Youth to Springtime

832 IMPROVEMENT ERA. valuable animals on which the well-being of several families de- pended; and when I think of the misery and loss entailed upon the owners of these buffaloes, and recall the satisfaction exhibited by those who had suffered in consequence of the heavy toll that this tiger had been levying on them from week to week, I am satisfied that its destruction was necessary, and feel that in ridding the jungles of this tyrant, I was amply compensated for all the risk and expense that its death had entailed upon me. YOUTH TO SPRINGTIME. Tell me not of toil and trouble; Sing me gambols of the gay. Know that care is but a bubble That must burst on life-time's May. Lead me out where fragrant roses Lift their petals to the sky; Where the wild-flower sweet reposes, And the brooklets murmur by. Let them have, who wish to take it, Melancholy's dismal plight; Know that life is what we make it, Fair as day or dark as night. Hold my hand, loved Spring, and lead me On thy paths devoid of strife; As we wander, daily feed me With the sweets of youth and life!—E. H. Anderson.