Mexico Missouri message., 1906-08-02

with force Of monsy n - way alters
the process nor does u permit the ~
suit to vary On the surface ali Is cor
diality and peaceful negotiation. Be
meath Is the same inmemofial strife,
the life-and-death struggle pitiless,
inexorabls.
What would have been q hostile
biyouac within the city's gates, but
for the matter Of few centuries, Is
now. to select an example which re-
motely concerns as, 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 fitful light Of camp fires, chant
ing weird battle runes, fighting for
captive vestals, and pickering In un-
couth tongues over the golden spells,
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; 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 renown from the
farthest Businesses; they and their
curious households: the ironmongeT
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
OIL a later dynasty in oil, from Texas,
And, for the unaesthetic but effective
Attila, an able fashioner of pork prod.
ucts from Chicago.
Here they make festival, carelessly
unafrald, 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 unprofitaDly. Doubt.
less it often results from this amlty
that the patrician strain is corrupted
by the alien admlxture-but business
has been business since as many a
two persons met on the face Of Thu
new earth.
For example, this particular shelte
is builded upon land which one of tn,
Ipatrician 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
of trifing extent, produces an incom
that will suffice TO maintain that fam
lily almost in its ancient and befittini
estate.
In this mammoth pile, for the petit
rental of $4,000 or $4,000 a year
many tribes Of the invaders have foun
shelter and entertainment in apart
ments Of many rooms. Outwardly, 4
details of ornamentation, the buildin
is said to duplicate the Chateau Blot
those splendid palaces Of Francis
, Inside are all the line and color an
device of elegant opulence, modern {
the last note.
To this palace Of an October evenin
comes the tribe OF Bines, and man
another such, for a triumphal feast
? the abode Of Barbarian Silas Higbe
3 The admirable host-if one be broad
> minded-is now in the drawing-rOon
: seconding his worthy wife and prett
3 daughter who welcome the Dime
: guests.
; For a man who has a fad for hal
: and doesn't care who knows 1t, b
bearing is all we have right to e.
!, pect that it should be. Among II
; group OF arrivals, men Of his ow
. sort, he is speaking Of the eyer-shif
a ing fashion in boards, to the evang
= Of Texas oil field who fiaunts to Il
world one OF those heavy mustach'
I spurlously extended below the corneI
t OF the mouth by means Of the chi
growth of hair Another, a worth
J, trlbesman from Snohomish, Washing
e ton. wears q beard which, for SEQ
. Of years, has been let to be its oV
: true self; to express, fearlessly, its ON
= unique capacity for variation fro
type. These two have rallied the
n host upon his modishly trimmed sid
n whiskers.
You're right" says Mr.. Higbe
, amiably, II amt stuck any myself I
= this way Of trimming up mans faC
. but the madam will have 1t this WI
: says 1t looks more refined and Ne
Y Yorky. And now, do you know, ev
o since I've worn 'em this way-ev
n since had 'em scrRped from aroul
under my neck here-I have to go
'e Florida every winter. Come Janua
or February, get bronchitis eve
o. blamed yearl"
y Two Of the guests only are alien
"a the barbaFic throng.
y There is the noble Baron Ronal
: de PRlliac, decorated, reserved, obsel
y ant--almost wistful. For the nome
= he is picturing dutifully the Injuries
certain marriage would enable him
procure for his noble father and /