Year: 1871

introductory type. There is nearly If

 not quite as much ado about the ap-

 pie butter and butchering scenes as

 there was. about the construction of

 the Pacific railroad.

 To go back to Illinois, the people

 there don't work by one-third as much

 apparently as they do this side in the

 mbered regions. The clearing up of

 this State has left its surface so that

 a bird 's-eye view would compare It to

 a great chess-board - the alternate

 fields and for, sts are so regular, black

 aid white, &c. Indiana, however,

 was much more of "stumper to

 civilization than Ohio. The emigrants

 fanked hooslerdom by way of the

 lakes and the Chic river, hence the

 superior settlements of Illinois, Iowa,

 etc. Indiana was what would be

 called in military parlance - a

 stockade; perhaps a cheraur de triese.

 But there is shicer- -and. faee.e enough

 anywhere in the Mississippi Valley

 for one acquainted with the ever wild

 retreats west of the Rocky and Sierra

 ranges. But the timber question is

 rapidly approaching serious nature.

 Even the most ra bid opponents of free

 trade and utmost freedom in every

 thing, now proclaim that the timber interest must henceforth be guarded

 by the State. What with fires and rail roads cutting and carving away ad Hbitoun mother earth will soon be rendered as naked as mother Eve be- fore fig leaves. It may not be gen. erally known, but the overthrow of Tammany in New York was not so much the upheaval of public virtue as you may suppose. It was simply a sudden scarcity in the market of Shlllelahs. 1 knew what was the matter all the time, but concluded to wait till time for writing THE CIrI- ZEN, before publishing the fact.

 And now this talk about the weather, fre-wood &c., brings up the subject of beds. You that stalk about the stre 5ts with no other clothing on in summer than an umbrella, and i'll mid winter musketo- bar and bot tie of benzine - may ask why l threaten paragraph about making heds ! You see, all the additional accomplishment learned by the young men who left this country to civilize the Pacific slope, was that regarding their sleeping arrangements. All they can brag of is the ability to make their own beds - when they have any. Bret Harte never did justice to that feature of the honest miner, and now that he himself has taken up his bed and walked, and thereby 1 guess forever "put his foot in ,'-the theme must be left to Prentice Mulford. 1 begin to believe that no mum lives for ever did) who can make bed! Yet I am not fully to acknowledge the corn, but | admit that feel hurt and good deal humbled. My room is on the floor the door from the stove opens into 1t. have practiced on the making of that bed, when there was no occasion for me putting 8 hand to it, just to see if [ couldn't make it look as we'll as when it leaves the hands of the old | lady housekeeper-whom I will call mother, for short This is about the only exercise, too, I have and I hate .o give it up. So, at times l just say, 1ere-Pll show these women-folk an Idaho " shake-down that will make em sick! Then I quietly open the loor when their backs are turned, and advance on the pile with all the grace and delicacy of bull in a China shop or steer at fresh straw stack But it won't do; I have to call for lelp, and by the time they get me un- 'aveled, the scene calls to mind he wreck of pack mule loaded with flour. The way I make the eathers fly would discount the devil ,eating tan-bark! Then these wo- nens' rights folks just step in and in ess time than I'm telling it, the dis racted mass is rearranged and as mooth and pulpy as a well-baked biscuit. I think have discovered the disadvantage under which l labor in , his business. I think these feminine { ufferers have rung in on me various not now remembered in the $ nake-up of sage-brush couch. I ave counted as many as seventeen ( coverlets, quilts, blankets, a heets, ticks (so-called-the kind of

 ticks" l knew were as bad as a natl besides holsters. pillows etc.