beyond this, use is needful as beauty, and 
more needful, if all the truth be told. Use 
and beauty must not be thought of as enemies, 
but friends. The cooking stove is quite as 
essential as clematis. They cherish no 
eee ee antipathy. Use is lacking in the picturesque; 
but drudgery must needs be for the world's 
bettering. A railroad, while anything but 
- beautiful, is the chore-boy of civilization, the 
stevedore that carries our burdens from 
wharf to wharf and from hold to dock, and 
with prospect of neither emolument nor de- 
light serves all save itself. Such service, 
free-handed and free-hearted, always compels 
my regard. I half venerate it, as I do a 
mother of many children, whose hands are 
worn to scars and hardness by much toiling 
a for the ones she loves. Who serves, God 
K loves. The road gives its wealth of labor as 
uncomplainingly as a mother to her daughter. 
* Let no jest nor sneer be directed toward 
those whose sweaty shoulders bend to the 
burden of world’s work; let us rather requite 
such sturdy toil with appreciation which is 
better far than gold. The railroad track is 
to me the embodiment of uncomplaining, 
unacknowledged toil whose praises are in no- 
body’s mouth. 
However, I have found that if the railroad 
N) is itself lacking in beauty, it affords shelter 
1 for the beautiful. Any one who has been 
4 much out of doors in our later days, knows 
