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By ELLA WHEKLER W ILCOX
(Copyright, 1914, by Star Company.)
Little lads and grandslres,
Women old with care:
But all the men are dying men.
Op dead men, over there.
No one stops to dig graves;
' Who has time to spare?
The dead men, the dead men;
How the dead men stare!
Kings are out for conquest
Oh, the sport Is rare
With dying men and dead men
Falling everywhere.
Life for lad's and grandsires,
Spoils for kings to share;
And dead men, dead men.
Dead men everywhere!
Poetry and Its Universal Influence
Who Wouldn't Be a Shepherdess?
At Least if One Could Be as Attrac
tive M Those Now Playing; in the
"Danoing Round."
Little Bobbie's Pa
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By ELLA WHEKLER WILCOX.
(Copyrlgt, 1914, by Star Company.)
What Is scenery? There are (Treat
mountain ranges tho Alps, the Hima
layas, the Rockies, the Ureen and White
mountains, the Blue Ranee of Jamaica
all with their spe
cial features of
grandeur. Yet Wfi
one to make a spe
cial object of see
Ins all the glorious
mountains of earth
that would not
comprise all of its
beautiful soenery.
There are oceans
and rivers And
lakes and seas, bil
lowing beauty;
there are fields of
grain, of wild pop
ples, of lush
Brasses; miles and
miles of unculti
vated land in Texas
and in northern Africa bs beautiful as
rare Persian carpets, with the mixture of
wild flowers growing luxuriously under
semi-tropic suns. There' are deep caves
nnd blue grottoes; there are curious con
tortions of nature to be found In forests,
and beauty Incomparable In the heart of
Kreat woods and in the Jungles.
There are petrified trees; there are au
perb vines and magnificent orchids making
glorious old stumps and dying trees.
There are vast deserts, naked of verdure,
desolate, with gusts of blowing sand and
beautiful beyond words.
And there are made lands in Holland,
trim and green, with their background of
windmills and their borders of neat
homes, each a flower box of bloom; and
these, too, are beautiful.
All are scenery. How senseless and ab
surd It would be were some mountain
climber to declare mountains only were
meant by the word "scenery;" how ridic
ulous for the mariner to say, ."Only
marine views are meant by scenery," or
for the tourist In the caravan to claim
the word for his beloved desert alone.
Equally limited is the view of the critic
who says there Is only one kind of poetry
in the world of literature. -
There are as many kinds of poetry as
there are Intellects In the world.
History tells us that the first form of
poetry was the hymn, originating In the
sanctuary.
Hymns to the sun. the moon, the stars
and the unknown gods. Then men turned
to descriptions of nature: and then began
the narratives of warriors and songs of
their praises. So was the epic bom. These
epics were first transmitted from genera
tion to generation, and naturally under
went many changes before they were
finally written down. The "Lais' Cays)
wsre sung by wandering musicians to the
accompaniment of the harp, and from
these troubadours, singing their songs of
love and chivalry, sprang the first Ideals
of courtesy and the protection of the
weak by the strong. Bo great Is the
power of song.
Annie Lemp Konta tells us In an Inter
esting manner how, between the periods
of lyric and narrative poetry, a great
school of didactic verse came Into exist
ence. Learned literature written by
ecclesiastics began to filter Into popular
literature. In the fifteenth century
knighthood waned; Allegory and romance
in literature waned with It, and melody
was born.
Oliver Baseelln. native of a small town
In Normandy, in 1390, was the poet who
created the word "vaudeville." At least
his songs created the word. They were
first called Vaux do Vire, meaning the
worth of his native village Vire. And
from "Vaux de Vire;1 came the corrup
tion vaudeville. This poet introduced the
custom of singing after repasts. His
ton made a new era In verse, and were
firs put into print in l.ri7i!. . And so on
down through the ' centuries, poetry has
come to us in many new forms and
shaM-s, with many new purposes and
ideals, and with each new form and new
purpose the critic .rises with his dissent
Ihk voire and cries, ''This Is not potry."
Without doubt every poet who ever
dared wnftder into new paths has heard
this cry.
Hut the true poets have continued to
Mng; otherwise the world would still
have only its odes and hymns to tho
nun. as In the dawn of poetrs'. "First
mil forever." auya one critic, "poetry
must be beautiful; It must deal with
beauty." But even that is not true.
Nature in tlie awful upheaval . of an
earthquake, or a volcanic eruption, is not
lautlrm. But it Is terribje in iU exhibi
tion of power snd contains sublimity
luid grandeur. A deserted cabin on a
lonely marsh is not beautiful; yet It may
be a fascinating picture one which
1. aunts the memory. The twisted old
lightning-blasted tree Is not beautiful,
Jior the old well-curb on the farm, nor
m thousand ani one other bits of scenery
which the eye retains snd the heart re
members despite . their, lack of real
beauty.
And poetry rouy express power and
rcntiment and feeling in the same way
as these acenes do, while being quits
apart from beauty.
Thoiras Bailey Aldrlch says to the
critic in his i-otm "Appreciation:"
"You rtu. poets and their song
A grievous wrong
If your own soul does not bring.
To their high Imagining
As much beauty as they clng."
A pessimistic critic who hss recently
died declared that nothing was poetry
which was easily understood' or which
appealed to a large class of readers.
Real poetry, he contended, appealed only
to the few. He branded as "trash" what
ever caused the reader to exclaim "Why,
that expresses my Idea!" But this critic
was only one man. and his Idea had only
Just the weight of one man's idea. In
numerable other critics may be found
who declare that real poetry must ap
peal to the heart as well as to the brain.
Poetry is like beauty, varied In its
types but universal In its Influence.
They tell me new methods now govern
tne Muses,
.ud?" i. "P'slon have changed
wim the times;
user S 1h6 nUllt 0f tne Pt who
Th rhjrmee!,hl0ne1 wUh lnteritfnl
A"d metre;0"1 ' daU to' 'Rythmical
Buhah';ltl decl" it an Insult to art.
tc?ehartHng,rSfaittBWln' ot lt- hI th
thehV.rtat PuUe of riht f"
Art or no art.
I sat by the aUe of that old poet Ocean.
And counted the billow that broke on
The tide lilted In with a rhythmical'
mouon;
The sea gulls dipped downward in time-
Wu.h',w,!:"" ' rlant wve gathered
A" burst" n' th ry TanU Precipice
f waTno'u'ntedf0""1 Wh,U 0th"
with the ilirst WHow,.wouW rtsrroe
Below In the village a chnroh bell was
chiming.
And back in the woodland a little bird
sang;
And. doubt It who, will, yet those two
sounds were rhyming.
As out o'er the hill tops they echoed
and rang. . ,, .
The Wind and the Trees fell to talking,
together, I
Andnothlng they said was dldaotlo or
But everything spoken was told In un
broken And beautiful rhyming and rhythmical
verse.
Bo rhpthm X hall It, though orltlos as
sail it (to art;
And hoM melting rhymes as an Insult
For, oh I the sweet swing ef It, oh! the
dear ring of It,
Ohl the strong pulse of It. right from
the heart.
Art or no art.
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Ily WILLIAM F. KIRK.
Energy the Cause
of All Life.
By EDGAR LUC1EN LA1VKIN.
Q nest Ion "la it true that all .things are
due to energy., and, that sunlight Is not
light outside- eg our-Mrbosphsw but utter
darkness; that- the enemy - exerted by
the sun' In penetrating our atmosphere
generates light and heatT" J. H. Living
stone, Bennington,' Vt.. .
Answer Over and over-again have I
replied to - this question during forty
seven years. Yss; al) things are du to
energy. Nothing exists but electrons.
And two great, . all-Including, . all-astonishing,
all-ovsrpowering truths., to even
the most -vivid Imagination, have been
discovered concerning them.
rirsfcThey know how and when to
act.
Bsoond They are directed by a force
that knows.
One of these must Inevitably be truth
absolute.
By JAXK M'LEAN.
A dainty costume, I confess;
An odd confection, too, in dress.
And one that's met with great success
The dainty Dresden Shepherdess.
Like maids from out a story book,
Each with a dainty shepherd crook;
What costumes for a masquerade
A boon. Indeed, for any maid.
So If on fun and pleasure bent.
Some figure you would represent
Just reproduce this dainty dress
And be a Dresden Shepherdess.
I have asserted dally, over my signa
ture, for years, here, In Europe, Asia,
Africa and Australia, that they are di
rected by a fores that knows. This force,
because It knows, Is mind. And no human
argument ean convince me that It Is not.
Only rigid fact, net argumont, pan poa.
slbly convince me that electrons are pnt
assembled Into atoms by mind. And this
mind dlsplsys amaxing mathematical
powers.
There Is no heat In the unlvsrss until
energy meets mattsr. And this Is un
known to man until the sensation named
heat Is convsyed to totally unknown, and
at presnnt Inexplicable, personality. Thsre
Is no sui-h sntity as is namod light until
energy eapable of being translated or
changed to light by systems of nerves
connecting with a brsln connected with
whst In abject ignorance ws rsll a per
son. Prof, H. If. Turner of the observatory
In Greenwich, passed rays of the sun
through a lens-shaped container filled
with liquid air, cold beyond Imagination.
This drew the energy to a focus, and the
heat of this focus burned paper. And
light was also seen tn ths burning that
Is, sensed by the personality. That Is,
mystery deepens daily.
Q. Is there any mesns, scientific or
otherwise, of locating gold coins burlea
at a depth of three or four test In th
earth, supposing that you know wher.
the gold Is within a radius of twenty feet.
What are the so-caled needles used It.
locating gold? Is there any magnet that
will attract gold as magnets attract steel)
-Subscriber and others, Hurllneeme.
A. Magnetism w.ll net attract gold ss
It attracts iron or sissl. For alleged find
ing of burtad gsld electrically, accounts
of which hsvs bosn published, ths querist
should write to the United States netent
affioe In Washington for methods em-ployod.
Ijist tilte Pa brousht s frend hosm
with him irom the chib, & sed wen h
calm Into the door: Here. Oliver, here Is
my hosm, my all. my life. Wife, sed
I'D. irtt MiPter Oliver lvnllttet, the best
lellow that ewer lived a frend that I
think the wxirld of. Mler Poollttel,
this Is nv beloved wife this Is my lit-s-l
son, Ilchhle.
1 am fhnimed. charmed, wd Mister
loollltcl. How sweet It Is to have a
hnnm A. peeiml t lvo vou. Tou are a
remarkable- lucky mnn. sed Pa's frend.
If 1 lmd a hosm ft family like thla I
wuddrnt trade places with the King of
Knsland.
I wuildrnt trade pl.icrs w'th him any
way, sed Pa. with all the fleter trubbel
to keep him awake, but I sm glad you
I like by little flet. I wns telling Oliver.
wife, sed Ph. Ihnt the club ft outside
life dldt-nt have any charms for me. This
Is my castle and here I rpend my every
l spare minii't.
i 4 so wud I If 1 had such a hoam. sed
Oliver Poollttel. 1 wuil reeslne from
'every club to wb h I beelong to, he sed.
ft wonder bow 1 was ewer sotisriea to
Ih- a bachelor.
1 am sfrade my door husband Is ex
assrrallng a bit wen he says that he
srrnd all I. Is tinis here or at his bix
ness, fed Mn. Hi:t I supons he is ss de
voaed to his hoeni ss the average gen
tleman of his circle. Ma was a little,
cold beekaus Pa baddent been hoam
very erly the last three nltes.
.1 have often (Irocntert that I wud like
to have Jest such A hoam as this, sed
Oliver Doollttel. What a fins view you
have here, he se-l, er what a fine side
board. He was looking Into the library
wen he red It, so I'a took him In to show
hlul his books ft the sldebosrrt. They
wss gone quite a while ft wen thsy calm
out PS's frend looked vary happy. Yes
Indeed, he Itep snylnir. this Is a butlful
hoam ft after all, he sed, hoam Is whare
the heart Is ft the eltchoard. Ton look
like a vary brlte llttel boy, he sed to
me. Can you tll me who discovered
the Pacific Oshun?
I think his naim whs Balboa, I sed.
I guess he Is right, sed Oliver Poo
llttel. 1 never know myself thst any
body discovered It. he sed. but he Is
si'rh a bilto looking llttel feller thst I
sm sure he mu be rite, ft how butlful
yurn wife looks, he sod. I was engaged
tn jest such s 'butlful gnrl onst, he sed,
but snmhody tonld her that I liked my
cold tea A wen 1 proposed to her slie
gave me the gate. It hroak my hart, he
ted, ft sinoo then I have never wed or
asked anybody to wed. My dream of
love was shattered, he hed, ft now I am
a lonely man, all alone ft lonesome In my
loneliness, sed Oliver Dnoltttel.
Doant you think you cud have given
up yure cold tea as you call It. to win
the love of a butlful gurIT sed Ms.
I suppoas I cud have, he sed, but thay
was, making vary good whiskey In those
days ft a man knew what he was drink
ing. Still, I supoas I cud have stopped
had I used my iron will, but I newer
used It, then or since.
Then I sm afrade that yon haven't got
any Iron wilt to use, sed Ma. You are a
good deal like most of my deer hubband's
frenda. You think moar of the Imaginary
pleshurs of life than of ths real pleahurs.
After Oliver Doollttcl hsd went hoam.
i Pa sed to Ma, Dldnt you talk pretty plain
to him? I feel sorry for him.
Ro do f, sed Ma. He Is so unselfish, so
salf denying. Whoever the gurl was, sed
Ma, she used gond hedwork when she
sed No.
Kxoeptlnn to the Rale.
What a chronln grumbler than man
Is. He has his himmtr out on all oc
casions." "Oh, tio. Not when there Is carpet
to be put down." llaltlmore American.
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