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fHE ATLANTA 6EMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1913. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA.. 6 NORTH FORsiTH BT. Entered at the Atlanta Postofflce ae Mall Matter of the Second Class. JAMES R.. GRAY, and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE 75o 40c 25o Twelve months Six months Three months The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes ror early delivery. . . . It contains news from all over the world, brought *>y special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong department of special value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every poatofflce. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R- R BRAIA- LEY. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we nave ars J. A. Bryan. R. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling repre sentatives. 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The larger Powers look on, apparently unable to pacify the ■ disputants and, in the case of Austria, not very desirous of do ing so. Thus it seems'that a second war with none of the justice or real glory of the first but with far more peril to the peace of Europe is about to be fought. The Greeks and the Serbs reel that they have a righteous caus: The former contend for the posses sion of Salonica, a city of high commercial' and strategic value and of Hellenic origin. Servia is chiefly concerned in securing an outlet to the Ad riatic, without which, it is believed, she will dwin dle into insignificance. It was hoped that these and all other issues coulu be settled through the good offices of the Powers hut for many weeks past the Balkan States, particularly Bulgaria, have shown a testy temper and now, unless the Powers exert them selves to the utmost and as a unit, fighting of serious consequence will come. A prolonged war in the Balkans at the present time would not only be gravely disturbing to Europe but also especially unfortunate for the countries im mediately concerned. The territory that has been wrested from Turkish control is naturally rich but ~ its development requires peace. Only through quiet, constructive years can the ills of the old Ottoman regime be cured. It will he pitiable, indeed, if the energy and resources which should be turned to the remaking and the emancipation of these countries is spent in wastful war. The Balkan states themselves can ill afford an other conflict. Their treasuries are exhausted and their populations reduced by the Turkish campaigns. Tnis circumstance, if turned to due account by the larger Powers, could be made a potent influence for peace. It was reported some time ago that France would lend no money for military preparations in the Balkans. If that purpose is adhered to and is fol lowed generally, any considerable war will be well- nigh impossible. England, France and Russia are apparently very much in earnest i. their desire for peace. But the Georgia’s Welfare Demands A Compulsory School i-aw. In their recent annual convention held at Newnan, the teachers of Coweta county adopted resolutions in which they urge, among other needed measures, the enactment of a law requiring all normal children be tween the ages of six and thirteen to be placed in school for at least three consecutive scholastic months each year. . This petition is well worthy the Legislature’s favorable response, for, it voices the conviction of an especially able and experienced body t. men and women and further ore it rep resents the mature judgment of thinking citizens throughout the State. Indeed, the time has come when our General Assembly can no longer afford to lag behind public sentiment and public thought on this vitally important issue. It is Georgia’s mis fortune that she is today one of the only six States in all the Union that has not adopted a compulsory school attendance law. Let it not be said to her dis grace that she shall suffer this backward condition to continue another year! We must face the disturbing fact that there are but five other States with a greater percentage of Illiteracy than Georgia. This magnificent common wealth of whose material resources and industrial progress we are so justly proud, whose golden sun and fertile acres are beckoning homeseekers from every corner of America, this commonweaitn whose people are known for their liberal minds and hospi table hearts stands forty-third in the record of il literacy, when she should stand in che forerank of i jpular education. This fact is due partly and largely but by no means entirely to our large negro populr.aon. The United States census reports show that between 1900 and 1910 negro illiterates in Georgia fell from fifty-two per cent to thirty-six and five-tenths per cent, a decrease of more than fifteen per cent; while during the same decade white illiterates fell from eleven and nine-tenths per cent to seven and eight-tenths, a reduction of only four and one-tenth per cent. These figures speak for themselves and they speak with tongues, of iron. They warn us that in behalf of our practical Interests, if not In behalf of j our ideals we cannot afford to neglect longer the solemn duty of guaranteeing every Georgia boy and girl the right to a common school education. The annual report of our State department of education after noting the fact that there are sev eral counties where white illiteracy is large, de clares in this connection: “Investigation seems to prove that these il literates are the children of illiterates and that illiterarcy always tends to propagate itself. The wages of an illiterate person are practically al ways small, in comparison with those of one who has received educational training. . We lose thousands of dollars every year through the listless, feetuiejjectual efforts oj iiwsc who are in this condition. The State is dependent upon the training of her people for wealth, progress, civilization and it is iucr duty to see that these children are trained for citizenship, if only as a matter of self-protection There has bien in seasons gone by at least, a tendency even am„ng some of the advocates of a compulsory school attendance law to discuss this issue in rather a gingerly manner, as thougli they were apologizing to prejudiced opposition. Let us away with this half-handed meticulous policy. Let us deal with the needs and the rights of Georgia children frankly and whole-heartedly, as they de serve, taking a bold, firm stand 'against the sham 3 Public Judgment Supports The Game Law. | It is evident that any attempt to repeal or to J weaken Georgia’s game law will encounter intense opposition among thoughtful citizens throughout the State. Especially significant of public sentiment in this regard are the recent utterances of such papers as the Albany Herald and the Dawson News. The former declares editorially: "We are quite sure that toe have the best game law toe ever had; the only one, in fact, that ever amounted to anything or afforded any real pro tection to our birds and fish. It has been efficient under the direction of Commissioner Mercer who has entered into the' work, which he was selected to supervise, ivith keen enthusiasm.” In like vein, thd News remarks: "The game law, which has already been of vast benefit under the vigorous administration of Com- N- missioner Mercer, should be safeguarded where- ever possible.” The truth Is Georgians are more alert than ever before to the importance of conserving this particular field of their natural resources. All true sportsmen realize the necessity of a game law that is well de signed and well enforced; while fanners recognize the fact that upon the preservation of bird life the safety of their crops and orchards from destructive insects very largely depends. Considered from an ag ricultural standpoint, the present game law is worth millions of dollars and, if supplemented at certain points, it will be worth still more. Of this, we may be sure, that no one who is abreast present day thought will for a moment entertain any suggestion to impair the law’s usefulness or to take a backward step in this vital sphere of conservation. On the contrary, public judgment is squarely behind the statute and squarely behind Commissioner Mercer in his faithful and efficient efforts to enforce it. FANTASTIC FAITH By DR. FRANK CRANE. (Copyright, 1913, by Frank Crane.) motives of Austria are open to Suspicion. It was Aus- our tria that led the Powers in the movement for an au tonomous Albania and in coercing li-tle Montenegro into renouncing hard-won Scutari. Austria has long coveted a foothold or a clear path in the peninsula and seemingly she reasons that a weakening or de structive war among the Balkans themselves would open the way for her ambition; hence it is suspected that she is in no wise loath that the fighting should proceed. It is still possible, however, and certainly it is to be hoped, that a more generous policy will prevail among the large Bowers and that through their com bined influence they will force the present issues to arbitration. State now suffers from years of duty shirked. Whoever fancli.. that compulsory school attend ance would prove unpopular with the rank and file of Georgians grievously underestimates the con science and intelligence of our citizenship. Such a law, on the contrary, will prove one of the most popular as well as most useful, ever enacted and the legislators who place It upon our statute books will earn everlasting enconiums and gratitude. A Matter of-Social Justice. The need of a State institution for the guardian ship and education of wayward or incorrigible girls is so manifest that the bill to that end recently in troduced by Messrs. Mills, of Butts, and Jones, of Coweta, should pass at the present session of the Legislature without difficulty or delay. Leading mem bers of the House and Senate have expressed them selves as earnestly in favor of this measure and thoughtful citizens in every part of Georgia have given it their cordial indorsement. It carries an ap peal to the good sense as well as the conscience and human-heartedness of every member of the General Assembly. Some years ago the State established at Milledge- ville a reformatory for boys and a kindred Institu tion, known as the Industrial Farm, is maintained by Fulton county at Hapeville. The value of ths work is beyond reckoning. Scores and hundreds of boys who were on the downward path toward lives of habitual crime have been reclaimed and turned face- forward in the way of useful citizenship. It is a la mentable fact, however, that while we have given the wayward boy a chance, we have thus far left the wayward girl without shelter or guidance. An Ollie Taylor is taken from the streets and placed under wholesome disci pline, is strengthened in body and mind and character and made self-supporting, self-respecting; but a girl in similar circumstances is left to drift as she will. There Is no corrective or educational institution to which the courts 1 commit her; and so she passes on frofn a moral twilight to the valley of utter dark ness. This condition should not be suffered to continue. Is the life of a girl less precious than the life of a boy? Is the State’s interest in preventing criminals among women Jess vital than in preventing criminals among men? Not simply as a matter of pity or of worthy senti ment but chiefly as a matter of justice, justice to the community as well as to the individual, the State should establish an institution where girls who are not hopelessly, and often not inherently, bad may be given that measure of restraint and instruction which will save them from the evils of impulse or environ ment and make their lives worth while to themselves and their generation. When Mme. Annie Besant was according brief au diences to the unbelieving in a pretty little hotel placed at her service by one of the elect of the Parisian "world,” Emile de Saint- Auban penetrated into her sanc tuary and asked her if she be lieved that faith was failing among men. “There are no unbelievers,” re plied the prophetess. "The un believers of today believe a lot of things.” A very shrewd truth! Also that saying of Joseph de Maistre: “We are approaching the great est of religious epochs.” The variety of bizarre “be liefs” is inconceivable. Cities are full of them. All around, our fe vered money-making plays, the most amazing spiritual freakishness. We have as many soothsayers, crystal-gazers, necromancers, phil- ter-concocters, hoodoo artists, clairvoyants, fortune tellers and spook dealers in general in Boston or Chi cago as they had in Tyre or Troy. Humanity continues to believe as fiercely, unrea- soningly, and pugnaciously now as in former times, though an era of tolerance has cut our fangs. There is no city without its variegated cults, move ments and new religions. Sometimes they are pursued in cheap boarding houses, sometimes in hired theaters, sometimes they build expensive temples. And the newer and crazier the faith the more militant it is. Huysmans state that they are still celebrating the Iniquities of the "black mass” In certain houses in Versailles. There is hardly a superannuated god of Olympus or of Walhalla that cannot find some worshippers, he adds, in Paris. They recently had a congress of spiritists at Ge neva, where all the sharpshooters of metaphysics gath ered to compare their strange "facts," and incidentally to dine at tables that, let us hope, were not tipped by uneasy ghosts. I know a perfectly rational man, to all appearances, who confidently believes that the world is coming to an end in 1914. He is disposing of his property and going to move to the mountains so as to be high and dry when the wave hits us. It sometimes seems as if the modern “tired busi ness” or “society woman” will swallow any sort of outlandish "faith,” provided it is not' orthodox. It all means the irrepressible hunger of the hu man spirit. If it cannot find bread it will eat shucks and boot tops. Utter materialism is impossible. The human soul will not believe in mud. Brahmanism and Buddhism have many followers in America The east still fascinates. Last summer at Stonehenge, in England, where are the Druid remains of stone temples, there was a meet ing of English sun worshippers, and girls danced in the dew and saluted Jhe rising star of day. There never was greater opportunity for an apos- tel of wholesome, intelligent human faith than now. The common people would hear him a3s gladly as they heard the Nazarene, though in time doubtless they would make of him, as they made of Jesus, a strange, heathen fetich; not to be heeded in simplicity, but to' be worshipped with elaborate rites on Sunday and disobeyed with a whole heart the rest of the week. THE INCOME TAX XIX.—THE CORPORATION TaX. Bx FREDERIC J. HASKIN. American Universites Rich in Romance American collegiate history is full of romance and of thrillingly interesting occurrences of which more should be made, declares a writer in the Yale Review. The founding of Dartmouth college in the wilderness by Eleazar Wheelock for the purpose of educating In dian youth; the association of Benjamin Franklin with the plan fob the University of Pennsylvania, of Rufus Putnam and of Manasseh Cutler with that for Ohio university, of Thomas Jefferson with the creation of the University of Virginia, and of the two great men memorialized in the name of Washington and Lee uni versity; the impressive commemorative exercises at Harvard and Yale at the civil war’s close, the former identified with the participation of Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, and Phillips Brooks, the latter with that of William M. Evarts and of Horace Bush- nell; the invasion of New Haven by the British under General Tryon when good President Naphatali Dag gett, musket in hand, showed his ardent patriotism; the setting-up of the first printing press on this conti nent at Harvard college, and Washington’s assuming command of the American troops under the shadow of her buildings; the temporary holding of congress in old Nassau hall; the beginning of the University of Georgia with Abraham .Baldwin, one of the framers of our constitution—these are facts taken almost at ran dom indicating the close association of some of our long established universities with the most pregnant events in American history. They have the associa tions necessary to make them factors in the main tenance of historical continuity for the whole country. —Christian Science Monitor. / : A Hay Show. The Rural Letter Carriers. If there was ever a convention entitled fo a par ticularly cordial welcome in the State’s capital, it is that of the Georgia Rural Letter Carriers’ Association which is now assembled in Atlanta for its tenth an nual meeting. No single agency has meant more to the country’s development than the free delivery of mails in rural districts. It is a constant, far-reach ing influence for the enrichment of farm life. It inks the wayside mountain home to the centers of national thought and progress and is a steady guide o education ana good citizenship. Like all institutions, however, the rural free de livery depends for its character and vitality upon the rank and file of the men who are per- orming its duties from day to day. They constitute ts human and, therefore, its essential element. To be extent that they realize the importance of their vork and measure up to the standards of their service, to that extent the rural free delivery of mails becomes a blessing to each community. Hence the significance of the Association now con- ened in Atlanta, an association organized to pro mote the highest interests of the work in which its members are engaged. To such counsels as this, the efficiency which the service has attained is very largely due; -indeed, their influence has spread far beyond the immediate sphere of mail delivery. The progress of the good roads cause iq Georgia owes much to th,e discussions and plans of such conven tions, backed up by the efforts, collective and indi vidual, of the Association. The rural letter carriers play a distinctive part in the advancement of Georgia as of all other States. We trust that their present meeting will be unus ually profitable to them and to their important field of work. r armers in the territory between Atlanta and Ma rietta have conceived the interesting and praisewor thy plan of holding a hay show. At a recent meet ing they subscribed a fund sufficient to meet the inci dental expenses and also to offer attractive premiums for the best products displayed. The show will be staged at Smyrna early next autumn and will doubtless bring many exhibitors and visitors from all the surrounding counties. As a means of arousing and educating common interest In this important sphere of Georgia agricul ture, no better enterprise could be undertaken. Upon a larger home production of food supplies, the prog ress of our farms very largely depends. The people of this State are spending millions of dollars an nually in Importing corn, cattle, nay and other such products from distant sections at high prices. In deed, It has been estimated that there is a deficit of thirty-seven million dollars every year between the value of our cotton crop and the cost of our im ported foodstuffs. If the State is to enjoy its due measure of pros perity, this condition of affairs must be altered. As one means to that end, the State corn show which is conducted under the auspices of the Atlanta Cham ber of Commerce is exceedingly vaulable. Hay shows like that to he held at Smyrna will prove corres pondingly useful; for, it is commonly agreed among students of agriculture that if Georgia is successfully to engage in the raising of cattle she must first pro duce the forage that is necessary to their sustenance. The soil of this State is particularly well adapted to the growth of nutritious grasses Crops of this kind can be raised here with less labor and expense than in many other States where the cattle industry has become famously profitable. The farmers of this section who have determined to raise more hay and better hay are setting a fine example which, it is to be hoped, will be followed throughout the State. The Triumph of An Idea. The moral force of a quickened and educated pub lic sentiment is strikingly witnessed by the short cas ualty list frojm the recent Fourth of July celebration. In summers gone by Independence Day has left a trail of suffering and death throughout the Union but this year injuries due to dangerous fireworks have been comparatively inconsiderable. Dispatches from various parts of the country ac count for some forty to fifty persons killed in divers accidents: twenty-eight by drowning, five by automo biles, five in a train wreck and two in aeronautic sports. For the most part, however, these were fatali ties not peculiar to “the Fourth” and, what is es pecially noteworthy, they more than doubly outnum ber tlie gunpowder accidents of the day. The movement for a sane Fourth required years to get fairly under way but its appeal is now nation wide and its results abundantly gratifying. A Wonderful Flight Editorials In Brief “It is the most difficult thing in the world to keep your temper in an argument when the mercury stands at ninety-eight,” says a Middle West philoso pher. Not at all. The most difficult thing in the world is to catch a flea while wearing boxing gloves. —Louisville Courier Journal. The general reader, on hearing that the Poet Laureateship has been offered by Premier Asquith to Robert Bridges, will probably ask who he is. Kip ling, William Watson, Stephen Phillips he will know in one form and another, but his acquaintance with Dr. Bridge’s rather academic muse will be slight. Still, If the Poet Laureateship has effected nothing else, It has helped more than one poet in official guise to address a larger audience than he could otherwise have done.—New York World. President Wilson is cruising in the Mayflower somewhere on Cheasapeake Bay; and Washington does not know his whereabouts. A bully good way to find him, however, would be for the politicians to attempt to “put one over” dur ing his absence.—Kansas City Star. (New York Evening Post.) The wonderful feature of M. Brindejonc’s successful flight from Paris to St. Petersburg and back is not the distance, the 3,100 miles covered falling a thousand miles short of the distance traversed by Rodgers in this country in 1911, when he flew from Sheepshead Bay to Pasadena. But while the American accomplish ed his undertaking by a long series of short flights, the Frenchman has attained his goal by a short series of long and speedy flights. Rodgers’s longest flight in one day was 231 miles. The Frenchman’s shortest flight In one day was 219 miles. The American was in the air on thirty days, scattered over seven weeks. Brindejonc flew on just nine days, scattered over one calendar month plus two days. And the Frenchman's speed! On the flrst day of his trip, he flew from Paris to Warsaw, 876 miles, in eight hours, averagaing well over a hundred miles an hour. At another time, he travelled a considerable distance at the rate of 140 miles an hour. Of course, it is possible for our pride to reflect that the Frenchman succeeded only by flying a return journey, and that he was compelled to travel over the territories of several nations, while in our broad domain Rodgers went in only one general direc tion, and was never out of the jurisdiction of the Stars and Stripes. But for a decadent people, the French must be admitted to act rather strangely now and then. I Ancient Trees The corporation tax l&w enacted in connection with the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill under circumstances that constitute a remarkable episode in American fiscal leg islation, has proved an efficient revenue raising instrument, and whatever the defects of the oth er parts of the Payne-Aldrich law, no one seems to criticise the operation of the corporation tax clause. It has raised an average of about $27,000,000 a year in revenue. Furthermore, it lias compelled corporations to Keep accurate records of their business and to give the icderal government a look-in upon their affairs that has gen erally been regarded as saluta ry. Knowing that their sworn statements to the interna reve-* nue bureau might be used against them in other than tax proceedings it has been fol- j lowed by a general tendency upon the corporations to keep theii houses in order. Ther© are a little less than 300,000 corporations making returns showing their an nual net incomes. They represent a total capitaliza tion of about $60,000,000,000, and a total bonded and other indebtedness of approximately $32,000,000,000. Their net income approximates $3,250,000,000 a year. A look at the records of the tax in the internal reve nue bureau discloses some interesting facts concern ing different lines of business. For Instance, while the major portion of the adverse criticism of corpora- , tions has been directed agains\ the railroads and other public service corporations, the records reveal the fact that they lake smaller net earnings thap any other class of corporations. On the other har.d, until re cently few people have hod much to say against fi nancial institutions and insurance companies and yet the corporation tax records disclose the fact that they mak© a greater profit than an” other class of Insti tutions. Of course, the fact that railways and the like are quasi-public partly accounts for this. These returns sh6w that the net earnings of financial insti tutions and insurance companies amount to 15.84 per cent upon their capital stock, while those of mercantile corporations amount to 10.13 upon their capital stock. The percentage of industrial corporations average 4.80 per cent, and that of public service corporations 4.17 per cent. The four states of New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio pay more than half of the tax. New York itself pays nearly a fourth of it. • • • As intimated above, the legislative history of the corporation tax law is a remarkable one. The meas ure was not discussed or even thought of in the pres idential campaign that preceded its enactment, and although the constitution vests in the house of repre sentatives the right of originating all revenue legisla tion, it did not originate there, was never before it for consideration, discussion of vote, except as it came up in a conference report It was not mentioned in the inaugural address of Mr. Taft, was not introduced by any member of congress, and had many other peculiar and unusual experiences. As a matter of fact, when it seemed that something had to be done to keep con gress from passing an income tax law, th© attorney general, George W. Wickersham, drafted the law and had it placed in the hands of congress. • • • On the floor of the senate Mr. Aldrich admitted that he was goinj to vote for the corporation tar law as a means of defeating the income tax. Senator Flint pro nounced it a makeshift to serve until the income tax amendment could be passed and an income tax law of undoubted constitutionality enacted. Senator Root declared himself for it because he believed it was a wise measure and against the income tax law because he believed It would be an unwise one. j • • • » llfteen cases were submitted to test the constitu tionality of the law, and perhaps the first one taken up by the court afforded the best Illustration of the In justice it might work. It was the case of Flint against 1 Stone, Tracy & Co. Some years previous to this suit there was a big firm by the name of Tuxbury & Stone. It was dissolved and two separate businesses estab lished. which becam.ee active competitors. One busi ness was a corporation and the other a partnership. Under the law the one business was compelled to pay the tax and the other was not. The one business was required to open its books and the other was not. The supreme court, however, In spite of this inequal ity of two similar businesses conducted In a dissimilar way, 'upheld the constitutionality of the tax. Tho greater privileges gnd Immunities of the corporation as compared with the partnership neutralize th% appar ent discrimination. This was r.ot the first time that it had upheld the right of the federal government to tax corporations It had done so In the income tax suits in 1895, and again under a law enacted In 1898 aimed at the sugar trust and Standard Oil. This law provided a tax of 1-4 of 1 per cent upon all gross receipts of corpora tions engaged In the oil or sugar refining businesses, where these receptis amounted to more than $250,000 a year. The constitutionality of this tax was called Into question upon the ground that It was a discrim inatory tax. and In contravention of the decision of 1895. But the court held otherwise. The Internal revenue authorities have nothing but good to say for th e corporations’ attitude toward the operation of the law. They say that the number of cases of willful attempts at evasion are almost negli gible. Sometimes they se e returns which indicate that a corporation has charged up money spent for better ments to the account of expenses, but these are much j more frequently due to a misapprehension of the law I than to any intention to „vade the tax. Sometimes } close corporations make undue allowances for sala ries, but a ruling of the treasury department has put a check to that. And where there are errors they are not always against the United States by any means Frequently a corporation finds that it has paid too much tax, that its books show a greater net profit than really was made, For instance, a corporation dealing in securities made its returns on its profits from the sale of bonds. The bookkeeper entered upon his books the cost of the bonds in one account and in another account the interest his corporation advanced on them. When the securities were sold he entered the sales price of the bonds plus the lnterst in his account of the sales. In making his returns to the Internal reve nue bureau he deducted the price paid for the bond* from the price at which they were sold, including the interest, and thus found the gross profit. This failed entirely to take off the interest paid out, and conse quently, they showed a net income far in excess of the realities. The corporation overpaid the government more than $4,000 as a result. (From the London Chronicle.) None of the famous British oaks, long-lived though they are, comes anywhere near holding the record as the oldest tree in tire world. The Soma sypress, in Lombardy, is known to have existed forty years before the birth of Christ, and Ceylon boasts a sacrea tree which is said to have sprung from a branch of one under which Buddha reclined in the Sixth Century B. C. According to Dean Stanley, too, there are still eight of the original olives standing in Gethsemane. Stray ing into the realm of legend, one can find a tree sprung from Cain’s staff in Palestine. Once more the Georgia peace is advertising us to the nation. President Wilson continued to disappoint his en- j emies by not making a mistake. Secretary Daniels’ advice, is good. When over heated, think of the growing cotton crop. That mysterious novelty, a breeze, is in our : midst once more. Love's Captivity Ah! since you came and took your place within The garden of my soul, new flow’rs have grown In wild luxuriance there; and these have blown Tlielr perfume all about. Your smile has been Dear one, like olden wine, and life to me Instead, with freedom sown. Is hedged about with Love's captivity. Though I be slave I love my serfdom well. The stronger chains you forge about my will Are welcome, for they hold me close and still Near to the holy place where you must dwell. Take all my dreams of other years than thi* And these upon the restless waters straw: I want but this: my servitude for you. Behold my lips are passioned for your kiss. I have known freedom, but how dull now seem Those years of liberty, before you came. I even knew the petted touch of fame. But these dissolve, like some forgotten dream Before the glory which your love has brought, And these strong chains your little hands hav« wrought. —H. K. HARMAN.