A ball of fire shoots through the tamarack </br> In scarlet splendor, on voluptuous wings; </br> Delirious joy the pyrotechnist brings, </br> Who mar… - Joel Benton

The history of land-ownership ... is as strikingly a history of losses as it is of profits. We see the successes, as we see the ships which float on the ocean, while the unnumbered wrecks in both cases are out of thought and beyond vision.

Don't we all, of long ago, </br> By the ruddy fireplace glow, </br> In the kitchen and the hall, </br> Those queer, cooflike pranks recall? Eery shadows were they then— </br> But to-night they come again; </br> Were we once more but sixteen, </br> Precious would be Halloween.

The effort to make things equal is a problem too great for any but angels and seraphs to deal with. No merely human device can touch it without breaking or deranging the mainspring of civilization.