The School Times from Baldwin, Kansas • 3

Essays i and orations are i the order of the day, verse is who love Him will be more -grandly beautiful and more sublimely glorious than human imagination in its wildest of light has ever pictured! And so, bewildered and thrilled with the splendor, I watched the sun in itsi going down, the wonderful colors gradually fading A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET. SENA MARVEL, '94. To see the sun set is a very common occurrence; indeed-so common; that-we cease' to notice it at all. I And yet for some there is a beauty and mystery connected with a sunset "that always arouses emotions of wonder and admiration. Let me tell you about one of the beautiful sunsets' I away, and as the last rays died ever saw and how it has influenced away how vividly they brought Prof.

Myler spent Thanksgiving at his home in lola. Mrs. Lake and Mrs. Kershner were callers at the High' School this month. Miss Josie Cowgill spent Thanksgiving in 'Baldwin, the remainder of the holidays in Lawrence.

Prof. Myler was all smiles Wednesday morning. We suppose it was caused by the thoughts of the Thanksgiving awaiting him at his home in Tola. We are glad to note that the Middles still- retain their'original amount of jaw after their laborious task of writing an essay containing 100 foreign words. Elmer Xaughlin, Robert Miller, Earnest' and Wesley Green, left my lire, ana pernaps it may innu-rto my mind the scene.

of a former 1 evening, when as the sun went ence you some extent, to- be more observant of the. manifold beauties and wonders' of down, went out the- life of my dearest friend. I thought then I A lovely June day was drawing never could bear to see the sun to a close; the sun was nearing set again. But since that time the horizon; illuminating, every-, have made my footing on eterni- thing through which it could pen-. ties shore secure, and I know now etrate when, weary with the; heat that although I have lost a friend of the day, I ascended, a mountain on earth, yet through that loss I have gained two in that region to the day's departure.

From the position I had taken beyond whose pearly gates I im could be. seen but the tops of the agine I see in the golden glory of surrounding wood cov-this magnificent sunset. Although ered and dark with an abundant 1 that former sunset seemed to take foliage reaching out" to meet the my. friend away from me, -now I horizon. On the right and left, know that it just an instru- and tar above tne summits or tne! mentiin hands to draw me mountains-were! narrow strips of; to Him.

And I trust I may ever clouds that looked -like vast ana be able to see the: justice of His wonderful stairways' leading fronv worlds: in snrrnw'aQ wpII inr the Junior Class and are-, now. attending the Prairie City School. We wish them success. Pupils-who return books to the library will please see the librarian or If they are not present leave the1 books on the table and by so doing get credit for the returned book. Words from F.

M. Powell, who stood at the helm in our High School for two yearly indicate that he is getting along" swimmingly at Eudora. The Eudora people are to be; congratulated upon securing MrJ Powell for their principal. 1 Quite a tragedy occurred in Room No. 2 last week.

was an innocent little mouse frolicking, about on the floor. At last worn i out by play it began searching for a placet of-i safety. Just as it quietly sped past the teacher and was about to escape she suddenly seized it by the tail and flung it ito the -floor, and' it never rose again. the distant horizon far up into the; and to recognize in all the sub- eternal heavens. Thej setting, sun! limecenes of His: creation only was the means.

of expanding my. soul of clouds- with: such -wonderful for its heavenward flight and of hues and 'tints and gorgeous col- tuning it to: catch the symphonies ors as might' well be the despair forever chanted around the throne of the greatest artist. of Him'of whom' the angels sing, Ah! how gloriously God works eace oa earthy good will toward with light and vapor. What sug- men." bilitiesof His wisdom, and power; a quarter holidav, Wednesday p. and love What 'intimations that because they were good and the place the Creator the uni-i had a good English lesson.5.