The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29
nice PLACE To REST
TOWN WHERE TAFT COULD HAVE
PEACE AND QUIET.
Corpus Christi, the Ancient of South
ern Texas, Is Ideal Spot Where
People Could Sleep On Forever
and No One Would Ever Disturb
Them; the Fish Caught; Still Talk
of Revolution.

of Revolution.
| Macon, No., Oct. 27.-"If President
Taft was seeking a place of rest
from the troubles and cares of earth
he found an ideal spot at Corpus
Christi" remarked r. w. Barrow, an
attorney of this place, who has just
returned from protracted sojourn in
the ancient town of Southern Texas.
"No formula known to medicine can
! give him a more soothing and care
| free condition than a week down there.
Then he will cease to fret over the
insurgents; he won't give a tinker's
darn about the chronically impending
was with the Japs or the proximity
of Halley's comet. You couldn't even
scare a man with past due note at
Corpus Christi; he absolutely refuses
to be excited. They tell me when
there was an earthquake down there
it didn't wake anybody up. 1t would
be an ideal place for the DIR. Cook and
Peary shouters. They'd go to sleep in
each others arms Remember, Pm not
saying anything about the people down
| there; they're all right, kind, sociable,
friendly. It's the atmosphere. Under
it's quiet influence resting up is the chief
concern of life. The climate willis you
like cloth; makes you feel satisfied
with the old world just as it is;
you don't care to make any changes.
If you necktie comes unhaltered and
flares around your neck you let it
stay; nobody will criticise you if you
shave only one side of the face, or
didn't shave at all.
Revolutionary War Is Chief Topic.
"The people gather in the park of
an evening to help each other rest up.
Just sit around and talk over what
happened when the world was young;
fight over the war of independence,
calmly and with dignity. What's 60
ing on now don't worry them. They won't
catch up with it for the next ten
years. Then they'll tell you all about
it, while the balance of the world is
talking about something else. You
needn't smile. You'd do the same way
yourself if you lived down there. It's
/ in the ozone-the soft lullaby of the
bay-the weird song of the fishermen
| There's rest for the weary
81 always think of that song when
my mind runs back to Corpus Christi.
That must be the land of which the
poet speaks-the land of the eternal
rest. Why, they wouldn't even get
on cock fight, down there. If the
boys played ball they'd hire negroes
to run the bases for 'em. When
man drives a mule to town the animal
sits down to rest until it's time for
him to get up and move. I didn't
see that, but local preacher said
that 1t was so.
Merchants Not Rivals.
"The merchants are obiging. I
thought I'd break the monotony one
day and 60 fishing. 1 stepped into a
store and asked dealer for some
whale hooks. He looked at me In
distress, just minute. Then his eyes
frightened. He got off the counter
where he'd been resting and took me
! by the arm. Leading me to store
some two or three doors away, he
called to the proprietor:
"'Bill,. here's, a friend O. mine who
wants some tarpOn hooks. Pm out
you sell him.
"One of our merchants would have
! tried to convince me that whale hooks
wasn't what l wanted, but something
else, which he had in stock. They're
not jealous of each other, those mer-
chants of Corpus Christi.
Il went fishing and after 1 got
through there were still some fish left
in the bay. Of an early morning the
docks and piers swarm with people,
fishing and resting up. The fish about
Corpus Christi are fine, can't be beat
anywhere. The Spanish mackerel there
are the very best 1 ever ate. Every
body eats fish at Corpus Christi, when
they're not loafing. It's quaint old
town, sitting back off the bay, resembl-
ing Hannibal in some respects. It's
! a good place to battle. You can't
drown unless you wade out over a
quarter of a mile. They battle every
day there, same as if it were a relig-
ious duty; all SO in, young, old, white
and Mexican. Sometimes you hear
yell and fellow lifts up his foot and
shakes something off. That means the
Holsters aren't resting they're on duty
pretty much all the time-there has
; to be something to keep the people
awake. l don't know what they'd do
, if it wasn't for the Holsters.
OFF FOR FORE RIVER, MASS.