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One rar.... tT.M I On month 1.63 X Jhi Ccrtifxe tbt tbt circvlmUoo of fM. 11 hueaaa&ietj gaarmnteeiby the Adrirtaer CeruBed CinoUuioa Sloe Book Jss Paper ha prorrd by mmtimtioa that the dtxalauoa rKOrdt an kept with tare tad the circvlstioa elated nub such accuracy that adwthen may rely on any stscraarais Ol hoi maum or io puymnen ander the traerflip amf maMgcaitht vol a it control SentemDe 1908. The extreme pleasure we take In listening to ourselves should make us fear that we may give very little to those - who listen to us. La Roche focauld. i ' ' ' TIIE SIGXIFICAXCE OP MR HILL IT WAS the significance of the occasion rather than the .d latin, ; rulsf d group gathered there, . that made the Hill banquet not able UThe San-, of that hour came with no boast on his Hps, but with ' a plea to Oregonlans to maintain the productiveness of thelf soil. The productiveness of this soil, he de cl ared, Is the people's richest herit age, and of greater worth than all of the minerals of the Cascade and Rocky mountains combined. - Fifty years of the future, he insisted, will mean a population of 200,000,000 in the United States, and that will mean they must grow a, 3 00, 00 0,0 00 bushels of wheat or double what Is now produced. ' And thus, the significance of the occasion was James J. Hill. The soil's productiveness, not the rail road, Is king, according to this rail road master. In the moment of enthusiasm when the opening of a railroad, that is nearest of all to his heart, was being celebrated, he turned and reminded those who celebrated that It Is the soil and the soil builders that must . be recog nized, and that it is their achieve ments that must go to the head, of the corner. No word spoken at any banquet anywhere is more freighted with meaning. It is the first construct ive act of a constructive genius af ter his advent Into Portland. It Is a glimpse of the plan that he has for developing the state In whose life and business he has become a factor. It discloses the Hill policy of first building for the material benefit of every unit, and out of the collective prosperity to secure an honest profit for himself. It acknowledges the men on the farms and the soil that they work as the first step to state wealth, and accurately deducts that from their achievements, along with those who go to the soil in other activities, must come the profits for others, the railroads among them. Better than any . disclosure of what. lines he would build in Oregon, is this declaration of a policy to be in , augurated as a part of the working plan of the railroad said to be the most splendid yet produced. Greatest in all its significance, is what such a policy means for Port land. What will it mean to Port land If a t great invested railroad caDltal of $45,000,000 is de voted to building up Oregon rather than preying upon Ore gon. What will It mean to Port land, the Inevitable grain center of an enormous region, if the influence behind these multiplied railroad millions is exerted in creating more interest in a productive soil, in cre ating a doubled grain production, quadrupled livestock production, a multiplied orchard production, and an Intensified output of dairy prod ucts?. What of the-city that Is to the master mart in the exchange and distribution of these aggregated products? Mr, Hill points the way. He spent $45,000,000 before he assumed the right to point the way. He spent $45,000,000 as a result of the con fidence he has that the way he points Is right. He set a "costly ex ample first and then gave out the precept. Does Portland compre hend the significance of Mr. Hill, end the Hill banquet? How can she avoid it? According to a statement by In terstate Commerce Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, the railroads, as a whole, have been more prosperous during 1908 than ever before, ex cept lb e preceding yeaf . j The aver afco -operating revenue1 per mile of tb lines jSer month for the 226,000 miks of railroad reporting to the ot, : n was -$894 for the fiscal. . ".r i f .l i'OS. This was leas by $61 than for the year of, 1907, but it was more than for the : preceding year, and was $118 per rmlle per month more than in the year of the last presidential election, so It seems that the railroads have been doing pretty, well even during the time of depression, and "?' they will certainly do better In the immediate future, and so should be able to Improve and extend their systems to meet the growing demands of the country. THE LAWS DELAYS F RESIDENT-ELECT TAFT, in an address a few weeks ago, ani madverted on the law's JelayB. in tne trials of cases, and In whatever else people may differ with him, all, except possibly some law yers, can agree with him on the need of reform In this matter. It is one that can be-brought about only by the cooperation of judges and lead lng and Influential lawyers, and they owe It not only to the country but to their profession tiTundertakir this greatly needed work. There is now In New York a "Commission on the Law's Delays," and K it can success fully start a .movement of genuine reform in this matter it will have rendered .the country an Inestimable service. This commission was appointed by Governor Qdett in 1903, and it has apparently made a good beginning in New York and Kings counties, to which- its work was restricted. Mr. Edward Lawterbach, an eminent New York lawyer, is a member of this commission, and In a recent ar ticle he said: There are few subjects of more importance to the commercial world In this county than the delays in the administration of Justice. For sev eral years past the calendars of all of the courts have been so congested that litigants have been compelled to wait several years before their cases could be reached upon the cal endars for trial' In many cases Justice has been defeated, as import ant witnesses have disappeared or died before the trial of the actions could be bad." This Is true in all large ciUes, and the situation is constantly becoming, Worse unless it be in New York, in consequence of the efforts of this commission. The constant demand is for more Judges, but the real rem edy lies rather in limiting litigation and appeals, and expediting trials. It would perhaps be no exaggera tion to say that three fourths of the time occupied in trials, taken alto gether, is wasted, is used to no good purpose. Mr. Lauterbach gives the follow ing as the principal causes of the congestion of judicial business: ("Increase of litigation; inade quacy of the Judicial force; arrange ment of the Judicial force; defective methods In procedure; sham de fenses to secure delay; the costly referee system; defective calendar practice; multiplicity of appeals; failure to publish judicial statistics; politics." This is not a complete list; to it should be addgdHHniarizing many details irr-irphraso, the dilatory methods of practice throughout the whole procedure. This commission has! brought about some betterment of conditions by the following remedies: "Classification of business; in creasing the number of Justices; di vesting some business to inferior courts; more expeditious procedure; permanent quasi-judicial courts; regulating the present system of compulsory references; relief of the appellate divisions." This work ought to be taken up in all cities, by authority of law or otherwise, and carried forward until litigants can have cases tried out speedily, and all the business of the courts is carried on far more ex peditiously. It may be that for this purpose some more Judges will be needed, but continually increasing the number of judges is not the chief remedy. "The law's delays" are Just about as grievous after ad ditional Judges have been put into office as before. PA ELKINS' DAUGHTER'S DOT T" HE FINANCIAL DETAILS of the "dot," according to the dis patches, are being worked out in the Elklns-Abruzzl engage ment. The figure in the settlement is placed at a million, and with cus tomary shrewdness in all his flnan cial onerations. Pa Elklns insists upon a proper delivery of the goods. First of all, he requires that his daughter, after marriage, shall be received and bailed at the Italian court, Just as though she had been born In the purple. That assurance has v not yet been received, and to make sure that he will get all he bargains for, the long-headed dealer at the American end has called in Queen Margherlta with an InBlstance that she shall be a party to the contract. The operator in coal mines, coal lands, railroads and sen atorial privileges doesn't Intend to be thrown down by false quotations or incorrect market reports In his oDerations in the title exchange. A dukedom is no more to him than an undeveloped coal, mine, and, in his view,' in any deal for either, one la as likely to be loaded as the other. A most interesting phase of the transaction Vl tbat nbe''dot" win make inroads In the senator's secur ities. ? He Is shy of spot cash.'ahd the bond market is low. A million of money for Abruzzi wii'i require the sale pf big - blocks of Securities at a. sacrifice. In a recent trip. o New York the senator is reported to have gone over the situation to be in preparedness to meet with the cash his end of the terms. .. The transaction will be watoJhed with interest In that there Is promise that in this instance, the American dealer will get everything he bar gains for, and that his daughter will become possessor jiot only of the coveted title, and Its appurtenances. but along with it very lair promise of a worthy husband. From sur face Indications, all the titular financiers of Europe with all their successful experience, could not "do" our Intensely practical Senator Elklns out of a penny, wherein, for once, we can applaud him. A TIME FOB PEACE r HE LESSON of every electron Is that it comes too often. The fact is true whether It be fed eral, state or municipal. The Interminable agitation Incident to an BtTuggieB or tne sort interferes with the peaceful and orderly con cerns of life. There was a state election last June and a national election in November, both , with their prolonged campaigns, their word combat, their uncertainty and tneir alignments. Following so closely and contested so strenu ously, they have made all hungry for peace and rest. The business man wants it, the farmer wants it, everybody wants It. The business world needs it, the social life needs it, the upbuilding of Oregon needs it. . There is work to do in the home, in the " counting house, and in the commonwealth that calls for repose and good order, There are public projects to promote, and en terprises for the public welfare to initiate. It Is a time for harmony and concord in the ranks and among the leaders, under the old shibbo leth "to get together" for a "united and greater Oregon." With the elections over and the issues set tled, the opportunity la presented for private concerns to be adminis tered to the greatest profit of each unit In the citizenship, and for pub lic matters to be promoted on a basis of good feeling and general ad vancement. We cannot afford to ba always In strife and struggle. Oregon the par ent, is already far behind Wash ington, the child, fn importance as commonwealth. It is not due to any superior resources of Washing ton that Oregon Is a laggard, but to causes that Oregon people by pro gressive, peaceful, and united effort might easily remove. They cannot remove them by a never-ending Kil kenny cat struggle among them selves, nor by acts of revolution and conspiracy. The legislature of the state is to convene within a few weeks. It should be a session of constructive legislation with no untoward influ ences thrown about it to demoralize and obstruct. It. should be a busi ness session, devoted to- the mate' rial Interests 'of the state, and to the peaceful promotion of the gen eral welfare. For any person or persons to refuse to allow it to be such a session ..will be a crime against Oregon and against the peo pie of Oregon. The way is now clear for a session that can be of Immense service in building for the commonwealth, and it is believed that the various members of the leg islature are men. deeply sensible to the Importance of holding such a session. Any or all who throw ob stacles in their way, and by intro duction of false issues block prog ress toward good, conservative leg islation, are enemies of the state and Its welfare. EDWIX BOOTH AND LINCOLN T HE MARTYRDOM of Lincoln and iter remarkable effect upon the sensitive nature of Edwin Booth, brother of the assassin, is recalled by a graphically told story in the American Magazine. It. is remembered generally, that the great actor never visited Washing ton after the assassination. The art! cle recounts now, several years afterward, Booth, in unutterable sad ness, destroyed the stage costumes of his assassin brother.' The trunk' of John Wilkes Booth - had pees across the border-line In Canada un der Borne arrangement with his Inti mate, John McCullough. The de struction of its contents took place in the basement of a New York the atre, and the details are recounted by a property man who aided In the work. At the performance that evening, Edwin Booth had played bis part as never before. At Its end, he re quested his assistant to come to his room in the theatre and awaken him at 3 o'clock. It was a bleaki stormy bight and the blasts of wind and pelting rain upon the window shutters fitted the occasion-, as the actor. 'and his aid descended to the basement . , Rrioth called far an axe and with it cut the rppefciS Veat off lhe'Iid of the trunk. Handsome s Words and other trappings of the actor's stage life were disclosed to view; One by one the costumes were lifted from their places, surveyed with infinite sadness, and one by one thrust into the flames of the great theatre fur nace. . The play , of emotion was en the "splendid face and In the great black eyes of the actor as the thoughts of a brother's crime and a brother's tenderness mingled In his mind. 'v ;'"f At length a costumft, was reached over whleh Booth gazed wlfh nn- usual tenderness. The tears stream ed from his eyes as he sat down on the edge of the trunk and gave way to emotion. He was lost with his heart struarele until, looking up. be recognized the presence of his as sistant, and sadly said, "It was my father's." "Keep It,M urged the as slstant, but with a stern conviction that nothing with which his recreant brother had been connected should be permitted a place on the earth, he walked to the furnace and him self committed the rich ,and prized habilaments to the flames. With the rest went the polished daggers, and the trunk itself was hurried on to the pyre. A bunch of letters with John Wilkes Booth's name on the superscription was among the con tents. .One after another was gazea at until a sight of a last one brought a blaze of indignation over the face and Into the eyes of the actor, when all were thrust Into the furnace. One lone memento, a wreath, was saved from the sacrificial altar, an altar eloquentfthemotiona,,jtf one who has been without a peer in the histrionic art and whose suffer ings as a result of a president's martyrdom " the world will never fully know. RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS I N THE railway mall service of the country there are about 15, 000 clerks and officers, of whom 14,000 are employed lri railway mail cars and 1,000 as transfer clerks, office clerks and in super visory capacities. These employes are. in the civil service, and must un dergo a thorough examination before being accepted. On appointment, a clerk must learn th names and lo cation of thousands of postoffices, many railroad time tables and many 0th6r details requiring mental ap plication and memory. "It takes about four years of continuous study and application for a railway mall clerk to complete his education and fit himself fully for the best and most responsible positions. The work in many cases is quite onerous and requires "many hours at a stretch. There is also some hazard In the service, and during the last fiscal year one;lerk out of 18 was killed or Injured. If a clerk Is killed In the service his family is paid $1,000, and if Injured without his fault his salary goes on to the maximum time of a year. At rail road company receives about $4,000 a year rental from the government for a mall car while the mail'fiierkB receive from $800 to $1,600,- the average being $1,152. Out of this they must pay all their expenses on the road and at points away from home where obliged to stop. These clerks are organized into an asso ciation, and through this they are modestly asking for an allowance for expenses while on duty amounting to perhaps $150 a year, in addition to their regular salaries. This as soclatlon says: "In all other de partments of the government and elsewhere in our own department, expenses while away from domicile or headquarters are paid clerks and officers, and the principle is univers ally recognized In the business world. We Beem to be the only ex ception and we ask to have It rem edied. We ask for actual expenses rather than raise In salary, because there is bo much difference in ex penses of clerks on . different lines and in different parts of .the coun try, that such an allowance will equalize salaries and give every one a 'Bquare deal.' " It seems to The Journal that this request is reasonable and ought to be granted.- These men must be come experts In their line of work, which Is a very responsible class of work. They must be prompt, quick, accurate and trustworthy. They are an exceptionally capable and faith ful class of public servants and de serve to be well paid for their work. SOCIALISM T HE VOTE for Mr. Debs was surprisingly small, but he is, probably correct in his explan ation that the reason why it is less than four years ago is that many Democrats voted for him then who voted for Bryan In 1900 and 1908. It Is impossible to make any estimate of the . number of such vot ers, but they Were not few. t So it may be true that there has been an Increase in the ranks of real Socialists, yet there is no indi cation that they will ever be more than a small side party in this country. Their political and eco nomic principles Are utterly imprac ticable as long as, mankind 4s what It Is, or anything like what It is. Socialism involves the elimination of selfishness from the human or ganism, and this can only be done by mankind being "born again," being re-created into entirely-dif ferent creatures from what they are, always have been, and so far as we can foresee, always will be. As we remarked recently. Social ism Is not a political or economic cult so much . as ,a religion; it is idealism that requires mankind to be angels. '- . - ' Mr. Bryan needs no advice as to what to do with himself, pow that he has been overwhelmingly' defeated for president, yet his millions bf ad mirers and supporters would be glad to see him get into active public life. In . the senate he , would be a power for good for the (country. But per- j haps he can do more good in other way. -He most "decide "for himseirt He js a. young man yet, only 48, and may have 30 years of vigorous fight for the right in him yet Even then he would not be as old as his friend Tolstoy is now. - - WHILE MR. TAFT PLAYS GOLF S' ENATOR BOURNE has gone to Hot Springs, Va. there to play golf with Mr. Taft In fulfillment of a pact made before the elec tlon. While the game goes merrily on there are resolves the. president elect might enter upon with Infinite benefit to his future and the Amer ican people. Joseph Cannon Is an active candidate for the speakership of the nfext house, and by the past. his ascendency would be a triumph for trustlsm. -Mr. Taft should seek. by the means known to presidents, both for his own sake, and for the country's sake, to prevent Mr. Can non's election. Cannon's defeat for the speaker ship, though not desired by the peo ple of his district and not desired by 4he-Iateresta,4fwJikh;Qekefeller is the exponent, is heartily desired by the American people. The sugges tion merits Mr. Taft's attention. The president-elect B promise Is out that the tariff shall be revised, and nine tenths of those who voted for him are expecting him to see that it is reduced. They supported him In the ' belief that the congress would be of his political complexion, and that he, better than Mr. Bryan, could secure such a reduction. On the other hand, the trusts insist on no reduction of the tariff and voted for Mr. Taft In the -belief "that schedules would not ba reduced. They are claiming that Mr. Taft's election was a triumph for them and all the secret and powerful Influ ences that they know so well how to exert upon members of congress and upon presidents will be. brought to bear- to thwart the popular demand for a revision that will reduce. It will take transcendent moral cour age and splendid executive finesse to successfully resist the trust de mands, but the price would be pledges redeemed, a people bene fitted and the presidency popular ized. It is a policy well worthy "of the president-elect's most deter mined resolve, and it will be Infi nitely to his credit if he adopts it. Many who voted for Mr. Taft were workingmen who were persuaded by Mr. Taft and by Mr. Roosevelt dur ing the campaign that Mr. Taft was the friend of labor. A president can, in the wayB known to presi dents, be wonderfully effective in securing legislation that will prove his friendship for labor. Claiming the defeat of Mr. Bryan was 'a triumph for their policies, the trusts will Insist tlrat they, have been au thorized by the American people to fix the laws governing injunctions' and the relations of trusts and la bor. Pursuant to ante-election pro testations of friendship and for the sake of the men whose toil creates the wealth of this country, the presi dent-elect is in position to hurl back Gompers' charges that he is not a friend of labor. A resolve to stand for Justice between the worklngman and those who exploit him willBe difficult to carry out, because all the potentialities of commercialized in terests will stand in the way. It is a resolve that Mr. Taft should make and that he should fix so firmly in his purpose that all the marshalled forces of Rockefellerlsm cannot al ter his plans. UnleBs the present trend be ar3 rested the American people will dis cover, some day, that the hand of Mammon Is tearing at the republic's vitals. Then the great pendulum will swing. Its sweep will be swift and terrible. There will be a revolt against Standard Oil ownership of senators, of congressmen, of govern-) ors, of attorney-generals and of courts. It will be a ballot revolu tion against Rockefellerlsm and Morganocracy, and In that hour the country will need to be thankful if what It gets is not socialism. Fate and the American electorate have thrust a mighty responsibility upon the president-elect, and he alone can meet It. .FAMOUS GEMS OF PROSE "The Assassination ot Lmcoln'-'-By Lord Beaconsfield ron th address to the crown on a motion of Sir George Grey, which ex pressed the sorrow of the British na tion over the violent death of President Lincoln, in the house of commons, May A, X BWW., There are rare instances, when the sympathy of a nation approaches those tenderer feelings which are generally supposed to be peculiar to the Individual and to be the happy privilege of pri vate life; and this Is one. Under any circumstances we should have beVatled the catastrophe at Washington; under any circumstances we should have shuddered -at - the means ' by which It was accomplished. But in the charac ter of the victim, and even In the ac cessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that It takes the question, as It were, our 'of all the pomp of history and the cere monial of diplomacy It touches the heart of nations and appeals to the do mestic sentiment of-manWnd. . Wbatever the various and varying opinions in this hoUse. and tn the coun try generally, on the policy of the late president of the United States, ail must agree that In one of the severest trials which ever tested 'the' moral qualities of man he fulfilled his duty with sim plicity end strength. ., Nor is It possible for the people of Bngland at such a moment. tojforget t8at he sprang from the tame fatherland and spoke the same mother tonge. When such crimes are perpetrated foe nubile mind is apt to fall Jntd.glo6tn an4 perplexity, for It Is Ignorant alike of the causes Rid - the consequences of such deeds. But If Is "Wealth accumulated on aslant scale by all forms of iniquity, rang ing from the oppression of wage earners to unfair and unwholesome methods of crushing out competition and to defraudlna: the public by stock jobbing and manlpulajlon yof securities." No. it was not Bryan, or Debs, or Watson, or Hisgen, who said 'this, but Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States, and not so very long ago, eltner. ' Evidently Senator Bourne meana to stick pretty closely, if permitted, to Mr. Taft. , The senator is doubt less willing now to admit that he was mistaken when he thought that Bryan would bV elected if Roose velt were not renominated. Mr. Taft says that he does not own an acre of land, He has not even a house and lot of his own, This is not necessarily discredittble, for he has doubtless had to spend all his salary to live, but UJs rather a curious- circumstance. U. m . ' i i ii vdtto.rt l Mr. J. J. Hill is evidently pleased to have got into Portland with his North Bank railroad, although It did cost a big pile of mop ey, and he need not doubt that Portland Is quite as well pleased that he built the road. A Poem for Tod lay- without Haste, Without Rest. By Ooetha. Johann "Wolfgang- von Goethe (1749- 1832) has often been regarded aa far from a1 rengious poet, yet h ha left us a number of passages of line reli gious thought and fervor. The one be low U elected, not because It Is the poet's most devotional potnpohltlon but because It beat expresses the spirit that seemed to govern all his life. Without hastel without rest! . Bind the motto to thy wean; . Bear It with thee s a spell; Storm and sunshine jruard It well! Ha not flowers that round thee bloom. gear it onward to; the tomb. Haste not! Let no thoughtless deed Mar for aye the spirit s speed: Onward, then, with all thy might Haste notl Years can ne'er atone For one reekltss action , done. Rest not! Life is sweep! ftyi Go and dare before you die; cnaiiiln, mlffhtv a.nd sublime Leave behind to conquer time! Glorious 'tis to live for aye. When theae forms nave passes aw. Haste not! Rest not! Calml wait; Meekly bnar the storms of fate! Duty be thy polar guide Do the right, what er betide! Haste not! Rest not! Conflicts past, God shall crown thy work at last The Old Bank's Broke. There's a feeble old couple Having troume, iipr , They've labored hard to save enougn For their declining years; But they 'woke one autumn morning Tn find themselves bereft. That a ticket to the poorhouse Wag all that they had left. Misfortune hit them sudden. Like a paralytic stroke, For the old bank's busted And they're Drone. The children, who were thrifty. Had their money iaia away. By the saving of a penny Or a nickel every day. Their parents very wisely sought To teach them now ujbuvo. irnr monev's always useful Twlxt the cradle and the grave. But Santa daus has played them A naughty little Joke. For the old bank's busted And they'rs broke. The old girl's married. And the old dog's dead. Our beer's been "near" enough To muddle up our head. The driving horse is llmpy. And the buRgy's broken down. And we haven't got a cent's worth Of credit left In town. The working clothes are ragged And the Sunday one's in soak, Now the old bank's busted M. L. Carter of Sandrldge, Union County, in La Grande Star. Sir Edwin Henry Egerton's Birthday Sir Edwin Henry Egerton. British am bassador to italy, who is a conspicuous figure In the negotiations for a settle ment of the Balkan troubles, was born November 8, 1841. He received his edu cation in the best schools of England and continental Europe and In 1869 he entered the diplomatic service of his country. In 1179 he became secretary of the British legation in Buenos Ayres. From the Argentine metropolis he was transferred to Athens in jssi ana re mninnri thero three vears. Then in turn he served as consul-general to Egypt and secretary of embassy at Constanti nople and at Paris. In 1892 he was pro-! moted to the position of minister- to Greece. This position he held until four years ago when he became the British mhiinnr tn th ROurt of Italy. Sir Edwin in 1895 to the daughter of Prince Nicholas Lobanow Bostowsai. one of our duties, to, reassure them un der unreasoning panlo and despondency. Assassination has never changed the history of the wprld. 1 will not refer to the remote past, though an accident has made the most memorable instance of antiquity at this moment fresh In the.mtnJs and memory of all around me. But even the costly sacrifice of a Caesar did not propitiate the Inexorable destiny of his country. If we look to modern times, to times at least with the feelings of which we are familiar, and the people of which were animated and Influenced by the same Interests as ourselves, ; the violent deaths , of two heroic men, Henry IV of France and the prince of Orange, are conspicuous Illustrations of this truth. ' , In expressing our unaffected and pro found sympathy with the citlsens of the United States on this untimely end of their elected chief, let us not, there fore, sanction any feeling of depression, but rather let us express a fervent hope that from out of the awful trials of the last four years, of which the least is not this Violent demise, the various pop ulations of North America may Issue eievated' ahd hasleried."rlcn" with the accumulated-wisdom and strong In the disciplined energy which, a young na tion csn only acquire in a protracted and perilous struggle. .Then they will be enabled not merely' to renew their career of power and prosperity, but they will renew it to contribute to the gen eral happiness of mankind. It is with these feelings that I second the address to the crown. ' , A. Sermon for Tod ay What Is It For? By Henry F. Cope. 'For the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed." Romans, vili, 18. HAT Is It all for? There come days when the heart, sinking In weariness at the steady and of ten dull round of. tasks, asks - this question. Our life grows steadily more complex, we work harder than our fathers did; we accomplish 10 times as much,but do we have any more life than they had? All life Is toll; what is Its fruitage? The smoke of our cities rises to the heavens. , The din of our industry sounds through the land. Life is all a. story of mills and factories, offices and stores, labor and wages, tools and, toll on one side ana on the other care, ' anxiety, sorrow and fleeting Joys. It costs much to live; what does one pur chase at this price? Have we simply acquired a habit of hustling, of hard work, which has so possessed us. all that now, willing or unwilling, we must keep up with the I"?.1, wa must maintain the pace or iKJJ"h; he feet of the onrushlng tollers f 'Weko w Just why we have to take Hie so aerioualv anH i, .n stern an affair? ' " " Even those who get the profits of the modern pace, seem to be none the hap pier; they may sit in more luxurious of fices, but thev are vn mnr .n.ni,..,. ly enslaved than their own tollers. We learned how to make things but have we learned why we live, are we sure Of securing the real product of life? Man must be here In time for some thing other than building cities,, for something better than simply making the life of those who may follow him more oomnlex and-arrtunna ly the great wheels were all to stop. If rauimoi wi musi taxe stock, what would the universe have tn hn th. product ef this great mill of humanity? In a few years our cities would crum ble i.o ; dust, our gold, and silver would be valueless! indeed,, all that we have made, all that our hands have so pain fully fashioned through all the cen turies, is valuable only as furnishing tools for further work. The end can not be in the things that we can see, for none of them has any intrinsic worth tpff- Trom n ervlce they can render. If all OUr Work is hut malrlnr l.l what is to be made with the tools? What io ib proauct or eternity? , The meas- UILe. 2 Jany wH1 be the extent to which ---ft Trroducw and perfects -this product. The Tightness of every social f?rm order may be measured by thU; this Is the final teat of every life. There Is the um tnt-v in tK to.. ellngs of modem business in the sweat and agony of modern living, as we read looking back through the times befora our hands began to write history. In sandstone and In granite is the story cut, in the marks of reptile and qua ruped; mankind lri the making. Geology has written the first nhantar r?iiiF.. atlon writes the second in that atnrv of humanity coming Into ever larger living. . Throusrh toll and trnuM. v,snr.. and love, weariness and wpe. In the mills oi ear in, me tools of eternity are work V .is the,r toM we hear In the ottya dull roar; their keen edge we feci when we smart with some strange pain. Here is making that which is finer than anything that can be cut in marble, the glory of character. It is hard to see farther than our own ?hi v ?2r?r..in tnU "ruggle; we cannot ....... .....I u rvpuiea iook rorward to the coming man. It takes faith for man to look forward to the coming being. Yet he catches glimpses of a glory yet to be. He feel th living i for somehow there Is more than heart less, flawless nature at work here. The struggle goes on. but becauso he has a capacity for the divine, because he has learned that at the heart of all beats a father's affection, man has faith to live for the goal that such love sets before him The glory of the higher llf? i" lnat U ves glimpses of the life yet to be and sets the goal ever clearer before the eyes so that men press on for the fuller life set before them. Sentence Sermons ' By Henry F. Cope. Hatred always hinders. Giving grudgingly Is sowing sparing- It will not make you godlike to call others godless. It takes more than a flow of words to wash the world. The cynic is one who has found stolen fruits not so sweet To praise a good action la to partici pate in its repetition. He cannot defend the .truth who is afraid of any truth. -It takes adversity to show whe4h- we have any real prosperity. , He who has nothing fo do always does worse than nothing. . Getting sore at the world Is a ready way of laming yourself in the race. He does npt know what forgiveness Is who is too lasy to resent a wrong. Trying to get even with an (tmrnv la a sure way of sinking below him. The worst Of al! fnlluraa ira thnan who never fail because they never try. The man who has nothino- but r .ruc tion puts his headlight on the caboose. It's a. waste of time tn flx 11 n vnnr statistics for the benefit of the record ing angel. WW - Many a man thinks he is a saint be cause he has dream of heaven every Sunday. The man who talks to Dlease himself soon has an audience well oleased with Itself. One resolution to Ao the rlsht- thin la worth a bushel of resolutions not to do wrong things. " " v. W If vour faith does not Justify Itself by Its fruits there's little use worrying over its root a It's no use preaching aaralnat the sins . of peode In a way that provokes them to profanity. ' Thar never waa a Ahnnh that want down except it had first failed to get down and serve men. 7ArTat arhea than fc1n tnm , rrm th. honey the preacher puts into bla ser- . mon on Saturday night. . He who thinks thit the ton makes tha man will never have a job big enough to make a man of him. . When the adversary nuts srnld In vont- hands he gets Its weight on your heart and Its pocketbook in your mouth. ' This Dates in History. I7T7 Americans repulsed British 'st- tack, on Mud -Fort, which, later became- -Fort Mifflin, . i; ' . 1798 Alexander Vsttemare. ' founder of 'the system of international- ex changes, born In Paris.' Died Thero. . April 7, 864. - ' , V ' 1813 General Jackson defeated-' th Indians In buttle -of- Tallegsda. , 1829 British government opened tha West India trade to the United States. 1638 Justice Kufus W. Peckham of the United States supreme court born in Albany. N. Y. ' I864Abraham Lincoln reelected pres. Ident Of he United States.
