70 BOULDER REVERIES. 



lifetime out to provide food, shelter and cloth- 

 ing, that a chosen companion may share with 

 him these three necessities of life. Thousands 

 are content in doing this where one toils for 

 fame, where ten toil for fortune. Measured, 

 therefore, by the standard of numbers, unto 

 whom it yields contentment, love is far more 

 potent than either fame or fortune. 



Of the two most important days in a man's 

 existence, he remembers absolutely nothing. 

 One is the day on which he is ushered onto 

 earth the other the day when he departs there- 

 from. His first articulate sound is a plaintive 

 cry for food; his last is often a more plaintive 

 appeal to God. With a mind as blank as the 

 unwritten page below with a body as naked as 

 an iceberg is of vegetation helpless and inno- 

 cent he faces life. The day of his birth can be, 

 to some extent, prophesied. That of his death 

 no man knoweth. The only thing which he ever 

 really possesses is the interval of time between 

 these clays. That is his to do with as he listeth. 

 For good or evil can it be expended ; for the up- 



