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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 19, 1908.
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Glad, Free Life of the Plains
BY JIM NASIUM. ..
HE red sun was sinking into the
dry wastes of the New Mexico
. desert. I do not chronicle this
as anything startlingly new, as for
untold centuries the red sun has been
kn'own to pull off this event every 24
hours in New Mexico. The sun does
hot sink into the dry wastes of the
New . Mexico desert as a matter 'of
choice, but it Is down on the bills to
do the daily sinking act, and there is
nothing else in Ne'w Mexico for it to
sink into.
Our tired ponies picked their way
through the foothills of the Sangre de
Cristo range, and we went into camp
at the edge of an arroyo which con
tained a dampness that we had lately
acquired the habit of - calling water.
On the New Mexico desert anything
which contains enougli moisture to
keep it. from sending up a cloud of
dust when you kick it is called water.
Water is the one .thing needed to
mate New. Me'xico a great country.
Incidentally, it might be said in pass
ing that Hades is in the' same fix. Real
water is so scarce that'one of our
party who ventured too close, to 'the
business end of a bronco and contract
ed water-on-the-knee as a result, ,was
tickled to Jeath. He was' glad to
know that there was water on. Some
thing down there, anyway."
'As the settingsuri dipped into a. sea
of bloo'd on the western horion, the
sandy plains were bathed in a 'flood
of harmoniously blending colors." Ah,
what a comfort to know .that some
thing in this, God-forsaken country
could afford fche luxury of a bath!
Long goldgn bars shot. athwart 'the
dreary waste and tinged the distant
crags with golden glory- Oh, if they,
had only been the kind of bars'-that
"we had once been intimately acquaint
ed with ! If they had only .been the
kind of bars which lead men to'paint
things red, instead of .monopolizing
the whole painting business as these
bars were doing. If they had only,
been even a little one-horse K soda
fountain, any old kind' of a. bar from
which a man nught coax a little moist
ure. But.no, they were -only bars ot
tinted atmosphere, which shifted' o'er
the landscape in colorful changes like,
the lost blush on an old maid's cheek.
The picture spread before our -eyes
would have made the fortune of any
artist who could have reproduced it
on canvas and taken it to some civil
ized country where it would be' pos
sible to view it from the vicinity of a
mint julep. As it was, however, at
that psychological moment, any piker
could have bought the whole blamed
original outfit, gold-tintd crags, pur-
pie distance and harmoniously colored
foreground, with the setting sun
thrown in, from the four thirsty trav
elers who1 viewed it. for a scuttle "of
suds, an ice cream soda, or even a
glass of diluted spring water.
As the twilight deepened into even
ing, and the stars came but in the
desert night, we rolled ourselves in
our blankets and retired to rest. That
Mexican Financier Type of
J JOSE TVES LIMANTOCR. minister
of the treasury of Mexico, Is the
typo of. cttleon whom all democra
cies are seeking. lie is a man ot great
inherited wealth, posseselng .unusual
executive ability, who willingly as
sumes heavy cares and burdens that his
country may be benefitted. So signifi
cant have been the accomplishments of
this famoua Mexican that during the
month of May of the past year he was
ejected a member of the French Accad
emy of Sciences, the first Mexican to
receive this honor.
Widespread and vital as the persortal
achievements, of the great President
IMax have been, securing to the coun
try a firm financial basis was beyond
his" Individual "accomplishment. The
choice of Jose Llmantour as subsecre
tary of finance. In 1892, resulted in the
financial rehabilitation of Mexico and
her ultimate prosperity. By his keen
understanding of Mexican affairs,
genius for finance and work, serentf
courage and persistency, Senor Llman
tour lias accomplished more in the 14
years of his ministry than nil the rulers
and ministers of Mexico have per
formed in the course of a century. To
day Jose Llmantour is recognised as
one of the saviors of Mexico, as well
a one ot the greatest financiers In the
world. v
When Senor Llmantour succeeded Ro
mero as minister of finance, in 1S93.
the task before him would have stag
gered a whole host of brilliant men.
Only a financial genius could have
coped with such difficulties as beset
. the country. Long periods of malad
ministration and war had culminated
In upsetting the finances of the coun
try. The department had been so
poorly conducted that even the official
figures were unreliable and could not
be accepted as correct without several
verifications. There seemed to be no
remedy for the years of chronic deficit.
From 1864 to 1894 the annual 'deficit
is, we advertised to rest. It Was only
a bluff. After several vain attempts
to get) alongharmoniously - with-' the
horned toad and desert lizard fdmily,
I arose in my wrath and a few other
clothes to pump airholes kito a prowK
ing" coyote and I very , impolitely re
fused to go back to the company of
the horned toad. I sat down on the
downy fluff, and bloom of a cactus in
stead, but somehow I seemed hard to
please and I got up again.' Then I
hunted up A jjack saddle, climbed into
it and lit my pipe ; and fell to review
ing a little recent past history with
which I was directly connected. ' 1 . '
Here we were, four tenderfeet, from
the effete East, who had come down
to the Great Southwest to 'enjoy the
glad, free life on the boundless plains,
unfettered with the' manacles of for
mality "and all that stuff you read
about. At . Santa-. Fe. we had r pur-'
chased a quartet of cayuse plugs and
a couple of little blue burros, and
packing up 'some gumdrops and frost
ed cake and a phonograph, and a re
flex camera, and cigarettes, and chew-,'
ing gitm, and some ice cream cones,
we " hit the trail across the Great
American Desert. Some of the boys
wanted to bring ' along an upright
piano and a folding bed, but I ob
stinately held out that we should take
nothing but necessities."' ' This was to
be purely a pleasure trip of ours,,
through a country famed in, song and
story, the cradle of American' civiliza
tion, and which splattered. American
history full of romance before , Laura
Jean Libby took, the jo1 off its hands.
A land where 'the Aztec youth wooed
the dusky maiden according (6 the up-to-date
'forms prescribed by Ella"
Wheeler Wilcox, years before Colum
bus had looked his nose 'intp San Sal-'
vador. ,As we filed out onto the great
plains we were so .full of lavender
colored tranquillity.and effervescent
joy at-'the prospect'of our Communion
with nature that we had to "stand up
in our stirrups to keep it irom slop
ping over. - ' ' -, . . .
That was in the dim, distant past.
Not so far ba,ek according to the cal
endar, but a long, long ways
when
viewed in retrospect after a taste of
the real article. We had communed
with nature, and it was about the
dryest communion service we had ever
attended. . We had been basely de
ceived by tfce.poet who loves to write
soothing lines about contentful ease
and soughing soft winds, of cool oases
and boundless' freedom.. '
These long-haired poetic persons
who delight to ornament pages with
flowery language and euphonious
phrases, whatever that might happen
to be, had taken an unfair advantage
.of their poetic. license.-.'. I know that
a poetic license is more elastic than
a saloon license but I don't think
that it. should give the licensee-the
privilege of usurping the prerogative
of the Almighty and introducing an
"ther of eontentful ease" into a bed
of tarantulas, horned toads, lizards
aud rattlesnakes, nor should it .permit
amounted to J3,009,000 each year. The
exterior debt ot 1881. alone amounted to
50,000:000 and paid an Interest of 6
per cent. The country was- without
credit and loans- were subscribed under
the most humiliating conditions. Senof
Llmantour bad scarcely taken his place
as minister of finance when the panlo
of 1893 caused an unprecedented decline
In silver and a crisis throughout the
country. Then to make good the old
saw, "It never rains but It pours," there
was a general failure in ct,ops.
During his second year In office, the
whole country was astonished when
besides paying deficits he announoed a
surplus of $1,113,046. the first surplus
since the War'of Independence in 1810.
Small wonder that the people rejoiced,
for their financial independence was an
accomplished fact, and Mexico could at
last take her place, with dignity, among
the prosperous nations of the world."
Tho lousiness y.men credited Senor Ll
mantour with the new era of prosperity
which prevailed In the republic . ,
. .The year which marked the Settle
ment of the usurped property- ciaims
was an Important one in Mexican "his
tory, for during that twelve months
the interior debt was consolidated after
a series of remarkable financial feats.
To understand the insuperable difficul
ties encountered. It. is only necessary to
state tlm the Interest: paid on the
Interior debt, and the exprnsss attached
hitherto, amounted to above 43 per .nt
of the estimate of l93-4.' Bonds were
emitted bearing .interest af 3 per cent.
Again "the country rejoiced at the clev
erness of their minister of finance. And
the world showered him with congratu
lations and medals. In the simple cabi
net standing In the library in his home
in Mexico City, more than SO medals
'estlfy to the world's recognition' of his
lerviee to his country and humanity.
Jose Limantour had firmly made up
his mind that his country must have a
lfTerent financial standard if prosperty
was to remain permanent. He knew
how this much-desired standard could
VffiTO-PIJIELO-INDIAlf
TO-YOBLMOT-HSYEL-TO-DO-
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him to call a mudhole surrounded by
a. scabby growth of cottonwoods and
cactus' a cool- oasis. 'Such . a poet
should have his license, revoked. "-And
there . should be a heavy penalty
placed upon the act of painting elo
quent word., chromos. of 'soft winds
soughing over sand piles where there
is nary a sough. ' ? -'..
These soughing zephyrs- belong in
the apple-.orcfiards. and pastorals of
The old homestead "way down East.-"
And any literary light who tries to'
introduce thm into a climate; with
Fourth ' of July weather on Christ
mas and where in' the Summer months
you have to take hold of the doorknob
manly . and decisively dealt .with.
Whatever that is.he',should get.it. I
would, suggest that the editors 1 and
publishers 'wrap up-his manuscript
with the .annual supply of Spring
poems and use them to reduce the coal
bill during the long Winter months,
and publish', nothing but truthful es
says such as those written by myself,
so the public would not be deceived
and grow up in -.ignorance.
1 he i unscrupulous .: poet can no
longer 'deceive me ' in ' regard to the
effervescent joy and freedom of life
in -the -open. ji .the. Southwest, i am
onto him now. Those: balmy breezes
with a pair of tongs, 'should be sum
laden with the perfume of the plains
Useful Citizen
he obtained and he had courage enough
to hold to his judgment against, two
Mexlcos or'a. world. -?His Ideas were so
rell conceived ' that ' the President, at
ils request, appointed a -commission to
assist him in settling ihss. perplexing
question. - Eminent , financiers, jurls
oonsults and .a few foreign residents
were asked to Join the-' minister of
finance,, who was placed at the- ffead
of the commission and directed Its pro
ceedings. 1
November 14, 1904, Senor Llmantour
brought the volcanic money question
before the chambers. Anticipating the
event, the Mexican money market was
on the verge of a panic This feeling
was -changed to one of peaceful satis
faction when the minister of finance
told the representatives of. thecountryi
"In order to give the coin a value in
dependent of that it derives from the
metal, it is indispensable Jto enhance its
intrinsic value; .There are no means
known to us othef than to render that
same .'coin convertible . at the owner's
will. In another coin of-superior value
or to provoke a higher price by a rela
tive scarcity of that same metal.-" Free
coinage was to be prohibited Mq order
to raise the- price of the metal. Then
the representatives of the mineowners
.made their protest. Senor Llmantour
replied -Immediately: . "The "production
of silver is not the most important part
of the nation's business and other in
terests should not be made subservient
to it." The bill as he had framed it,
passed, and the' republic owned whnt
it had so long" needed, a staple financial
standard. The peso was made equiva
lent to SO cents gold.
No sooner was the monetary question
settled than the people realized the
tremendous Importance of the event.
When Senor Llmantour was seen on the
streets of Mexico City he received ova
tion after ovation and the people whis
pered. "Dial" successor. There is no
man in the country so eminently quali
fied to su-jcecd our great President.'
But the minister of finance quickly sup
is a delusion and a snare. When the
balmy breezes balm on the plains of
the "Sad Southwest'"' they come in
from the four points of -the compass
all redolent with the perfume of the
sinkhole, the, Mexican goat and the
Pueblo Indian, and ' forming' into
7,280,999 distinct and separate whirl
pools of sand, hunt out the mnermost
recesses of yonr. pink underwear in
which to 'go' out of. business. When
you . see . the soughing zephyrs begin
ning to sough down there you don't
want to be - loafing around writing
odes to the' freedom of the plains, but
you want "to 'get. on the leeward side
of something more substantial than a
writing pa'd. .-"; .".
In the past I- had read many
touching poetic apostrophes to ' the
noble red man, and. as I read my
heart would bleed large copious bleeds
at the way he had been mistreated by
our pioneer forefathers. I had been
wont to grow indignant and say nasty
mean things about the pioneers for
the Way they had driven the noble
red man with his back to the wall,
and then- cooped him up on a small
and desolate portion " of ".'. the land
which had formerly all been his.
I lad now visited several. Indian
pueblos, Taos, Tesuque, Santo Domin
go, Santa Clara and San Ildefonso,
and I .desire to take back all the
mean-things that I ever said, about
the pioneers of the Great .West. The
only criticism which I now have to
make is that, they were hot thorough
enough in - iheir . work: Away 'back
in' the dim, distant past, when a kid
in the old red -schoolhouse T remem
ber of having a burning ambition to
go West and kill Indians. It. was the
dream of my oung life. And now,
that I had viewed the Indian on his
native heath and smelled .him : in all
his odoriferous redolence, -1 found
that the old desire to kill him hid
grown more intense. History tells us
that these Pueblo. Indians of New
Mexico are still living in their orig
inal ... state, and in their original
houses, as "discovered by the early
Spanish 7 conquerors. History ' might
have gone' further and said that they
are stilUliving in their original cover
ing of 50 per cent grease and 50 per
cent grime.. .After viewing the Pueblo.,
Indian, I invariably hunted up a car
rion dump, to' get relief for my olfac
tory organs. Ithey would only erect
good, healthy glue factory ..on 'the
waste land in'the vicinity of these In
dian pueblos it would purify . thefat-
mospnere somewnat.
We bad -watched the Pueblo Indian
tramp the' sun-baked earth on the
plaza of .hia little mud town during
his annual religious dance id his god
Montezuma. All' day' long in the heat
of the desert sun, in costumes eo all
fired decollete, they yelled, and per
spired, and, thickened up the at
mosphere, beseeching Montezuma to
return. We don't -blame Montezuma
for Staying away. Montezuma is" a
wise man. We, had long wanted to
view .the romantics and historic Pueblo
Indian on his native heath.'' Now that
we have been permitted to do so, we
are satisfied, because "we know, that
we will not have to do it again.
pressed this talk. He has always en
Joyed the President's closest friendship
and more-.than any other person has a
.minute knowledge of his chief's accom
plishments. . He knows that no man In
Mexico is so capable of filling his posi
tion as the present incumbent of the
Mexican executive chair. Rifby Dan
enbaum in. The World Today.
.' '- Advice About Advice.
The best advice' that can be given
probably is: Take all the advice you
can get, and then do as you please. The
successful person. Or the. one whom
the crowd counts successful, Is being
constantly besieged with applications
for advice how to succeed. He is gen
erally incapable. of giving It.
The eame advice, outside of a few
maxims generally applicable. Is seldom
good for two persons.
Advice, as a rule. Is cheap, and about
as valuable as most cheap things. To
be constantly follwing advice with
out stopping 'to consider Its source Is
the plain mark of weakness. The per-son-yot
power Is .the one who neither
gives' nor. takes advice in generous
. quantities...
The world would be better off If ad
vice Trere much less plentiful. Then
perhaps its quality might rise In pro
portion to- Its scarcity.
.Down in Texas.
By Sunshine" Hawks. '
Oh the Bkies are the bluest.:
Down in Texas.
And .'the friends are the trnest,
Down In Texas. -And
the homes ar the neatest.
The sweetest and completMt,
- Way down in Texas. .
1 have taken many trips
Down In Texas.
And my heart Is on my Hps, ..- .
Down in Texas. -' 1
Many friends come out to meet m.'
And lovtnc lips to greet me, . ,. .
Way. down In Tejtas. . -i"
Texas always gives , me flowers, - -Blooming-
Texas. "V
Days are filled with happy hours,
Qlorious Texas.
And I never have the blues. ,
For 1 always have The Newa, ;
Whtt An. Texas.
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Then we visited the ancient cliff
dwellings because we were ambitious
to delve into the hidden secrets "of a
f orgotten people. We wanted to. dig
up relics ' of past ages, j-and perhaps
we might unearth something of value
toethnology. The romance of search
ing among the buried archives of a
lost race appealed strongly to us. " In
a canyon, about 10 miles out of San
Juan, we went to work on. the ruins
of a cliff castle. ;
We "had worked and perspired some
little time, when finally we struek a
pile of bones. As we penetrated deep
er . into the vast sarcophagus, the
thought that we were desecrating the
burying plaee of a dead race yime to
me and almost overwhelmed me. It
was too much. I thought "of the glad
free. life these people had lived be
fore they had be;en wiped off the face
of the earth by cruel enemies, and I
.refused to" desecrate any further. I
hunted np a shady nook where I could
rest and weep alone.
WThen we gathered up our collec
tion ti scapulas, ribs and vertebraes,
I dropped a tear for this lost and ro
mantic people on each rib.' As w-e
journeyed back to town with our col
lection of valued treasures, my
thoughts were with the ancient race
who had dug their, little potholes in
the cliff side to. catch the few scat
tering raindrops, and. to think that I
had been a party to the desecration of J
the last resting place of these suffer
ing people was too much. At' San
Juan they looked at our valued collec
tion, and then told us that we had
' . -W K TO-KINQDOII
Tradition Against Third Term
REPRESENTATIVE . SERENO
. PATNE, of New York, who usu
ally spea'ks emphatically after
the event, thinks that- had the Civil
War continued far Into the second term
of Abraham Lincoln, the people of the -North
would have insisted that he re
main at the held of the Ship of State for
a third term and that the tradition of
George Washington would thereby have
been, broken. . Persons who recall Lin
coln's position In the critical Summer of
1864 may have doubts as to bis popular
ity's surviving a prolongation of the war,
but, nevertheless, Mr. Payne presents a
supposition worth thinking about when,
we are speculating on the possibility of a
President being elected three times in
succession.
Historically, it may be said that Wash
ington's precedent has not always been
received unanimously as a binding obli
gation on the American people. Within
less than 15 years of his death a move
ment to give a popular President who
had served ' two terms a third one ac
quired sufficient proportions to compel
Jefferson to define his position for a sec
ond time. In the gloomiest days of Madl
sos's administration the thoughts of
many- men turned toward Jefferson as
still popular, and as one who would lift
the fortunes of his party, which . then
seemed waning.
Jefferson's- correspondence shows that
while he put aside the proffered honor,
his manner did not express indignation.
He apparently was not grieved. He re
garded the suggestion as unjust to Madi
son, as politically Inexpedient, but he
seems nevertheless to have stood in no
governing awe of Washington's prece
dent. Jefferson occupied a peculiar position,
one which has hardly a parallel in our
history. The "9fige of Monticello" was
such .an adviser of Presidents .that he
may be considered almost "the power be
hind the throne." Constantly questions
were referred to him from the White
9 .-ivr awl- :
PORTATION-
been digging up a sheep graveyard.
As I sat doubled up in the pack
saddle this night in- the foothills of
the Sangre , de - Cristo Mountains,
thought over. all these, things, and I
thought of the glad free life we had
been leading in the open of the great
Southwest:' It was a glad free life,
just like having a tooth pulled. You
don't appreciate -it iill it's all over.
In the rosy future, perhaps, when the
hand of time has colored up the bum
spots, -we will sit and tell envious
friends of the glorious time we had
on the plains of the Southwest. They
all -do it, and I suppose we will not
prove an exception.
Just then -the. long-drawn-out wail
of a V narrow-gauge mule broke the
stillness of the desert night, and I had
to interrupt my reveries long enough
to shoot him. I had shot that mule at
least three hundred times since we
left Santa Fe, but he didn't seem to
mind it much. -This shooting at bur
ros that have a penchant for stealing
up in the dead of night and pouring
sixteen gallons of melody into your
ear while you are asleep is one of the
pleasant diversions of life on the open
in the Southwest.
The.jnan who has never been awak
ened from pleasant dreams by the
wail of a narrow-gauge Mexican
burro has missed something. It is so
pleasant and soul-inspiring. The glad
free life on the plains is chuck full
of these pleasant and .soul-inspiring
incidents'. Everything seems to con
spire in furnishing you food for
thought. Perhaps they are thus at
House, and we know now from his papers
that Monroe solicited his advice and
Judgment on the famous "doctrine" itself.
A man satisfied with the substance, Jefr
ferson was disinclined philosophically to
reach after the trappings of power, - and
Monticello was a seat of authority (all
the more agreeable from the absence of
its public responsibilities..
The most dramatic appearance of the
third-term idea in ofir hlptory is, of
course, the movement to give General
Grant this exceptional honor after his re
turn from , his famous tour around the
world. - Five years before there had been
enough third-term talk to induce the
Democratic House of Representatives to
pass a resolution denouncing any depart
ure from the Washington precedent, a
declaration in which some distinguished
Republicans still living concurred. But
in 1880 this resolution was simply so
much paper and ink to the third-terra
Moomers. General Grant was an avowed
Candidate. He was eager for- "rehabili
tation;" he had among his advocates
some of the most resourceful 01 the Re
publican leaders.
In the early Winter and Spring of 1880,
conservative adherents of "the Washing
ton precedent" had to fight hard for del
egates even in some New England dis
tricts. The convention assembled , with
the certainty that at least 300 of its mem
bers would do their utmost to secure the
nomination for the silent soldier; and
Conkling's eloquence was admired even
by those who repudiated his sentiments.
Garfield's nomination came as a relief to
the conservative sentiment of the coun
try, but even then the third-term senti
ment .was a fadtor .of disquiet, as any
body will admit who - remembers how
anxiously Republicans watched the tents
in which Grant and Conkllng sulked for a
time, before they came forth to announce
their acceptance of the situation.
Since, then we have had no third-Vrm
movement which a word of repudiation
from the. White House could not extin
guish: nor one which even approximated
the proportions of that for which "the
tempting .to make iip for the defi
ciency in food for the stomach.
It is such a care-free and untrara-
mcled exis-ftence, . this life on the
plains. It is such a hilarious and hap
py way to spend a vacation to go out
West and chase a little blue donkey
or a pack horse through the sage
brush and sands all day with the
thermometer 9990 in the shade and no
shade, and eat baking powder biscuit
washed , down with steaming-hot al
kali wafer that tastes like a' cheese
cocktail.
Whenever I felt lonesome and sad
I would always go and put a double
cinch saddle on my bronco. It al-
ways relieved the monotony and- pre
vented ennui, whatever that might be.
That is, I think I put a double cinch
saddle on the bronco. There was al-
ways a haziness about the subsequent
proceedings which prevents accuracy
of statement as to what I actually ac
complished. The saddling of A bronco
is one of the most pleasant little
pastimes connected with the glad free
life of the plains.
I had purchased a scraggy little
cayuse with a downcast look as if his
life's ambition had been crushed, be
cause he looked so quiet and safe. I
pitied the poor little beast and men
tally resolved to treat, him well and
show him, that there was still much in
life for him to live for. 1 nave faith- ,
fully fulfilled that resolve, as I kh6w
that little plug has extracted a great
deal of pleasure out of life since his
acquaintance with me. . :
The boys soon named him Delay,
because they had read somewhere
that "delay is dangerous." Delay
could give pne of the most perfect
impersonations of "The sleeping
beauty" ever presented, until some
one crawled onto his quarter-deck,
them he' seemed to suddenly remem
ber that he was Master of Transpor
tation on the air line to ' Kingdom
Come, anfl. the rider would wander
aimlessly through the clear atmos
phere until he 'W as in danger of clash
ing with some meteoric body. . When
he returned to the center of activity,
nplav was usuallv ouietlv 'eatinz
bunchgrass. 'U. . ...
These performances exasperated me
at first, but I soon learned that it was
only one of (he little pleasantries of
life on the great plains, -and I there
after gave my undivided attention to
extracting what pleasure I could from
the diversion! It's wonderful what
pleasure there is in this glad free life
of the plains when you get to fully
understand all the little details.
Some other year, perhaps, I will
pack up some smelling "salts and
sachet powder, and get a tank car
filled with real water, and X'll take a
trip across the plains and have a real
gladsome time, because now I under
stand what these little pleasantries
are. I will not waste my time in
swearing at things which I should be
enjoying. 'When I'm thirsty" and
hungry I will laugh and think of what
a gladsome time I am having, while
the boys at home have nothing to do
but eat-porterhonse steaks and drink
ale. I say perhaps. But I don't thinS
I will. (Copyright, 1908, by E. F.
Wolfe.) " -
Almost Broken
306" stood, and fell. The American peo
ple are conservative In their tradition!
to an extent that resents anything smack
ing of forthputting effort to perpetuate
an administration. Boston Transcript.
The Longest Day at Various Places.
.' ,At Stockholm," Sweden, It ! 18 V4
hours.
At London, England, and Bremen 1$H
hours. -.'.-.
At Spitzbcrgen the longest day is S
months.
At Hamburg and Dantzig the longest
day Jiaa 17 hours. '.
At Wardbury, Norway, the longest
day laets from May 21 to July 22.
At St. Petersburg and Tobolosk H is
19 hours and the shortest 6.
At Torhea, Finland, June 21 brings
a day nearly 23 hours long, And Christ
mas .one less than three hours in
length.
At New Tork the longest day ia
about 15 hours.
At Montreal the longest day Is 1$,
hours.
A City VUlon.
Broadway Magazine.
A bit of fern upon a window-sill,
A bit of field transplanted to the town.
And striving- hard to keep Its emerald
gown
As fresh and bright as. when besl a rll
That wanders down a ' wood-embroidered
hill -,
It wore upon Its head a dew-wet crown
And now so pallid 'neatn the . austere
frown " v
Of iron skies that wither, blight and kill.
Dear bit -of greenl By thee , my thoughts,
m-e turned
To field and forest, meadow, lane and
brook
How often for the sight, my soul .has
yearned!- - .
Dear native land! Afar to thee I look.
As one who with world-weary heart and
eyes -
Might gaxe o'er walls of death at FaradUo'