The age-herald., 1900-11-18
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.

said to the lily, There is but one
 With whom she has heart to be gay. When will the dancers leave her alone? She is weary of dance and play Now half to the setting-sun are gone,
 And half to the rising day;
 Low on the sand and loud on the stone
 The last wheel echoes away.
 I said to the rose, 'The brief night goes
 In babble and revel and wine.
 O young lord-lover what signs those For one that will never be thine? But mine but mine," so I swear to the rose, For ever and ever, mine"
 And the soul of the rose went into my blood, As the music clashd in the hall
 The soul of the rose has gone into many
 a mans blood as the music clashed in the
 hall, and as softened lights half-concealed
 the beauty and lent nameless suggestive
 ness to the graces of women superlatively
 lovely. No man worthy to be called man
 has not many a time felt his senses to reel
 as he stood abashed in the presence of
 beauty and purity. One little woman,
 mere mite of the great turbulent and earth covering humanity, hath power to make giants tremble in confusion and sheer help | -lessness.
 Any good woman of beauty-and all good women are beautiful-possesses in some | measure that power over some man. Take her who has youth and physical and spiritual beauty in one, and her power is immeasurably great; and it is great for | goodness, for love, for abundant charity.
 Men adore her, and are thereby made bet or md ,o1, flax, | claim her as their own No worthy man has yet lived in the world who did not love l some woman whom he failed to win; and | love for whom did not in some measure | ennoble him.
 That man who has loved a good woman | hasebeen knighted by the queenliest of all | the creatures of the earth. By the white
 wand of her purity the blessed sceptre of 1 her loveliness, she has gently struck across
 the heart and bidden him to rise to his | rightful place amongst the mighty band of | lordly knights who have known no sover- | eign but woman beloved. That Is the most l beautiful and most blessed influence that
 makes for the uplifting of mankind. The l presence of beautiful women, the view of l them as they pass along their modest way, l is in itself elevating and inspiriting; and l the most jaded and worn and weary man alive must feel new life and have better purposes through kindly speech of such as | they. Their mission is to be loved, and to l cheer and gladden. and uplft; to lead man | up the toilsome way to the higher heights | warmed by the breath of purer and health | fer lives, nobler moralities and humanities. | They discern the real soul-secrets with | clearer vision, more just conception, more l adequate comprehension of spiritual needs 1 and the manifold manner of their constant 1 and faithful supply, They are apart and l from the coarser passions, the commoner | instincts, the more harmful impulses, and ] they would draw men away from the mere will be worth more than double inside of ten years. There is no investment so prof. itable or so safe as timber land. All one 1 has 10 do is to buy the land and hold it. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has been transfer l red from Cuba to the department of the Mis- l souri, with headquarters at Omaha, and 1 will soon take up his new command" said | Virginian in town last night. Gen | eral Lee was a major general of volunteers l but like General Wheeler he was reduced | to the rank of brigadier when the volun- | teer army was diminished. His friends | hope and believe that Congress will pass | a bill this winter providing that when he l leaves the military service he shall be | placed on the retired list of the regular | army with the rank of brigadier general. l The retired pay of a brigadier is $i125. Gen l eral Lee is past the regular army retire. | ment age now, having passed his sixty | fourth anniversary last November There | is no way therefore that the President can | appoint him to a regular army position for | retirement without the action of Congress. | In General Wheelers case it was different, | for he was a few months under 64 years | when President Mckinley appointed him | brigadier general in the regular army Gen. | eral Lee. like all or nearly all Democrats | who are connected with the army, Is an outspoken eXpanSionist The doughty old | soldier has been cautious of both about | giving out interviews, but he did not hes | itate to say just before the election that | he did not see how the United States troops could be withdrawn from Cuba or the Phil | ippines.''
 'One of the best and most loyable of all