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TO ONE IN PARADISE.
Thou wast that all to me, love,
For which my soul did pine—
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine
All wreathed with fairy fruite
and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.
Ah, dream too bright to last!
Ah, starry hope, that didst
arise
But to be overcast!
A voice from out the future
cries,
“On, on!’ But o'er the past
(Dim gulf!) My spirit hover
ing lies
Mute, motionless, aghast!
For, alas, alas, with me
The light of life is o'er!
No more, no more, no more—
(Such language holds the solemn
sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder blasted
tree
Or the stricken eagle soar!
And all my days are trances
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy gray eye glances
And where thy footstep gleams.
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.
—Edgar Allan Poe.
‘SAID OF READING.
In science read by preference
the newest works; in literature
the oldest. The classic literature
is always modern.—Bulwer-Lyt-
ton.
What a wonderful, what an
almost magical boon, a writer of
great genius confers upon us
when we read him intelligently.
As he proceeds from point to
point in his argument or narra-
tive we seem to be taken up by
him and carried from hilltop to
hilltop, where, through an at-
mosphere of life, we survey a
glorious region of thought, look-
ing freely, far and wide, above
and below, and gazing in admi-
ration upon all the beauty and
grandeur of the scene.—Mann.
NYDIA’S LOVE SONG."
The wind and the beam loved
the rose, h
And the rose loved ome.
For who recks the wind where
it blows,
Or loves not the sun?
None knew where the humble
wind stole.
Poor sport of the skies.
None dreamt that the wind had
a soul
In its mournful sighs.
Oh, happy heam!
thon prove
That brizht love of thine?
In thy light is the proof of thy
love,
Thou hast but—to shine.
How canst
How its love can the wind re-
veal?
Unwelcome its sigh;
Mute—mute to its rose let it
steal—
Its proof is—to die.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
As for myself I am not in
doubt as to my duty. Without
minimizing other arguments ad-
vanced in support of the extend-
ing of suffrage to woman, I
place the emphasis upon the
mother’s right to a voice in mold-
ing the environment which shall
surround her children, which
operates powerfully in determin-
ing whether her offspring will
crown her latter years with joy
or bring down her gray hairs in
sorrow to the grave.
Politics will not suffer by wo-
litical world has grown more
pire iu spite of the evil influ-
ences that have operated to de-
base it. it will not be polluted
by the presence and participa-
tion of woman. Neither should
we doubt that woman can be
trusted with the ballot. She has
proved herself equal to every re-
sponsibility imposed upon her;
she will not fail soclety in this
emergency. Let her vote!—Wil-
fiam Jennings Bryan.
man’s entrance into it. If the po-
GRANDMA'S PRAYER.
J pray that risen from the dead
J may in glory stand:
A crown, perhaps, upon my head.
But a needle in my hand.
"1've never learned to sing or
play,
So let no harp be mine.
From birth until my dying day
Plain sewing’s heen my line.
Therefore accustomed to the end
To plying useful stitches,
I'll be content if asked to mend
The little angels’ breeches.
—*Pgems of ‘Childhood.” by Eu-
gene Field.
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PROTO O NOT OONOWOXONONON!
GYRIL BLAIR'S PLAN
By HAROLD CARTER.
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(Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.)
When Cyril Blair saw a stylishly
gowned young woman look at the
brass plate which adorned his office
door, hesitate, and then enter, he as-
sumed an air of intense preoccupa-
tion. This is a common habit of
young lawyers who can still count the
cases that they have had upon the
fingers of their hands.
He rose and bowed courteously &s
she entered. He recognized her as
Miss Nancy Lawrence, a girl with
high school connections the town.
She sat down and looked at him rath-
er in wonder.
“You look very young to be a law-
yer, Mr. Blair,” she began.
“I assure you that will not invali-
date my plea before the court,” he
answered, smiling.
“Well,” she said, “suppose I tell you
my case. You see, I wanted a young
lawyer, an un—" She flushed and bit
her lip.
“An unknown young man,” he fin-
ished for her.
“Well, you see, I don't want my
action generally known, and even the
lawyers in this town seem to stand
together. My father, Colonel Law-
rence, you know, was very rich. He
had a million, in fact.”
“Yes,” said the lawyer attentively.
“I am twenty next month, and un-
der his will the property is in the
care of Jim White, as he is known,
until I am of age or—or marry. Well,
father trusted him implicitly, but
everyone knows he is connected with
those new dishonest oil companies. So
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asked him for an accounting. And he
behaved horridly. He laughed at me.”
“The scoundrel!’ exclaimed Cyril,
and then wondered why he had spok-
en with so much warmth.
“He reminded me that he had the
absolute investment of my property
under the will for another year,” con-
tinued the girl, “and he said that
even if he made a mistake he would
not be accountable. And I can’t tell
you what else he did.”
“A legal adviser has the same privi-
leges of confidence as a priest or doc:
tor,” said the young lawyer senten-
tiously.
“Well, then, he tried to kiss me!”
snapped the girl. “And I know he
means to invest all my money in those
wicked companies.”
“We'll deal with him, Miss Law-
rence,” said Cyril. “Leave him to
me. I shall examine the will this aft
ernoon and go up to town the first
thing in the morning to show him he
has got hold of the wrong end of the
stick.”
A brief examination of the will con-
vinced Cyril that the scoundrel had
absolute right over the property.
However, he ran up to town and had
an interview with him. The young
man was no match for the hardened
old blackguard. The colonel had kept
inside the law by the skin of his
teeth; he admitted that the future
of the oil companies was doubtful, but
said that he could make them suc
ceed by putting three-quarters of a
million into them, which he proposed
to do.
“You are a scoundrel, sir!” flashed
out Blair.
“Prove it,” snapped the colonel.
“Out of your own mouth, sir.”
“Not evidence,” said the colonel,
laughing and biting off the end of a
cigar. “Not evidence. You haven't a
dictaphone and a stenographer in your
pocket, have you? Then, as a lawyer,
you will admit that I have you
skinned. However, I'm going to pull
through. I don’t mind telling you that
I've sunk a hundred thousand of Miss
Nancy's money, and I’m going to pull
it out with the remainder.”
Blair retired, white-hot, but baffled.
He was utterly worsted, and had the
sense to acknowledge it. He told Miss
Nancy as much.
“1t looks as though the only thing
to do is to wait another year, till you
can make him give an accounting,” he
said. “Of course, we can go to law.
But he’ll use your money to block our
application until he’s run through with
the money and heaped up a pile for
himself. However, I have an idea.”
“What is it?’ asked the girl.
Cyril smiled. “I can’t disclose it
yet,” he said. “It will take perhaps
a month. He won’t have run through
much by then. You see, he’s booming
the companies just now. The collapse
will be due in about three months’
time. Now, I think I can save your
money if you trust me.”
She trusted him implicitly, so much
so that when he said a daily confer-
ence at the office would be necessary,
Miss Nancy did not demur. But the
conferences did not seem very busi-
nesslike. Yet they were sufficiently
pleasant to be continued after office
hours, at Miss Nancy's home. And
long before the month was ended they
wera gure that they loved each other.
“When are you going to tell me the
plan?” che asked one day.
Cyril” looked steadily at her. “I
ave no plan,” he answerad.
The girl turned white. ‘Do you
mean vou kzve been deceiving me?”
she inquired, ¢ usly calm.
“No,” he aasvwéred.” I meant it at
the time, but now I see it is impos-
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fingered her nervously. She
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THE CITY
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CIVIC EMBELLISHMENT
NECESSARY FOR CITIES.
a be bE 8 By
Streets Should Be Given Proper At-
tention In Every Detail.
However well a city may be planned,
its avenues laid out and its parks pro-
vided In fiberality, it will fafi J¢ reais
ing its full advantages unless its
streets are properly embellished, kept
clear of nuisances and given proper at-
tention in every detail.
Such embellishment consists, among
other features, of boulevards, esplan-
ades, bridge and park.approaches, wa-
ter gates, quays, plazas, squares, bay
fronts, terraces, monuments, statuary
fountains, trees, grass plots, artistically
designed electroliers, trolley poles anc
other structures and details.
The combination of such features
makes up the impression given by the
streets, and just at this point careless-
ness, neglect or inadequacy in the
treatment of small structures or. other
objects is likely to destroy the whole
effect and spoil what has beén accom-
plished at the cost of much time, skill.
labor and expense.
A rigid policy of exclusion of all un-
necessary objects and the ornamenta-
tion or concealment of those that must
remain should be followed. The most
careful attention must be given to each
AUGUSTUS SQUARE IN LEIPZIG.
and every minor detail, and once the
method of treatment is determined
upon it must be carried out. If, for in
stance, house numbers are to be of a
known and the requirements enforced
and not be permitted to be avoided
or neglected by householders. No de
tails should be overlooked and under
no considerations should new obstruc-
tions be given a place on the street un
less demanded by the utmost necessity
Perhaps the most important features
of civic embellishment are the boule
vards, esplanades, plazas and the use
of grass plots, shrubbery and trees on
the streets.
Trees and other vegetation are high-
ly desirable features of civic embellish-
ment’ and should be employed wher-
ever it is possible to utilize them
They temper the heat and the glare.
afford agreeable shade, relieve the eye.
improve the air, reduce the violence of
the wind and limit the fees of the
rain, conceal defects and necessary
structures, lessen the dust, improve
the vistas and offer unending sources
of variety and interest.
Among the various structures and
minor utilities which are a necessary
part of the equipment of streets and
which must be provided for and treat-
ed in the proper spirit are tramway
stations, elevated railroad structures.
subway entrances, safety isles, meteor-
ological stations, news stands, comfort
stations, advertising kiosks, electroliers,
trolley poles, letter boxes, fire and po-
lice alarm boxes, hydrants, street signs
and various forms of advertising signs.
The proper method of treating most
of these items has already been suffi-
ciently indicated, but a further con-
sideration of some of the items may
be useful, for it is always possible to
treat all such equipment in such a
way as to make it serve an aesthetic
as well as a utilitarian purpose.
Trolley poles in cities using the over-
head system, if properly designed, can
be made a highly ornamental feature
of street equipment, despite their con-
demnation by many landscape archi-
tects. Indeed, certain civic engineers,
after struggling ‘with the problem of
the street car on boulevards and being
unable to solve it, suddenly turned
about and announced the impressive
discovery that the street car was in
reality a decorative feature of the first
aesthetic importance. The same naive-
ts may be expected when the effect of
suitably designed trolley poles is dis-
covered.—Frank Koester.
Statues For Juveniles.
Superintendents of public parks the
country over are beginning to follow
the English idea of setting aside tracts
£6r the sports of young people, and
those ‘having such matters in -charge
are urging that the statuary gracing
public ‘ playgrounds should be of the
sort to appeal to boys and girls.
Chicago, for example, has long had a
statue In Lincoln park before which
many a little one has paused, well
nigh in reverence. It is that of Hans
Christian Andersen, the famous writer
of tales for children. The statue mot
only interprets the personality of the
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A RECURRENT PUZZLE.
It would appear that about the
last thing with which one could
charge an American citizen
would be a lack of ingenuity
and origins#ity. Forward looking.
quick of mind, essentially in-
ventive, the American is keen to
resent any such apparently un-
warranted imputation. In one
respect, however, he has shown
himself singularly hidebound and
imitative,
Whether it be an inherent
though unadmitted conservatism
or a strong devotion to deep
rooted habit and prejudice, the
American has, at all times and
in every clime of this broad
country, displayed a tendency to
borrow a name by which shall
be known the town in’ which he
takes up his habitation.” Thirty-
one Washingtons, twenty-two
Madisons, twenty-three Oak-
lands, sixteen Lincolns, twenty-
one Columbias, even ten Bostons,
prove his lack of originality in
this particular field. .
When. therefore, one of these o
cities—in spite of the fact that :
there are fully a score of other o
cities of the same name—puts :
out a trade organ or a prospectus e
without qualifying the city name :
with any state address, it some- eo
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times proves rather difficult to
determine just which of the mul-
titudinous Columbias, Lincolns,
or Oaklands is referred to by the
publication.—Town Development
Magazine.
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY.
Judge of Buffalo's Children’s Court
Scores the Railways.
Sixteen lines of steam railway enter
the city of Buffalo, completely encir-
cling it, writes Judge George H. Judge
of the children’s court, Buffalo, N. ¥.,
in the American City. There are 725
miles of railway trackage within the
city limits. In some of the railroad
yards we find eighteen to twenty
tracks and standing upon these tracks
miles and miles of cars loaded with
every conceivable article of mer-
chandise. To protect this property a
few railway police are employed. These
men work long hours and receive
small pay. Our newspapers frequently
inform us that some of these railroad
police are themselves arrested and con-
victed of burglarizing cars.
Thirty per cent of the boys appearing
in our children’s court in 1913 were
charged with offenses against railroad
A DANGEROUS BACK YARD.
property. The cost to the state of New
York and county of Erie of caring for
boys convicted for crimes against rail-
road property and sentenced to in-
stitutions from Buffalo was $11,000.
Offenses of this character will increase
year by year until the railroad property
is properly protected, and this neglect
on the part of the railroads will .con-
tinue to be responsible for making
criminals. Leaving out the cost In
money to our state, the saving of these
valuable lives by removing the tempta-
tions which cause boys as well as
adults to become criminals is worth
more than can be computed in dollars
and cents. It is a common sight in
our railroad yards to see dozens of
women and children, sometimes on
moving trains, throwing off coal or
walking alongside of the tracks, gath-
ering up coal which has fallen or has
been thrown from the cars. These
women are often arrested and brought
into court in groups of ten or twelve.
and upon inquiry the judge finds that
they have families of children depend-
ent upon them for care.
If the railroads would wall in their
yards and station watchmen at the
necessary openings the greatest contri-
buting factor to juvenile delinquency
would be removed and the number of
eriminals in all of the railroad centers
of this country greatly lessened.
Utility In City Plan.
Many cities have been built on more
or less idealized plans, and, while in
pome cases the result has been pleas-
ing, from an aesthetic point of view the
tendency has been to pay too little con-
sideration to individuality and little, if
any, to practical considerations and in-
dustrial developments.
The utility of the city, as distinguish-
ed from its beautification, demands a
greater degree of attention than has
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this demand by German cities has been
: largely responsib or their progress.
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