Show the old settler my dear san Jua ners yesterday Yes erday a friend asked me where I 1 live now and he seemed to imply that I 1 have been dri drifting fing about from place to place I 1 have not I 1 am right at my post where I 1 have been the last forty f five ive years this is not speaking in the geographical sansa with which I 1 would declare that church rock is at the same sama latitude and the same longitude in dry valley where it has stood since the laying down of the jurasic stratum the constancy oj of mountains and cliffs is geographical but the constancy of men has more ia 0 do with soul and purpose liw quality ul in a mi cr niia to lu laid place ana wicy in III nib wr d nis anoai menal pu lital zal linan ca chai or bucini wa junu in we me 1 11 lancial and political world I 1 became los in a wilderness ot contusion years ago otherwise 1 I am right at my post and camping every night on the fresh trail of my coveted ideals its the same old oid trail and he same old camp ground where 1 I have been unpacking every night and packing hopefully nope fully every morning since the days of the texas outfit and the L tc il cattle company the matters involved in that pursuit and the outcome of it is about all that counts with me what state or what part of the state it may take me into int 0 I 1 is s of small consequence in the dear years that I 1 lived in san juan I 1 formed the pleasant habit of looking first thing every morning for the fri friendly e adly profile of the blue mountain and I 1 traced the familiar horizon with a love that will never die there were friends and places that had been sanctified with the years it is different now friends 0 of f course new friends a new horizon new environment but the main thing the first consideration the only matter to be taken into account I 1 am still hot on the trail 0 and it hot on the trail of purpose and it where I 1 can be happy and contented I 1 have not parted with my old friends frends nor with my old horizons they are still with me undying features of the realm of thought where I 1 have my most positive existence I 1 shall cherish them as I 1 merge into the enchanted borderland of age and in some brighter world they shall be perpetuated petua ted with a reality unknown to our present estimates albert R lyman |