Show THE NEW YOUNG OLD MAN AND HIS COUNTRY by Y EMERSON HOUGH he stepped 6 eo silently into tile the room advanced so BO silently to his place at the table that for the moment not all turned to look at him he had not been invited was not now announced but lie seemed assured of welcome ile he seemed fit for welcome here HO he was wag tall hardy bardy in figure and in face with deep lines showing effort of body and of mind in ind ills hair was not gray but there was steel in it e ven even now though lie yet was young ills his attitude was easy simple not assuming assuming carrying not tile jells t trace of braggadocio as lie ile stood before this company where aher e lie had not been asked and took that place which to himself seem seemed ed fit for him his figure was waa that of a young man ills skin smooth and hard drawn was that of a young man but his eyes clear deep and bright bespoke the man who had thought and who alio held himself competent to think his face astonishingly high bred and lofty attracted the attention of everyone at the great table men turned one to another whispering he looks like my grandfather 1 exclaimed one brie 1 I was about to say the same of my own was the reply they both had ceased to laugh and jest it seemed to others that the eyes of the young man himself turned now and again to the pictures that hung upon the wall pictures of men of another generation but hla his own eyes passed on and beyond the wall as though he looked into another day who Is he asked one man of another now that question went all about the board lie he seemed not arrogant save as youth and ability always are arrogant but what did lie he here strangely men began molook to look into the great mirrors at each side of the banquet table yet boic more strangely the eyes of the young man also turned to them somberly somberly questioningly as though he 14 saw himself he did not speak at first had not been asked to speak none the less it seemed that when finally he raised his hand band to command attention all were waiting for his voice ile he raised his glass empty but as though it had been full of some strong wine something was giving his voice carry and clearness his brain directness and composure 1 I have come from another co country 11 said he simply once I 1 lived at ease case as you do I 1 played with life I 1 valued not the great things of life I 1 amused myself I 1 cared for the small things about me 1 I sought riches because some men called sup su ermen by their fellows had attained riches and were praised for them I 1 was concerned with the things material of life the things perishable perls bable that Is to say things having to do with luxury and ease this made my horizon I 1 knew no better now I 1 come from a far country my brothers while yet it Is very y near I 1 am a new man but I 1 am old I 1 am a stranger but I 1 am your brother it Is as though I 1 were your yom son yet also your father and your grandfather though I 1 am young do you read this riddle 1 I come to take you into a new country I 1 shall speak to you so that in time you shall be as I 1 am now and I 1 shall be as you ought to be and tire are not now 1 I am am the new man in the world I 1 came to your table and I 1 came from your table I 1 come to your family arid and I 1 came of your family what was my country was yours or Is yours now As my vision Is so yours must be As my history has been so must yours be you must put away the little things you must see the truth and meet it as I 1 have done you ask what Is my country you ask where Is the country to which I 1 summon you look about you that country Is americal america 1 I myself am born out of it I 1 am the new man the Ameri american caril I 1 they looked and he was gone does what he said remain |