"THE SPIRIT INVINCIBLE"

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2951, 11 December 1916, Page 6

"THE SPIRIT INVINCIBLE"

You ask me to believe 'that he, fliy 'friend, So lately full of life, so strong of soul, Is dead—extinct—his powers at 'an end— All finished—nothing left of that grand whole? And what, I ask you, turned him thus .' to nought? A piece of steel?.—a cold, hard, lifeless thing? „ • . > , A scrap of thoughtless iron'has ended thought?, . Was such a thing thus able deaffi to bring? Too much it wore to ask me thus to _ think A thing so mighty turned now into dust; • Toohard it wore to dream God thus should sink ~■'.-■ So far , below, ;LoVe's eager, wistful trust. Not so—his soul lives on: his hodv dead. ■.< ■ . Iron killed his body, him it cannot kill; The-gun remains when forth its shell is sped, The power behind the missilo lives on , still. —(Lieut.) H. E. Dudley, in.the "Westminster Gazette."

A- publican was prosecuted for selling a bottle of whisky during prohibited hours. A bottle of whisky was -produced as evidence. The jury heard the evidence, and retired to the jury room. They presently returned. "My lord," said tho foreman, "the jury is quite satisfied ,as to tho sale "of the bottle, but they are not sure .of its contents. May they have the bottle to satisfy themselves?" "Certainly." declared the Judge. After a brief period the jury filed into the box again. "Well, gentlemen, have you reached a. decisions" asked the Judge. "No case, my lord," said the- foreman. "There was not enough evidence to go round."