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next weekly assemblages i'll their accus.
toned places Of public worship which
shall occur after notice Of this proclama-
ton shall have been received. they espe-
cially acknowledge and render thanks to
our Heavenly Father for these inestimable
blessings: that they, then and there, I'M
all who have been brought into attic
ton by the casualties and calamities Of
sedition and civil war; and that they
reverently invoke the divine guidance for
they may speedily result in the restora-
ton of peace. harmony and unity
throughout our border. and hasten the
establishment of fraternal relations
among all the countries of the earth.
A year later the cause of the Union
was In darkness again, and President
Lincoln is ued the following proclama-
ton March 80. 1868:
Whereas the Senate of the United
States, devoutly recognizing the SUI
preme authority and Just government
of Almighty God in all the affairs of
men and of nations. has by resolu-
ton requested the President to desig-
nate and set apart day for national
prayer and humiliatlon:
And whereas. 1t is the duty of ma
tons as well as OF men to own their
dependence upon the overriding power
of God; to confess their sins and trans
gressions In humble sorrow, yet with
assured hope that genuine repentance
VIII lead to mercy and pardon. and to
recognize the sublime truth. announced
in the Holy Scriptures and proven by
all history, that those nations only
are blessed whose God Is the Lord:
And inSomuch as We know that by
His divine law nations. like individuals,
are subjected to punishments and chas-
tisements in this world. may we not
justly fear that the awful calamity Of
civil war which now desolates the land
may be but a punishment inflicted upon
us for our presumptuous sins, to the
needful end of our national reformation
as a whole people? We have been the
recipients of the choicest bounties Of
heaven. We have been preserved. these
many years. in peace and prosperity.
We have grown in numbers, wealth and
power as no other nation has ever
grown; but we have forgotten God. We
have forgotten the gracious hand which
preserved US in peace, and multiplied
and enriched and strengthened us: and
we have vainly imagined. in the deceit.
fulness Of our hearts, that all these
blessings were produced by some superb
or wisdom and virtue of our own. IN
.ecicats4 VT .'.~-'e,Y s"c-e-- r.
have become TOO self-suIteient To teel
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EVERY AMERICAN WOMAN i'm ENGLAND WORKING TO HELP THE VII

work that women can do in time of
war is being carried on by this mighty
host OF American women in England.
The American society women here, of
course, have launched an ambitious
scheme for establishing a Red Cross
hospital and providing an ambulance
ship for the wounded, at a cost, It is
estimated, of s25o.o00. as we'll as for
which have been founded by the queen
and Prince of Wales.
Meanw lille. all the less highly placed,
but scarcely less well known, members
of the Society of American Women IN
London, and most of those outside that
famous body, even the American
women-the schoolma ans and the
rest-who originally were stranded
here and then remained on to do what
they could to help what is, after all,
the motherland, in her hour Of need,
are working, many of them from
morning until night, in making all the
various kinds of garments that will
be needed by the men in the hring
line. both on land and at sea, as well
as by the wounded who, unless some
miracle occurs. will soon be crowd
ing the numberless emergency hos
every part of the kingdom
This last-named great body of WON
en-. whose number can be guessed at
when it is recalled that there now are
said to be 10000 permanent American
residents in the islands. include the
wives and daughters of Il hundred IA
nous business men like Herbert =.
Hoover. the California mining engi-
neer: Harry V. Higgins the director
of Covent Garden Opera House; Cor
don Selfridge. the former partner of
Marshall Field and now the proprietor
of London's big shop; Willard c. Hun
skier of the steel trust, Charles S. Fox,
head of Tiffanys London branch, and
F. C. Van Duzer, TO mention only the
first whose names come to mind, while
the erstwhile stranded" American
woman workers. who include Mrs.
David Starr Jordan. wife of Leland
Stanford's famous chancellor, have an
organization and workroom of their
own in one of London's biggest stores.
where they are at present turning out
hospital garments by the hundred.
The writer saw one of the best known
and highly placed of those American
leaders of British society, the bearers
of great English names, chatelaines of
stately English homes and intimates
and favorites of royalty. who are
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has arranged for quarters in her hus-
bands store on Oxford street. Fac
member pays "A registration fee of 81. so
to cover the expenses of material, and
Is promptly supplied Herewith and SET
to work. hence the unwonted spectacle
of the deliberately gowned wives OF
men who could write their checks for
hundreds of thousands of dollars work
ing away as busily as the member Of
any Dorcas society In the United States
Nor is this work confined to members
of the society. On the contrary. Mr.
Charles Fox, the president, said tha'
many American tourists of the gentiet
sex have given up tours which they had
contemplated. visits to the lake dis
trict, Shakespeare land and all sorts
of other enchanting localities. all for
the sake of helping" and are now
there in Oxford street. sewing away
with the rest.
For the most part these workers ere
making what is known as helpless
case" garments. a sort of flannel under
shirt with a loose neck and one arm.
left open. but there are also beinS
Fabricated nightshirts, pajamas, bags
for hot-water bottles, bandages. cover
ings for air-cushions, and goodness
alone knows how many other things.
most of them OF course. for the
soldiers and sailors of these islands.
who look like having enough to wear
half dozen pairs each all at til
same time.
1T apparently is assumed. said Cor
don Selfridge. with an au' ,sed smile
in commenting on the activities of the
women of these islands, that every
body in Europe is going to be wound
ed and to he brought to England TO-
treatment. As for nightshirts and pa
jamas, enough are being made to float
the entire British navy. But It's quilt
beautiful thing. and one which ma
we'll teach us Americans a lesson, this
spectacle of a whole nation snimated
by a self sacrificing desire to help
quite an impressive thing-if some
what misdirected,'
Go where one will among the Amer
lean women here the identical spectacle
strikes one Down AT Aneriey, for eN-
ample, where the LAKE Thomas W. Hau
shew lived. his two daughters are hard
at work making bed jackets out Of graz
flannel ornamented with red braid. ac-
cording TO designs furnished by the loca
branch OF the Red Cross Society, and
exc pajamas and bed socks, the latter
of which are knitted.
We can make the socks OF any color
except scarlet announced Norma Han
shew, the poetess of the family, tn,
other day, because, so the army medica
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nent London hotel list Of the Ameri-
cans who We're staying there, and sent
every one of them an invitation. When
the interviewer "buttonhoIed" her--if
one can describe that operation SO
cavalierly-after that meeting. at which
$1,000 was raised, $4,000 already haN-
ing been subscribed, she was urging q
wealthy Washington woman present to
organize a big entertainment in aid of
the project in the United States on
her return, and meanwhile had been
interesting all sorts of prominent peo-
pie in the scheme. She found capable
and interchangeable lieutenants in the
Duchess Of Marlborough, who, besides
presiding at the meeting and making
q really moving and eloquent speech,
has contributed $4,000 to the fund,
Lady Randolph Churchill, Lady Low
Their and Mrs. Lewis Harcourt.
r +
When the writer talked with the lat
ter at her house in Berkeley square
she was working literally as though
her living depended upon 1t. debating
letters, calling friends up on the tele-
phone. discussing plans for organlza-
tion with the professional organizing
secretary and doing a hundred and one
other things Another secret, by the
way, though it was not Mrs. Harcourt
who told this, is that 1t was she VINO
interested Paris Singer in the scheme,
with the result that the bachelor not
only turned over Otway House to the
COMMITTEES, but also contributed s25,ece
to the organizations funds. :,
please, please, keep me Out 81 II
personally impiored the wife OF The
colonial secretary-an injunction. you
will observe, which has not been
obeyed I'VE are all working togeth-
er. no one harder than any otner-
Just now there seems to be "A iuli pc
fore the big battle that we suppose is
coming, but we are anxious to take
advantage Of this lull to put forward
our scheme. which we hope SO much
will commend itself to all our coun-
trymen.''
The niece Of J. Pierpont Morgan, as
she spoke made wholly delightful
figure She was all In white except
for "a sash of rich-colored silk, and 1t
was quite evident that she spoke with
great sincerity. She pressed her
brother. Walter Burns, into the serV-
treasurer of the fund, and also got
big subscription from her cousin, the
present J. P. Morgan. and his firm
consent to receive any and all SUP
scriptions to the fund that may be
sent from the other side. Busy as she
is with these big and important mat
GERS, however. Mrs. Harcourt. it ap-
pears, actually gets time to knit
things for the soldiers just like the
humblest of all the hundreds OF thou
doing their little best for their fight
ing men. The discovery that she is
doing so was one of the pleasantest
and most picturesque features of the
Grosvenor square gathering.
DR. Joseph Colt Bloodgood, the Amefl-
can surgeon and disciple Of Osler, whom
the Duchess of Marlborough met on the
steamer on her recent trip back from
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that borough has given Mrs. Owen and
myself the most cordial OF welcomes
and promised us every help. We are
Just next door, too, to the Lor.don Tenn
perance Hospital and it's matron has
promised her practical aid in getting
in touch with the class of women that
we wish to befriend.
I'VE find that SIS day will give en-
ployment to twelve women, and we are
making a modest start Monday next
with sixteen soldiers wives. The idea
is to pay them for making garments
for hospital patients. which we can
tai, thus beneflting both the women
and the institution where. by the way,
we shall need no end Of garments. as
Mr.. Ernest Lane, who Is to be Its III.
rector, tells us that each patient viii
need a complete outfit. Whatever gar
ments we have over, however. will be
passed along to Queen Mary's Needle
work Guild, with which. of. course, the
relief fund is also working.
Two more American women of title
who are working like Trojans in con-
nection with war relief work. both OF
them in the direction of raising funds
for the different schemes, are Cora
Countess OF STAFFORD and Princess de
have been liberal contributors to the
American women's war relief fund.
There Is practical evidence Of the &C
tivities of the first named lady, who. of
course, was MRS. ColSate prior TO ner
marriage with the third Earl of STRAIT
ford and who is accounted one of the
fairest of American society danes. For
at the Offices of another war relief
fund, the other day. the writer's eye
could not help noticing, as he talked
with the secretary, quite a little pile
Of checks, one and all made out to Cora
Countess OF Stanford on behalf of the
fund in question.
Thus. however. one could continue to
almost any length in describing the ac-
tivities of the American women of high
station over here. Suffice 1t to say,
however. that these distinguished work
ers also include Mrs. John Aston, the
Countess of Gr;tnard, Lady tGilbert
Parker, the Duchess OF Roxburghe, the
Countess Of Essex, the Hon. Mrs. John
Ward, the late Whitelaw Reds daugh-
ter, and a score of others equally well
known. and to bring this part OF our
account to a close by mentioning briefly
the patriotic action Of Lady Beatty, who
is daughter of the late Marshall Field
of Chicago, and is married to Admiral
Sir David Beatty, one of Britain's most
eminent naval commanders. who. since
1912, has been in command of the first
cruiser squadron. which at present is
watching the German fee, in the North
sea- Lady Beatty has Just offered hel
private yacht Sheila to the admiralty as
a hospital ship-an offcr which the SCI
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CONTINUED From Fifth Page.)
Thousand feet and a quay wall about
twice as long. It will have coal wharves.
customhouses and warehouses and al
Of the modern arrangements for loading
steamers and from steamers to cars.
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But before I go further in my letters
from Chile / want to give you BIRDS
eye view Of this country. For the past
month I have been travelling through
the northern part of it. / have visited
port after port, and now, here at Val
paraiso, 1 am little more than half
way down the coast. Chile is the longest
country on earth in proportion to its
width. 1t begins at Cape Horn. and
stretches it's way northward like
snake along the western slopes OF the
Andes for a distance OF 200 miles. 1t
is three times as long as Egypt, which
runs for 900 miles through the desert
Let US suppose that the Chilean snake
Is RATHER and that the Islands OF
TERRA del Fuego at the south are the
rattles. Then the button would be
the rocks of Cape Horn and the fiery
fangs Of the rattlesnake's head would
be the River Sauna. where Chile ends at
the Peruvian boundary. This Chilean
it on the United States from east to
west with the button at Boston Its
tongue might lick the great Mormon
Tabernacle in Salt Lake City without
stretching its body. or if you should
start it crawling eastward, beginning
at Cleveland, it might go on to New
York, and thence bending southwark
move on to Panama before its rattles
had left the forest city on the great
lakes.
The area of Chile is also worth no
tice. The country Is on the average
from 100 to $50 miles wide, and 1t has
all told almost 100000 square miles.
That means that it is twice as big as
California, five times as large as
Georgia and more than seven times the
size of Ohio, Kentucky or Virginia.
Chile would make four Minnesotas or
six Pennsylvania and have room to
spare; and If Texas and Maryland were
sliced into bits and put together they
would just about f11it- 1t IS almost an
hundred -fcasana square miles bigger
than Gefir:any, a.,ce, and over three
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veucy and contrition for the pardon Of
their past offenses, and for a blessir G
upon their present and prospective az
ton:
tAnd whereas when our own BELOVED
country. once. by the blessing of God,
united, prosperous and happy, is now az
fiicted with faction and civil war, 1t is
peculiarly fit for US to recognize the hard
of God In this terrible visitation, and in
sorrowful remembrance Of our own faults
and crimes as nation and as individuals,
to humble ourselves before Him and to
pray for His mercy-to pray that we ms.y
be spared further punishment though
most justly deserved that our arms may
be blessed and made erIectual for the re-
establishment OF law. order and peace
throughout the wide extent of our coua-
try; and that the inestiuable boon of
civil and religious liberty, earned under
His guidance and blessing by the labors
and sufferinss OF our ia sfers. may be re-
stored in all its original excellence:
therefore, I. Abraham Lincoln. Presi-
dent of the United States. do appoint the
last Thursday in September next as
day of humiliation, prayer and fasting for
all the people of the nation And / do
earnestly recommend TO all the people,
and especially to all ministers and teach
ers of religion, 6 all denominations and
to all heads of families. to observe and
keep that day according To their several
creeds and modes of Worship IN all hu-
mility and with all religious solemnity. to
the end that the united prayer of the
nation may ascend to the throne of grace,
and bring down plentiful blessings
upon our country.
There is a striking absence from this
proclamation of the tone which seems
to figure SO strongly in the Official
prayers" of the European nations at
war There is no wild. presumptuous
cry for victory-merely humble pray
er for peace. And this same tone IRE
vailed In the proclamation of April 10.
1862, recommending Thanksgiving for
the Victories of the northern forces.
This proclamation follows:
1T has pleased Almighty God to
vouchsafe signal victories to the land
and naval forces engaged IN suppress
ing an internal rebellion, and at the
same time to avert from our country
the dangers Of foreign Intervention and
invasion:
1T liz, therefore. recommended 10 lne
people OF the United Stats. that, at their
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MRS. ". b. LEEDS,

1ra,,, 49,, ,-t,-,,, how e-raca later
NJ NJ. ~ a. any " 49, +Sarinv Uas-
Pc Rer;Ii ~ au h ee 10 ,,nrs Gould he made
most prae,lc a,L ~ Gotta h..,,i,p be-
nignly upon the wonderful assemblage
OF women Oh RANK ana iasn,on t any
1H.;tt;n, ~ W,icf tbere vas GEN
eral burst of laughter. Mrs. Harcourt,
who was seated next to the Duchess OF
MarIooroueh' nad. one had hotleeu.
,bin,, 30 b.d snrn,isad r,;st contain
important papers. At the words Of the
famous member of Johns Hopkins, how
ever. she quietly opened this case, drew
forth therefrom pain white, hail-
completed wooden scarf, tosether with
q ball Of WorSted and a pair OF Knitting
needles, and Calmly commenced WORKING
busily. While the whole room, Includlng
the distinguished speaker rocked with
appfec1atlVe m1rNh.
II was largely owing 20 III; $1,000
goods observation to the ducness. by
the way, Wi1ch ne also repeated TO the
meeting, that transpoftatlon IN war
causes more deaths than outlets. tnat
LED ner ana her coiieagues TO de,ermlne
70 sstaplisn an aihpuiance saip IN con
ape luhus wouia run 70 ~ anu II rs
Inns TINS, VI amen u tiie Scnelhe IN Milcn tne
uuchesS ilio i>iut idsSl are inter eslinS
Ihe,llsSises pai ,it uIaii A. pIesent,
Lazy rag. se'u ames nave eheiI eye on
one Vi tne cIoss-cnannel passenseI
S.eiilie.s >. a's.,ousn. az Inns MLL.ins; II
'ias mo- 3e' oeeh oeiiii'eiS porchaseu.
Meanwhile, the duchess. who an
no,,pced at +be mee+ine Tho, r,+h,,
~ -.
.i'e past '"enty-iour hours she nao
leafhed tnat girls and women were &C
tually starving in London, as the re-
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times the size of that tight little island
of England and Scotland.
This long-drawn out country. running
as 1t does southward from the equator,
resources. IN the northern part. where
1 have been travelling. 1t does not rain
from one end of the year to the other.
At Santiago, which lies in the great
east Of Valparaiso. there is rain on
thirty-one days every twelve months,
while at valdivia, in the southern part
Of that valley, it rains 172 days every
fall is greater. There are localities
where the people facetiusly say
that 1t rains thirteen months every
year.
This being the case, the northern part
of the land is desert The central
part is rich farming country with
orchards and vineyards and great
haciendas. many Of which are watered
by Irrigation; and the southern part
has lands that grow hay. wheat and
grain. the fields being fed by the plenti-
full rainfall
The latter region has also enormous
areas of forest. It will surprise you
to know that one-fourth of all Chile
Is wooded and that just now they are
cutting down the woods and burning
make farms. Altogether the wooded
area Of Chile is as large as the com
bined states of Ohio and Indiana 1t
is more than $4,000 squares miles.
Before leave this general description
want tell you about the lands and in
dustries Of the Strait OF Magellan
and the archipelago Of TERRA del Fue-
go. They are a part Of the from
tier OF this shoestring republic. and as
one looks at them on the map he might
imagine them to be somewhat like the
country that the late Capt. Scott found
about the south pole. On the con-
trary they have q climate about as
mild as that Of Sitka, Alaska. which
has been compared to that of Cincinnati
or Washington city. The sheep of that
region feed out of doors all the year
round and hundreds of millions of
pounds Of wool are exported from the
strait each year. During my last visit to
Chill this sheep industry was at its begin
ming. It has since grown beyond all that
was prophesied then and there are new
single companies which own more than
L. d00.00O Of sheep.
That part OF Chile is made Up OF the
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the necessity of redeeming and preserv-
ing grace too proud to pray to the God
that made US:
1T behooves us, then, to humble our
selves before the offended power, to con-
fess our national sins, and to pray for
clemency and forgiveness.
the request, and fully concurring in
the views OF the Senate, do by this.
my proclamation. designate and set
apart Thursday, the 30th day of April,
1868, as day of national humiliation.
fasting and prayer. And l do hereby
request all the people to abstain on that
day from ordinary secular pursuits. and
to unite at their several places of pub
lie worship and their respective homes
in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and
devoted to the humble discharge Of the
religious duties proper to that solemn
occasion. All this being done in sin
certify and truth. let US then rest
humbly in the hope authorized by the
divine teachings, that the united cry of
the nation will be heard on high, and
answered with blessings no less than
the pardon of our national sins. and the
restoration of our now divided and suf-
fering country to it's former happy con-
dition of unity and peace"
The following proclamation for a day
of prayer was Issued by President Lin
coin at the request of. Congress, June Z,
1864:
Whereas the Senate and House OF
Representatives. at their last session,
adopted a concurrent resolution, which
was approved the second day of July
instant, and which was in the words
following. namely:
That the President Of the United
States be requested to appoint day
for humiliation and prayer by the peo-
pie of the United States; that he re-
quest his constitutional advisers at the
heads of the executive departments to
unite with him as chief magistrate Of
the nation, at the city of Washington,
and the members of Congress. and all
magistrates, all civil, military and
naval officers. all soldiers. sailors and
marines. with all loyal and law-abid-
ing people. to convene at the usual
places OF worship. or wherever they
may be, to confess and repent of their
manifold sins: to inplore the compass
2'pr ard Forgiveness # thn Almighty,
sl.;.t, il consistent with Ills will, the
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The Business Philosopher.

CHARLES C. McCHoRD of the inter-
state commerce commission said at s
dinner IN Washington
Our commission hopes in the end to
see business as straight as it used 10
be-as ii used to be in our childhood.
There are certain tyT es of modern bus;-
ness that remind me of the business phil
osopher who said:
Every failure lis a step toward sue
cess. That Is why I, q business man,
grow richer every time l faA'''
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lords have promptly accepted. The
Sheila was built on the Slyde, and is
one of the most luxuriously fitted craft
in England.
Devonshire House. the London seat
of the duke of that name, in Piccadilly,
has become the official headquarters of
the British Red Cross Society and 1t is
in connection Herewith that the So
ciety of American Women in London
is now working. Mrs. Gordon Selfridge