cretary's duties may be few. He is the head of a permanent executive body established by the will of all nations of the world,-for this Universal Postal Union is peculiar in having the formal adherence of every nation on earth. Therefore the nations have established the third article of the form of government of the world-constitution: "Article III. There shall be an executive department." This is all accomplished-fact. The world-constitution, unwritten, is growing by development, just as the British constitution has grown, and the essential truth of history can no more be denied in the case of the world than in the case of Eng land. Thus far we have noted what has actually been accomplished in the development of the world-constitution. In the world bill of rights we find that the nations have already asserted common kinship, social relations, organic unity, the supremacy of the good of the whole over the seeming good of any part, the supremacy of the intelligence of the whole over affairs which concern the whole, liberty common to all, care for the health of the whole, and the supremacy of reason over force. Other points remain to be established, some of which are already recognized in certain localities and inhere equally in all mankind, some of which have been noticed above in the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. In regard to the form of government the nations have already established the legislative, the judicial and the executive departments. These three cover all possible fields. It remains, therefore, to develop in detail the organism of the world. body politic in these several depart ments, and there cannot be the slightest doubt that the nations are moving forward to that develop ment. If it were permitted to forecast the future regarding the world bill of rights, it might be noted that nowhere yet has there been an affirmation of equality. It seems to be a safe prediction that the Republic of Mankind will include in its bill of rights words like those in the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," or like those in the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights: "All men are born free and equal." Nowhere yet has there been asserted the control of the property of the world by all mankind for the good of the whole, a power corresponding to eminent domain in nations and in states of the United States, a power to take private property for the public good. Nor is there exercised a power to control transportation for the good of the whole. No effort has been made internationally to prevent evasion of national laws by combinations of law-breakers in several countries, which is possible because present interna tional law cannot touch them. It seems reasonable, then, to predict that articles will be added to the world bill of rights somewhat as follows: "World-supplies are for the world; therefore world monopolies must be prohibited. "World-transportation is for the service of the world; therefore the carrying business of the world is subject to the control of the world.” Following the common sense of the case, and basing the prediction on practice common in the nations of Germanic origin, it may be said that, sooner or later, the world bill of rights will contain an article of this tenor: "Each locality has its rights against and its duties to the whole; therefore local self-government and centralized power must everywhere be justly respected." So, one after another, will be added to the world bill of rights affirmations of relations and duties until a declaration is made which, with the world-laws based upon it, will secure the subservience of every part of mankind to the good of the whole, and will guarantee to every part, "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," protected by the power of the whole. S A Relic By EDWIN L. SABIN ILK (now beginning to fray), As fine as the old-fashioned belle; The tint that was cherished so well; The slippers great-grandmother wore. Bought from the peddler who passed, To dazzle the eyes of a maid. For these slippers great-grandmother wore. Thus was she footed, to glide Through reel and through chaste minuet, (Her beauty is memory yet). While dream in the quaint cedar chest Where is the spectacle, all— Fashions far carried from town; Peddler and maiden and ball; Father and lover and gown? Soles slightly scuffed-to sweet strains; Silk time-defaced; there remains. The slippers great-grandmother wore. IN Oliver Ellsworth By ELIZABETH C. BARNEY BUEL N "Ancient Windsor" stands a house shaded by stately elms and having upon its venerable front the unmistakable hall-marks of a distinguished past. A house is like the human beings whom it shelters, whose life it expresses, and of whose spirit it partakes; like them it betrays its history in its features. -whether it has been mean and ignoble, or whether it has been lofty and of good report. So this house in Windsor assumes the dignity and noble bearing of him who once paced its halls in the intensity of his thoughts-thoughts upon which, as upon a sound foundation, our country was upbuilded; it assumes even the air of royalty there in this New World namesake of the ancient dwelling of our former kings; it says to the careless passer-by-Pause here, and remember that this was once the home of a man greater even than a king, for, unaided by the kingly sword of conquest, he laid the foundations of an empire, and bound it firmly together by the sinews of wise statesmanship. Pause, for here lived Oliver Ellsworth and Abigail Wolcott, his wife. Ellsworth and Wolcott-two names forever joined together by marriage after marriage, and likewise as inseparably wedded before the altar of patriotism. Oliver Ellsworth, framer of the Constitution of the United States, without whom that Constitution would have died ere it had birth, has yet to find a biographer. Lesser than his shine brilliantly names forth from the pages of history; he, like the vital forces of our earth, worked silently and unseen, until from the underground darkness. arose the completed fabric of our institutions like the full-blown glories of midsummer. Oliver Ellsworth was born in Windsor on April 29th, 1745, the son of David Ellsworth and Jemima Leavitt, his wife. David was the grandson of Josiah, a native of Yorkshire, England, who settled in Windsor about 1654 and became the ancestor of all the Ellsworths in this country. In 1665 Josiah bought the property upon which the Ellsworth Homestead now stands, and it has remained in the family without a break until the recent generous deed of gift which constituted the Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution his heirs and assigns for ever. The Ellsworths are of fine old Saxon stock-descendants of the men who flocked from the German forests to conquer England, who then swarmed across the Atlantic to conquer new lands, and the "freedom to worship God:" then once more conquered England and built up in this western world a second empire-a second living monument to the indomitable energy and allabsorbing vitality of the AngloSaxon race. Saxon, English, Puritan—we know the meaning of those names in the varied make-up of the American. A true scion of this stock was David, father of our Oliver. A |