The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-09-03
BACON HIGH
IN The WEST
$3.50 Feet Above Sea Level.
Rev Bacon Enjoying The
Scenery IN Colorado
What He Saw.

lice afoTethought perpe,rate upon the
public an account rt one's peregrina
tiOnS should be suppressed. Eut |
was Innocent of any such designs in
planning trip 10 the wild and
woolly west" I should Only have 10.
fiicted an account Of my itenerary
upon such unfortunate individuals as
/ could have inveigled into listening
to me. but the editor, who is my
good friend, asked me to send him
some account Of my trip for publica-
tiOn. Now as he has been sick long
time. ask the Sentinel readers to
overlook his indiscretion this time in
asking me to write up nv trip. Since
/ have promised it. | may be allowed
to write just what comes 20 mind and
as it comes-that is serve up to your
readers kind of SalmagunCy-a sort
OF pot pourri. l will try to comply
with promise.
On the morning OF the 14th of Au-
gust left Memphis over the Frisco
and Rock Island system for Colorado
Springs by way OF Denver. There
we're many things along the way that
made the trip a memorable one to the
tenderfoot from Mississippi. ESpeci-
ally interesting as the trip through
western Missouri, Kansas and Colora-
do as far as Denver. In the first two
states is some OF the finest farm lands
I ever saw. Corn and hay, hay and
corn for miles and miles. But the
live stock, horses. mules and hogs
that / had heard Of So often. l saw
not. Perhaps they had sold them all
TO US Mississippians, or else they we're
saving their corn and hay to sell TO
us. At any rate the stock l saw was
poor great deal. Nature, has done
much for Kansas. | ns yer saw such
farms. But did you ever notice that
nature has a way Of balanciUg up
things? Now Kansas has the finest
farm lands to bc found, but SIZE has
also 'sockless Jerry simpson, and
Mary Ellen Lease. Nature gave her
the richest plains en- the continent,
bat gave her likewise "Peffer with
his Whiskers" and Carry Nation with
her Ratchet and totgue that has
no terminal facilities.
Those wonderful and seemingly end
less and tirele IS plains. AT first the
scene is so enhancing, but as mile af-
ter mile is passed without change. one
begins to wonder if there is no end TO
the tireleSs regions. For hundreds OF
miles not tree is to be seen save a
patch here and there planted by man.
And there are stretches OF scores and
scores of miles without wood enough
to make tooth-pick, (this would be d
calamity to me) Why, If Thomas
and Mariah should take a notion to
Serenade you from the back yard
fence you would have to go hundred
miles to get stick of stove wood t.
throw at them. II Jack, vour neigh
boris dog, AN abomination of desola-
tiun sitting where it ought not"
should suddenly become seized anC
possessed of an idea that it was his
bounden duty to bay the moon for All
hour and a half while you tried 70 60
to sleep, you would be compelled to 60
two hundred miles to get rock to
hurl at him to Sooth your injured
feelings. In fact, climate is about
the only thing availa BILE for several
hundred miles in Kansas and Colorado
a part Of the country abounds ia
curious little animal called prairie
dog. These DurrOw into the ground
and live in villages. At the approach
O. anything unusual one of these little
curiosities rears erect upon bis hind
legs at the door Of his home as if he
meant to defend bis hearth stone at
any hazard. They form strange at
tacnmentS. l saw from the car win
dow two funny looking little owls sit
ting at the entrance of these burrows
or homes. / had read of snakes re-
siding with these little animals but
OF course could not verify this from
the car window. And think of ant
hills with half bushel or more eff
dirt in them! / could not see the
ants, but saw hl.ldredS of hills that
must have contained nearly a bushel
Of dirt. II this seems a little out OF
proportion can only say, "cheer up
the worst is yet to come" and you
will get used to it after awhile.
Before reaching Denver, had made
several observations. I learned at
PhillipSburg that the western people
have some wonderful capabilities. Fol
example. Joshua made the sun stand
still. These folks didn't exactly dc
that but they turned time back exact.
" one hour. This difference is suscep
tibie of curious experiences. For ex
ample, person from Grenada travel
ing en- the train reaches Phillipsburg
Kansas and in taking out his watct
finds it is twelve o'cloch and decides
it is time to eat dinner. He goes tt
the Cafe car for dinner. At the doc
he meets one Of the royal highnesse
that inhabit cafe cars and with lool
in which there is mingled one percen
OF pity and ninety-nine Of contempt
+ is told to hike back to his car fer it il