Part 19 (1/2)

As I was obliged to go or die, I accepted the offer offirht their battles against the new Standard Dictionary which was rapidly driving the Webster books out of the markets of the entire Pacific slope

The trial took place during my enforced absence; my enemies' crafty attorney told the jury that uilt; my doctor's affidavit that he sent me away to save my life was not allowed to be presented in court; each plaintiff claimed to have heard the statements imputed to have beenlove to, and afterwardsone of ainst me

But curses often ”come home to roost,” and my enemies were ultimately not benefited at all, as the lawyer-sharks devoured all they received fro and falsifying, I was speeding away in a palace-car, confident that my spirit brother's declaration would prove true that truth is hty and will prevail, if not in the brief here, yet surely in the eternal hereafter It is very saddening to see how many, who claim to be your friends while you are prosperous, are the first to assail with poisoned arrohen you are attacked in the courts or in the public prints; but my conscience is clear, and

Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, or tide or sea

I rave no ainst time or fate, For soon ht or day, The friends I seek are seeking e the tide of destiny

The stars cohtly to the sky; The tidal wave into the sea; Nor tih, Can keep my oay from me

CHAPTER XXVIII

CAMPAIGNING IN WONDERLAND

This delightful journey was a wonderful revelation of the greatness, power, and grandeur of this glorious republic in which we live I gazed with amazement for many hours as we flew over the marvelously fertile and beautiful prairies of Kansas; herelike vast seas, irrigated by means of numberless windmills; there, herds of cattle, nu lines of steain soil; there rain; the food of the nations pouring into bags at one end, while the stalks were boundof cattle The chaff flew in clouds, and quickly, from these machines, millions of bushels of wheat were soon on their way to the markets of the world What wonder that our country now has in Washi+ngton over five hundred old dollars; the richest treasury ever known on earth?

Noe catch glireat cities which have sprung up as by reeted with a vision of heavenly splendor in Colorado Three hundred14,000 feet towards the stars; great clouds of snoing frohty rivers flowing to irrigate lovely valleys; here the great city of Denver, having 125,000 population, and one her up in the air than Boston

In this city I e professor, now the multi-millionaire United States senator, burdened withabout as ait harrow

Then on went the limpse at Manitou of the ”Garden of the Gods,” with cathedral spires of old red sandstone towering hundreds of feet towards the clouds which capped their surand canyon of the Arkansas River, in places two antic natural castles with battlements, bastions and fortresses whose leveled cannon you alinary bohts, thousands of feet; noe slide down into chas waters; then we shoot through a tunnel twounder 1,500 feet of solid rock; noe rush over vast plateaus 10,000 feet above the sea; then we catch glireat caves, lone trees with not a bit of earth visible about their roots; noe rush into Leadville, a e stone rolled down theus for two hours Had it fallen a ness

In theI awoke in Utah, rode all the forenoon over arid plains; gaunt, hungry wolves scud away, cayotes ran yelping, and jack rabbits hopped out of sight for dear life; then we arrive at Salt Lake City, which the Mor wilderness into a fine city, with a surrounding country budding and blosso with bounteous harvests The peak towers aloft where the United States Regulars halted after their terrible ion of the Mor their king, though he said that by a wave of his hand he could hurl back the balls of the national cannon to annihilate the soldiers of the republic

I drank in with delight the ers of the Mormon choir in the vast tabernacle

Then on thundered the train by the great Salt Lake, one hundredand forty miles wide, so salt that it buoys you up on its surface like a feather; then on over the sage-brush desert to Reno, Nevada, where is the world-renowned Comstock mine, from which over one hundred millions of dollars' worth of silver has already been taken

Then we climbed the Sierra Nevada Mountains, around and around in a circle, shot through a snow shed forty th, through which enors are shot down by water power from the mountain lake Four billion feet of luo past Lake Tahoe, twenty-two ht; then past Cape Horn, along precipices dohich I threw a stone which fell 2,500 feet into the American River

We slide down the mountains to Auburn, California, and find fruit trees in blossoh A sudden change in a few minutes froo to Sacrareat ranches with vast herds of cattle and sheep feeding on the wild grasses; then on to San Francisco, the Golden Gate, and the unpacified Pacific

The principal occupation of the street cars in 'Frisco, is cli down hill All very pleasant except when the cogs in the cable slip, and you becoers tu over and on to each other into the front end of the car, and if you are at the bottoainst the door, and suffocating fat parties wedged on top of you, this rapid transit slide is not quite so delightful as when you ride on the top of the crowd

Here you can get a good meal with a bottle of wine thrown in for ”two bits” (twenty-five cents), you can buy three different kinds of newspapers for the same price as one, as they have no coins smaller than a nickel For a nickel you can ride for miles to the Cliff House which is at the Golden Gate, where are acres of giant flowers of every conceivable variety, all beautiful, but odorless; you watch the sea lions nearly the size of oxen, and who roar and fight on the boulders

Then we enter a bath-house, acres in extent, covered with glass, where you can swim in sea water warmed by steam-pipes, listen to the band, examine the multitude of wild animals and curiosities collected from all parts of the world

[Illustration: The Golden Gate of the Unpacified Pacific]