The peaks that rift the saffron sheen
Of sunset skies
In purple loveliness, when seen
By nearer eyes,
Are bleakly bare.
To brave those boulders gray
No climbers dare.
O, in some future may
This mountain mass of unfulfilled desires
Be unto me as yonder haloed spires!''

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Miss Perkins is the compiler of ``Echoes of
Pawnee Rock,'' and writes short stories and
poems for the magazines. Some of her verse
is published in Woolard's ``Father.''



ANNA E. ARNOLD.

Anna E. Arnold, Cottonwood Falls,
Superintendent of Chase County Schools, is a
thorough Kansan, and a farm product. She
was born at Whiting, Jackson County, but
when a very small child, her parents moved to
Chase and all her life since has been spent in