The Thames is liquid history.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.