I laugh not at another's loss, I grudge not at another's gain; No worldly wave my mind can toss; I fear no foe, I scorn no friend, I dread no death, I fear no end. Some have too much, yet still they crave; They are but poor, though much they have; I wish not what I have at will; This is my choice; for why? I find I grudge not: I am not envious or complaining. — brook that: put up with that which. PENN'S SUCCESS BENJAMIN F. TRUEBLOOD BENJAMIN F. TRUEBLOOD (1847– ) is an American educator and writer, who has taken an active part in the movement to promote peace and methods of arbitration between nations. Penn's Indian policy, which was only the more conspicuous part of his general peace policy, was marked by 5 the greatest of all his successes. The treaty of Shackamaxon, called "the fairest page in American history," "the only treaty never sworn to and never broken," differed from the treaty made by Carver, and from all other treaties with which the attempt has been made to 10 compare it, not only in being altogether a peace treaty, but in being, in reality, not a treaty with one sachem or tribe only, but with the whole Indian race at that time and for all time. The Indians were disarmed even before the treaty was made. When Penn told them that it was 15 not the custom of himself and his followers to use weapons of war against their fellow-men, and that therefore they had come to the council unarmed, the chief Taminent placed on his head a chaplet into which was twisted a little horn, and at this signal all the Indian warriors laid 20 down their weapons. It is a commonplace of our history that this treaty was not violated by the Indians until it was violated by the white men of the colony. For more 10 than thirty years after Penn's death, so strongly did the Indians feel that all Pennsylvania must be in character like the founder, that they did not retaliate when wronged until trespass was heaped upon trespass, and no open rupture came until the peace party was outvoted in the General Assembly 15 and the colony armed herself for war. When she took the sword, the sword devoured her. The fury of 20 war, with its horrible Indian massacres, swept over her once peaceful soil and her history lost its fine uniqueness and became stained on many pages with blood. With the real followers of Penn the great treaty never was broken by the Indians because they themselves never 25 broke it. No Quaker blood was shed in Pennsylvania during the years of cruel war which followed the arming of the colony. It is true that a few persons who abandoned their principles by arming themselves and taking sides with the war party were slain, though they tried to protect themselves with the Quaker name; but they were no more Quakers than a black man is a white one. The treaty was not only kept during those times, but it has 5 been kept ever since with the true followers of Penn. Quaker men and women have associated with the red man in all parts of the land. They have established homes in their midst, have founded and maintained schools among them, have taught them the arts of indus- 10 try, and instructed them in Christianity; they have acted as government agents and inspectors, and have gone boldly among them, but no tomahawk has ever been lifted against one who was known to be a "Broadhat." The stars still shine and the rivers still run down to the 15 sea, and Indian and Quaker alike, though standing in important respects over against each other at the opposite poles of civilization, have been true to the pledges made under the old elm tree. The treaty of Shackamaxon: this treaty with the Indians was made in 1682 under a great elm near Philadelphia. It was Voltaire, the French historian, who said that it was "the only treaty never sworn to and never broken." -Carver: the leader of the Plymouth colony.. "Broadhat": the Quaker's distinctive dress includes a broad hat. THE BIRDS OF KILLINGWORTH HENRY WADSWorth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born at Portland, Maine, in 1807. He was graduated from Bowdoin (bō ́d’n) College, and at the age of twentyone became professor of modern languages in the same college. Afterwards he held a similar position at Harvard. His poetry is justly popular not 5 only in America but in Europe. Most English-speaking boys and girls know "The Children's Hour,” “The Village Blacksmith,” “The Skeleton in Armor," and "Hiawatha." Longfellow died in 1882. This selection is taken from "Tales of a Wayside Inn.” Thus came the jocund Spring in Killingworth, 10 In fabulous days, some hundred years ago; And thrifty farmers, as they tilled the earth, Heard with alarm the cawing of the crow, That mingled with the universal mirth, Cassandra-like, prognosticating woe; 15 They shook their heads, and doomed with dreadful words To swift destruction the whole race of birds. 20 And a town meeting was convened straightway Of these marauders, who, in lieu of pay, Levied blackmail upon the garden beds And cornfields, and beheld without dismay The awful scarecrow, with his fluttering shreds; The skeleton that waited at their feast, Whereby their sinful pleasure was increased. |