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Show SPRING HAS COME. True cuoiiffh, the early morning dew ' yet glitters into our eyes with the dodecahedron brilliancy of Amsterdam-cut diamonds; true enough, the evening calls for the overcoats and wraps to ward off the sharpness of the remnai.-t of "Winter's grasp; true enough, a few flakes of desultory snow now and then whirl about the bright air to remind us of the niveous siege we have just gone through but all in all. Spring has come and is here to stay till Summer in his fierce glory upplants him.to be himself superseded by multicolored Autumn with russet tresses and golden locks. fprin has come. The birds on the trees twitter it merrily and the bhdt on the bushes are quivering with tin hopeful spasm? of promising gestation. The bro-'ks are tremulous by finding U.eir limpid level snii the rivers ;'c roaring down the craggy mountain gulches with th roar of Rider Ilag-! Ilag-! gard's "Three Lions.' Even tliC real estite man feels that there is something like a soul in long-neglected corner of his blue papered and white-lited anatomy and lie rushes forth with an energy equal to that of Samson when he tied firebrands to the tails of Semite foxes and sent disaster among the Philistines. It is not only that "Hope springs eternal in the human breat;v 'spring hopes" I also. It hopes for new factories, new railroads, big crops, plenty of work at good pay and general contentment. |