Coalville Times | 1902-11-28 | Page 3 | Where Life is Too Easy

Whsrs Life Is Too Essy. There was apparently sbrowd philosophy phil-osophy in Humboldt'! famous saying, "Industry is Impossible where the banana grows." Abraham Lincoln bad something of thla in his mind wben speaking to the envoy from Chill, who conllnually reminded him that Chilians Chili-ans wore far and away the leading people in Spanish America. "Do they grow the applo down there?" aaked Lincoln. "Yea," replied the other. "Then I can bellove you," said the president Tho governor of tilorra Leone the West African "Ilanana-land" "Ilanana-land" reports home that In bis recent re-cent comprehensive tour of the colony ke found the people so comfortably provided for by the natural produce of the place that all they had to do was "to loll In their hammocks all day and dance and sing all night." Little wonder, won-der, as a Freetown paper rnmarks, that these easy going folk regard the new railways In the colony "with Rusklnlan eye!"