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LOSING AND LIVING.
Forever the sun is pouring his gold
On a hundred worlds that beg and
borrow;
His warmth he squanders on SUBMITS
His wealth on the homes of want and
sorrow.
To withhold his largess of precious
light
Is to bury himself in eternal night;
To give
Is to live.
The flower shines not for itself at ALL
It's JOY is the JOY it freely diffuses;
OF beauty and balm it is prodigal,
And it lives in the life it sweetly
loses
No choice for the rose but glory or
doom,
To exhale or smother, to wither or
bloom;
To deny
Is to die.
| The seas lend silvery rain to the land
| The land it's sapphire streams to the
! ocean;
| The heart sends blood to the brain of
| command
| The brain to the heart it's lightning
motion;
| And ever and ever we yield our breath,
! Till the mirror is dry; and images
death.
| To live
Is to give.
He is dead whose hand is not opened
To help the need of a human brother;
| He doubles the life of his lifelong ride
! Who gives his fortunate place to
another;
| And a thousand million lives are his
| Who carries the world in his SYM
| pathies
| To deny
| Is to die.
Thanks for the poems, M
| want "F. l.. c." to know that a
letter which l sent her has just re-
turned to me from Japan, We hope
| to hear more about her trip.
You will be glad to see that
| Ford" is giving us more Of her in
| teresting experience in the far West.
Dear Aunt Madge
l will resume the story of our west
ern travels at Ellensbury, for my
brother met us there, and we had the
pleasure of crossing the Cascade range
of mountains in his company. He was
acquainted with every little hamlet we
passed through, and could tell us about
the inhabitants and the various pur-
suits they were engaged in.
We ate our dinner that night with
the mountains in all their grandeur all
about us. The green waters of Lake
Keechebus sparkled at our left and
X endalls Peak rose high above us at
the right. We passed through long
snow eds on the shores of the lake
for just at this point they have snow
slides in winter down the mountain
side that might bury the train.
We reached Seattle, the New York of
the western states, at 9 o'clock in the
evening, and when we saw the rushing
crowds of people in the station, we
were glad that we had a man with us.
In all the western stations we We're
in, you land down stairs, tiguratively
speaking, and you push and Jostle
through the crowd on the long plat
form where the train comes in till you
reach the long flight of stairs, and then
you go up and up, still pushing your
way through a throng of hurrying
people, till you reach the waiting room
Wi 70 in
for us there and we~were soon in the
car and hurrying towards our destlna-
ton on 14th avenue.
We had heard that Seattle was the
best lighted city in the world, and as
we went along Second avenue we be-
lieved it. Clusters of elective lights
lined the streets on both sides, and as
we looked ahead down the wide, glow
ing street, we felt that the half had
never been told. Perhaps you may
have read that Seattle was a wilder
ness in 1851, only sixty nine years ago.
At that time the schooner Exact,
Capt Folger, anchored off Alki point,
and the new colony of twelve adults
and twelve children left the vessel and
camped on the spot that is now
marked by a granite monument, as the
home of the first settlers, for the
names of those intrepid adventures,
Denny, Law, Bell, Boren and Terry
have been cherished in the annals of
Seattle.
l saw their pictures in little old
book that l found in the book case at
my brothers, and both men and women
looked brave and sturdy. The men all
| wore full boards, but there We're char
acter and determination in their faces,
and their wives looked ready for any
hardships. And they found plenty of
| them in that new country, that was
| then inhabited by Indians and the
| fierce wild animals of the northwest.
| The men in the settlement called their
| colony New York, but in 1852, the name
was changed to New York-Alki, the