. Book of the Royal blue . d education Pittsburg haskept steady pace with her giant stridesalong other lines. The first voice of praiseand thanksgiving that ever trembled on theair of the primeval forest whereon Pitts-burg now stands was that of that nobleJesuit, La Salle, who visited this spot inthe latter part of the seventeenth century,while returning from his explorations andreligious labors in the Mississippi Country. This rapid glance at Pittsburgs growthand development shows plainly that sheowes her commanding position in the in-dustrial world to a varied combination ofadvantages and fa


. Book of the Royal blue . d education Pittsburg haskept steady pace with her giant stridesalong other lines. The first voice of praiseand thanksgiving that ever trembled on theair of the primeval forest whereon Pitts-burg now stands was that of that nobleJesuit, La Salle, who visited this spot inthe latter part of the seventeenth century,while returning from his explorations andreligious labors in the Mississippi Country. This rapid glance at Pittsburgs growthand development shows plainly that sheowes her commanding position in the in-dustrial world to a varied combination ofadvantages and favorable geographical position, midwaybetween the two great centers of popula-tion, her mineralogical advantages and themanufacturing facilities which she so emi-nently possesses are necessarily homogen-eous in the birth and growth and futureprogress of a great manufacturing and in-dustrial center, and nowhere else in theworld is there grouped such a mighty storeof diversified industrial A BALLAD OF THE UP-TO-DATE SPRING. [Note—It may be poetic license which has placed Spring in the masculine gender in the following verses,and then, again, it may he that the writer has seen Spring as a new woman and failed to appreciate thefact. The Eihtor.] BY W. D. XESBIT. GENTLE Spring no longer driftsWhere the sighing zephyr fans—He has made a little change In his transportation relies no more upon Balmy breezes as they blow,But has made arrangements toTravel via B. & 0. Gentle Spring is on the way, In his freshest raiment dandelions he Used to button up his vines he has For suspenders; for you knowSpring is up-to-date when he Travels via B. & 0. Train dispatcher Time has sent Orders that they clear the takes a siding now— Gentle Spring is coming back—with flowers to Take the place of drifts of the kind of traffic which Spring brings, via B. & 0. Signals all say: Track


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