The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-23
THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES.

little Mediterranean town where NJ
wintered that it was the prosceniun
to the Riviera. In the same way
Port Arthur of the mighty grair
elevators is the proscenium to the
Canadian prairies, or John Canuck''
thousand-mile-long farm. The west
sends to this treasure house it,
golden grain, and the grim wall,
and bastions of these monster struc-
lures swallow whole trainloadS OF
the golden harvest. Dust rises il
clouds through iron grating. Big
wooden frames, fitted with hoppers
shed wheat like molten gold. Trays
on which the grain keeps up a wild
jig, move ecstatically to and fro to
cleanse it of all impurities.
For countless miles beyond
stretches the prairie on its long
Journey OF the setting sun. The
road that threads it is lined by a
strip OF wire fence, under which the
defiant prairie grass creeps into the
roadway and cheerfully sprouts all
over it. The ground in the ofting
rises and falls in huge, family rose
ate undulations, narrowing ones
horizon down sometimes to the
limits of a ten-acre field, OF widen
ing it to inhnitudc. At times, limp
wire, twisted into the trayesty OF a
gate, swings a thin thread OF pro-
hibition across ones path. In places,
however, the road expands into a
road, held-fringed highway, leaping
straight as an arrow across the
illimitable plain. Unconcerned as
to the town, farmer or the humble
homesteader, housed in his lonely
shack by the plowed fire guard, it
seems conscious OF being some har-
binger of empire, a link in the chain
of highways with which Britain has
sought to belt the world. A hun
dred or more feet wide, neither set
tlement nor town can stop it, as,
bursting with space and dominion,
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rat;ng davs when The nra;r;e was
neop@d ont for tbe c;tizcns that
were % nor and the to,yr of canvas
snr,ng IN IN n;oht Tod,I. tho
comfGrtable brict residence and the
trim Garden dominate c;t;es III .
IVinniner Tbcy soon, to b,ya heen
consciouSIv hrilt for = future of
which the nresert has nor got the
measure The street. are vide and
smooth and tho broad venues are
with rows of trees
There are no mean tho~oncbfares
and soon there viii ne no such thing
as shantv amid tbe nalat;al hotels
and government bn;Idings
Outside tbe TOWN on the omen
nrarie where the gumho NAV re-
morselcssIy urt Cheat as far =.
the eve can SECT WHAT that seems
to march forever and evcr from tbe
dawn TO the land of the Golden SIM
set Near by nerbans in a tangIe
Of hush and swami hero and there
,Ikali ortcroon;rgs that c,rsc tho
earth around a small nond or "sIooo
to olistcn wbitc IN tho temnered SIN
AT one moment one congratuIates
himself M the dryness o} thr rc-
zion at another one is smashed
from head to loot INV tho generous
nrair;c mrd Now and ,ga;r tbere
arc matches Of v;rqin nra;T;c dotted
win bushes of t6c b,rherrv lind
and carneted w;th the ever rarc
marie Grass thronob which rim tho
tracks Of wheels mart;ng tbe tyn;-
cal NEGLECTED. tr,in of tSc nionccr
CrosSing i ~ r;sbt ongIes tbe oh,
servant eve NAV catch Sion ~ that
wonder Of wonders tbr brffaIo
"tracc - dark brown rarrow heat,
on natb alone wh;ch +he buffalo
marched in sinele file from "waIlov."