The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-02-25
PORT ARTHUR.

The Kansas Editorial Association
met in annual session in Kansas City,
Kans., on Feb. 8, and 9. We were
unable to attend the meeting, only gO-
irg down in time to catch the excur-
sion train for Port Arthur. The assO-
citation meetings were said to have
been both pleasant and profitable.
There We're many good papers and
much helpful discussion. The Feder-
alton of Women's clubs served lunch
one day, and the Commercial club of
K. G. Mo-, gave banquet Tuesday
evening.
Kansas editors are probably better
organized than those of any other
state in the union This is shown by
a comparison OF the banquets given
the Missouri and Kansas associations
within couple of weeks of each other
At the Missouri banquet only 80 per-
sons were seated, at the Kansas, 2S5.
Late in the afternoon jolly, happy
crowd OF editors, their wives as well
as their sisters, their cousins and their
aun5s, began gathering in the P. & G.
depot 80 embark for the wonderful new
city by the sea, Port Arthur.
Snreiy all things that are prosper
Gus should and will come to the 2. G.
officials, for when they do anything
they do it royalty. There were five
Pullmans and d baggage car in the
train as it pulled out of X. c. about
dusk. Everyone had various baskets
of provisions, for the dining car was
not to be put on until next morning.
AS soon as we started Pres. Perkins
and See. Morphy went through the
cars and saw that everyone was satis-
facsorily and comfortably settled for
the trip.
Thursday morning at daylight We
were down in the Ozark mountain
region. The day was an ideal one f, r
d mountain journey. The grey mys-
terry of d cloudy day, only added to
the sombre majesty of the silent noun
tains clothed in the purpling haze that
seems a part of mountainous atmos-
phere. Occasionally a weird creeping
mist would be seen circling across the
foothills, adding to the beauty of the
picture. One scarcely fel5 like talking
in the presence OF the wonderously
beautiful phenOmena.
The road traverses magnificently
wooded country. and the combination
of the gray leafless trees, with here
and there the light green of the holly
o' the mistleboe, strange beautiful
parasite that lives and thrives in the
life of anotoer life, picturesque rocks
and running streams, all these against
the purple mountains made a feast for
the eye and the soul of those who live
where Natures face. though beautiful,
is changeless.
On Friday morning we saw the first
pines and soon the great waxy mag
nolia trees; later on the heavy Span
ish moss waving with each pulsation
of the atmosphere. Whirling on,
presently We were in the land of the
cypress, that strange fuuereal tree
whose life seems given over to con-
temptation of the serious side of ma
ture. We passed Mt. Mena, the fam
Gus summer resort, on top OF which a
handsome hotel is being erected. Last
summer a great many people summer
cd ip there, living in tents. but the ho-
tel and cottages will be furnished for
the coming season. There is a hand
some boulevard leading up to the pla-
teau, built at a cost of $4,000 to the
company. We made quite stop at
Mena, the wonderful youngster, only a
year old, who has 5000 heads, and:
incldently each one is full of enter
prise, Judging from the condition OF
its wel-being.
On and on we went, passing miles
and II lies of giant pines through which
the lights and shadows, constantly
elinting, made the most delicate tra-
ng. Through the swamps and cane
breaks where the bondmen used to
hide in aate-bellum days, and past the
land of the Red:bones, a curious peo-
ple who are a rsixture of Negro and
Indian, this curious blending Civ
ing them ferocious ugly tempera
ment. Soon after crossing the Match
es we came to Beaumont, a very veal
thy southern town, where many of the