The National tribune., 1896-10-01


Hawley. editor of the Enterprise, on the organ.
At the close OF the ceremonies a beautiful girl
pinned little flag badges on the coats OF the
Minute Men. and they fired the salute with the
| percision OF veterans.
i see that Johnny Covington wants flag
| and am glad of it, as he remarked that the
L.H.W. Tag, when / first raised il over the
schoolhouse WAS "an old Yankee fag."
Since then ". b. Archer Post, of Marshall
H., sent me 40 small flags. through A. L. How.
erton, which i distributed around, and little
United States flags were to be seen flying from
the windows of houses all over the neighbor.
hood. I gave one to Johnny aud one to his
sister.
Furthermore, the stores for the FIRST time
brought small flags to sell for Memorial
Day. and SO the leaven is working.
Ii is too much TO tax the L.H.W. to give
flag to every boy who writes for it, bur there
are other schoolhouses in this vicinity where
flags could be used as object lessons, and if the
L.H.W. desires to present any of them with
flags they will be joyfuly received by the chill
dred, who are anxious to see flag flying over
their school like that at Sterenshurg, the first
United States flag to foat over a schoolhouse
in Virginia. Yours loyalty
Harrison Gordon, Stevensburg, Va.
MESSAGE FROM THE ROCKIES.
Inez Woodruff Wightman. Anaconda, Mont.
was among taasc who could not be present at
sage The expense, the distance. aud the care
of her little &C. boy, Clyde Woodruff Wight
man, prevented. Closing her note of greeting,
she says:
Since last writing you we have taken long
journey across the plains. aud once more we
are among the Rocky Mountains. good deal
farther west, and where the mountains are OF
a much less hight and rugged appearance.
Mr.. Wishtman has employment in the cop
! per smeiter. These smelters are what keeps
Anaconda alive. and the great dread is, :" il the
smclter should shut down"
The place has the name of a booming city,
attracting many people here from distance.
who find no work only occasionally for
day. 1t is said 500 men live on odd jobs just
taking the places of men who lay of for
shift, making some months not board money.
Rents are unreasonably high; but OF this later,
If any care to hear.
Boys and girls, why compare the city TO tho
country? 70 me IL seems impossible. love
the hustle of city life; / like to see things
move. people hurry. the whistle Of trains. the
hurry and scurry Of city life; bnt after awhile it
grows wearisome. and long Tor quiet spot in
the country. the song Of wild birds. the hum
of bees, the c=ckie of hens and lowing of
cows, and grow hungry for some real cream.
| can enjoy both, aud can appreciate both.
and think ii not necessary 10 say which is the
better. Both are tor those who love them;
either FOR those who love il.
Will the old friends please note address aad
write me.
Inez Woodruff Wightman, Bog 263, Ana.
copda, Meat.
READY FOR DUTY.
To THE PRESIDENT L.Hw: was very
glad to see that you are again our President.
aud that Brother Seaman is 10 be our Secretary,
Tor that means success for cur Order.
| I received Minneapolis paper called The
Sentry, but do not know who was kind enough
to remember me. / only wish did, SO / could
know whom 10 thank.
In look ing it over see list of officers for
the l. INV. for 1S96-'97. and feel very proud to
see my name as one Of the National Council,
| and will do my best to fill the position with
! credit TO our Chairman, N. Rose Jansen and
perform any work fiat she may request me to
do.
Loui NJ. Stockton, Secretary Pennsylvania
L.H.W., 3Sl7 Fairhill street, Philadelphia
SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.
A paper under the above caption was written
1 by Ola Bell Hotham for seventh annual Re-
union, L.H.W. In reference to Ajax Nordan,
whose work on Degeneration she sharply
criticises it is but just TO say that in q recent
intetview he said that his work did not amply
TO America, but to France; that in America he
saw the hope of nations. TIE paper follows:
''You are dege. erlte racei worthless
generation!"
This was the continual plant of the eccen.
trio Herr Sivertsen, WHO could see nothing 10
commend in what he termed "a !" pieasure-seek-
ing, mdney-Erubbing generation :" and this. or
| something like Il, ono naturally thinks is the
text from which Prof. Max Nordxu wrote his
matches fanfaronade. Degeneration"
We. who have been living serene in the
belief that our age is to all preceding ages
what the brilliant electric light is to the dim
cande-light may, for the moment feel startled
on reading Prot. Nordau's rather peculiar dag
nosis OF the times, and the hint that we are on
the verge Of great intellectual upheavai, the
result of which only be conjecturcd with
deepest forebodings.
Yet it is only for the moment that we nre
startled; for while il is self-evident that we
are on the eve Of great changes-that there is
something unusual disturbing the mental at
mosphere-there is no evidence that these
coming changes will not be for the better
What symptoms of weakening intellectual
force are TO be seenr Why. only yesterday, as
/ ii were, Prof. Roentgen sent a thrill through.
ont the world by his discovery of the X-ray
which marks a new era in the progress of
electrical science, aud has stimulated others to
still further research and greater efforts. Aud
other achievements might be mentioned in
different lines in proof that the mental eqai-
| librium Of the world is not wobb!ing on its
base. but that day by day we are advancing
surely and steadily.
From cover TO cover, as sou read, Degcner-
alton" is one vast denunciation OF persons aud
| things of the fR-dc-SiecIe. even the little phrase
! itself comes in for q share of ridicule
Death, it Is said, loves shining mark So
/ it would seem, does Prof. Nordau; at least he
loves to bnrl ePithets more penderous than DO
lite at the heads of those who have attained
prominence in the literary world. He grows
ecstatic in his criticism of certain writers
whom be has singled out as special objects Of
his learned disapproval
So vividly. iadeed, does he dwell on their
various diseases that the suspicion grows
on one that he himself is afflicted with the
same disorders that he claims TO have discoy.
cred in others; that he is q degenerate of de.
| generates, whose pessimsm aud short sighted.
ness render him incapable of discerning the
great moral pillars that support the complicated
| structure of modern life.
One dwelling in the cutters should not think
| that above and beyond the fth and CRIME OF
his surroundings the conditions there con-
tinue; should not think that because the air
he brcathes is reeking with impurities all other
air is foul There are cutters of the matter.
| world and gntters of the mind-worli; aud he
| who grovcls ia the latter is more to be nj tied
than he who dwells in the former.
1t is true that there are crack Drained writ
crs who write crack-braincd books Cor crack.
Drained readers; but why, account of this
| conclude that all writers and all books aud all
readers are crack Drained? Why mistake the
lees of literature for the wine of literature: the
| babbiing brook for the deep resonant sound of