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The Return to the Sea.
BY FRANK LILLIE POLLOCK.

Let us destroy the dream! She knows not of it.
Let us go back rejoicing to the sea.
Sighing is vain, and laughter shall not profit;
But fill Life's frothing cup again and quaff it
To wider hopes and greater things to be.

Time turns his tide, and turns back our distresses;
Let us return unshaken as we came.

Shall we, the wanderers, mourn for lost caresses?
Our hands are fettered by no cloudy tresses;

Ours are the hearts no starry eyes can tame.

Yet, had she heard the tones our songs could lend her,

Sweet with perfume of summer roses tender,
We might have found some world of hers and mine
And vibrant with the salt sea's strength and splendor,
And lit by stars that now shall never shine.

Nay, but she would not-nay, she could not know

them,

The flying dreams with vast and vivid wings.
Days and delights with poisoned pain below them,
Hopes, flowers, and fancies-where shall we bestow
them?

What shall we do with all these wasted things?
Sink them in seas that give their dead up never;
A hundred fathoms deep beneath the main;
Beside the rotted wrecks of old endeavor,
So that no daring deep-sea diver ever
Can bring our worthless treasures up again.

For her the safer life of dreams crushed under,
The petty pleasures, and the dusty way.
For us the oceanic throb and thunder,
The resonance of all the winds of wonder
And lordly interchange of night and day.

Nay, she has chosen. Let us turn our faces,
And go back gladly to the windy shore;
And follow far the tide's tumultuous traces
Toward the fierce flicker of adventurous places,
And look not back, nor listen any more.
-From The Atlantic Monthly.

To Orient Oneself.

I steered for land when tides were flowing fast,

Far off I heard the foaming breakers roar,

I brought my precious cargo to the shore,

And in a crowded port did anchor cast.

My gallant ship was dressed from prow to mast

With banners beautiful, hung aft and fore,

My mates I greeted with full hands and more,

Give them, O heart," I cried, "the best thou hast !"

Why did they tease and vex and baffle me

With traffic of base coin, with greed and spite?

It is enough; -I seek the open sea,

Peace and wide spaces shall be mine this night,
Where changeless guides will fix my course aright,
The Polar Star, and Heaven's Infinity.

-From The London Speaker.

Leavetaking.

BY WILLIAM WATSON.

Pass, thou wild light,

Wild light on peaks that so

Grieve to let go

The day.

Lovely thy tarrying, lovely too is night:

Pass, thou wild heart,

Wild heart of youth that still

Hast half a will

To stay,

I grow too old a comrade, let us part.

-From The London Spectator.

PERSONAL.

General Cronje's Defense. General P. A. 'Cronje, the commander of the Boer forces at Paardeberg, has become a showman, and is appearing regularly in "The Boer War," at Coney Island, N. Y. General Cronje has been criticized for "descending to the level of a showman and disgracing the military profession," and to these censures the General makes this rather pathetic reply in the New York Sun:

"I went, as every Boer who was a man went, and faced the foe that was seeking to destroy the liberty of my country. After many victories I was defeated and captured. I neither disgraced my cause nor my beloved nation by my surrender. No man could have done better than we did at Paardeberg. I was sent by the British to St. Helena, a prisoner. When I returned to the Transvaal, after the conclusion of the war, I found nothing but desolation and ruin. My 'country was still black with cinders and stained with blood. In the battle of Paardeberg my wife was wounded as she fought in the trenches. That wound bled out from my heart. I thought I had felt the worst pain. Alas, when I saw the scarred face of my poor country the wound in my heart opened and bled out my hope. I looked into my dear old wife's careworn face and then across the mired veld. I could not help it. I cried.

"Since that day I have not been able to stand

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straight. I was old and weak, hungry and homeless. My children had all died in defense of our country. There we stood, my wife and I, supporting each other in our misery. How lonely we were. How much alone. I was too old to fight again and strike another blow for our liberty. Too old to walk behind the plow. Almost too old to live. My countrymen saw my tears. They offered to help me out of their scanty cupboards. They were as poor as I. I was so old, but not too old to earn a living if the opportunity offered.

"That opportunity came from Capt. A. W. Lewis, who asked me to join the Boer War exhibition. They told me that it would serve to educate and instruct the American people, who were our friends, and to teach them something of the nobility of the struggle and the justice of our cause. It was beneath the dignity of a professional patriot or soldier to earn an honest living, and it may be considered unheroic to have to work, but I will not be an encumbrance in my old age just because I have done my duty. Boers have no pension departments to look after them, and and it is well. When they do their duty to their country they do not cease doing it to themselves.

"I hope that my critics will understand this poor old man and think of the circumstances behind his actions."

June 24. About two thousand persons are reported killed or wounded at Lodź as a result of encounters between the people and the troops. Rioting begins in Warsaw, and a general strike is called as a protest against the shooting at Lodz.

June 25-Troops control the situation at Lodz and Warsaw, and only minor riots are reported from those cities. It is reported that the British steamer Ikhona, with mails and a valuable cargo, was sunk by the Russian cruiser Terek near Hong Kong on June 5.

June 26.-The uprisings spread throughout Poland and many provinces of Russia. Prisons are overflowing with those already arrested, and efforts are being directed toward quieting opposition to the forthcoming mobilization.

June 28. The crew of the Black Sea battle-ship Kniaz Potemkine, it is reportel, mutinied, murdered their officers, and seized the warship, putting into Odessa Harbor. The city is in control of the revolting populace, and all shipping is in flames.

June 29.-The Czar declares that a state of war exists at Odessa, and confers plenary power on the military officials to quell the uprising. Reports from that city declare that the rioting continues, while the city is blanketed with smoke from the burning ships, waterfront property and railroad cars, are set on fire by the strikers.

June 26.-President Roosevelt is notified that the

peace envoys of Russia and Japan will meet in Washington within the first ten days of August. M. Nelidoff and Baron Rosen are selected by Russia for peace plenipotentiaries, and Minister Takahira and Count Kokura by Japan. June 28. Japanese warships are reported off Vladivostok, and despatches from Manchuria indicate that the Japanese advance toward Vladivostok continues.

June 30. Oyama and Linevitch are reported to be negotiating to arrange an armistice.

OTHER FOREIGN NEWS.

June 25. In a note to Germany, France takes the stand that she can not submit all of her Moroccan policy to revision; Germany, it is said, will ask for a clearer statement of France's program. June 27, Germany, in her reply to France, refuses to yield a point."

Sweden's Riksdag names a committee to consider the Government bill for the separation from Norway.

June 28. All tension, it is reported, has vanished in the Franco-German controversy over Morocco. It is fully established that France will accept the proposal to submit the questions at issue to an international conference.

June 30.-The American squadron, under Admiral Sigsbee, which is to bring to the United States the body of John Paul Jones, arrives at Cherbourg.

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Secretary of State Hay arrives at his summer home at Newbury, N. H.

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In addition to acting as special ambassador at the ceremonies incident to the transfer of the body of John Paul Jones, Assistant-Secretary of State Loomis is to inquire into the affairs of American embassies and legations abroad.

June 25.-President Roosevelt orders that Chinese

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Secretary Hay suffers a slight relapse, but after treatment is reported much improved.

June 26.- Secretary of War Taft tells the Yale graduating class that the administration of the criminal laws in the United States is a disgrace to civilization.

June 27.-A scandal as to the status of the Panama Canal is threatened through the resignation of Chief Engineer Wallace, because of friction with Secretary Taft and his associates in the commission.

June 28.- President Roosevelt, in speaking at the Harvard commencement, denounces lawbreaking business and deplores professionalism in college athletics.

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Seven negroes and one white man are lynched at
Watkinsville, Ga.

June 30.-John F. Stevens, of Chicago, is appointed chief engineer of the Panama Canal, to succeed John F. Wallace.

John D. Rockefeller announces a gift of $10,000,000 to the General Education Board, to be used as an endowment fund for promoting higher education in the United States.

John Hay, Secretary of State, dies at Newbury, N. H.

Secretary Taft, accompanied by Miss Alice Roosevelt and some members of both houses of Congress, leaves Washington on his trip to the Philippines.

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