Middletown transcript., 1905-12-30

would 90 begging for patrons we're It not
for Chicago.
In the lobby OF her best hotels you will
meet the genuine American without the
st. Regis veneering. He may have the
"Alkali Iken flow TO his radiant nous
tache and lie may wear Buffalo Bill''
sombrero, but he would nevertheless drip
more real American blood than dozen
Of the Anglo -Maniacs that throng the
fashionable hotels Of the great metropolis.
One thing can be said of these magnifi-
cent specimens OF independent manhood,
there is no one big enough for them to
initiate but the Almighty.
Chicago is crowded with Rooseyeltian
strenuosity. There it no such thing
known to the Western blood as the inoc-
cuous desuetude brand. | like Chicago
for its pulsating humanity that makes
one feel akin to all the world, and all the
world akin to him. One could literally.
die with eanai in the thronged streets OF
New York City because Of the feeling OF
| utter loneliness that comes over the
stranger within her gates. You can't
| feel.lonely in the streets Of any Western
city. No genuine Western heart ever
becomes petrified. He is never servile.
He never bends the knee to mortal man.
His shoulders are broad, his head is high
and lie stands straight up. No man can
long live in view Of these broad prairies
of the West without bulging out some
I where with feeling of immensity. To
live i'll the open atmosphere of great
things makes a man feel big. Either
that or the big things seem small when he
gets up alongside of them. A lady said
to me recently when thousands were
cheering the most Landed man in amer
lea, ''How proud | would be if he were
nv husband. The world would not be
big enough to hold me-" Ii that great
man were her husband his greatness
would soon come down to her own stature
or she would 60 up to his. A man at the
head OF large corporation in the East
said to me few weeks ago ut won't do
| for me to come in contact with the stock
holders Of my company, for if | do they
will soon begin to feel as big as | am. "
And so they would. So, as l was passing
over those broad prairie lands Of the vast
West felt bigger than did few days
ago when l walked up Fifth Avenue.
One cannot pass through the great State
OF Illinois without thinking Of her two
greatest sons-Lincoln and Douglass
and Of their great debate that began in
Freeport. They were two wonderfully
dissimilar products of very similar soil.
Both were of the Western type and both
| near to the hearts of the people. One q
polished shaft, finished in rhetoric, keen
and subtle in logic and powerful in de-
bate; the other rough nail split from
the heart of the common people, direct
and simple in style, frank and severe in
logic and yet masterful in forensic dis
cussion. The one lives in the pages OF
history, and the other lives in the hearts
OF the people. Yet as the result Of that
great debate Douglass was chosen and
Lincoln was rejected. Later on the peo-
pie of the country reversed the decision
of Illinois and fifty chose the great com.
moner as the Executive head Of the ma.
ton.
| wish | could describe some Of the
people with whom we travelled from
Chicago to the Black Hills OF South Da.
kota. Miners openly gambling on blan
ket spread over their knees, nonchalantly
raking in Jackpot, was common sight
after the train reached Nebraska.
| We had as a travelling companion q
very learned physician from Paris and he
was brimming full of Roosevelt's theories
on race suicide. He knows all about il
for lie said that for many years they had
the same anti-production disease in Paris
He ungenerously laid all the blame upon
Woman's Clubs, the daily demands o
social functions and the champagne din
ners which left no time for the primary
duty laid upon the first married pair
His statistics were alarming and | coulG
refute them only by selecting such isolated
cases like that Georgia Octogenarian who
recently wrote to the President for ar
increase in his Mexican war pension upor
the ground that he was the father o
thirty-one children and had just taker
a young wife and that his twelve dollar
a month was not sufficient in view OF hi
past experience to support his new re
sponsibility. | also told him OF tha
: young man over in New Jersey who act
ing his part in a private theatrical per
formance received. without fainting. til,
startling information that his young wifi
had Just decorated him with bouncing
: triplets. | finally reminded the Parisial
doctor that thought his clan had fig
ured quite prominently in depicting ou
population, and that once | had the pleas
ure of getting even. 1t was at banque
and noted physicians wife was one Q
| the speakers and chose as her subjec
, "Ghosts." Think Of doctors wife dis
cussing such a thin and incongruou
topic. / was the toast master for th
I occasion and / introduced her in the fol
lowing inappropriate words:
This is a subject from solid substance free
: Yet fraught with direful dread 70
you and me,
? From childhood days to ripened years.
{ We've heard Of ghosts with doubts an
fears
But now we're told it's time to shake 'er
+ And she knows, for it's her husband
trade to make EN-.
In my next letter l shall endeavor t
give some description of the wonderful
mining camps of the Black Hills.
! JUNIUs.
SPECIAL JURY
> The following special jury has bee
drawn to try the case in the Superio
Court of Joseph L. Green vs. the Counc