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After a delightful trip of over two months, in the warm and moist climate of the Pacific Coast, I arrive back home to find snow, and as usual the smoke. But for all we have the disagreeable smoke caused by the smelters, from which we get the fumes of arsenic and sulphur, it still seems to be invigorating, and gives activity to the brain, for the people of Butte show more life than I find elsewhere, and there is more stir than in any city in America, according to its population. Its streets are always crowded with busy, well dressed citizens, who all have plenty of money, regardless of their vocation, and certainly know how to enjoy themselves. I remained in Butte until May