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H; 2 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY. H what its wordy protestations may bo; makeB It not H impossiblo that some morning wo may wake up VAVJ to find our country confronted by a crisis that H will be equivalent to a call upon our whole people ftVfl to rally around the colors, and should such a &H call come, the first essential is to have a united H people, no matter what their birthplace may VAYJ have been, or who their ancestry were. ffflj We have English, German, Scotch, French, H Irish, Italian, Greek and Russian-born neighbors, H but have never received aught but kindness from H any of them; their children with ours attend thi H same schools, their boys with ours worry the H neighborhood cats and climb together the trees lh m search of sparrows' nests; all are at peace and B not one has any other flag than our flag and il M must remain th.at way always. H Is All Being Done That Can Be? OP course we know nothing of what is going on in the inner circles of our government in Hji Washington, but we believe that were President Hl Wilson to call upon neutral nations to send dele- gates to meet American delegates at the Hague, W to make a supreme effort to bring about peaco B among the warring nations of Europe, it would M have a good effect. Coupled with this, could our H ambassadors abroad be instructed to discretely m sound the respective powers and try to ascertain M on what basis each would accept a truce, from m the whole a basis might be reached upon whicn H a settlement might bo accepted. The immediate M prospect is of furious battles along all the lines B of the armies, the secondary prospect is of whole M sections wrecked and millions of people being H confronted with both famine and pestilence In m positions such as Belgium was last winter, when H the distress being known, it was impossible for H the nations at war to extend any relief to the H sufferers. m The prospect of such a situation may have a H more decisive influence for peace, than the pros- H pect of the result, of doubtful battles would have. H Brave men can contemplate calmly the killing of H tens of thousands of men in battle, but they can- H not calmly contemplate the starving of women fl and little children. Unless all Europe has gone Vfl mad there ought to be some way to present a BVJ proposition of peace to them, that they would H accept. H Delirious Rome H XYT" a coo'er race can hardly understand H V the delirium of enthusiasm that swept over H Rome when war was finally decided upon by the H government last week. Shouting thousands ana H culminating in a grand celebration on Capitolian H Hill. It is as though in the world's cycles, the B thoughts of twenty-five centuries ago had come H back and the prophecy was being repeated: Va "Blest and thrice blest the Roman m Who sees Rome's brightest day, B Who sees that long victorious pomp H Wind down the Sacred Way, M And through the bellowing Forum, M And round the suppliant's Grove H jp to the everlasting Gates IH Of Capitolian Jove." B That, before that triumph can come, if it ever WM does, a million of mothers and sweethearts and Hr half orphans will be in mourning does not con- H corn those men nor check for a moment their de- B lirium of joy. H It is as though the old words were ringing i across the centuries in their ears: "Leave gold and myrrh and jewels, Rich table and soft bed, jj To those who of man's seed are born, Hi " Whom woman's milk hath fed; B " . Thou wast not made for lucre, H , For pleasure, nor for rest; HE Thou that art sprung from the War gods loins, And hast tugged at the she wolf's breast." "From sunrise until sunset, All earth shall hear thy fame; A glorious city thou shalt build, And name it by thy name. And there unquenched through ages, Like Vesta's sacred fire Shall live the spirit of thy nurse, The spirit of thy sire." The yellow Tiber flows on as it did of old, the Seven Hills aro there, but all else has changed. That marvelous past is but a memory in the an nals of time; the gods that men in the old days dressed their altars for are no more appealed to; Joves' thunders are discounted, and the cross the sign of peace makes it central seat where stood the statue of Mars, but on but a little provocation the old fierce spirit fires the souls of the men, ana the women would now, as cheerfully as did their ancestry two thousand years ago, from "house tops and from windows rain flowers'" upon their heroes. Surely there is nothing new under the sun. Disgraceful WE are a little ashamed of old Mount Lasseu, when it began to have stomach troubl' last year, we suggested that possibly when the exposition in San Francisco should be in full blast this year, the old mountain, being "a native son," might want to help the big show. We were think ing it might become a cloud by day and pillar of Are by night, to give visitors to the exposition no tice that California could do some things when It tried, and exulted in nothing so much as to make a show when called upon. But we never dreamed that it would initiate some of the worst San Francisco newspapers and begin "throwing mud." That is little less than scandalous, and shows how innate mean ness will, if present, show itself if we only wait long enough. Since long before the first Argonaut landed In side the Golden Gate, Lassen has stood snow crowned and only excelled in majesty by its neighbor, grand old Mount Shasta, eighty miles away. The forest on its royal flanks has rivaled in majesty any other ever seen, the meadows at its base, which were long the summer hunting grounds for the Pitt and Modoc savages, and later the pastures of the herds of the pale race, and the resort of trout fishermen, have been alto gether splendid and have acquired a just renown. To think that after all that, the ancient height should turn hoodlum and begin to throw mud, Is little less than disgraceful, and is decidedly hu miliating to all old Californians who have been bragging over its magnificance for three score years. It Is To Lauh IT seems that the crux of the argument of Mr. Bowers, the attorney for Col. Roosevplt in the late libel trial was to establish that the object intended by the institution of the suit against the colonel by Mr. Barnes, was the destruction of Col. Roosevelt in state and national politics. To read that is to laugh. If Barnes thought he could improve on the methods that Col. Roosevelt has employed during the past three years to accomplish that result, he must either be a sublime egotist or an idiot. It would be easier to believe that the colonel hired Barnes to institute the suit. A two weeks' exhibition with every spectacul accompaniment, the opportunity for the colonel to every day ex plain how he has always stood for civic righteous ness and have the speeches nightly sent, dressed in white robes and flowers, by accommodating press agents to be illuminated and published next morning in all the leading journals of the world, and dividing interest with the- battle pictures from across the sea and the latest stories of mur der and rapine from Mexico; to say that all this was meant to silence and destroy the colonel, is it not to laugh? Then the closing scene: the colonel shaking ajt hands with the jury that gave him a certificate of moral and political perfect health; what could be finer? And what next? Are wo to have a new bill of rights prepared by tho colonel to safe guard the American people? Is ho again to be forced to come out of tho retirement which ho so much covets, to again lift his voice and raise tho acclaim that nothing could have induced him to play another engagement, except his anxiety to . save the American nation from disaster except to permit him to have his way to lead them out or the darkness that wraps them round, up into tho light? Wo give it up. The unexpected is what is constantly happening with the colonel. j The Burried Past A RCIIEOLOGISTS report discoveries in the I ground upon the site of the ancient city of I irinth. An Acropolis has been unearthed, ana .ins of walls and pottery. U These relics were not buried by an earthquake or the overflow of a volcano, but by the drifting H sands of thirty centuries and thoy represent little except that no particle of matter on this planet is ever still, but that the perpetual effort seems to be to throw dust on the past and to move for ward. Corinth is of great interest to modern "scholars, il because its earliest history included legends filled with fascinating stories. How much of it was true and how much was due to the acute Grecian imagination will never be known unless some rec ord can be found hidden away that will make clear the truth. This is not probable, and so probably to the end men will read the story and wonder how much is true and how much mere romance. The Cries For Relief U'ROM the east, money, food and clothing to the amount of $7,000,000 per month, is being sent to the destitute in Belgium. The food consists of wheat, flour, rice, peas and beans, bacon and lard, preserved meat and fish, condensed milk, etc. Another great call for relief comes from Po land. There are several relief organizations in New York City and other eastern sea-coast cities and the statement is sent out that the call for more help is most urgent and continuous. One fund is for the destitute women and children of northern France; there is even a Persian relief fund' and to read what is wanted gives one an idea that the whole eastern world will soon be destitute. , And this is only May when all the world should look bright and be filled with hope. What will the autumn bring when the harvest of death which is about to be reaped shall all be garnered? The horrors of the present war have never been equaled save in those years which preceded tho "dark ages" in Europe. At the End of the Century JIM HILL predicts that this nation will have four hundred and fifty millions of people at the end of the present century. That prediction is open to doubt. Mr. Hill is a railroad veteran and rail road men sometimes water their stocks. The ,,. force of habit is strong. But who can tell what will be at the end of the century? Will the young men from our agricultural and technical schools go south and direct the Indus-