The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-05-02
REAL THING IN eLlzzARDs.-
The Montana Man Was Acquainted
with the Genuine Article.

The Montana Man Was Acquainted
with the Genuine Article.
1--WE been stewing in your semitrop-
ical climate all winter" said the man
from the wool-growing West to the
dyed-in-the-w wool Newly orker. land ev-
cry now and then. when the thermOme-
ter drops a little below freezing point
hear strange talk about billiards..
ITS a Understanding name, | admit,
and it looks well in the newspaper
headlines. But, bless your benighted
souls. you're just as likely to have
Kansas twister on 9TH avenue or a
South sea simeon off the battery, as a
blizzard in Manhattan.
III admit you had a good imitation
of it a good many years ago in the
storm that cost Senator Conkling his
life. and once again about three years
back. The New-YOrker who's never
been much farther west than the Har-
lem river might be excused for calling
those two little blows "bliZZards."
We've big country out there, and, of
course. a busy man in New York will
naturally get the Yellowstone park
tangled up with the Yosemite, as an
evening newspaper here did some time
ago, and we don't mind your dramatic
critics referring to Missouri as the oc-
cident Yes, that has been done, too.
"What is a real blizzard like? My
dear sir, to talk is not my trade l
never went in real heavily for words,
and maybe you'd better put a stamp
on your inquiry and send it to the pa
per published by the great plebeian in
Nebraska He knows all about frOsts
and such things, and likely as not he
could spare you two or three columns
telling you what blizzard is like.
"A blizzard, did you say? Why, the
very word sends cold chills creeping
up my spine Why, the last time
was in a blizzard in Montana, l was in
the act of drinking l was just lifting
the glass of milk to my lips-whats
that? | say was just lifting the glass
of milk to my lips when the air grew
suddenly dark and the thermometer
fell 60 degrees quicker'n | could count
'em l never did drink that milk.
mo. of course, it wasn't too dark to
drink it. That's foolish Any child
can feel his way to his mouth with a
drink-at least, any Western child can.
But the milk just naturally froze hard
on top and the wind-Id forgotten the
wind. Well maybe it's enough to say
it was the wind that blew the snow
about and made it so dark. Now, in
the DakOtas there isn't much snow, be-
cause the wind doesn't give it chance
to light
but it's got 70 light somewhere
hasn't it? So when the snow that's
really comm to Montana gets a chance
: to settle down. it start in again and
SHOWS in great chunks. till the Dakot9
product is all piled up. But that's moth
ing A chinook wind comes along and
in twenty minutes the ground is ready
for spring plOwin'."
We'll" said the New-Yorker, admir-
ir3ly. according to the New York Mai
and Express, I'm try to De careful anC
never eXaggerate any more. It's ba6
Z habit : remember that some time age
ar adventurous New-Yorker penetrated
beyond the Bronx, even to the wilds OF
the northwest. and when his friends
: asked him for a description of tn,
scenery. he said, found every hill {,
mountain peak every frog pond lake
every dry run river, every irrigatinl
| ditch a canyon and every man a liar.
SO : suppose you're right"