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and to do what he can TO give II worthy reputo,
tion is set forth with great patience and In
GenuitT and in q very interesting manner In q
little book, THE PhiiOpolist." the work d
Charles Frederic Goss (aobort Clarke Company.
olnoinnatl Emerson. returning from hiu
travels, said that he had found in the course Of
them nothing that was not contained In Con.
cord. This did not mean that Emerson had for
Kotten the Tower OF London or the wa1
Works, but that he looked at things with q
| broad, philosophical vision. Tho trouble with
| people in CinoinnAti Mr.. Gos3 says, seems to be
| that they lack imagination. Undoubtedly that
/ IL one Of their troubles. The imagn alton ID
apt to expend itself upon the remote and un-
familiar thing, and 10 ignore the thing ct hand.
HerodotuS gave reputation to many distant
matters. SO did TAcitus and the au.
thor Of "Sindbad the Sailor" Mr.. qosu
saysi II will call lover Of his own
city or village q phllopolist tphilos and
polisl, and proclaim Cincinnati, the Queen City
Of the West, as tho object Of this profound feel
| ing In my own heart" Cincinnati may not al
| ways do exactly the right thing. She 10 human
| and liable 70 err. Mr.. Goss diScFlmlnates up to
. certain point in the matter Of the approval
that he will bostow upon her, but beyond this
point he will make no question. Al Decatur
| was inevitably an American 90 10 he, mot
withstandinR" and "even although" surely
| Win OtnClnnhtl bJ En0 last. OlnClnnbLlI NO
says. May che always be In tho right But
Cincinnati anywayr"
This lovo of ones city Mr.. Goss says though
1t is unfortunately not given to every citizen, is
| a. old AZ the city which Gain built and named
| after Enoch 1t sustained the defence of Troy
"mado Athens tho eye of GrescO, Rome the mis-
| tross OF the world, and immortalized Genoa,
| Pisa, Naples. Florence, and Venice" Paris,
| too, 10 in the category. and IL Paris.
| why not Cincinnati. which has often been
called the Paris OF the other side Of
the Alleghaniesi 1t Is whom the citizen
| has been away and come back again that he
frat knows In tho fulnoss of its power the love
| of original locality. I'VE soc you ascend the
summit OF the last hill and look down upon tho
place of your birth. We Join you as you ap-
proach its environment. There is tho little
stream which once seemed to you like
tho boundary Of tho universe. There 10
tho old swimming hole, whore you spent
your Sunday afternoons; the red school
house. where you sat looking out Of the
windows and wishing you were bird In the
tree top; the little brick meeting house, whore
you used to thrill with emotion at the name Of
God and the call OF duty; the streets through
which you wandered barefoot; tho house
where you were born: the boarded. caro-
worn men, married and matronly women
-companions and playmates Of child
hood!" Here tho author effectively In
quircs in q distinct paragraph: "What mean
those tears will tell you." he goes on, "They
are the tributes which love pays to those dear
old scenes. and as tho divine emotion gushes
from your heart it baptizes and blesses your
wayworn spirit. Oh, sweet atfectionl oh, benea-
cent sentiment. capable of such benediction for
menl Why did not our parents awaken thee;
why did not our teachers cultivate theeH
Tk hn h~f mn
since without encouragement this instinct was
sufficient to find complete expression. Still It is
we'll to reflect upon the comparative attraction
and occasion for municipal pride involved in
these several things-the leaning tower Of Pisa,
and the little red schoohouse, the swimming
pool, and tho caroworn men and matronly
married women Of Cincinnati. The author OF
" The Philopolist" seems to think that the In
fuenco OF the swimming pool and the little red
schoolhouse has not been enough. "a city
must bo adored before it can be awakened" he
says, land such an affection for Cincinnati must
be awakened, or it will soon be incapable of in
spring 1t. Awakened 1 say. We cannot trust to
its spontaneous evolution. 1t has been con-
ceived in the soul by nature; but 1t must be
brought to birth BY art. Gums ooze from trees;
but fire has to be struck from flint! There are
people in every town who have struck root in its
soil and fourished like green bay trees and
then petrifed. Before VIC strike fire from their
fiinty hearts lot us bore them once moro for
sapi'
That 10 q highly ingenious and excellent SEN
timent. and the book proceeds to bore the hinty
hearted in Cincinnati for sap. 1t shames them
for their willingness to think that they have
never seen q city until they have seen
London. Perhaps. Mr.. Goes says, these peo-
pie will rub their eyes on hearing that there
is anything important ard inspiring in Cincin-
natl. Does q mother, he inquiries, have TO be
as beautiful as Cleopatra and as rich as the
Baroness Hirsch to be. loved by the babe that
lies nesting against her hoartH He remarks
the alteration that child frequently bestows
upon a rag doll. Tho Ohio River Ia beautiful. he
says, and the landscape and the outlying atmos-
phero are excellent. though he reprohends the
uso OF soft coal and its consequences in the
town. Tho topography of Cincinnati was proba-
bly, esta blished in the glacial age. and this should
be q matter of interest to overy thoughtful
Cincinnatlan. els 1t nothing" he inquiries,
"to live upon the scene of such stupendous
sventsi" As for himself, he feels much the
same emotions when passing along the line
of the Reading Railroad that he does
when gazing upon the Alps or upon the
Rocky Mountains. He thinks that a
monument should bo placed at tho corner
of Fifth and Mound streets to commemorate
the Mound Builders. "I cannot help feeling"
he says, that we lack imagination, We lack
sentiment. we lack are. we lack reverence or
some splendid memorial OF tho Mound Builders
would stand upon that sncred spot
Certain things have been done. "ProbGsco
has made our city beautiful with fountains;
Springer has dedicated a temple TO music; Nc
Mlcken and Hanna a splendid university to
science; Woodward and Hughes have founded
high schools: Longworth and West art mu-
seums; the Emerys and CANDLES, hospitals. and
the schmidlapps. InSalls Tuchfarbers. Sintons,
McDonalds, Buffers. Worthingtons. Days,
Pultes, Kigours. Thoms, Groesbecks. and
scores of others no less worthy are beginning to
give gifts which we all trust are only prophecies
of the future"
From agreeable enumeration the author turns
for n moment to what may be called logical ap-
peal. "I argue" ho says. that il man can
love country as big as the United StAleS he
can love a city as little as Cincinnati" And
again: "If child can bo made to feel that 1t
was glorious for SavanRrola to attack public
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