Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-11-07

inc process nor does II permit the re-
suit TO vary. on the surface all is cor
diality and peaceful negotiation. Be
meath is the same immemorial strife.
the life-and-death struggle-pitiless
MEMORABLE
What would have been a hostile
bivouac within the city's gates. but
Tor the matter of a few centuries is
now. to select an example which re-
motely concerns us, a noble structure
on Riverside drive, facing the lordIy
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 I'M
couth tongues over the golden spoils
what have we now TO make the Daral-
lei convince? Why, the same Barbar-
ians actually; the same hairy rude
ness, the same unrefined. all-conuuer.
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
farthcst 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 later dynasty in oil, from Texas
And, for the unaesthetic but effective
Attila, an able fashicner of pork prod
ucts from Chicago
Here they make festival carelessly.
unafraid, unmolested. For. i'm 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 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 CEN
tury 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 trillinS extent, produces an income
that will suffice to maintain that fam
lily almost in it's ancient and BETTING
estate.
In this mammoth pile. for the petty
rental of $4,000 or $1,000 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 |.
Inside are all the line and color and
device of elegant opulence. modern to
The last note.
To this palace of an October evening
comes the tribe OF Bines, and many
another such. for a triumphal feast in
the abode of Barbarian Sias Higbee.
The admirable host-if one be broad
mindcd-is now in the drawing-room
secondine his worthy wife and pretty
daughter who welcome the dinner
guests.
For man who has a fad for ham
and doesn't care who knows it. his
| bearing is all we have a right to ex-
pect that it should be. Among the
group of arrivals. men of his own
sort, he is speaking of the cver-s shift
ing fashion in boards. TO the evangel
Of Texas oil field who naunts to the
/ world one of those heavy mustaches
spuriously extended below the corners
of the mouth by means Of the chin
growth OF hair Another worthy
tribesman from Snohomish. Washing
ton, wears beard which. for score
! OF years, has been let to be its own
true self; to express. fearlessly. its own
unique capacity for variation from
type. These two have rallied their
most upon his modishly trimmed side
whiskers
You're right says Mr. Higbee.
amiabiy, Il amt stuck any myself on
this way Of trimming up mans face.
but the madam will have it this way
says IL looks more refined and New
forky. And now. do you know. ever
since I've worn EN- this way-ever
since had EN- scraped from around
under my neck here have to 20 TO
Florida every winter Come January
or February. get bronchitis every
blamed year."
Two OF the guests only are alien to
The barbaric throng.
There is the noble Baron Ronault
de Palliac. decorated. reserved. observ.
ant-almost wistful. For the moment
ne is Dicturing dutifully the luxuries a
certain marriage would enable him TO
procure for his noble father and his
aged mother. who eagerly await the
news OF his quest for the golden fleece.
FOR tho baron contemplates. after the
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