Ellsworth American., 1921-05-18
Who fall in front of their mad STAN
pede.

Was that thunder? No, by the Lord!
l spring to my saddle without word,
One foot on mine, and she's up be-
hind
Away. on hot chase down the
wind.
But never was fox chase half so hard,
And never was horse so little spared,
For we rode for our lves-you shall
hear how we Jared,
in Texas, down by the Rio Grande.
The mustang flew, and we urged him
There's one chance left and you have
but one;
Halt, jump to ground and shoot your
horse
Crouch under his carcass and take
your chance,
| And if the steers, in their frantic
course,
Don't batter you both to pieces at
once
| You may thank your stars. If not
| goodbye
| To the lingering kiss and the long
drawn sigh,
| And the open air and the open sky,
In Texas down by the Rio Grande.
The cattle gained on us, and just as
For my old six-shooter behind in my
belt,
Down fell the mustang, and down
went we,
| Clinging together,-and what was
the rest?
a body that spread itself over my
breast.
Two arms. that shielded my dizzy
Two lips that close to my lips were
| pressed.
| Then came thunder in my ears.
AS over us surged the sea of steers,
| Blows that beat blood into my eyes,
And when l could rise-Lasca was
dead.
| gouged out a grave few feet deep,
And there in earth's arms l laid her
to sleep;
And there she is lying. and no one
knows,
And the summer shines and the Win
ter SHOWS.
For many a year the flowers have
A pail of petals over her head
And the little grayhawk hangs aloft
in the air,
And the SLY coyote trots here and
there.
And the black snake glides and gilt
ters and slides
Into rift in the cottonwood tree:
And the buzzard sails on, and comes
and is gone,
Stately and still like ship at sea-
And | wonder why | do not care
For the things that are like the
things that were.
Does half my heart lie buried there
In Texas, down by the Rio Grande?
The above was kindly copied and
sent by "Vashti," whom we thank
sincerely. for, you see, l may as
well admit, | have no recollection OF
ever reading or hearing Lasca reaG
or recited, and | am sure one could
not forget poem like that if one
had once known of it. AS there
may be others like myself un-
conscious of J'Lasca's" existence
am giving it a place in the col
umn, although it is of greater
length than our usual selections.
Now follows "A Delegates"
GLIMPSE V.
The most exciting event of Satur.
days program was the arrival OF
the Monteagle crowd" as we had be-
| gun to call the 115 delegates who had
been scheduled to leave Vancouver
Sept. II on the c. p. O. S. Monteael,
and to reach Tokyo Oct. >. For -four
days we had been receiving wireless
messages from our unfortunate
friends and listening to all sorts o.
jokes about them. We were told that
they did not leave the Pacific coast
until Sept. 49, and then they moved
so slowly that the Empress of Russia,
| starting Sept. 30. overlook her sister
ship five days after leaving Van
couver. The leader of the Monteaele's
party sent wireless greeting to the
Russian delegation, and received the
following message in reply:
Read 2nd Timothy, 4:25.' The
| bible passage referred to is as fol-
| lows: do thy diligence to come be-
| fore winter"
Each wireless message assured the
| Tokyo convention that there was
something doing on the Monteagle all
the time. All except fourteen of the
passengers We're delegates Some of
| the best convention speakers and
| song leaders We're in the party In
| spite of the fact that the voyage was
| said to have been the toughest a
Canadian Pacific liner had encoun-
| tered in the past six years and the
| snip arrived nearly nine days later
| than schedule time some members of
| the party told us that they had had a
fine voyage"
When the good ship finally neared
Yokohama, welcoming committee
from the convention went to greet
| her and another went to rush the be-
lated Saturday morning speakers to
the Imperial theatre. Soon after
O'Clock the rest of the party arrived
| and We're ushered upon the platform
whlch had been reserved for them.
"hen all We're seated, William G.
Landes introduced George w. Pen
ningham. the Monteagle tour leader.
| who gave a brief account of the trip