The west shore., January 11, 1890, Page 41, Image 9

WEST SHORE.
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One night when I tu all alone and everything n still,
Save the wind that howled and whistled 'round my etude
window-sill,
Aa I listened to tin trj.hyr ith a ehud lor and a algh,
We enjoyed a '.'t k11 aok my little alove and I.
ti.
I u smoking an Havana whirl, waa mild and very good,
And my little tuve was emoking at a hunk of sogy wl,
And we sat there tn the twilight, and the game a 'mt a
Ai we had a pleasant .moklngmaU b-my little stove and !.
r.
in.
There waa something in the chimney, and the alove-j.i-e
wouldn't draw,
So it imoked a little harder'n any itove I ever aiw,
And I think the wind waa puffy, and wm raging pretty high,
Aa we had a pleasant aoclal .moke-my little atove and I.
IV.
You may talk of genial smoking when aome jol'7 Wlowi
meet; ,
I assure yon that in thia affair waa nothing Incomplete,
Only that the conversation waa a trifle brief and dry.
. ' . . . .1.1 La tn litila atove anl I.
As we had a pleasant socw
Though the atove aparrd unmoved, and ruuld it self J
t
iiwlon seep,
Yet the went waa ao eflWtlng that my eye- were f.r.l to
And I couldn't kwp the te.rs hark, hover hard I'd try,
A we smoked, In thoughtful alien., did my tilth stove and I.
I have now a model be.ter-ll's the be.l I've ever seen,
lUre's m d ne,ed HI. U, al It goes W.
m I oft rerall that evening when the wind s Huwlm Man
And we had a leaiei.t o lal smoke-my other itove and I.
VII.
i f iwt my noble wood alove la reding V.th the mow
W I Z .tout th, window, and it tumble- du.n Ulo.,
Il.it I oft rerall that evening, with a rrtwr'Uw l,
When we had a .moke togethw-JU my lit.!. .M. al I.
Jonrni lUst Him.
THE PRESIDIO AT SAN FRANCISCO.
ONE of the most ,tont ami beautiful of the many
army Nti in the I'nitrJ State, ii the iWw,
at San Francis, the headquarter, of the cot,,.
tnan.linK general on the Pacific coast, t l.
UN.n the south shore of the famous (Jo H n (.ate ami
overlooks the Lrautiful Han Francis, bay. .V n.
and btttrren it and the ocean ia Krt I'uinl. "I
,Ksit ia the fortified ieUml of Antral. -ho
gum iint directly through the atrait
The IWlio i named in honor of the old Mn.
can fort that wa locate, at San Francis. The Meii
can ttttlttnrnti consisted chiefly of three branch
fint a mi.Mon, then . .rr.Mw S""1
tidier, chi-lly f,r the ,,rot., lion of the mMon,
then a i.tirhl.1 (town) where r-id-d the .ItetharH
,Mirr. and otl, r civil...... San Francis, bay wa.
r, ,ard-d as an Inrtar.t thftujth the r aj-tta was
at Monterey. When th. Aiu-riM ro,,-jurr.l tU
..rovince military rlV'
Monwey, but afur the gold .overy WMU
. . I . Uf. rit at YelU Iluefi it W f"
jringi? up ,ar 1 1
movcltothemoreimi-rtaotirt.
V.ture and art have d.m mu' h to frwlef It a Mel;
military home. TI.e l-.utiful pl rr.-. the bay,
,h. delightful rlimat., ll rou.e.rUWr aod mi, ele
nt,MuMtrr.,ai..!lhe ne.n,o b, the Urr.t city on
th- IVifle ot, rnd,r It a u arartve ,t,
officrr. of the army arc H uu'"1 thrf"