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...though seen from a distant hilltop. It is a walled city of the fifteenth century, shining in the sunlight among poplar, plane and cypress. The river Adige like a thread of silver. We hear faintly the sound of many bells which grows louder...
Second ($600) and third ($500) prizes went respectively to Gardenville, N. Y.'s Charles Burchfield for a large brownish watercolor of a logger's shed in a gloomy cypress swamp in wintertime, and to Woodstock's Henry Mattson for a seascape of wild waves and seagulls painted in fuzzy Cezannesque technique...
...assemble once again in Washington matters were different. Secretary Early turned down a request to have Imperial Potentate Dana S. Williams, of Lewiston, Me., ride up to the White House on a camel to be received by the President. Only the vanguard of potentates caught Shriner Franklin D. Roosevelt (Cypress Temple, Albany, N. Y.) at his desk, induced him to put on an honorary fez of Washington's Almas Temple. That night in a darkened limousine the President sped past the Pavilion of Omar erected on the sidewalk in front of the White House with its papier-mach...
...tribe to a miserable existence in Indian Territory. A stubborn few could not be dislodged from Florida's swamps. Their descendants, some of whom intermarried with Negroes, now number nearly 600. Routed by whites from every desirable acre, they are now scattered deep in the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp. They live in evil-smelling thatched shacks perched on stilts, fish in the Everglades' black sluggish waters, hunt deer and wild turkey, make a little cash as vegetable pickers, hunting guides, sideshow attractions in amusement parks. Their chief recreation consists of listening to phonograph records, drinking a mixture...
Said Charlie Cypress: "Formerly I had many grounds to hunt upon...