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D. L. HASTINGS OF BETHEL. E'S descended from Hastings and Stuarts, as is shown in the familycrest: That it ~es back to the Battle of Hastings, I hardly would dal'e to suggest; But a strain of that ancient adventure seems to show in the life of a man. l\'bo has fared to the West. in endeavor, and has lived close to the earth as he can. The transit and compass. his burdens: the N ol-thern Pacific, his line:Sixty miles of whose early construction, of his own was the plan and design; 1\'Jany years, in the service of railroads, in the 'Vest, as well as in Maine; On Montana's broad acres. a rancher-with his flocks on the hill and thc plain; And now at his home, up in Bethel. t'lC loveliest villa....o-e 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

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has shot And tile home, where the outlook entrancing uplifts a Inan's soul on the spot; And in business-not quite a diverslon. but sometlling to rest by its change-lIe has honors that pass not. in the telling, but grow as they COIne into rang:e: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 Hving. in coInfort and kindness replete.

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