The Washington herald., 1916-06-09
ROSE-THOUGHTS.

ROSE-THOUGHTS.
However sad or murky be your way
If you'll try thinking roses for day
YopTl 6nd the squalor of the sordd street
A very bed OF flowers to your feet;
4 garden fair to your weary eyes
And YOU may climb unto the starry skies
Despite the battles daily to be fought
Upon the fragrant rose-tree OF your thought
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The trouble with all that foam at Chicago
il that II will roar like tidal wave on the
shores OF Oyster Bay.
"Hsrding's keynote evokcs quiet cheers
saws headline Such extraordinary effect
must have surprised even Harding.
The funniest side show to the G. o. P. !
convention is Tom Lawson in the act OF DIS
covering a gigantic money plot to nominate
Hughes.
Mr.. TAFT wants the United States to have
4 navy as big as Germany's but fails to say
whether he means as big as Germanys before
or after her North Sea victory
William Watson has dedicated poem toi
Fnglands sailors, and We confess to behet
that thew wouldn't have deserved it, even
if they had met utter defeat in the North
Sea battle.
II the Germans really believe that the
yva-sDite, the Princess Royal the Birmingham
and the Acasta were sunk, perhaps their fleet
will come out again to show confidence IN the
accuracy OF their information.
II NAV be that some pachst househo1ders
L. -, ~ mis- h.
ing the police department with duplicate keys
10 their homes to avoid damage to their prop
ertv or to save the police the Inconvenience OF
porch climbing.
An S-vear-old girl, said to be d pupil of
Isadora Duncan entertained Sing Sing inmates
with dances in the prison chapel by special in !
vitation OF Warden kirchwey and the Mutual
Welfare League. An example of the exceptional
opportunities for children afforded by the meth
DDS of. the social reformers.
Cod Almighty steeIed your arms and gave
YOU clear eyes to accomplish this" said the
Kaiser TO the German sailors. 81, standing here
today as your supreme war lord, thank you from
the bottom OF my heart" The Kaiser must be I.
learning nodcsty He doesn't put himself first
and claims only the privilege of thanking the
sailors for doing Gods work
Billy Sunday has cancelled his 1917 dates
for revival in New York City, because the
committee has failed to discover available
and adequate site for the tabernacle Since
New York City is constantly prepared to stage
anything from a pink tea to earthquake the
failure OF the committee will be regarded as a
triumphant
A member of Congress known alfalfa
Bill Murray yesterday on the floor OF the House
attacked Justice Hughes for his alleged failure
to keep the courts free from politics. BY wait
ing until the subsistence of the chorus of COM
plants due to the fact that Justice Hughes has
stcadfastly insisted upon keeping politics out Of
the court Alfalfa Bill" makes his contribution
too late to influence American history.
There is ample room for suspicion that Earl
Kitchener's death was brought about through
the agency Of the German spy system. England
is prepared now to combat Germany's fleets and
armies but has yet to adopt adequate precau
tions against that part of the German program
which has to do with assassination rather than
actual military progress. There are Indications
however, that the loss of Kitchener has at last
aroused England to this danger
The Progressives broke the convention
record for prolonged demonstrations when Col
Roosevclt's name was mentioned. They man