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JUNE
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Where Will You Spend a Vacation in the Good Old Summer Time?
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This Annually Recurring
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Domestic Questions
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PnXABS OP HERCUL,E9, COWTWMA RIVER VAT,T,BT,
Vacation Song
I hare closed my books and hidden my slate,
And thrown my satchel across the gate.
My school is out for a season of rest,
And now for the school room 1 love the best
My school room lies on the meadow wide,
Where under the cover the tmb I ms hide,
Where the long vines cling to the mossy bars.
And the daisies twinkle like fallen stars.
Where clusters of buttercups gild the scene,
Like showers of gold dust thrown over the green.
And the wind's flying footsteps are traced as they pass,
By the (lance of the sorrel and the dip of the grass.
My lessons are written In clouds and trees.
And no one whispers except the breeze.
Who sometime.- blows, from a secret place,
A stray, sweet blossom against my face.
My school bell rings in the rippling stream
Which hides itself, like a school biy's dream.
Under the shadow and out of sight.
But laughing still for its own delight.
My schoolmates there nre the birds and bees.
And the saucy squirrel, more dull than these,
For he only learns In all the weeks.
How many chestnuts will fill his cheeks.
O come! O come! or we shall be late.
And autumn will fasten the golden gate. - ' -
Of all the school rooms In east or west
The school room of Nature I lore the best.
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3ROAD TO TEIXOWSTOND CAXTOH,
In June
Ah, but life Is good In June,
With roses In each hedge,
And ferns that droop, a green festoon,
Along the water's edge,
And now she builds, the speckled loon, 1
Her nest amidst the sedge.
Ah, but life la rare, I know,
When water lilies bud.
But hide their petals, white as snow.
Beneath the masking mud,
For soon their crowns of white will glow
Upon the silvery flood.
Ah, but life is sweet and fair
When all the world Is green,
When all the fields of upper air
Are cloudless and serene.
And all the rose trees lift and bear
Their cups to love, the queen.
Ah, but life is full of wine
And filled with deep desire,
When every tree and bud and vine
Is touched with summer fire,
When living things through sheen and shine-
Toward the skies aspire.
Ah, but life Is good In June,
When all the thrushes sing,
When all the world becomes In tune
And hope Is one the wing,
With full fruition coming soon
PI Ail tte firomlee of the spring.
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STARTING FOR THE SUMMER TRIP.
SCENE ON THE BEACH AT LAKE OKOBOJt
V ACATION time Is here, but where shall the vacation be spent?
U To this query the answer depends on how long a time is to be
y devoted to rest and recreation during the heated season. If
only a few days, the better way will be to pULk out a nearby
resort, where fishing and boating and other aquatic sports may be in
dulged, and put in the time there. If one may give over a fortnight or
longer to the pursuit of pleasure away from business, then the answer
is a trifle more difficult. Ordinarily, but not this season, for circum
stances have so conspired during the present summer as to point un
erringly one course for the army that Is going on a vacation, and that
Is Westward Ho.
Not that the natural advantages of the west have been greatly en
hanced by anything that has happened, for this would be an impossi
bility, but the opportunities for seeing the wonders of mountain and
river, of park and pis in, were never so good, and may never be again.
The opening of the great fair and exposition on the Pacific coast has
been made the excuse by the railroads that cross the continent for set.
ting their rates at such a figure as to place the trip within the easy
reach of the most modest purse, and, if this were not enough, they
have added temptation to temptation In the form of seductive pre
sentation of the wonders that are to be seen from the car windows
along the route, until the wavering mind is fully convinced of the wis
dom of making the journey.
Most Eyes Look Westward
As a matter of fact, uo urging should be required to Induce the
patriotic American to wake this trip at least once in his lifetime, for
along it lies the most majestic panorama spread by nature. From the
Missouri river to the Facinc coast Is to puss through practically all
the gradations and variations of climate and scenery the world af
fords, and to review the most impressively beautiful as well as wlerdly
magnificent wonders on which the suu iii.es.
An Ideal trip for the present summer would be to Portland by way
of Wyoming and the Yellowstone park, returning by way of California,
Nevada and Utah. This would enable the traveler to see the greatest
and best of the natural wonders that have been so long praised ami
never flattered. Jut take a tuap for a moment and study it and you
will see how easily this can be done, and tbeu inquire at the office r.f
the railroad and you will see bow chiaply it Is possible. For example. Incidents that bae- become associated wlh them.
if you leave Omaha in the afternoon on the Union Pacific's Portland
train you will Cud yourself the next afternoon in the Bocky moun
tains in Wyoming, and from that time on your ride is one of evcr
chauging, never tiring, always magnificent and frequently sublime
s.-euery. Mountains pW ulu cn on t0P ' the other, frowniuir
rovk and beetling crags, pleasant stretches of meadow land, sage
brush, gre.iscwood, scrub pine, majestic
firs, ,brooks in whose cool waters lurk
the finest of trout, rivers tht roar and
foam among their rocks, now leaping
over sheer descents, now filling the can
yon from wail to wall, so that the rail
road must dart through a tuunel to find
a path; farms and flocks, thrifty ham
lets and bustling cities, and ovej: all the
bluest sky and the clearest, purest air
known to man, all combine to make a
succession of pictures the like of wiich
Is not known anywhere else in the
World.
Yellowstone P,ark
If you nave Yellowstoue park In
mind, you change cars at I'ocatello,
Idaho, and ride 13o miles to Monida,
where, at the very crest of the Uockies,
you take a stage for the ride through the
great wonderland of the world. This
stage trip takes the visitor to all the
points of interest in this plae, where nature seems to have left an un
finished spot and where even the solid rocks seem to bo lu but a
transitory state. All the many wonders 'of this place are within easy
access to the visitor now, and the stage trip does away with all the
discomforts formerly experienced by visitors.
After leaving the park a ride along the wonderful valley of the
Snake river affords some magnificent scenery, including the great
American falls, which are almost directly under the bridge on which
the road crosses the Snake river. Shoshone Is another station at
which the traveler Is assured an awe inspiring spectacle, for it is from
herg the great" Shoshone falls, the Niagara of the west, exceeding in
grandeur and magnificence the famed falls of the Niagara river, aro
reached. The Snake river Is followed for many miles, and Is crossed
and recrossed by the track, which runs now in Oregon, now in Idaho.
Finally, at Huntington, the road starts across the state of Oregon.
Dodging through a pass In the Blue mountains, where the eye is de
lighted by the blending of the dark pines with the green of the va!
ley, the valley of the Grand Ronde river is attained, and another long
stretch of beautiful meadow hedged iu by rugged mountains. Another
climb over the summit and the rrfad runs into the most most spectacular
of western river valleys, the Columbia.
From Umatilla to Portland, nearly 200 miles, the road runs di
rectly alongside the river, through a continually shifting change of
Incomparable scenery. The majestic river on the one side and the
equally impressive mountains on the other, the broken and jagged
rocks, the stately firs, the larch and the birch, all are settings of a pic
ture of wondrous beauty. The far-famed Dalles of the Columbia are
encountered soon after leaving Umatilla, and here the great spectacle
of a mighty river tearing its way through a great wall of basalt rock,
over huge boulders and among the-fragments left bv the wreck of
ages, is spread to view. Below the Dalles the course of the great river
Is more placid, as leconies Its tremendous trenpth, and to one who has
been accustomed to the rivers that dra'n the great alluvial plains of the
central basin of the United States It has a peculiar beauty.
Relics o! Lewis and Clark
Many mints of historical interest are noted along the line, due to
the visit of Ijewls and Clark on their famous exploring trip, and the
Indeed, the story
of the Columbia is a literature Itself. Not the least interesting of
sights are the great peaks of the Cascade range. Hood, Adams, Ranler
tnd Shasta. All these add their majesty to the landscape and serve
to keep the mind of the beholder for the first time In a continual state
;f wonderment and debate. After Portland the vacation spender has
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his choice of routes to Saa Francisco, either rail or water, and once
there, the glorious emplre'of the Goldea
state is open to him.
: It is not worth while to here decant
on the manifold attractions offered by
California to the tourist. Like the val
ley of the Columbia, California is in a
class by itself, and always has some
thing new to offer.
If one should choose the Burling,
ton for a western tour tho route would
be in a sense reversed, and
Colorado, with its majestic mountain,
its wondrous gorges and its unsurpassed
scenery, would be first experienced.
Over this line the traveler gets the ride
through the granary of the world, the
Platte ami Republican valleys of Ne
braska, and then the most stupendous of
mountain scenery. At Denver a sweep
of 2(x miles of the great range of the.
Rockies is offered, from Long's peak on
the north to I'ike's peak on the south.
with the Snowy range and Gray's peak
in the middle distance. This suierb panorama shifts as the train
runs along the base of the mountains, with the ever-changiug vista of
the fertile plains on the one hand and the cjoud-capped summits of
the everlasting hills on the other. The line of travel ruus through the
Royal Gorge of the Arkansas river, over the hanging bridge, one of
the greatest feats accomplished by man In the way of overcoming the
obstacles offered by nature. "Onward and upward" Is the motto here,
until finally the crest Is passed, and from Malta, within reach of the
headwaters of both the Arkansas and the Grand. Thence the direc
tion is down, through the canyon of the Grand, past Glen wood Springs
and on through the famed Grand river fruit country, amid some of
the most striking scenery on the continent Crossing into Utah, the
canyon scenery is continued along the Green river; then the Utah
desert is crossed, and the climb up the Wasatch mountains begins.
This si one of the most attractive of rides.
PreUy Puget Sound
After Portland comes the Puget sound country, Tacoma, Seattle,
Belllngham, a continual succession of new experiences for the visitor,
and then back over the Cascades through the wonderful forests of
Washington, down the valley of the Yakima, one of the most seductive
pastoral streams that ever charmed the eye, through the wheat re
gion, past Lake Pen d'Orellle; Spokane, with its water power; across
Idaho and back Into Montana. Livery mile of this ride is fraught with
its individual Interest, and the climb over the Rockies from Butte to
Livingstone is without an equal as to scenery. The winding of the
railroad along the lcetllng crags and the towering cliffs, skirting giddy
precipices and diving through tunnels at the very crest of the biok
bone of the continent, is one that will never fade from the mind, stand
ing clear and distinct apart from nil others. Then Yellowstone Park
comes again, with Its array of indescribable beauties and wonders.
Along this ride through the mountains of Montana one sees the union
of the Jefferson, the Madison and the Gallatin, to form the Missouri,
and may watch the Big Muddy in its Infant glee, tossing in crystal
purity over boulders that have defied it fcr ages. It doesn't look much
like the turgid, turbid stream that runs past Omaha. After finishing
Yellowstone park, the road is along the Yellowstone river to Billings,
and then through the eastern part of Wyoming, with a view of the
Custer battlefield, back to Nebraska and Omaha.
If one is not minded for this great ride of C,o0 miles amid the
mblimest and most attractive scenery nature has to offer, the list of
vacation jaunts is almost innumerable, and the railroads will be f,Kd
to take one to any of theia. The Black Hills offers a wealtbof varied
scenery, the Rocky mountains in miniature; the Hot Springs, the trout
fishing and the invigorating atmosphere that would put life Into a
MORXTNO ETAT1T AT LAKE "WASHINGTON.
mummy. One oX its new favorites In Wyoming Is the wonderland that
lies just beyond Cody, where the best fishing and hunting to be found
on the continent is to be had. Two fine log cabin inns have been
built, one at Wapiti, thirty-eight miles from Cody, and one, the Pahaskl
Tepee, sixty-four miles from Cody. These are easily reached over good
roads, and the opiortunties for rest and recreation far from business
cares and surrounded by nature at its best, is unsurpassed. It is not
a new road to the park, but if one wants to, the Pahaskl Tepee Is but
thirty-two miles from Lake hotel, Yellowstone park.
When You Prefer the Easl
Kstes Park, Colo., is another of the favorite nearby resorts, an
ideal place to speud a few days lu loafing and ashing. The Loop trip
nut ol Denver, up the Clear Creek canyon to Silver Plume, is a one
day jaunt that should uot be missed by any sight-seer. All of Colo.
ratio's mountain resorts are easily reached over this line. These offer
fishing, hunting, boutlug, bathing, sight seeing aud genuine rest, with
an appetite and refreshing sleep.
Of course, a lot of people have the eastern resorts In view when,
ever they have a vacation trip to take. For these the great lakes, the
Mackinuc resorts, the New England mountains and the seashore have
speciul attractions. They are to be reached by any of the railroads
leading eastward out of Omaha. The vacation tour in Europe seems
also to be becoming more and more populur, uud Omaha's contribu
tion to the exodus of European tourists this year Is said to be greater
than in any previous year.
If the time is short, then the lakes of Iowa and Minnesota afford
the opportunity for fishing, boating and the like. Lake Okobojl and
Spirit Lake iu Iowa, reached over the Milwaukee, are' among the re
sorts most affected by Omaha people. A little Omaha colony is usu
ally ut found at Okoltoji during the season, many residents here main
taining summer homes there. These cau be reached Saturday uight
by the head of the family, who cau spend the Sabbath quietly aml.d
the most restful of surroundings, and reach his business again on
Monday morning. The Northwestern and the Milwaukee offer a flue
list of lake attractions, their lines reaching the heart of the luke coun
try of that state. Minnesota ai-.d Wisconsin. Lake Washington, Minn.,
is auqther favorite place for Omaha folks to go for fish and the rest
that conies with a day or two away from business. In fact, so many
places may be readied In a night's ride from the city that the list
would confuse if printed at length here.
If you are going on a vacation this summer the best thing to do
Is to see ycur railroad agent before makiug up your mind. If he can't
tempt you this year with a feast of attractions that Is almost lrreaist
ible. coihlug wilL