The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-11-22

Tue woman Of Utica showed genuine
feminine tact and wisdom in counteract-
ing one Of the great evils of election day
the one great evil of the land on all
days. While some Of the politicians
piled their victims, ''thc dear people,
with partizan arguments and bad rum,
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Utica, n Y, provided a sup
ply of hot coffee and crackers for the
poll workers and electors of the various
wards in that city, and disposed OF more
than three hundred gallons of coffee in
this way. 1t is stated that Senator
Conkling handed the ladies ten dollars,
with his best wishes and compliments.
in return for cup Of coffee. We should
be glad to chronicle the wide and rapid
spread Of this mode Of civil service re-
form.
In 1856 Frederick the Great lay dying at
Sans Souci. and in 1895 Thomas Carlyle,
face to face with all the scepticism and
doctrinal unrest and small philosophy of
our time, and with mind free as Boreas
horsed on the North wind, sat down to
describe the scene of Frederick's departure.
This all doubling man Frederick, a pupil
of Voltaire, seemed to haYe neither fear
nor hope in death; but, says Carlyle, there
was no one kind of scepticism which he
never could endure. Atheism, truly, he
could abide. To him, as to all of Us, it was
| fatty inconceivable that intellect, neral
emotion could have been put into him by
an Entity that had none of its own
! (Life of Frederick, vol. vi, last chapter.
| Carlyle afirms that to all of US it is incon
ceivable, and this fatty, that evolution car
exceed involution; or, that we can have
intellect, emotion, conscience, as the gift;
of power that has Itself none of these t.
give.
You remember, gentlemen, that Webster
when asked what his greatest thought was
looked about on tie company at a crowded
dinner-table, and asked: "Who are here 2
"0nly your friends" "The Creates
thought eyer entered my mind was that o
my personal responsibility to a persona
God" He expanded that idea in converse
ton for ten minutes, and rose and left tn
table. Men stood and sat in the hushe'
ROOM saying to each other: "Did you eye
hear anything like that?" But. yonder
on the shore of the sea, this same " ebs Ter
closing the greatest legal argument Of hi
life-a document which | now hold in m
hands-uttered the same thought in word
, that | have read standing on the coas
, there, and which lave in them, whethe
read there or here, or anywhere on thi
lonely shore of existence, who we ca
!, life, giant swell! like the roll of the At
Iantic, an instructive colossal tide found i
every soul that is possessed of the full equiv
ment Of man. "There is no evil that "
, cannot either face or fee from, but til
. consciousness of duty disregarded.
f sense of duty pursues US ever. 1t is omn
present like the Deity. If we take to oul
; selves the wings Of the morning and dive
In the uttermost parts of the sea, duty per
formed, or duty violated, is still with u
for our happiness or our misery. II "
say that darkness shall cover US, in tn
darkness as in the light, our obligations al
yet with US. We cannot escape their powe
- ~
> with us 10 this life; will be with us at j
close; and, in that scene of inconceiyab
solemnty which lies yet further onwar
we shall still find ourselves surrounded
the consciousness of duty to pain US 1hel
ever it has been violated and to console u
:, 50 far as God has given US grace to perfor
:, it." (Web.ter's Works, vol. vi, P. los
Joseph Cook.