The Square Deal, Volume 8

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Citizens' Industrial Association of America, 1911

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Page 537 - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Page 318 - Let me live in a house by the side of the road Where the race of men go by — The men who are good and the men who are bad As good and as bad as I. I would not sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban, Let me live in the house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.
Page 302 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says.
Page 320 - The Listeners IS there anybody there?" said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor; And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller's head ; And he smote upon the door again a second time: "Is there anybody there?
Page 574 - ... to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of court.
Page 430 - And the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
Page 320 - Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes, Where he stood perplexed and still. But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight To that voice from the world of men: Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair, That goes down to the empty hall, Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller's call.
Page 435 - That no person in the classified civil service of the United States shall be removed therefrom except for such cause as will promote the efficiency of said service. and for reasons given in writing...
Page 448 - But imprisonment for civil contempt is ordered where the defendant has refused to do an affirmative act required by the provisions of an order which, either in form or substance, was mandatory in its character. Imprisonment in such cases is not inflicted as a punishment, but is intended to be remedial by coercing the defendant to do what he had refused to do. The decree in such cases is that the defendant stand committed unless and until he performs the affirmative act required by the court's order.
Page 435 - ... no examination of witnesses nor any trial or hearing shall be required except in the discretion of the officer making the removal; and copies of charges, notice of hearing, answer, reasons for removal, REMOVALS AND REDUCTIONS.

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