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...only an incidental satisfaction, and alone, like any exercise per se, would have little attraction, though like any work in the open or in the forest, it is good for both body and soul. But all trail work is a mental challenge so keen that it fascinates the fancy. Yonder is a skyline ridge which should have a trail. A simple thought. But before it is wrought out, the details of the ground must be examined in the rough (where a mile an hour is usually the maximum); there are hours totaling days of fighting through underbrush and blowdowns...
...hacked and clambered upward His Imperial and Royal Highness was shown the sights. From yonder crag, it was pointed out, Lord Francis Douglas and three companions plunged to death while returning from the first ascent ever made to the "hump" (1865). Prince Chichibu, perhaps superstitious, resolved not to return as did Lord Francis Douglas. Daring, the Prince proceeded straight over the hump (the Italo-Swiss frontier) and prepared to descend by the far more dangerous Italian route, necessitating straight drops by means of Alpine ropes of several hundred feet...
...Yonder is Finis Garrett, the Democratic leader. He is brilliant but inclined to be erratic. Ogden Mills is just coming in. He is a Republican and comes from the silk stocking district of Manhattan, a Harvard man, with plenty of money, able, incisive, one of the best on the Ways and Means Committee. The man with the shock of white hair is Haugen, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture whose farm bill is raising such a rumpus. You see that smart young man who is going around and making so much of a party out of this? That is John...
...present at the cave-in. One would like to hear what chills fluttered down his spine as he saw the strangely sagging ice, knowing what emptiness lurked below but not what quips might strike above. Perhaps like Napoleon at Ratisbon, he mused, "my plans to earth may fall" let yonder crevices sunder inches more...
Never has the world ceased to marvel at the success which will attend simplicity. Christianity began simply, was simple, flourished. So, too, "Christian Endeavor," from its crowded international convention last week at Portland, Ore., beamed forth its simplicity; the world beamed yonder...