Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 18, 1911, Page 4

5 X i * lat Intervals on the ceiling. _ ‘constantly exposed ~ this business. it | contalning a tiny insul 3 " Dot be any more severe penaity _ able to pay, she was not a " & pew ruie had been established t -class matter. Telephone Callat k3 P - Office, Toom '3 Murray Telephone 210. Feb. 18, I.“. THE NEW AIR FIRE ALARM. The new fire alarm system is styled | Rhe “Air Alarm.” Tis basis consists of 5 amall hollow wire of copper alloy, | ‘one-eighth of an inch in diam r and 8d wire. The hollow wire acts as a condjictor for the air, whose expansion ca al fire alarm to sound, The tiny wire is | known as the trouble wire. tor any resson the hollow wire is cut or ‘broken, the result is that an electric ‘cirepit is also broken. which causes the little wire to send a “trouble| alarm” to the headquarters of the | wlafm company. Fire headquarters | hears nothing. unless there happens | ®e a real fire at the time the wire | or is eut. | Loops of this inconspicuous hollow | ‘wire are strung around the ceiling or warefully concealed behind the mmud-f the rooms, houses and buildings | protected, the loops emding in a | dia- | a delicate starts in a room, the air in Bollow tube expands under the in- _of the heat and operates a @iaphragm In the detector, it to close an electrical cir- cult which sets in operation all the marvelous fire alarm machinery. | All the older systems ure held large- defective, due to the use of what known as a “thermostat” placed These are to the effects of air and the electrical contacts be- oxidized, or clogged with dust, Hnd when needed fail to operate at ali | men out of the hundred or s or only after a raging fire is in full Dilast. Briefly, the new system scores its maln success in the principle that the est way to solve the great fire haz- ard problem of the day is to deal with dnelplent fires instead of conflagra- tions. “The new system gives an almost in- stantaneous alarm. If a pair of cur- talng catch afire, or even a newspaper, an effective alarm is given within ten o forty seconds. Moreover, another alarm is rung on a box outside of the building, which also inticates the ex- wet locatfon of the fire. Thence the alarm goes on and directly into the Hire headquarters, whers the exact lo- <atlon is also announced From beginninz to end the system 8 sltogether automatic. This elimi- nation of the human clement also elim- inatés the danger of error. THE JAIL IN FUTURE. W% most successtul gmugelers 'in @ll couniries have been women, and they have not been women of low de- g Jt is true thar their respec and ability to pay fines have made the courts somewhat tolerant of them: and it Is likely true that they taks the risks because there have been fwo chances to one of not being caught and getting the goods and jewels in ; but when Mrs. Hill, wife of a Breoklyn horseman, brought into this country a sable coat vaiued at $5,000 With an idea that if caught there would than & fine which her husband was amply are that ind ‘1P prosecutors and the court were Just waiting to make an example of Fepresentative of her sex to In spite of the and finery of the vi sf the inkomanity, the judge sentenced lady to three davs inca mwhlch while lcking a 1 characteristics of prison ‘were nevertheless constroctively timated that his con- of the berch had agreed (o] a prison sentence a feature of ! “future convietions for smugglin matter how tearful, how bluc il endowed with | might be. whether this ; also whetl ihe court has the well gustained nery 1o deal with these cases ju the manner Gown by the prosecuto; check | tears | v ne | m] jia is booked for a little brush the Chinese on the Manchurian bord because they have forgetien ty obligations. The quickening of on will not call for a long con- e strange 10.=ee the de acting to make the p i of the Taft administration of- This is the way for them to #09d republicans s ene thing sure besides the taxes, and (hat is the on the of the . s B e reiered ‘who i8 longing for an at- ocrats {a los thin 1%6 handred checked,, Will. | dustry, and i profite [rom 4 of He 't nxuz' of all the standing treés” pri- vately ‘owmed:: “Such ¢ - #ays the commissioner, -"if permitted to continue and Increase; makes prob- able o final central coutrol of the vhole lumber Industry. A few strong interests, uitimately holding the bulk of the timber, can g€t ‘the price of timber and its products.” These matters should’ be promptly taken in hand by congress: and :the natural resources of s the _country should be wrested from the hands of cpeculators whose design it is to eon- troi through combination the timber output ¢f the wohle country. e people should be protected from the who first steal the land from the goverament and then extort great profits from the people. ONLY EIGHT ABLE. The memorizing of the Lord's pray- or must be out of fashion in Kan- sas, for not one in twelve of the hon- orable senators could repeat it in con- cert with the chaplaly the other day, and the east is just fooking at Kan- =as in astonishment. This is what the Cleveland Plain Dealer had to say of the matters, “Eight men out of the upper house in the leislature of &, soverelgn state knew the A B. C of prayer. Bight -chosen merit and attainments to for their | make the laws for Kansas were ac- quainted with the words which the have decided to be &t once the ould repeat the onme classical ter- | cession that even an intelligent ehfld learns at the knee of an illiterate mother! This is not funny—it‘is in- creiibly - startling and stupefying. “What were the Kansas senators at when they were getting their educh- tion? One does not have to be & re- liglonist to ask this question; one | wonders who had charge of their ele- mentary training in English languages and literattre. Can such an unfor- tunate thing be the result of exclud- ing the Bible from the schoals? Have our forefathers, wise in steering clear of religious prejudice and entangle- inent, taken from the kén of the pub- li¢ school pupil the most vital ele- ments of the letters of his mother tongue ™ The senators of Kansas have “lost their face,” as the Chinese say, and should hasten to regain it b EDITORIAL NOTES. Since it has. been discovered that a rumor is never idle, why do we re- fer to idle rumors? < Happy thought for today: Loud apparel makes folks look and ,think— and what do they think? The Christian ‘Endeavorers of Bos- ton have a buflding fund of thirty thousand pledged for immediate use. A writer in the Montreal Star just puts on record that reciprocity is go- irg to be the ruination of that coun- ry. The deadlock in the New York leg- islature costs the taxpayers $2,500 a day. It is expensive electing sena- tors that way, Attentlon is called to the fact that few men ever appear to feel as well as a healthy dog, however much we may despise him. Bivths in Missouri are credited with 200 telephone calls on the average How could the happy parents be ex. pected to do less? A Jersey minister is credited with saying it is profane to shout hell-o! in the teiephon His convictions seem to be sissified. Goverrior Baldwin's quothtion from Jefferson with reference to newspapers shows that they have greatly im- proved since Jefferse setts the wealthy pat- rons of sport offer silver cups to the boys on high school teams who make the greatest batting average. i Champ Clark is recognized as a big man’in all parts. of the nation, but he hould have been born im a larger tate to have realized his ambition. The war in Mesico appears to' be able to get along without Richard Harding Davis and Poultney Bigelow, and that is why it is not a headliner. Kansas young men show signs of £00d perception. One hundred of them in the agricultural college have re- solved to take a coufse of table man« ners. People who have a notion there is great reward waiting somewhere. for the martyred are always looking for trouble, and find it; but they miss their ‘purpose. Trusts Hers and Abroad ntry and over in the trost is allowed its purpise. except through coercion, The Hmitation of prod- trajic of trade are not specis ots of prohibitive legisla- ton. A trust rded much as an Individual, subject only to the penal- ties for dishonest and injurious deeds. in both Germany and England com- hination Is permitied, and what is here regardod as a_calamity is over there o od as a blessing. Kneland is.a littie more liberal thun Germany in thix matter, for 1he latter dves super- abination some. but the fact of combination itself is not’ diseour- ged in either country. It is regarded as a commercial necessity, and in Ger- many it is said to work as a sort of safety vaive to the industrial frrepres- sion ~ Since the enuctment of our anti- trust law we have been in much tur- moil in this country, but instead of that fact belng an argument against the law, it may be a strong argument for it 'Thi¥ country has ser Its face against the rule of wealth and Europe has not, and thetve i the question— which Is right? State Journal. There » exist and p it must not d force or fraud. uct or the T sier. 2 v, Wilson of New Jersey has de- clured for open-air politic: Tlnn.fi} lcast, will be a_ relief from’ hot- olitics.—St. Paul Ploneer Press. Men warkers in Japanese cotton mills earn on the average 33 cenls a’ day, whe women 16 cents and the children Now e na Power witicn mark in il and pows , eas in walks of iife. When we get a Httle toppy we are to _make wrs Titc ™11 theps were HOL nely Touts thens 2 ‘were not ui : would never be any b.u'-lgli fowers.” = ol Since it_has become proverbial that man wants but little here beicw, it is surprising that he gets so much that is called 1o this fact, he realizes that duplicated ~slippers "and neckiles at Christmas time are as nothing com- pared to what is coming to him every day in the week. And a good many of the things he don't want are things which do not add to the brilllancy of conversation or tend to ote har- mony - if audibly mention It is more than. probable. that they keep coming his way because. they belong to him, or are among his just -deserts. This may be a hard old world, but there is nothing stupid about it. ' The best of us cannot seem to dodge the things which are our due whether we want them or not. We have got to be old folk$ before we really belleve that as “you sow so shall you reap" -But, then, if we were more cautious, per- ‘haps there would rot be more than halt as much fun for others. A critic the other day in comment- ing upon history as it Tuns said that “it_lles like a tombstone,” wheh he really meant Iike the epitaphs thereon Somehow, those who select sentiment to be cuf 4n cold stone in commemo- ration of a loved one are not careful to ses that the thought fits the character [ of the deceased; and instead of being serivus sentiment it proves to be gro- teaque, Eible quotations often seem sa The general purpose epitaph is good enough for me. Here is one from .an English cemetery: “Our life is but a Winter's day, Some only breakfast and | away; Others to dinner stay; are fuil fed. The oldest man sups and goes to bed. Large is his debt That lingers out the day. He that goes soonest has least to pay.” Those which-appeal to the: reader are mord to be com- mended than those which attempt to glorify the one moldering beneath the sod. Tombstones do mot le. When they seem to they have been made inharmonious with the life of which they should present a befitting thought. of Lincoin’s not so reflects the char- acter of the man as well as any utter- ance credited to him. It is this: “The closer you keep to whitewashed walls and cornmeal the mor¢ account you'll be He knew what the simple life meant, and was aware that hs who sits on his conceit and uses his stomach as it ought to be used, wiil haye no trouble in developing his brain power or manhood. ‘The rugged, honest, square-dealing man is not raised ori| waffles and angel cake. He knew that there wae alweys micre of & blessing for a man In cornmeal than in ple. The world recognizes that the race is the lean man, and it Is-truly sai ‘he country does not today remem- ber “the length of Lincoln’s legs, onlv that he got there!” Abraham Lincoln was a Sage as well as a Statesman, a true friend of labor as well as a com- panion fit for kings. Do you beliove that coming events cast their shadows before? This is a popular proverb; but of what real use has it been to mankind, anyway? The shadow of a coming event is 0o thin to be seen, and -of too little .conse quence to lend the mind or attention to. Such proverbs as this just give us visions of things that never happen, and bring terror into souls where se- Tenity should dweli. Don't let the past throw any shadows in front of you to darken the way. A bright and prom- ising future is worth cultivating, but the imaginary bridges Wwe have got to cross are of no consequence whatever. 1 we take too' much stock in thing awhich cast thelr shadows before ws shall deserve to have an epitaph like the worried old man who, at last see- ing the folly of his féars, said he should like to have a trie epitaph above his remains, of his own inscrib- ing; and he wrote: “Here lies an old man who had many troubles—most of which never happened.” o Plato_said “Thinking was the talk- ing of the soul with itself;” and_there, not been a more poetical defini tion of it since his day; but there is not much of it done. In his day Em- erson said the world was waiting for the birth of a thinker, and then would follow revolution. that Emerson was a thinker who rev- olutionized theorles quite a it if he did not manifest any conceit concesn- ing his mind-power and new concep- tions, which brought him more per- secution than remuneration, while liv- ing, but gave him lasting fame when dead. Every generation has its great thinkers, and they are making marked changes in the world thought and cor- recting past errors; but the man of new and all-pervading truth has not Yet made his appearance. The Mac- chaivelli#’, the Tolstois’, the Neitzches', the Huxleys’' are not ough. If Em- erson was a truc seer the world stiil awaits the arrival of a thinker who will stir it to its foundatiops-and free man from the thraldom of errors which bar human progress and the development of 2 more Superior race. 7 In the horticultural -world man has long beén experimenting to produce a blue rose and a fragrant dahlia; and in neither tase can he be sald to have met with marked success. And thers is an Australian who is not,satisfled with . color of horses. He says: “Scientisis produce all sorts of freak animals by careful methods of select- | tve and celiminative breeding; but who so far has tried to produce a greca horse?” What do you. think of _thi And he goes on: “For myself, I am tirad of the gamut color from yellow through bay to brown and black, with stray white or piebald ponies; what 1 want is & green variety. We have seriptural authority for o green bay tree, why not a green bay horse?” A mani with such a taste might satisfy it by buying a white horse and having it dyed with pistache §o that the horse couid . lap tmself and think he was eating sweetmeats instead of using the cruder_color and having him polson himself. This desire of the spirit to have - things ffer results in the transmutation gives new forms and mew. varisties and new forces to e, Bome workmen on good terms with their employers have a_way of trviug to win favor by saying sweet and com- plimentary things ta_them, instead of sensible words which wounld impr the: employers of thelr worth, |t wus. 4 sensible employer who put this rule in his shop for the improvement and guidance of his employes; “Don’t teil me what 1 like to hear, but what 1 ought to I don’t need.a valet to my vanit t T do need one’'to my dollars’™ And with it he postedthis warning:. “Don’t if 1 Kick! Vit At worth comecting you are worih keeping. "I don't waste time cutting «ut of joint, in a burying ground. | We must admit | ever meet any-of my Nhtlvaerl‘,:: will not fail to know ‘them for we all So tuch_alfke.” Now the custard cup 1s very old and fragile, and .by this time. was forced to rest her voice, and I'li tell looks like -while she s the vmnlio er power of speech. On ide the decoration is a_tiny landscape in green; on one side stands | an urn filled and surrounded by ers and foll Off-to the right & church- having two tall towers. The center is occupled by a body of water Bled By mery Deny of, pasure a merry of pi re- eckers. ' Afar in the distance rise | some very angular mountains. . But the fafnt twinkling of the bells told me that the cup was ready to con- tinue her story, so we will listen to what she has to say. “I am lonely sometimes without my | sisters; we aiways stood in a row In the old Vermont china closet, and that |was a very sweet -n.lllnf. place. There was generally some maple sugar there to treat the children who came to the 0ld house to see Grandma. She filled little scalloped tins with sugar, and, what the little folks liked stili more, fhere were always elis filled’ With the same delicacy. Never, | thought they, did maple sugar taste o | good as when those eggshells were | peeled off and a delicate brown egg was revealed. A great 'mystery it seemed_how Grandma could . get /the epg out end tiie sugar into those | shella” “Well,” foterrupted a tart voice from a lower shelf, “perhaps you think, Miss Greencup, that you are the only mo- table in this closet; q'ndnmv you are older than I, but 1 have had ex- perience of better days. I was not al- ways as I am now, but had a lovelr ‘lue complexion in iny youth, hut they took me, the last of my race, to bake pies on, and it left me with a very crackled face.” ‘Must_have affected your temper, o [ 2ad L3 3 4 2 2 £ i i 11 o o £:2 7 £ it, Ba. subjects” Here all. turned _towards the sait:cellar in the center of the sec- ond shelf "% was given to my present owner Aty years ‘because she o greatly admired me. My pruvious owner was an old lady who traced my existemce back for many years. I must have nearly reached the century mark, and have ulways had good care and tender tréatment. I am sure, though you all have your trials you 'will find, i you pearch for them, that you have, also, many pleasant memories recall. How the children, who enjoved maple sugar, must have liked the little cust- ards Grandma served them from those lovely cups! A table full of hungry people must have rejoiced to see the tureen heaped high with with tooth- some food, and éven Mistress Plate must be able to recall the pride and pleasure felt when her whole set came home and was put up in the closet, filling it with & weaith of color, and promise of ‘Cheer to. come. Ah; yes! my friends, old wge and retire- ment can be & happy time, if we try to remember only the pleasant days of the past.” ‘A_deep breath from the enighborhooil to hear what she had Gl b g covey divided at & of likel: ing laurel and asaless. Near this very spot T saw a tragedy, before my sal days, when & youth older than I at & half-broken covey .under a spoon- , wood bush and killed nine heipless bobwhites at ome shot. Nowadays, 1 lm{tldh!hhkth‘tlomvrw of Yankee birth would do such brutal red shouldered hawk’s nesf onrs by rlml.;.h on our \uul&m ral last spring three young hewks, and the family kept red squirrels from eating our adopted birds at the cot- tage. Could there be.a worse misno- mer than “hen hawks” for our usefu! red-tafled and - red-shouldered bus- 2ards? Of the 27 Orpingtons that we partly raised, rats killed all but seven, hawks killed none. Rats devoured three broods of our Rhode Island Reds ;x—h.'b rt none. !i:a? .!‘!:o farm-~ ouse. and bungalow welve years, there has been no successful raid on of the turéen told us that she had becn luiled to sleep by the soothing voice of the last speaker, and silence once more relgned supreme in my_china closet, 80 I softly closed the dd®r and left them to their repose. AN IDLER. THE QUAIL TRAP The Evenini Grosbeak Invasion—Crow-Tracks—Snow Signets of Biddy Grouse—The Squirrel’s Sign. Man- \ ‘The Quall, Trap, Feb. 16, 1911.—Be- cause the mild open winter did not show us more birds than usual, it does not follow that there was not plenty of wild Iife afoot and a-wing if looked for at the right time in little-frequent- ed woods. For days when the ground was I followed the woodpaths without noting a flutter above or a rustle in the blanket of leaves. But | after a light snow and mild moonlight night, in a long welk Feb. 11, aver the same route] behold, & revelation: Though for the most part unseen, the | presence of hundreds of creatures near at hand was betrayed by a sure and silent witness. -~ Lightly , drifting the | evening “before _snow had covered footprints of fox-hounds and hunter: { from the life histories of the wood- dwellers. Nature’s shyest pets were at the confessional, and. - corrected many of my Jmpressions. Where. I had kept tab on but & pair of part- ridges, there proved to be six easily distinguished birds; where I thought | there were about fifteen rabbits, there | must have surely been upwards of sev- enty, and the nightly prowling about of animals I had never seen in our woods was as plainly shown as if they | had posed for a moving-picture cam- era. There were two tracks I aid not know_then, having no key; rather doubtfully calling one raccoon, and be- cause the other was near water called it otter. The ground hog's shadow or footmarks were not visible; but clearly indicated were _deer, wildcat, fox, skunk, mink, weasel, grouse, quail, jay, crow, red and grey squirrels, -owls, northern hare, rabbit, rats and mice. The merning of the 11th was spent. watching ‘the movements: of fifteen robins in the lower orchard, listening to a meadow lark, noting the strings of crows westering from the big roost, and trying in vain to stalk & bunch of | birds that might have been grosbeaks. So far T have seen but five evening grosbeaks, None have appeared at the ‘bungalow. But from our windows we watch with interest chickadees probe the déhd curoulio bunches on the choke-cherry bushes on _the rockery. Miss Sarah Potter of the Neighborhood specks out of Totten applés.” There is { nothibg the matter with this, if it is L.tle way: of an old-fashioned man, for | Tie is the kind of a fellow. who is forg- ing ahead all the time. Heé may be o little moce polished new and then, but | coarse or refined, the keynote of busi- | ness rings. true every time. The man lot e can never be satisfled with | froth, rer shape it may appear in, or whatever sound it may give forth. Sounds to him must have the The man who lives by his W’Jumfl not have a real exalted opinion of tho | mass from whom he wrestsa_comfort- able Hving. In the first place he be- comes: conscions of the fact that he | must be mentally sharper than they to | a¢complish his purpose; ' and this {leaves no doubt with him that they are duller than he. Some men think that_anything is fair in business, just a8 others feel sure anything is fair in war; and g0 the sharper-has no con- science’ when it. comes to doing_ any f us. The man who lves by his wits cannot see what is the use of having a_conscience, anyway, unless it is to die by; and heé figures that he is smart the sands of Jife are running out and whe' art of skinning his neighbors is played out; and He needs it. 1 guwess this is the point in life where he has recalled to him that sharppess is n the mark, of the superior mam@ an fin{czhe congeit nl,ml: rogue 4 :nlku“u him feel bright when realiy dullest of-all” people . o lesving a virgin surface for e chapter | enough to get one when he finds that | ual—-Cottontail’s Triangle—Toe Talk of Wood Folk—Bobwhite’s Hieroglyphics. scHool was the first to report these yarieties this winter, recording abunch of twenty efore the holidays. They have since appeared in force in East Woodstock, and later we are giad to know that groups ere working towerds the south and have been saen at the Wequonnoe achool in Taftvilie. The absence of the pure grosbeak is more than made up by the uniooked-for ap- pearance of its very rare congener, and other reports coming in_just now in- dicate that it mily be a large invasion of evening grosbeaks. Crow-tracks are not pretty on th human face, and on the face of Naturs make a throb of sympathy for ths starveling scavengers in their hopeless search for food. Crossing our upper cornfleld, I saw among the slouchy crow-tracks the delicate tracery ot {hree bunches of northerm finches, ng spurs being most readily selected. Continuing the walk to the lot, quite a detour was made o avoid flushing the covey of quail that wera | busy picking up their scanty dinner. |, Other birds had had a lunch, for under /'an old cider-apple-tree at the edge of | the woods was.a /lot of rotten apples ! torn into bits and only the seeds miss- | ing, indicating the presence of a large company of grosbeaks. I had seen a pair of evening grosbeaks before this sight picking out the seeds of rotten crabapples. 1 could not make out all the hisre- glyphics under our hemlock, pines and eciduous trees, and especfally in the open bar-ways, from stone wall to stone wall, the mazy blending of species was confusing. In every case foxes jumped across the opening, but all other spe- cles, including squirrels, used the well- trodden thoroughfare. below. Thes: were the only places with signs of weasel and rats.. But, elsewhere all impressions were clean cut and as easy to read as if the night-walkers had kindly left their p. p. c’s. Useless to trail deer, fox, and bob-cat. but rab- bits could be’ traced to their day- houses and burrows, squirrels to their aerial homes, and, if in the market with skunk-skins, T think I holed up seven or eight prime polecats. Bunny’s three balls were everywhere, singly,in pairs, straightawdy and ziz- | sag, rarely as'if digging for greens, and twice mated gs if rolling or wrest- ling in play. Though smail dog-like | tracks showed that Reynard had stolen | along some of the trjangles, there was {no plood or fur anywhere or' other | sign of recent tragedy. Buf, now and then, Cottontail’s _modest 6-1nch jumps would run for a few rods into six-font leaps, showing that Bunny feared a prowjer behind, or, on the mooniit snow, had seen’the shadow of Bubo's noiseless wings. - Owls’ pellets ' were seen in the swamp and in the heart of i the woods. Northern hare in full win- ter and parti-colored peitage are shot here, but we do not see. their easily- | gistinguished tracks every year in our range of woods. The plain signet a2 Biddy ‘Grouse is a familiar one, and efter nearly every snow-squall I quick- 1y look them up. I find them roosting | in thick hemlocks, but have never seen | their ‘chamber in’ deep snow. 5 i In the quails’ cover outside thae { woode, two of the grouse Were:flushed. { Leaving 'the woodlot and its partly~ told story, I spent a long hour in trae- ing poor sketches of bobwhite's eight- hours run. In our attempts to feed auail we are.gareful not o startle the. birde, fearing that frequent fushing { mizbt drive them off onr land. Fol- there “seemed to-be nine birds, but Bether, it Was easy-as print to read lowing the back-track, at first glance swhen' all” the parallel lines came fo- | our wul(g owls or hawks. The minister of this parish lost ebout 100 chicks by rats. And all throu th neighborhood in this country: 1,000 chicks ere caught yearly by rats to ten by birds of prey. But do not many {:orm’m‘l allow this wholesale deple- n a chicken’s neck to bait a trap set in nest of broad-winged hawk, and sev- eral times I was in contact with a North Stonington farmer who watched. a marsh hawk's mest with six egge till tho oggs hatched, and then kept tiently on guard till the birds were lusty and large, when he wrung the necks of the youns hawis and carried them to the town clerk for s bounty. And all this time the old harriers the e of the farmer were daily brin; all kinds of vermin injurious to the farmer %o foed the youns. This pair of marsh hawks had bred in this man’s bog for a dozen ¥ and had killed many thousand moles, meadow mice, snakes and corn-steal- ing ground squirrels, and behold man's ingratitude ‘ C.LR SUNDAY MORNING TALK GREAT MEN AND THE REST OF us, Midwdy between the celebration of Lincoln’s birthday and that of Wash- ington, we pause to ask not simply what kind of men were they, what did they do, but what relation have they to the rest of us, to whom the adjective “great’ could never even by the wildest stretch of the imagina- tion be appHed? Are we limited simyp- | ly .to the admiration of them from a distance, - ti their prais B L i S | —=®ood as it is—a udy o | their efforts and characteristics learn some, useful lessons for our owan lives? It is aiways profitable even to admire great men, but if we can imi. tate them and find cheering sugges- tions in their experiences, they help to lift the level of human life gener- ally. Indeed, Harnack, the great Ger- man theologian, has said that the value of a great man consists in the fact that he, by his very greatness, lifts all mem Our two most _famous . presidents were meh of very different antecs- dents and personal traits. The one was of patrician extraction and wes accustomed from: childhood to. com- fortable surroundings; the other shared from birth the dubious fortunes | of . trontier life, a small and pooriy- furnished “shack,” a rude and frugal diet, little in the way of inherited re- | finement—stxch was Lincoln’s fate. But | both: tyues of men are needed in'a re- public. would be unfortunate it | fdcals of public service burned in the breasts only of men who wear plain clothes and have -little money in thé bank: Such men, indeed, - can serve the etate, and are serving it, but on he other hand the republic needs and | welcomes the help which such men as | Roosevelt .can bring it ‘out of an en- vironment of comparative . ease-and | culture. s |~ Nelther of these two presidents rode in a Pullman car {0 greatness. Hach had his peculiar tests and difficulties, e ware Sanall Gho othec,day: Wt dren were s e er [ v Toome. of George Weshligton's trinls, @ little boy on.the front seat raised his hand and . responded: “Pleags, sir, he couldn't tell a Hel*™ But if_this be true this deprivation was only one-of the lesser annoyances; { Indeed, the path of both Washington | @nd Lincoln was strewn with entang- | ling obstacles. Nor wers they dhem- { selvas great from birth; they had. to | achleve ft, each in Tis own way; Bor were they -uniformly great; they had | their off deys_when they exhfbited characteristic far -from praiseworthy, when they gave way to aumm.mnf !or irritabliity. Never’ forget 1 | B w‘hn:;ler he u,h wmwm -.akx‘ i ns 'h you e P | Aght for charactey; he had to ¥in: |y —mw«oa he wes hot %o per~| fect as_to ‘Mth‘ul»m any ¥ exactly thirteen. Than T back-tracked| ‘4 Slghils o5 5 mila | o : Souyeals of Mr. Cairns Monday afteraoon Next Play—THE DAIRY nm\v‘ : Ba ‘s free spirit would be ruled out, | o was Teligious 1o the trucel scune o orm, "grew more o as etght Of FesponaibiNties pressed hard B e e nder ss atin. 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