The Holly chieftain., 1918-12-05
BRIneIne THE war HOME
Compiled by the Prowsrs County
Council Of Defense.
LIES REAL JEWELS.

LIES REAL JEWELS.
tBy William COlfax Markham.)
She was old and worn and wrinkled
and gray,
And her step was feeble, as she
pressed her way
To the ticket window. fare to buy
For far away town. She breathes
sigh;
For the whistle and clang of the
coming train,
The hustle and noise confused her
brain.
Out on the farm by the meadow
brook,
The whOp-pOOr-will's song in the
shady nook.
The music of showers on the grow
ing grain,
And viOlets dripping . glad refrain,
Had sOftened her heart and opened
her eyes
To the wealth of earth's real para
disc.
Mid the jostling crowd in the
cOach's aisle,
She brushed woman in the latest
style
OF velvet and plush and Jewels gay,
On pleasure bent-life's smiling
way
Who needed her not, and scOrned
to know,
That souls are not measured by raj.
ment and show.
AS the train sped on, the woman OF
wealth,
Placed jeweled fingers as if by
stealth
To her soft, white throat, to pro-
tect q pin
Set with four diamonds, all spark
ling within.
With never care or thought Of
dittress.
She dreamed of high halls where
thrOngs do not press.
Across the car, her face drawn with
care,
Sat the mother of sons-sOme of
them "Over there"
Olic, LOO, dL ucF tIlIOdL uclu q ware
worn hand
Which covered q pin-fOur starred
with plain band.
But she visiOned a world free from
turmoil and strife,
Where her jewels might shine in
the City of Life.
Delegates to. Represent All America.
There appears to be a very wide
spread miseODesrtion OF the func-
tiOn of peace commissioner. Those
selected to represent the United
States at Versailles are not to go
as the spokesman of any factions,
sections or parties, but to act in
the interest of all America and for
the future OF civilization. Only
those who are big enough to grasp
the opportunity and responsibility
that will be placed upon them
should be selected.
Those spOkesmen for special in
terests who are beseeching the pres
ident to name some one to repre-
sent them or their views mistake
the quality of the task that is be
fore the commissioners who will
frame the peace treaty.
The treaty that is to be prepared
as the foundation of world peace is
not to be drafted In the interest of
the farmer, the labOrer, the capi-
talist, the colored man or woman
suffragist, but for the benefit Of
mankind. The American delegates
are going over to speak for patri-
Otic Americans of every trade, pro-
fession. sect, kind and color. There
should be no feeling either on their
part or at home that anyone among
them represents anything but the
greatest good to all in this coun-
try and the world at large.
The negotiations at Versailles
will have far-reaching influence
throughout all times. The future
of all the.WOrld is to be mapped out
and that should be done in the
br0adest spirit of tolerance and un-
derstanding. The peace table will
bc no place for the representative
OF any special interests.
The German Debt.
OF course, DR.. Solf and other Ger
mans are going over the stiff terms
of the armistice, and are pleading
with President Wilson to secure
modification. When Germany laid
ny1froUoo,1c b,,rdnpc Op Eropno In