The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-03-10
The village Improvemen. Society.

| Apropos of Loyal Home work. what can be
more so than the efforts Of Village Improve
ment Associations? "A very good way to make
the world better is TO keep your own back
steps and grass-plot neat and fresh; then, il
you have any more time. look to the streets
and alleys around you. If they be not kept
clean, well drained and in hygienic condi-
ton, set to work at them.
Four or five or dozen active and.earnest
young folks can make their town as pleasant
as a garden if they wish. Form club, then
give socals, concerts, bazaars, teas, and all
sorts of jolly affairs, where people can spend
a little money and have very good time,
and use the profits to beautify Your town.
Get good and pretty tOwn-pump, add
to the library Tor start one if necessary,
plant trees and shrubs, and make fiowery
park. little or big, for the babies to play in
buy old rickety buildings that are eyesores,
tear them down and turn the wood over to
the poor fund. Study up architecture before
permitting any abominably- planned church,
school or ball to 90 up, and III general take a
lively interest IN your town.
If all these things have been done, erect a
gymnasium, public baths or establish hos
pital fund. There is SO much work to do to
make the world perfect, and the i. II. w. can do
good name.-E. =. MCELRoY.
Good Citizenship.
DEAR LII w: hope you will all heed
the ChaplainS request and remember the
prayer-circle, for it seems as if that is the
very highest kind of patriotism, to take the
needs Of our Nation to the Great Source,
whence help is sure 10 come if asked Alright
1t is so often said, at least ] hear it often,
History repeats itself. and this Nation will
decline like all the powerful nations Of the
past" Rome Babylon, etc
But LET us ask that men may be raised like
brave old Regulus of Rome, who after being
imprisoned in Carthage Il number of years,
was allowed to 90 to Rome, hoping he would
persuade the Romans TO make peac, but in
case he failed he promised to return "a Car
thage. But he loved his country better than
liberty, and advised the Romans to continue
the war; for victory was i'll their grasp, and
went back to Carthage, where he was put to
a cruel death, but death was preferable to
breaking his word
This is the kind of man the country
needs-the man who cares more for his coun-
trys welfare than fox his own selfish ends or
advancement. Mem Like our own great
statesman, Henry Clay, who ''would rather
be right than he President" If our Nation
have such loyal, upright men in her midst,
surely she will be spared from the fate of an
cient nations, as the cities of the plain in the
time of Lot would have been spared from de-
struction if 10 righteous persons could have
been found in them.
hope all l.. II. w members as far as posi-
bic will take up at least some part of the his
torical studies, no matter if it is ever so little
Remember the wordssof Henry Clay:
= owe my success lin life TO n single fact,
that at an early age commenced and con-
tinued in the practice for some time of daily
reading and reciting the contents of some his
torical or scientific, book. These off-hand
efforts were something's made in the corniield
or the forest. it is 10 this l am indebted for
the impulses that have shaped and nodded
my destiny"
From this it is very evident that Clay
utilized every spare minute. and when other
wise occupied did not let his thoughts run at
random Most loyalty
NJ. ETTrE FULLER, Spring Lake, ~ Y.