I was talking to him this morning.

He's from Colorado, isn't he ?" "Oh, yes, they're all from the West now," responded the judge--he had sat on the bench in his youth.

"Ten years ago the bright ones were from the South, but you Southerners are outstripped to-day, and it's the men from the West who are doing it.

There's a fundamental reason there, I suppose, if you go deep enough," he added, fingering the ends of his short gray moustache while he kept an eye on his champagne glass.
"We've done with mere classifying and imitation, and we're waiting for a fresh explosion of raw energy.

Now for pure constructive imagination the North and South don't hold a candle--they simply don't hold a candle--to the West.