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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.