Morris tribune., 1913-01-31

dirty stone walls makes fellow stupid II is dreary
contrast to the farreaching view of covered white
and beautiful Clay county rolling prairie, with its invig
Grating air. cannet how people tie themselves
down to live in city, with all the modern convent
they have that in the villages and the farm
do not have. steady stream of human beings goes
surgng and seethng up and down the Streets in
and out the doors of the dirty black and brown buildings
II reminds of ants and ant heaps. | un-
derstand the commoon here than when child could in
derstand why the ants were SO awfulIy busy
''It steady. wearing grind. / cannot see
that any of the whole is doing anything that
useful but there is JOY and pleasure to in any
face They all be under strain of something
that is their mind something that they have to do
and are fastening here and there to accomplish.
"Civzation is after all more tragedy than comedy.
How farmers and villagers lot of uncVilized
savages compared to the city people, No matter how we
dress and tog up when TO the Cities they see
don't belong there We carefree the Indians
of half century ago compared to these people, from
the highest lowest We stop and half break necks
the top of the high buildings They just bow their
head little gather their clothes about them, put one
shoulder to the wind and press We around the
corner and find where the fire is when hear fire
whistle. They never mind it, suppose, until the fire
has developed into something worth seeing
CHOW that am legislator and have been banished
from home for a week-a long week that at the same
time has flown fast-it dawns upon me that if are
to make men happy and yirtuous, should legislate
against letting people build big Cities Cities about the
size of HaWley big enoughthose bigger than Moor.
head should not be tolerated There should be any
more drayng and traffic in town than what Johnny
Rushfeldt shppey Rusch and Turk could handle. and
they should have time to look into the pool to get
warm once in while cold days like this. Just think
of having postofiee that house people than
there in Hawley, and many tons of mail coming
into it. can't how the postmaster personally
read all the postal cards. and with his fingers feel of
and Judge the contents of packages how he
member to turn the mail back into general delivery when
the box rent s not paid
''Then also town should each day receive fresh
and new impulses from the farm. from nature. How
wish the farmers would in and tie their teams out
side front of the stores and hotels here How pleasing
1t would be to bunch of cattle strayng loose
up the eat hay of the farmers wagons with
and then stray pig. the chickens they
to the yard to visit me, and how long for the
English sparroWs that don't about seeing around
the lumber shed at home This thing of seeing nothing
but human beings and podding, pulling horses, SOBER
sedate and busy men, careworn and palefaced woman,
walk back and forth each others tracks
thousand times day is getting monotonous The"e are
few children to be and those you the streets
are old and mature beyond their years
81 can understand why the finer sentiments and
feelings of the soul being constantly ground out of
man in the big treadms of civilization Childhood and
do not fit into surroundings far removed from
nature. They only and thrive where grass grows
flowers bloom where birds sing where dogs bark and
kittens play lambs and calves jump and where colts
tire earth shakes and tremble where lakes smile
rivers go murmuring along where sunrise kisses then
good morning and finds them their evening pray
err 1t is better too When learn to understand
it. there poetry in the immutabe Interchangeable laws
nature. When look for it find there is nothing
new under the SUM- -