: YEE OE VO AL Be UE NE HES OE Entered as second-class matter, September 21, 1911, at the postoffice at Rock Island, IIl., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879 eT Ee RE WINTER BIHE. fields are white with raiment fine, Gold tinted in the sun’s new shine, ' The azure air is still; | As crystal bright, a silver light Gleams over yonder hill. The sunbeams on the ice divide, With white and rosy glimmer, wide In ever-changing hue. Out ‘of the snow the bushes show There thorn-twigs bare and few. Z, Jeweled with hoar-frost are the trees; But stirs one branch _ be- neath the breeze, Where sleeps the small white grain, Then sudden all those jewels fall As summer blossoms rain. | Volume XX. FEBRUARY, 1919. Number 2. a 2 WG, os’ D ee Barr em aes —