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been talked about, are not the ones who 

 have made history. If you amount to 

 anything you are bound to be talked about. 

 If you fail they talk; if you succeed, jeal- 

 ousy starts evil reports, for while it is true 

 that "nothing succeeds like success," 

 there are many friends who regard your 

 advancement as a personal grievance and 

 their envy prompts them to "talk." To 

 walk through this world in the midst of 

 gossipers is like forcing your way amid 

 briers; if you try to push them gently away 

 you will get a great many more scratches 

 than if you grasp them decidedly. Let 

 sensitive folks take for their motto 

 ' 'They say. What do they say? Let them 

 say," Do what your own conscience tells 

 you is right; make up your mind that no 

 one else knows your capabilities, your as- 

 pirations, your trials and your tempta- 

 tions as you do yourself and therefore can- 

 not decide for you; remember we must 

 "build the ladder by which we rise;" and 

 then if "they say" let them say. 



Whatever faults, either of 

 commission or omission, may 

 occur in this month's issue of 

 the AGE must be condoned by our readers, 

 for we have good and sufficient excuse! 

 We moved May 2nd and this necessitated 

 extra work, extra worry and much con- 

 fusion. We therefore crave absolution 

 this time and hope that in our present 

 more commodious and convenient quarters 

 we may be able to work to better advan- 

 tage. Our number still remains the same 

 -916 W. Harrison St., the move being 

 from front to rear building only. 



New 

 Quarters. 



T1je Kipling's poem, "The Truce 



Peace of the Bear," expressed the 



Conference. 



opinion of a great number re- 

 garding the peace proposal made by the 

 Czar of Russia. It seemed somewhat in- 

 congruous for the universal peace idea to 

 originate with the absolute monarch of a 

 country noted for its despotism, and when 

 first broached, last August, it occasioned 

 much surprise and no little scepticism. 

 Despite of that, the nations to whom the 

 proposal was addressed, have all cordially" 

 responded and will be represented at the 

 peace conference which is to be held at 

 The Hague, May 18. 



This will be as important a conference 

 as the congress of Vienna, at which a 

 body of men met to decide how they would 

 devide Europe. The members of the con- 

 ference will be invested with great repre- 

 sentative authority and each nation 

 addressed may send four delegates. 



This is not to be, as it is often called, a 

 "Disarmament conference," but a "Peace 

 conference." Not a meeting to make 

 changes in the present armaments of the 

 world, but to make some plan, as yet not 

 decided upon, whereby the great increase 

 that is necessarily being made in the 

 armies and navies of the world, may be 

 checked. For the past twenty years this 

 subject has been more or less agitated and 

 many questions between nations, have 

 during that time been settled by arbitra- 

 tion instead of war. What is hoped for, 

 as the result of the forthcoming con- 

 ference, is a permanent court, established 

 by the twenty-seven nations, to decide on 

 the various questions of importance which 

 are constantly occurring between nations. 



