The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-30

trade he protested. Surely! was the
answer. In America a man who does
not work Is an idier or a tramp W,
are too strong to allow decatent
aristocracy across seas to dictate
our social policy when we have our
selves placed the highest possible
standard in the combination OF cul-
ture, refinement and work"
Miss Waive Mcxinstry told in O
certain prose-poetic strain of "Greciar
Mythology.
There Is charm In the very name
Greece hallowed as 1t Is by legend,
brooding myth and poetry. Nature II
was that fired the Grecian mind or
lulled It in the dreamland of soulful
imagination. The man of Greece held
within himself divine power, but his
course was marked out for him by
the gods. His civilization was fortified
not alone by the gods but by the
deeds of the past. To him Hercules
was no dead hero, he was living
and ever potent reality present in the
legands so inseparably part of
every day life. The Grecian legendary
god was human being endowed with
all the highest powers of divinity, and
as such touched the lives of the people
in material and lasting way"
"Timo VS.. Duration" was the topic
chosen for exploitation by Miss Marie
Hoover.
There is abundance of duration,
said Miss Hoover, but few of us un-
dcrstand how to transform 1t into
time. We do not make time by rush.
ing from place to place, beginning a
work and leaving 1t unfinished daily
ing with this and then that field of
This is but drifting down
the western slope of time. one who
faithfully and earnestly applies him
self to attaining a goal cannot en-
tircly fail. The number who want to
do things but cannot find time is pa
thetic. 1t is a fallacy that men kill
time. They cannot kill the non -exis-
tant They simply overlook the op-
portunlty to make time. Time is
duration made significant, useful.
Each golden bit counts only as We use
t to contribute to the betterment of
Mr.. Sam Fetter biographical MARK
Twain" in agreeable fashion.
During the last half century, Mark
Twain has done more to lengthen the
ife of his contemporaries than any
'ther humorist in America. He has
made them laugh wholesomeiy.
Roughly IT. is a most graphic descrip-
ion of the childhood of Samuel l..
Clemens who became part of the
early life of the Mississippi. But how
invaluable was the roughing as it ex-
,ands in '"Tom Sawyer" wherein he
opens his boys heart for the amuse-
nent of thousands of readers. He was
~ no means limited to American life
md conditions, but IN sympathy he
S always American. He believes that
he advantages of Europe could in no
way compensate for the ones existant
'nly in our own country. In his SER
Gus moments the understanding of
md sympathy with all mankind which
cached its zenith in this typical
American literature makes him be-
owed by sinners and adorned by
saints"
Miss Hoff, teacher OF music in the
schools favored with vocal number
Say Yes, and was compelled to re-
spond to an encore. Miss Hoff is the
possessor of a voice of unusual sweet
ness and purity.
Miss Eloise Edwards gave an ex-
cellent review of the life and purpose
Of Beethoven.
1.-THE composition of the master
musician We're slow to find recogni-
tion," said Miss Edwards, "but who
can listen without feeling the sublime
and all-rullng powcr,N the ecstacy of
passion in his combination of sounds.
So did he love his work that in his
zeal he brought upon himself a partial
and finally complete deafness. His
ears were forever closed to the divinl-
ty of his own creations. L will so
far as possible defy my fate he wrote
though at times l must be the most
of Gods creatures Music
to him was not alone a manifestation
of art but of religion. In 1t he express
al all that was best I'm his nature.
That which before his time was per-
feet in technique and composition. he
inspired with soul, and into II he
breathed the heart-throbs of nature
and mankind"
English and American Courts Com
pared" furnished an interesting theme
for Mr.. Edward Firstenberger. He
spoke of the identical origin of the
principals of the two
courts, but of their wide divergence in
order of procedure.
"The border cities of the United
States are flooded with criminals who
seek their courts in preference to
those Of Canada. There is a fear. of
the weighty movement of the English
methods. Great deiberation is observ-
ed in considering evidence, but once
conclusions are reached
with incontrovertabie suddenness. Our
feature Is the equity of
court observance. There is one law
under which is judged the weak and
the strong, the rich and the poor.
Class does not enter into the trend of
Justice. 1t is a crying shame that pre-
datory wealth has corrupted the court
standard that was once the admir-
tion and envy Of the world. Behind
a hedge of technicalities are skulking
the corporations, but the flood of
evil Is destined to yield TO the in
lpFnnt 6iOnftU t,ia Of