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Show A CHILD'S FUTURE. By Algernon C. Swinburne.) What will it please you, my darling, hereafter to be Fame upon, land will you look for, or glory by- sea? Gallant your life will be always, and all of it free. Free as the wind when the neart of the twilight is stirred Eastward and sounds from the springs of the sunrise are heard: Free and we know not another as infinite in-finite word. Darkness or twilight or sunlight may compass us round, Hate may arise up against us, or hope may confound; Love may forsake us; yet may not the spirit be bound. i Free in oppresion of grief and In ardor of joy Still may the soul, be, and each to her strength as a toy; " Free in the fiance of the man as the emile of the boy. Freedom p. lore is the salt and the spirit that gives Life, and without her is nothing that verily lives: Dealh cannot slay her; she laughs upon death and forgives. Brightest and hardiest of roses a near and afar Glitters the blithe little face of you, round as a star; Liberty bless you and keep you to be as you are. Shake. j (Ohio State Journal.) A class day orator at Harvard used these golden words: "If we have learned here ' that in a real handshake man meets man at par, we have mastered a social accomplishment accomplish-ment that will stand us in better stead than many graces acquired in tea drinking and bridge." We like that. It has the ring of real goodness. Not a sham of snobbery anywhere about it. It is the gospel of "a man's a man for a' that," and it meets him on that plane and puts forth a hand and shakes without- a doubt, or a grimace, or a mental reservation. A man's hand may upset his tea cup or play a bad game at bridge, but if it has the vigor of sincerity and open-mindedness, open-mindedness, and charity of heart, it is helpful in unfolding humanity for a better day. Yes, shake, not a lflup and languid shake, but a hale and hearty shake, one that squeezes into the hand of your fellow the sense ol a common brotherhood. , I |