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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-01-29
GRAIN and PROVISIONS.

Chicago, January 2G.-Liberal SELF
ing by local longs caused a weak fin
ish today in the local wheat market.
the May delivery closing at a net de-
cline OF 3-8. Corn and oats were each
unchanged. Provisions were ) o : IL
n higher.
Chicago, January 26.-The leading
futures ranged as follows:
Open. High. Low. Close
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q Savannah. January 26.--Turpentine
firm at zoe; sales ZOE casks; receipts
10; shipments 1855. Rosfn firm;
sales ASA barrels: receipts 1.71O; ship
merits ":27S; stock 74.117 Quote A
c F. $500 to 40: F 40 to AS: G
AIS to TO; H 40: l 40; K SOC to
5.15; M 5,25 To $40; \ 6.Co:W G 6.25
to $50. w " $50.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-01-29
NEW YORK DRY GOODS

New York, January 26.-Ttarge sales
Of cotton goods for forward delivery
lave been made during the past week.
Light weight ducks are in better de-
mand. Print cloths are very light.
Flne white goods are selling freely In
Jobbing houses. Linens are icing open
ed and importers stocks are low. Bur.
laps are easier.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-01-29
PORT MOVEMENT OF COTTON.

Galveston firm at 1880: net receipts
1,418 bales
New Orleans firm at 1O14c; net re-
ceipts 11,466 bales.
Mobile firm at 1OAc: net receipts
552 bales.
Savannah steady at 10 3.16c: net re-
ceipts $3.50 bales.
Charleston quiet at 10c: net receipts
413 bales.
Wilmington steady at 10Ac: net re-
ceIpts 1927 bales.
Norfolk steady at 1OHc; net receipts
1 079 bales.
Baltimore nominal at 10%c:.
New Y0rk steady at lie: net re-
ceipts Sc bales.
Boston nominal at lie; net receipts
1872 bales.
Philadelphia steady at 1925.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-01-29

We hope the advocates of one raII-
road fare on trains in this state will
not succeed in having their plans
adopted. The system OF having inst
and second class accommodations Is
giving satisfaction and a change at his
time would be unwise. in our opinion.
Winston Sentinel.
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NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

New York, January 26.-The steel
market was subjected to severe press
ure again today and the fall in prices
added to yesterdays decline, forced a
level generally lower than that OF the
low level Of Friday Of last week. The
mystery OF the sources and the motives
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-01-29

The American peanut crop is EST
mated to be but % per cent. OF IN
oield Of 1905 But we will probably
manage to get along, since there vii
be very little doing in politics this year.
Washington Post.
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It's highest standard of quality, it's
a natural tonic, ~cleanS.S and 1.nes
your system, reddens the cheeks
brightens the eyes, gives flavor 10 all
you eat; HOLSTERS R1Chy n~Icuntajn
Tea does. r. r. BelIanlv.
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LOCAL COTTON MARKET.
Saturday, :

Saturday, January IS.
COTTCN-Steady at 1OKc.
Receipts Of cotton today-1.02 7 bales
Receipts this season to date
pa, 1863 bales.
bales.
Receipts last season to same late
2G2, 5l2. bales.
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How much of your life is spent try
ing to get we'll. 1t requires but Il
month or less to put the average man
or woman on their feet with Hollister's
Rocky Mountain Tea. So cents, Tea
or Tablets.
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When the cold winds dry and crack
the skin get DeWitt's Witch Haze
Salve Sold By ROht r. GeliamH
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LIVERPOOL

Liverpool, January 2e0Cotton: Spot
moderate business done; prices un-
changed: American middling SEQ. The
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CLOSING

New York, January 26.-Spot cotton
closed steady: middling uplands HOO;
middling gulf 11.25: no sales. Flu
lures closed steady.
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COTTON AND NAVAL STORES.
Receipts OF Cotton and Naval Stores
at the Port of Wilmington Ycster-

TNVV1Ni EFTN UT - tFITV1 NENF DNOEC1
at the Port of Wilmington Ycster-
dan
9. &C bales cotton. "A barrels
tar. 9 barrels crude t~urpentine.
w. and W.-S9 bales cotton.
w. c. and A.-862 bales cotton, s
barrels rosin, So barrels tar, 6 barrels
crude turpentinc.
a. and Y.-5 casks spirits turpentine,
4 n rosin. IS ar.
z Wv. and Ms bales cotton, 3 spirits,
T07 rosin. VI
AIce-G bales cotton. 81 tar, )
crude,
Lyon spirits, 116 rosin, 6S tar.
Total-1,027 bales cotton, Il spirits,
$50 rosin, 200 tar. IA crude.
Last Year-474 bales cotton, II
spirits. 90 rosin. 80 tar, 80 crude.
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TO THE BEACH
Suburban Schedule
In Effect October 2sth. 1900.

daily EXCEPT SUNDAY.
"Sundays this car will leave
Wrightsville at 1000 a. III instead Of
800 a. m.
Cars leaving Wilmington at 700 a
m, $50 a. m, $50 p. m 90 p. m.
and $50 p. m. Will not run beyond
Wrightsville unless there arc passen-
gers FOR the beach.
SUNDAY SCHEDULE.
Cars every half hour rom 100 10
500 T.. m. IN addition to The above
schedule.
FREIGHT SCHEDULE.
Freight car leaves Wilmington sally
except Sunday At 400 p. 10.
Freight depot open from 200 20
900 =. N.
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STOCKS AMI ~

Southern cotton mill stock for the
e. ending Saturday furnished by
HUGH MacRAE & Co., bankers, Will
mingtOn, n. c..
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NEW YORN

New York. January 26.-FLOUR-
Firm but dull. Winter patents $500
to $50; Minnesota patents 40 TO
$4.35.
RYE FLOUR-Dull.
CORN MEAL-Quiet; fine white and
yellow Sis to 1.20; coarse Los to
10: kim dried $50 to 20.
WHEAT-Spot firm; No. > red So.
elevator. Options Nc net decline. MAY
say: July 249s.
CoFN1-spot firm: N~ :, so? sIe-
January "a; May 527s; July 52%.
oATS-Spot steady: mixed Il.
LATtD-Firm: western prime $3.50
to $40: refined quiet: continent 1910:
compound So to So.
PORK-Firm: family 1900; short
clear 17.25 to 1900; E2ess 1850 to
$3.50.
SCGAR-Steady: fair refining ,
31-32: centrifugal 90 test 3 1892: mo-
Iasses sugar : 1882: refned steady.
COFFEE-Spot steady: Rio No. I,
7c: Santos. No. 4. Sc. Mild coffee
quiet; Ccrdova 8 to 1919; Futures un-
changed to 10 points higher
POTATOES-Steady, unchanged.
CABBAGE-Steady. unchanged.
PEANUTS-Quiet, unchanged.
PUTTER--Firm; extra 50
to 32R: common to extra % to 80;
state dairy, common TO firsts 20 to %;
western imitation creamery, extra "a
to 25.
CHEESE-Quiet, unchanged.
EGGS-Nearby fancy white 80; do
choice % to 81: mixed extra % to 80:
western ftrsts %: econds % to 2512.
COTTON SEED OIL~Was irregular
II q shade lower on prime summer
yellow. Prime crude dob mills 81 bid;
do summer yellow 46h nominal; prime
white SIS. nominal; do winter yellow IS
nominal.
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INTERIOR MOVEMENTS of COTTON

Houston steady 10 9-1Gc: net re
ceiDts 14.257 bales.
Augusta steady at lie; yet receipts
$40 bales.
Memphis steady at 10 size: net re-
ceipts 1910 bales.
$50 bales.
Cincinnati. net receipts G22 bales.
Louisville firm at 1O12c.
Total today net receipts 77.722 bales.
gross receipts z2.4l6, shipments 22.451
sales 2,e33 bales: stock 336.920.
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NOTICE

These arrivals and depaTtur are
given as information as well as con-
nections with other companies; bat ar
walls mo connection - not guar
r" ~.
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RECEIPTS AND EXPORTS.

New York, January 26.-Total today
at all ports, net receipts 50,565 bales:
exports to Great Britain 1876: Con
tinent 29.S93: stock 1.277,722.
Consolidated at all ports, net re-
ceiDtS 50,565 bales: exports to Great
Britain 1876. Continent 2e,S93.
Total since September /, at all ports,
net receipts 7,151,424 bales. exports to
Great Britain 2,290,O12: France C36.-
314: Continent ~2.12S.339: Japan 1927.
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COUNTRY PRODUCE.

PEANUTS-NOrth Carolina prime
zoe: extra prime so to S5c: fancy 90c;
Virginia prime coo: fancy 70c; Span
ish so to 90c.
RFFSWAE-2Tc.
EFG2-25 cents
CHICKENS-Hens soc; springs Is
to 25c.
TURKEYS--Alive IS to tic; dressed
% to Csc.
pork to SC.
BFFF-On foot 2 to 31ac.
SWEET POTATOES-55 to 6Oc.
WHITE PEAS-$1.75 to $500.
y. 6. BACON-Hams (old) Tic;
shoulders II to 13c; sides IL to 13c.
StEINGLES-Per 1000; 5-inch saps
S2.00: 5-irch hearts $3.50: G-inch says
$500: 6-iTciL hearts $5.75.
TlMPER-
Per II. Extra milling. SIS so to SO 90
SIC: Cnha Csc.
Mill prime Z so to 8 SO
Mil fair -. 7 90 to s 90
Common mill -. c 90 t 80
LOGS Select $500; No. 1 $3.50;
knotty 81 so.
hard. $2.&5: dip $50; virgin $3.50.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-01-29

CaSn QUOTATIONS. We're as IOIIOWs:
Flour firm, winter patents $500 to
$50: strajghts 200 to 3.25: spring
patents $40 to $50: straights $40 to
$50; bakers go 0 $50; No. , spring
wheat 10 10 SO: No. 3 - to 50; No :
red 49, To 3d.: No. , corn 42%: No.
2 yellow 1871: No. > oats sc: No. >
white 3S1%: No. 3 white 36h To SIS;
short RIBS sides Goose $500 to 9.25;
mess pork per barrel 16.4213; lard per
100 pounds 9.l71z, short clear sides
(N0xe1l M1"1E To I'll: MhiSkeN Lee.
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Vessels IN PORT
STEAMERS

Noruania Ganish) 1850 tons, Erick
sen, EEeide & c..
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NAVAL STORES.

NAblI SEUIIES.
OF TURPENTINE -
Nothing doing.
2OSIN-Firm, $3.S5.
TAR-Firm, $3.50.
RUDE TURPENTINE - Firm
hard $685.; dip $3.50; Virgin $3.50.
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SOUTHBOUND.

BETWEEN WILMINGTON AND THE
SOUTH.
SOUTHBOUND.
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!;&f - SAME DAY LAST YEAR.
II casks spirits ~turpentine.
SO barrels rosin.
20 barrels tar.
so barrels crude t~urpentine.
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NORTHBOUND.

BETWEEN WILMINGTON AND SAN
FORD.
West b. East Il
Daily. Daily.
LV wilmington 9 10 am LAT 8 II pm
Ar Fayetteville IL Il pm Ar 4 - pm
AT Sanford. ! So pn'Iv : 40 pm
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I. WILMINGTON
NEW BERN.

BETWEEN WILMINGTON AID
NEW BERN.
Daily Eek. Daily EN
Sunday. Sunday
North Il. South Il
Lv Wilmington .I2 % pm Ar II 40 pm
Ar New Bern. Is So pm,Lv o 10 am
Trains Nos. az and II carry Pullman
Sleeping Cars between Wilmington
and Washington. connecting with
PENNSYLVANIA r. r. for all points east
T. G. WHITE.
General Passenger Agent
w. J. CRAIG,
Passenger Traffic Manager
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RECEIPTS TODAY.

IOJAI.
y casks spirits ~turpentine.
256 barrels rOsin.
200 barrels tar.
"a barrels crude turpcntine.
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PRODUCE.

COFFEE-9k to ia.
. FLOUR-Straights 1915 to $3.50
second patents $4.75; fun patents $5.-
2E
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New York. January 26.-FLOUR-
Firm but dull. Winter patents $500
to 3.S5; Minnesota patents 40 TO
$4.35.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-13
SEWING BEE POLITICS.

A number of the newspapers that
have been and are bitterly opposed to
the state administration and the re-
publican majority that has reelected
and reelected it, are assiduously at
tempting to convey the impression that
A. B. Funk and Warren Garst are at
swords points and their friends armed
and ready to fall on over the question
of the succession to the governorship.
The Sioux City Journal Is especially
active in this sewing bee sort Of gos-
sip. II. for reasons that are so OBJ
vious as to render discussion of motive
unnecessary, is gleefully GLIB Of asser-
ton and representation. 1t smells
blood Its eyes bug out in momentary
expectation Of sight Of the patrol
wagon rushing 10 scene of progress
sive riot, wherein Garst, Funk, Cum
MINIS and the rest Of the progressive
leaders strive to take the political lives
of one another.
But while the heather rage and the
imaginings of the Journal and its
standpat confreres are vain. the re-
publican party Of Iowa, let us say the
Iowa and national republicans as dis
tinguished from the self-styled ma
.tional republicans" go smilingly about
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-13
MACHINE PIES MUST GO.

one year more Of grace for the ma
chine pie. a conglomerate OF one tnins
and another with which benzoate OF
soda has been mingled to preserve IT,
The benzoate Of soda, which SOUNDS
worse than 1t probably is. must not.
SO decides the department OF agricul-
,ture. be mixed with the succulent and
satisfying pie Of the lunch counter at
ter the year has brushed by. The abo-
lition of the preservative will, 1t Is
said, put the pie machine out OF busi-
ness and force return to the oio
fashion of handmade pie.
This is at it should be. No task SO
delicate and rife with such possibih-
ties for the exercise Of a high type OF
skill, and even Of genius, belongs to
the mechanical. A pie is work of art,
its maker should be an artist. Soul
and feeling and all that uplift that
shines from the canvasses Of the great
painters go also to pie. Shall We
multiply Renlbrandts and Turner's
with a machine? Shall we mix mint
juleps with dead thing Of cogs and
belts and pulleys,? Then why pie?
4 Machine. lunch counter pie is to real
pie as the wooden hams that dealers
hang for signs In their windows are to
the real thing, mastfed. sugar cured
and broilei by chef over bed of liv-
ing hickory Goals. 1t is a privilege to
see It made by one who knows her
business The process turns the com
monest kitchen into a studio. Such q
dainty scooping of lard, such a deft
mingling of the ingredients. so smooth
a leyeling Of the filling, such a foury
,daintiness in rolling the crust, such
dexterous cutting of stars and cres-
cents to permit the escape of aro-
matte gases; and later, when it comes
from the oven, perfuned as Araby,
Drowned, faxed, appealing irresistably
to eye and nose and appetite, who shall
deny that a pie is a creation? Who
that has seen the twinkling of white
fingers and the flash of dimpled f1oury
arms above the moulding board would
defend the machine and its ally of soda
benzoate?
Pie! mince,, pumpkin apple, peach,
BURBERRY, lemon, raspberry, and all
the berries that belong to pie, cream
pie, custard pie, all the infinite COM
of fruits and grains and es-
sences into ambrosial delights! Shall
the art that creates them be lost in
machine and their favor poisoned with
benzoates and saleratuses? Never.
Down with the machine! Up with the
pie of our mothers!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-13

about the marvellous prosperity of
the present time Prices of every
thing are soaring. but the outgo is
about on par with the income. The
man who is content to subsist on sour
milk pancakes may save more than
when prices are normal but III any
one lives i'm any sort of decency there
is not much to be gained thru inflated
values"
while rumors Of candidates in the
various congressional districts are
rife there seems to be a most unusual
modesty on the port of the new as
pirants to get out in the OPEN re-
marks the Grundy Republican. THE
man who wins will have to be on the
job of seeing the people very soons'
The Brooklyn Chronicle believes
that Warren Garst who is now leu
tenant governor, is the logical candi-
date demanded by the situation. and
that in due time he will be nominated
and elected. and will make most ex-
cellent business governor"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-13

their business of conducting state
administration that has detied the
tongue of SANDER. borne all criticism
with credit and kept the overwhelming
approval of the voters. Individually
its members are saving wood, running
newspapers, farming with success, SELL
ing more goods than last year, and in
a variety of pursuits making a good
living and saving little money I'M
disturbed by any brawls within or the
ki-yi-ing without. The homogeneity OF
the progressive republican party is
undisturbed and is understandable by
processes such as the newspapers re-
ferred to seem to depend upon.
Iowa republicans are not at this
early day giving great attention to the
question of whom shall be the next
governor. 1t is as yet early. Who the
standard bearer shall be to carry the
is worrying only those national" re-
publicans whose excess Of patriotic
impulse led them to support and
vote for democrat last year after they
had sat In a state republican conven-
ton, and used every means fair and
foul to accomplish the nomination of
their own candidates.
When the time comes good man
will be named for governor Of Iowa by
Iowa republicans. There Is no dearth
of material There Is no internecine
strife. Garst, Funk, and a host of other
good and capable men, are to pick and
choose from. Not one of them places
Is own personal preferment above the
ecessity Of keeping Iowa free from
the influences that dominated the state
previous to Cummins, and beyond him
previous to Larrabee. There will be
no return to the good old days when
none who had not pilgrimed to
Burlington might be called Hadii. In
Iowa the square deal has come to
stay.
Let not the heart Of the Journal be
troubled over possible heartburnings
and dissension in the ranks of Iowa
republicans. Its anxiety and loving
charity are being wasted as the scent
Of a rose upon the desert air. To bor-
row trouble Is the worst indebtedness.
Let it cease from troubling and be at
rest. It shall see what it shall see.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-13
Bad Burn Quickly Healed.

'I am so delighted with what Cham
berlains Salve has done for me that
feel bound to write and tell you SC"
says Mrs. Robert Mytton, 457 John ST.,
Hamilton, Ontario. My little daugh-
ter had bad burn on her knee. ap-
piled Chamberlain's Salve and it healed
beautifully" This salve allays the pain
of a burn almost instantly. 1t is for
sale by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-13
A New sunbonnet Series.

Beginning July %, The SUNDAY
World will start a new series of the
famous Sunbonnet Pictures. The new
series presents the Sunbonnet Babies
Fishing, Ironing and Scrubbing. Then
there will be the Sunbonnets in new
guise. The first picture will be The
Proposal" the next "The Honeymoon. ;"
These will be followed by other art
supplements, both unique and beauti-
fl,l
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-13
Topics Of the Times

Ii the public takes kindly to the sug-
gestion that the United States buy
stock in the railroads, it is in order to
suggest to the government That some
of the boys have little mining STOCK
to dispose of al 10 cents a share that
is bound to go to par within sixty
days
Whatever any of us may think of the
plan to build a big navy, we can all
see the absolute necessity of building
enough warships to keep up with the
Annapolis output.
II the government can collect the fines
against the Standard Oil and the San
ia Fe railroad. perhaps it won't need
to raise money by inheritance taxa
ton.
After all. Senator Tillman's lecture
reads lot like last years standpat
editorial on Cummins.
The 2-cent fare still stands at
cents.
The day Is coming, says a prominent
architect, when buildings twice as high
as the Washington monument will be
erected. Possibly with the idea of
preserving some unity between the
height and the cost of building now
adays.
A famous quartet OF authors will
summer this year close to the foot OF
Pixies Peak Hamlin Garland Is ex-
pected the 18th of July. William AL
len White and Andy Adams are there
now, and George AIDE will arrive In
few weeks.
Did you follow the diet advised 2"
II did"
"Religiously?"
"Why, tolerably so. l said grace
about three times out of five, should
guess."-Puck.
The British army authorities are
much concerned just now about the
success of the Sein F'ein and other
patriotic organizations In their COM
paign against recruiting for the Eng
lish army in Ireland. Irishmen have
fought England's battle for genera
TONS but during the last year the
number Of suitable men offering them
selves as recruits at irish depots has
eel oef thoy ar cent This
Isl particularly serious in the cavalry
branch, which has depended more
than any other on Irish recruits. The
underfed and understood factory
workers of the English towns are hope
less material for cavalry men.
So we'll satisfied Is the Union Pa
cific road with the style of motor car
for branch lines with which 1t has
beer experimenting for two or three
years that 1t will put dozen such We
hicles into regular service next
| month
Her Husband during the spat-
Don't you think for a minute that you
| can impose on me. There are no fools
| in our family.
His Wife-Why, John, you forget
yourself! Chicago News.
Reinforced cement is now the favor
| lite material with British builders of
large chimneys. One already COM
pleted in London is ESQ feet high, with
base twenty feet square, and a pro-
jected one at Northfeet will be FAT
feet high and 81 feet in diameter, with
a foundation IS feet square.
sob, George!" exclaimed Mrs. De
Collitay, "all the trunks are packed
and shipped and ] forgot to put in my
bathing suit"
Never mind, dear" replied her hus-
band, fortunately I've sworn off smok-
ing"
"Eh? What has that to do with it?"
why, YOU can pack your suit in my
cigar case."-Philadelph Press.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-13
TE.RNS:
Twilight in the Country.

Twilight in tho Country.
wv. T Funk in Nassau Literary Mag
azine)
AS twilight falls, the restless cares
of day
Ape softened, one by one; the toiler
rests
Beside the stream. and sadness steals
away.
The solemn hush of evening nils the
air
Whiting for night,
Along. the western ridges rosy fair
Lingers the light.
From out the slimmering distance
draws the river,
Slow gliding by,
While scarcely stirring breezes DUSK
and shiver
The mirrored sky.
All sounds are stilled; the breathless
woods and fields
Are stepped in rest
High in the stslr-clear air lone bird
wheels
Back to its nest.
Ans still: save from the uncertain
distance GENES
A tinkling bell.
And shifting swsrms OF insects softy
hum
A drowsy spell.
The last light fades; the toner's heao
is bare
And bowed in reverence; ana hei
with peace.
His seaf-recovering soul low breathes
a prayer.