Show LIGHTS AND SHADOWS A May Day Etching A stretch of hlllsldo where tho young lambs playA play-A brook with willows green Its banks along An orchard where iho breeze the branches Hwity And shadows thickly lie the whole day 1 on g A thicket where the blackbirds sing their song A spreading alder and a rustic swing A low roofed cot the cherry trees among Where nodding vines oer doors and windows win-dows cling A garden and the hives of busy bees A sunkissed lawn where peacocks strut In state A siunmorhougQ beneath tho spreading trees A walk flowerbordered and a wIcket Kate A row of poplars rustling In the brcce A ninldcn walking down the path to dato Anticipation and Participation I thought In tim days ore I married a wlfo That I wanted her moro than all things In this life But after I found that tho thought would occur That I wanted all things In the while earth but her Would Believe Most Anything A stringer approached the great presi dent of lie Blue church on the street yesterday yes-terday Phis Is Mr Dnhlqulsl I believe ho asked doubtfully Thais rlRht saId Josh You go right on believing It and when you meet Capt dlidbemiss > oull believe that he is Ito President of the United States After that youll run across tichrocdcr and think you have met iho president of the Mormon church > A Reminiscence 1 went to thT old mine Jack That busted up you and I I climbed up the wcllroon track That led to the old cabin nl hIt I h-It Boomed mighty lonesome there Tim for thai il was never so gay Bum there wasnt a sound anywhere IJtil tho voice of the brook far away Tho old shaft has caved In you know I The n lmllass Is down nt one end I And lie InniHl bias crushed In so low 1 That you cant go beyond the bond f Ol i iho track not a mil Is left now I And In fact the old Bufialo Hump Has naughl of our labor to show I Excepting the dirt on lie dump Theres destruction wherever you look And It gave me the bines there and then Sd 1 quickly the backward truck took Tin most such and dejected of men That wevo both struck It rich since Is so Kill noor till 1 hear Ihe last trump Will 1 fell sis I would have i knou Hud wo btruck a big lend In the Hump Like a Lamb to the Slaughter Now William Henry say your piece like a man The scene was tho court seat of one of the outlying counties ShoW W as lull and angular 55 If sIte was a day wlih hilr flecked with gray combed smooth down over her forehead She was frooknoscd and two of her front teeth wero out and another loose lie WHS mien rby six feet tall I I and the down had Just begun to Mart on his upper lip Now begin with mister she conlln I tied ns she tightened her grip on his hand which she had hld all tho way up the street nail Into tho clerks office ai Iho courthouse William Henry gazed longingly at thin door of the office but she givr liim a look thai mndo him tremble and he began Mister I want a aGo a-Go on she snapped You donl want me lo say it do ve lie changed his weight from one foot to the other and began over Mister I want a Forgot it eh have yo she half screamed Say mister fix up a marriage license quick for me an this man William Henry Hen-ry do ye think 1 raised yo for nothln when I tuck yo as a boy I looked for this day and I tell you Its goln lo bo1 Tho last seen of them they were walking down tho street In search of a Justice of the TQUCC She was In the lead but not for a moment did she relax the vlscllko grip of his hand A Great Discovery You can talk of a girl when she wears her Ilrst train Of a country lads first day in town And of an Ito first things that bring ploaHiiro or pain Uut think of a boy when bos searched long In vain And than finds on his lips the first down His knuckles aro big and hln voice liko a crow And he handles his legs like n clown What to do with hla hands ho never docs know But what docs ho care for his heart Is aglow When he sees on his lip the first down |