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THE UNLOVED RICH.
(Seattle P.-I.)
Among the enigmas of a curious age
is the attitude toward the opulently
conditioned, the air of Irreverence with
which the man in the streets regards
Mammon.
One reads that Andrew Carnegie
has spotted the civilized world with his
libraries; yet we find no crowds re
joicing in festive procession upon his
natal day, as fitting recognition for a
public benefactor. The average citi
zen has lost sight of how many mil
lions John D. Rockefeller has return
ed to humanity in his various philan
thropic schemes, but even with only
the stagering aggregate in terms of
dollars, there still lack, for some in
scrutable reason, the tears of Joy cours
ing down the cheeks of the lowly and
benefited peasant.
One doea not hear fond allusions to
these charitable men by grateful voices
in terms of "Dear Old John," or “Good
Old Andrew,” as the case may be. In
stead, we hang Jest upon them, and
view them through the distortion of
caricature. Their halls of mirth are
a mock for the impertinent and their
goings and coming fuel for sarcasm
of a nation.
Presumably it is a habit of the land;
the dislike or patronage, the inde
pendence which regards whatever these
men may do with their money as only
a duty on their part—the portion of
their profits which is owing to civiliza
tion; the unearned Increment in prac
ticable form.
MEMORY’8 HALF HOUR8.
(Indlanopolls News.)
A day is made up of so many things.
A moment is really as nothing. It
takes three or four moments to get
anything well finished, even drowning
or hanging. It is the half hours that
count most to us as complete but in
dividual units of experience. The gar
den Is bright with half hours of love,
some ghostly as the fragrance of the
honeysuckle, some as gay and un
nshamed as the color of the gorgeous
fragile poppy; There are half hours
of disgrace and failure—weeds that will
not hide behind the sunflowers and
hollyhocks of brave deeds; and there
are the half hours that have been
stumbling blocks always—rocks upon
which no flowers would prow. There
?.re half hours of little sorrows—
which wll not be uprooted
and are harmless enough—
half hours of wholesome joy—great
beds of glowing, hardy flowers. The
half hours to which we belong are so
many. The half hour of a morning
ride over the mountain top to meet the
sun, the half hour of lying in deep
grass with face and heart close to the
earth, the half hour by a camp fire
at sunset, the half hour of great sor
row or great happiness, the half hour
of understanding between friends—
these are not found in the back yard
of our memories. They are not mem
ories. They are less transitory than
we are. They take us away from our
selves and reveal to us something more
wonderful and more real. We cannot
call them to us, but we cannot fail to
answer their call.
TREATING 8T0PPED IN BOSTON.
(Boston Post.)
Says the Lowell Courier-Citizen:
"Boston’s licensing board Is following
up Its campaign against the treating
custom in liquor places. It objects now
to the distribution of cigars ‘on the
house.' Treating on either side of
the bar is about the worst practice In
the business, and It would be a great
gain for temperance If It could be
stopped altogether."
It can be and is stopped here, on one
side, at least. The “requests” of the
excise commission, which some disin
formed citizens jeer at as being too
mild have all the force of commands
with the liquor dealer;. A hint is as
good as a kick from a boaid of such
unobtrusive but tremendous power.
LONDON TEMPERANCE.
(Lowell Courier-Citizen.)
Reports from London on the tem
perance question don’t exactly Jibe.
One is to the effect that a large part
of the populace is mounting the wa
ter wagon voluntarily. A wave of
temperance is said to be sweeping
the city, and the Cockneys are liking
it so well that they will not care for
a midnight highball, after the war la
over. They cannot get It now any
way, because of early closing. On the
other hand. Lloyd-George says rum
Is dolnf more harm In the tight little
t
Island than all the German submarines,
and lie ought to know. Probably the
truth lies between the two extremes,
dome classes may be drinking too much
out taking the population as a whole
.t is likely that there has been a real
ialn for temperance.
COAL GONE.
(Kansas City Journal.)
Scientists claim that the coal supply
will last 10,000 years. We have reason
to doubt this statement. Our coal sup
ply gave out a week ago, and since
then we have followed mariners who
burned the ship’s furniture and then
the woodwork of the cabin to keep up
the tires in desperate weather?
Up to date we have sacrificed the
following:
Two stepladders.
Lawn mover handle.
Three washtubs.
Flour bin.
Five suitcases.
Two trunks.
Carpet sweeper.
The kitchen table.
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary.
Kipling’s “Plain Tales From, the
Hills.”
The refrigerator.
Snow shovel.
Folding bed.
Complete set of Dickens.
The dining room furniture and the
hall clock should last us through the
uresent week.
YANKEES IN CANADA.
(.Boston Record.)
Among the 150,000 United 3tates
born farmers in Northwest Canada, the
prospect of British conscription Is
causing real alarm. Many are return
ing. Others would rejoice at a fair
opportunity to return, but their in
vestments are extensive, their inter
ests are fastened to Canadian soil.
The Detroit Free Press says:
If the movement gains any consid
erable headway it Is certain to give the
Canadian northwest a blow from which
t will take it decades to recover. It
-9 conceded that the United States
-settlers are among the best in the
dominion and that they have been
urnlng the soil Into gold, pushing cities
’orwurd and doing a large share of
development work. If they are now
i leave to avoid conscription it will
be unfortunate for Canada. Even the
sending of colonies of crippled British
soldiers after the war to Canada, as
is proposed by some English phllan
’ nplsts will hardly balance the loss.
In this connection the Montgomery
Advertiser regrets that "these virile
Americans did not heed the call of
Southern papers to come South. They
could have bought land cheaply. They
would have encountered a climate that
permitted green fields to flourish nine
'tenths of the year. They would have
come to a country which offered all of
the advantages of a pioneer country
t.'i none of the hardships. And they
would not today he living in dread of
conscription.”
Our estimable Alabama contemporn
thinks it is “not too late yet” for
some of these "hardy pioneers” to
"pull up and move down.” The op
portunities, it asserts, are greater than
they were ten years ago.
STORING UP FINANCIAL ENERGY.
(New York Tribune.)
The country’s visible foreign trade
balance for the last three months was
*311,000,000. In an ordinary year there
would be set off against this an In
visible balance of considerable propor
tions. Now the Invisible drain Is down
to the minimum. The longer the war
lasts the more firmly shall we estab
lish ourselves as a nation able to use
ifts capital for the purpose of advanc
ing Its Interests abroad South Ameri
a has been cut off from us commer
cially because it was dependent, as we
were, on European bankers. We can
hereafter supply to the Latin-Ameri
can republics the credit needed to
stimulate trade with them. We shall
owe to Europe’s great war the best
chance we have ever had to make the
Monroe doctrine work in finance and
commerce as well as in politics.
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