The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-12-17
NJ SINGS BY THE WAY.
OBy j. Marvin Nlcholsl

written SpcCldlll lot tlt AIGmOlClte.
Look at that beautiful rain-drop as
it fingers in your hand! Place a pow
erful microscope over that tiny drop.
You will discover in it the restless
ness like that Of a shoreless sea. Ev.
cry particle is in perpetual motion.
The ebb and flow OF the tides are
there. Now the waves dash wildly
toward the shore-now, leaping high
into the air, they chase each other
outward on the deep And so a still
deeper look reveals countless organ
isms floating in its fathomless bosom.
That tiny rain-drop-the great ocean
in miniature. And what of the tear
that distills itself on those deep
brown eyes. Here's another image
of a wide, wide seattle sea of life.
Every passing shadow loses itself i'm
the light that transforms the tear in
TO diamonds. And that tear-as in
the silent depths Of the bosom-the
tides come and go, the waves dash in
ward and outward along this sea.
oh if We but knew the history of a
tear, Whence came they and why do
they liuger so long? DO they always
come from stormy zones, or do they
linger to dissolve themselves into a
thousand rainbow tints?
Dread yoursclf-thats all the real
foe you've got.
The poppy draws the deadly opium
from the very soil that the rose draws
her fragrant aroma. How strange
and yet, no more strange is it than
that two sons are rocked In the same
cradle by the same mothcr-hand Ono
son heads for the lone sea and froz.
en- tide; the other for a land of flow
crs and beauty.
| may be allowed here and now to
quote paragraph from my Blue Dev-
| II; The world, despite all the science
and ingenuity Of men, is still affllct-
ed with periodical plaques and dis
| tressing pests, but wonderful to relate,
God and the devil are not responsible.
/ Occasionally we have a period of
sevenyear locust, shooting stars, chol-
era, and lightning rod agents We are
hardly over with them before war,
small poX, and sewing machine agents
make their appearance. Then comes
the tornadoes, cyclones and book ag-
ents then the aurora borealis, earth
Quakcs, conilagrations, and life insur-
ance agents deyastate the country.
Now We have an epidemic Of tubercu.
losis, appendicitis, and penny savings
bank agents. This is to say nothing
of the greatest of all pests-thc get
rich quick schemes oil wells, gold
mines, investment companies, and 9th.
er transparent humbugs too yapor-
GUS to deceive a hungry hound. They
are baited just enough to make life
miserable and rob the counter hop,
per of the weekly stipend"
obllt lllbHAN kbbh llAOAAbl al =
sending into this great big world an
awfully spoiled child. And what is
more-somebody is going to knock
him in he head just to learn him a
few things
From Lights and Shadows" ! want
to bring my many readers a full quo
tation. My apology is that there may
be many stunned because Of their ap
parent barrenness who need but the
breath Of the spring-time. VIII you
give IL? Travelling in the winter
we often see some naked. ugly tree
stripped of her foliage, and raislnp
her ugly branches In the cold gray
sky. No a spark of life Is seen, ant
We wonder why it is spared the wood
mans axe. In the spring, the sar
comes, the barren limbs grow greer
and that which marred the landscape