A PRODIGAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2842, 2 September 1908, Page 82

A PRODIGAL.

I hate *11 dreams o' tfce future, «M thoughts o> tbtags^ to be, , For <to-d*y is enough and to Bp*re—to-dafl 'in all- life to me. ■ Th« d»wn calls m« out from darkness, bu« m spreads a blighting p*H; White to-day, with its joy and sorrow, means light—to-d*y is best of «iL 'Tis Httle the future has given—l'd joy in the days of youth, • But not in * coming triumph, for the toil) of each, hour was truth. t And the love and pain of a mtoment wer» batter than every gleam Which coloured ft far horizon with nought but th* lie o' a dieam. i So caU m* back, mother, and. nurse me; osdj m© back, lover, *nd kiss. -' Friend, mate, or foe, and) life aa ib wa«-* such ia th.4 ipua-«st bliss. Kind were old tracks, had I known it, ana worth waa an ancient »ride, i Yes, th« world promdaed all, and 1 ga/r« nothing, «.n<i th© world! is very -wide. I remember the sport of my schooldays, antf the toils of the tame, groping years, ' I remiember the green world thefn 'round! xajdy and best I reoall my hot tears. - s But why did 1 I war with the present, ami turn life to auger 1 *n<t pain ? I don't know—but here i* the sun»hine, and* I'll never do so* again. ( , —L. vox KauxJacs*

—A passenger has recovered £150 beoaulS he was insulted by tbe guard of tot An\erd can traia, '; i \ / •LINBEED COMPOUND' ?<s# Coughs and' Colds. Believes Asthma an« 3 difficult breathing '■