Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-03-12


thing for a growing child. Old home.
will find everything shTunk; you will
come back to Colorado, sooner than
you expected 't'
Effect OF Imagination.
"A former pastor is more in the inn
agination that in fact do not believe
that Henry Ward Beecher could fill
his old pulpit The Imagination has
played around him, lnagniled him
Ruskin says that two children, side by
side, read out Of the same book, the
same page. but in few days one has
gone on in the book and is chapters
ahead. They never are reading the
same page together again Sdil ships
are together in port, but not long to-
gether on the sea. School mates,
chums, drift wider apart than ships,
Friends must be careful The like.
minded are the only people who keep
together How can two walk together
except they be agreed? Some old
prophet says that. believe there are
forty-four literary clubs of women in
Colorado. Perhaps there are four OF
similar mems clubs. This as friend
Of mine remarks, is going to work in
harmony
Men must prepare themselves for
conversation outside of mines and
corner lots The festival to come in
September of music and literature
pioneered by the Welsh people of Col
orado, insists that the men of this
state call their minds off, now and
then, from earth and things made OF
earth. Whatsoever things are true,
says Paul, Whatsoever things are
lovely, if there be any virtue, if there
be any praise, think of these things.
Mines and corner lots, and eastern
capital, and the Monroe doctrine and
DR.. Jamieson's raid and political con-
vcntions are important, but they are not
lovely. We men must know the differ-
ence between Mill on Liberty and
The Mill on the Floss l do not de-
sire to hear any more about the rel
flag Of socialism, There is only one
wcman in Colorado that falls into that
hole. Enough men have fallen into il
to seem to fill it. But ignorance is Wild
err than a church door and deeper than
we'll.
The RadcIiT Hanging.
"The sources OF hope are mostly in
front. Columbus discovered America
he discovered an outlying, outcrop.
ping edge of it. The '49ers and the
'59ers discovered more of it, much re.
naming to be discovered. We mus
discover an America where people cal
live together without Winchesters
, where man will not peddle cowardly
and ignorant and criminal gossip, anC
, where an old man and an old soldier
will not take it into his head that h
must kill the peddler of such gossip
and then calmly and without regret b.
hanged for it, Abraham and Lot dis
covered an empty earth, where on,
could go to the west and one to thu
; east and so avoid a quarrel. Now VI
are to discover an America where al
sorts and conditions can live togethe
and work together. each for all, AM
avoid quarrel that way.
I'VE have large number of peopl,
who are in Colorado, not for silver Of
gold, but for health No infirmity o
the lungs. has any power on hope
That kind of an individual has compen
sation. He is, as l meet him, cheer
full being, He has, like Robert Loui!
Stevenson, AN absolute confidence il
the ultimate decency of things
Some years ago | was one of thu
judges selected to pronounce on the
relative merit of some three hundred
Colorado poems. Many of them were
written by invalids, by people under
the weather, by people in debt, by
people all broken up. There was no
a dOleful poem in the lot; not a poem
of grief. Nearly all of them touched
upon or dwelt in the mineral. For thu
strength Of the hills we bless thee, {
God David had said that before them
Colorado Has Hope.
1T braces one to see the hope of our
people. Silver may be in temporary
disgrace beyond the river and ovel
the ocean. used to declaim a speech
which had in it, I CO. but return.
, Meantime there seems to be hope lef
in Colorado, and muscle and courage
and gold Cripple Creek is not looking
backward to Cherry creek and moaning
= about 80. Leadville joins with st
Paul and Montreal in making fun O.
winter In the ice palace Leadvillt
binds the captive in strands made on
o. its own hair. have forgotten wha
the sex of winter is. 1t is safe to cal
winter it Colorado is in the future
and we throw our thoughts ahead, anC
as a man thinketh so is he
General Wolfe, an invalid. lived il
bed the most of one winter on the ne
cessity that he must one night get III
and dress and proceed to take Quebec
He said to his surgeon: You can
cure me, but fix me up for a forlorr
hope He must die, but he saw with
dying eyes victory. That is enough
The soldier said: I am content
I'VE are commanded not to take
| anxious thouphts Dbout tomOrrow by