The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-29

No one can conceive with what Him
liable yolupA there swept through my
heart the grand, sweet song of joy,
that 1 was delivered from my perambu-
lating goal, and that DOC" had laid
aside the gun and removed his ever
watchful eye.
It was late. Our friends in the other
conveyance had preceded US with the
food, bedding, beer, and some antidote
A fire was burning brightly and warm
~, Frightening all around. 1t was the
supreme moment when nature makes
that melancholy pause:
Her breathing moment on the bridge
where time
OF light and darkness forms an arch sub
lime.
Jaded with excitement passed, tired
with over exertion to perserve myself
whole in life, the odor of the cooking
food rose to the nostrils with CRATE
fulness more potent than incense to
to the religious enthusiast
How quickly the demands of one
sense removes all feeling excited by
another no longer dominant. L al
most rejoiced at the agony past in
the luxury Of gastronomic joys APP
preaching. 1 was very hungry and a
renewed dose of the antidote banished
all remaining alarms and ouickened
every well aroused demand of nature
for food.
We sat Turk like, or tailor fashion.
around the table cloth spread on the
ground, the food we'll cooked and
tempting, the cool winds signing
| through the underbrush around US,
the rising moon splintered into moving
fragments of FURNISHED silver by the
swayins tree tops that pierced the
darkened ether above. Here was joy
at last Doc" was still Beside him
was a two pound brick of hard butter,
! golden in the intermingled light of the
roaring camp fire and the rising moon
Someone said: Doc, pass the butter"
Doc" looked up. He arose, his black
| beard heightening the palor of his fat
face. his tall. spare figure silhoutted
against the moonlight. He lifted his
long foot, clad in clod breaking boot,
set it squaraly on the brick of pure
butter, pressed down his foot, then
| strobe around the table cloth, inside
the circle, planting the buttered foot
! on the cloth in front of each person,
leaving there a bIotch CT grease, and
then sat down, saying: Help your
selves; it's too -- much trouble
to keep passing things!''
Was No Gentleman.
As 1 have already said 1 am ac-
customed to the society of gentlemen,
anu lil1S GlSCOuIlGOuS IDl W say Out-
rageouS act we'll nigh took my appetite
away. But Josh" and sid gave APP
proving laughs, while on the part of
the others there was q volley of dis
| approving expressions, the character
of which may not be repeated, but
these were wholly for the loss of the
! butter. For myself my indignation at
the affront was too deep for utterance.
Then it was I learned that the rattle
/ q. 70 q hpa act Of &c nfi
only at night. These men knew for
| they had lived among rattlesnakes all
their liveS-more or lesS-and | take
this occasion to refer to the mass of
erroneous information contained in
works accepted as authority on sub
jects. l had tried to post myself on
snakes as soon as l determined to
make the trip, and in all the works
examined by me it was declared that
snakes moved but little, if at all, by
night. Moreover, it is very cold in the
mountains at night, and having no
tents up, we built a large camp fire
that would burn we'll into the morning
and rolled ourselves in blankets for
rest. But the warmth of the fire at
tracts rattlesnakes and the danger
from them, in securing to ourselves
the comfort that fire gives, was there
fore greatly heightened.
This all present, save myself (and
knowing nothing personally, / was
diScreetly silent, agreed to. Hence, by
common consent, a potent and lasting
dose of the rattlesnake antidote was
taken by all.
All. what spell of bliss followed!
My blankets were laid upon a deep
bed of fresh hay, the earth beneath
the hay. The tall trees waved their
tops gently above; the winds sighed
softly below, the fire cast great and
moving shadows over all, its cheering
glow making more weird the darken-
ing spaces that reached beyond its
power to penetrate. With limbs
stretched out and the restful sense of
the antidote numbing my tired nerves,
the odor of the fresh hay mingled with
the pugent odors of the new woods
filing all my being with delight, L
lay upon my back and looked far up
into the cloudless dome above. Serene
ly and in the mid-heavenS the full
moon swept over and as l gazed
farther and still farther into the
fathomless depths beyond and worlds
upon worlds spread before my quick
ened sight the soul seemed to burst
its earthly cerements. and flow iEto
the boundless depths above bearing all
that the heart could long for, all that
the heart could hold along with it
until earth and its burdens We're for
gotten, and peace eternal and rest for
evermore were mine.
No Midnight Ravelry.
Then 1 was Jared awake. The moon
was low in the west: the fire was now
dull ashes, and swiftly leaping around the
spolles of Il wheel, lay with their feet TO
the fire as the hub was a tall, gaunt
figure robed in a blanket, with hair
streaming. and unearthly yelis breaking
INN tn
wear or tear. On each sleeping body it
jumped and, yelling as 1t jumped. eX-
claimed in a voice filled with command,
still flying round the circle OF writing
forms: Wake up and take my time!
I'm breaking the record!'' 1t was Doc.
That broke the rest for this night. If
the three maniacs, he would be Weakened
by the burning of the bed under him.
At last l got up. ] had no need to
dress No one undresses. 1t was too
cold--and there We're others reasons. The
fire was renewed and the snake bit an
tidote repeated ] complained OF the dirt
in my head. The doctor offered to sham
poo nac. He said ne had been barber
before he became a doctor-a statement
/ have not the slightest reason to doubt
and that he could Shampoo me out of
sight''-another assertion l had no reason
10 question. since he and his pads had
already gotten me out of sight once with !
out so much as Shampoolng. Despite the |
repeated urginGs of the doctor backed by
tue VI OOSA ellid NJAN
l declined.
Now Gus, the restaurateur, having a
taste for the good things of life, had pro-
vided himself with a bottle of salad
dressing. the principle ingredients being |
mustard and horseradish While nap
ping before the fire. waiting for the morn i
ing to break and not daring to go to |
sleep. was suddenly seized from behind |
and held firmly. My hat was thrown off !
and Doe began dashing great gouts
~ rubbing it INTO my tender skin; My |