The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-09
SOME MARSHALL EPIGRAMS.
VIC, President Has Knack Of Saying
Things in Striking Manner.

Vice-President Marshall mas
knack at epigrammatic utterance.
| Even in everyday conversation ms re-
marks are likely to be thickly f1ecked
with epigrams and quaint bits OF
philosophy In fact, it does not matter
| much whether one look for eplgrams
| in his offhand talk or from formai
speech, for the epigrammatlc sentence
seems to be his most natural way OF
expressing whatever is on his MIND
For example:
The flag and the drum thrill the sol
der, but the sabre and the musket WIN
the battle.
Necessity is the mother Of conten-
ton.
Not even jefferson could make the
Russian peasant Democrat.
If were a "higher critic I would
change one commandment to read:
The sins Of the children shall be visit
ed on their parents.
am for freedom. I want the right
to sit in my narrow Presbyterian pew
and to worship in my own narrow way
and am willing to give you the whole
outside world for your Meth odist
halleluiah
We only truly live when we appre-
bend that life is a movement and not
!, a monument.
1t is we'll to long for the ideal: it is
| necessary to deal with the real
] have no desire to sit before a
deSolate fireplace gazing at the dead
embers of an unfortunate past.
: 1t is not education but regeneration
that the people need.
Freedom for US is possession; not
! q gift
Too many persons view life through
= a glass windshield.
= The shalls and shall nots of desire,
9 prejudice, and expediency are SO nu-
. | merouS as to lose the unframed man
4 in a wilderness OF doubt.
e Mountain tops are mostly for
a visions. A glance and we go back to
It the dead levels of life.
: Many Of the ideals Of the dreamer
S are beautiful water colors that are
l, changed into indistineuisna BILE blurs
s when taken out into the storms OF
It actual life.
/ Many of the evils Of life owe thei,
origin and continuance to the fact
l. that our knowledge Of them is base6
/ on no data whatever.
II Let this be the land Of men, not
laws: Of love not force: OF principle
: - not expediency.
% We have no aristocracy Of BLOOD
l., and we are yet too young to have by
" any process Of evolution an aristo
,e cracy Of intellect and goodness
II We build our pedestals and we pu
is our heroes on them. but we demand
te that, whenever our images have fee
W Of clay, everybody shall have the
W rieht to tread on their toes with i'm
punity.
That wealth is wise which can q
the midnight hour look out upon
mOon-foodod chamber and fear n,
man, and hear no angry knocks 2
. the door Of conscience
The book Of remembrance is to
o. small to devote many lines to tn
Q man who has lived exclusively fo
,is himself. Who of us can recall III
zee name Of the richest man in Greco
20. when Arlstides made it just; the NJ;
MT OF the richest man in Rome whom Al,
m. Eustus found it brick and left
p marble: the name Of the richest ma
a in ENGLAND when Shakespeare sound
Is, I'D all the depths and shoals of +
I'D man passion; who knows the name =
the man who had the most none
lie when Washington's footsore soldier
he reddened the SHOWS at Vallev Force
a or the richest man in all the So,
he land When Pickett's brigade charge
he the oloooy angle of Gettysburg. n
ms one knows and no one cares
/ think back through the veors -
ar lean ana fat. the good and the no
ON ones TO my earliest recollection
oy see woman with an eve that flash
OF es sW'lt as an archangers wing and
,ed mouth that breaks with l.,,arht ls anu
OF haroens at sight of wrong, sinein
[rs grasping the Unseen H., Itn I'd u
skO | briar-bordered moths "aih0 u
u a,aa asnanieo, ne unafraidf unharmed. She
Of and age does rot coi, Iy LOT M
ans ths maze them cheap and tawdrv. II,
the tongue is without guile ba,;n ~
Irs. been the roeSsan -ie, having nev'
e ess seventeen years since her son, We,
for ,u.'1e @ 20 , COG and her fingers becan
lor me the fingers Of an sneel h,,t
nave not forgotten all She said ~ =,
eak o.u me there was Santa Clans ar
test drums o,a aTse ulihSs me no long