The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-23
BACHELOR BARWICK AS A NURSE.
How He SiIenced a Brace of Crying
Twins.
Expects to be in Sacramento To-day
Wintry Scenes in North-
west States.
Portland orr, Nov. 20. 1895.

Portland orr, Nov. ~, 1870.
Eds. Record Union: I remained here
for forty-eight hours, as l had been on
the road from Dubuque Ia, since Fri
day morning, the 10Th, seeing little else
save snow and ice until | reached the
western side of the Rocky Mountains,
where milder and pleasanter weather
prevailed.
The first night out from st. Paul,
Mimi, our car was burdened with lone
woman with twins three months Old
that howled and yelled unless they were
walked or "toted" in their mother
arms all the time. 1 got tired OF their
squawking, and told the mother that II
she would accept and use remedy
which L would suggest her babies
would not be any bother to her or any
one else, and she gladly accepted my
offer 1 told her to get some sugar, and
of it I made two sugar-teats, and with
a little good cognac (Which l always
carry in my grip for medicinal and other
purposes), greatly reduced and weak
ened with water. They were moistened
in this soothing decoction, and in very
few minutes the babies were nursing
them and were also sleeping.
was very much thanked for my most
appropriate and well-timed remedy,
while the ladies wanted to know if [ was
married man and used to babies. My
reply was no: that | was a bald headed
bachelor, % years old, and $500 miles
from home, but the potent remedy
recommended by me was the kind used
by my mother in the raising of her
family of eighteen children. 1 was voted
the thanks of all, but was told that l
ought to be a benedict instead of a
bachelor.
On my homeward trip I found West
ern Washington and Oregon beautiful
countries, with well-studded timber, but
1t is too moist for me, and, after calling
on few Sacramento friends, / will
leave Wednesday night for San Fran
cisco, and expect to return to duty at
Sacramento on Saturday, the ODD, after
an absence of exactly forty -four days to
the minute. Next year, during my trip
East, [ certainly will not ask for more
than thirty days, which is the longest
time desire to be away from the glori-
Gus climate of the finest State in the
Union.
On the trip over the Northern Pa
cific road one already sees houses with
double windows and doors and storm
protectors to business and public
houses, built on the plan of turnstiles
to the entrance of our State Fair. only
ded with heavy rubber which comes in
contact with the frame work of the
door casing as the turnStile reVolves
while being passed through. One sees
the people who travel much out doors
using heavy coats made of material
from the skins of all the wild beasts i'm
aGinable, such as buffalo, bear, coyote
and prairie wolf, while occasionally
some well-to-do and nobby merchant
will be encased in a coat reaching from
ea~ to heels made of nicely trimmed
skins from that valuable animal the
Alaskan seal.
Such is midwinter life in the great
Northwestern States from Illinois to
Idaho, and from Canada to Colorado,
while at the same time in our own good
State you are all being kissed by soft
southern breezes with never a pros
pect or sign of blizzard, winds or snow
chilled soil. Certainly California ma
tiVes cannot appreciate what a glorious
heritage they have to enjoy, unless
they visit the States east of the Rocky
Mountains during the winter season. to
see naught but snOW-cOVered ground,
and quite often punches Of freezing and
frozen cattle as they are huddled to-
gether under the hillsides of the tree
less and cherries plains. while the
sight of the poor suffering dumb beasts
appeal most strongly to the SympathieS.
While at Parkersburg, Va, in Octo-
ber 1 visited the celebrated Island of
Blennerhassett, and ate some of the
Blennerhassett nuts and paw-paWs
which grow SO plentifully on the banks
of the celebrated island on the Ohio
River a few miles below Parkersburg.
There are but three stones now stand
ing of the once lovely Blennerhassett
Mansion, on a once beautiful (but now
unkepD island.
It is a good thing I am getting so
near home again, for I begin to think I
need a garden" I have been
dubbed California Barwick'' in Mary
land, "a baby doctor" on the cars in
Minnesota, and was wheedled out of