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SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1016
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
OOL should he he. of balanced pow
ers.
The ruler of a race like okra
Impatient, headstrong, wild,
The Man to guide the Child.
And this he was, who most unfit
(Bo hard the sense of God to hit)
Did seem to fill his place
With such a homely face.
Much rustic manners, speech uncouth
(That somehow blundered out the truth).
Untried, untrained to bear
The more than kingly ear*.
Ah, and bis genius put to score
The proudest in the purple bora
Whose wisdom never grew
To wbat. untaught, he knew!
Ike people, of whom he was one.
No gentleman like Washington.
(Whose bones meihinks make room
To have him in their tomb!)
A laboring man, with horny hands.
Who swung the ax. who tilled his landa
Who shrank from nothing new.
But did as poor men do.
One of the People! Born to «*e
Their curious epitome.
To share, yet rise above
Their shifting hate and love.
Common his mind tit seemed no then):
W» thoughts the thoughts of other mam
Plain were his words end poor.
But now they will cndtira
Mo hasty loot of stubborn will,
But prudent, cautious, pliant still.
Who since tiis work was good
Would do It as he could.
Doubting, was not ashamed to doubt.
And, lacking prescience, went without.
Often appeared to halt
And was. of course, at fault.
Beard all opinions, nothing loath.
And, loving both sides, angered both
Was—not like Justice, blind—
But watchful, clement, kind.
Mo hero this of Roman mold,
Mor like our stately sires of oUL
Perhaps he was not great.
But he preserved the state I
S Honest face which all men knswt
tender heart but known to fowl
O wonder of the age.
Cut off by tragic rage!
-Richard Henry gteddard.
NO HIGNH OF PEACE.
The tone of the British parliament
seems to be that the war must be
fought through to a triumphant fin
ish, even if it Involves the bank
ruptcy of the realm. Russia seems
equally determined. The czar has
gone to the southern front. More
than a century ago it was proclaimed
in Russia that eventually Constanti
nople was to be Russia’s wintfer capi
tal. and Russia clings to those old
traditions and works to make them
materialize.
In the meantime, France, with in
conceivable valor, 1b fighting to keep
the Germans from occupying any
more of her territory, while Germany
seems to be renewing her first plan
of the war and trying to farce her
way through France to the western
ocean.
She, too, iB snowing ever increas
ing activity on the sea. She is dis
counting on the ocean what Semmes
in the old Alabama did in our great
war until she waB finally rounded up
and sunk by the KearBarge.
Germany is likewise pursuing her
submarine warfare with increasing
energy, and also increasing the de
structive forces of her aircraft. Her
purpose seems to be to deliver a blow
at some point so crushing that the al
lies will be forced to consider some
term8 of peace, while on the part of
all the allies, save Russia, the deter
mination seems to be to hold Ger
many in blockade until she will be
forced to collapse. To outsiders the
prospect for peace seems as remote as
it did a year ago. Meanwhile, prob
ably three millions of soldiers have
been killed or hopelessly crippled.
The operations of the Germans dur
ing the past twelve days indicate that
they are trying to win on the line
first tried in the war—to first take
Paris and the northwest coast cities
and defenses of France and with
France prostrated, to try final conclu
sions with England. The appalling
losses of life in hurliug vast masses of
men against almost impregnable forts
indicate that Germany is desperate,
and has decided to win in that direc
tion, if victory can be won through
more terrible fighting than was ever
seen before. It has been whispered
for months that Germany has been re
placing, on her blockaded fleet, the
guns for vastly more destructive ones,
and also multiplying her submarine
fleet. Could she crush France, then
the next drive .would bo upon Eng
land, with all the soldiers she could
concentrate in France, and her fleet
would at last try conclusions with the
British fleet.
These must be most anxious days
in England, France and Germany.
The lives of whole nations are hang
ing in the balance. As Clemenceau
says: “We are today undergoing the
climax of desperate effort.”—Ex
change.
MURDEROUS GOSSIP.
" Killed by idle gossip. - was the
verdict brought in by a coroner’s jurj
in an Illinois village the other day
after investigating the suicide of i
beautiful young woman who had shot
herself.
It is a pity that the jury could not
have gone a etep farther and indicted
for murder all who had bandied
round-the false and malicious stories
that had first slain the young wom
an’s reputation and then slew hfcr.
Certainly every scandal monger
among them was accessory before the
crime of her death.
“Killed by idle gossip!’’ How often
that epitaph might be written over a
ruined life or a broken heart, and
how few of us can hold up clean
hands and swear ourselves free of
blood guiltiness! We may not have
originated Ihe black story that blight
| od the career of a fellow creature, but
we have listened to It. We stood by
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Introductory Picture—
PATHE NEWS
WILLIAM FARNUM
In the Great Broadway Success,
“THE GILDED FOOL”
COMEDY DRAMA
As played by NAT GOODWIN—Assisted by Maude
Gilbert, Robert Hilliard, William Gillett, Chas.
Guthrie, Harry Spingler and MARGA
RET VALE, a niece of President
Wilson.
6.REELS
This feature is the same class as “A Fool There Was.’
being the second production of the list of attractions
offered by the Empress Circuit, and are recognized
as the finest that money can buy.
and held the garments of those who
stoned the innocent.
Our attitude toward gossip is pass
ing strange. We all admit that the
good name is the most precious pos
session of a man or woman, and that
to rob them of this is to make them
poor indeed. Yet we, who would not
take a penny from their purse, have
no hesitation in filching their reputa
tion from them. We, who are punc
tiliously honest and would scorn to
pass on a dime whose value we even
suspected, pass on a scurrilous story
without stopping an instant to inves
tigate its truth.
We, who are tender-hearted and
could not bring ourselves to inflict
the slightest physical pain upon an
other human being have a ghoulish
delight in tearing to pieces the char
acter of even our friends, though
there is no other torture that the vic
tim would not rather undergo.
There is nothing sacred from idle
gossip. Nobody exempt. It is rarely
even intentionally malicious. It is
just an evil, miasmatic wind that
comes from nowhere and blows ev
erywhere, poisoning all upon whom it
breathes.—Exchange.
LET the work begin.
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Every community in Alaska should
comply with the request of the Nome
Chamber of Commerce to throw in
fluence behind the request of Acting
Secretary of War Scott for an appro
priation of $500,000 for Alaska roads
to be used this year. Alaskans at
the National capital are hopeful for
action by Congress on this subject.
That means that Alaskans will not be
going out on a wild goose chase by1
getting behind the War Department1
in this matter. They have the recom
mendations of Gov. Strong, the head
of the Territorial government; Col.
Itichardson, head of the govern
ment’s Alaska road makers, and, now,
the War Department itself, as a basis
frojn which to attack. They should
get to work, and Congress should he
bombarded by resolutions and letters.
Let the fight begin. - Exchange.
ALASKA’S MERCHANT FLEET.
For the big Aiasaa rusn thin year
a total of thirty-six large steamships
will be in regular operation. All of
these will operate from Seattle, with
the exception of three steamships,
which will make Vancouver, B. C.,
their home port. In addition there
will be two steamships sailing in
June from San Francisco, and two
expected to sail from Panama loaded
with equipment for the government
railroad. The total of thirty-six in
the regular service does not include
the fleet of full-rigged ships and
schooners operated by the different
salmon canneries, chartered steam
schooners, which may be announced
later, nor ■ the hundreds of tugs,
barges, halibut schooners, whalers
and many other small vessels which
annually ply Alaska waters. The
merchant fleet which is already pro
vided for represents ten steamships
In excess of the best year in the past
with a corresponding increase in ton
nage.-—Exchange.
AN UNEXPECTED SPOKESMAN.
“Civilization cannot be made an en
gine of war and perfected to foresee
every contingency. It is inherent in
liberty that it acts slowly, clumsily,
perhaps, but this very slowness and
clumsiness constitutes the strength of
free people.”—King Peter of Serbia.
This is the most sincere and suc
cinct declaration of faith in the spir
itual' strength of liberty as against
the material efficiency of absolutism
that we recall having read since the
war began.
Democrats all over the world have
been mutely feeling thlfe conviction.
It took a king to express it.—Ex.
Daughters and the Far Places.
We are pleased to note that the
daughter of our old friends, Ed Korn
and wife of Newkirk, Is home from
jBorneo, or some such heathen coun
try serving as a missionary for the
last five years. We have always felt
that sending a girl as a missionary
to the so-called heathen was a mighty
poor use to make of her, particularly
a bright, pleasant girl like this one,
and It Is to be hoped that she isj
home now to stay and cheer the de-|
dining years of her good mother and J
old dad, which is a pretty good way |
to servo the X.ord after all.-The Ponca |
(Okla.) Courier.
.. ... Our Spokesman .
If the party with an automobile
who nearly run me down on Main
streot as I was crossing ever repeats
the act, unless I am totally disabled,
he will need the'ambulance to finish
his trip. This is not intended as a
threat hut simply a matter of busi
ness. People not possessing one of
these devilish machines do not have
'to get off the earth, I don't think.—
Great Bend (Kan.) Tribune.
Since the dosed season went into
effect the ptarmigan have become ex
tremely plentiful ahout the town, and
are becoming so hold that they fre
quently fly over into town, lighting
jin the streets.
The nations of Europe have invited
ns into the war almost daily for 17
months so quite consistently they
warn us against the danger of arming
for defense.—Milwaukee Journal.
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If the price of gasoline keeps going
up it won’t be so much of a distinc
tion as it now is to be a mere pedes
trian.—Chicago Herald.
The American people want to do all
they can for war victims in other
lands. Meanwhile they should pru
dently provide against any chance of
having to need that sort of help from
other nations.
EBENEZER J. HILL
Connecticut Congressman De
mands Laws to Aid Dye Industry.
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