Arizona republican., 1910-08-25

1 of Mexico. Thursday morning at three, we woke up to find the boat lying motionless in thick muddy water, the four long toots of the big whistle had aroused us, slipping ! on our bath robes we stepped out on deck (our rooms were outside ones) on every side lighthouses flash | ed red and white signals. It was
 quite darkened and very mysterious.
 We could hear wind in the trees somewhere, but could not see them.
 suddenly from our boat a vivid white light famed out, then a red, then
 green, to be answered at once from
 ship nearby, and by the light we
 watched man climb from the other
 ship to a row boat, a sailor rowed
 him to our boat a rope ladder was
 lowered and in a moment more our
 pilot was aboard and we knew we
 were entering the delta of the Mis-
 sissippi. We were too interested to
 go to bed, so we had the steward
 (whom Sid fought body and souD
 bring us toast and coffee, the hoys
 joined us later. Well from D, int of
 interest the river is wonderful the
 sugar, rice and fruit plantations, the
 old fashioned houses with slave quar-
 ters-the hanging moss and dense
 foliage are all iteresting but not
 beautiful except for the unusualness
 of the3: and again except some few
 rlantationsN amost buried in faliage
 and wonderfully tic Itresque. but the
 rivsr is dirty. m ;d color. the coun-
 try is flat and an alige. Our blue I:uds on with it palisades and wonder
 full changes makes the Mississippi very commonplace. New Orleans is a fascinating dirty place full of his
 torical interest which some day we
 will see, but on this trip we had
 just time to make our train connec-
 ton, and now shall I go on, or are you tired of my descriptions, well I guess I can skip a little. From New
 Orleans through Louisiana we saw rice, sugar, swamps, hanging Moss
 galore and palms of all kinds. thick green everywhere" "Niggers'' every where also picturesque in their rags and squalor, but the train flashed
 past so fast that it soon began to look all alike, but when we entered Texas everything changed. First. we saw cotton plantations, they were picking the cotton and great snowy piles in the green fields made stunning pie
 lures, then cattle ranches, gradually the foliage grew less and less. San Antonio left behind, the tree changed. and only mesquite q think that is spelt correctly brave, sturdy trees with foliage something like swamp
 willows, were left with occasionally an oak, there slowly gave way, but never wholly to sage brush a little grey dusty brush with sweet smell water grew less and less. the skele tons of cows and horses dead of thirst began to appear. After El Paso (which by the way you enter at S:30 A. M.. stay until 9.30 A. NJ. and leave at 7.30 A M) for the real desert came, nothing but sand stones and cactus with just here and there, l sage brush. But oh Auntie the noun | tains here were as beautiful as if 1 they had been covered with trees | blue, violet, rose, shone all over here, volcanic action has thrown the earth | into the all sorts of fantastic and | shapes There is the mining section and one can see min | ing camps jotted here and there, in ! the glare. and for once felt very sorry | for anyone who chose that way of | making living-my heart was per-