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rillLADl I.I'IIIA, FRIDAY, MAY 81, 1913.
The tclsc man knows how to icait, for he
understands that wheat is not gathered
in the blade, but tn the car.
Why Talk Hard Times?
THE average Increase in tho national
wealth has boen $5,000,000,000 a year for
tho past ten years. Tho Bureau of tho
Census estimates tho wealth of tho country
at $187,000,000,000. In 1904 Its cstlmato wait
5107,000,000,000, a gain of $80,000,000,000, or
75 per cent., In a decado.
Tho United States In this short period has
added to Its resources a sum within $5,000,
000,000 as largo as tho total wealth of Great
Britain nnd Ireland, an amount equal to
tho wealth of Germany, $30,000,000,000 more
than tho wealth of France, twice tho wraith
of Russia, more than threo tlmrs ns much
.as tho Austro-Hungarians are worth, and
Your times tho wealth of Italy. Wo could
havo bought with tho Increment of a slnglo
year nearly all tho bonds that havo been
lssuod by the warring nations to raise
money to carry on tho fight. And tho na
tional wealth Is still growing as tho sun
shines on tho crops In the fields and as
Europo pours her millions Into our mills to
pay for war material.
The "World Against the Teutonic Allies
ELSEWHERE on this page thcip Is com
ment on tho developments In Italy writ
ten by an Italian In his town tongue, from
the point of view of his own country.
Tho publication of a synopsis of tho Green
Book indicates that tho Austrian conces
sions wero not satisfactory to Italy, cither
in extent or In the date on which they wero
to be executed. It discloses further that
Italy had protested ngalnst tho Invasion of
Bervla, which precipitated tho war, nnd had
sought for an adjustment of the diftputo for
many months. Tho situation becamo so
strained that Italy denounced her treaty
with Austria on March 4, and freed her
hands for whatever action might seem
necessary.
Armed neutrality ceased to bo a possible
Bttltudo several days ago. That was evi
dent when Glolitti's attempt to rally his fol
lowers failed and Salandra consented to re
tain tho Premiership. The nation is united
for war. The Glollttl party In Parliament
disappeared when tho Cabinet asked for a
grant of power. Tho vote by which tho
King was authorized to dcclaro war at his
discretion was practically unanimous, all
parties save tho Socialists' acting as a unit.
Preparations for this outcomo have long
been made General Pau, as tho represen
tative of tho Allies, has been consulting
with tho Italian War Minister, and It Is an
nounced that a complete plan of campaign
against Austria by tho French, Russians
and Italians has been arranged and Is
ready for execution.
The Teutonic allies now havo all tho Pow
ers of the world against them savo tho
United States.
A Great Day for Methodism
JOHN WESLEY would not havo believed
It If he had been told that an office building-,
costing $300,000, would bo put up in this
city In tho twentieth century for housing the
chief organizations of tho Methodist Eplseo
pal Church In this part of tho country.
lEvmtittg
Methodism has expanded beyond the
dreams of Its founders. It Is tho largest
body of Protestant Christians In tho United
States, numbering more than 7,000,000 in its
different branches. It exceeds the Baptists,
the next largest denomination, by 1,000,000
comjnuntcants.
The building at 17th and Arch streets Is
the visible embodiment of the material
strength 'of the church as an organization.
Their meeting houses testify in brick and
stone to the substantial quality of the Meth
odist people, but they stand for tho separate
churches. The new building Is evidence of
a still more substantial unity which holds
the different churches together. It might
be called the seal of tho confederation ns
well as the seat of the authority which
, directs all the activities of tho separate
i members. ItB dedication yesterday called
together distinguished Methodists to glory
t In the growth of their great society, and it
1 afforded an opportunity for representatives
4 of the other denominations to show forth
. t that fellowship which exists among1 all
J Christians.
A Cross Section Through the Centuries
THE ring around the sun yesterday cut a
cross section through the centuries and
t disclosed all the progressive stages by
which tho intelligence has developed from
i abject fear of the unusual to the courageous
confronting; of natural phenomena by the
Inquiring and explaining- mind.
The "sign in the heavens" was regarded
Jy some as a warning- of tha approaching
lend of the world. Just as an eclipse of the
-fsun is supposed in certain parts of the
country to forecast the end of all things.
Many Italians here were convinced that it
1 Ittiifaatefi that tlioli- rniimtM, iu,,.fit ..
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tna war, ana n wpuia rase less space to
fcttcvM what the Negroes did not think It
fiant than tne explanations which they
Sve of It. And there were hundreds If not
fci , taonwnds of educated persons who still
Saj-iwrwl In tn tack of their minds the
wiftarttmwts of thir ancestor?, and could
spot ape ti ttwiyht that after all It
t, sos soawtistog ter ftw, tt. shin- J
Itig of the buh through Ico crystals In the
tipper air.
Thoso who accepted tho scientific explana
tion without any lingering doubts were o!
course, In tho majority, just as a thousand
years ago tho portentous significance of tho
rainbow about tho sun would havo been ad
mitted so generally that tho man who dis
puted It would havo been In danger of death
for hla Impiety.
Thank God for the Oceans 1
THERE nro eight great Powers In tho
world. When placed In alphabetical or
der tho list stands like this:
Austria-Hungary,
Krnncc,
Germany,""
Great Britain,
Italy,
Japan,
Russia,
United s'tatcs.
They are all at war Bave tho United States.
Wo have no ungrntlflod territorial ambitions,
nnd no boundary disputes, and no commer
cial desires tho fulfillment of which Is suffi
ciently threatened by tho rivalry of other
Powers to Justify an appeal to arms. Wo
aro assured of our placo In the sun by 3000
miles of ocean on the east of us nnd by moro
than 4000 miles of sea on tho west of us.
Tho cold salt untor laves our shores and
tempers hntcer war spirit thcro may bo.
It makes our invasion of foreign lands diffi
cult and discourages foreign nations from
contemplating any Invasion of our shores.
Thank God for tho oceans, and may they
never bo reddened by tho blood of our cltl
rens defending their native shores I
So Far So Good
THE necessary ordinances for pushing tho
rapid transit plans to completion havo
been reported to Councils, and tho ordinance
authorizing an advertisement of tho contem
plated loan has been passed nnd tho adver
tising Is likely to begin today.
So far, so good.
The city expects Councils to fulfill tho
promlso of Its worthy action yesterday and
to pass nil tho ordinances beforo adjourn
ment for tho summer, so thnt digging can
start ns soon as tho proper authorization
has been given.
Merely a Guaranteo of Good Faith
THE appropriation by tho General Assem
bly of $500,000 for tho development of this
port must bo considered merely ns evldenco
of tho Intel est of tho Commonwealth In Its
sea trade. Tho sum Is so small that It will
accomplish little In comparison with what
needs to bo done But that nn appropriation
has boen mado at all Indicates that tho rest
of tho State W beginning to understand that
tho prosperity of tho whole Is wrapped up
In tho prosperity of Its parts. Philadelphia
cannot grow without benefiting every other
community.
L'ltalia ncl Vorticc dclla Guerra
LA CAMERA Itallana ha dato, dunque,
I pleni poterl all'on. Salandra, doe si o
dlchlarata concordo con II Paese, In favoro
dclla guerra per completaro l'unlta nazlonalo
L'opposlzlono dell'on. Glollttl ha dovuto
sparlro dl fronto alia unanlmo volonta del
Paese, o cosl cessato l'lmposslbllo contrasto
tra la nazlone o la Camera.
L'ltalia c pcrclo sul punto dl dlchlarnro
la guerra alia Monarchla austro-ungnrtca,
alia nemica tradlzlonalo dell'unlta o dell'In
dlpcndenza del popolo italinno. Non II gov
crno, non II re, ma il popolo, tutto II popolo
vuole la guerra, ed 11 popolo sara chlamato
fra qualcho glorno, fra pocho oro forse, ad
lnlzlaro la sua terza sangulnosa lotta na
zlonale. II governo dell'on. Salandra ha aglto
savlamonte, secondo gll Interessi plu grandl
e plu vastl della nazlone Imponevano,
nonostanto Io manovro dell'on. Glollttl o
deU'abillssimo prlnclpo von Buelow. L'on.
Salandra ha prevlsto. Come era posslbllo
prestar fedo alio promesso ed agll accordl
scrlttl della Germania. quando questa ha
violato allegramento o senza pensarcl su
duo volte 1 trattatl cho la ohbllgavano a
rlspettnro la neutrallta del Belglo o quella
del Lussemburgo? Como prestar fede ad un
governo cho si era macchlato del delltto
del Lusltanla, cho non aveva esltato ad
assasslnnre donne o bambini inerml per
nffondare materlale dl guerra destlnato al
l'Inghllterra? Come pensaro cho la Ger
mania o I'Austrla non avrebbero attaccato
l'ltalia plu tardl, quando essa fosse rimasta
lsolata, senza alleatl o senza l'nmlclzla o la
rlconosconza o 1'aluto dell'Inghllterrn, della
Francla o della Russia?
Ecco le rnglonl della guerra deU'Itnlla. cho
devono esser considerate insleme con lo
raglonl nazlonnll ed economlche che Io Im
ponevano dl parteclpare a questa lotta por
11 prlnclpio della nazlonnllta e per il rispetto
del trattatl.
"Billy" Sunday refuses to go to England
for $10,000.
Who cares whether the Liberty Bell
breaks so long as the Councllmen have their
Junket?
It will bo hot enough when It does get
warm, so endure your blessings while you
have them.
"Abasso I'Austrla" may mean the same,
but it does not sound so vicious as "Down
with Austria."
May the war game In which the Atlantic
fleet Is now engaged never be changed from
play to earnest,
The war Is costing Great Britain $160 a
second or about $150 while you have been
reading this paragraph.
This is the week for the suppression of
unnecessary noises. War talk is-, of all
noises, the most unnecessary,
Switzerland, with 1,000,000 foreigners
within its borders, will not suffer this year
from lack of American tourists'.
Tho members of the Poor Richard Club
are pledging themselves te protect the birds,
but this Is not understood to mean that they
will deny themselves the pleasures of the
table.
It Is announced that the Queen of Holland
)s raising an army of 1,000,000 men and
Is exerting herself to the utmost to bring
about peace. But aro 1,000.000 pitn enough
to accomplish the task?
Sir Ernest Cassel, though fcvm in Ger
many, has qualified as an Englishman by
writiEtf to the newspapers that he feels a
deep sense of horror at the manner in wblci
tba Germans aro, waging war.
WHAT CAN ITALY DO
IN THE GREAT WAR
Nation Faces Colossal Task In At
tacking Fortified and Mountain
protected Frontier Army Has
Reputation to Make.
By FRANK H. SIMONDS
AT THE outset of the discussion of tho
. Italian phaso of tho great war It Is well
to dispose of certain obvious misapprehen
sions. First of all, Italy will not bo ablo to
lake up tho road to Vienna or Budapest
with tho opening of hostilities. On tho con
trary, she will havo for many weeks to con-'
slder tho defense of Voronn, of Milan nnd
of her Venetian province.
Look nt any map of Northern Italy nnd
It will be seen that tho Austrian Tyrol pro-
Jes Into Italian territory like a gigantic
peninsula. It Is moro than this; It Is, In
fact, n fortified and mountain-protected fun
nel, down which in the valley of tho Adlgo
run a railroad arid a highway from tho
north to tho very henrt of northern Italy.
Down this funnel, flank nnd rear protected
by tho fortified mountain, not Austria alone,
but Germany can pour their masses.
In tho Napoleonic times, In tho war of
liberation, waged by tho French nnd Ital
ians In tho last century, Austrian defense
took Its stand behind tho Mlnclo nnd tho
Po. tho former Issuing from tho Logo dl
Gnrda. Half a century ago tho Quadrilat
eral, mndo up of Verona, Pcschlcra, Man
tua and Legnngo, was as familiar In tho
mind of tho world ns Llcgo or Verdun or
Antwerp today. Holding theso four for
tresses, the Austrlans, their road homo
through tho Tyrol protected, long domi
nated northern Italy.
Country Favors Austrlans
Today nil four of theso towns are Ital
ian. Verona Is strongly fortified; tho 20
miles between tho city nnd tho Austrian
frontier nro covered by modern forts. But
tho naturo of tho country Is against tho
Italians. Austria has kept her hand on tho
slopes and hills which in fact command tho
gates of Italy. For precisely the Bamo rea
son that tho Russians could not begin tho
war on the Poscn frontier Italy cannot push
a great army far to tho cast of Verona on
tho Isonzo whllo tho Austrian Tyrol is un
tnken. On tho other hand, could tho Germans
drawing from Gallcla somo of the victori
ous corps now pursuing tho fleeing Rus
sians, concentrating their heavy artillery,
burst out of tho Adlgo Valley Into tho plain,
tako Verona nnd tho northern bank of tho
Mlnclo, they could stretch their front cast
to tho Adriatic, buttlu up all Italian troops
In Venctla, occupy a lino Infinitely stronger
than they hold In northern France, and
leavo It to tho Italians to" wear themselves
out fighting on their own, not Austrian, soil.
Moro than this, by crossing a corner of
tho territory of Switzerland on tho upper
Engndlno thoy might pour troops Into tho
plains about Milan. For tho moment Rus
sia has boen disposed of. It will bo weeks
beforo sho can recover herself for a new
offensive. German military theory calls for
opening a war with a crushing blow. She
has tho troops, nnd the Italian situation
calls for a vigorous thrust.
Italy's Colossal Tnsk
But If Germany and Austria remain on
tho defensive Italy's task will still be
colossal. Every point of military value in
tho broad circle of mountains from Lago
dl Garda through tho Dolemltes and tho
Julian Alps to Fiumo has been heavily
fortified In recent years. Remembering tho
campaigns In Belgium and Franco, where
the country Is almost a uniform plain, It is
easy to understand what expenditure of
tlmo nnd effort will be necessary to clear
roads and hack through mountains 9000 feet
high.
On tho north Italy Is, presumably, con
demned to the defensive or to a slow and
expensive offensive. Nor can her fleet, ad
mirable as It Is, bo expected to accomplish
much In tho Adriatic, whoro tho Austrian
fleet lies behind tho forts of Pola and Aus
trian submarines nro active. Until these
are removed tho possibility of landing a
largo expeditionary army in Istria or Dnl
matla seems slight.
It may bo assumed that Italian troops
will be sent to tho Dardanelles. It Is clear
that reinforcements aro badly needed by tho
Allies. Conceivably an army landed at Enos
will be sent against Adrlanoplo In an effort
to draw Turkish troops from tho Gnlllpoll
peninsula and to cut tho Orient Railway,
the solo connection between Constantinople
and tho capitals of her allies. Nowhere can
Italy servo her now friends better than In
European Turkey. Unquestionably she will
nlso send troops to the mainland of Asia
Minor, cast of Rhodes, where she has al
ready marked out a sphere of Interest.
More serious for tho Austro-German for
tune In tho immedlato present is tho prob
ability that Rumania will follow the Itnlian
example and declare war. A Rumanian in
vasion of Transylvania, Joining hands with
tho Russians now in Bukowina, would do
much to nullify the recent Gallcian victories.
Million Men Ready
A great deal of guessing has been done
about numbers. Presumably Italy will put
In tho field about 24 army corps that Is,
approximately, 1,000,000 men. They should
be well equipped and well trained. Italian
high command has had all tho experience
of tho great war to guldo it. If It Is weak
in any branch It will probably prove to bo
artillery. The Italian fleet is strong in
superdreadnoughts and generally held much
more efficiently administered than the army,
but It will bring little help actually needed
by tho Allies.
The Italian army enters the conflict with
a reputation to make. In Abyssinia and
Tripoli it did little to win the respect of
the soldiers of the world. It Is an unknown
quantity, held in low esteem by both Ger
mans and Austrlans. But similar notions
of the Serb and the Greek proved erroneous
in 1812.
In the end the addition of a million, a
million and a half with Rumania, neV
troops to the enemies of Germany must have
a tremendous effect.
EDMUND BUtfKE
Burk9 had thoughts of a great statesman and
uttered them with unapproachable nobility; but
he never wielded the power of a real statesman,
Woodrow Wilson.
PRECAUTIONS
It Is one of the undisputed functions of gov
ernment to take precautions against crime be
fore Jt has been committed. M1U.
THE BLESSING OF LIFE
Must we count
Life, a curse and not a blessing, summed
up la its whole amount.
Help and hindrance, joy and sorrow.
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WHAT AVIATION OWES TO THE WAR
Marvelous Developments in Military Aircraft and Their Manip
ulationWar Brings Its Wonderful Gifts to
the Age of Aerial Travel.
By CHARLES
DAEDALUS, who for many centuries
held tho world's record for overseas
flight, would doubtless be greatly Interested
In tho improvements effected In wings since
his day. Imagine his circling about over
Nleuport last Monday, whon a huge Zep
pelin was attacked by a cloud of British
aeroplano-hornets nnd stung until sho fled
for her Ilfo Darting hither and thither, her
tormentors dived in for a blow now here,
now there, avoiding the counter-strokes of
tho lumbering and clumsy , leviathan of tho
air, all a mllo or more up from the earth.
Wo have reached a point where tho art of
flight Is taken altogether too much for
granted. Wo havo been satiated with tales
of aerial adventures from the war zono until
tho sensation of eager interest has, perhaps,
passed by. For this reason wo fall to real
ize tho tremendous advance made In the
development of aircraft, particularly of tho
dynamic typo. The war has equipped avia
tion with seven-leaguod boots. Thus, out
of the conflict, will stride one great benefit
to humanity travel by air.
Chiefly responsible for this progress 13
the number of men who aro now flying. A
rough though approximate estimate gives
us no fewer than 600 military pilots actively
engaged In hostile operations. This number
Is augmented dally, Britain alono training
from ten to fifteen new operators each
week. Tho casualties havo been surpris
ingly small, less proportionately than In any
of tho other branches of tho actlvo service.
If these men fly willingly and suTfer -comparatively
llttlo In perfect hailstorms of
shot and shell, how lightly will they con
sider air Journeys without such risk! Dally
tho man-birds are proving that tho aero
plane, In Itself, Is as safe as any means of
rapid transit. So tho fear of tho heights of
the atmosphere, one of the greatest obsta
cles In the path of tho widespread develop
ment of aviation, has already been dealt Its
death blow.
Round Trips to the Moon
But tho material of flight, as well as Its
human element, has also Improved vastly.
Tho heart of tho aeroplane, Its motor, now
beats with a regularity which indicates a
final conquest of cardiac troubles. In scout
ing alone, during tho first eight months of
tho war, tho French avlons, or war ma
chines, traveled a distance equal to 45 timeB
tho earth's circumference, or two round
trips betwen the earth and tho moon. Near
ly an equal distance has been covered in
offensive operations including the direction
of artillery Are by French aeroplanes,
When we reflect that the British and Rus
sian totals, to say nothing of thoso of Aus
tria nnd Germany, must also bo estimated
at large figures, wo begin to realize the re
liability which aircraft engines havo at
tained. Other members of tho aeroplane's anatomy
have likewise greatly profited from the
war's hard-won experience. Strength and
simplicity are, respectively, tho chief de
mands made of construction. Thero are, In
America today, a numbor of flying officers
from belligerent nations seeking aeroplanes,
Among them several Englishmen. It has
been the writer's fortune to seo the methods
used by the British experts in acquiring
suitable designs. They know, to the last
turnbuckle, Just what they want nnd how
they want It. One of them, an officer In
the royal naval service, has had wide ex
perience of the vicissitudes of conflict in the
air. He wept down on the aeroplane mother
ship Hermes, when that Ill-fated craft was
sunk by a German submarine last fall In
the North Sea,
A recent experience of his in this country
illustrates the disappearance of fear of, tho
air, 'The Englishman was testing a new
machine, and, with a passenger on board,
was Just about to alight after an hour's
flight. While on the last turn, some dis
tance out over a considerable body of
water, and with the craft steeply banked, the
Wire control leading to the aileron broke,
depriving the pilot of the customary mean
of maintaining lateral balance. Coolly the
aviator-looked over the side of the nacelle to
see what was wrong, and Juggled his vertl'
cal rudder till be had -worked the craft back
to an even Heel. Then be shut off his power
and descended. Neither pilot nor passenger
received a scratch.
Backward Russia, however, has furnished
the sensation In flying craft, for she has
brought out a type which gives promise of
revolutionizing aerial traffic. For several
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years a modest young onginear, Georg
Sikorsky, had been experimenting with a
large-scale biplane, and had doveloped It to
a practical point only a few months prior to
tho outbreak of tho war. Of lato this nero
plano hns figured very prominently In air
raids over positions hold by tho Germans In
Poland. Something of Its size and power
may be Judged from tho fact that It will
lift moro than two tons, In addition to Its
own weight of threo tons and a half. Two
tons of explosives, Judiciously distributed,
should havo an exhilarating effect on the
recipients.
"Scrapping" Military Textbooks
Momentous changes in military operations
havo been wrought by tho aircraft now In
use. No longer, against a foo of equal num
bers nnd equal equipment, is it possible to
hurl nn unexpected and unsuspected mass
at a weak point In nn enemy's lino. It Is
for this reason chiefly that we soo, stretch
ing from the North Sea to tho Swiss border,
two huge forces breast to breast, and tho
only means of gaining ground tho deadly
frontal attack, hitherto anathema In nil
military textbooks. For aircraft spy out
and report every movement of an enemy
beforo tho operation is fairly under way,
and by tho tlmo tho attack reaches Its ob
jective it finds tho position lined with wait
ing defenders.
Not only do military aeroplanes replace
the cavalry reconnaissances of tho past, but
they act as eyes for tho nrtlllcry. British
and French official accounts bear witness of
tho efllcacy of tho German tnubes, or doves
and not doves of peace, by any means. A
whirr overhead, a detected bivouac or group
of trenches, smokeball or rocket from tho
aeroplane, and then a rain of Krupp shrap
nel. Not that the Germans havo a mo
nopoly In this stylo of wnrfaro, for the
British and French craft aro fully holding
up their end of tho game.
But It Is ns a means of nttnek that both
heavler-than-alr and llghter-than-alr navi
gation chiefly stirs tho imagination. This
use Is tho new and unforeseen lesson of tho
great conflict, nnd it is for this purpose that
tho hostile nations oro straining every nervo
to incrcaso their aerial forces. Tho British
seem to havo accomplished tho greatest re
sults. British pilots havo skimmed over
tho foothills of tho Alps and blown up Ger
man Zeppelins at Frledrlchshafen. A dar
ing Englishman, single handed, destroyed
two German submarines at Hoboken, Just
outside Antwerp. To make certain of his
aim he descended to 300 feet, braving rlflo
and aircraft guns, and escaped by a mira
cle, his machine shot-riddled. Moro won
ders, however, are at hand. The coming
summer will probably see paralysis Inflicted
on one enemy or tho other by tho blowing
up of communications, by tho destruction,
from above, of ammunition trains, food
stores, gasoline supplies. Then the aero
plane tako Its placo as man's most powerful
weapon In warfare
HEART'S DESIRE IN GARDENS
No Need to Tramp tho Andes or Traverse
the Rings of Saturn.
From Scrlbner"s Majaiine,
The charm of blossoming things growing out
of the green needs no apology. Our crocuses
VnlP0When' Wue' white; or yeHovv! they
open after the snow, as If God, and not a kind
young friend, had planted them. Not all at
once, but after long winter waning and eUy
spring days of suspense lest frost h as kl"ed
thorn, wo year by year see "a crowd, a host of
golden daffodlls"-not a marching hott .but I
straggling host, a" hundred strong htVl ?here
everywhere in and out among the white
birches In the wakening green of the grasaV An!
If the ghost of William Wordsworth would only
wander this way some sunny April day One
by the south porch. coSnee long "before the
swallows dare," and "takes the winds of
March." and us, with beauty,
Our garden would never do as a basis of nn
article In a gardening book or a lady's maga
sine. It Is not one of those methodical un.
natural gardens where all the seeds that ara
sown germinate, where all blossoms turn out
lnexpeoted colors, where a whole row of holly,
hocks come up without gaps, it is no placid
spot of gradual growth, but a thing of wild
hopes and sudden fears . of quick Inspirations
unknown to tho careful husbandman; of un
paralleled successes! of blasting defeats. It
seems almost at' times as if it too had fleet,
imaginative glimpses of what might be, and
ehsjwl our sense of triumph or mood of failure
S"or nature Is by no means the orderly, inoh
by-inch personage we are taught In sclentiaa
text-books to think her. She also has her
moments of inspiration, of rapid and luxuriant
growth, and my garden makes me aware of
her ewirt divining. hr blind hopes, her pa
eloaate Impulses that wax and wane.
If it is th .gardening at Ignorance at ast
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Instructed friends I should be ashamed to wn-1
fess that, busy for many years with wtrtf
books and ldeus, I know not annuals froal
perennials. Biennials are still a puzzla; thouji!
the theoretical meaning Is dear, I find It hard!
to discover the moment of bloom. When thai
guaranteed to flower every second year doeij
not blossom at all, what aro you to think oil
the oooic7 puzzles enougn to make ono loaij
ono's wits spring up In ono's own garden; then?
Is no need to tramp tho Andes nor traverse tM
rings of Saturn for nature's riddles to read.
ARMIES AND ALCOHOL
Trom th Independent.
Tho hostility of the lato Lord Roberts cfi
Kandahar toward liquor was the only grudnj
that Tommy Atkins had against his favoriua
lender, "if wo may tako Kipling ns Interpreter!
of tho feeling of nies-on-parauo:
'E's a llttlo down on drink,
Chaplain Bobs;
Dut It keeps us outor clink
Don't It, Bobs?
So wo ulll not complain
Tho" 'o's water on the brain,
If he lends us straight again
Blus-lleht Bobs.
When Lord Kitchener becamo the head of the
nrmv tho llauor-lovlng soldier looKea lor al
leviation of his lot, but his hopes were dlwu-i
nolnted. for the new Secretary of war put huj
household on tho water-wagon and seems dl
posed to treat his army In tho same way. Thi
20th century version of Cromwell's motto Isj
"Trust In God and keep your army ary ;
SLEEP
To "the child In us that trembles before deitfcj-
Say, hast thou never been compelled to Us'
Wakeful in night's Impenetrable deep.
Counting the laggard moments thnt so cretp
Reluctant onward, till, with voiceless cry
Enduring, thou hadst wUUng ueen to vy ,ij
-c-nm llfn Itanlf. nnd in oblivion SteeD
Thy tortured senses? To such loneed-for sleep
Death Is a way, ana aost tnou tear io mei j
Nay, were It this. Just thl3, and naught beside-!
Merely tho cairn tnai we nave unsuisucu iv.,j
TVin wnvfnrpr mlaht still be Klad to hide I
From grief and suffering! but how much mors 3
Is death life's servitor and rrlona-ine bumo
That sarely terries us iroro anuio iu a
Florence Earlo Coates, in London Atheneeup.
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