The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-07-21

any more than Cow creek can be com
pared to the Mississippi river. Even
in the best hotels and restaurants OF
London there is no sign Of pie on the
biIr Of fare, and the French cooks, /
who can make old hash better have
not learned the science OF construct
ing pie, mince, apple, pumpkin, cher
~ or any kind Of pie. I do not know
how they do it, but the railroad res
taurants are run without pie Even
the crowned heads 60 through life
without knowing the taste Of pump
kin pie and one OF my ideas Of royal
ty in my early days was that king or
prince could have custard pie with
halzy brown crust three times a day
No wonder the rulers Of Europe are
afraid Of revolution. If they would
see that their subjects had square
meals and pie at least for dinner, the
heads that wear the crowns need not
be so uneasy.
And the Europeans are trying to
live without hot cakes for breakfast.
1 suppose there is not a man or wo-
man in Finland who would recognize
by experience the rich and regal
buckwheat cake, or the corn cake or
the pancake. I can't understand why
the refOrmers in this country do not
get to the point, and see that the
people have flap jacks for breakfast
as well as pie for dinner, and then
let the disbanding OF the armies pro-
coed.
Every American citizen who is sane
and patriotic, believes that he is a
fisherman and tries to prove it when
ever he gets near a creek or river
Whether ne actually catches any fish
or not, he goes fishing was some
what worked up in Ireland and Eng
land because the streams were nearly
all private property and the Ordin-
airy citizen had no chance to fish any
more than he did to attend the we'd
ding Of a prince I was glad to know
it is different in France. Last Sun
day in Paris we walked along the
banks Of the Seine as it runs through
the city between the stone walls and
under the stone bridges. The stream
was lined with fishmen- One Of the
/ privileges the citizen Of Paris enjoys
is to fish in the Seine and was told
that there were at least 10000
Frenchmen watching the cOrks on
the river that afternoon. 1 waited
for a long time to see them catch a
French fish. Occasionally one OF the
men or women would pull up a line,
| but the bait was never missing. Fin
| ally asked a friend who has been in
Paris some time if anybody ever
caught a fish He said he had never
/ really heard Of any one but there was
a tradition that along about the time
| Of Napoleon III somebody did catch
| a fish in the Seine. He doubted the
story but said I could believe it if I
wanted to. And yet there are theOlO-
gians and doctors Of divinity who say
the French people are losing faith,
when these thousands were demon
strating to the contrary and were
heartily enjoying the privilege the
! government gives and for which the
Parisians would doubtless fight, the
right to fish in the river.
This city Of Marseill-s in which we
| are spending a couple of days, is the
| principal seaport Of France. IT was
established by the Phoenicians and
was an important town when Julius
Caesar was sitting up the primaries
in Rome. tt is the port from Which
France does business with southern
Europe, Africa, Asia and even Amer
lea. Consequently the harbOr is full
OF Ill kinds Of shiDoi -, the streets
are crowded with Arabs, Greeks,
| Spanfards. Turks, Italians and repre-
j sentatives Of all nations witch use the
sea, and the town has the largest col
lection Of OdOrs and smells that I
have met. As a strange fact I will
add that Marseilles is the first large
city I have visited in Europe with a
good up-tO-date electric railway sys-
tenn Americans do not come here
very much. So far as I know Mrs.
Morgan and I are the only Americans
in the city, and there is not a soul
at our hotel who can speak English
So you see we are running up against
little real foreign experience.-W
Y. Morgan