Down among men

WILL LEVINGTON COMFORT
AUTHOR OF “ROUTLEDGE RIDES ALONE,” “FATE KNOCKS AT THE DOOR,” ETC.
NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Copyright, 1913 By George H. Doran Company
TO THE MEN OF THE UPPER ROOM
... And this is the story I told you through the several nights: of the man who came up through the dark and the fighting (often in such a ruck of fighting that he couldn’t hear voices); how he was punished by men, broken by self, and healed by a woman; indeed, but for her, he might have chosen the long way of the brute to put on his powers and attain the certain royalty of the human adult in this year of our Lord. She paid the price; she was the man-maker; she saw the World-Man shining ahead.... It is a story of the path at our feet, of the Compassionates who draw near to speak, when we are brave enough to listen, of the women who walk beside us. A tale of the road as we go—many are ahead, many behind—but we do not travel this stretch again.
— W. L. C.
KAO LIANG
No one thought of kao liang.
Morning did not mention it in his great story; even Duke Fallows did not think of it.
Kao liang, the millet of China. Inland seas of it are there, green in the beginning of its flow, dull gold in its high tide.
A ruffianly scouring grain. Rice is its little white sister. Millet is the strength of the beast, the mash of the world’s poor. A hundred millions of acres of Asia are in yield or waiting for kao liang to-day. Remember the poor.