Show MUSIC by THOMAS ARKLE dean do of mn mon university of illinois G cane cape to tho the town in which J he lie Is now living a good many years ago without friends and without money lip he wan waso honest bard hard working and dependable and in time be he cot got oa on in business he ile made friends and he married no aried a sensible girl lie he started a little greenhouse greenho ilse out on an the edge of town coins going into debt for the land and 1 for the equipment but he hod had it good business bua loesa and the future looked prom laang lie had find one recreation be he could sing and be he could play the violin marvelously well it was his one talent aad and be he need used it skillfully for bla his own enjoyment and for or the satisfaction of 0 ble his friends A then one oner unlucky spring day a cyclone struck the town and laid waste a considerable part of the residence district and left loft grahams greenhouse a heap of tangled iron and broken class glass ilia ills di dwelling house which wa adjacent to the greenhouse os as torn tom into fragments by the swirling wind and there ane not a piece of class glass left in the greenhouse as big as a it mans hand grahams Grat iams wife and his throe three children were seriously if not fatally injured and the whole family was in to the hospital be he with a crippled back and a broken arm and a spirit pretty well ell crushed he was almost wrecked physically but a few days after the storm he was wax driven out from the hospital ho to see the remnants of what wan was once home bome it was a bizarre sight of 0 broken glass twisted window frame frames and withered vegetables that met his faze gaze nothing was left he had nothing with which to start anew and he was three thousand dollars la in debt he would have shot himself he said and ended his troubles at once if he had had a gun then suddenly as an he was sitting despondent in the midst of the ruin of his possessions a robin came and perched upon the broken branch of a fallen maple treo tree and began to sing riotously and courageously and then nearby he lie saw a torn nest the tittle little birds within it dead it was an other home wrecked tear tears came into his eyes and courage crept bade back into his heart and be pulled himself together if that bird can sing be he said to himself by god I 1 can sing too and be he did friends came to his assistance be made a new start and today business Is flourishing and still he sings and pl pir ayt talie 4 lie violin |