Above the cliffs so dark and high
Rustling trees waved toward the sky,
Waved above the river wide,
Wave above the hill and dale

Waved above the brook that fell

Like a white streak down the dell.

Gorges in the river bank

Dug with nature in a trance

By flowing brook where waters dance,
Passage made for jay, or lark

Passage for bird, or deer,
Passage for the Indian's bark.

The Indians in their birch bark,
Could sail the branching rivers dark,

Who left the rivers low lands wide,

Where the tides flowed through the grass,
Flowed, and flowed through ages past,
Shaking a reed like a moving mast.

Flowed, and flowed that September day
Floating the Half-Moon on her way
Wafting the ship through mountains and bays,
Far to the Schodacks, and back the same way;
As people from Europe were coming some day,
By the river whose waters go flowing both ways.

1905.

Time's left no aborigines more

No Indians along the Hudson's shore,

No mark where once was his cabin door,

No trace where his fire burned on the floor,

No trace of altars to his Gods of War.

No trace beside the brook's steep path,
Where he walked beyond to the silent dell,
Just over the hill from the Hudson's swell,
We know he passed through the narrow vale,
Though never a trace we see of his trail,
Only his arrow heads left in the dale.

No trace beyond on the mountain to tell
Of the place that he sat on the High Rock hill,
For the view he enjoyed of woods and rill,
Of the shining lakes, and the river as well,
While never a word of hope from him fell
As he silently gazed down in the dell.

1909.

In the year nineteen hundred and nine
The Hudson competes to outrival the Rhine
The icehouse buildings and brickyard sheds
Would be works of art in white, green, and red.
There are maidens fair and soldiers brave
That slowly walk by the Hudson's wave.

The boatman rows with a long steady stroke
The oft' times laden, and wind swept boat.
The tourist sings in the moving air

A beautiful tune to his lady Clare,

While she looks about with a sad sweet stare
And thinks could she love a millionaire.

The wide Hudson flows and has repose

The sun shines down on the mansioned heights
And the May blossoms brighten the beautiful sight
Where the sky, and the hills, and the clouds unite
While the blue sky above makes the picture more bright
And the mountains are softened by colors of white.

THE SUNKEN DUNES.

They saw not from the hillside
From the many mansions there,
From the city by the ocean
Where the rapid steamers sail,
A sailorman in danger

Where help could change despair
The boat keel pointing skyward

Should have brought him help from shore;

Cold the waters all about him

Soon he could not stand it there

On the sunken island shallows
With deep channels all around him

So he cried for help from these
While the dark day kept its silence.
Sent no word to cheer despair,
To the shipwrecked man out there.
The day was cold and bleak

In the air a freezing chill

He alone out on the water

And no pleasure-seekers there

Could they hear him? could they hear him?
Could they see him clinging there?

Still no boat went out to help him,
Cold his hands his hold hold grows feeble
On his upturned boat out there,

There were none went out to help him
There were none saw his despair

So he walked and swam ashore.

Oft' the waves give out small taken
Of the treacherous sailing there,
And the silence is unbroken
Still the dunes are waiting there.

There are some things about business that are sometimes not explained. Why does business have employees, and intelligent intelligence offices have servants? No matter if the intelligence office employ servants this Fidelity intends to employ employees only. The writer believes that on account of his educational principles not education, this work is not justly criticized as an attempt at notoriety, in order to get an advertisment so as to write free of charge for a 10 cent magazine.

Is generous kindness in business nonsense intentions during these crowding-out, elimination, and concentration-in-business times? The amendments to the patent law, and the copyright law are intended in the interest of more kindness in business to the general public.

With the patent business on a business basis for the benefit of inventors as well as other classes of citizens patenting original constructions would be to the gen

eral advantage in increasing the wealth, and the employment in the nation.

There can during present conditions justly be no doubt of the human wisdom in a national government being at all times well equipped with ammunition, guns and armorplate, particularly steel armor plate; especially is this true of a nation having the honest patriotism to accumulate war equipment for their merchant marine shipping in steel armor plates.

No use in trying to swim just float is nonsense intentions if you wish to move against the tide when swimming.

It is dogmatic to write that sophistry to win over bribery must have a superior intelligence over the intelligence possessed by bribery; good logic knows that there is a vast field in judicious bribery for devel-` oping the intellect. In order to make a uniformally all around continuous business it may be well to go back to the first business subject treated. To tarry longer, "the sweet sorrow of parting." We have two more

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