The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-03-11

permit detailed discussion of wealth
er conditions here in Dakota. Usual
ly when the first frost Of winter
comes the birds of gay plumage arise
early, perceive the portent in the
heavens and Immediately begin MAX
ing preparations to change their suit
of furs and goloshes FOR the more
porous raiment Of California. But
quite a percentage, considerable
per centage Of our population is woe
fully lacking in the matter Of gay
plun1age as we'll as sufficient coin Of
the real to iquidate the indebted
ness incident to such n pilgrimage
and have to cast their fortunes with
the sparrows and stick it out. 1t
goes without saying that am men,
Der of the latter class. But this win
ter has been the exception. The
balmy breezes Of Sunny California
have swept on and over the Rockies
and caressed the prairies of North
Dakota with a tender warmth, the
like of which not even the oldest set
tiers can recall, and to the delight
of us all except the coal men. U.s.
gin 10 pail about the seventh month
while conditions with us just
now are not as rosy as they might
seem to be in a happy frame of mind
and enjoying the little we have.
Christmas was not just as / would
have had it had conditions been
more favorable, yet ! enjoyed the
day immensely. A fair young maid
en- remembered my aptitude for dis
posing of good wholesome provender
and invited me to break bread with
the family circle,-and / assure you
! ate in a wholehearted manner. not
feeling that at such affairs one
should eat dainty, absently, as tho
elevated converse were the sole OBJ
Ject and food but an incident. My
enthusiasm for turkey and the usual
embellishments was never at so high
pitch save in the days of my tend
er youth when I'd be turned loose
upon few necks and feet that had
in some unknown manner escaped
the oral cavity Of some Methodist
dignitary.
Il enjoyed your letter immensely
because yeu seemed to catch just the
moOol vas in the day I wrote. YOU.
1t IS certainly discouraging to work
all the time with a definite aim in
view, try to do right as you see the
right, save and sacrifice and toll and
rack your brain for remunerative
Ideas, and never receive one word of
cheer from home. | really do not
believe it is possible for one who has
never gone through the expe1ince to
appreciate as fully as one who has.
But the good Lord has promised that
he Will not subject us to temptation
greater than our power to bear And
life is such a funny thing after all
d child blown bubble that but re-
fleets the light and shadow of it's en-
vironment and is gone. ] sometimes
feel as Omar did when he wrote:
Eve are no other than . moving
Of magic shadow-shapes that
come and go
Round with the -illumined Ian
tern held
In midnight by the Master Of
the show;
But helpless pieces of the game He |
plays
Upon this checkerboard of night |
and days
Hither and thither moves, and
checks, and slays,
And one by one back in the |
closet lays.
The ball no question makes of ayes
and noes,
But here or there strikes as the |
player goes;
And He that tossed you down into
the field,
He knows about it alhHe
knoxville knows |
IF you are one-tenth AS we'll pleas-l
I'd over the election Of Mr.. HardingI
% the presidency as am you'll be
around Inauguration day
With your chest stuck out SO promi-
,ently you 'dasant' expectorate with
'ut getting on a high eminence and
ooking directly down. l most as
'uredly have enough Of the Demo
rats for long time. They con-
'uned little over two years and
made use of the services of some
several million Of our youths to make
he world safe for them, but fortu-
lateiy somebody jackassed the pro-
eedings and the proverbial wrench
rot into the machinery just at the
light time. All hail Warren CANA
iel! May his shadow never grow
ess!
''NO doubt you are tired Of readirg
his chatter so ] think m step on the
oft pedal and 60 prune my vhiskers
'ef0re 'dinnah.' I have no inclina-
ion to question the wisdom Of the
supreme Architect Of the Universe
n forbidding the pleasures Of the
Garden Of Eden to ourj
ommon ancestors after ther initial
aisdeed therein, but, when he planted
he seeds of whiskers in the soil Of
1anHnd's frontipiece and made it
ecessary for those made in His own
mage, in order to conform to the
ictates of present day society, to
old daily sessions with the barber'sl
riend, ] really think He imposed a