Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-16
CHAPTER TX.

WITH THE BARBARlC HOSTS.
History reEeats itself so cleverly,
with variance of stage settings and
accessories so cunning, that the repe-
tition seldom bOreS, and is, indeed, fire.
Quently Undecided. Thus, the descent
OF the Barbarians urOn decadent
people is a little tour de force that
has been performed again and again
since the oldest day. But because the
assault nowadays is made not with
Toe of arms we are prone to believe
it is no longer made at all; as if hu-
man ways had changed a bit since
those ugly. hairy tribes from the
northern forests descended upon the
Roman empire. And yet the mere diff
ference that the assault is now made
with force Of money in no way alters
the process nor does 1t permit the re-
suit TO vary. On the surface all is cor
tiality and peaceful negotiation. Be
meath is the same immemorial strife,
| he life-and-death struggle-pitiless
memorable.
What would have been a hostile
bivouac within the city's gates, but
for the matter of a few centuries, is
now, to select an example which re-
| .notely concerns US, noble structure
on Riverside drive. facing the lordly
Hudson and the majestic Palisades
! that form its farther wall. And, Tor
he horde of Goths and Visigoths
Huns and Vandals, drunkenly Keeling
| N, ba f,r1 ;nh Of
| ing weird battle runes, fighting for
| captive vestals. and pickering in I'M
couth tongues over the golden spoils
what have we now to make the paral-
lei convince? Why, the same Barbar-
ians, actually; the same hairy rude
ness, the same unrefned, all-conquer-
ing, animal force; a redfaced, big
| handed lot, imbued with hearty good
nature and an easy tolerance for the
ways of those upon whom they have
| descended.
Here are chiefs of renown from the
tarthest Businesses; they and their
curious households: the ironmongeI
from Pittsburg, the gold miner from
Dawson, the copper chief from Butte
the silver chief from Denver, the cattle
chief from Oklahoma, lord of 100000
good acres and 10000 cattle, the lum
Der prince from Michigan, the founder
OF later dynasty in oil, from Texas
And, for the unaesthetic but effective
Atjla, an able fashioner of pork prod
acts from Chicago.
Here they make festival, carelessly
unafraid, unmolested. For, in the
lapse of time, the older peoples have
earned not only the folly of resistins
inevitables, but that the huge anc
hairy invaders may be treated and bar
,ered with not unproftaDly. Doubt
less it often results from this amt,
that the patrician strain is corrupted
Oy the alien admixture-but bushes
has Eeen business since as many a
two persons met on the face of tn
! new earth.
For example, this particular shelte
patrician families had held for a cen
= fury solely because it could not be dis
! posed of. Yet the tribesmen came
clamoring for palaces, and now thi
same land, with some adjoining area
D of trifling extent, produces an incom
i that will suffice to maintain that fam
S lily almost in it's ancient and befttin
y estate.
d In this mammoth pile, for the petit
t rental of $4,000 or $4,000 a yea
a many tribes of the invaders have foun
= shelter and entertainment in apart
e ments of many rooms. Outwardly, 1
, details Of ornamentation, the buildin
T is said to duplicate the Chateau Blois
e those splendid palaces of Francis
D Inside are all the line and color an
= device of elegant opulence, modern t
2 The last note.
To this palace Of an October evenin
comes the tribe Of Bines, and man