The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1901-09-07
THE COURIER

travel, a weary and sunken face would
look wistfuily out from the lonely little
camp. and you could read at glance on
that face and the surroundings story
OF poverty and OF desperate struggle to
retain in a poor emaciated body lie
that was fiuttering to escape and to be
free.
Wherever people are grouped for rec
reation, wherever they gather to escape
environment of heat and cold. on land or
sea. from gilded hall or squald cabin.
from palace car or dusty road wagon
these weary faces look out at US with
their story of lost health, adnonishing
US that we never realize how sweet life
is and how much we are in love with it
until We begin that search for lost health.
that weary and pathetic search which
moves from place to place, which looks
and yearns and searches but never finds.
While one part of the people are seek
ing more life and boarding and holding
on to the little that they have, the other
part are recklessly squandering and vast.
ing it; and 90 subtle is it that this man
may not pick up and save for himself
that which the other throws away.
Az the best hotels in Mauitou where
the price was high and the service poor.
you could see groups ostall, shaggy, and
loose jointed-men, swsrthy-faced and
coarse looking, but good natured and
companionable, and you would know by
their dialect and the splendid stories they
told each other as we'll as by their swag-
gering talk of cotton and cane and cattle,
that they were from the south. mostly
from Texas.
mighty sight o. people hesh FIN ouah
state" one OF them said to me. Then he
stretched himself up to his full height
and swelled out his chest and hooked his
thumbs into bis suspenders and spoke OF
Texas as the greatest state in the unioo,
and that it vac IN the union. sab. and
and men whenever the union needed it.
l admitted what he said and liked him
for IT.
The Texans predominated at Manitou
this summer. They we're everywhere,
and they are popular and interesting
when they get away from home and are
on their good behavior. The men swsg.
ger and chew tobacco and smoke and tell
stories, but they tell the best and most
original stories ever heard; their chill
dren are not afraid OF them. and their
handsome daughters have that free and
Independent air peculiar to the girl who
lie on good terms with her father and
knows that he is ready to back hsr Up
under any and all circumstances.
Along the steep grade Of six or seven
miles on which the cog road is built
from Msnitou to the top of Pixies Peak,
you could see il you had been there this
summer a constant stream Of people toll
ing YEARLY up and then shambling down
again. always buoyant with expectancy
before and generally very much used up
end sore jointed after taking this trip.
One Young German told me in broken
English how he had walked up to the
top Of the peak in the afternoon AID be-
cause the price for sandwiches up there
was almost as high as the peak refused
to eat. and on returning to Manitou too
late for the car walked the eight miles
further to Colorado Springs that same
night. He told me how very tired be
was when he reached the top Of the peak
after toiling YEARLY up the steep grade
all the afternoon. and how hungry be