Part 15 (1/2)

”Who loves a tree he loves the life That springs in flower and clover; He loves the love that gilds the cloud, And greens the April sod; He loves the wide beneficence, His soul takes hold of God”

We have too little love for the tender out-of-door nature ”The world is too much with us”

It was a loss to American life and letters when Saht of his strong true arded as an ee to the core Whether he wrote of the gentle McKinley, the fighting Dewey, the ludicrous schoolboy, the ”grand eternal fellows” that are co to this world after we have left it--he was ever a weaver at the looht The world is not to be civilized and redeemed by the apostles of steel and brute force Not the Hannibals and Caesars and Kaisers but the Shelleys, the Scotts, and the Fosses are our saviours They will have a large part in the future of the world to heighten and brighten life and justify the ways of God to men

These and such as these are our consolation in life's thorny pathway They keep alive in us the memory of our youth and ain the apple blossootten spring

PETER MacQUEEN

Peter MacQueen was brought to o by a friend when he happened to be stationary for an hour, and he is certainly a unique and interesting character, a rams, and a most unpractical, now-you-see-him and now-he's-a-far-away-fellow I remember his remark, ”Breakfast is a fatal habit” It was not the breakfast to which he referred but to the gathering round a table at a stated hour, far too early, when not in a ain: ”I have decided never to irl a boss” But you never can tell He is now a Benedict

I wrote to Mr MacQueen lately for some of his press notices, and a few of the names which he called himself when I received his letters

MY DEAR KATE SANBORN:--Yours here and I hasten to reply Count Tolstoi remarked to me: ”Your travels have been so vast and you have been with so many peoples and races, that an account of them would constitute a philosophy in itself”

Theodore Roosevelt said, ”No other American has travelled over our new possessions more universally, nor observed the conditions in therata_ to the Russians, especially after his visit to Siberia, but Mr MacQueen was most cordially welcomed

What an odd scene at Tolstoi's table! The countess and her daughter in full evening dress with the display of jewels, and at the other end Tolstoi in the roughest sort of peasant dress and with bare feet At dinner Count Tolstoi said to Mr MacQueen: ”If I had travelled as much as you have, I should today have had a broader philosophy”

Mr MacQueen says of Russia:

During the past one hundred years the ereat bodies move slowly, and Russia is colossal Two such republics as the United States with our great storo into the Russian eh for Great Britain, Germany, and Austria

Journeys taken by Mr MacQueen:

1896--to Athens and Greece

1897--to Constantinople and Asia Minor

1898--in the Santiago Cah Riders, and in Porto Rico with General Miles

1899--with General Henry W Lawton to the Philippines, returning through japan

1900--with DeWet, Delarey, and Botha in the Boer Army; met Oom Paul, etc

1901--to Russia and Siberia on pass fro Tolstoi, etc

1902--to Venezuela, Panama, Cuba, and Porto Rico

1903--to Turkey, Macedonia, Servia, Hungary, Austria, etc