Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-07-03


He was sitting in a corner
of the Nevada Club when a friend
approached with the remark. "Old
boss, what seems to be the matter?
you look as if you lost the best
friend you ever had. Let's take a
little nip, it might make things look
brighter
"Fll go you," said the old boy.
Don't you know | was just think
ing of home and mother. The years
have been many since | gazed on
the face of her who gave me birth.
Say, friend l will never see her
again on this earth; she has passed
away, but If in the after world &C
quaintances which we cherish here
are to greet one another, l know of
no one whom l would be prouder
to greet than my good old ma"
Come out OF it, said the friend,
your are not usually in this frame
of mind. Let's have something to
drive away the blues"
Il suppose it isn't just proper to
carry your sorrow beyond the linn
its of your domicile, but today as !
sat in my cabin thinking of days
that have gone | recalled exper-
fences of other times where the bit
ter DER Swallowed the sweet. Be-
lieve me, the tears did unbidden
flow. Tomorrow l am going to tell
you of one in whom | had the great
est confidence and one who is dearel
TO my heart right now than anyone
outside of my own with whom ]
ever came in contact. For the time
being, however, l will forget the sac
part and tell you of other men and
other days.
"Yes, | remember. it was with
you with whom | was talking the
other day about Jim Townsend
Don't you know he was a great char
acter. Like many others, he had q
failing for whisky; he used to con.
sumo a great deal of the liquid Ii
the course of a day. He had a room
in a house in Virginia City owned
by a woman who disbelieved in th'
drink habit. Jim was never yer,
punctual with his rent, his earning
usually finding their way to the reg
listers behind the bars of the liqui,
refreshment parlors. Early on
morning he went home with an eX
cellent bun on. In his endeavor t
reach his apartments, he made n
end of noise. The next day the lanC
lady approached Jim with the re
mark that if he insisted on maxim
so much noise in going to his ROOF
it would be compulsory upon hill
to move.
My dear madam, said jim
you are undoubtedly referring t
my entrance last night. | want I
tell you this: If there is any man
this city who can carry a barrel
booze to my room with less nois
than | did last night. | am perfect
willing to vacate these quarters
1T always made me laugh
think of him. He wrote to old ma
Yerington of the Virginia and True
kee railroad for a pass. Said he !
his letter: In asking you for TIL
transportation, l wish to call to you
attention the facthhat my paper hs
a worldwide circulation; it goes I
Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia
IL l do not get the transportatio
asked for the paper will go plum
straight to hell.
do you know" continued tn
old sport, that / feel better nov
Have another on me. Make mil
the same, Mr.. Bartender.
II was just thinking of somethir
| saw and heard in the early days
Manhattan. Two Irishmen we
drinking at the bar in the Stray Do
saloon. One of the Irishmen toe
occasion to remark to the other
a spirit of fun, that an Irishman WI
nothing more or less than a neg
turned inside out.
"The Irishman addressed mu
have believed in the theorem tn
things equal to the same thing a.
equal to each other, for the wore
we're no more than out of the lii
of his friend when he said, M
what a great country this would
If they turned all the niggers /
side out"
II have travelled a great de
about this old state of ours sa.
the old sport, and / have seen
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