Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26

III fAUAAA AAW ANANIf tAAN fNAN4 10Y 1850
wait until mid October
But spring IA not all OF life, nor what
at once chiefly concerns US. There are
people TO be noted. a little series OF
more or less related phenomena to be
observed.
One of the people, young man,
stands conveniently before a florists
window. at that hour when the sun
briefly fusbes this narrow canyon Of
Broadway from wall to wall.
He had loitered along the lively high
way an hour or more, HIS nerves TIM
Cling responsibility 70 all its stimuli.
And now he unused as he stared at the
tangled tracery OF ferns against the
high bank of wine-red autumn foliage,
the royal cluster Of white chrysanthe-
NUNS and the big jar of American
Beauties.
He had looked forward to this mo
ment, too-when he should enter that
same dopr and order at least an arm
full of those same naughty roses sent
to an address his memory cherished.
Yet now, the time having come, the
zest for the feat was gone. It would
be done; it we're ungraceful not to do
It, after certain expressions; but il
would be done with no heart because
of the certain knowledge that no one
at least no one to be desired-could
possibly care for him, or consider him
even with interest for anything but
his money-the same kind of money
Higbee made by purveying hams
land she wouldn't care in the least
whether it was mine or Higbee's SO
there was lot Of it."
Yet he stepped in and ordered the
roses, nor did the florist once suspect
that so lavish buyer of flowers could
be prey to emotions Of corroding
cynicism toward the person for whom
they were meant.
From the florists he returned direct
ly to the hotel to find his mother and
Psyche making home-like the suite to
which they had been assigned. A maid
was unpackalg trunks under his sis
ter's supervision. Mrs. Bines was in
converse with a person of authoritative
manner regarding the service to be
supplied them Two maids would be
required, and madame would of course
wish a butler
Mrs. Bines looked helplessly at her
son, who had just entered.
81 think-we've-we've always did
our own buttling," she faltered.
The person was politely interested.
'I'll attend to these things, ma" said
Percival, rather suddenly.
Eyes, we'll want a butler and the
, two maids, and see that the butter
knows his business, please, and-here
take this, and see that we're proper
ly looked after, will your"
, AS the bill bore a large "C' on its
, face, and the person was rather a gen
tleman anyway, this unfortunate essay
t at irregular conjugation never fell into
: certain class of anecdotes which Mrs
4 Bines' best friends could now and Their
bring themselves to relate Of her.
= But other matters are forward. We
t may next overtake two people who
loiter on this bracing October day
s down a leaf-strewn aisle in Contra
: park.
o you" said the girl of the pair
r least of all men can accuse me o
e lacking heart"
d you are cold to me now"
n 'But look, think-what did 1 Offer
q you've had my trust-everything
= could bring myself to give you. I.ool
: what l would have sacrificed at you
k call. Think how l waited and longet
2. for that call"
s You know how helpless was"
y Eyes, if you wanted more than m.
) bare self. should have been helpless
- too, if had wanted more than-thal
you"
It ut would have been folly--madnes
10 that way"
d "Folly-madness? Do you remem
o Der the Sonnet of Revolt you sent me
8. Sit on this bench; l wish to say
e over to you, very slowly; l want 20
y to hear it while you keep your later at
titude in mind.
'Life-what is life? To do without ava
n The decent ordered tasks of every day;
e. Talk with the sober; Join the solemn play
. Tell for the hundredth time the self-sam
tale
Told by our grandsires In the self-same val
g Where the sun sets with even, level ray,
~ And nights, eternally the same make va
10 For hueless dawns, intolerably pale %
'But l know the verse"
- mo; hear it out;-hear what 20
sent me:
= 'And this is life2 Nay, l would rather sc
The man who sees his soul In some vii
OF cause;
The fool who spurns, for momentar
% bliss,
~ All that he was and all he thought to be;
&c The rebel stark against his country
Ts laws;
as Gods own mad lover, dying on a lEisA-' ="
She had completed the verse wit
d. the hint of sneer il her tones.
Il YES, truly, remember it: but som
~ day you'll thank me for saving YOU
er of course 1t would have been regulS
ut in way, but people here never real
al forget those tbings-and we'd hay