for?" When challenged, she jumped out of the wagon, grabbed the sentinel in her arms, and forcibly set him out of her path, and amid the cheers of the men, entered the fort with her baskets of bread. Whenever the Mississippi overflowed, her boat, loaded with bread, went daily to the submerged districts, feeding the needy. This poor woman was followed to her grave by the entire municipal government, merchants, professional men, and the children of eleven orphan asylums, who uncovered their heads to Margaret, the first woman in this country to be honored by the erection of a marble statue to her memory.—James T. White, "Character Lessons."
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FRIEND, THE SYMPATHETIC
Angels are good companions for a crisis,
but for every-day use the warm, touchable,
sympathetic friend is as necessary as oxygen
to the blood.—Camden M. Cobern
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FRIEND, VALUE OF A
"What is the secret of your life?" asked
Mrs. Browning of Charles Kingsley; "tell
me, that I may make mine beautiful, too."
He replied, "I had a friend." Somewhere in
her "Middlemarch," George Eliot puts it
well: "There are natures in which, if they
love us, we are conscious of having a sort
of baptism and consecration; they bind us
over to rectitude and purity by their pure
belief about us; and our sins become the
worst kind of sacrilege, which tears down
the invisible altar of trust."—William C. Gannett.
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FRIENDLINESS
It is related of Alexander the Great, that
he won the hearts of his soldiers by calling
them "his fellow footmen." And of Aristotle,
the better to instruct his hearers, that
he read not to them—as other philosophers
used to do—from a lofty seat, but walking
and talking with them familiarly, as with
friends, in Apollo's porch; so he made them
great philosophers. (Text.)
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Friends and Foes Meet—See Amity After War.
Friends Cancelling Debt—See Kindness.
FRIENDS, CHOICE OF
The following poem was written by His Majesty Mutsuhito, the Emperor of Japan, for the students at the Peeresses' School of Tokyo. It is translated by Arthur Lloyd:
The water placed in goblet, bowl or cup
Changes its form to its receptacle;
And so our plastic souls take various shapes
And characters of good or ill, to fit
The good or evil in the friends we choose.
Therefore, be ever careful in your choice of friends,
And let your special love be given to those
Whose strength of character may prove the whip,
That drives you ever to fair wisdom's goal.
(Text.)—The Independent.
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Friends in Heaven—See Heaven, Friends in.
FRIENDS, KEEPING
Somebody once asked the famous Roman Atticus how he managed to keep his friends up to the end of his life. His simple reply was, "I never expected anything from them."
It is difficult, no doubt to maintain during
outbursts of passion the serene indulgence
peculiar to friendship, but without attaining
to the state of Atticus, who expected nothing,
where the desire to give much dominates
a soul, the sting of wounded vanity
would not be felt in the flesh, for wounded
vanity would change its object, making it a
matter of pride to give, and not receive.—Dora Melegari, "Makers of Sorrow and
Makers of Joy."
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FRIENDSHIP
John Macy says in The Atlantic Monthly:
Poe lived, worked, and died in such intellectual
solitude that Griswold could write
immediately after his death that he left few
friends. Tho at the height of his career in
New York, "between the appearance of 'The
Raven' and the time when poverty and illness
claimed him irrevocably, he appears as
a lion in gatherings of the literati, yet it is
asserted that among them his only affectionate
friends were two or three women."
No brilliant fame can atone for the
lack of true friendships.
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A young man who had left home to enter business, and who had only a single ac-
