EPARTING from "Ultima Thule"-no longer ultimate

Dafter long days of travel, the welcoming ocean

seemed for a moment to obliterate the recollection of the world's woes. They had been, however, but thinly veiled with superficial diversions, and could not be forgotten. Looking back, one felt that he was leaving, in her distress, the Motherland of America, whose sons, less fortunate, had to remain at home to bear the burden.

Before us lay the land of promise and achievement-a microcosm of all others-the American continent.

Arriving at its greatest city, and visiting its National Capital, remote appeared the days spent abroad, and everyone, pursuing his own way, recked little of the ravages of distress and discontent in other lands-the progeny of the war.

I saw the President in Washington, who was concerned principally about domestic problems, absorbing enough; and General Pershing, who began to doubt the wisdom of leaving our soldiers on the Rhine, lest a clash of arms might, at any moment, embarrass us. I advised, to "do so much for charity." The Germans, rendered defenceless by the Treaty, had asked that the troops remain.

EPARTING from "Ultima Thule"-no longer ultimate

Dafter long days of travel, the welcoming ocean

seemed for a moment to obliterate the recollection of the world's woes. They had been, however, but thinly veiled with superficial diversions, and could not be forgotten. Looking back, one felt that he was leaving, in her distress, the Motherland of America, whose sons, less fortunate, had to remain at home to bear the burden.

Before us lay the land of promise and achievement—a microcosm of all others-the American continent.

Arriving at its greatest city, and visiting its National Capital, remote appeared the days spent abroad, and everyone, pursuing his own way, recked little of the ravages of distress and discontent in other lands-the progeny of the war.

I saw the President in Washington, who was concerned principally about domestic problems, absorbing enough; and General Pershing, who began to doubt the wisdom of leaving our soldiers on the Rhine, lest a clash of arms might, at any moment, embarrass us. I advised, to "do so much for charity." The Germans, rendered defenceless by the Treaty, had asked that the troops remain.