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Strive for
p\Manhood : ™ the ..
ls it Waning- ? a* Higher Ideal.
%-By DAVID B. fREiMAN%
No plan can reach maturity
without a guiding rule; no cause
can triumph without an ideal
standard; every proposition needs
its directing force. As the wise
men followed the star in the east,
so tuan at all times must have his
satellite to mark his course, to cast
a ray about his footsteps. The
higher ideal, like a delicately
wrought canopy, suspends itself
over men’s actions. It is like a
glow ovar the landscape of life. It
has been man’s beacon through
the brambles of hardship, self-de
nial and despair. It is the day
star of his existence and attends
his course even into the boundless
realms of glorious achievement —
of mental and physical triumphs.
Throughout all the ages, what has
been accomplished for the bettering
of mankind has been done through
the exercise of the higher impulses
and the clinging to the higher
ideal.
The soldier heeds his bugle call,
and the army will eagerly and with
gladness follow its shrill notes to
the long charge when it sulks and
groans hearstiek if compelled to j
rest in the rifle pits before the fort;
the boatman heeds the gong, the
trainman with eager ear moves at
the noise of the steam signal and
great audiences are managed by a
mere wave of the hand.
The ideal must precede the real,
and, moving as an orbit of blazon
ing power —like the vanguard of
some mighty army —al >ng life’s
devious way of duty, to attain
great ends it must have marshalled
to its support as companion forces
the nobler virtues. These must
play their part—purpose, zeal and
sterling character. He said well
who said “he aims low who aims
below the stars.” With noble pur
pose, man is not only civilizing but
christianizing the world and work
ing reforms with their blessings
and benefits to all.
Is manhood on the wane?
Among some there is a fear that
it is. In this day when commer
cialism is such a ruling force, the
fear is, that it will gain a momen
tum by which individuality will he
practically swept away and man
hood itself be in peril of if it is not
all but lost.
Many will refuse to believe crush
ed that manhood which says :
“I scorn ihe gay banquet with kingly
attendance
In unison wrought with some other
career;
The ploughshare rpturning my life’s
independence
And pleasures that cost not a sigh nor
a tear;
The conscience untarnished that calls
forth the smiling
Of Him who abides in the heavens
above;
The glow of true friendship life’s sea
sons beguiling.
The pleasures of home and the sun
shine of love.”
“Endurance is the supplement
that brings success to effort, con
centration and continuance com
pel victory.” “The bow which is
never unbent soon loses its value
and speeds no arrow to the goal.” j
The “toiling upward in the night” '
lias ever prefaced “the heights of
great men reached and kept.” Be
cause inventors toiled and explor
ers walked in weariness and mar
tyrs died at the stake, the sunlight
shines.at midnight, a whisper is
heard round the world, there is no
dark continent, republics have been
born and religion is unfettered by
churcbor state. We enter into the
fruits of other men’s labors. Looking
forward, some one tells us we will
see in years which are to come,
lands redeemed from tyranny and
made rich with the choicest stores
of a Christian civilization; peoples
rescued from ignorance and bar
barism and uplifted to a place
among the nations of the earth;
races saved from savagery and
dowered with the priceless bless
ings of civil and religious liberty.
“W hat is a man
If his chief good and profit of his time
is but to sleep and feed? A beast, no
more.
Sure He who made us with such large
discorrae
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and Godlike reason
To fust in us unused. ’’
Purpose, like the rudder of the
ship, when lined up with lofty im
pulse, carries man forward and
away from the breakers and reefs
and he is equally as susceptible to
the smiles of saints as impervious
to the scowls of viilains. Under
the warming influence of noble de
termination one latent quality alter
another bursts from its chrysalis
and comes forth to glorious move
ment. Thought, whose field is
universal, devises and pushing ac
tion goes to tht fore. Through
the use of needful forces students
have progressed from ciudeness of
conception to erudition, and cul
ture has done a leading part in
civilization. Bishop Berkley’s ex
pression “westward the star of im
' nire takes its way,” had its signi
, ficance before, at the time of and
lias since its utterance. From its
| cradle in the plain of old Chaldea
civilization has swept westward
| until it has circled the globe and
has its last unsolved ensigma alone
1 in the far eastern question, and we
view the grand spectacle of nations
! rising where barren plains and
! gloom y forests with their forbid
j ding mien in darkness sulked,while
! petrified tnonarchs look on in won
der and helplessness at the trans
• formation.
Japan has emerged into the light
of western ideas and will measure
! strides with progressive nations.
India, Australia and Africa are
I fast passing from terra incognita
! into the light of advanced civiliza
tion. Geography has been trans
formed, while China, wont to gro
vel in inertia and darkness, is be
ing pushed by alert powers until
at her twenty-three treaty ports
the white sails of 40,000 merchant
vessels no\v enter annually.
The pulsations of great com
merce have been felt in every land,
and from bridle-path and shamb
ling stage coach we have come to
stone-ballasted railway lines with
palace sleepers. Serfdom has had
its chains unloosed and arrogant
insolence of feudal lords has been
made but a loathed recollection,
crises have been spanned and the
tide of triumph has left us as a
perpetual living force, the Magna
Cbarta.
Tlie lower qualities, such as nar
rowness, selfishness, brutality prej
udice, avarice and bigotry must
abide apart from thrift. Because
barbarous countries refused to look
higher than these, the sure meth
ods of a refined progress worked
their material undoing, and God’s
hand has been in the working up
ward of man’s state. Napoleon
went down at Waterloo. Napo
leon was moved alone by selfish
ambition. Wellington triumphed.
Wellington was striving to thwart
threatened oppression.
“We stand before the vision of
Patinos,” says a pious thinker “to
discover a great and good reason
for the existence of all nations.
Nations have a birth with a begin
ning, progress and end, Every
nation has its individuality eternal.
Rome may conquer the world, but
it cannot discover the individuality
of other nations. Phigland may fill
her museums with works of art of
nations older than herself, but the
individuality of those nations are
seen on every work, and fabric of
the human hand.
“There is a special reason for the
existence of Christian nations. The
life of God is in them and God
never stands still. But in this vis
ion of New Jerusalem is the ideal
of ev_ry city which God is truly
building on earth. In the onward
movement of all national life there
must always be the ideal before
there can be the actual, and the
ideal should be the civic inspira
tion, God-sent out of heaven. The
difficulty with pagan and barbarian
nations has been first an ideal.
Mammon,Baal, Buddha and Brahm
or any other perversions can never
give an ideal for national life. You
can never.build character on a
caricature or on a falsehood.
“In this country of Washington,
out of all those in the history of
the world, the manifestos of God
are made more clear, if possible,
than in the times of the prophets.
Not as they are preached from the
pulpit but as they are acted in the
movements of history.”
The tragedy of Valley Forge
stands out on the great panorama
of history as a beautiful representa
tion of noble fidelity and heroism.
The chances of freedom or igno
miny and oppression hung in the
scale. The cause of the revolution
was gravely uncertain. Yet these
patriots, worn by fatigue, uncloth
ed and feet bleeding at every pore,
resolved to dare and die if need be
from their suffering, but never to
yield their purpose to continue to
withstand the British. LaFayette
appeared, and, through him the
proffered aid of France became a
| reality. Hope rose anew, the turn
| ing point of the revolution had
i come. Washington held to the
‘ higher ideal; the higher ideal was
, freedom or death. Freedom tri
umphed. our glorious constitution
was born and liberty is a sweet
; song wherever man’s voice is
heard.
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OUR WEEKLY LETTER
FROM WASHINGTON.
(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, July 19, 1901.
Has New York anew democratic
candidate for the presidential nom
ination? That question is being
asked in Washington since a prom
inent New York democrat dropped
a quiet hint that Col. I)au La
mont, who was Mr. Cleveland’s
private secretary during his first
administration and secretary of
war during his second, and who
has since been associated with ex-
Secretary Whitney in various big
business enterprises, might become
democratic candidate for governor
of New York, and if elected would
become a candidate for *he pres
idential nomination. Of course,'
there are some substantial “ifs” to !
lie considered in connection with ’
tiiis matter, but the whole presi-1
dential question is one of “ifs” at I
this time. There are several rea-!
sons why Dan Lament would make I
a strong candidate for any position '
he might aspire to. First and
foremost is his personal popularity!
—a man who could spend eight i
years in Washington as
ly associated with administration!*
as he was with those of Cleveland
without making an enemy, as Dan
Lamont did, must necessarily be a
remarkable sort of a man. The
next reason in importance is that
he would have the advice and ac
tive assistance of William C. Whit
ney, who has shown himself to be
one of the shrewdest political man
agers the country has or has ever
had. This thing may be no more
than the idle talk of a summer day,
but if Dan Lamont becomes a can
didate for the democratic nomina
tion for governor of New York, he
will get it, and he would probably
be elected, and that would natural
ly make him a presidential possi
bility.
There is little that is new in the
exposure of the methods followed
in the distribution of the patronage
of the house, made this week by
the national civil service reform
league, but it is none the less dis
graceful to the republican majority
of that body which allows the steal
ing, for that is the proper name for
receiving money and giving no
pretense of return for it. Men are
carried on the house pay roll who
never even come to Washington,
but have checks for their salaries
mailed to them, and other draw
salaries for work which they have
others to do, paying them only a
small fraction of what they receive.
The patronage of the house is not
nnder the civil service law. It is
controlled absolutely by the will of
the majority, and that majority
should be held responsible for the
willful waste of the peoples’ money,
and especially those members who
have held up the officers of the
house and demanded that salaries
be provided for their favorites
should be held up to the public
contempt they so richly deserve.
The weak spot in the long and de
tailed exposure is the careful avoi
dance of putting in the names of
looting congressmen. This avoi
dance is so palpable that it is
clearly intentional. Names are
given in plenty, but they are those
of the little rascals. A proper ex
posure would have given the nam.es
of those who made the rascality
possible, but perhaps the gentle
men who made the investigation
for the C. S. R. L. were a little bit
afraid to attack the congressmen
by name.
probably if Commissioner Evans
had made rulings that would have
involved the paying out of the
$5,468,505.89, unexpended balance
of tue $144,000,000 appropriated by
congress for pensions, which he
has turned back into the treasury,
the ring of pension sharks would
have been less persistent in their
demands for anew commissioner
of pensions.
The administration has at last
found a place for Col. John S. Mos
by as special agent of the general
land office. It isn’t a very big
place, but it is understood that the
necessities of Col. MDsby had be
come s pressing that he received
the appointment with thanks.
Representative Hooker, of Mis
sissippi, who passed through Wash
ington this week, does not endorse
the idea of dropping silver, and he
strongly deprecates the fight that
is being made on Mr. Bryan. He
said: “Silver has been part of the
world’s money since the earliest
dawn of recorded history, since
Abraham paid 500 pieces of sil
ver for the land in which
to bury his wife, Sarah. And why
should there be this uproar against
Mr. Bryan? He has not been forc
es, himself on the Ameiican peo
ple since the last election. It was
his piivilege to take up newspaper
work. He had to do something to
support himself and his family,
and has been going about it ki a
dignified manner. I served in cot:-
I with Mr. Biyan, and there I
| gained a high regard for his abili
ty.”
The long-talked of order of the
! postmaster general regulating sec
! ond-class mail uwis issued this week.
1 It doesn’t regulate anything, unless
it be the consciences of the postal
officials who have winked at evas
ions of the law governing second
class mail. It merely provides for
an enforcement of the law, which
the postmaster general and every
one of his subordinates have all
along been under oath to support
If this order is strictly enforced it
will simply prove what has been
as plain as the nose on your face,
that there was plenty of law to
shut fake publications out of sec
ond-class mail and only needed
backbone on the part of officials to
enforce it.
A FIREMAN’S CLOSE CALL.
“I struck to my engine, although
every joint ached and every nerve
was racked with pain,” writes
C. W. Bellamy, a locomotive
fireman, of Burlington, lowa, ”1
was weak and pale, without any
appetite and all run down. As I
was about to give up, 1 got a bottle
of Electric Bitters and, after tak
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Boiled in Iron*
Baltimore, July 18. —After being
parboiled in a sea of molten iron,
Peter Weldon, an engineer is now
in a fair way to lecovery. The case
is a remarkable one in local medi
cal annals.
Weldon was almost burned to a
crisp about tw'o weeks ago at the
works of the Maryland Steel Com
pany, at Sparrows’ Point, Molten
iron heated to a temperature of
1,700 degtees Fahrenheit from
the receptacle in which it was en
closed o'ver Weldon’s body, with
the exception of his chest and sto
mach. There was not an inch of
his body that did not come in con
tact with the terrible liquid.
The sufferings of the man were
almost beyond human endurance.
F'rom the first he insisted that he
would recover, and although at
times his resolve to get well flag
ged, he. was hopeful.
‘‘Laugh and Grow Fat ”
Life is such a serious business to
the average mortal that an oppur
tunity fora hearty laugh is more
than welcome to most people. “A
merry heart doeth good like a med
icine” end so do the humorous
features of that great metropolitan
daily, The Chicago Record-Herald,
The first thing that greets you on
the first page of every issue is the
humorous cartoon that frequently
tells more at a glance than could
be conveyed in a column of read
ing matter. Every issue contains
also a humorous short story on the
editorial page as well as “Out of
the Ginger Jar,” noted for its
snappy qualities, and the “Alter
nating Currents” cjlutnn written
by S. E. Kiser, one of the most 1
popular humorists in the country.
In addition to all these the Sun
day issue always includes a comic
section guaranteed to produce
laughter from the most lugubrious
of mortals. Then the inimitable
Bob Burdette, one of the most
noted of American humorists, is a
regular contributor to the Sunday
Record-Herald, and every issue
contains, in addition, other special
articles of a humorous character.
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Mass., and to Buffalo and to Ni
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Tickets to Buffalo and Niagara
Falls give a splendid opportunity
for side trips to the various attrac
tive coast resorts of New Jersey
and New York.
Tickets are on sale daily, guod
for return trip until October thirty
first inclusive.
The vSeaboard Air Line railway
is operating fast double-daily trains
supplied vVith magnificent vesti
buled Pullman sleeping cars, and
also day coaches, through to
Washington and New York, and
also to Richmond and Norfolk.
Close connection made at Nor
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Pressand Pulpit
The press and pulpit are inclined
to take a few shots at each other
from time to time, and the honors
of the target practice are, on the
whole about even. Bnt in one in
stance recorded by a contemporary
of the News the pulpiteer made a
bull’s eye and then lost the match.
He said in a course of discussion
with an editor:
“Editors dare not tell the truth
if you did youcould not live. Your
newspaper would be a failure.
The editor replied: “You are
right, and the minister who at all
times tells the truth about the
members, alive or dead, will not
occupy the pulpit more than one
Sunday, and he will find it necess
ary to leave town in a hurry. The
pressand pulpit go hand in hand
with whitewash brush and kind
words, magnifying little virtues
into big ones. The pulpit and the
press are a saint making partner
ship.
“And the minister,” added our
contemporary, “went away look
ing very thoughtful, while the edi
tor turned to his work, telling
about the unsurpassable beauty of
the bride, when as a matter of fact
she was as ugly as a mud fence.”
A Fireman’s Cl so Call.
“1 stuck to my engine, although
every joint ached and every nerve
was racked with pain,” writes C.
W. Bellamy, a locomotive fireman,
of Burlington, lowa., “I. was weak
and pale, without any appetite and
all run down. As I was aboutto
give up, I got a bottle of Electric
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Life.
The poet’s exclamation: “Oh Life
I feel thee bounding in my veins,”
is a joyous one. Persons that can
rarely or never make it,sn honesty
to themselves, are among the most
unfortunate. They do not live, but
exist; for to live implies more than
to be. To lire is to be well and
strong-to arfse fepiing equal to the
ordinary duties of the day, and to
retire not overcome by them-to
feel life bounding in the veins. A
medicine that has made thousands
of people, men and women, well
And strong, has accomplished a
great work, bestowing the richest
blessings, and that medicine is
Hood’s Sarsaperilla. / The weak,
run-down, or debilitated, from any
cause, should not fail to take it. It
builds up the whoie system, chang
es existanee into life, and makes
life more abounding. We are glad
to say these wordi in its lavor to
the readers of our colums.
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Martial Years-
Pittsburgh Post-
General Shaffer says in an inter
view apropos of his retirement on
accountjof age: “My duties have of
late been easier, but I am glad of
the chance for a rest. There is no
life which goes so rapidly as the
military, and I am glad that I have
borne it as well as I have.” What
the general says of the rapid aging
of men holding responsible mili
tary positions in war times is a
fact of history, with not many ex
ceptions. Very few of the general
officers who went through the civil
war in high commands survive.
Grant, Fee, Sherman, Sheridan,
McClellan, Thomas, Beauregard
and many others that might be
named have passed to the great be
yond. What they carried on their
shoulders in war sapped the foun
dations of their strength, and they
died before old age had claimed
any of them. If we go back in
history it is the same, Alexander,
Caesar and Bonaparte died com
paratively young. Wellington was
the oldest of great commanders,
and was 83 when he died in 1852,
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