Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-11-22
A TOUCH OF NATURE.
THE END.

The course Of the weariest river
Ends in the great gray sea;
The scoru, for ever and ever,
Strives upward to the tree.
The rainbow, the sky adorning,
Shines promise through the storm;
The gimmer of coming morning
Through midnight gloom will form,
By time all knots are riyen,
Complex although they be,
And peace Will at last he given,
Complex although they he,
And peace will at last he given,
Dear, both TO You and me.
Then. though the path may be dreary,
Look onward TO the goal;
Though the heart and the head be weary,
Let faith inspire the soul;
Seek the right, though the wrong be tempting
Speak truth al any cost;
Vain j. all weak eXemptlng
When once the gem l. lost.
Let strong hand and keen eye bc ready
For PLAN and ambu>hed foes;
Thought earnest and fancy steady
Bear best unto the close.
But heavy clouds may be raining,
But with evening comes the light;
Through the dark are low winds complaining
Yet the sunrise gilds the height;
And Love mas his hidden treasure
For the patient and the pure;
And Time gives his fullest measure
To the workers who endure;
And the Word that no law has shaken
Has the future pledge supplied;
For we know that when we awaken
We shall he satisfied.
-Tinsley's Mlgd<iHe.
GLASS slippers" are announced 1t is
doubtful if the small boy finds as many pane 5
in them as he has discovered in the Old kind.
-[Norristown. Herald.
We like to sit and listen to church organ.
In fact: We generally become so interested IN
the performance Of the organlst and SO anx-
ious about the health Of the blow-boy, that
we generally overlook the little cross-eyed
man who peddles pennies around the congre-
CATION on little silver plate with velvet
bottom. SO people can't hear how many you
take Off Elmira Gazette.
He was an old old man, aad when lie
came in with a twenty four foot bamboo fish
pole and carelessly remarked that that was
the kind of cOrnstalks his garden produced
in good season, We never said word, but
walked into the other room and registered
solemn vow never, never TO print any more
agricultural items if it led men into such
mountainous exeggeratlon as this Il Bridge
port Standard.
naturalist claims to have discovered that
crows, when in fiocks, have regularly organ
lied courts. i'll which they sit around and try
offenders-a sort OF crow bar. so TO speak.
[Boston Globe.
An agricultural paper tells .'How to dress
a hog But what's the use OF dressing
hog2 Itwould ruin its clothes before 1t had
them on two hours.-L Norrlstown Herald
''See, mamma y exclaimed little one, as
puss, with arching spine and elevated rudder,
strutted around the table, see, kitty eat SO
much she can't shut her tail down
We have been often told that there was
future in store for us, but We have never
found the store where it was kept 1t must
be one OF those establishments that do not
advertise Keokuk Constitution.
As the election approaches, the political
speakers sent out to save the country are be-
coming very much in earnest. In his speech
the otner night one Of them yelled SO loud
that be burst u boil on man standing on
the opposite cGrbstone.-[Oil City Derrick.
A man in New York put his finger in front
of swiftly revolving buzz saw to feel the
momentum Of the air. The experiment fall
ed owlug to the saw al ticipating the air by
the length of one fOre-fnger. While he
stood conteml lating the site once occupied
by the finger the foreman OF the mill came
up and ercitedly asked him, How did you
do it" Why, | put my finger down Just
So" he said, placing the other forehnger
down in illustration, when it, too, was snap
ped of. The astouishment that filed his
breast at this juncture was almost sublime. -
[Danbury News.
Prof Tice has sued an almanac publisher
for stealing quite quantity Of his weather
which he had saved up for next year.
A ball of hair weighing nearly pound was
taken from the stomach OF a calf III Bridge
port. What butter COW she would have
been.
Says Pat to his girl, By the Powers,
aye are the children OF the devil, % was the
text OF a divine il the morning, and in the
afternoon he said Children, obey your
parents.
Chicago pork packer whose pew-rent was
raised to So, exclaimed, Great CTsar
here's a nice state of affairs the Gospel 60
ing up and pork going down What's to be-
come Of us =
A Slight Mistake.-Juyenile (who has been
in the habit OF fetching rump steak for an
invalid brotherl Mother sent me for two
pounds of the best beefstelk, and please to
cut 1t tender, cause it is for my little brother
that's i'll" Butcher kindly Your broth
ers a-gettil Of his little appetite back again,
amt he, young gentleman - Judy.
A Brooklyn tailor adyertises a patent IN
destructible button hole admirably adapted
for the use of politicians"