The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-31

many OF the myriad pages Of history
And yet, In January, few years ago
did twentieth century sympathy halt
because the appeal was made in be.
half OF q people benumbed by centur-
les OF ignorance and insular feeling
Not for one moment. We have come
to feel that our obligation Is not thus
measured. And here came under my
notice this incident:
Old Order Changed.
We were collecting money for the
sufferers from the Messina disaster.
Many contributions came by mail.
One morning among other mail,
found small. very cheap and plain
envelope, much begrimed. aud ad-
dressed in . scrawling, boyish hand.
Tearing open the envelope I took out
two pieces OF cardboard, sewed to-
gether, through and through and
over and over with the greatest care,
in the bungling manner characters
tic OF childhood. Tearing off one
corner l poured into my hand forty
cents in change, three dimes and two
nickles. Looking again into the en-
velope l found letter also written
in pencil in the same boyish hand
writing and which ran as follows:i
Dear Sir:-Enclosed find forty
cents for the Red Cross society to be
used for the victims of the Italian
earthquake and volcano. Sent by the
Knights of the New Chivalry, q boys
band. (Signed) Dae Shafrer, superin-
tendent; Charles Jennings. treasurer
Contributions: Charles Jennings, Is
cents; Dae Shaffer. 10 cents; Frank
Ullery, 10 cents; Frank Jennings, 5
cents"
Can't you see the little fzllow with
his five cents? AS l laid the letter
down upon my desk there came over
me the consciousness of a world
change. Farewell the days of ancient
chivalry with all their ensanguined
accomplishment! Farewell the days
of the moat and the draw-bridge, OF
the great open fire and the boar's
head, of changing armor and the
rythmic ant OF war-horse hoofs be-
yond the castle walls! Farewell the
days when every nation, every city,
almost every hill top, was the enemy
of every other; when knight and
squire and lady and child looked out
upon the beauty Of the world from
battlements!
Hall to Better Day.
And all hail and welcome to bet
ter day-an age and democracy in
which opportunity stands smiling and
beckoning at the door of every howell
in the land; an age and democracy
in which shoveler of coal on Mis-
sissippi freighter, rail splitter. may
become a president; an age and q
democracy in which, to us an Iowa
Hanoverian immigrant
boy, with no pull but brains and IN
dustry and idealism, once a herder
Of shsep on the prairies of Mills
county, II you please.-may become
president of the American Bar asso-
citation, and q mediator In a confer
ence involving the great question OF
our relations with Mexico; an age in
which with all its exp snditure for
kings and parliaments
are beginning to heed the rising voice
If public sentiment in condemnation
If the crime Of war; and not least,
IN age and democracy in which four
little boys, part Of our common life,
1pon this prairfes Of Iowa, grasp an
outlook upon their world-relation that
caches half across the globe, and
volunteer their mite upon the altar
# the worlds need. Oh, lust of pow
,r! You have had your well-nigh I'M
etter I'D march down the pages OF
history, but better day Is coming.
)h, youthful Knights OF the New
You came freighted with
he finest spirit of this marvellous age.
Would that we all might catch more
clearly AMIDST the roar Of twentieth
mtury life this note Of service-the
most significant motiff In all the
natchless music OF our unrivaled civil
ization.
All Must be Helpers.
Herbert Quick has written book
which he calls 1.-THE Good Ship
Garth" and we are all aboard that
Mighty vessel. Francis Thompson
peaks of our earth in the same figure
where he says: This laboring, vast
elluvian galleon riding at anchor ON
he orient SUM-" On this ship and on
his marvellous voyage It is for us all
0 do our turn to make the Journey
weet and safe and Who'll ssome and OF
leasant remembrance. We are not
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