Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-10-14

it first.
There is no reason why Cleveland :
should be the oil center of the world.
There are no oil wells there. and ship
ping facilities are not better there
than a dozen others so far as oil is
concerned. 1t was simply John d.
Rockefeller. He wanted to live there
and his personality. his individuality
brought the oil to him in pipe lines.
There is no reason why Boston
should be the shoe manufacturing
center of the world. No hides are
there; they are shipped from the
west. Simply some man who knew
how to make shoes on a larger scale +
wanted to live there. and his success
started others along the same line.
There is no reason why Chicago |
should be the beef packing center.
It might as well have been ST. Louis.
Simply old Phil Armour wanted 70
live there
In nearly every town one visits you
hear residents say: Jaw, this amt
nothin' but an oyergrown country
town.
The resident Of any town who
makes sucn a statement wears whisk-
srs and boots in his own heart
OF course if your town isn't sporty
enough for you, why you can move
that is not the towns fault
If you get too sporty you'n have to
move anyway.
Cincinnati is still the mercantile
supply point for all the territory
south of the Smith & Wesson line.
Years ago at the waning Of the riv-
er traffic, it was about to give place
to Louisville and Memphis.
The citizens got busy and built the
Cincinnati Southern railroad
This road was a dream in one in
dividuals mind
They called him a dreamer.
Yet this dream saved the town.
You hear people in the West in
mercantile, industrial, artistic and
scientific pursuits saying: If we
we're only in Chicago we would get
this or that" In Chicago you hear
people say. IF we were only in New
York" When you are in New York
you hear them say: IF we were on
" in London or Paris"
Chicago. New York, London or
Paris are simply the results of their
citizens taking the material at hand
and doing the best they could with it
just as you can do.
Once a man died and went to heav-
en-there might have been more
than one for all we know.
But to this particular man the
beauties Of that estate of mind" did
not come to his expectations. Thc
gold-streets lacked much of their
pictured lustre, and he saw none of
his old friends.
Going up to st. Peter he asked if
there was not some way he could Wis
it the other terminal, that he doubt
less had many former earthly assoc
ciates there.
"why. yes, certainly" said st. Pet
er. trains running almost every
hour" Grabbing a time table off a
nail on the throne upon which he was
seated, he turned the pages rapidly.
Eyes" he continued, you can go
down at eight-ffteen and return at
FIVE forty-hve. Just buy a round trip
ticket"
The newcomer boarded the next
express, lounged back in the rich.
purple velvet upholstery of its beau
tiful carriage as he rode swiftly over
the well ballasted roadbed.
Further and further down the
right-of-way the country grew more
fertile and beautiful the traveller
looked out upon it all as the trees,
streams. hills and fields whirling
seemingly the other direction.
The train slowed down, the brake
man stuck in his head and yelled,
"Hell."
1t stopped and the traveller alight-
ed before an elaborate stone station.
On the corner of a street outside
he observed the familiar figure,
which he recognized from pictures
seen on earth as being that Of
Charles Darwin.
The new arrival introduced him
self, Darwin asked him if he had
just come down from Glory, and how
he liked Hell and the surrounding
country.
Az this point the two were Joined
by Voltaire, Richard Wagner and
Hainricha Heine. The nan from q