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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-28
A Song of LIES Struggle.

Be strong.
We are not here to play; to dream. to drift;
Shun not the struggle, face it, it's Gods gift.
Say not the days are evil-who's to blame?
, And fold the hands and acquicsce-Oh. shame!
Stand up. speak out, and bravely, In Gods namel
BE strong!
1t matters not how deep intrcnched the wrong.
How hard the battle goes the day how long:
While this hymn is pre- eminently a
message to the Christian of the present
generation, it is a true expression of a
need or conviction that has been uni
versally felt from time immemorial
The Scriptures are full of eXhorta-
Daniel, Peace be unto thee, be strong.
yea, be strong" The prophet said to
! Asa, King of Judah, BE strong. there
! fore. and let not your hands be weak:
! for your work shall be rewarded" Da-
vid said to his son Solomon. Il go the
| way Of all the earth: be thou strong.
| therefore, and show thyself man"
And Paul wrote to the Ephesans, Ell
/ nally, be strong in the Lord. and in the
power of His might"
struggle in the life of every man, and
acceptance of it as the gift of God
for the souls development: the need
Of vigorous action instead of acquies-
CeHCe WITH present. EVIL COQQltlOnS, and
the assurance of ultimate victory for
/ righteousness, are expressions of truth
| SO universal in application that this
| hymn deserves to be the favorite that
| 1t is among Christians.
The author of this hymn,r Maltbie
Dwight Babcock. was born in 1858, in
Syracuse, N. Y. and died in 1901 He
was Presbyterian minister and served
a Baltimore church for many years.
He had the happy faculty of talking
straight out of his own heart and into
his hearers heart. and this directness
| is well preserved in his writings, which
are in two volumes. entitled Thoughts
! for Every Day Living" and fragments
That Remain"
A Song of Life's Pathway.
The King Of Love my Shepherd is
Whose goodness faileth never;
] nothing lack IL am His
And He is mine forever.
Where strea ms of living waters flow
My ransoned soul He leadeth,
And. where the verdant pastures grow.
With food celestial feedeth.
Perverse and foolish: oft I strayed:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-28

They do not realize that
Life is real, life is earnest.
And the grave is not its goal.
Dust thou art. TO dust returneth,
Was not spoken Of the soul.
Those who think that the grave ends
all-that the soul is not immortal have
a shadow of excuse for living friv-
olous life.
With some measure of reason they
might say, Let us eat, drink and be
merry, for tomorrow we die and pass
into endless oblivion"
Yet il this were true, frivolous life
here would be less noble. less satisfy
ing. less happy than sober and indus
trious one.
A life devoted to grave and important
matters of the present life alone has
decided advantages over the life that
is interested especially in trifling mat
tiers" which is the dictionary definition
OF frivolous" life
There is no real success. no real hap
piness in this world experienced by
those who devote their time simply to
what they call having a good time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-28
| An Evening With Favorite Hymns.

Music forms an essential part of every
religion and Christianity is no eXcep-
ton to the rule. From the time Of
Moses all down through the Old Tesla
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-28
TOPIC:
Frivolty-Its Dangers and the Remedies.-Ecc, 2113.
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of time, but that in the Indulgence of
frivolity they inevitably cloud the
vision of the true meaning of life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-28

Perhaps it is true there are none who
are never serious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-28

But yet in love He sought me-
And on His shoulder gently laid
And home rejoicing brought me.
Ii dea this dark vale I fear no i'll
With Thee. dear Lord beside me;
Thy rod and stan my comfort still,
Thy cross before to guide me.
And so through all the length of days
Thy goodness faileth never
Good Shepherd. may I sing Thy praise
Within Thy house forever
Among all the hundreds of versions of
the Twenty third Psalm. this one. by
Sir Henry w. Baker, will probably be
accepted by most critics as the most
beautiful, for it preserves in a re-
markabie way the exquisite tenderness
of spirit of the original.
The author was the son of Admiral
Sir Henry l.. Baker, one of Lord Nell
sons commanders, and was born in
England in 1921. He was educated at
Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1851
succeeded to the baronetcy. In the same
year he became vicar of the Anglican
Church at Monkiand. Hertfordshire.
and he retained this post until his
death in 1877. AS he lay dying he was
heard to whisper the opening line of
the third verse of this hymn:
"Perverse and foolish, oft / strayed"
A Song of LIES Reward.
mother. dear. Jerusalem,
When shall come thee?
When shall my sorrows have an end:
Thy joys when shall see:
o happy haror of Gods saints.
- sweet and pleasant soil.
In thee sorrow shall he found
No grief, ny care. no toll.
Many are the hymns of the life to be,
and the response of the heart to their
appeal is universal and instructive, and
among them none is a greater favorite
than this one. The whole hymn sets
forth the material conception of heaven
that held undisputed sway for so long.
1t was a land with gardens and good
flowers" with Giving waters" flowing
fright through thy Streets with an
gels singing and the throne of God in
the midst.
conceptions of heaven have changed.
Most people do not now long for con-
tnual vacation amid green fields, but
we can easily translate the language
of this hymn into the metaphors of our
own aspirations.
1t is not known who wrote this hymn.
but probably its original form was a
Latin poem beginning, "Urbs beata
Hierusalem," suggested by the 'Medi-
tatons'' of St Augustine, and dating
probably from the eighth century The
present hymn in English was written
about the end of the sixteenth century.
The manuscript is in the British Mu-
scum, and consists of twenty-six stan
that period.
A Song From Lies Eventide.
Abide With me! Fast falls the eventide.
The darkness deepeps-Lord. with me abide!
When other helpers fall and comforts fee,
Help of the helpless. . abide with me.
Swift to its close ehbs out LIES little day:
Earths JOYS grow dim. its glnries PASS away;
Change aud decay i'll all around sec:
o Thou who chan:est not, abide with me.
need Thy presence every passing hour,
What but Thy grace can foil the tempters
power?
Who like Thysef. my guide and stay can be:
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.
Memories at once sad and uplifting
cluster about the writing of this tender
hymn. 1t was written by man who
knew that he was within life's even
tide and had given his farewell to
those to whom he. had ministered for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-28

Time is earnest. passing by:
Death is earnest. drawing nigh.
Sinner, wilt thou trifing be?
Time and death appeal to thee.
Life Is earnest: when tbs Ger
Thou returneSt neycrmore.
Soon to meet eternity.
Wilt thou never serious be?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-28

to complain of its brevity and live o
carelessly as though it had no end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-28
Pull Your Own Weight.

Than that he's eat up all his bread.
Drank up his drink and gone to bed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-28
A Song From Lies Eventide.

Abide With me, Fast falls the eventide.
The da rkDess deepeDs-Lord. with me abide!
When other helpers fail and comforts fee.
Help of the helpless. y abide with me.
Swift to its close ehhs out LIES little day:
Earth's joys grow dim. its glnries PASS away;
Change aud decay i'll all around l see:
q Thou. who chansest not. abide with me.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28

Only fifteen out OF every Ine thou
sand children from ten to fourteen
years Of age In the United States are
unable to read and write.
These figures just announced by the
federal bureau of education show a
striking decrease in child illiteracy
during the last fourteen years. In 1900
the number of illiterate children be-
tween the ages Of ten and fourteen
was forty-two in every thousand. In
1910 this number was reduced to twen-
ty-two. Four years have further low.
cred 1t to more than SO 1-3 per cent.
Assuming only the latter rate Of de-
crease, twenty years more may see
youthful illiteracy in this country al
most cease to exist save among newly
arrived immigrant families. Nor can
the present rate of improvement fail
to produce in the same period a
marked change in the percentage Of
illiteracy in the entire population of
ten years and over-which In 1910 was
IT, or seventy-tive illiterates for every
thousand.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28
Not a Fatal Ace,

1t was written at the death of Elisa
Rachel, the great French actress,
which happened January A, 1858, that
she was thirtyeight years old, that
age which appears so fatal to genius,
when an overworked nervous system
comes naturally to a close" This Is
not the fact even in regard to emo
tional" actresses, of which Rachel was
one of the greatest in all the history
of the stage. Adelaide Ristori, who
toured America and gave man, fare
wells" died at the age of eighty-four.
Our own Clara Morris, who, played
many of the characters portrayed by
Rachel, is living at sixty-five, though
she suffered nervous breakdown sew
eral years ago. Sara Bernhard, also
eminent in parts presented by Rachel,
is sixty-nine and still acting. Mrs.
Drew died at seventy-seven, and only
a few years before her death played
parts in which dancing had to be done.
Mrs. Gilbert was playing "old woman"
parts when she was past seventy, and
lived to be eighty-three; and the list
might be greatly extended. Probably
nobody will remember seeing Rache!
In America, but she made a tour OF
this country in 1856, and it was at
the ending of this that she broke
down.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28
Values Tree at Fucker.

A quicker is about all a persimmon
tree is good for, according to the view
of attorneys for Mrs. Ella X. Chew of
Commercial township, in her suit
against the Commercial Gas company
for damages for the killing of six Of
her trees by gas from a leaking main.
In adjusting the claim the plaintiff s
counsel explained that his client would
not ask damages for a persimmon
tree included among those that were
killed by gas, but asked remuneration
for five silver maple trees. The jury
awarded her $50 for each of the maple
trees.-Port Norris IN. j. Dispatch to
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28
SATIRE CONTAINS A MORAL
Demand Than Those One
Ones Real Qualities May Be More in
Makes Pretense or

Among the clever satires in Barry
Pains new book, Stories Without
Tears" is one which relates how a
publisher went to an employment
agency to secure clever writer.
The agency man told him 1t would
be easy to fill the order
We've got $50 clever writer's on
our books he said III send few
dozen of the best around to your office
this afternoon and you can pick one.
That dor
Nicely said the customer, and
rose to go, when he remembered some
thing. BY the way he said. i also
want a boy who can be trusted to take
charge of the stamps and petty cash,
Then Mr.. Agency threw down his
pen He did not book that order. He
gave a sigh like a high-power suction
pump. DO YOU he said in melan-
choly voice, Well, If you find two save
one for me. ! want one myself
ooh, my poor friends who are trying
to be cleyerer than you are, remember
that the world also wants honest men.
And, as things stand at present,
Patent Tills with the Unmonkeyable
Lock are a better market than Brain
Fertilizers containing Free PhOs
phorus,"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28
Gold in Australia.

A List of Nuggets Found in Vic
toria," published as No. II of the
Memoirs of the Geological Survey Of
Victoria, Australia, shows that it is
not only land unusually rich in gold.
but nuggets have been more lavishly
distributed in this state than else
where in the world, and in sizes that
have never beer exceeded. The list
describes 1927 nuggets, many of which
are waterworn. Contrary to general
belief examination shows that these
alluvial nuggets could not have re-
suited from the aggregation of gold
while in the gravels from an original
ly small piece. The famous Welcome
Stranger nugget, weighing 1884 troy
ounces net, was found in a bed OF
quartz. No evidence was found that
the size of the nuggets grows in the
drifts, but there is ample proof in
some cases that drift waters contain
gold.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28
LIVED UP TO REPUTATION
Not for Nothing Had Mrs. Filter Be
come Celebrated for Economical
Dealings.

Mrs. Hannah Fifer, widow, who
earned her living by renting rooms for
light housekeeping, had the reputation
of being a shrewd manager and much
inclined to carry economy to the
farthest possible point. She was hard
working withal, and seemed never to
reach the end of her daily labor. On
a certain day Mrs. Castle, one of the
light housekeepers," finding a surplus
of time on her hands, kindly offered to
help Mrs. Fifer out with her overflow
of work
well, if you feel like it, wouldn't
care if you'd take hold and bake me
up a couple of pies" Mrs. Fifer con-
coded. 'Thatll help me lot There's
a bowl of apple sauce that I'm afraid
won't keep, if it amt used SOON"
After Mrs. Castle had begun work
Mrs. Fifer appeared with a supple
mentary suggestion.
while you're about it," she said,
"mebby you wouldn't mind baking four
pies. 'Twon't take any more coal to
pohe iouI lildu lWO, anu lhdl ii NC q
saving. You can make the film hold
out by having lots of juice to it."
Mrs. Castle agreed to the amend
ment, and worked away industriously
until her task was accomplished,
when, wearied with her labors, she re-
tired to her own apartment.
In short time Mrs. Filters small
daughter, Peggy, appeared at her door
ma says" reported Peggy, that
she don't blieve she'll be able to use
all them four pies before they dry out
and she wants to know if you won't
buy two Of 'em off her for 20 cents
and she'd like the 20 cents right
away, please"
Mrs. Castle bought the pies. observ-
ing to herself with a dry smile, she
might have let me have two for fiji
teen OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Com.
panon
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28
Beef Roll.

Wipe and trim a slice of round
steak. spread it with dressing of one
cupful breadcrumbs, half a teaspoon
full each of salt and sage, dash OF
pepper, and one onion chopped fine, a
quarter Of a cupful of milk and one
tablespoonful melted butter. Roll the
steak and tie firmly Melt two table
spoonfuls suet, or bacon or pork fat
in a deep saucepan. Brown the roll
well in this, then add two cupfuls hot
water, cover the pan and simmer tho
roll, thicken the liquor, using two
tablespoonfuls flour for each cupful
of liquid, and serve separately as
gravy.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28
Lawyers Still Use Quill Pens.

The quill pen is not quite extinct In
London. The legal profession, which
is very conservative, clngs to it te.
naciously, and none Of the courts
would be completely equipped without
a plentiful supply of good goose quilts.
Have you noticed what an indispens-
able accessory the quill Is to counsel.
whether in ostentatiously taking a
note making a speech, or In helping
to point a warning finger ut hos.
tile witness London Chronicle.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28
TALK ON WESTERN
CANADA
Facts Don't Lie-Western Can.
ada Is Full of Facts-here
Are Three of Them.

l. G. T. Moore, Underhill, Man.
Came from Bruce County, Ontario.
1882. with a capital of $500. Home
steaded quarter section. Now owns
$500 acres for which he paid average
of 20.O0-worth today $4,000 per acre.
2. James Steel, Battleford Sas-
katchewan. Came from Perthshire,
Scotland, 1904. His fare advanced to
bring himself and family to Canada.
Took up homestead, which he sold
later $500 per acre, buying 1000
acres at $500 per acre. Has been
very successful in mixed farming.
Values land now at $4,000 per acre.
and is worth $4,000. IF l had re-
NAMED in the Old Country my gray
hairs would have been passport to
the poor house, he says.
3. II. J. Smith, Glover Bar, Alberta.
Came from North Michigan, 1893,
without capital. Now farming 500
acres, valued at 5000 per acre. Pur-
chased originally at $500 per acre.
Engaged In mixed farming. Cows
average him $4,000 a year.
All this talk about the exploitation
Of labor by capital, class distinction,
living wage, high cost OF living and
SO forth, doesn't hold the slightest
interest for the Canadian farmer.
Why? Because he has proved that
you can't begin too poor to become
rich in Canada; that free homesteads
preclude the possibility of being
robbed of freedom and independence;
that the high cost of living can't hurt
the man who grows most of his own
necessities; that his labor brings re-
ward In exact and just proportion to
time and intelligence invested.
If those who whine at urban condi-
tons would give little time to in
vestigating those suburban, they
would likely spy a clear way out OF
their difficulties. For the first step,
drop card to any Canadian Govern
ment Acknowledgement
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28
Air Wears Bullets Out.

1t is believed among the troops in
France that bullets fired vertically
upward at aircraft never descend as
bullets. the intense and prolonged
friction of their flight to the limit OF
the trajectory and the subsequent de-
scent Of what is left of them, com
pIetely dissipating them into vapor
Thousands of bullets have recently
been fired at aircraft, but none has
been positively known to descend
London Tit.Bits.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28

fer with our neighbors, There is no
one subject In the whole world upon
which we all agree, therefore 1t is but
natural that we have many differences.
We can condone the differences OF
opinion and decline to enter into con-
troversies. or we can argue whenever
We have the chance. and engage IN
constant strife
Which Is the best way to get along?
The man who argues all his life has
little time for other affairs.
The man who declines to become in
volved in wordy discussions has plenty
Of time to attend to his own business.
And in this world 1t is the man who
attends to his own business who pros
pers.
This life Is made up Of disputes and
arguments. You can argue with your
best friend until you become pest
and an unwecome visitor. You can
spend your time discussing the affairs
Of others until, no matter if you win
your arguments, you will discover that
you have made yourself unpopular.
Unpopularity Is not an asset in the
business of life. 1t never paid divi-
dend. 1t never brought in any wages.
And 1t Is strictly your business to
try to make the best of everything
in your community, to help create har-
mony, to boost" your home town all
the time and to help those who can
help you.
Harmony creates peace, and peace
engenders prosperity. Your town
wants peace and harmony, especially
between the people and the merchants.
1t is peace and harmony that make
business good-that add value to
your own house and lot.
Envy walks hand in hand with NAL
ice down every village street, and
when this pair appears on the street
the white dove of peace futters into
corner and hides
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28
a Woman's ouIc.

The following fable, which Is prob
ably of Turkish origin, is not without
touch of truth: AS a woman was
walking, a man looked at and followed
her
Why" said she, do you follow
me?"
Because" he said, Il have fallen in
love with you"
why SO? My sister, who is coming
after me, is much handsomer than ]
am. Go and make love to her"
The man turned back, and saw a
woman with an ugly face, and, being
greatly dispeased, returned and said
why should you tell me = false
hood?"
The woman answered: Neither
did lou tell me the truth; for, if you
were In love with me. why did you
look back for another woman?'-
The Pathfinder.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28
HIS CRITICISM WAS AT FAULT
English General Had Much to Learn
Of the Geography Of the
United States.

The European has grown so accus-
toned to sneering at the American for
his ignorance Of European affairs,
especially since the outbreak of the
war, that we have grown to take the
snub submissively, with never
thought of the even more gross ignor-
ance Of things American on the part
Of Europeans.
Yet that such ignorance is common
in Europe, even among the educated
and military classes, there is no doubt
The elder Charles Francis Adams, who
was United States minister to Great
Britain during the Civil war, used to
tell the following experience with a
prominent Englishman:
Late in July, 1863, there being no
cable then laid under the Atlantic, a
steamer from New York brought to
the American legation in London dis
patches announcing the fall of Nicks-
burg and Lees repuse at Gettysburg
on the same day. A few evenings
later | held a reception in honor of
the double victory, inviting all the
prominent figures of English official
society.
Among the guests was Maj. Gen.
Garnet Wolseley, afterward command
er in chief of the British army After
congratulating me upon the dual sue
cess of the Union arms, he added:
yet | think your generals made
very serious blunder, Mr.. Adams"
"In what respect?" ! asked, some
what mystified; for it had seemed to
me that Grant, at Vicksburg, and
Meade, at Gettysburg, had done about
all there was to be done.
"Why, in resting upon their arms"
explained General Wolseley. In or
der to make the two victories com
plete, General Grant should have
Joined his forces with those OF Meade
that night and, by daylight the next
morning, fallen upon the remnants of
Lees army and crushed it,
Though sorely tempted, considered
my position as a minister and re-
Trained from calling the doughty gen
erals attention to the fact that Vicks.
burg and Gettysburg are a thousand
miles apart!
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28
Wild Horses,

True wild horses, intractable and
terrified in mans presence, have been
the subject of some interesting eX-
periments 1t was long believed that
true wild horses with unbroken wild
ancestry were extinct, but the animals
discovered by PrjevaAki in the Cobb
desert, in Asia, have been pronounced
by Russian naturalists wild horses OF
distinct kind with no relationship
to the ass a few years ago about
thirty OF the horses were captured
They were mere colts most of which
have grown to maturity in Russia, but
a few were taken to the estate Of the
duke OF Bedford in England They
have developed from their shaggy and
awkward youth into animals of good
appearance. They have some resom.
blance to the domestic horse. with the
same neigh and frightened snort, but
all attempts to tame them and make
them useful have failed, and they are
still badly frightened when any per.
son comes within several rods OF
them Efforts Of the MonEolians to
tame the horses have been equally un.
successful.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-01-28

No jokes are better appreciated than
those that are made unwittingly by
sober.minded men. Not long ago a
solemn member OF congress was hold.
ing forth In that body in a pessimistic
strain about what he !elt to be great
falling of in the cha-acter and stand
ing OF that august body. Since
came into this house four years ago."
he announced with the utmost gravity,
the confidence of the public In 1t has
much diminished