Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-03-29
While waiting proposed TO a com.

While waiting proposed TO a com.
nanion, luckily within hearing of the
conductor, TO go To hill apparently
about 200 feet away, to secure a specimen
that looked like a white flower similar
to white daisy with US. Just as we
! started the conductor said Gentlemen,
| II you really wish to go there you had
| better take lunch with you as well as
checks 70 follow us the day after tomor.
row. for that little hill you see /, Is
miles OF in "a straight line, and owing 10
| the turns you must make TO reach IL,
half as many more are added, so i give
two days, layover 60 you, so you can
follow at later date. but be careful not
60 miss that second days train ms can
not give layovers for more than 4S
hours" Our looks probably indicated
our doubts of MS veracity, for he instant
ly took out A revolver S. d. W., five
and One-half inch octogan barrel, say
ing "Do you see that?" We can not be
accused of blindness who saw Is miles,
50 he continued. stand exactly behind
me and watch with close attention that
basin Of water" pointing TO what had
such an appearance at apparently 10 OF
| IL feet away. Then holding his revol-
yer at an elevation or angle of over 10
|
elevation is guaranteed to carry 1000
yards or over one mile and an eighth
Watch closely and connt 81 when you
will see the ball strike that patch of
water.
lie was even as he said. We counted
trifie slow, owing to an impeachment in
our speech. and just as we got to twenty
| six, that bullet struck the water, we
| knew TO be over a mile away. To
more thoroughly impress us with the
| fault of our vision he handed me IA small
| rock weighing about half pound, say
| ing Throw that as far as you can"
and with my full vigor | cast that stone
sufficiently swift 10 have carried it
! across Michigan stream 200 feet wide,
but the thing aid not appear 10 more
| than leave my hand and when IL began
10 descend actually drew in my toes
| To prevent them being hit by that stone
| falling. However, there was no danger,
! for long as my feet are, they could not
| be tread on at three times the width of
an ordinary street in front of me.
We were convinced that one does not
want 10 believe anything he hears, nor
half he sees, (unless 1t Is IN print and
| when the conductor shouted "All
aboard, we gave over our claims TO
that flower, and gently repeating under
our breath land Sheridan only twenty
miles away" with IA new understanding
of that sublime sentence. got on board
and wend forward toward Laredo
| l. this section loyal to the govern
ment? think there is no part of the
country more so Even the dumb beasts
horses have that feeling To illustrate
only need bring home TO your mental
| ,rtg 81 of
mans most faithful friend, "A horse, or
rather tell you what one did.
AS / was standing on the Internation-
nj bridge over the Rio Grande, that
connects Laredo, Texas, with NuevO
/ Laredo the Mexican town, | saw horse
approach the Mexican shore, sniff dis.
daintully at the water there, glance
over at our shores, then with head high
and tail at )at" on the waves, he follow
ed his horse sense Of loyalty, then wad-
| ed and swan across the half mile OF
neutral space between the two countries,
proudly walked 10 the beach turned,
took drink at the American side
tsand) bar and calmly returned whence
and as he came.
AS he reascended the Mexican shore a
frightful noise (tO me-but considered
music here broke on the solemn still
ness of the morning, and | almost lost
my balance, yet did mot tumble to-
the waves beneath then on looking saw
it was only the braying Of jackass
which probably merely expressed his
personal contempt of the animal that
would swim half mile 10 get a drink. |
| have heard OF men doing more than
that for their customary beverage and
methinks I've heard not less melodious
laughs from others who looked on those
matters with different view.
But all this is not to the point, more
than TO point to the loyalty inherited
in all human hearts, and brings TO my
mind the recent note in the RECORD
that $50, 900 had been voted TO aid in
bringing 70 Alma, manufacturing in
terests, fully illustrative of Alma's de-
cision to grow yet with this vision of
future growth | see that swimming
horse and hear ringing in my ears that
bray of derislon, or is il merely discor-
dent laugh from one who had not the !
fortitude TO push out into the deep" TO
secure that for which the mind longeth,
but like the tickled jack-takes what
comes easiest.
Wishing success to everything tend
ting 70 improve my home town,