Show OUT OF JOINT Up in the Klondike e and at Cape Nome the sum summer mer is only about sixty days long We Ve in lower latitudes have beep been in the habit of pitying the people people people peo peo- there but have we so much the best of ot them Here it is the the- twenty sixth day of June and if the summer r has begun it has only just begun How the strawberries and raspberries have matured l is a mys mys- tery It must have been from force of habit for when there have to be fires kept going in supposedly comfor comfortable able homes one would th think that a raspberry would become discouraged in the open It is the same way with the roses They are more than usually usually usually ally beautiful th this s year but it is isa a brave business on their part There are some som pairs of robins that make their homes in summer close by some neighbors who have lave f for r many seasons been winning ming their confidence They sing a little in the morning but bu all the time they seem to be lo looking king for that barn where they can keep warm and hide their heads under inder their wings poor things In the same locality are some some lar larks s. s They try in the m morning to o mount and hail hai the sun SUA sun but the thelast thelast thelast last one of them has a cold in th the head And th the sparrows every evening hold a convention in a big bigtree bigtree bigtree tree near and discuss th the situation As As' the females are the chief sp speakers akers and as th the m males ies wear a most tired look the chances are the object is to devise ways and means to provide for the youngsters that are about due I There is a comfort though They had fifteen inches of snow up at Butte the other night and out in Wyoming they stand ready to sho shoot the first man who speaks of strawberry festivals and ice cream When the papers warn us every morning to lay in next winters winter's coal what about this summers summer's coal There have been bigger men than Dr Hyatt banI banished banished ban ban- I before now |