Show TO THOSE WHO WERE DEFEATS DEFEAT Colliers is not entirely pleased with the results of the election That paper was devoted to everything so that when the returns came in Tuesday night the grief in the office of the New York weekly was quite as overpowering as tho the sorrow in Oyster Bay but the editor instead of locking himself in his sanctum and brooding g over his disappointments became reflective and pro proceeded proceeded Proceeded to draw as much comfort as possible out of the perversities of this world and he wrote How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cause or cure care I There is nothing now new in the thought but it is sweetly consoling in an hour of mental turbulence to turn tut n to the abstract and say This world is all a fleeting show For mans illusion given This is how Colliers offers a n balm to wounded feelings 1 tir K c o O L A If in every everyone one of the tho elections last Tuesday the best man had won if all the progressive measures had been adopted if every altru altruistic altruistic altruistic movement that animates this nation today should achieve unan unanimous unanimous unanimous adoption if even the dream of perfect brotherhood should d win approval at the polls not all these things combined would wOl d be as potent for the happiness of any man among those for whose help they are arc intended as the simple exercise of individual qualities that are arc within the boundaries of his own soul The efforts of thousands of philanthropists during years yere necessary to get statutes which should d guarantee a certain amount of sun and air to dwellers in city tenements and not one of those dwellers but could have got these things and infinitely improved his lot by a two days walk into the country and a determination to endure the temporary discomfort of adjustment to new and new acquaintances |