Arizona republican., 1908-04-02
A BERKSHIRE WINTER
 AND ARIZONA ORANGES
In the Grasp of the Former a Writer is Reminded of the Latter

A late issue of the North Adams (Mass) Herald devoted its special Sat urday evening department to Arizona, sending with the following editorial note: Since North Adams has recent ly been made the distributing center for Arizona oranges. and since Mrs. Edward $. Wilkinson, his mother and his little son, J. Lewis Scott and several other local people are at present in Arizona the following article seems particularly timely
 Then followed an article by Frank Miller who is well remembered as a former winter visiter to Phoenix in the course of which he now and then con tributed to the papers of the valley and on one occasion he delivered a very interesting address before the Tempe Normal. The subject of Mir. Miller's ar ticle was Berkshire Snow and Oranges" He wrote:
 With the thermometer coquetting with zero, and a piercing winter blast clustering about us, We elbowed our way among the throng of Saturday evening shoppers-who, too early for theaters and too late for their even ing meal. line the sidewalks with par ti-colored moving crowds and swerve in derkened masses into the remoter streets.
 What with jostle and hustle. sleigh bells and flirtatious couples galore, the jargon of many tongues-for even New England grows polyglot, when Arnen- nians rub elbows with Italians, and Swedes plod side by side with scores of French Canadians-our little city had wakened to unwonted activity. To store the larder a pertinent issue to the elders, to enjoy the only one presenting itself to the younger gener- ation, jingling temptingly a weeks pay in a pocket from which it burned to escape-while far in the distance Hoosac's mighty wall lowered over all. its whitened crest and pointed battle ments of snow -encrusted fir looming massively across the horizon. its shin ing wintry heights flushed rosy with the promise of yet a fairer day.
 And then night came on with ardent sky and starlit mystery and our town burst ablaze with lights; and store and theaters swallowed the eager crowds. Tn one brightly lighted win OON NilcIt d UT SOOu invited the wary housewife and neat pyramids of toothsome dainties pro- claimed in silent allurement their sue culent charms; a great flare of yellow challenged the eyes and oranges which might vie with the golden fruit of Hesperides arrested our steps and com pelled purchase.
 Arizona Oranges" Oh worthy folk of New England. does that fall mean ingless upon your ears? Does it con- jure up no charm. evoke no spell? Then you do not know the witchery and charm of the desert with its fantastic forms and grandiose scenery. You have yet to learn the fascination of awak- ening in the open-that open in which the doves flutter and coo and the coy otes sing their weird shrill choruses all the night-to find the dawn clothed royalty in spectacular loveliness of pearly mists trailing into unspeaka ble glory of purple and gold.
 O goodly friends of the east, has the Atlantic wearied you? Has your world grown stale and flat and pessimistic :? Then hie you to the golden west. Learn the riches which have just begun to show themselves in that great stretch. Renew like the eagle your youth and strength in those regions where all the earth seems new, where enthusiasm is