New-York tribune., 1903-03-21
SETTLING THE SETTBER."
Rv the Bard of the Empire.


I leave South Africa more convinced than ever
that the forces which are & dragns M v hg 10
gT dane so much to foster with my oportunst
!gTs bsdgs p feaS Rdy.ra ! s Fe6Taa7 9sss9
''1n that very self-same Times, whose columns
And In ps Wieh in jerky 5oting lines lingo hatred
There, Where my verbal bullets snarIed ana my
have blessed. With never blush, the things that
1 hitherto have cuEst
There where, at one pound ons per line I
have slob6ered in ink (at similar rate> at the
thought of such murderous strife;
sung extremely small,
For the set folly. and the red breach, and tho
black waste Of it ALL"
There 0or must be Kiplingesque) I have writ
OF marvellous 'Fustline cloud that blows the
And of frost and murran which God knows how.
In the holy wars that have no truce twixt seed
and harvest tide"
There Qn headed bourgeois I've told Of the pools
MAJ, where we lay In walt walt and the xo,n
hate"
On. B.1-7Tne ,reaoer VINO, daring much should try
VIII notice the way that those corns' combined
impede my poetic feetD
And when the past ghts sna are D brought to mind
VIII forget the blood that is my head. and will
Nor even suggest that the Bard who whooped for
War in wild way
Pay! Pay!! Pay!!
For Poet see ye! has many moods. and We
should not deem 1t strange
II. cen as his metres vary, so are his views In
At all events SO long as The Times is ready to
To print his screeds at shilling word on q
prominent inner page!
For am the sort Of a bard in whom no healing
Whom no vast. benignant sky restraints" and
One as ns Of o6 a aays Which he say
of that which he last has said.
One that's reckless quite of the wrong he's done
to the living and the dead!"S
Copyright in England and America 1903.
-Crrutn.
golden wedding celebrated at lie Roy, N Y,
recently was In more than usual ways an excep-
tion to the mutahility of human things. The fes-
tiVities were held in the house which John R..
Olmsted built for the occupancy OF himself and his
bride more than fifty years before. 1t has been
their home throughout their married life. Shortly
before his marriage Mr. Omsted employed Annie
Conhor cook. She has been in the service of the
family all these years. Ali six of the couples chill
dren are living and were present at the golden
wedding. Mrs. Olmsted wore her bridal wreath
and her wedding gown was worn by OF her
daughters. Some Of the wedding cake of fifty
years before was produced at the celebration.
intense. dislike for contractions. and rarely puts
one in his pages when 1t can be avoided when he
IS 9i
good example Of this occurred recently In q
Southern % city gheTe popular touring orchestra
their selections were pEincipally of sacred char
The second part opened with splendid rendi-
setts by MoSart "HcHarpeT'S Magazine. N'ASSA'"O
THE Railroad Gazette" says that the Japanese
Government is meeting with opposition at home on
the ground that 1t has been going ahead too fast.
The Kure dockyard. for example, Is on a scale
fitted for the building OF line-ofb battle ships and
yet there is absolutely chance of its getting any
but very small vessels for q long time to come.
The great iron foundry in WakamStsu also, which
has already cost the government % 100000 yen (uo-
0O0ON and Is sure to cost more Is dismal failure
and 10 consequently about to be sold to private
capitalists. There il else reaction against the
present craze for building enormous foFtIncatIcns
along the seacoaat and Atting them with costly
pieces OF artillery It is recognized that this money
had very much better be spent ships
An Agreeable Form OF Philanthropy.-Mrs.
Hrown-We are going TO give q progressive euchre
Scr the poor. ! love to DO seaething for the peer.
~""hFs for thaA-tTcwa and Country.