The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-07-01
Words, and Beyond Them

of the range of speech into the realm Of silences
For just outside the boundaries of turmoil is the
ever-enduring sea of tranquility. We make tre-
mendous noise at our work here on earth, and we!
are sure it must cleave chasm in the sky but some
how the stars are imperturable after all and the
roof of heaven does not fall down. At present mem
are engaged in making life intolerabe for other
men or taking it away altogether. One nation brings
against another its latest endish enginery to throw
a kissing meteor farther than one has yet been
thrown and the conclusion and the percussion deaf
en- and drive mad and fill hospitals and asylums.
Yet not very far out into the ether does this
derous racket Co. The moon knows nothing of it.
The sun still swings us round boy swings an
apple on stick. For all our curses and alarum,
our trumpets and drums, guns and our ships
of the three sorts. Venus Mars is not aware
that the pens of photographers halted in midcareer
to know what new lines they shall draw for
Europe's map
Ones own little world of ones own little life
is set down in the middle of an unplumed abyss of !
silence. After you have spoken you have for all !.
your eloquence and wisdom left your meaning un-'
expressed. The mystery hid in your own bosom !
eludes you. The riddle of your own whence-and-
wither battles you, tho you puzzle Tit in your own
mind as your fingers might vainly wrestle with
provoking tangle of steel links to unite them.
dog knows. Watch his face, his eyes on
yours. They have denied him soul, and he is aware
of that More than walk, or bone, he wants to
bridge the gap. He would volunteer for the place
of missing link. He would be aggrieved, could he
know, that man has chosen the monkey and not the
dog for his first-cousin and he cannot see how Of
ten his august lord and mas ter by his foolish
and trivial ways gives proof of his simian kinshp
For the faith of dog is blind, and his king do
no wrong He is ready to lick the hand of murderer
or saint and he will die as for aragged tramp
as for plutocrat
Yet the dumb brute has his own mode of
speech. He knows as man knows of human
language how inadequate and poor his means of
expression is. His best language is his love. His
paw is pleading sentence, and his eyes can spell
reproach or JOY
So with your friend there rests on your soul
no burden to be loquacious: you could not say it
all if you could, and there is no need to try. Those
who understand music which has not foolishly
been called the silence of Heaven-know of one
thing that seems to go on from the point where
language leaves off, 1t carries climbing thought
higher and higher. as Sir Edwin Arnold would
say. Whether it be Brownings ''Abt Vogler'' or
the organist on the more obvious plane OF The
Lost Chord )" the musician says, 1.-The rest may
reason and welcome-'tis we musicians know"
The gratitude of submerged and striving and bro
ken lives to him Is that he carries human aspra-
ton on high like prophet who intercedes for his
people. He is the advocate pleads at the supreme
tribunal. With eyes closed one listens tired out
perhaps, by the effort of the finite toward infnity
and the barriers 60, and the unwearying light is
shining, and from the other side there comes the
answer that does not depend upon voice. -Ex.
The assassination which brought about the
greatest war in the worlds history occurred one
year ago last Monday, June %. This titanic strug
gle has caused the loss of millions of lives and the
manning of millions more. Many thousands of
non combatants have been slain in the raids by air
and underwater craft; and according to an itemzed
report the war up to date has caused loss to the
various belligerents of more than 5000, 900 men
dead, wounded and prisoners, land more than five
hundred ships have been destroyed. Of these 500
Ships about 12O we're war vessels An itemzed
report taken from the ST. Paul Dispatch which gives
the outstanding results on both land and sea, fol-
lows
RESULTS LAND.
The greater portion of Belgium is under the
control of Germany
Germany has been driven from the Far East
A part of the Dardanelles is in the possession
of allied troops.
Portions of France and Russia in the pos
session of German troops.