A mosquito is the con
crete IDCLTUftllUO Ui MIC I
mystery of evil. LlewellyAn
J. Evans.
What Mermaids There Must Be on the
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Here's bit of a midsummer da1
High Martial Fervor of Verse
on Nation Preparing for
Sacrifice Stirs Patriotism.
Nearly all of Walt Whitman's poems
about the Civil war are as stirring
and as applicable to this present time
and 'war as they were to his own
times. The hlgrh martial fervor and
the pictures of a na.tion arming and
stepping forth to battle for the Ideals
of justice, freedom and democracy in
his collection of war poems "Drum
Taps," speak the spirit of today with
passion, imagination and spiritual ex
altation. Beat! beat! drums! blow! bugles!
blow!
Through the windows through doors
burst like a ruthless force.
Into the solemn church and scatter
the congregation.
Into the school where the scholar la
studying; , .
Leave not the bridegroom quiet no
happinss must he have now
with his bride.
Nor the peaceful farmer any peace,
ploughing his field or gathering
his grain,
So fierce you whirr and pound you
drums so shrill you bugles
blow.
In the "Song of the Banner at Day
break," wherein a . poet, a child, a
father and the banner and pennant
voice their demands; the child thrilled
and longing, the father trying to sat
imtv it with oromlses of peace and
comfort, the banner and pennant call
ing for sacrifice and the poet singing
th hih mission or tne nag, mere ib
a glowing rendering of what the flag
means to the true American. The poet
concludes:
So loved O you banner leading the
dav with stars brought from
VaiiiiPK ohiprt of eves, over all and
demanding all (absolute owner
of all) O banner and pennant:
t tstn iva t-ha rst--rreat as it is.
it Is nothing houses, machines
are nothing I see them not,
t hut vou O warlike pennant! O
banner so broad, with stripes.
sing you only.
Flapping up therein tjie wind.
The New York Times Review of
Books said recently, in a long editorial
on these poems as an interpretation of
the spirit of the tfnltcd States "on Its
entrance Into the great world struggle
against autocracy" that "Poetry of
this kind, touched with the highest
aspiration of a mighty republic ad
dressing Itself to wafe must appeal
irresistibly to the patriotism evoked
by the great events filling the world
today."
Apes Tend to
Make One Nervous
Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, who has
spent more than 30 years in Japan and
the Orient, is the author of "As The
Hague Ordains," "China, the Long-
Lived Empire," etc. In "Java, the Gar
den of the East." Miss Scidmore tells a
story which Is an all too dreadful re
minder of "The Murders in the Rue
Morgue."
, Tea was being taken on the porch of
a Dutch matron. The lady took a ba
nana and called, "Peter, Peter!"
There was a rustle and a crash of
houghs overhead, and a great ape,
nearly the size of a man, swung from
one tree branch to another, snatched
the banana and bounded back into the
tree, where itpeered cunrttngly at the
visitors while it ate. oAfter that. Miss
Scidmore atates that every rustle in
the shrubbery made them jump, um
brellas were kept at hand for defense,
and solemn compact was made that no
one should be left unguarded.
Honors for Zane Grey
" Zane Grey, author of "WildfiM,
"Riders of the Purple Sage" and other
hovels of the southwest, had the'hon
orary degree of Master of Letters con
ferred upon him by the University
of Pennsylvania on June 20. Mr. Grey
hag ' left his .Pennsylvania honro for
a western trip through the . Glacier
'National park, Oregon, and California.
WHITMAN'S POEMS OF
THE CIVIL WAR ARE
AS SIRING TODAY
JJVBM - " -
from a Pacific port, where
INTffi; LIBRARY
Among th- book recently to I be Pub
lic Central library are the folRfcvj-f :
Biorraphy
Kimball' Soldier-Do. tor of Our fw.
Mr. M. (B y Kimball. 1917. v
Wilaoo, Ed. Pridnt of the Undted Vates,
1T88-1914. 4t. 114.
Book for the Blina
Chrtotlan Science Publishing Society La
and Work. etc. 2r. 1916.
Description aa Trawl
Bruce National Road. C1916.
Walter Fascination of Belgium. 1915.
Flettra
Oooka Claderella Jane.
De SeSncourt Soldier of Life.
French At Plattsburr
Hughes 1A a Little Town.
Jordan Lorers' Knots.
Nyburg CXtosen People.
Fins Arts
Bailey Practical Method for Self Instruction
on the I'kulele.
. Call Rambles With the Switcher; an Open
inc in the Game of Checkers. 1910.
(Thimdelah Modern Knitting, Book .of In
struction. V. 1. C1916.
Harding Book of tho Peony. 1917.
Hopklna What la a symphony? cl913
IntercoUeclate Swimming Oulde. 1916-17.
C1910.
Krehblel Second Book of Operas. 1917.
Moamrt Bighteem Sonatas for Pianoforte and
Violin. . ,
Strauss Album of KuTorite Dances for Pls-
rmfn-tJk Sr. In 1.
Unschuld yoa Melaafata ntswi nana.
C1909.
Woodforde-rinojBD lxrre in Damascus; s sei
of six songs.
History
Burke Wklte Road to Verdun. el916.
Cbapln Soldier and Dramatist. 1917.
Cnestertoo Perils of Peace. 1916.
Cronau Oerman Achierements in America.
C1916.
Doda-e From Squire to rnnee; Deing a aim.
tory of the rise of the bouse of Clrksena.
McClure Obstacle to Peace. 1917.
Norea Financial Chapters of the W"ar. 1916.
Recouly General Joffre nd HU Battle.
19Schoolcraft Indian In His Wigwam. 1S48.
Seyen Years in Vienna. 1917
Smith Outlines of European History. 13H
1914. 1916.
Language
Bacon German Grammar for Beginners.
C Banuet Banuet's Spanish Vert. cl916.
Literature
Berry She Planted a Garden. cl916.
BUTgoas llnrrrnn Unabridged. cl914.
Goodman v Barbara, a Play In One Act.
1914.
Hughes The English character. 1812.
Phelps jwigiian oiyie in niuic
1Q1K
Phelps. Oomp. Tour Health. 1908.
Thomaa In Mlszoura, play la four acts,
Philosophy
Dockeray Effects of Physical Fatigue on
Mental Efficiency. 1915.
Seymour Finger reclassification. cl913.
Hubs De Bcclesla. 1915.
' Selene
Turner Air era ft of Today. 191T.
Soolelogy
Barta Llfo at the U. Naral Academy. 1917.
Moulton Principles of Money and Banking,
clOlO.
Parker Offloer's Notes. in.
Iowe Society: Its Origin and Deyelopment
cl918.
Wolfe Elementary Banking. ciio.
Useful Arts
HclUr A Rrown Memory and Association In
the Case of Streetcar Aorerusing jaras. jtwiu
Plrle Science ol Home aisini. cjvio
"?"'7"'"V .Bii
Ramsey care
Children- C1916
al a.
Spauldlng Notes on Field Artillery. Bd.. 2.
WiJ- .
aadSv frn!;. f;
School- 1914. "'
TldsweU Tobacco HiDii: its niarory am
Pathology. -
warman-imnan u
Anderson galleries. New York historical relics
of tieorjte Washington. 1917.
ArrastrongiwuDie e.niry dwmwku., up .
BuVbani-Lnther Burbank: Hi. Methods and
rHKcoreries. I2y. 1914.
GreeDe Plttooia: A aerie oi paper reim-
in to Dotajiy ana ooianwui. ti. looiur.
fowl a Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis
and Sergeant John Ordway. 1916.
New York Public library, selected list ot
books on mountaineering. 1916.
i-w.n-Adair Human Sterillxatlon.
Fennel! Pictures of war Work In England.
Sypoerd Bibliography on "English for Engi
neer." cii. .
ivtbwk Martin, ed. Represent tire Eng
lish Plays, from the middle ages to the end of
the nineteenth ceuiury. iio.
Tw-et?y-IlctIonary of Naral and Military
Tnm 1S14.
Victoria and Albert Museum; South Kensing
ton. Dept. of Textile. Tapestry maps; S-ng-llsh,
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 1915.
Craig Kennedy Is
Always on Job
: gj
Th Treasure Train,' by Arthur B. Beere.
Harper A Brothers. New York. $1.35 net.
Tou know Craig Kennedy?
Then you will be interested in this
volume of 'some of his most ctartllng
adventures in tha land of mysterious
crime, where he would be lost forever
and a day were it not for his wonder
ful, capabilities aa a scientific re
searchist, before whose mathematical
reasoning the unknown . crumbles . as
a mud pie In a cloudburst. - :. x'.
"The Treasure Train". Is the .title
story in . the book which Includes -11
other short stories. .
freain
07 - .iVBWr BOOKS.WRITERS AND MAGA.ZINJDS.
a whole flock of dainty femininity
from a
Go to It Boys and
, Girls of America,"
Eor Country's Sake
tea; "I tell you, boys and girls of Ksl
f4 America, the time has passed hi
(gfa when we could afford to chat- ti
gfa ter lightly over the tea cups Q
l(fl concerning the needs and short- IRg
fc comings of our country. Smash fe
gffa'the cups, young America, and
(gfa come out and fight, that gov
IbR ernment of the people, by the jVjt
people, for the people shall not tea.
afA perish ftom the earth. Fight! tai
1 not with kuns but with your )sa
(gffa brains. Vur elder brothers m
fat! wll have tr1 -fight with guns;
K many of them? $411 have to die lata
)gfa here or with c, fellows-in- gi
)gfa democracy in '' iipince and 1K
IKffa Flanders. )
(a. "To you, girls anboys of lsj
)ft 10. 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, liNlven a s
feS work every bit as grt. & as tea
n dying for your country, -and fca
Val that is living for the highest b
k( interests of your country. 'k latl
tol "Those interests are the in-
terests of democracy.
"If. therefore, you live for fgj
the highest interests of Amer- lag
ica you will live at the same a4
time for the highest Interests ftta
of the world. In that struggle (Ka
Kg the goal is neither nationalism tea
n nor internationalism. It is dem- tea
tej ocracy. It is a lasting peace teg
among natrbna and, so far as te
it is humanly nossible. amitv ton
tea among men. teg
'Go to it! Go to it, girls tea
and boys of America.! fete
tea "You are the hope &t the tea'
tea world." hg
tea From Hermann Hagedorn's tel
tea appeal to the girls and boys of tea
America, "lou Are the Hope of tea
tea the World." The Macmlll&n i
Company. jasj
Kitegteateatoateaiteiteatea m i
New War Story
is under Way
George W. Jacobs & Co. announces
forthcoming publication of a' novel
having to do with the entrance of the
United States into the world war.
Penfield Butler thoughtlessly tram
ples on the Stars and Stripes during
the excitement of a snowball firht.
An unfortunate hiss. Just as he Is
about to apologize publicly to his
teacher and class, arouses the bov's
stubbornness and results In his re
fusal to make any apology.
a coldness between Pen and his
grandfather. Colonel Butler, a Civil
veteran, follows, which is not re
moved until Pen. convinced that the
United States must shortly be drawn
into the great war and anxious to
I 8hr to an unmistakable way his love
I ixwmicu ior nis nag, volunteers
i ior me ioreign legion, and la wounded
l in the service of France
The vivid description of fighting.
th old colonel's unexpected appear-
I anceln France on the day Uncle Sam
i oeciarea war on Germany and the won-
erful reception given the old soldier
by the enthusiastic Frenchmen make
i n;e cumax lo Ule Story.
Writer Upsets Some
V ery Old Traditions
Do Ws Keed a New Idea cf God, by Edmund
n. iter-wan. neorge yi . jacoDtt lompany
Philadelphia. 11.00 net.
An original treatment of the idea
of God in which many orthodox,' tra
ditional notions are upset. The author
states his conception of what is con
noted by the word "God," and then
measures and compares the life force
by the common facts of life as he sees
them, accepting their testimony rather
than that or traditional theory.
- j
Tho Largest American Flag
Tne city or st, Louis. Mo., pos
sesses the largest American flag in
existence, as far as is known.' It is
150 feet . long and ?8 feet wide,
Each
of the 13 tripes is six feet wide, Im-
I agine a plot of ground containing 11,-
700 square feet almost one quarter
of an acre and you will have aa
idea of the aise of the flag. When
used in parades It requires 200 people
to carry It, But on account of Its
great width. It cannot . be carried
through many of the streets of "the
city. Popular ,",Sciene . .Monthly , for
August.
-V'! ,
Beach at Waikiki, If They're Wearing
is learlng foot prints in the golden sands. From demure little Opal Orpington on the left tp winsome
motion picture studio out for a romp In their newest ocean-going dads
STEVENSON'S PRAYER
On the night before his death Rob
ert Louis Stevenson compo8ed and
read to his family the following
prayer:
"We beseech thee. Lord, to behold
us with favour, folk of many fam
ilies and nations, gathered together
In the peace of this roof; weak men
and women, subsisting under the cov
ert of thy patience. Be patient still;
suffer us yet awhile longer with our
broken purposes of good, with our
idle endeavours against evil suffer
us awhile longer to endure, and, (if
it may be) help us to do better. Bless
to us our extraordinary mercies; if
the day come when these must be
WHEN THE EARTH
To say that a ship in midocean might
be destroyed by an earthquake seems
paradoxical and absurd, writes Ernest
Ingersoll in "The Book of the Ocean"
(Century), yet it is true. Whenever a
subterranean convulsion occurs beneath
or at the edge of the aea, the water
will be agitated in proportion to its
r-force. Strike a tub of water a rentle
tap and see how its liquid contents
shiver and ripple. Watch a railway
train, running at the edge of a body of
water 'and observe how the water trem
bles under the percussion of the wheels
upon the -.ground. Earthquake shocks
give rise sometimes to great disturb
ances, either- by a direct Jar to the
water or by setting in motion waves
whose rolling does damage, especially
in confined harbors. Sometimes a port
will be suddenly Invaded by a wave,
the cause of which Was an earthquake.
which rolls in upreared like a wall and
carries death and destrjiction in its
course. a
Such catastrophes are nd"' -uncommon
in volcanic districts, whereC4he ocean
retorts with terrible vengeance, Jarhen it
is strucK Dy the land. That apfcJling
explosion In 1883 of Krakatoa, Ijthe
IN THE NEW
MAGAZINES
August Popular Science)
The story of how a young engineer,
with only a flashlight to guide him.
investigated an interned German liner
shortly after it was taken over by our
government, not knowing whether tha
next step would send him hurtling
down a pitfall or the next thing he
touched would blow him into atoms,
is one of the features of the Popular
Science Monthly for August. So suc
cessful was the engineer that 36
hours after the ship reached the navy
yaj-d, the main boilers were generat
ing steam.
There are a dozen other features in
the August Issue of interest. "Des
troying a Submarine with a Cabl--
Bomb," is the.- title of an article
which tells in an authoritative way
the latest new method of airplane
attack. One of the most Instructive
articles of the year on astronomy is
that contributed by Scriven Bolton,
F. R. A. S., entitled." What's On the
Moon?"
There are 16 picture pages In th4
number.
Scrlbner's for August
The August Scrlbner's is tho twin-
ty-eighth annual fiction number, a
number that from the first has al
ways contained notable and remem
bered short stories. This year there
are the usual stories, together with a
contents of timely interest upon sub
jects concerning the war.
The number opens with a story by
John Galsworthy, "Defeat," the story
of a young English officer back in
London convalescing from wounds
an experience of a romantic young
soldier on the streets off a bright.
moonlight night, a very human experi
ence, a very real transcript of life
with a" background of the war.
Henry van pyke contributes his
first story of many months, "A Re
membered Dream," an " allegorical
story, in which the great struggle be
tween God and Man is pictured. It
is easily construed as a presentation
of the spirit of the "predatory Pots
dam gang."
There are other good stories, special
articles, illustrated, some poetry, and
the usual interesting departments.
, Popular Mechanics Magazine
In .Popular Mechanics magazine for
August. Illustrations and text set
forth such diverse themes as outdoor
recreations.' military training, and im-
JUST BEFORE DEATH
taken have us play the man under
affliction. Be with our friends, be
with ourselves. Go with each of us
to rest; If any awake, temper to them
the dark hours of watching; and
when the day returns to us, our sun
and comforter, call us up with morn
ing faces and with morning hearts
eager to labour eager to be happy,
if happiness shall ba our portion
and if the day be marked for aorrow
strong to endure it.
"We thank Thee and praise Thee;
and in the words of Him to whom this
day Is aacred, close 6ur oblation."
From "Robert Louis Stevenson at
Baranac," by Thomas Russell Sulli
van, In the August Scrlbner's.
QUAKES AT SEA
Strait of Sunda, was followed on nelgh
orlng coasts by a series of vast billows
that rolled inland, deluging a wide ex
panse of shore, sweeping away over 150
villages and crushing or drowning mora
than 30,000 persons. Within a few
years the Coasts of Northern Japan
have been inundated repeatedly by
earthquake waves with similar dire ca
lamities, and they are likely to occur
again.
Now and then earthquakes are felt
even in the open sea, far from land.
Thus, Captain Lecky, a scientific writer
upon the sea, tells us that In one in
stance where he was present, the ink
stand upon the captain' table was
Jerked upward against the ceiling,
where it left an unmistakable record
of the occurrence, and yet this vessel
was ateaming along In smooth water
many hundreds of fathoms deep
concussions." he says, "were bo
X 2i I
ff their
that TiU UAr pari wai ahalrn n
seals, anu, oi course, inougni mat tne
vessel had run ashore." All this dis
turbance was, nevertheless, only the re
sult of a shock at the bottom, and when
the nonelastic nature of water is con
sidered, the severity of the Jar is not
surprising.
.. PUBLIC r
UBRARYNOTES
An)ne Interested in modern Rus
sian nvuk!lana will find two readable
blographlVa of Glinka and Moussorgsy
at the public, library. Each book gives
a short sketcH of the life of the com
poser, as it affected his musical ca
reer, discusses nis operas and other
productions, and at the end l'sts his
principal published Works. The author.
M. Montague-Nathan, who has also
written a history of Russian music, is
a sympathetic Interpreter , of the aspi
rations of these two moderns toward
the goal of 'Truth, FVeedom and
Progress" in their art and 'endeavors
to show that they have put the very
soul of Russia Into their music.
There has also been added o the
library "A Practical Method for.eelf
Instruction on the Ukelele," by KJu B.
Bailey, and an "Operatic Antholwj"
of celebrated arias by old and modeTJa J
composers, ror the tenor,- edited by.
Max Spickler.
Applicants for positions under the
civil service of the city of Portland
should consult the Municipal Reference
Library in the city hall, which haa on
file civil service eraminatioi ques
tions from various cities. This library
also haa on file the New York City
promotion examination instrvcclon
from both fire and police departments.
These manuals give both questions and
answers and should prove very useful.
"Her Own Sort" and
Other Davis Stories
Ear Owa Sort, by Charles BeJmoet
Da via.
$1.36
CTxrrtea Bcrtboera Sons, New Xork.
net.
No reader of the contemporary short
story will get very far along among
the better sort of tales unless he
reads Charles Belmont Davis. This
new Scribner volume is a collection
of 10 of 'his better known stories,
heading off with her own sor, and
including "The Octopus" and "Her
Man.'
Good stuff for the camping trip.
proved methods of crop raising. AP
told there are 299 articles and 288
Illustrations In this . number., A sub
merged' submarine, hovering . over a
sunken merchantman, is portrayed . In
the cover design.
Fighters Go Into
Trenches Now With
Whale-Oiled Limbs
tei In his little book on "Trench tea
tei Warfare" (E. P. Dutton & Co.). feB
tej which gives information as to tea
ate the details of this modern sys- tea
gag tem of waging battle, Lleuten- tea
tei ant J. 8. Smith telle what tea
tej means have been devised to tea
tea lessen the discomfort art the tea
PM soldiers from "trench feat," a tea
tea condition of which all who tea
tea read the war news and war cor- tea
tea respondence hav heard much, tea
tea Lieutenant Smith says that tea
tea now "when a battalion is going tea
tea Into the trenches the men's n
tea feet and legs are waahed and tej
tea dried and then thoroughly tej
tea rubbed with whale oil and dry tea
tea sock are put on. A second ii
tea pair of dry socks is carried tea
tea by each man and when he goes tea
tea into the trench he must wear Gj
tea also dry boots, trousers and tea
tea puttees. Provisions are made tea
tea for the men on coming out of tea
PM th?Xj-enches to get warm shel- tea
tea ters, hot foods and facilities tej
tea for washing the feet and dry- ki
teg lng wet clothes. tea
tea ' "Hot water must never be teg
teg used nor the feet held near a Us
tea hot fire. Where necessary, and Kfc
tea circumstances permit, long gum fcc
tea boots axe put on when the men tea
tea enter the trench and taken off ka
tea when they leave and handed tej
Ma over as trench stores" te&
New Encyclopedia
TT.ii -r tS i i . i
win ue ruDiisnea
Adolph Lewisohn, millionaire bank
er, at whose home the Russian mis
sion stayed while In New York, has
announced his intention of financing a
new American encyclopedic library,
embracing the entire field of human
knowledge.
The new work will be in 24 seta of
Fix volumes each, each set to be de
voted to the history and evolution of
some race. The first set will be the
Slavonic encyclopedia
The library will include a more com
plex and detailed history of the evolu
tion of the United States than haa
ever been published. The editorial
beard will be made up of noted savants
from American unirersitles.
Dr. Isldor Singer, managing editor
of the American Library of Ency
clopedias, will direct the new work.
It is said that the extent to which
ihc banker would finance the library
would depend largely upon the success
which each section of the encyclopedias
would meet upon publication. It was
clearly Intimated, however, that Mr.
Lewisohn intended, if it was found
necessary, to bear the entire cost of
research and publication.
The house of Harper A. Bros, will
take charge of the manufacturing and
selling.
Allen Updegraff Is
Man of Adventure
dJn Updegraff, author of "Second
YouQf' though born in Iowa considers
himstuX "a hyphenated Mlssourian,"
as he V mt to that state to live when
he was', years old.
While i was at Yale, says Sinclair
Lewis, his friend, whose new. novel.
"The Job."was published about the
same time af, Mr. Updegraffs "Second
Youth." "his jinds ran out and he
had to go to Xw York to earn his
living. He had routh's adventure in
working in book Ayorea, even in a fac
tory, and with aXcomparUon In the
factory thla Yale man 'Incog tramped,
by break beam and freight and road.
clear out to Montana wnere for a
summer he cleared rlgt of way for
a railroad and lived with laborers of
every nation.
"But his poetry and sftort stories
had already begun to make a mark,
and be Jumped from a canfp among
the Rockies to a magazine oTice In
New York, as assistant editor of
Transatlantic Tales, reading ssanu
scrlpts and translating from Frtncn,
German and Italian.
"For a time he became editor, than
went to the Berkshire hills, sending
out bis unusual realistic poetry and
his short stories from an ancient
farm house with huge fireplaces and
an environ of old New England Ufa
which completed his survey of these
varied states."
i !
Them Higher
Winnie Wyandotte on the right, they
THROUGH H
TIEWINDOW
War Fashion Note,
Among those who climbed
Mount Hood Sunday was Miss
Marguerite Overhauls.
to I
My friend at the next desk ob
jects to my whistling "The Star
Spangled Banner" because he
can't work standing up.
to to
Aa our English cousins might
say July will probably be known
as the month of the great
"drought"
Proud parents make as much
fuss when the baby gets her first
tooth as the baby does when she
loses it.
Hark! 'Tls the witching hour of
four.
The merry milkman fumbles
round the door;
The bottles clank; he whistles on
his way
And leaves me to my slumber, in
the "hay "
"And how do you feel this fine
morning," I chirped by way of
greeting, to the streetcar conduc
tor. "Fare." h said.
So I handed it to him.
Where BnailsIs Snails
We shudder at possible conse
quences should American soldiers
in a Paris cafe order snails and
coffee for breakfast.
Brother Jack dons olive drab
When military duty calls.
And sister 8ue to no her bit
Climbs into brother's overalls.
to to
The Traitor's Pledge
z
WILL
It was so warm the other morn
ing that we were half way to
town before I discovered that
there was heat in the streetcar
radiator over which I was sitting.
Then I WA hot.
i lieas
Famous
Dead -North-
gull
gar
A B
Diploma-
Why do Americans stamp and cheer
and crv when the band plays "Dixie"?
We expert the southern people to
do so because it is primarily their
folk-song But is it affectation, as
cften charged, that moves northerners
and westerners and Americans wher
ever thev happen to be. to a demon
stration when "Dixie" lilts on the
breeze?
Probably not. and Robert D. Peters,
ar. Indiana attorney, seems to get at
the heart of the sentiment when he
writes. In the Atlanta, Oeorgla. Con
stitution:
"Grandpa.'what is Dixie?"
"Dixie, my child why Dixie,
Dixie' is now a national anthem,
made so by popular acclamation.
It ws first played and sung by
the southerners in the Civil war.
I lost this arm. child, to the tune
of 'Dixie.'
"It is an all-American composi
tion, and was not borrowed from
any other country.
"You will hear more of "Dixie"
during the present war.
"It is a great and inspiring bat
tle song.
" "Dixie." my child, is sunshine;
when you hear it, you can see the
first beams of the rising sun; you
can hear the birds singing in the
trees, they have just been awak
ened by the gentle kiss of sun
light; "Dixie" tells of love, of war
and death, and the hope beyond
this life: it embraces all there is
of Joy and hope, of tears and sor
row, from the cradle to the grave
and. listening, love can hear the
rustle of angel wings beyond the
crave.
" Dixie," child. Dlxie' knows all.
tells all when you hear It right."
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How can you tell when you
reach the Front street commission
house district?
Tour nos knows.
Lights out!
Of all those arts In
which the wise excel na
ture's chief masterpiece Is
writing well. Sheffield.
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HELEN KELLER TELLS ii
OF DEVELOPMENT OF
MIND IN THE DARK
Born in Darkness, She Had
Neither Will Nor Intellect to ;
Understand Life,
For Helen Keller's "The "World :X ,
Live In." (Century) it Is claimed that I
it is the only existing original source
developing the processes by. whicaa
blind deaf mute achieved a grasp on ;
abstract subjects.
Her own story of the growth " ot
her mind from the gloom of the un
Illumined world in which she was bora '
to the reflected sunlight of ths half- -v
llt world wherein aha now lives, is at
least a fascinating narratlva - '
Knew vot Herself .-T-:-
"Before my teacher cams to .
ahe writes, "I did not know that I am '
I lived In a world that was a no-
world. I cannot hope to describe ade
quately that unconscious, yet conscious
time of nothingness. I did not know
that I knew aught, or that I lived or
acted or desired. I had neither will?,
nor Intellect. I was carried along to '
objects and acts by a certain blind
natural Impetus. I had a mind which
cued me to feel anger, satisfaction,
desire. - .
These two facts led those about
to suppose that I willed and thought.
I can remember all this, not because
I knew that It was so, but because :
I have tactual memory.
Before I Xearned to Ikm '
"I can remember that Z never eon
traded my forehead in the act ef
thinking. I never viewed anything
beforehand or chose it. I also recall
tactually the fact that never In a start '
of the body or a heart beat did I feat
that I loved or cared for anything. Mr
inner life, then was a blank without
past, present Or future, without hope
or anticipation, without wonder or Joy
or faith.
I remember, also through touch, that
I had a power of association. X fait
tactual Jars like the a tamp of a foot,
the opening of a window or Its closing,
the slam of a door. After repeatedly
smelling rain and feeling the discom
fort of wetness, 1 acted like these
about me: I ran to shut the window.' '
But that was not thought In -any
sense. It was the same kind of as- '
sociatlon that makes animals take
shelter from the rain. 1 4
"From the same instinct of apinff
others. I folded the clothes that came?
from the laundry, and put mine .way,
fed the turkeys, sewed bead eyes on v
my doll's face, and did many other,
thtnga of which I have the tactua) re
membrance. When I wanted anything .
I liked lee scream, for -instance, of
which I was very fond I had a de -Itclous
taste on my tongue which, by.'
the way, I -never have now), and 'in
my hand I felt the turning of . ths
freezer. I made the sign, and my
mother knew I wanted ice cream. ' 5
Made 2fo Comparison '. '' ; V '
Since I had no power of thought,: I
did not compare one mental state with
another. So I was not conscious of
any change or process going on Hj
my brain when my teacher began to
instruct roe. I merely felt keen, de
light in obtaining more easily what I
wanted by means of the finger mo- ,
tlons she taught me.' I thought only
of objects, and only objects I wanted.
It was the turning of the freeser on '
a larger scale, wnen I learned the ,
meaning of "I" and "me" and found
that I was something, I began 'to
think. Then consciousness first ex
isted for me. Thus it was not the
sense of touch that brought me. knowl
edge. "
"My dormant being had no idea., of
God or Immorality, no fear of death, -
"Groping, uncertain. X at last found
my Identity, and after seeing , "my .
thoughts and feelings repeated In oth
ers, I gradually constructed ray world
of men and of God. As I read' and
study. I find that this Is what the
rest -of the race has done. Man looks
within himself and In time finds the
measure and the meaning -ot the uni
verse. . . ;r-
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