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Show f Rippling Rhymes j 3y WALT MASON. Where ar. mm the viial issues )f I I some twenty years ago? They harefl moldered, warps and tissues, and their j dust blows to and fro; how our giaBlH atesmeD thundered o'er ihose i-sues, I i i their day! often 1 have nioond and wondered uh such thing must i i- away, All the things that were 1 i . ; . 1 k . i . i r i . lung if.u an rone like " : ' and rf. ' hon-.h we 'I J oi tn t, over issues fresh an1 new. II Where are all the ancient troubles over which wo walked the floor? They I ar'' nm. i R broken bubbles, and J they'll plague us never more; and A the man of wisdom borrows from the 1 pas no kind of grief; there are al- j .i a modern sorrows over which i to wail and beef. Ten year henc?. 1 we are liinj;. we will wonder why 1 t ML-hej o -r ihe wot s that now are giving trouble deep and double dyed. 1 Sphere arc now the mighty sages J v. ho had fani" when we were j young, whose renown ihrough en1- ill less ages, all 'he world said, would be rung ' 1 could name perhaps J dozen who were shining landmark? u then, but their names no raon In in the eager ears of men. j Twenty years can make such changes, calling off our safest bet: and the 1 march of time deranges all the values 1 we have set. oo r The younc lady across the way says jL Ler father ii naturally conservative t and simply refuses to bother with anv a i i companj that won't promise to .M double his mone within a vear. oo i - The young ladv across the way sy8 heroic England has managed to keep i her industries going somehow or other and we've always been able to 8etH plenty of English walnuts |