The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-08-01
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+bo desert claimed its victims passed long ago,
bnt this is not true. The day we.arrived in Los
Angeles the daily papers told of three young
miners who went out prospecting in the Death
Valley vicinity Water failing, they decided at
lost 70 separate in their mad search for it. Two
lived TO get to water but the third died of thirst
ond the burial took place while we were there.
Inst now there is a heavy emigration from the
Northwest across the border to Canada. This
mart Of the Dominion stands almost unrivalled
as wheat country and so many Americans are
settling there that they may give some life to
the oft-discussed plan for Canadian annexation
The wheat is sown, grown and mown-to speak
rhythmically-in about ninety days, am told
I believe it is said that there were originally
only twenty-seven jokes and that all that we have
in the world variations of the original twenty
seven Certain it is that an absolutely new joke
is one of the rarest of human blessings; and /
have new illustration of this fact Out on the
Pacific Ocean a party of fellow travellers on the
deck we're telling jokes; and they were the same
stories that you and I have heard on the shores
of the Atlantic or on the steamers between Nor
folk and New York. Other things vary greatly,
the same songs in San Francisco as in New York
At Monterey I am sorry that did not see
the famous old cypress-t s-trees-20OO years old, is
their estimated age-gnarled and knotted ever
greens, the embodiment of patient endurance
I am also sorry that did not see the Sherman
rose. This is a rose which General Sherman and
a Monterey girl planted together long years be-
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"When this rose blooms" said Sherman, "I will
come back and claim YOU my bride" And the
rose bloomed, but Sherman never came back; is
still blooming. and Sherman is in his grave. The
woman if l remember the story correctly
never married. and died few years ago.
have already recounted in these columns the
story of how encountered the Spanish-speaking
walters IN a Mexican restaurant and as neither of
US could "savvy" as to what the other was saying,
could get supper there. Mr.. Thomas of In
diana, one of my fellow travellers had better luck
Or worse luck whichever you may choose to
term 1t. Here is the case as he puts it in his pa
per:
The writer, with two ladies, went to Mexican
restaurant and had a genuine Mexican supper.
Inc hot tamales and other ten times hotter stuff,
seemed to affect both head and stomach. it
was with difficulty that we were able to navigate
and one of the ladies was compelled to call ply
Slclan all the next dav in crossing the desert. No
more Mexican suppers in ours, please"
did not get a genuine Mexican supper, as I
nave said, but in Guthrie I tried "hot chilli"
which shares with the 'hot tamale" the place of
aonor IN cowboy and Mexican menus Hot chill
sort of soup made of chill pepper with
'Hough beef, BEANS etc.. etc., to season the pep
pef' Hot tamale is somewhat like hot chilli ex-
Cept that 1t is ten times hotter. is sort of pud
Uing rather than a soup, and is cooked in a corn
Snuck' l ate my dish of chill with some relish,