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Show FAR WEST IS RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING. The extensive movement now in progress to the Canadian prov-: prov-: inces calls attention to the fact that after that country is settled -,. there will no longer be a "far West." The cycle which commenced ages ago is about completed. From its cradle in Asia the human race instinctively turned its face along the shores of the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean toward the Pillars of Hercules. It was long, however, be fore courage was found to plunge into the darkening abyss beyond and explore the mysterious land on the other shore. Eventually lodgment was found in the virgin world of the Western horizon and then began that weary march which, at the end of four centuries at length approaches its completion. The Occident and the Orient have met at last and there are no more worlds to conquer. Time's last and noblest offspring, which has followed the declining sun in his majestic march over the grand ' ecliptic, stands gazing across the Pacific at the children of the East from whom he separated so many centuries ago. The "far West" J has been pushed back from the Atlantic border to the Alleghanies, from this range to the Ohio valley; from the line of the Mississippi to the prairies, from these to the Rockies and over their massive peaks to the mighty sea whose mountainous waves so appalled the early discoverers when they first looked upon them. |