Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-08-30

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Au-
gust IS, 1917. - My Dear Col: You
were kind enough to ask me to write
a letter while here, so this explains to
any of the Ledger readers who want
to know why I am breaking into print
on their horizon. I spent four days
at Denver and made tours out from
there to see the mary sights of valley,
range and peak. Vas fortunate to
run across the track of John Cave, of
Kansas City, and we took in the
Lookout Mountain trip together. He
is good company and can talk common
sense and religion ALMOST as well
as life insurance. I greatly enjoyed
my day with him. He is absolutely
sure that his brother-in-law, Colonel
johnson, ought to do a certain thing
so / told him to set him the example.
Before leaving Denver l met and en-
joyed the company of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elon bearing. On Sunday we wor-
shipped at the Central Presbyterian
Church, where he heard an ex-Mis-
sourian, DR.. C. B. McAfee, of Chi
cago, preach. While at service we
met two other Missourians. Folks
from the home state look good all
the time and they improve somehow
when you meet them in a distant
state; / went up on the famous Mof-
fat Railway to Corona, and ate din
ner, now balled and shivered above
the clouds. One might infer from
the connection that all this may have
taken place on Sunday, but I can es-
tablish an alibi, if l have to take the
witness stand. On Monday l came
down to Colorado Springs or rather
up to it; From here I have made the
Cripple Creek trip, the Royal Gorge
and have done Pixies Peak; Cripple
Creek looks to be very much of a
cripple, so far as the town is con-
cerned and the creek was so badly
done up that it didn't appear at all
laid up for repairs, perhaps. But
the mines are active, those that pay,
and have all gone into the hands Of
the big companies, so that the indi-
vidual miner and prospector has had
his day and is now almost a fading
memory. The gopher like holes
viii h dot the whole region hold with
in their lonely embrace many a story
of bouyant hope that ripened into
black despair; The Royal Gorge
which I visited on Wednesday is worth
the time spent to see it, even if it
does take only about fifteen minutes
by steam car to pass through it. Il
was on this trip that / was able to Of
fer First Aid"-you know that Miss
Mary Buckner and Mrs. bearing are
making a name in that line, so not to
be outdone by the people of the pews
the pulpit makes its claim to dis
tinction in the same thing. A young
girl on the crowded car fell in a faint
and l was the man with a drinking
cup who brought the ice water to re-
vive her. That's all there vas to MY
first aid, but it helped and she was
o. X. in time to see the gorge.
l took in Pixies Peak yesterday and
if the government survey is correct
and "Uncle Sam" is pretty correct in
everything-I had my mental ma
chinery up to a rather high point. I
stood on the rock which is marked at
14,109 feet above sea level. That put
my mentality just 14,115 feet above
sea level-that is, if I am correct In
believing my brains are located in my
Uranium; that's a rarefied atmosphere
however up there and the auto man
wasn't anxious to stay more than Y
hour, so I had to come down to a
lower level. It's well, however, to
know that "high thinking" doesn't de-
pend upon bodily or physical attitudes,
l have been enjoying hugely the COM
partnership of one of our Mexico
boys, and a member of our church
there, Mr.. Harrison Brown. He's
the genuine article and he is going to