the happiest town in all Colorados fair
land, and there promised to be more
activity and success than ever. saw
scores of old timers coming in from all
directions. They suddenly appeared as
If by magic and all shouted for joy.
Just then the great crowd surged to
the right as four men came up the street
A dozen chaps picked one Of them up
and giving three hurrahs and tiger,
carried him around on their shoulders
introducing him as the new superin-
tendent of the steel works. In strain
ing my ear to catch his name woke up.
and without finding out who it was my
dream came to an end"
And the man from dreamland lit his
cob pipe, and with good night,
partner" he was gone.