The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-30

then turned south. 4 strong east wind
caused my flyer 10 drift TO the west ana
| crossed The Snake river NJ Shoshonc
Falls. They arc not of such yn,nElc
as Niagara, but they have TuanciISs Mo ciS
aud saragery all their own. The old
world has nothing 10 compare WIN
them. | had seen them before, knew
where ] WAS, and heading the flyer
southwest. toward night Yesterday
landed on the eastern shore of Great
Salt Lake, near I'armngton. got
out anchored the flyer and started to
town TO get my dinner. when suddenly
| woke up half frozen in my own
home. I must have slept for ciGht
hours. for the fires were all out and
the sun was coming up over the
Wasatch range.
Two Lasting Impressions.
But ] received two lasting impress
sions from what came to me, in that
sleep. One is that we bern take up TOO
much time i'll irving 10 grasp what VIII
come In us in 2 little while. if we have
but the patience 10 wait. 1t Will he Il
good while before any one can ever
make that journey that my soul made
in that vision, but when the sbacklos
arc stricken off That bind our better
part here. the universe VIII he before
MS TO explore at our leisure. Why
hurry'
all men as n rule have but ono de-
sire, one great desire, ! mean, and that
is 80 get money, With most Of them
IL is a necessity, in order to live. and
if he necessity passes, then the habit
has become fixed and tho toil rs the
Same and for tho same object, to get
money
"My Texan friend who was plant
ing cotton. had enough Of this world s
goods; he had "A lovely home. the twin
ing vines still wore their summer garni'
ture rs they climbed above the gables
of his house; his granaries were full;
the domestic animals around him were
all sleek and fat and carried an air OF
good comradcShip, but he wanted more
''It was the same way with the sugar
planter. FIc had everything around him
but was hurrying to finish up the sea
son S work, that he might 90 on long
spree to New Orleans and waste the
years foil, lie did not claim any
higher ambition for himself,
CIT was the same way with the rice
planter. All summer in the swamps TO
gain n little more money.
"When | found the factory i'll Con
nectlcut there a Thousand girls were
working for n small wage and to keep
their places they had TO he there at the
moment. and had TO toll all day, and
this six days in the week, while The few
III lHt were hIlNllp lHclH
on Just TO get more money.
Why They Sailed Turbulent Sea.
''Thc pitiable sight WAS to see those
sad -browed men come IN from the tur-
bulent sea, where they had been toiling
all summer, coming IN with their catches
and with their stories Of the tragedies of
tho great deep. No wonder so many
faces of New England men are sad: il
is their birth mark. received from their
mothers, who, before they were born.
were bcreft in the same hour of huS-
bands and their means OF support. And
the struggle Of all is bul for money.
SIT was the same with the dairy
farmer. with the horde of immi grants,
with the wheat farmer, the same with
the moonshine whisky maker; the same
with the burglars, the same with the
woman walking the streets all the win
ter night; the same with the corn and
pig raiser in Iowa; the same with the
lumber men in the Arkansas forest, and
even among the blooms of perennial
flowers and under the orange blossoms,
where the birds sing all the long day. of
the Golden state, where the sunshine
and the luXuriant vegetation ought to
drive away care and make men give up
their thirst for gold, it is the same.
Desert Best Place.
"And I noticed. too. that all were
anxious about prices when they had uoS
vet sold their products, for, as ] said
before. n great crop in one state makes
less valuable the crop of another state.
SO when | started on the last lap of my
Journey down the San Joaquin valley
up the Sacramento and the Oregon val
leys | said to myself
After all. the desert is the best
place. Our deserts are not whit more
barren than are the souls of most men,
and when the desert is earnestly wooed
it generally responds. and what it gives
up is the real stuff: it enters into com.