ditions. Immigration is being encouraged at the expense of 

 every city, corporation and the state itself. Yet the one thing 

 that would develop the state's holdings the most, the one 

 thing that would develop farm life into a prosperous occu- 

 pation, that would furnish good trade for our business men, 

 that would impress immigrants favorably and keep them in 

 the country, and that would help develop the children into 

 useful men and women, is lacking when good roads are not 

 supplied. 



Help to obtain these and you will help develop the state 

 and the nation into a greater usefulness. 



Roaring and crackling merrily, the leaping flames 



Fling back the velvet curtain of the night, 

 Painting the bearded canopy of somber pine 



With ruddy gold. A drifting yellow flight 

 Of blazing stars spangle the shadows, winking out 



Like fire-flies, and smoke-wreaths veil 

 The silver-studded heavens, fold on fold, 



Phantoms of forest wealth, dim shades that trail 

 Gray rohes among their sleeping progeny. 



The night-wind pauses, sighs, and glides away, 

 And deep within the glowing heart that radiates 



The prisoned magic of another smiling day, 



Those rosy dreams, fast falling to decay. 



