The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-10

III IT'S own, through power OmnlScIent
shall be given to the Right.
One Fourth Of July celebration is s.
far away as to be an interesting mino
note in the ongoing whirl and rush q
the wonders in the varied powers O
loeomotion OF today A steam engini
had already come into Kencsha from
the South and now there was real rail
road laid to the west TO a point no
far enough to make a very long auto
mobile ride of today. Preparations 70
honoring its completion thus far hai
been under way. Leander Stone viii
patience and persistence had beef
drilling the students of the High schod
in singing a song for it--that is fo
the engine and the cats attached
"Screeching over prairies
Darling throught the forests
were some of the jerky words witt
notes to match them. One entire versl
comes to me, expressing the wonderful
advantage of transit to the eountr1
residents in the disposal of products
"Market woman careful
OF her precious casket
Knowing egges are eggs
Lightly holds her basket"
At that time this might be interpret
ed in two ways-seeurity from breah
age, or, loss from length Of time, fo
that engine did not darting" in thosI
days.
The cars for that picnic ride werl
not Pullmans, for everybody sat on thu
floor and were careful not to get TOT
near the edges. Children were placed
in the middle and told to sit still, bur
yet in the Joy of this new experienc.
they might have sung another couple
to the song
"Bless me, this Is pleasant
Riding on the Rail, T"
The human freightage of that das
little dreamed of coming wonders Of
this. Do our dreams project any farth
ers Are they any truer7 Where viii
the end beq Is it any farther from
now, than from now back to the begin
ningg
IF there are new found wonders from
day to day in the living portion Of
such numbers that the problem of hous
ing them all is growing to be vital
one, threatening to curb future possi
bilities, what Of those silent suburbs
cities in themselves, so populous, eva
nows
Few other cities I am sure have 81
honored themselves by honoring thea
silent places, with dare, permanent
beauty of surroundings, lasting memoH
ials, as Kenosha has done, andssherwiI
find room for all.
By glancing frequently fronfmy
dow to the avenue in front, for q few
hours Of successive days, or even 20.
a single day, the wonder grows thai
there can be any one anywhere else ii
be housed or cared for. The world al
far as one can see seems to be "oi
wheels" in an almost unbroken hnt
each way.
Where do they all come from AM
where do they All gos The river Of
light in the darkness shows too, thai
very many Gre not early to bed-ol
early to garage.
1T is difficult to take up the brolo
en- threads and start them in the SAINT
way again. said khaki boy on his
return from overseas, after Iongei
service than the average. Ideals Of
study, Of occupation, Of profession ID
not present themselves In the same
way-and then I IN not so fit now to
fill out the great hope and ambition
of boyhood. 1T was an empty sleeve
and other unseen fetters) but TN try
In Simmons hall a long time ago, il
was customary in connection with lee,
lures by such men as Emerson, DIR. Hol
land, George Curtis, Horace Greedy and
others, for quotations to be called fol
preceding the lecture, from High sehoo
students, always present. One quota
ton little changed by the omission Of
hyphen came to my though as I list
ened to this brave fellow
"There's Divinity that shapes ou1
ends rough,
Hew them as we may"
May the not be too rough for such
as he!
I can think fno more appropriate
epitath for the many others, who not
only relinquished such ideals Of life
but gave life also, than the otter
quoted one which follows. Festus had
been defending a passing though Of
Kidding himself Of that "habit " called
living. Even Lucifer expostulated, on
account of such promising youth-and
this was the summing up Of life by
Festus:-
1--WE live in deeds. not years; in
thought, no breath,
In feelings, not in figures ON the dial;
We reckon time by heart-throbs. He
most lives who thinks most, feels
the noblest, acts the best"
Some day I shall visit quiet, that is