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Let's leave all troubles and all care And delve for Childhood's treasure there. Let us forgive the careless wrong, Let us be fair and brave and strong, Renewing in our hearts again The Christmas spirit which has lain Quiescent through the present year And turn our thoughts to joy and cheer. —Cobb Engineers, Ciuilization's Ttlonument builders EOLOGlSTS tell us that the home-made cement, mixed with powdered only permanent record of this brick-dust and small flint nodules. era of civilization will be found These nodules were imbedded in a ma- at the bottom of the Atlantic trix of cement mortar. At horizontal Ocean, under the trans-Atlantic intervals of about one foot the wall is lane from New York to Great Britain, bonded with old Roman tiles—hard burnt and will be marked by the many thou- bricks, about twelve by twelve and one sands and millions of tons of cinders by one-half inches thick, in horizontal which have dropped along that avenue layers. The combination has proved as from the fire-boxes of the steamers pass- resistent to the devastations of time and ing. It is doubtful if any of the engi- weather as any masonry I have ever neering work now accomplished or at- seen. That home-made cement is today tempted will survive the next geological as hard as flint. Those old Romans were change. confronted with a paucity of materials For most of us, this is looking at the from which to select, but they overcame matter in too large a way. Our horizon that difficulty by painstaking and supe- is the duration of civilization. We are rior workmanship. satisfied to build for Time, not for Eter- Underneath the Coal Exchange in Lon- nity. In fact, in recent years we have don, there are the remains of an old Ro- somewhat lost sight even of this time man bath. The water was heated in the element. We have grown to believe bath by hollow tiles, conducting the gases that twenty years is a long time, and of combustion from a nearby furnace that in all probability everything will be underneath the water and thence to a torn down and rebuilt within that time. chimney. A similar bath exists in the This should not be true, and certainly basement of the Musee Cluny in Paris. is not true of many of the structures now Very slight repairs would put these in progress. baths again into operation. As we advance, we will more and more There is today in the city of Paris an nearly approximate the conditions that old stone amphitheatre formerly used by prevail in Europe today. We will not the Romans for gladiatorial combats. so freely demolish and rebuild, because The tiers of seats surrounding the arena the period of heavy profits will have were all of cut stone, and are as' true ceased. One has only to pay a casual today, and as free from evidence of set- visit to the great business centers of the tlement, as the Stadium at Harvard Oval. Old World to see with what great thrift On the high hills overlooking the Eng- they have utilized the well-constructed lish channel at Boulogne are the remains buildings of one hundred to three hun- of a brick watch-tower or signal tower dred years ago. Many instances may be built by Caligula, the Roman emperor, cited along this line. in the year A. D. 43, about ten years There is one that comes to my mind. after the tragedy of Gethsemane. This Our great competitors, the Corn Pro- watch-tower was built of hard burned ducts Company, have since the war pur- red brick, not vitrified. The bricks arc- chased a corn starch factory at St. Denis, but little larger than those used today. one of the suburbs of the city of Paris. The color was and is a splendid vivid The principal building in this plant was red.