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"How do you suppose,” Henry Adams wrote his brother from London In October, 1861, “we can shut people's eyes to the incompetence of Lin coln or the disgusting behavior of many of our volunteers and soldiers.’ Charles Francis Adams, jr., replied from his Washington experience that "the president is not equal to the crisis;" that "the secretary of war is corrupt and the secretary of the navy is incompetent,” and that he wished that the whole cabinet, except Seward, Chase and Blair, were driven from office. Charles Francis Adams, sr., minister to England, wras meanwhile sadly assuring nis family that he saw in his father, J. Q. Adams, "the only picture of a full grown statesman thar the history of the United States has yet produced.” Through such gloomy lenses did the Adams trio view the leaders and prospects of the union. Nor was their opinion of our people much more sanguine at times. “What a bloody set of fools they are!^ ex claimed Henry Adams from our legation at the height of the Mason-blidell uproar. "It’s pitiable to see such idiocy in a nation." It may all be read in Worthington C. Ford's rich two-volume “Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-5, just published. Throughout the war passages of the same pessimistic strain can easily be found. Charles Francis Adams, jr., on picket duty in Virginia, read “Bull Run” Russell's “Diary North and South” with fuil appreciation of its caustic picture of scheming politicians, cowardly generals, selfish contrac tors, vapid society people, and a noisy rabble. Russell had told the truth, and a permanent truth. "How well that book stands time!” It was shame ful and ludicrous: “all that humbug, cowardice, and incompetence,” wrote Adams, “makes me weep and blush as one reads.” This sturdy soldier was angry at his countrymen, from Hooker, the greatest fraud of the war, to the nameless Pennsylvanians who charged a half dollar a loaf for bread for the wounded troops after Gettysburg. In August, 1864, Charles Francis, jr., wrote from among the Sharpies and vultures” in Washington that no end of the war was in sight; "We must go floundering on indefinitely through torrents of blood and unfathomable bankruptcy.” When he was hopeful of victory, be was hopeless of a real peace. “People seem to me as ugly and vindictive as possible. TKey really don't want peace unless with it comes the hangman." Henry Adams was even less cheerful. Unless sober men brought the country back to its true course, he declared in 1862, it will “be carried on from war to war and debt to debt and one military | leader to another,” Much of the matter on international affairs is equally dispirited. France was beyond rescue. Henry Adams was certain in 1861 that England “means to make war.” He repeated the prediction throughout much of 1862. The elder Adams believed in September, 1862, that whether or not war was avoided, “alienation for half a century is the inevitable effect between the two countris.” Henry Adams described the British government as “clumsy, unmanageable, and short lived,” and added that the- British, in their hatred of the system before the reform bill, “have rendered all systematic gov ernment impossible.” Charles Francis Adams pointed to the key of British politics as place, not principles, and spoke of the period as “one of a truce between ideas.” For a time the privileged in Europe were triumphant, await ing the o^ash of American democracy. Was it all gloom? The Adamses were much too keen of perception for that. The wrar is killing slavery, so Charles Francis Adams, jr.. rejoiced at Port Royal in 1862: “I believe that from it will flow grea* blessings to Amer ica and Caucasian race. I believe the area of freedom will by it be immensely expanded in this country, and that from it true principles of trade and econ omy will receive a prodigious impulse throughout the world.” Reading Russell’s “Diary,” he reflected that the meanness it portrayed was only upon the surface. “The enthusiasm, loyalty, and self sacrifice of those days, the sudden upheaving against that which was wrong on the part of a whole great people’;” lay beneath. Henry Adams wrote with emotion of the magnificent response among the plain people of England to the magnifi cent effort of the union, which within three months in 1863 “has placed all our enemies on the defensive.” The war, the minister declared solemnly, “is not simply for the good of America, but likewise for that of the civilized world." The issue, he felt, was certain, and would shake Europe. Perhaps there are a few today who see in our political leaders the in competence that in dark moments the Adamses saw in Lincoln or the shal lowness they found in Gladstone. They note the meanness described in Repington's “Diary” withiut thinking of the heroism beneath. They look forward to confusion, debt, and war, and, like Charles Francis Adams in his darker moments, see international rancors stretching ahead in a vista of a half century. A few brief years discredited the spleen of the Adamses and brought to full fruition the greater part of their optimistic hopes. Labor In East Africa. From the Living Age. The Bishop of Zanzibar has recently Issued a pamphlet attacking the sys tem of compulsory labor enforced by the British in East Africa. This is the lat est contribution to the controversy which has engaged the attention of the British public for some weeks. Com pulsory labor is becoming a familiar term in Europe with'the creation of the so-called labor armies of Russia, the en actment of a compulsory labor law in Bulgaria, and the advocacy of a similar statute in Germany. But the applica tion of such a policy to a colony seems likely to revive the features of' human slavery. According to the provisions of the act natives are only compelled to do “work of a public nature” for the good of the community. This has been interpreted so broadly, for instance, as to compel the natives to pack cloves for private employers, since cloves pay 20 per cent, duty to the government. A Woman Soldier. By Associated Press. A Polish woman soldier who took part In driving back the bolshevists from Warsaw, writing to a Polish newspaper says she went 10 days without taking off her clothes and that frequently the members of her detachment went five and six days without having oppor tunity to take down their hair. During one marCh, in keeping pace with the re treating red forces, the women were on the go 14 hours, 13 of which were with out food or water. The letter says:: At 11 o’clock at night we were ordered to be in readiness. Our detachment, all women, had been ordered out for pa trol duty. Our pack consists of a coat, rifle, ammunition and other articles, in all weighing CO pounds. After hours of marching and when I felt that I couldn’t go a step further we received orders to return to our former post, several miles away. I scarcely remember how I scarcely remember how l reached our destination, I was so tired. 1 dropped onto a pile of straw and slept for an hour. When I was awakened I was informed that my detachment had gon<* away without me, to take part in a move ment to surround"a force of bolshevists hidden in a clump of woods. After six miles of good roadway, I encountered sand which made walking so difficult that my feet pained me at every step. I was covered with dust, and hadn't had i a drink of water for hours. After walk ing 15 miles I reached my comrades who were resting under trees, in the shade from a hot sun. A peasant boy brought a bucket of plums, Lut we privates only got a look at them, the plums all went to the officers, who were women, too. And then the march started again, through a forest. Now and then, as we advanced. I saw some of the women faint, and 1 heard others crying "mercy,” and 1 thought I heard curses which must have come from the men on our right. This march has continued 14 hours. For 13 hours we had neither food nor water. When we reached a series of trenches, we were promised something hot to eat. But the food never came, and then the fight ing began. Oh, how I longed for a drink A campaign for the passage of laws In all states requiring better protec tion of railroad grade crossings Is to be carried on by members of the A*s sociatlon of State Railway and Utility Commissions. Between 4,000 and 6,000 persons are killed each year from trespassing upon railroad property and as many more injured. Heroic Interlude. From the Birmingham Age-Herald. “The Gorflings have a little son." "Of course they think he’ll bo presi dent some day?" "Perhaps, but Mr. Gorfling sees no reason why he shouldn’t star on a col lege football team before entering the White House.” President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor has declined an Invitation to attend the inauguration of President Obregon at Mexico. He says be will attend the Pan-American labor convention there in January. The New Learning. From Philadelphia Public Ledger. In a thoughtful article in the Weekly Review Beverley Nichols writes of post war Oxford, and finds his ancient uni versity internationalized and democratic and filled to overflowing. “The only vital change which has taken place is the advent of a real democracy. New buildings are being erected solely to accommodate working men. They will receive all the advantages of the univer sity, its social life as well as its scho arship, at greatly reduced fees. They will participate in the spoils, and they , will share to the full in the various po litical, literary and scientific societies in \\ hich {Oxford abounds.” —longed for sleep, away from the roar of battle! But above everything there was a feeling of satisfaction—a feeling of undreamed of happiness—klespite the suffering from hunger, from lack of water and the misery due to cold at night and heat during the day, when 1 thought and was thrilled as we. fought that I, a woman, was a soldier’ of Po land. History Repeats Itself. The republican majority in congress Is large, but not at all unprecedented. It is simply one of the things that hap pen occasionally. They mark the tem porary defeat of one party, but not any thing like the extinction of the other party. In the lower house of the next congress the democrats will have from 125 to 130 seats. In the lower house of the Fifty-second congress, 1891-3 there were 236 democrats and 88 re publicans. In the next congress, 1893-5, there were 220 democrats and 126 re publicans. Then the republicans “came back.” During 1895-7 “the House num bered 216 republicans and 104 democrats. In the first two cases the Senate was strongly democratic. In the third case it became republican. As a result of the recent election, congress, now in re publican control, will become still more strongly republican next year. It’s all part of our political “ups and downs.” History is repeating itself and will doubtless do so again. St. Lawrence Waterway. From the New 'York Post. Governor-Elect Miller, of New York, is vigorously opposed to the Great Lakes St. Lawrence waterway. Herbert Hoov er supports the project unqualifiedly. No one knows more about the marketing of wheat than Hoover, and he has as sured the international Joint commission that the waterway would enable farmers to save 10 cents a bushel cm grain mar la ted in Europe. At that figure the pro ject would give American agriculture from $15,000,000 to $25,000,000 additional on every wheat crop. Mr. Hoover, like Mr. Barnes and Secretary Redfleld, has no sympathy with the argument that the waterway may injure the commerce of New York. New York’s prosperity is dependent upon the prosperity Qf the great interior. Every one knows that in 100 ways American business and in dustry are being injured by the in inade quacy of our transportation facilities. We cannot build houses because of transportation tie-ups; we cannot get fuel jbecause of freight congestion; we cannot distribute foodstuffs and manu factured goods as we should. If ocean steamers could load beef direct at Chi cago, steel plates at Cleveland, and wheat at Duluth, and could bring Im ports to the very heart of the country, the enormous terminal expenses In con gested Atlantic ports from Montreal to Baltimore could be eliminated. Out of Date Now. “Did you hear what that young wom an said?” “No. What was ltr’ "She told the young fellow with her that she ‘Just loved to cook.' ’’ "Ah! An old-fashioned girl. She's us ing the *varoplng* methods popular SO years ago." The first hunger strike of record In the Orient ended fatally a few days ago when a prisoner Incarcerated in connection with the Korean Inde pendence movement died at Seoul after faaiiny 13 days. _ - ♦44444444444444444^ 4 GREATEST GIFT. 4 4 4 4 Prom Dearborn Independent. 4 4 Life was given us. It is a great 4 4 gift. We feel it to be a great 4 4 gift, when we stop to think of it. 4 4^ Life is not a holiday, but a 4 4 school, a discipline. It has its 4 4 tests, its hard places from which 4 4 neither money nor power, neither 4 4 culture nor character can exempt 4 4 us. All eyes weep betimes, all 4 4 hearts ache. Kvcryone who has 4 4 lived knows the pain of broken 4 4 plans, the pain of revised visions. 4 4 By the same token, all lives have 4 4 known the fundamental joys, 4 4 those joys which are essential in 4 4 our humanity. Stripped of ac- 4 4 cidental gear, all lives are very 4 4 much alike. 4 4 We have to be thankful that 4 4 life is what It is, when we are 4 4 thoughtful about It. Our freedom 4 4 to change the fundamental!' is 4 4 limited and Is exerSised at our 4 4 peril, but our treedom to adjust 4 4 our reactions to them Is almost 4 4 boundless, and It Is in this free- 4 4 dom that life finds Its fullest 4 4 abundance. 4 4 The fundamental blessings are 4 4 life—sheer physical being; thought 4 4 —the growing part of man; work 4 4 —the forth putting power; love— 4 4 the cavity of the higher nature; 4 4 society—which begins and ends 4 ♦ In the home, for society is com- 4 4 posed not of separate individuals, 4 tout of groups bound together by 4 ties of blood and of emotion. 4 4 Deprived of any one of these, 4 4 all the accidentals of possession 4 4 or place become dead. But these, 4 4 the fundamentals are the inherl- 4 4 tanee of all—the world is just 4 ttlpit wisely ordered in the prov- 4 inces where man's disturbing 4 4 band may not interfere. 4 4 4 4444444444444444444 Historical Champagne Cooler. From the New York Herald. A Senate champagne cooler sold for $1 when a wonderful collection of objects of art and utility was cleared out of one of the cloak rooms of the "finest club in tho world." If the collector who for so modest a price secured this inter esting relic of a day that is gone bo a philosopher, as a competent collector must be, he will draw out of his treasure more cause tor pleasure than ever went into it. Hawthorne found material for one of his sweetest essays lnthe black bound and heavy volumes of sermons, no less dry and dusty than this cooler, he discovered in the attic of the manse at Concord. Had bo for Inspiration the - Senate champagne cooler, battered and worn from long service, a veteran it took a constitutional amendment Lu separate frem tho federal job- ho would have written not one but countless essays; moral, political, biographical, ethical, sumptuary, social—topics bubble forth endlessly. Who ordered the sergeant-at-arms to purchase out of the Senate contingent fund that champagne cooler? When, why? To what account was It charged —soap, whisk brooms, rugs, carbonated water, hat racks? At whose orders was it Hist filled with cracked Ice into whoso yielding depths was fondly thrust a bot tle of champagne? Was there, in that ancient time, a New York senator who referred to the bottle as “real wine?" For what occasion was the wire cut to release the Jealous cork penning 1,000,000 bubbles eager, the playful sprites, to tickle the noses of grave but thirsty lawmakers? Was it to rejoice over vic tory in debate or to console a van quished orator? What will replace the discarded treasure? Perchance a silver fruit basket, a pretty bonbonniere, an ormimented tea set, or a flagon for crusty, old Potomac water. Romance the Evanescent. From the Milwaukee Journal. A wealthy woman, just escaping from her second experiment with marriage, declared the other day that marriage is a failure because it destroys romance. She couldn’t be bothered looking alter a man’s socks, she said; life was meant for something bigger.* Romance—sighs and banjos by moon light, knights riding around looking for someone to unhorse as a proof of devo tion, the night life of a great city— whatever may be understood by those who use the word, they generally mean much excitement and very little dish washing and lawn mowing. And mar riage has to have time for those deadly practical things. Yet people who have foresw’orn all else and gone to seek ro mance often come back bored and tire some. For romance, we suspect, doesn't come from outside. We tfilk about romantic places because people have found ro mantic adventures there. Theodore Roosevelt plunged into an unexplored region of South America and met thrill ing adventure. But long before that Theodore Roosevelt had discovered ro mance on a western ranch where most men find only the hard work of farm hands. Ten thousand English clerks have lived in India and found it de idly hot and dull for one Kipling who discov ered its romance. Stevenson's most ro mantic tales were written before he went to live In the south seas. The lady who has given tip marriage for the sake of romance will, we fear, find that it still eludes her if she ex pects that it will be served up like caviar at her bidding and for a price. And some little dark haired woman on New York’s east side will find even marriage as romantic as a story. On Keeping a Goat, From the Chicago News. Now and again the goat butts into pub lic attention as the benefactor of man kind, only to disappear after a few en comiums from the doctors and the food experts. Whether our methods of quan tity production and centralization, our Incompatibility of temper with the goat, our general habituation to the cow and cow’s milk, are the reasons Is not clear. At any rate, the goat finds small place In American society. Those who have seen goats domlc'led In the crowded alleys of Europe, stabled comfortably In anything from a dry goods box to the spare bedroom, know that the goat Is hardy and long suffer ing, and two quarts of goat's milk a day ?lve health and vigor to many a poor amilyT . Though dwellers In flat buildings might encounter difficulties In raising goats, others who have no facilities to finance and operate a cow might easily under take goat culture. The goat Is nontu be rcular and safe and the milk excels as food. The cream Is emulsified and does not rise to the top. The expense of keeping a goat Is titfling. In some cir cumstances the benefits are largfe. A Bad Timekeeper. From the London Telegraph. The fussy old fellow was making a Journey on a branch line, at the best not particular as to punctuality. The tialn had slowed down again after stopping several times. The old gentle man's patience became exhausted, and, taking out his watch, he said to a fel low passenger: "How much Is this train overdue?” "Well, sir,’ was the reply, “a watch Is no good; you want a calendar.” —— Exact Copy of Wrapper. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Thirty Years THE CENTAUE COMPANY, HEW VONK CrEY. MMMEIBKBKBLfeYS- :.S'~