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MAN. AN INVOCATION. 4, II) KIlM'rt Hubbard My heart goes out to you, O Man, because I cannot conceive of auy belug great, nobler, more heroic, more tenderly loving, loyal, unselfish uad enduring than are you. All the love 1 know Is man's love. All the forgiveness I kuow is man's forgiveness. All the sympathy I know is man's sympathy. And hence I address myself to Man?to you? and you would I serve. The fact that you are a human being brings you near to me?It is the bond that unites us. I understand you because you are & part of myself. j You may like me or not?It makes no difference if ever you need my help I am with you. Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand grasp and the word of cheer. I am only a man?a were man?but in times of loneliness think of me as one who loves his kind. What your condition is in life will not prejudice me either for or against you. What you have done t or not done will not weigh in the scale. If you have been wise and prudent I congratulate you, unless you are unable to forget how wise and irood you are; then I pity you. If you have stumbled and fallen and been mired in the mud, and have failed to be a friend to yourself, , then you of all people need friendship. I am the friend of convicts, insane people and fools?successful and unsuccessful, college-breed and illiterate. You all belong to my church. I could not exclude you if I would. The Spirit of Ls>ve that flows j 'through me, and of which I am a part Is your portion, too. The race is one and we trace to a common Divine Anceetry. I offer you no reward for being j loyal to me and surely I do not; threaten you with pain, penalty and i dire ill fortune If you are indifferent j to me. You cannot win me by praise or adulation. You cannot shut my heart toward you, even though you revile me. Only the good can reach me, and no thought of love you send me can be lost or missent. All the kindness you feel for me should be given to those nearest you, and it shall all be passed to your credit, for you yourself are the record of your thoughts and no error can occur in tho omin* Always and forever my friendship shall follow you, yet never intrude. I do not ask you to incur obligations or ask promises. There are no dues. 1 do not demand that you shall do this and not do that. I issue no commands . I cannot lighten .your burdens, and perhaps I should not even if I could, for men grow strong through bearing burdens. If I can, I will show you how to acquire styenght to meet all your difficulties* and face the duties of the days. It is not for me to take charge of for life, for surely I do well If I look | after one person?myself. If you err, it is not for me to | punish you. We are punished by our sins, not for them. Soon or late I know you will see that to do right brings Good and to do wrong brings misery, but you will abide Nature's Laws, and all good things will be yours. I cannot change these laws?I cannot make you extempt from your own blunders and mistakes. And you cannot change the Eternal Laws for me, even though you die for ine. Perhaps 1 can point you the pathway that leads to Love, Truth 1 and Usefulness, and this I want to do. ' And then by pointing you the way I will find it myself. J | y A MORNING PIIAYKH. Oh, may 1 be strong and bray today, y And may I be kind and trjje; And greet all men In a gracious way. With frank good cheer in the things I say At?d the love In the deods 1 do. May the simple heart of a child be mine, And the grace of a roin bloom; 1 Let me Oil the day with a hope divine And turn my fase to the sky's glad shine. With never a cloud of gloom. With the golden levers of love and ( light I would lift the world and when Throught a path with kindly deeds T a* rvw. ?- - * 1 w?v .uo H70V mnnn. 1 ?NIXON WATERMAN. When people Ret to drinking ra- i' dlum solutions at banquets cham- 1 paRne will lose Its Rlory as "wealthy ; water." Positive Identification loses much of its force when a person positively Identified as dead disputes the iden* tlflers. KSTi MATING CIIAKA4 TKK. "Gitche Manito, the mighty; Mltche Manito, the bad: In the breast of every Reduiau, la the dust of every dead tuau, There's a tiuy heap of Gitche And a mighty uiouud of Mltche? Thero's the good and there's the bad. Thus Cy Warmau, whose poete genius is just discovered now that he is dead?fate of so many among Art's elect!?put iuto new form an idea as old perhaps as thought itself. | "There's the good aud there's the bad;" the optimist looks for and sees the gitche, the pessimist seeks and finds the mltche. The "man in the street" makes up his mind that good and bad are about evenly balauced in what Browning called "this best of all possible worlds," Some men are much worse than they appear to be. while most men are much better than they seem. As it is with men, so it is, too, with nations. The evil is ever the more obvious eveu to the friendly observer of another race or nation. The good eludes liiiu, because when it is most good it is like the modest violet, "bashful and afraid of garish glare." To the Persian of old the men of Athens were barbarians. To the Greeks and to the Romans, the Franks and the Germans were beings formed in an inferior mold, essentially lower in the plane of possibilities ?potentiality. Where are the glories of the cities of Cyrus? Dead ashes? memories! What of the greatuess of ancient Athens and of ancient Rome? Broken columns, ruined temples? dust and memory lingering alongside the more modern monuments of cosmopolitan influence and cosmopolitan growth. The dome of 9t. Peters came neither from the brain nor the heart of Caesars.. Time's relentless changes have battered down untold walls of tiicjuuiL-? aini civilization's tide still sweeps onward, revising man's Judgment of other men. * s We are now, for the first time since Time itself leapt froth the womb of Eternity, coming together, again, in true cosmopolitan communion? the children of the floe and the fjord, the children of the park and peak, the children of the sun and saud. We are rubbing shoulder to shoulder and getting under the sktn." And Truth is teaching us that none of us has a monopoly of gitche or of mitche. The eternal conflicts common In all. A few days ago six gold watches were deposited at the Chinese Legation in Washington, I). C., to be forwarded to Minster K. E. Shah to Peking. These watches?appropriate presents!? are the gift of grateful Americans to brave Chinese who risk ed life and limb to save American men and women from danger. The future recipients are a Chinese teacher and Chinese soldier varying in rank from sergeant to corps commander. The go\ernruent of China has already extolled their conduct and rewarded them. Hut their greatest reward will be the influence of their bravery and self-sacrifice bringing about a new estimate of Chinese character. No Knight of the Grail could do more or dare more than did these, in part, obscure Chinese friends of those once ?hut, no longer?known as the "foreign devils". How fast the world is moving! How near we are getting to knowledge of our real selves! Appearenees are no longer important. The unfamiliar character of the cover no longer hinders us from knowing and admitting the beauty of the book. Wo read the mandates of Yuan or the speeches of Minister Shar and we cee that what is gitche in Paducah, Ky.. is good, too in Peking, China, and what a mitche in Cohoes, N. Y. is deemed just as bad in Canton or Cathey, Essentially, we are all pretty much the same Americans and Chinese, Mret Ilarte's surfaoo verdict notwithstanding. For "There's the pood and there's the bad." ?Contributed to Florence rimes. Is It Worth While? Is it worth while thc.t we jostle a brother Hearing his laod on the rough road ofJUfe? Is it worth while that wo jeer at oach other r.In blackness or heart?that wo war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife! Sod pity us all as we jostlo each other! | God ^pardon us all for the thiumphs we feel ' When a follow ?? ? . ri" v?.? uw rr 11 ? |IUUT, heart broken brother! ? Pierced to the heart! Words are keener than steel And mightier, for for woe and for weal Look at the rones saluting each other ! L*>ok at the herd* all at-ponce on the plaU. Wan. and man only. make^va^MWHs brother And dotes in his heart on his peril and pain, Shame by the brutes that go down oq the plain. ?Joaquin Miller. 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