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Show "' 1 WHEN MILESTONES CHEER, They Always Oladden the Heart of the Pstlestrlan, In a walking trip a milestone along tha way Is tha most companionable ' fellow In the world your spirits riao l aa you mar him aa though you were B about to greet a human friend, and j they keep almost consistently on his high level till his brother a mile distant dis-tant advuirts tu meet you I And when you overlook one of thla frlcndlv comi any bocano of an encroaching en-croaching bank or screening boughs, nays the Travel Magaslne, hla neigh- I bor further on cornea to you doubly 1 welcome At Iba latter end of this passage In the Joutnty jour spirits Hag a trifle aa though oppressed by n, sense of desertion You may even cowl at the overhanging hank which Is mote than a party to this conconl- ' ruent I Those worth) persona who attend to tho roads should sea to It that every I milestone within their province stands out frankly from Its leary twekground. Observance of this, however, would rob the wayfarer ut that laap or the I heart which If his whan tha slona teila the atory ot two miles done rather 1 than ono For however much the landscape land-scape and the minute world at his feet I may claim the fnotfarera admiration ho Is still ketnl) alive to tho virtue) of decent distances covered In hla day's Journey. , |