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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1898)
nT"f!?? v-; , j- w i 10 THE COU.x. i- Isf I. MOUNTAIN ECHOES. "There's the .stage coach," said my companion traveller. I looked up. I anxiously scanned the horizon. "Where?" 1 cried. There hail been in my mind's eye an elaborate image of the Clearmount stage coach. Something colonial something ancient and lumbering and picturesque, bearing with it an atmos phere of barbarism and paintiveness that was what I had looked to see. I should have accepted that high-wheeled, faded vehicle of, I am cinee afraid, my imagination alone, t-cjined by In dian arrowheads, and stained by time and cxposine with the feeling I had got my romance and my money's worth. But the Clearmount stage coach is a disappointment and a pain to the sentimental traveller. It is an open, four seated carriage, and the driver a sarcastic Italian, who will not allow one the reins. I climbed in. -the same time my expectations pitch ed themselves a trifle lower. The sarcastic Italian jerked .he reins and the horses started. We went bowling along a narrow sand-stone road three inches thick with pine and brick-like dust. Masses of granite as cended ledge upon ledge at our right, and threw themselves sixty feet above in towers and parapets against the deep, "blue sky. As we wound in and out and always up, the mountains al ready encircled us. Their bare, pur ple slopes and dim summits, crowned rarely with a thin frieze of pine trees, then- dry ravines and misty ridges close against the sky, swept gracious ly into view and towered in tremend ous silence over the little road and the un-romantic stage. AH along the way, coming from the snows of Evans mountain, forty miles in the -blue dis tance, the shallow, unrestful Bear Creek rushes below the road, between its banks of piled up rocks and bould ers. The dull, green water, always covered with a gray and sparkling foam, pours over ten hundred thous and obstacles while a sound like the roar of falljng rain, fills its little val ley. At night I have waked to it, and drawn a curtain only to discover the hill sides dry and moonlit, and the black water throwing up a silver spray as it gallops by. On my first evening in Clearmount I attended a country dance, given in the long room above the postoffice. A miscellaneous program opened the fes tivities. ThTee gifted young women, with elaborately arranged hair, and arms akimbo, sang "A Sweet Bunch of Daisies," in shrill soprano voices. The telle of Clearmount began a tragic tale of "rooseans," and "Boosheans," and murdered sires, with a beautiful confidence which " ebbed and flowed as her memory .failed her and she had to be prompted in the first two lines of every verse; and at last she retired, overwhelmed with blushes, to where a few raptu ous swains received her clamorously. A young Denver violinist "played us to heaven," with her wild, Hungarian rhapsodies and at length the floor was cleared for dancing. It was a curious scene. All the in habitants of Clearmount were there in the dim lamp light, from the ser vants and farm hand, attired conspic uously for the occasion, to the city people, young and old, the girls in bicycle skirts and shirt waists and high, narrow walking boots, and the boys in ducks, and flannels, and golf stockings. Sometimes we escaped for a few minutes from the suffocating room and walked up and down the smooth white road in two and threes, singing the pickaninny songs of tie evening. The rocks cast ink-like shadows across our path, and the som bre creek rolled heavily close by, shat tered into angry foam by the glisten ing rocks. At eleven the music stopped and for a while the night was full of voices, crying out, "goodnight," of laughter, of exclamation, and now and then a low snatch of song. It all died away at last. The couples part ed, leaving the building dark and de serted. The flash of the last white frock melted into the darkness, and sleep descended upon Clearmount. EDITH L. LEWIS. LITERARY NOTES. Perhaps nothing has shown the won derful adaptability of the average American more than the way in which the men of the greatest differences in training, birth, and condition, drawn with an impartial estimate of fitness from all over the country, and now composing the already 'historic "Rough Itiders," have, been able to sink every consideration of personal preference or habit to join heartily in the spirit of discipline and " daring which has brought the troop to its present condi tion of effectiveness. Eroin the cow boy, whose feats in the saddle have been the admiration of a border peo ple who have known the Apaches, to the college man who has been cheered from the "bleachers" for his track athletics, Ave believe n large span may be fetched; but the unanimity of spirit and high patriotism prevailing throughout the troop has brought them .shoulder to shoulder, man to man. 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