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THE BRAVEST BATTLE.
The bravest battle that ever was fought,
Shall I tell you where and when?
On the maps of the world you will find it
not—
'Twas fought by the mothers of men.
Nay, not with cannon, or battle shot,
With sword or nobler pen;
Nay, not with eloquent word or thought
From the mouths of wonderful men.
But deep in a welled-up woman's heart,
A woman that would not yield,
But bravely, silently bore her part,
Lo, there is that battlefield !
No marshaling troop, no bivouac song;
No banner to gleam and wave;
But, oh! those battles they last so long—
From babyhood to the grave.
Yet, faithful still as the bridge of stars,
She fights in her walled-up town,
Fights on and on, in the endless wars,
Then silent, unseen, goes down.
© ye with banners and battleshot,
And soldiers to shout and praise,
I tell you the kingliest victories fought
Are fought in those silent ways.
Oh, spotless woman, in a world of shame!
With splendid and silent scorn,
Go back to God as white as you came,
The kingliest warrior born.
—Joaquin Miller.
PLEASANT GAP PHILOSOPHY
By Levi A. Miller.
Every great and noble feeling which
we exercise, every good action which
we perform, is round in the ladder
which leads to God.
To get along well year after year
in the presence of thoughtful and cul-
tivated people a religious teacher
should be endowed with the keen vis-
jon and penetration that will enable
him to read and understand human
character, and to discern the deeds
and even the motives of men.
A prominent man, in the sacred
desk or out of it, cannot be recogniz-
ed as a star, unless he shines with a
steady light.
Great men grow from a great an-
cestry.
The fairest and best specimen of
humanity; the individuals who do
something worthy of commendation
and lasting fame, are not always
found in palaces with crowns on their
heads.
With interminable industry and un-
conquerable perseverance my little
janitor pursues the object of his am-
bition.
When just and tender sentiments
crystalize into statutes for the bene-
fit of brute creation, we may be sure
that helpless humanity will also find
shelter under the charitable wings of
an advanced christian civilization.
I believe that the chief end of man
is not to glorify gold, however useful
it may be in this life, and that there
is something worth living for besides
the acquisition of wealth.
General Grant kept silent when
speaking was hazardous in the field
and at the White House; but when he
retired to private life he ventured to
give free expression to his opinions on
all sorts of questions.
The sweeping assertion sometimes
made, that modern marriage is a fail-
ure, is a grotesque exaggeration. The
pathological phenomena which gives
color to this view proclaims itself
froin the housetops, and shrieks in
public print. On the other hand, the
normal, happy marriages do not pro-
claim themselves, but rather shun
publicity, and bring their homage to
the penates in the guarded precincls
of sacred privacy. Fortunately, the
great majority of marriages, though
they be not perfect, as nothing human
is perfect, are, doubtless, on the whole,
the brightest aspect of the life of the
human race. If the marriage irregu-
larities could be attributed to the de-
pravity of the persons concerned, the
uninviting subject might be dismissed :
with the comment that here, as in the
case of crimes against life and prop-
erty, we must emphatically bring
home the prescriptions of the moral ;
law, as affecting marriage, to persons
whose conscience is below the aver-
age. In drawing rooms and clubs one
hears men and women of unimpeacha-
ble behavior playing with these topics
as with edged tools.
And now a famous and celebrated
novelist proposes that marriage
should be contracted for ten years
only, and nearly everybody finds it
very interesting to discuss this prop-
ositior. of experimental marriage.
‘There is no protest nor revulsion; no
general concensus that something im-
proper, even impossible, has been sug-
gested; the proposition is considered
and debated. Some ladies rather
plume themselves upon the radicalism
.and freedom from prejudice in discus-
sing all these novel propositions. Lit-
erature is full of the same kind of
poison. One finds it in Ibson; and
Thomas Hardy reeks with it. The
fact is, there is no undercurrent at
work in modern society which is sap-
ping the old-time family ordeal.
Everybody is more or less conscious
of the fact that a change is coming
and is bound to come, and yet there is
a terrible confusion as to the direc-
tion in which we ought to look for
help. 650,000 divorces in twenty years
is a disastrous record. Legislation
should interfere speedily, before it is
too late.
I am no sentimentalist and do not
underrate for a moment the horror of
the crime of adultery; it is so un-
speakably vile, that it almost seems
impossible to refer to it in public at
all; and yet there is this to be said,
that even this crime does not always
argue an irreparable turpitude of na-
ture on the part of those who commit
it. It is a profound truth that many
people do not realize the sanctity of
the moral commandments until they
have come into collision with them;
that often one who has transgressed
has his eyes opened for the first time
to the greatness of the law which he
has infringed. It is quite possible
that the guilty may acquire a finer
and deeper realization of the sanctity
of the moral relation than those who,
because they have never been tempted,
have never sinned. I do not say this
to excuse or to palliate the sin; but
what I mean is, that in even the case
of this ultimate crime against mar-
riage, it is necessary to discriminate;
and it may be possible that even in
such a case, while not resuming inti-
mate fellowship—I do not see how
that could be possible—to resume
moral relations. I do not say that per-
manent exile from the home is in all
cases indispensible. I think there can
be pardon even in such cases; pardon
to the extent of the resumption of
moral relations. I suppose that is the
reason for the action of Jesus, which
at first seemed so hard to explain.
They brought to him the woman tak-
en in the very act of adultery and
questioned him: The law says stone
her; what sayest Thou? He lifted up
his face from the ground on which he
was writing, and said: “Let him who
is without sin cast the first stone.”
And they stole away, one after the
other, until she was left alone. He
raised his face again and said to the
woman. “Go thy way and sin no
more.” But whether the case be that
of penitence or impenitence, I would
still say that the innocent spouse is
bound to the other, as the parent to
the prodigal son.
NEW YORK’S LABOR TEMPLE.
After fifteen years of successful
work among the wage earners and
foreign populations on the east side
of New York city the Labor Temple
has laid the corner stone of a new
building to cost $700,000. It is the
home of a truly international church,
its membership being made up of Rus-
sians, Germans, Italians, Hungarians
and other nationalities. It is officially
Presbyterian, but controlled by a com-
mittee or board made up of members
both of the church and of various oth-
er organizations that use the building.
It has become the open forum for all
truth seekers and for free labor meet-
ings. A labor-leader recently said to
his group, “You union men know that
when you really want to have your
say you have come to the Labor Tem-
ple to say it.” The fundamental prin.
ciple of management in the temple has
been that of freedom of speech and as-
semblage. Thus even the atheist, the
anarchist and the member of the I. W.
though to draw the conclusion that 1%
is a center for such radical groups
would be erroneous. It is instead the
center for socially reconstructive
groups, and its freedom has made for
positive uplift and democracy. Lec-
ture courses, concerts and other forms
of worker’s education have formed the
main body of the mid-week program.
Recently six hundred east siders pa‘d
admission to hear a lecture on Beet-
hoven. The heart of the whole enter-
| prise has been the preaching of a pro-
phetic gospel. Dr. Chaffee, the direc-
- tor, at the laying of the corner stone
i of the new temple, said: “In the old
"building we preached the gospel of
good will proclaimed by Jesus and the
i prophets. You will hear the same in
the new. The privileges of the old
building were open to all on equal
| terms; race made no difference; na-
tionality made no difference; class
; made no difference; political belief
i made no difference; religious belief
| made no difference. The new build-
ing will be open on the same terms.”
UNSKILLED LABOR.
The number of unskilled laborers
who left the United States during the
| first ten months of the immigration
| law, was about 60 per cent. more than
the number admitted. This statement
will cause alarm to people who have
been asking where the country was
going to get its unskilled laborers
! from.
| The great majority of the young
men want “white collar” jobs, and
there is a shortage of people willing
| to take their coats off and do the dirty
| work. Such workers could be had if
their pay was very much increased,
but this means an increase in all kinds
i of prices.
Possibly the shortage of unskilled
labor will not be so serious as it ap-
| pears, because so many aliens are be-
‘ing smuggled in across the border. Tt
seems unfortunate that the country
has to depend on workers who slip in
contrary to the law, because if they
broke the law coming in, they may
break it after they get here. Those
who are able to pass the tests at the
regular immigration stations would be
a more desirable element. Still the
illegal immigrants are here, and while
they should be sent home if their il-
legal entry can be discovered, in many
cases that is not possible. Those who
remain should be put to work.
If unskilled labor is scarce, the
country will have to depend on ma-
chinery to do what human hands used
to do. This is the most satisfactory
way.
We do not want to encourage the
unskilled laborer to remain unskille }.
The machine must take his place to a
large extent. If the unskilled laborer
remains unskilled, he is sometimes
fruit for the most radical soap box or-
ator, but the automatic machine never
listens to agitators and bolshevists,
and never breaks people’s heads in
any riot.
Automobiles Lead Telephones, 10 to 8.
Automobiles outnumbered tele-
phones in the United States by the ra-
tio of nearly 10 to 8, according to A.
W. Frye, supreme commander of the
Maccabees, in an address at Detroit,
Michigan.
“Recent figures showed that there
were 2,000,000 more automobiles than
telephones in America, total automo-
biles numbering 17,740,236 and tele-
phones 15,369,454,” said Frye.
“The predominant position of the
United States in transportation and
communication is shown by the faet
that our nation owns 86 per cent. of
all the automobiles operated in the
world today, and 77 per cent. of all the
telephones.” —Ex.
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— When a young man is willing to
“make his mark” by any but honest
means, it is a sign that he is not near-
ly so remarkable as he thinks.
W. have been allowed expression,
Plea for Statues or
: Creations of Authors
The citizens of Auch, the anclept
capital of Gascony, have decided to
erect a statue to D’Artagnan, hero ot
Alexandre Dumas’ “The Three Mug
keteers” and “Twenty Years After.”
In reality, of course, it is much more
than a siatue to D’Artagnan, who
never existed for the world until Du-
mas called him into being. It is more
than a statue to Charles de Baatz Cas-
tlemore, the original of Dumas’ hero,
who was born: not far from Auch. It
is really a statue to Dumas and the
human imagination.
Everything that has made D’Artag-
nan memorable and international came
from a great maker of romances—
D’Artagnan is one of the many crea-
tions of poets and writers that hav~
become more real than real men.
It is always a fine thing to see rec-
ognition of such, the New York Sun
comments. There might even be more
statues to great characters of litera-
ture and fewer statues to little char-
acters of “real” life. While there is
no harm in remembering a man who
leaves a fountain or a park to a vil-
lage, the men who have left Odysseus,
Hamlet, Falstaff, Faust, Jean Valjean
‘and Natty Bumppo are, after all, the
more deserving.
Refused to “Fall” for
Bishop’s Second Scheme
A western minister tells a story, ac-
cording to the Kansas City Star, show-
ing how a bishop, accosted in a Chi-
cago street by a neat but hungry
counter.
Now the bishop took a fancy to the
needy one, took him to a hotel and
shared a good .dinner with him. Yet,
having left his episcopal wallet in the
pocket of a different episcopal jacket,
he suddenly faced the embarrassment
of not having the wherewithal to pav
for the dinner.
“Never mind,” exclaimed the guest,
“I have enjoyed dining with you, and
I shall be charmed to pay the price
Allow me.”
And the stranger paid for the two.
This worried the prelate, who insisted:
“Just let me call a taxi and we'll
run up to my place, where I shall have
the pleasure of reimbursing you." But
the stranger met the suggestion with:
“Soe here, old man! You've stuck
me for a bully good dinner, but hanged
if T am going to let you stick me for
taxi fare!”
Cbony Mentioned in Bible
The deep black heartwood, which
is most highly prized in a number of
trees of the ebony family, is mentioned
in the Bible in Ezekiel 27:15, in con-
nection with ivory, probably on ac-
count of their value and of their con-
trasting colors. Ebony was once Sup-
posed to grow in the ground “without
rot or leaves” and to it were as-
cribed many miraculous powers. The
chief source of the ebony wood is the
Island of Ceylon, where huge logs of
the pure heartwood are cut and
decorations and- furniture ebony has
been superseded by rosewood and ma-
hogany, but for cabinet work it is still
widely employed, being exported from
Madagascar, Jamaica, India and
Egypt. A species of the ebony tree
which is used as a veneer also grows
in the southern United States.—Wash-
ington Star.
Modern Noah’s Ark
3arro Colorado island was formea
by the impounding of the waters of the
Chagres river to form Gatun lake, says
the Detroit News. It resembles Noah's
waters rose nearly every form of an-
imal life in the vicinity, seeking es-
cape from the rising flood.
Despite that it is only two miles
from the Panama river, it has been
found to harbor amphibians of new
and strange habits as yet unstudied
and innumerable species of insects
never described, as well as many
strange and exotic plants, numbering
2,000 or more. It abounds with ant-
eaters, sloths, armadillos, peccaries,
tapir, agoutis, coatis, the ocelot, the
jaguar, many species of bat, monkeys
of various kinds and the famous black
howlers.
Cameo Cutting Hard Work
Much skill is exercised by the expert
sameo cutter. He can only work at
his task for a few hours at a time,
hecause of nerve strain. A quavering
hand may be responsible for the single
atroke which will spoil a week's work.
He must have an eye like a micro-
scope, and a very delicate touch; he
must be an artist in soul, and as skill-
ful a craftsman as is a watchmaker;
he must know how to medel and draw,
i and he must have a knowledge of
chemistry, so as to remove offending
spots. The work is executed in relief
on many kinds of hard or precious
stones, but especially the chalcedonic
variety of quartz and on shells,
Worse Than Devil’s Island
Kaster island in the South Pacific
18 about the most undesirable place on
earth for human habitation. No trees
grow on the island because it lacks
water and no birds will live there on
account of their being no worms. I'he
island is irregulur in shape, being
twelve miles by nine, by seven, and is
very seldom visited by ships. Two
hundred Polynesians inhabit it, and
they suffer continually from hunger,
it was first sighted in 1686. It was
explored in 1722 and the island then
had 2,000 inhabitants..— Scientific
American.
stranger, derived profit from the en-
hauled to the coast. For interior !
when the valleys about it were flooded
ark in that there gathered as the |
! STRANGER THAN FICTION.
Pride that Destroys.
For years I have been a surgeon,
and if I may say it without seeming
egotistical, a rather noted surgeon. I
have only to say the word and the
greatest hospitals in the country
would welcome my skill. Professional
success has also brought its financial
reward, so I am rated as a wealthy
man.
Yet my heart is like lead; I cannot
gain one bit of pleasure from a life
which is, to me, an empty mockery.
Why such bitterness in a man who has
success, fame, and money? I hope
the writing of this confession will
"lighten the dull ache which is my con-
stant cross.
I was a farmer boy, the only child
of hard-working, God-fearing parents.
In my youth they re-lived their own
youthful ambitions. I wanted for
nothing within reason. High school
followed the grade school, and then I
realized my greatest dream; I entered
a medical college.
Many times I now look back and re-
call conversations between my par-
ents, the meaning of which meant
nothing to me at that time. It must
have been a continual grind and sac-
rifice for them to meet the expense of
keeping me in school. Dad used to
say, “Mother, I don’t want Eugene
ever to have to work as hard for a liv-
ing as I have always had to do.” Of
course, I was not opposed to such an
arrangement.
During my second year in college
i father passed away. After the funer-
| al I frankly asked mother what differ-
ence, if any, dad’s death would make
| in my career.
How well do I remember her reply,
“Why, no difference, son. Your dad
left very little money, but then I will
not need much for a few years and
| then you can repay me. Besides I can
hire a man to run the farm.”
So I finished my course, blind to the
hardship that dear old mother was en-
faring that I might attain my goal.
Every vacation I spent two weeks at
, the old home, and after starting to
practice medicine, I always managed
to spend at least a week with mother
each year. Mother was always so in-
terested in my work and would never
tire of hearing me tell of my cases,
my triumphs.
With the coming of success I bought
a fine home in Chicago, where I was
, then making quite a name for myself
| professionally. I was engaged to a
| wonderful girl, and life seemed at its
‘best. Finally, I reached what I con-
! sidered a wonderful goal. I was at-
‘ tached to the Cook County Hospital
» and was actually practicing with the
, famous Dr. M , recognized as one
" of the greatest surgeons in the world.
. What more could a young man ask?
One day, out of a blue sky, dropped
a thunderbolt. I had been so busy
that I had forgotten my usual visit
home, and mother had written that
she was coming to visit me.
Mother coming! She was so hope-
lessly old-fashioned, so shabby. Why,
it would ruin me socially, after all I
had bragged about the excellence of
my family stock. And Irene! What
would she think of her? I rushed to
the telegraph office and wired mother
not to come; that I was coming home
in a few days.
_ That evening after dinner, I was sit-
ting in my spacious libraray, when my
butler announced a patient. “Doesn’t
look like good pay, sir,” he added.
He brought her in, and to my con-
sternation, it was mother! I grew hot
with anger (may God forgive me!)
“I thought I would surprise you,
Gene,” smiled mother.
_ Then she must have read the shame
in my eyes. She shrank back as if I
had struck her a blow. *~
As soon as I could control myself, I
said firmly, “Mother, you shouldn’t
have come here. I was coming to see
you. You can stay tonight, but you
must take the first train tomorrow.”
Have you ever shot a deer? Oh,
those stricken, reproachful eyes! :
Calling the maid, I ordered, “Jack-
son, this is an old nurse of mine. She
is going to stay tonight. Give her
| some tea and crackers and then show
: her to her room.”
i Luck favored me. None of my
! friends happened to drop in. °
i That night, so the maid, Jackson,
: told me later, she was awakened by
i footsteps passing her door. Fearing
burglary, the maid followed the vis-
itor. Mother crept along the hall,
listening at each door until she came
to my bed-room, the door of which
was ajar. She entered, stood a long
time looking down at me.
Sobbing softly, she murmured, “Oh,
Gene, ashamed of your old mother!
Never mind, boy. You must let moth-
er tuck the covers around you like she
used to when you were a baby. My
baby boy!” Then gently patting the
covers into place, she slipped out of
the room, still sobbing.
The maid, a great light breaking
upon her, followed mother back in-
to her room, then went back to sleep
| herself, wondering at the world’s in-
| gratitude.
|” No one saw the shabby little figure
islip through the ornate front door in
the gray hours of the morning.
About five a. m., I received an emer-
gency call from the hospital. Yes, it
was mother! A truck had fractured
her skull. Oh, God! The anguish in
my soul! I couldn’t operate, and she
died without gaining consciousness.
forgave me! I know she would have
forgiven me, with that sweet smile of
hers, God bless her. Mothers always
forgive, when the rest of the world
condemns.
Since that time, I have been in Hell.
Oh, the loathing, the contempt, the
hatred in the eyes of Irene when I con-
fessed to her! I knew I had lost her
also. Her ring came off as if it were
a live coal searing her flesh.
Unable to stand the accusing stares
of my associates in Chicago, I accept-
ed a post in a hospital in Waterloo,
Iowa. [I’ve tried and tried to make
atonement. I’ve befriended the poor;
T’ve done all I could for charity. I've
kept myself working constantly to try
to forget. How hopeless a task! Day
and night that sweet smile haunts.
They say -that I am a good man, a
man with a big heart; but God knows
on this earth.
If she could only have said that she
I can never hope to make atonement |
The Law’s Delay :
TT are certain things that cannot
be done in a hurry, and this applies
to almost all legal business. Hence we
have the saying: “The law’s delay.”
If you name this Bank your Exec-
utor you may feel assured that there
will be no unnecessary delay in the
settlement of your estate.
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