The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-20

name for town and It's queer thing
to me that anybody should think I'd like
why are you going? I asked him,
Well. you see, the member OF the
Legislature from my district came into
the saloon and asked me wouldn't 1 like
to go to Niagara Falls. said no, l
didn't have the time and didn't want 10
see IT, He said he had a pass there that
would run out pretty soon, and twas a
pity to waste It So l took It, Just a
waterfall, hey? Well that's queer
! thing to ride all day In a railroad train
to see. How far do you go2'
" About n thousand miles further west.
'Geel Tint must be clear to tho Pa
ciflc ocean. mustn't it2' was his comment
on that"
One at-Dweller's Predicament.
"Oh, we'll" said the man who had been
| listening to the others, that bartender
wasn't American born. But l can tell
you a story about n city greenhorn OF
native birth that Will match the ono
about the man who thought strawberries
grew on bushes Z
too After getting through college he
married and settled down to live In a
city nat. I live outside, and L per-
sUadcd him to take house near mine
In tho suburbs. He's living in IL vet.
but he had all sorts OF trouble at first,
So did /, He didn't know anything about
living in a house by himself. He moved
out In the fall and the FIRST cold snap
froze up the water pipes, and had to
help him then and ON numerous other
occasions.
But the queerest thing happened
about 6 O'Clock ono December morn
Ing Just when ! was enjoying my last
sleep. Days were short then, and 1t
was stlll dark / wasn't ready to wake
up, but he wakened mo all right by
throwing stone at my window, mean
ing TO mnke noise enough TO break my
slumber, He threw II so hard he broke
the glass md scared mo out of half
year growth. I raised the window,
poked my head out and asked what was
Sorry | b-broke a pup-psne OF glass
he suffered. evidently very much ex-
cited but my house Is g-Golng to bub-
blow up. Hurry UP and cuc-come over
and help me stut-stop 1T
II hurried and ran over TO his house,
half dressed. through the dark and cold.
When ] got there / found the trouble
the range. The servant had got up
carly to get an early breakfast for him
aud had a ripping hot fire going and
the water In the tank had all been
turned to steam 1t was fairly shaking
and sizzling with the pressure. When
] showed him that all he had 10 do was
10 turn faucet ne was very much re
llcvod,"
"TU match that" said the man who
told the strawberry story. with true
yarn about a pretty bright young fel-
trained nurse. My brother was I'll and
this young man took care of him. |
went to spend an hour or two with him
one evening when he was beginning to
convalcscc We talked over our boy
hood days In the West and the nurse
was very much interested in our rem
inisccnCes OF apple stealing, grape steal
Ing, Hollowe' en- sprces etc. Finally the
nurse asked us how far west we lived
when we We're boys. We told him In
diana, and he said he supposed there
must have been lots of Indians out there
twenty-ilvc or thirty wears ago.
Then we began to invent and tell In
linn N1g pf hu uIrhr n
capcs and shootings that fairly curdled
the young mans blood, He took en- all
In and later told all the other nurses
In the hospital about our imaginary ad-
ventures.
Well this Is my station The city
grecnhorn is surely as green as any
country greenhorn that ever lived So
long"