And as the tide steadily rose it swallowed and drowned all the egoism of self and race in the altruism of an all-embracing humanity.

When an apprentice in the office of the Newburyport _Herald_, and writing on the subject of South American affairs he grew hot over the wrongs suffered by American vessels at Valparaiso and Lima.

He was for finishing "with cannon what cannot be done in a conciliatory and equitable manner, where justice demands such proceedings." This was at seventeen when he was a boy with the thoughts of a boy.

Six years later he is a man who has looked upon the sorrows of men.

His old boy-world is far behind him, and the ever-present sufferings of his kind are in front of him.