The Awakening

AN EXPERIMENT ON CAFFEINE 5 thing which common experience shows us not to be desirable when it is necessary to do an important piece of mental work. The results also indicate that those who had had a con- siderable amount of adaptation to the use of caffeine were not so much affected as those who had not been in the habit of using the drug in any form; although it is worth while to note that these habituated people were always very much more affected than they thought they would be. The experiment in- dicates that a certain amount of adaptation takes place through the repeated use of the drug over a long period of time, yet this adaptation is considerably less than the average person is likely to believe, and in some cases is scarcely discernible. The Awakening A glorious banner is unfurled, The Stars and Stripes majestic wave; Freedom and justice, truth and power, Her right, a tottering world to save. What though the despot, blind with rage, Plans in his heart our certain fall, Chains forged by hate are plaited straw, His sure reward, wormwood and gall. Pleasure and peace, like sunshine played Over Columbia's broad domain, Hark, from afar there comes a cry: "Help, or we die, and die in vain!" Startled we raised our tardy eyes, Gaunt wolves of terror scourged the land, Widows and orphans done to death, Murder and famine, hand in hand. Girding our loins we dauntless rose, Stretching our hands across the sea: "Succor and life we bring, fear not, Brothers in arms, we haste to thee." No more the eagle rests at ease; Soaring, her nestlings rule the sky, Striking for Freedom, blow on blow; "Victory or death!" their battle cry. After the din of conflict dies, O Lord, we pray thee, hear us then, Usher thou in thy reign of Peace, "Glory to God, good will to men." /. L,loyd Woodruff.