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D. L. HASTINGS OF BETHEL.

HE'S descended from Hastings and Stuarts, as is shown in the family-crest:
That it goes back to the Battle of Hastings, I hardly would dare to suggest;
But a strain of that ancient adventure seems to show in the life of a man.
Who has fared to the West, in endeavor, and has lived close to the earth as he can.
The transit and compass. his burdens: the Northern Pacific, his line: --
Sixty miles of whose early construction, of his own was the plan and design;
Many years, in the service of railroads, in the West, as well as in Maine;
On Montana's broad acres, a rancher - with his flocks on the hill and the plain;
And now at his home, up in Bethel, the loveliest village out-door
He renews all his boyhood's diversions, in his life on the hill and the moor;
The camp and the woods, for his hunting. where the moose and the deer, he has shot
And the home, where the outlook entrancing uplifts a man's soul on the spot;
And in business  - not quite a diverslon, but something to rest by its change -
He has honors that pass not, in the telling, but grow as they come into range:
In short, he is just as he's pictured - a man whom it's a pleasure to meet
And who lives with a rare joy of the living. in comfort and kindness replete.

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