The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-20

Thore WAS at that time III Montreal q
sort OF news room and public exchange
which mado place OF general meeting
il w1s supplied with newspapers ana
tho Ike. and kept up by subscriptions OF
ihc town mcrchants-a spacious room
made out of the old Methodist chapel
on 81. Joseph street. l knew THIS Tor a
hit upon something to aid me in my er..
rand, which was no more than befun II
seemed Entering tho place shorty DC
fore noon. l made prctense of reading, lr,;;
all the while with an eye and an ear out
for anything that might happen
AS | stared In pretense at the page
before ms, funbled idly In pocket,
with unthnking hand. and brought OFT
Ia place before me on the t5nlo an op-
ject al which at first | was unconscious
the ntue Indian blanket clasp. As IT
Inv before me ! felt seized OF sudden
hatred for 1t. and let fall on II n heavy
hand As l did so. | heard a voice at
''NIsin Gott, man. do not! You break
started at this. 7 had not heard
any one approach. | discovered now
that tho speaker had taken 4 scat near
no at the table and could not fail 10 see
this object which lay before me.
II beg pardon" he said. in n broken
speech which showed his foreign birth ;
hut IL Is so beautiful; to break 1t iss
Something In his appearance and
speech fixed my attention; lie was a
tan. bent man, perhaps sixty years Of
age of gray hair and beard. with the
glasses and the unmistakabla air of the
student. His stopped shoulders, his
weakened eve his thin. bluc-veiued hand,
the fron-gray hair standing like ruff
above his forehead. marked him not as
one acquainted with Wild life. but
better fitted for other days and scenes.
pushed the trinblct along the table
'Tis OF little value said. "snd Is
always in the way when ! would find
anything In my pocket"
aEut once some one hass made it:
once it hass had value Tell me where
You get it,"
territories" said. II once traded IN
that country"
You are American
So he said thoughtrlly. so. y
great country. "a very great country. Me,
'.Indeed?'' ] said I'm what part?"
1T iss five years since I cross the
You have crossed the Rockies?
envy YOU
You meesunderstand me live west
oi them for five years. / am now come
"You have been at Fort Vancouver"
He nodded. Also 10 Fort Colville far
north. also to what they call California.
far south: and again Ia what They may
vet call Fort Victoria I haf seen many
posts OF the Hudson Bay company"
| was afraid my eyes showed my m
tcl"st but nc went on.
IL laf been In the Columbia country,
and In the Willamette country. where
most Of YOUR Americans arc settled. |
know somewhat of California Mr.
Howard Of the Hudson Ray company
knows also OF this country az Califor-
MIA He said to those English gentle
mans at our meeting last night that
England should haf something 10 Offset
California on the west coast: because,
though Mexico claims California, tho
Yankees really rule there. and will rule
there yet mere. lie iss right; but they
laughed at him"
oh. I think little will como OF all
this talk, + said carclcssly. 1T is very
far. out to Oregon Yet all the time
my heart was loapinE. SO he had been
there, at that very meeting OF which L
could learn nothingi
You know not what YOU say.
thousand men came into Oregon last
wear. 1t iss Ike one of tho great mi
grations OF the peoples OF Asia. of Bu-
rope. ] say 10 you, il iss great epoch.
There iss folk movement such as we
haf not seen since the days of the Huns.
th" Goths, the Nandals. since the Cimri
movement. Ii iss an epoch, my FREUD
IT iSs fate that iss in it
so. then. 1t is q great country2' I