Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-07-11

To have any idea at all what Eden
must have been like you must get up
very early in the morning. And you
must make this your practice until
the deed has in it nothing Of physical
discomfort. And you must keep doing
1t until you have the luck to be abroad
in one OF those serene daybreaks which
not infrequently follow after storms.
Such a dawn followed the storm
through whose moribund phases | had
soundly slept. And it seemed, putting
nose into that great still freshness, as
if the world had but just come forth,
shining and perfect, like a new coin
from the mint There was not
scratch upon the planed and polished
surface of the sea; nor flaw in the
pink. inverted bowl of the heavens.
Upon leaf and blade shone a golconda
of diamonds; and wood spiders, that
have with Raphael and Chopin the
geniuss of delicacy, had hung the
spruces with a myriSd perfect webs,
each thread of frosted platinum set
with inflnitesimal crystals. A great
blue heron stood upon one leg between
me and the risen edge of the sun. But
most pleasing of all to the senses was
the morning outpourlng of incense by
the balsams in the wood.
If early in the morning means a cold
bath TO you, | am sorry. Maine morn
ings are quite refreshing enough with
out accessories, and the waters that
wash Names clean, emphatic coast are
iced for the purpose by polar ice. In
deed, any day in August, you may have
the luck to see far off, like a castle in
Spain, one Of the escaped bergs that
do the icing. So boil the kettle and
wash, for it is good to be clean, but
don't subject yourself prematurely to
one of the tortures reserved for the
damned.
When had washed / took my
pitcher to the spring in the wood for
drinking water; and what should |
see staring at me from the depths of
the limpid pool, but an aluminium con-
Meeting rod of one of my own patent
vibrators.
But | must have been very intent
upon the spring or l should have seen
among the surrounding trees other evi.
dences of the accident that had hap
pened over night. Among the ferns,
just beyond the spring, was one of
those exquisite little twelve-cylinder
motors by Benoit of Paris; and the
trees about were hung with strips OF
oiled jorgum cloth, with shattered
with twisted wires, and all
the reedy, spindling debris of a
wrecked monoplane.
A bird blown to pieces by shotgun
does not come TO earth in such a state
OF wreck as does. an aeroplane that
drives downward at ninety miles an
hour, say, into trees. The path of
extended from the tree-tops
back of me, downward, over the spring,
and beyond. The eliminating point
was the bodies of man and woman.
The man lay with his feet to the
tree stem that had broken his head
as if it had been an egg. The woman
lay TO the right Of him, and her in
jury must have been to the head also,
for whereas, the mans pneumatic suit
was thing of rubber shreds, hers. and
this speaks nightly for its make Git
was by Copleigh of London). had only
been punctured in the left elbow COM
partment. She lay there upon the
cushions of still complete imitation,
Sc that her head, with its mass of dis
ordered sunlit brown hair, lollcd clear
Of the ground. Her left glove had been
torn off, and she had upon the engage
nent finger of that hand an imperial
blue aphriZite that must have cost
matter Of twenty or thirty thousand
dollars. .
/ could not find the mark of any in
Jury upon her head or face, unless the
east scratch on the lobe of an ex-
Iuisite ear may be so described. And
what with this, and the strange excite
nent that the beauty of her face had
'oused in me, | began to hope that she
vas not dead. found a piece of bright
steel and held il to her parted lips. 1t
,ame away with a delicate mist upon
{. Then with my pocket knife l
stabbed the pneumatic suit here and
here, and before the air had stopped |
Kissing out of it had got 1t off her.
She was in a ball dress of delicate
nauve tulle, and silk dancing slippers
If the same shade. Her neck and |
rms. girlish but not bony. were bare,
md of the most dazzling white. She
wore string of aphrizites that
Matched her ring in color, but were Of
curse, smaller, else her neck muscles
ould never have stood against the
weight of them. ! managed to loosen
Ter dress and corset. but there was no
iced to adventure in search OF beat
ne heart, for | could see the pulsing
# blood in her jugular vein. Indeed,
here was so much life in her that I
expected her momentariIy to open her
yes. and to tell me that she had been
lifting out dance last night, and that
e had proposed n moonlight stroll in
is mOnOplane and that the storm had