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almost impenetrable and imperisnable
fencing. Orchards, corn fields, f1ocks
of sheep, wheat fields, multiply. There
is now paint on the houses and factories
crowding all larger towns.
Perhaps a word to travellers may not
be amiss. Don't expect to sleep, the
first night out. If cool weather, an ex-
ira pair of blankets of your own is a
great convenience and some small wrap
to keep about the shoulders at night. If
economy is necessary, take bread and
canned goods from home in a basket
with folding handles or in an extension
satchel they can be showed under the
berth at night. Buy plenty of fruit be-
fore starting, for fruit is scarce and dear
on the train and at the stations. Take a
small tea or coffee pot and, if much milk
is wanted, a can to hold it, for excellent
milk is on sale at eating stations. The
tea can be boiled in the stove of tour
ist ear. Above all, especially if children
are along, buckle on patience and don't
expect the comforts of home.
| ALL THE WAY THROUGH MICHIGAN,
increasing in number in Indiana, land still
more numerous in Kansas, are the hedge
fences. Indiana seems almost a park,
with its pretty clumps of trees, its huge
sem-circular wheat straw stacks and ev-
cry indication of fertility rewarding in
dustrious thrift Its wheat fields were
already green for next seasons crop.
Chicago was echoing the departing tread
of its thousands of militia, coming from
all over the Union to help the Windy
City dedicate its Worlds fair buildings.
1t was a dreary wait at Chicago till 10 p.
M, with sleepy children and crossing the
Mississippi at night, next morning found
rather monotonous country, growing in
fertility and beauty as the valley of the
Missouri was reached.
1t was fearfully rough ride from Chi
cago to Kansas City, crossing the Mis-
souri, river, whose sand bars showed the
volume to which it's muddy sluggish cur
rent sometimes swells.
Kansas City perches on the side of its
booming hills like swallow in a CHM
ney. Up the Kansas river to Topeka and
on west through Kansas corn fields are
thicker than spatter, but it has been
poor corn year, though good for wheat
and, especially west of =. Topeka, much
corn looks hardly worth harvesting.
Topeka is full of colored people and
colored policeman PAGES the station plat
form. West of Topeka, coal is mined.
Monday morning, we are entering Col
orado, with its alkali, sage brush, plains,
dreary looking enough, though OCCASION
ally relieved by green alfalfa fields and
cattle grazing in the brown acres. West
of La Junta, the plains look intermnable
and prairie dogs feed or perch near the
track. Soon
THE ROCKIES LOOM IN SIGHT,
freshened, the week before, by fall of
snow, which CLEANS in the October sun
shine. Trinidad is crowded in between
the mountains and Rocky foothills.
These western villages and houses look
so raw and desolate. Mostly one-story,
without much paint or grass about them,
few garden or yard fences, they remind
one of anything but home and mother.
At Trinidad, a second engine buckles
on to the train and the twain have all
that they can do to pull up the steep |
grade TO the tunnel through the top of |
the mountains.
We touch 1922 feet above the sea level,
where there is already snow and find the
steep, rocky sides of the mountains lined |
with scattering pine or spruce and the
dry gully with cottonwoods.
If asked to describe New Mexico in
,wo words, | should say mountainous
iesolation. The line climbs up the noun
aims or rushes down the other slope, the
learer view taking in brown sage brush
,lains, too barren for any one to own,
while mountains frown not far away with
astled or domed SUBMITS, the cliffs
landing mostly sheer in air and red
Trough the continental divide.
The people are mostly Indians or
sreasers (Mexicans) apparently, living
argely in adobe or stone nuts hardly fit
or New England poultry. The streams
re gullies, nearly dry at this season, the
ushing floods cutting deep channels
trough the ground at times. I,
Irrigating bitches are seen now and
hen, for water would redeem this will 1
erness. Birds are very rare, the cactus {