Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-06-11

And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is
We wonder how many people in Libby have the power
appreciate the fine sentiment and feeling expressed by
the youthful Bryant the above opening lines of his death
less poem Thanatopsis?" Our would be that there
of them The evidence found in the great k
ing Libby people have for their beautiful mountains
and how they love spend every available day
roaming through and by them.
But Nature be communed with without going Il
some distant glen by the side of turbulen
stream.
We frequently find most soul-satisfyng expression
of Nature right in yard
We were up almost with the san the other morning
Duties in the yard called The effort thai
repaid How delightfully."- fresh and cool and invigoratng
early morning in Libby Ones perceptions mucl
keener after night of THE ravelled sleeve of care
has been knit up again. A day is before All
quiet and peaceful Not many neighbors stirring Home
still marked with the quiet of the night
While human neighbors still many of them il
their beds there neghbors who up and about nois
and active An mpudent robin drops the lawn almos
feet and toward with his peculiar impert
nent strut Then he stops suddenly sticks out his rec
breast and cocks his head back saucy angle mucl
to say, We'll. dare you. What you going to d
about it,? Then after running his bluff he calmly hobs hi
head to the ground gobbles up and fits away An
other ROBIN seated the tptop OF
pine trees MARBLES his song to the newborn day.
Have you stopped to notice the beauty of robin
song? How bell like it is tone; how clear and what
vibrant timbre has If you have noticed this beauty
of red breasts song take time day to do
will well repay you.
Numerous other robins paid visit this morning
The grass soaking wet and sparkling with dew. Blu
Mr. Robin had no fear of feet and cold Not he H
for his breakfast grass dew nor mere hu
going to keep him from getting those choc
morses that he found plentiful in lawn and often
times almost at feet
And the robins were not our only visitors. family 0
blue birds also called The parent birds
companed by three edglngs almost large as the par
but still unaccustomed the Of their wings bu
they making rapid progress in Of the first lesson
of their lives They doing mighty we'll The old bird
socitous and careful and proud Of their young
sters Ever and then they would pick bug on
of the air and drop it into the gaping mouth Of ever
hungry offspring. They didn't pay much attention to us
The blue bird at all impudent-not at all like thu
robin 1t always keeps its distance spends much of the tim
either in the air perched safely branch pol
or house roof The family Of five paid early mornin
call I'D then passed pleasant memory for the day
Other modest little eathered friends paused pay u
call and gSher mouhful Of something garnereS
from the grass~2Ne not them but they much
smaller than English sparrow and somewhat of the
they seemed find much enjoyment constantly utter
ing
stray dog by and stopped to roll and sretcl
beneath clump of and what chatterng and scold
ing Immediately took place. The air filled with thu
peculiar alarmed cry the robin gives when fears TO
its young Which led believe that in those Their
must be several with little lives mighty precious
Mr. and Mrs Robin The bothersome dog passed on hi
way and all quiet again in that clump of pines
We stopped to work flower. In the hoows 0
the leaves the dew had gathered crystal clear and spark
ling in the early morning light Diamonds gittered A
feet wherever the Of light found their way through tn
pine trees Why it that drop of dew caught in
chalices peculiarly and beautifully clear
crystalline? The wise scientist tell you beyond doub
But right not interested in science. We ar
only interested in the pleasing thrill get out of thes
crystal clear drops of dew
We went azily about early morning task drawn
in ungfus Of COOL nvigorang air. pausng and the
listen the grand opera the birds rendering fo
benefit; watching the saucy robin he dared us
his impudence noting the soictous blue birds and he
family of three; approaching with much pleasure the shaft
of slantg sunlight through the of the pine
and the verdure Of bush and plant
Somehow in the early morning. in ones garden, an
again night when the setting drops below weser
mountains in riot of glorious color there calmnes
for ones spirit and healing for tired and perpexe
hearts Mother Nature is kindly old soul We her chill
dren, do not talk with her nearly often enough.
ITO him who in the love Of Nature holds
Communion with her visible FORMS she speaks
A various language"
THE INCREASING DEMAND FOR MODERN IMPROVE