The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-02-13

Statesmen, scholars, orators,
poets. ~pathhnders, composers, in.
vcntors, writer's, scientists-tha
year struck the full gamut from
which genius wreathes her melo-
dies. Some marked out new
spheres in government; some OPP
ened new doors in science; some
awakened new music; some gave
new glories to poetry; n marked
out a new highway Tor commerce
under great rivers; n at least
gave new charms to eloquence;
one by his invention stretched new
harvests over hall a dozen states
and turned hamlets into cities, and
one, Kit Carson, took away the
OF isolation from the great
west by his explorations. The
Dakotas may date their birth from
McCovmick's reaping machine, and
the improved pillow aud thrashing
machine, which at the same time
converted Chicago into the second
city OF the continent. Darwin
,oiled TO discover the origin OF
! man; Abraham Lincoln gave his
life TOT a more secure liberty and
higher manhood for man; Glad
stone was in doubt most OF his life
and changed his opinions frequent
~, bu, that all the time he was
seeking for a higher liberty and a
softer lite ior the poor OF his coun
II ymen, there is no doubt. DR..
Holmes was an earnest worker and
a light oi his profession; there was
much that yexed him, much that
he wanted improved, but he never
permitted the world cares, and
the wor' Is injustice to long dis.
turb has sunny nature, and then
when weary OF men, he went down
into his own soul Tor company, and
the response came in absol utely
perfect diction in prose and in the
rhythm OF poetry that still thrills
the reader, and often reaches the
heights where the immortais take
up the melody.
Tennyson. Mrs. Browning and
Poe-but their stations are rSed
up in the everlasting sunshine,
while when the souls OF Chopin
and Mendelssohn took their flight,
the spirits that welcomed them
sang their own compositions with
accompaniments OF celestial Tyres.
Winthrop IA an orator and
scholar 20 great that he took Web.
sters seat when he went from the
House to the Senate and filled 1t
so perfectly that the great eX-
FOUNDER was not missed, and
when II came 10 the LAYING OF the
corner stone OF the Washington
Monument, OF all the great speak
ers in the nation, ne was selected
10 deliver the Grafton.
But, perhaps, IN the future, as
much interest will he awakened by
the simple story OF Kit Carson, as
OF many OF the others. He belong.
ed to nature. To camp alone amid
the hush OF the plains or IN a
tastness Ut the mountains brought
no sense OF loneliness or OF tear 10
him. He knew the howl OF every
wild beast, the call OF every bird;
the savage man was his subject
brother; the savageries OF the
wilderness had no terrors tor him,
tor he looked upon them as mere
moods which the sunlight OF the
soft south WIND would charm away;
the majestic mountains were TO
him but abuiments which ned up
the stars; so he wandered; the PIC
lures OF mountain and PLAIN we're
photographed on his BRAIN, and
there, too, he mapped the wilder.
ness; he knew every trail, all the
springs, and the moods OF the sea.
sons; he could interpret every
shade OF the clouds; ne could make
the winds tell when a storm was
on the march; the fauna Of the
wild had no secrets from him. arm
in arm he walked with nature by
day, and she wrapped sim around
and whispered delicious dreams TO
his soul by night.
He did o know that he, in the
wild, was studying the unwristen
books, and hearing daily the IN.
spoken lectures IN the great uni
versi,y OF nature, and taking on
accomplishments, which made him,
while millions oil men were more
learned, wiser ,han any mortal
whom the schools could produce.
SO when practical men, intelli-
gent men, men who were search
ing Tor more commerce and great
Ell landed areas, needed a guide,
he was qualified to be their leader
and his presence was at once 70
them a guaranty OF safety and
success.
An The worlds a stage,
And all the msu and women merely players
They have their exits and their entrances
And one man IN his time plays many parts