Show V VS n ib TIMES MUTATIONS an incident of the point I that wo we may once aboor rather many year upon a time I wont to school I do not dale tho event far towards the sunrise of life in order to disarm cri luciem in relation to my writing but because a newspaper experience covering a period of several years has taught me to always toll tho truth and shame tho de vilone or tho other and generally the other the school referred to was a high school it was situated on ai eminence emin enco over looking tho pretty town of st fran cilville cis ville in the state of missouri and it took a good deal of climbing to get up to t that is tho school did not the town nor the state it the school wai named the dee moines river academy and was presided over by ono prof jackson tho attendants tend ants were numerous as much as a gang of office seekers in washington during an inauguration they camo from up and down the river and among them was a debonair young man of fino mien and peculiar promise I will call him parker because that his name his shirt fronts were always immaculate his boots polished to the point of perfection and he never the eimo suit two weeks in succession euc cession parker could dash off every example in the algebra and geometry on the blackboard with a little hesitation and aa much arc casion as would attend the an ordinary mortal in arriving at a solution of the problem of twice two he could latin so fluently that it induced an incipient attack of lockjaw to listen to him he could play ball equal to tho best and waa a musician of no mean order the g als admired him the boya envied him and the faculty stood in awe or him the contrast between par ker and tho rest of us groping dul ard was so great that wo ins linc lively regarded him as the colossus under massive hugeness we would gome day peer about search me for dishonorable graves that was a score of years ago mutants shift tho scene A few weeks ago I was traveling in the southern part of our travelled gravelled gravel led ded utah our company reached aa in corpor abed city consisting of about a dozen log domiciled domiciles domi ciles a meeting house and a coop store wo were tired and hungry looked in vain for a hotel and finally decided to take chances etwas not as spacious or half as handsome the one in store wo knew this because there was a beard over the front opening which cantaline can taine d that woid we came 77 near ing iho store because f w a dry goods box in front of the aperture was 11 r the manner of but wo I posing the shut p soon a boy ci almonr and with a look of in scorn u our greenness diat if we wanted to gimo tl u we had better go to i ho macl residence and have him oo 00 ic and unlock the door ho graciously pointed out the location referred to and we ant i amt of bo ace who wa in the coiral feeding tac 1165 whan wa arrived he acknowledged our pryo aco by loo at us wo reciprocated th lionor by venturing a cleant good ay ills reply kaswan m eth n for ourselves and lores o w would ho kindly accompany us lo 10 the store no unsaid he noth ne there to break of m iho gru ne except c this time he had been scanning the abage of tha eluded iho booi withering oun cement he added pa to been and adad mentally chati hoped hi never would see mo agaid but a om I hia parker ud 10 jm y go to st school and more KS ys r ays ve talked and tall i obero t ao ui amk 11 his abobo which was liko tho aber houses hl abo city of several W 18 n as himself hima hime elf and a l g but cited ed us var sorts SSP 11 chua CT ua S ts kh u s h of h ari ix n tala t iii nd tb door I T 11 S wes successively in nebraska wyoming colorado and utah had aried laining teaching and farming and concluded to settle down and grow up with the country was satisfied with bia position and believed that ultimate good fortune awaited biro and so tho time wis consumed until not wishing to make li n kovs eity tho more conspicuous by caus ing him to apologize for his lack of sleeping announced ahat wo would prefer to lake our blank ets out to the hay stack by the golden beann of the blazing belt of orion and soothed by he lullaby of the neighboring bull quietly into thi abyss of next w breakfasted our host and idia idi a of o Lc stowing upon a apiece and declaring ourselves bankrupts immediately after wo on our journey aiming iming given our enter M hea tjelta ial by and as inar filipa for proper ha ever issued from the lips of erring thib true shoich bains nothing else it at least shows that the future is an unexplored with all ot us and what a day i or a year may bring forth is a beyond our computation we may speculate and devise hope and yearn bu there is a divinity that shapes out end roughhew it as wo roay ESSAT |