The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-09-27
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of the northwest have been, perhaps,
the lessons most needed in the hard
times chapter of the year. They have
called out the tenderest, most compass
sionate impulses Of the human heart
impulses that lie dormant in prosper
Gus DAYS. and which start into life only
when sudden sorrows or misfortunes
overtake other lives and let loose
flood of gentle beneficence to enrich
and fertilize the arid fields of penury
and suffering. Every city and town in
the suffering states responded almost
instantaneously to the cry of misery,
aud willing hands and tireless feet were
everywhere put to service in the cause
of the destitute. Purses that ORDINARILY
were closed against common charities,
were open to this worthy cause for re-
| lief. and the cynic's sheer at human ma
lures indifference to the needs OF It's
fellows was withdrawn in astonishment
at it's widespread and universal philan-
thropy so visibly manifest in this dlsas-
ter. 1t has been said, and we'll SAID,
that the brotherhood of man teaches
the fatherhood of God and idle are
precepts and worthless are creeds that
speak not to man in the language OF
deeds
A man always speaks with autho-
rity when he speaks as ii he were a.
fresh seer of truth; when he speaks as
if he were uttering his own truth and
not another's; when he speaks not as IT
by hearsay, but as If by his own sight
} and knowledge; and when the spirit OF
utter sincerity and profound conviction
: goes along with his words. 1t is not so
; much the doctrine that he utters, as a
, quality of personality behind the doc
) trine, that makes him leader; it is
: character, moral earnestness, that mag
7 netiSm of soul which comes from
/. thorough and enthusiastic conservation
5 to any idea or cause that has won
r personal love and fea!ty. In these days
1 of general enlightenment it is not
possible, at least in civilized countries,
for any individual men to attain to
=. such power over great masses OF people
n as was once the case. Some OF the
h great leaders of the past, if they were
v to return to earth today bringing only
;. the knowledge they possessed at the
n time of their living, would be dwarfeo
v by the average height of the intelligence
Il around them. No class OF civilized
+ people today depend for guidance upor
n others as they once did. And yet
Il though the conditions of Leadership
10 involve a certain measure OF harmon.
Ky beWeen the leader and his time in matter
n of intellectual acquisition, they do no
" necessarily involve vast stores ofknowl
sI edge, nor depend on the possession o
70 extraordinary mental ability. The
Il depend more on the possession of tina
" quality of inspiring wisdom which
II moral rather than mental, that wisdor
10 which never becomes obsolete, is neve
in out of date, which allies man wit
f. eternal principles, and makes him
al part of the creative. sustaining force
ls of the universe itself.-Rel igio-Philt
is sophical Journal.
of Should our navy be called on
or fight, said member of the great Cram
no company to representative of the Phi
ed adelphia Record, "there are two shipsa
ot least that would accomplish some su
it. prising things in the line of work IL
he which they we're created. These al
nd the Columbia and Minneapolis. Bui
IS. essentially to destroy commerce, tt
IDS amount of damage they could lntlict
all this way on an enemy is only governe
ty. bv the amount of commerce which tn
lth enemy had afloat. Suppose for an i
OW stance that condition OF war eXlStt
ess between the United States and Engla1
ley and the Minneapolis was sent sever
to hundred miles off Montauk point
ing watch for the fleetest ships in England
the merchant marine. These are now t.
es- Campania and Lucania, whose ma
the mum speed is about twenty-five knC
ian an hour at sea. This speed is made
of a time when the ships are off sounding
not or in waters so deep that they are
be affected in any way by the proximity
om- the bottom. The Minneapolis ran on
veil twenty-three knots on a course t
ing maximum depth of which was fit
is seven fathoms and the minimum del
est twenty three fathoms. The samep pow
which drove her twenty-three knots
. the northeast, or Cape Anne cour
would send her twentyfour and h
,o.+ knots in the water where the Campa1
io'o and Lucania make twenty-five. I
meaning of this is that the crack m
chant ships of the seas are entirely
. the mercy of the Minneapolis in d
water of 100 fathoms depth. Sho
the smoke of any of these great vess
1ou be sighted from the Minneapolis de-
NV w.. at daybreak, which would mean Il
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