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Show ENGLAND TAKEN BY CONQUEST. I Miss Sartoris, the grandchild of General Grant, I is married to a foreigner. That sets one thinking. Wlien her mother married Sartoris, General, then President, Grant attended the wedding and then hade her a smiling good-bye, but an hour later his secretary, on urgent business went to his sleeping apartment in the White House and found him lay-ing lay-ing on his bed, his face buried in a pillow and sob-bing sob-bing like a weak and crushed woman. It was not because his daughter had married the man of her choice and gone away, but because by the marriage mar-riage she had alienated herself from native land and would thenceforth be a foreigner. Many people have tried to describe Gen. Grant's great traits. Not many have dwelt much upon his very greatest trait. That was his patriotism. That was what caused him to dictate the terms that he did to Gen. Lee. He wanted animosities to cease and to see the beginning of the building up of a restored Union. But he gave a much clearer proof of his ruling thought after the battle of Shiloh, when Halleck and the others sought to put him in disgrace. He was temporarily out of command, and when a friend reproachfully spoke to him ol the actions of the War department toward him, he quietly answered, "Never mind, it will come out all right. If there is no room for me as an officer, offi-cer, these is plenty of room in the ranks." He was one officer who had no idea of abandoning the army while the war lasted, even if no place should be left him but in the ranks. So all his Americanism American-ism was aroused and he was grieved almost to heart-breaking when his daughter married an Englishman En-glishman and went to make her home beyond the sea. But maybe there was a destiny about it and about the marriage of so many other American girls to foreigners. Thirty-five years ago the United States could not count upon one friend among the nations of the Old World with the sole exception of Russia. It is all changed now, and nowhere has the change been so marked and so sincere as in England. Eng-land. Writers ascribe this to the increased wealth and power of our country. That no doubt has had an effect, but that was not what caused the British Admiral, on the day before the attack upon Manila to swing his flagship alongside and a little astern of the Olympla and between Admiral Dewey's fleet and the other fleets in the bay. It was because the slow-moving sentiment of England had Anally crystalized into a conviction, that in enterprise, in ability, in the justice that controls in national character, the United States was a necessity to the world, a particular necessity to the world's poor, and that she must not be interfered in-terfered with. And now, whence that conviction? It came more from international marriages than from any other cause. Our girls in England were a controlling con-trolling cause. A great lesson was taught by the pleasant story of Little Lord Fauntleroy. It was the American mother and the little half-American boy that subdued finally "the fiery old Earl," and kindled in his stubborn and soured old soul the gentle and kindly emotions that he had never felt before. He was, finally, unconsciously Americanized. Ameri-canized. Ihe same process has been at work in England, and at the coronation of the King American-born women were particularly in evidence. But all this ought not to cause any more American Amer-ican girls to want to go on missionary work as the wives of Englishmen. They can at best carry but inferior titles in England. In America they can remain queens, and there is more happiness on this side of the sea than on the other. A Democratic North Carolina paper wants its party to "find out what your enemy wants you to do and then go straightway and do the other thing." David Harum's philosophy was much sounder. It was: "Find out what the other fellow fel-low wants to do and do it first." BE NOT AFRAID. Ihe New York Central Railroad company is making arrangements to run all its trains within a radius of thirty miles from its central depot in New York by electricity, and it is published that the purpose is to gradually extend this to all its 10,000 miles of lines. The Eastern locomotive engineers, en-gineers, a high and somewhat exclusive body of men, are much disturbed, tearing that they will be forced into the position of mere motormen at $10 per week. When the first steam engines were set to work in England the working men organized organ-ized mobs to destroy them under the natural impression im-pression that with steam engines generally installed in-stalled the occupation of the hand-weavers and the miners in the mines would be taken away. 'But the steam engine forced its way, the power loom followed and British workingmen lived to realize that while the steam engine had quadrupled the Producing power of England, it had also, instead of reducing the number of laborers, made places for, four times the original number and had in- creased their wages 100 per cent. A little later they realized that the much-dreaded steam engine had made England the world's commercial and financial center. 'iho lesson that all history conveys is that workingmen should hail every labor-saving device, for the device itself carries its own antidote and Sives to laborers in some form much more than it takes from them. It is possible that the steam engine is passing, that a more subtle and powerful wee is about to be economically harnessed to take UP the burdens which the steam engine formerly carried, but this should be anticipated without leai . lor two-thirds of the area of the solid earth Jtlll awaits the conquest of civilization and en-tehtenment, en-tehtenment, the work to be performed is immeasurable immeas-urable in volume, and the hands are still few. e struggle should not be to hold back the pro gress that comes with new inventions, but to the better fitting of mortals to direct and carry on the stupendous work. |