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PHILADELPHIA. THUKSDAY, SEPTEMBER . 111.
Nothing to danocroui as an injudMout
friend, unlets U be your own
injudtclousncsi.
THE LEAVEN IS NOW IN THE LUMP
WE SHALL know in a year or two what
the riattBburjr camp han done for na
tional preparedness. Thcro Is high au
thority for the statement that a little 1eacn
leaveneth the whole lump. The leaven of
knowledge, of what Is needed to train and
develop an army has been placed In tho
consciousness of 1300 representative men
from this city, New York, Boston and other
cities In the East.
It Is now apparent to those men that nn
army cannot be Improvised. Tho notion that
it Is posslblo to Issue a call for volunteers
and within 24 hours havo a body of 1,000,000
men ready to tako the field will no longer
be entertained by them oven If they once
harbored such a foolish thought. Every one
Of the men has become the centre of a
leavening influence. He will tell his fricndB
What ho has learned and they will tell their
friends, and so on until a rapidly increasing'
number of citizens have learned from tho
mouth of a man whom they know that
preparation cannot begin too soon If wo nro
to be In a position to maintain our self
respect among the nations of the world and
are to have the nations of the world respect
our demands when we insist that reparation
hall be made for disregard of tho rights of
our citizens.
One Plattsburg, however. Is not enough
for a nation that covers a continent. The
War Department will doubtless make ar
rangements for volunteer camps In other
parts of the country next summer.
EVERY ONE SEEKS AMUSEMENT
' WOULD be a rash nronhpt whn wmilil
. 6y that the comedy theatre which nn
actress Is talklnir of hutldini- In thl. ritv
would lack patronage. A new theatre can
make a place for Itself if It supplies what
the people like.
The demand for amusement Is limited only
by tho number of people In tho rlty. Tho
variety of unamuslng things which tho po
plo go to see for lack of something better Is
astonishing and proves that tho public Is
long suffering and kind Tho new amuse
ment purveyors who can find what this city
likes and will offer It to tho public will be
assured from tho beginning of abundant re
words. THE APPETITE FOR EDUCATION
THE people who were saying a few years
ago that there was no popular demand
for high schools know better now. More
than 16,000 boys and girls are enrolled In the
high schools that have Just opened, an In
crease of about 10 per cent, over tho regis
tration of last year. So long as It Is necea
aary for the youth to go a long way from
their home to a high school they will finish
hrlelr edupatlon with the grammar school.
IBut when the opportunity to carry on their
studies Is provided within a reasonable dis
tance oi wnere tney live tnelr parents will
consent that they should go to high school.
The multiplication of schools Is responsible
for the Increase In attendance.
A public school is of necessity a neighbor
hood Institution, for young children must
wot be allowed to go far from home In tho
city streets. And the high schools differ
slightly from the lower grades of public
schools. The pupils are older, but they are
tjll children who need to be protected from
themselves. So the high school Is a neigh
borhood affair also, but It supplies the de
mands of a larger neighborhood than a
grammar school. That there are young peo
ple In all sections of the city ready to ab
sorb as much education as the Bohool Board
will offer them should encourage all who
have faith In the future of Philadelphia.
THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL
SINCE the formation of the Coalition Min
istry" In England there has been no In
ternal upheaval among the belligerent na
tions to compare with that which has Just
taken place In Ituasla, The earlier reports,
that the Carhad assumed the high com
ynond Of hla armies, seemed little more than
a spectacular appeal for popular sympathy.
Xha consequent demotion of Grand Duke
JJIcholaa was a violent shock to those who
had fallowed the career of this extraordinary
man.
Military ncessltles have ataln nlivu ..n.
mm toii
DmoiT
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cntcio
Lomk
E.- (Md Jto political ambitions. The Grand Duke,
.wnv v.,.,w.w, uuiihhuok me popular
Mjad sb4 koldlnsr his armtu In oin. Hnr.
Vf wl Molatry, has been for many
7W w"ac to me czar He stood, at
SjMM , against the Insidious (or
4pi Miiwh to which the Czar wa sub
JfMi M mmM hardly have superseded (the
Ca threw pomta uprWng, but plot
a4 iatriwM a4 a great vletory might well
have won him the throne of all tbe Ru-
TM Orahd Duke was relieved ot comlnand
at the precise moment when all signs pointed
to (Mat renewal ot power for, his armies.
QataMdblr h bM been Wade the scapegoat
for tb kjuk aaJafertWeea of the last four
months U if bayoarf ajttJUfla that tho Car,
AticKxtusw freak Mtreajae t Hul( fca
M
EVENING LEPaB - PHILAPELHIA.
chosert t6 arrogate those successes to htm
self
Whether they will come still rests on the
lap of the war-god. If the Czar Is still undr
the persuasion of his evil friends, If he falls
to place In command generals of proved
ability and experience, he will add disaster
to defeat It Is not likely that there Is an
other strategist In Russia today who could
have accomplished the superb retreat of tho
Grand Duko from the Dunajco to tho Vis
tulo, from the Vistula to the Dvlna, with an
army stilt n menace to the greatest army on
earth.
DID DUMDA FORGET GENET?
THE nearest parallel to tho Dumba case
In American history occurred In 17D3,
when Edmund Genet, the Minister of the
new French republic, attempted to use this
country ns a bnio of operations against Eng
land. Tho proclamation of a republic In
Franco had been welcomed with enthusiasm
here. England had declared war on tho
Trench because of tho threat to annex Bel
glum. If Belgium should become part of
Franco It was feared that British maritime
suprcmncy would be threatened by French
possession of the great port of Antwerp a
curious and Interesting parallel to tho rea
sons for tho entrance of England Into tho
present war.
Oonct was sent hero to charter privateers
and to organize expeditions against the ad
jacent Spanish and British possessions. He
wns welcomed enthusiastically in Charles
ton, 8. C, where ho Innded, and his Journey
to Philadelphia, then tho national capital,
wni a triumphal procession. Ho thought
that tho nation was with him. But Presi
dent Washington had Issued a neutrality
proclamation before Genet renched tho cap
ital, and tho Government was determined to
maintain tho strictest Impartiality In Its
dealings with all belligerents, Prlvatcor3
were fitted out, however, and sent to sea
without violation of our neutrality, for that
was the custom In those days. But when
Genet Bought to set up admiralty courts for
the salo of the ships seized by the privateers
the clash came. The French Minister threat
ened to appeal to tho people against tho do
clslon of the President, and ho had closo
relations with the leaders of one of the po
litical parties. He used nil tho Ingenuity
at his command to lmolvo America In tho
war. But when a prize ship, the fate of
which had not been settled to tho satisfac
tion 'of this Government, was nllowed to go
to sea In violation of the promise that It
would be held until a decision could be
reached, matters had reached a crisis and
Washington Instructed Jefferson, who had
been playing politics with Genet, to ask the
French Government to recall its Minister.
Genet was recalled, but he remained In tho
United Stntcs and died here In 1834.
Tho attempt of a foreign Minister to In
terfere with tho activities of the Government
and people of the United States failed, with
disastrous results to tho Minister.
AN OLD TENNIS KING
( "W'OUTH not only was served, but ga-e
jl mignty service In return, at the Forest
Hills finals, when William Johnston won the
tennis championship of America. McLaugh
lin, whom ho defeated, Is an old man as
tennis champions go. Williams, tho elimi
nated champion of last year. Is already past
his prime. Yet neither McLoughlln nor
Williams Is over 25.
Tho champions come and go in a regal pro
cession. No game Is more clean than this
one, more unsuspected of foul play, more
generously disputed. From the limbo of a
sissy's game It has been restored to lta proper
place. It Is actually more the grown-up
American game than baseball has ever been.
Though Its champions are young, its devo
tees are of all ages
DAYS OF HIGH ROMANCE
THERE are days when all the news of
the world seems to be tinged by the color
of a few outstanding Items and to breathe
a separate fragrance For many months tho
color has been tho dull red of war, but within
the last week a new element has been felt.
In simplest terms It has been tho element
of romance In Now York, that prosy me
tropolis oji two prosaic rivers, a woman has
Bued a man for failure to unite "two souls
in a one-soul world!" The suprlslng, the ro
mantic thing Is that she should ever have
expected him to accomplish the miracle.
Also from New York comes tho account of
a young man who dressed himself In a robe
of glory to win his love, and lost her because
the robe of glory Is notoriously unable to
pay taxi bills.
These are lesser romances beside the
traglo eplsodo related to theso shorca from
Italy. Tho unhappy story of a nobleman and
a noble girl who were compelled to live
apart, and so chose to die together, has
something of the high Bcductlve power of
Paolo and Francesca. Its fragrance Is of
eternal sadness and eternal glory.
Bound the corner, oven In this terrible
year, romance lingers, and the glamour of
her face can be seen from afar.
It Is an unusual woman who can be a
silent partner.
They seem to be saying In nussla, "Let
Nicholas do It."
Jitney? Jitney? But, my dear sir, what Is,
or was, a JItney7
Grand Duke Nicholas has been sent to lead
the retreat from the Caucasus,
Von Tlrplts has been on a vacation. Hav
ing a quiet time at Kiel, mayhap?
What s more pathetic than a small boy
who wants to go to school, but can't7
Tho plow has turned up more burled treaa
ure than trove hunters ever discovered.
The President Is evidently not ready yet
for the indorsement of the New Jersey Dem
ocrats. Attorney General Brown thinks that he
can stand by his guns without going to
Plattsburg to learn how.
"Wh'y Is It difficult for the public to assume
that a. bank clerk can have any reason for
suicide except defalcation?
If all t)e mu'aslinglng energies of tho city
are exerted In the new subway trench there
ought to b'e a clean mayoralty canvass.
The attempt to "shake down" the police
men and firemen for campaign contributions
Is not authorized by Director Porter.
Some husban(i are fortunate, for If their
wives had the privilege of sentencing them
to Jail they would not get o lo easily as
that man whose w!f flaed bla trB la tba
4caiinty jsrlsoa jyttrr.
CAMP LIFE IN THE
YOSEMITE VALLEY
Shirt-Sleeve Democracy in tho Mecca
of Transcontinental Travelers.
Canvas Metropolis Amid
Tented Cities
By REV. DAVID M. STEELE, D. D.
I HAVE been to all tho chief resorts,. I
think, In tho United States where Na
ture's wanders aro made centres for sight
seeing. I havo essayed descriptions of them
through a dozen years professionally. I nm
glad I put off this trip to Yoscmlto until the
last, for It Is climax to tho whole: It la ns
different from each of tho others as it Is
superior to nil of them In Its peculiar forms
of fascination.
Elsewhere one catches piecemeal nn Im
pression of tho scale upon which Nature
does things, reveals her marvels and re
serves surprises. One who travels East or
Wen transcontinental learns the wtdo
reaches of the prairies, the height to which
mountains may be piled, the density of for
ests, width of rivers, charm of valleys and
sonorous sound of waterfalls, the slzo of
trees, and, above all, the ago thus Indicated,
tho antiquity, Btcrn dignity and rcposo of
Illimitable time nnd Imperturbable sllenco.
Hero, however, ono finds all these things
at once.
The Big Thing
While tho Yosemlto may well be the last
place to visit In a scries If ono follows a
progressive order and would work up to a
climax It was one of tho flm regions of
our great natural wonder lands to bo made
Into n national park. It Is more than 40
years now since It began to attract tourlstn.
But Its interest has grown rather than
diminished. That is why this summer this
is the "big thing" to do out here. Not tho
Fair, not either of them for that matter, but
tho Yoscmlto and tho big trees together
these are Mecca, It would seem, for every
pilgrim who on his route East or West goes
perforce North or South through one or other
of two Junctions whence tho Journey may bo
made with ease.
A plateau Is at tho bottom of the valley,
ns flat nnd extensive as you would climb hills
to attnln elsewhere Tho peaks nnd sum
mits arc great sawed-off buttresses which
taper downward, so that Hides of mountains
seem not only to stand straight but to lean
over backward toward you. Away off above
aro tho vast meadows of the sky, dotted with
sheaves of cloud on tho bluo background as
white themselves as the flower-covered car
pet whero you He In blue.
About you everywhere there aro cholco
spots for camps with denso forest for shado
undcrlooklng peaceful valleys high up In
tho air.
And there are camps also, as many as
places Indeed, thcro Is no other way of
living for thoso who Would sojourn In this
out-of-doors There are admirable perma
nent camps, as big as army encampments;
and they have all the needful accessories,
automobiles and stages, four-horse coaches,
saddlo horses, telephones, electric lights and
nil other conveniences, insuring a delightful
stay of a day or a week or a month In the
mountains Hereabouts are half a dozen
tented cities Here Is a metropolis of can
vas in the centre of tho wilderness. Hero
are a postWnco, express, telephono and tele
graph ofDcos, office of tho superintendent of
the park, a general storo and all kinds of
curio emporiums. With amazing resource
fulness, every detail has been nrranged for
comfort, for convenience nnd for cleanli
ness. Tho Joys hero of camp life aro commingled
with every device known to tho city habi
tant. There are swimming pools, dancing
pavilions, baseball grounds, tennis courts,
bowling alleys, soda fountains, laundries,
yes, and "movies " Think of a Palace Hotel
turned into a 1000-square mllo public park,
the lobby made of rustic logs of firs, the car
pets deep pine needles, the orchestra a moun
tain stream, the heating system a campflre
of cedar logs and tho illumination a million
living firebrands dropping from a cliff 3000
feet above your head and you may gain an
idea of this forest hostelry.
In this comp tho "help" are largely from
tho colleges. A very fine lot of young peo
ple, Western collcgo boys nnd co-eds, waited
on our tables and toted our baggage,
sweatered, blazered, badged and decorated in
their negligee nttlre with every form of ath
letic and Hellenic monogram and cryptogram.
To say that the guests could not bo told from
the help was, upon the whole, a compli
ment to the guests.
No Houses Locked
Hero was a sample In truth of a shirt
sleeve democracy. In all of these camps
last night, put together, 6000 people slept,
not to say without a lock on a door for
there Is hardly a door in the valley but with
scarcely so much as a tent flap closed. There
was a motley variety of guests, rich, poor,
old, young, wise and otherwise, who sat
around great campfires and at 9 o'clock
withdrew to soundest fslumber.
Which, last of all, reminds me; ono must
see the valley In tho moonlight. I had lain
awake and listened to the music whilo, there
In the wilderness, hundreds of people danced.
I waked again to hear tho Bound of tho
wind in the trees, and yet again was wak
ened by tho very silence It was so Intense.
If one Is to use a night like this for sleep
he must sleep soon and soundly; for tho
early Intrusion of the morning mountain
light Is as surprising as tho twilight was
long, slow and lingering. But this night
happened to be that of tho full moon and in
that weird light the cliffs had a charm and
made an appeal It would have been a dese
cration to sleep through.
I went forth stealthily and wandered at
will where the only sound was not a sound
at all, but the far echo of the sound of fall
lng waters, and tho only sights were shad
ows rather which tho darkness but made
visible, If you ever have tho luck to tread
the meadows where the Asphodel shall grow
and where Lethe Itself will pour Its life
giving post mortem stream, you may have
this experience. But, if by any chance you
fear you may miss that, then go to Yosemlte.
And, having decided to go, plan to go In tho
August full moon and stay over night.
A WAR "EXAM" QUESTION
JL?Sit talr-trlner collection to
name riant off the bat who la the commander
Illchmond Tlmei-Dlapatch.
WHOM A DREAM HATH POSSESSED
He whom a dream hath possessed treads the
Impalpable marches,
Prom the duit of the day's !og road toe
leaps to a laughing star.
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WOOLMAN'S COUNSEL TO THE RICH
Quaker Reformer Had Something to Say on Questions Which
Trouble Our Own Times Idleness, Actual and "Con
structive" An Early Anti-Slavery Advocate
By LUKE GUARDIAN
IN MAKING plans for tho purchaso and
preservation ot the house of John Wool
man tho Friends' Historical Society is per
forming a real servlco to tho public. A
memorial to this famous Quaker will bo of
Interest to people of other lands, as well
us of our own.
Tho Journal Is a classic of literature,
not Indeed a major classic, but still a classic
Lamb said, "Get tho writings of John Wool
man by heart." Crabb Robinson called tho
Journal "a perfect gem," declaring Its stylo
to bo "of tho most exquisite purity nnd
grace." Channlng considered it beyond
comparison tho purest nnd sweetest auto
biography In the languago. Tho other
Quaker who has a distinguished placo In
America's hall of literary fame, John Green
leaf Whlttler, said that In editing Woolman's
pages he was awed and solemnized by tho
presence of a screno and beautiful Bplrlt.
The True Medium
Who now reads the writings of this clerk,
school teacher, tailor, Itinerant Friend,
preacher, foe of slavery? Today there seems
to be a revival of Interest In the Journal.
Perhaps Doctor Eliot's warm recommenda
tion has had something to do with it.
Though Woolman'a literary fame rests
largely on the Journal, he wrote' much else
that well repays Investigation. Some of his
remarks on "worldly" affairs such subjects
ns wealth and poverty, labor and idleness
havo a fitness for tho present times, not bo
cause they contain any advanced economics
but because they embody teachings rooted
deeply In Christian charity.
Many of these paragraphs have a com
monplaco sound, yet commend themselves
by their simple shrewdness. They may be
quoted without comment:
"Having from my Childhood been used to
bodily Labour for a Living, I may express
my Experience therein.
"Bight Exerclso affords an Innocent Pleas
ure In the Time of it, and prepares us to
enjoy tho Sweetness of Rest; but from tho
Extremes each Way arise Inconveniences.
"Moderate Exercise opens the Pores, gives
tho Blood a lively Circulation and tho better
enables us to Judge rightly respecting that
Portion of Labour which Is tho true
Medium."
And this: "Idle men are often a Burden
to themselves, neglect the Duty they owe to
their families, and become burdensome to
others also."
And: "I have often observed that too
much Labour not only makes the Under
standing dull, but so intrudes upon tho Har
mony of the Body, that after ceasing from
our Toll, we have another to pass through
before wo can bo bo composed as to enjoy
me sweetness oi nest."
Caution to the Rich
Tho following paragraph bears relation to
the next succeeding quotation: "When
Wages In a fruitful Land bear so small a
Proportion to the Necessaries of Life that
poor, honest people who have Families can
not by a moderate Industry attain to a com
fortable Living nnd give their Children suf
ficient Learning, but must either labour to
a Degree of Oppression, or else omit that
which appears to be a Duty," then
"If a Man successful In Business extends
Part of his Income In Things of no real Use,
whllo tho Poor employed by him pass
through great Difficulties in getting tho
necessaries of Life, this requires his serious
Attention."
"Wealth desired for Its own sake," wrote
Woolman, "obstructs the increase of virtue,
and large possessions in the hands of selfish
men have a bad tendency, for by their means
too small a number of people are employed
In useful things, and some of them are ne
cessitated to labour too hard, while others
would want business to earn their bread,
were not employments Invented which, hav
ing nc- real usefulness, servo qnly to please
tho vain mind" "If more men wero use
fully employed, and fewer ate bread as a
reward for dofrg that which la not useful,
food and raiment would on a reasonable esti
mate be more in proportion than they are
at present. All of which, like the Sermon
on the Mount, Is "economically fallacious,."
In "A Word of Remembrance and Caution
to the Rich": "Goodness remains to be
goodness, and the direction of pure Wisdom
la obligatory on fdl reasonable Creatures "
Pppeaea Slimjr
Woolman waa one of the earliest of antU
slavery advocates. He himself describes the
incident which brought the slavery question
practically' before him. TbU waa In 174 J or
fi. wnen wooinian waa In hU
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sold her and desired mo to write a bill of
sale, tho man being waiting who had bought
her. Tho thing wns sudden; and though I
felt uneasy at tho thoughts of writing an
Instrument of slavery for ono of my fellow
creatures, yet I remembered that I was hired
by tho year, that It was my master who
directed mo to do It, and that It was an
elderly man, a member of our Society, who
bought her, so through weakness I gave
way and wrote It; but at tho executing of
it I was so nffllcted In my mind that I said
before my master and tho Friend that I be
lieved slavekeeplng to bo a practlco incon
sistent with the Christian religion. This in
Bomo degree abated my uneasiness; yet as
often as I reflected seriously upon it I
thought I should havo been clearer if I had
desired to bo excused from it, as a thing
against my conscience for such It was.
Some time after this a young man of our
Society spoke to me to wrlto a conveyance
of a slave to him. I told him it was not
easy to write it; for, though many In our
meeting and In other places kept slaves, I
still believed the practice was not right, and
desired to be excused from tho writing. I
spoke to him In good will, and he told mo
that keoplng slaves was not altogether
agreeable to his mind, but that the slave
being a gift to his wife, he had accepted
her."
These qualms developed Into a whole
hearted enmity against the slave business
and Woolman'a lnfluenco became widespread
and powerful, so that his nam must be
enrolled among tho great reformers.
THE NEW TEMPERANCE
War Has Done More in tho Fight Against
Drink Evil Than All tho Orators.
It Is not unlikely that the war and some of
the measures which some of the belligerent
governments have had to take In self-defense
for the restriction or suppression of the use of
alcohol, especially in its more potent forms,
have impressed upon more people the value,
the virtue or the necessity of total abstinence
than all the rhetoric and all the too often
romantic statistics of the prohibitionists, from
Neal Dow to the Antl-Saloon League and the
robustious Captain Hobson. Whatever back
slldlngs a long peace may bring to the Russian
mujlk, suddenly cut off from his one wretched
ana false "consolation," tho great Increase in
V IV. """ "" Deposits in a year of
hard times Is a most persuasive argument for
total abstinence. It Is not moral. It is ad
dressed to the pocket, a moro sensitive organ
In a good many of us than tho conscience.
tr'K 'i iT10 thnt millions of persons in the
United States drink in moderation, confining
themselves to beer or light wines, and many
L'ldnmth0" afrorV d"n. though they are
on' J0, nes who spend the most In devo
hn.h .n T? r8t- Zt. la true' t00' we think, that
fni J" thK,C.?Untr, and Canada the quicken
ing of prohibition activity and the enlargement
of dry territory, however naturally Inspired by
Man nW ,nmb"lo,n8. " misinterpret
tlon of the essential question. A reaction
against alcohol is going on. It Is portly social
partly scientific, partly moral, partly and most
powerfully economic, Young men, man!? of
them protected by their athletics fronT excess
um-Wi ra"0ad nnd olher corporations bani
i..'n.1 drlnk,nK men from employment. They
aee that no man Is trusted or can lone keen
his post who has a passion, or even a Sporadic
weakness, for alcohol. Thev Z A.. "pora1al0
world in this age of machSar? h gh pTerf
Then there Is the waste, the loss th
No-J.!1 J" lne ' taucto to sVcces.
society has been founded which iu 2 , a
with the economlo ,"3e of drinking ' tM'1'
the diminution of efflclenei and the econnm."
waite cauaed by drink Volunteer tot!i?SnH0
MILITARY GENIUSES
Jackson. He laid particular i,.17 Le 0r
fact that the Civil WaThad produced mi?0n.th8
one military genius and that Vvw1 mor6 ,han
in this reapw .. y.7lSSMB W""
Curiously enough, the two HpsneWi '.
receiving the greatest Vrali. VI 7 i" ar
the Allies are not iwttSftVS Jni "d '
It was for this that Joffii red LrtreiU
and so It la now that Orwd DduSra',.
extricating the Ru.slan fVrSe. Wcho1"'
w.rrt mrw., I. ""!-. u5 Jtt their bank.
Joffre without a doubt savei t.j
ve.tm.nt. The Grand Duktf. ??? fr0ra ln'
the Rui.tan force, from , anniSli1?." ,4ve4
those general, at pr.vC iS,ISlwuI11. Bot
" n stacking, but Jheyerbi"''ewl.e
bound hand and foot by the lack y.v .b,e
On the side ot the Oeman. Jl f ramu,ltlon.
have obtaln.d 8TU.Wam!,i5 f "! who
burg. Von KluclT Von v!c&tJn IUndel'
ulew, -Sack il, "Wi nd Von
it remains to be Been whether any one ot the
will take rank with Grant or Lee.
Tho evidence Indicates that the wars of t.
day and tomorrow will not be won by In.
vldual strategic accomplishment. Munitions tat
preparedness aro the greatest captains. Ti
battles that America will fight In the futon
are being won or lost today In the Amsrleta,
arsenals and munition factories, In the ltailtv
tlons upon the standing army, In the naum
of tho coast defenses and In tho manner It,
which Congress provides a greater navy..'
Worcester Post
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
The one and Immediate duty of the TJnlteJ
States Is to mnko rational preparations for of
fense. Columbia State.
Evidently Doctor Dumba either knows notl.
lng of the obligations of his position or h dw'
not care. In cither case he should be reminded
of them. Chicago Journal.
However little good thoy may see In America,
tho pro-German organizations might now aal
then profitably devote a session to praise ot
liberty. Springfield Republican.
It Is time to Intervene In Mexico and to brlsf
to that helpless people the only promise ot
peace and national progress that can be dl
rernpd. No nation ever acted with a clean
conscience or a stronger brief In the court of'
International Justice. Chicago Tribune
If Senator Kern's party had made sooj the
promise ot relief on which it stood for office.
it could oppose with some consistence essentllU
expenditures for national self-protection on thij
ground that the people should be saved from,
oppressive burdens. Detroit Free Press. '
TO A DEAD FRIEND
If I could believe that all your wlnsomeneu
Had faded from the face ot God's great world.'
That neither here nor there your snlrlt walktti
With all its glory and Its strength unfurled, it
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l A tuuiu uciiciv iimv ail uur ucrua wrcrp
xmugiu.
And, without purpose, all your lofty thought
Then grief would pierce my young he.
through and through.
And Earth would lose its Joy in losing you.
But not In vain the character you wrought, f
And not in vain the splendid hours we knew. 4,
Oh, sweet the wonder of our kindred thought, d
And wise the counsel that I gleaned from yoatl
Because I know that Btlll more radiant sklei
Are somewhere meeting your untroubled eye, a
Because I reel the things you dreamed to do -God,
in His love, must some day make come?
true. - i
Life Is still sweet for me and all its pain j
Is laid to rest, for we shall meet again! 1
Vera F. Keevera, In Springfield Republican, f
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