Bisbee daily review., 1902-07-05

l childhood has dreamed and poets have sung and brave hearts have in all age defended to the last drop of their red | treasure.
 l One bright day not long ago. in Ten nessee, as was his custom, a miner kissed the dear wife and babies and went to his won:ed task. | An explosion occurred and he ana hls companions were entombed alive. | How did these men spend their last earthly hours? The public press has told it to the world.
 Their thoughts went upward, for their bodies were found like that of the dead Livingstone lifting hands Of prayer to heaven.
 | They had remembered the homes | they loved and toiled to keep. for on
 bits of paper tender farewells and | messages of undying affection were | written while they committed their | dear ones to the Over-soul and Father | of all
 Those men loved their homes and |
 their land and their Maker. They |
 were heroes. Their names are imper- ishable.
 Men of this type our nation needs in levery walk of life. A Roman Emperor was concerned lover the defeats of his army, and sent his censor to learn the cause. Was the army not large enough? Were the engines of war not sufficient?
 And this was the censor's report to
 his emperor. Sire. you do not need
 more soldiers or materials. But you
 must have better men"
 The secret of America is character,
 yesterday, today and forever.
 Since the last Fourth of July. the
 guide who led us through a national , crisis has left us on the swift wing Of , an assassin's bullet.
 His prayer for his people. his loved
 ones and himself was what all truese , statesmen have ever felt, Nearer. My God to Thee, Nearer to Thee } If the principles of the Fathers are our principles, the victories of the hers shall be our victories ana greater.
 The pervading unity Of the present, , united nation with those on the ships l of the sea and in temporary homes in s distant lands, celebrating the day, s promises greater future greatness. g Sometimes fear steals in through the
 unguarded gates of entry lest Goth and Q Vandal trample America as they tram 9 pied Rome. But when we face together i this and every other problem, task ana F battle needing solving, doing and win
 ming, with our hearts beating true to t the throbbings of the heart of an Q undivided nation, there need be no r. dread of any disaster.
 y There are dangers and questions and y burdens and warfares coming and to . D,,f ha StoiruaV r the heights. There is but one America $ and she is one. No west, no east no
 south. no north. No clan. no class, no r serf, no king but the Unseen. No sub 'f jects but all citizens of one state and $ children of one Fainer. d Do we ask, What of the perman- o ence of America?"
 o Egypt waxed and waned, her star s light burning low from an empire and e her promise turning to an English
 Turkish province.
 g Babylon grew till her greatness $ filled the earth. But the scholar
 searches now among ruins for the ,f silent story of a mighty past e Greece had her pages of faith anu
 chapters of poetry and books of phil 5. losophy and libraries of art and inn r. mortal epistles of heroism written In e blood at Marathon and Thermopylae
 But the glory is in gloom. Rome 2, lowered the commanding tree in the e forest of nation. T. But the axe was long since laid to
 the root of 1t.
 IT Human tides ebb and flow. Alex c. ander and Caesar and Martel ant g Charlemague and Alfred and Con, 1T loueror and Cromwell and Washington ], and the Corsican and Lincoln and Vic D toria and our third Martyr were and 2 are not yet are.
 fl For the days and nights and cen.
 ,ruries. and the men unknown and the d men of renown and the women Of lc few thrones and the women Of count @ less homes, all these with their deeds
 and creeds and dreams have been is woven as so many crossing and twin a. ing threads in a vesture for some
 divine purpose, and dipped in the life e .ood of the race.
 But out oI the straining, throbblng e victorious living present, we ask o again. What of Americas future ,r Shall we become a memory, and 2 'e crystalfossil effect buried in the toml d of history. and cease being vital E forceful cause?
 Today marks another year oi eus ,s yirile nations increasing age. Here is the winning athelete in tnS le modern contst.
 Is a birthday coming with no nation p there to celebrate?
 "a Will the athlete ever bend upon his " staff and the almond tree flourish and
 desire fail and the golden bowl Dc ar broken and the pitcher crash at tpe D. fountain and the wheel crush at the
 cistern and the mourners go about the ? streets of the Eternal City because an le lother people so.ters to the wide, wid'