Show the old settler jy dear san Jua juaneti neri below the dugway on the old road from monticello to Blab Bl ahding ding t there ere is a great jagged rock with a dwarfed and d deformed little pine gi gewin owing from a cleft in its summit always when I 1 passed there I 1 looked down with a feeling of sadness for it set in motion molion a long train of thought reaching far beyond the solitude of that canyon into the affairs of my cherished herisse he rishe d friends my thoughts even led me to mourn not for the fortunes of 0 the little tree which should have been a giant long ago but for certain situations in the big human drama the greatest of all dramas in the realm of my acquaintance hero here were certain people who were typified so clearly by the little tree that the sight of it brought them vividly before my eves ayes high up on the steep hillside above that dugway stood the majestic jestic patriarch pine and below aim stood other younger trees his children these pine children were stately and tall and ul very different indeed from their little sister suffering dufferin out her miserable existence on the stark oo ulder when these children fell as tiny individuals from their great sire it was up to each one to choose the spot where it would place its full reliance on the depth of r soil send forth its searching loots arld and trust to that place its fortunes of life or death for all time all the children but one had chosen the fertile hillside but the one ne had been lured to the imps ng boulder where it was impossible for her ever to reach her desired maturity her sisters might look down with pity upon her but they were helpless to save her from slow but sure star yet the big trees and the little ittle hunchback below them were but figures as the printed word is but the reminder of the thing itself As the printed lines bring before us something quite different in appearance to print so that scene brought before me a dear friend who had reared three beautiful girls naturally he loved one the same as the others and he loved them all dearly two of the girls had cast their life fortunes on tides of sterling and generous manhood those two were happy because they had found glad answer to their deep soul longings the two were living to real pur pose mothering children of great promise and feasting on hope and assurance of their hearts desire the other sister was living in sorrow and frustration fiu no answer I 1 to the hungry call of her soul no joy for the present no continued on page four the old settler gettier continued from nag me 1 I hope for the future her childred chil drei with no sense of gratitude an ant no capacity to conform to any de dc standard of 0 life were even 11 then an improvement on their i 1 le ie solute and fath like the little pine on tho tha roc she was bent and withered sli may have thought she was to lo be exalted exalted on the summit of a michl boulder but lo 10 there was no soi no life sustaining element what bould could she do W what at cou d her people do she should have taken that seriously into consideration when with her two sisters sister the matter of what the future was to be was in their hands to determine ALBERT R LYMAN |