The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-07-27


suit to vary. On the surface all Is cor
diality and peaceful negotiation. Be-
meath Is the same i~mmemorial strife,
the life-and-deatk struggle-pitiless,
memorable.
What would have been o hostile
bivouac within the city's gates, but
for the matter of a few centuries, 10
now, to select an example which re-
motely concerns us, a noble structure
on Riverside drive, facing the lordly
Hudson and the majestic Palisades
that form its farther wall. And, for
the horde Of Goths and Visigoths,
Huns and Vandals, %drunkenly Keeling
in the ftful light Of camp fires, chant
ing weird battle runes, fighting for
captive v~estals, and pickering in un-
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 unrefined, all-conquer-
ing, animal force; a red-faced, 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 from the
farthest Businesses; they and their
curious households: the ironmonger
from Pittsburg, the gold miner from
Dawson, the copper chief from Butte,
the silver chief from Denver, the cattle
chief from Oklahoma, lord of 300, 900
good acres and 10000 cattle, the lum-
Der prince from Michigan, the founder
OF a later dynasty in oil, from Texas.
And, for the u~naesthetic but effective
Attila, an able fashioner of pork prod
ucts from Chicago.
Here they make festival, carelessly,
unafraid, unmolested. For, in the
lapse of time, the older peoples have
learned not only the folly of resisting
inevitables, but that the huge and
hairy invaders may be treated and bar
tered with not unproAtaDly. Doubt
less it often results from this amity
that the patrician strain is corrupted
by the alien admixture-but business
has been business since as many as
two persons met on the face of the
new earth.
For example, this particular shelter
is builded upon land which one of the
patrician families had held for a GEN.
fury solely because it could not be dis
posed Of. Yet the tribesmen came,
clamoring for palaces, and now this
same land, with some adjoining areas
of triaing extent, produces an income
that will suffice to maintain that fam.
lily almost in its ancient and BETTING
estate.
In this mammoth pile, for the petty
rental of 10000 or $4,000 a year
many tribes of the invaders have found
shelter and entertainment in apart.
ments of many rooms. Outwardly, In
details of ornamentation, the building
is said to duplicate the Chateau Blois
those splendid palaces Of Francis 1
Inside are all the line and color ant
device of elegant opulence, modern t.
the last note.
To this palace of an October evening
comes the tribe Of Bines, and many
another such, for a triumphal feast II
the abode of Barbarian Silas Higbee
The admirable host-if one be broad
minded-is now in the drawing-room
daughter who welcome the dinner
guests.
For a man who has a fad for han
and doesn't care who knows it, hi!
bearing is all we have a right to ex
pect that 1t should be. Among thu
group of arrivals, men of his OWL
!, sort, he is speaking of the ever-shift
ing fashion in boards, to the evange
Of a Texas oil field who fiaunts to thu
world one of those heavy mustache!
spuriously extended below the corners
t of the mouth by means of the chill
growth of hair. Another, a worth.
tribesman from Snohomish, Washing
: ton. wears a beard which, for a scor'
CT years, has been let to be it's owl
true self; to express, fearlessly, its owl
unique capacity for variation from
type. These two have rallied thei
| host upon his modishly trimmed side
! whiskers.
You're right" says Mr.. Higbee
: amiably, II amt stuck any myself OF
this way of trimming up a mans face
but the madam will have it this wa,
says it looks more refined and New
Yorky. And now, do you know, eve
} since I've worn 'em this way-eve
! since had 'em scraped from aroun,
under my neck here-I have to go Il
Florida every winter. Come Januar,
or February, I get bronchitis ever,
blamed year!"
|. Two Of the guests only are alien t
! the barbaric throng.
> There Is the noble Baron Ronaul
de Palliac, decorated, reserved, observ
: ~ant-almost wistful. For the momen
: be Is p~icturing dutifully. the. luxuries
certain marriage would enable him t
procure for his noble father and hi
, aged mother, who eagerly await tn
!. news of his quest for the golden fleece
> For tha harOU r~OutompIotnc altar III