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Event Postponed by King's Death Attracts a
Large Audience at Oxford—Lord Curzoo
Introduces the Distinguished American.
Harvard College.
This celebrated institootion is pleas-
antly situated in the barroom of Par-
ker's, in School street, and has poopils
from all over the country. I had a let-
ter y( sd'y, by the way, from our
mootual son, Artemus, .lr., who is at
Bowdoin college, in Maine, lie writes
me that he is a Howdoin Arab. & is it
cum to this'.' Is this boy as I nurtured
with a parent's care into his child-
hood's hour—is he goln* to be a grate
American humorist? Alars, I fear it is
too troo. Why didn't I bind him out
to the Patent Travelin Vegetable Pil
Man, as was struck with his appear-
ance at our last county fair, &. wanted
him to go with him and be a Pillist?
Ar, these boys—they little know how
the old folks worrit about 'em—From
Life's Reprint From ArtemusWard.
The Business Instinct.
An English farmer, taking his little
6on with him, was going to the
polling station to give his vote. On
the way he met a friend tin the same
errand, and the two entered into con-
versation After an excited and heat-
ed argument about the budget they
came to blows. The poor lad was
much frightened, and, seeing that his
father was getting the worst of it,
suddenly called out to him:
"Hit him in thv? watch, father;
that'll cost him something!"
Not the Reply He Expected.
"Ho you object to smoking?" he
asked.
"Not at all. Have you a cigarette?"
sh<* replied.
Oxford, England.—Before an audi-
ence o' distinguished men and stu-
dents of Oxford university, Theodore
Roosevelt on June 7 delivered the
Romanes lecture, his subject being
"IUological Analogies in History." The
lecture had been scheduled for delivery
on May 18, but of course was post-
poned on account of King Edward's
demise. It was given in the Sheldon-
Ian theater and Lord Curzon, as chan-
cellor of the university, presided and
introduced the lecturer.
In seeking to penetrate the causes
of the mysteries that surround not
only mankind but all life, both in the
present and the past, said Mr. Roose-
velt, we see strange analogies in the
phenomena of life and death, of birth
growth and. change, between those
physical groups of animal life which
v\e designate as species, forms, races
and the highly complex and composite
entities which rise before our minds
when we speak of nations and civi-
lizations. It is this study, he assert-
ed, that has given sclenco its present-
day prominence, and the historian of
mankind must work in the scientific
spirit and use the treasure-houses of
science.
To illustrate, the lecturer took sev-
eral instances of the development of
new species and the extinction of spe-
cies in the history of mammalian life,
showing that in some cases the causes
can be traced with considerable accu-
racy, and in other cases we cannot so
much as hazard a guess as to why a
given change occurred.
Analogies in Human History.
Continuing, Mr. Roosevelt said in
part:
Now. n.s to all of those phenomena In tho
evolution of species, there are, If not
homologies, at least certain analogies, in
the history of human societies, in the
history of the rise to prominence, of the
development and change, of the tem-
porary dominance, and death or trans-
formation. of tho groups of varying kind
whl^h form races or nations.
As In biology, so In human history, a
new form may result from the specialisa-
tion of a long-existing and hitherto very
■lowly changing generalised "r non-
specialised form; as. for instance, when
a barbaric race from a variety of causes
suddenly dev« lops a more complex culti-
vation and civilization. That is what oc-
curred. for instance. In western Kurope
during the centuries of the Teutonic anil
later tho Scandinavian ethnic overflows
from the north. All the modern countries
of western Europe aro descended from tho
states created by these northern Invaders.
When first created they could be called
"new" or "young" states In the sense
that part or all of tho people composing
them were descended from races 1 lat
hitherto bad not been civilized at all. and
that therefore for the first time entered
on the career of civilized communities.
In the southern part of western Europe
the new states thus formed consisted lu
bulk of the Inhabitants already In the land
under the Roman empire; and It was
here that the new kingdoms first took
Through a reflex a ;tion their
Influence then extended back Into the cold
forests from which the invaders had come,
end Germany and Scandinavia witnessed
tho rise of communities with essentially
the same civilization as their southern
neighbors; though In those communities,
unlike the southern communities, there
was no infusion of nrtw blood, and In each
cas* the new civilized nation which gradu-
ally developed was composed entirely of
members of the same race which In the
same region had for ages lived the life of
n slowly changing barbarism. The same
was true of the Slavs and the Slavonlzed
Finns of eastern Europe, when an Infll-
1 ration "f Scandinavian leaders from the
north and infiltration of iiyzantlno
culture from the south Joined to produro
the changes which have gradually, out of
the little Slav communities of the forest
end tli- . ' ppc. formed the mighty Russian
empire • f today.
"New" and "Young" Nations.
Aim In, the new form may represent
merely a splitting off from a long-estab-
lish "d. highly developed and specialized
nation. In this case the nation Is usually
spoken of as a "young," and is correctly
spoken of as a "new," -atlon;.but (he
term should always bo* used with a clear
sense of the difference between what Is
described in such case, and what is de-
scribed by the same term In speaking of
a civilized nation Just developed from a
barbarism. Carthage and Syracuse were
new cities compared with Tyre and Cor-
inth: but the Greek or Phoenician race was
In every sense of the word as old In tho
new city as In the old city. So, nowadays,
Victoria or Manitoba Is a new community
compared with England or Scotland; but
the ancestral type of civilization and cul-
ture Is as old In one case as In the other.
I of course do not mean for a moment
that great elvinges are not produced by
the mere fact that the old civilised race
Is suddenly placed In surroundings where
It has again to go through tho work of
taming the wilderness, a work finished
many centuries before in the original
home of the race; I merely mean that
the an, . stral history Is the same In each
< oss, We can rightly use the phrase "a
new people" In speaking of Canadians
or Australians. Americans or Afrikanders.
But we use It In an entirely different
sense from that in which we use it when
spt ng of f ich communities fes those
fi'.irV.d by the northmeir and their d.-
s vndants during that period of astonish-
ing growth which saw the descendants of
the Norse sea-thieves conquer and trans-
form Normandy, Sicily, and the Rritlsh
Islands; we use It in an entirely different
sense from that In which we use It when
speaking of the new states that grew up
around Warsaw, Kief. Novgorod, and
Moscow, as the wild savages of the
steppes and the marshy forests struggled
haltingly and stumbllngly upward to
become builders of cities and to form
stsble governments, rhe Kingdoms of
Charlemagne and Alfred w< re "new
compared with tho empire on the Bos-
phorus; they were also in every way dif-
ferent. their lines of ancestral descent had
nothing In common with those of the
polyglot realm which paid tribute to the
Caesars of Bysantium: their sqflkil prob-
lems and aftertlme history were totally
I different. This Is not truo of those "new"
natio:.. wlil< h spring direct from old na-
Bi - . the Ai ;■ ntlne, the United
are ii! "new" nations, compared
■ ua ns ,>r i: it-op.', but with
I 1 •• j? changes In detail, their clvlliza-
' ; ;Heic.s# cf the kcncral Euro-
pean type, as shown In Portugal. Spain,
and England. The differences between
these "new" American and these "old"
European nations are not as great as those
which separate the "new" nations one
from another and the "old" nations one
from another. There are In each case
very real differences between the new and
the old nation differences both for good
nn*J for evil; but In each case there is
the same ancestral history to reckon with,
th - same type of civilization, with its at-
tendant benefits and shortcomings; and,
after the pioneer stages are passed, the
problems to be solved, In spite of superfi-
cial differences, are in their essence tho
same; tly>y are those that confront all
civilized peoples, not those that confront
peoples struggling from barbarism Into
civilization.
So. when we speak of the "death" of
a tribe, a nation or a civilization, the term
may bo used for either one or two totally
different processes; the analogy with
what occurs In biological history being
complete. Certain tribes of savages, the
Tasmanlans. for instance, and various lit-
tle clans of American Indians, have within
the last century or two completely died
out; all of the Individuals have perished,
leaving no descendants, and the blood has
disappeared. Certain other tribes of
Indians have as tribes disappeared or
are now disappearing; but their blood
remains, being absorbed Into the veins of
the white Intruders, or of the black men
Introduced by these white Intruders; so
that lu reality they are merely being
transformed Into something absolutely
different from what they were.
A like wldo diversity In fact may be
covered In the statement tha* a civiliza-
tion has "died out."
Phenomena That Puzzle.
In dealing, not with groups of human
beings In simple and primitive relations,
but with highly complex, highly special-
ized, civilized, or semi-clvilizod societies,
there Is need of great caution In drawing
analogies with what has occurred In the
development of tho animal world. Yet
even in these cases it Is curious to ser
how somo of the phenomena in the
growth and disappearance of these com-
plex, artificial groups of human beings
resemble what lias happened In myriads
of instances in tho history of life on this
planet.
Why do great artificial empires, whose
citizens aro knit by a bond of speech and
culture much more than by a bond of
blood, show periods of extraordinary
growth, and again of sudden or lingering
decay? In some cases wo can answer
readily enough; in other cases we can-
not as yet even guess what the proper
answer should be. If In any such case
the centrifugal forces overcome the cen-
tripetal, the nation will of course fly to
pieces, and the reason for its failure to
become a dondnant force is patent to
every one. The minute that the spirit
which finds Its healthy development In
local self-government, and In the antidote
to the dangers of an extreme centraliza-
tion, develops Into mere particularism,
Into Inability to combine effectively for
achievement of a common end, then It Is
hopeless to expect great results. Poland
ami certain republics of the western
hemisphere are tho standard examples of
failure of this kind; and the United States
would have ranked wuh them, and Its
name would have become a byword of
derision, if the forces of union had not
triumphed in tho civil war. So the
growth of soft luxury after It has reached
a certain point becomes a national danger
patent to all. Again, It needs but little of
the vision of a seer to foretell what must
happen In any community If the average
woman ceases to become the mother of a
family of healthy children, if the average
man loses the will and the power to work
up to old age and to fight whenever the
need arises. If the homely, commonplace
virtues die out, If strength of character
vanishes In graceful self-indulgence. If the
virile qualities atrophy, then the nation
has lost what no material prosperity can
offset.
Put there are plenty of other phenom-
ena wholly or partially Inexplicable. It Is
easy to see why Rome trended downward
when great slave-tilled farms spread over
what had once been a countryside of
peasant proprietors, when greed and lux-
ury and sensuality ate like acids into the
fiber of the upper classes, while the mass
of the citizens grew to depend, not upon
their own exertions, but upon the state,
for their pleasures and their very liveli-
hood. Put this does not explain why the
forward movement stooped at different
times, so far as different matters were
concerned; at one time as regards litera-
ture. at another time as regards architec-
ture. at another time as regards city
building. We cannot even guess why tho
springs of one kind of energy dried up
while there was yet no cessation of an-
other kind.
Holland as an Example.
Take another and smaller Instance, that
of Holland. For a period covering a
little more than the seventeenth century,
Holland, like some of the Italian city
states at an earlier period, stood on the
dangerous heights of greatness beside na-
tions so vastly her superior In territory
and population as to make It inevitable
that sooner or later she must fall from the
glorious and perilous eminence to which
she had been raised by her own Indomita-
ble soul. Iler fall came; It could not
have been Indefinitely postponed; but It
came far quicker than it needed to come,
because of shortcomings on her part to
which both Great Prltain and the United
States would be wise to pay heed. Her
government was singularly Ineffective, the
decentralization being such as often to
permit the separatist, the particularism
spirit of the provinces to rob the central
authority of all efficiency. This was bad
enough. Put the fatal weakness was that
so common In noli, peace-loving societies,
where men hate to think of war as possi-
ble. and try to Justify their own reluctance
to face it either by high-sounding moral
platitudes or elso by a philosophy of
short-sighted materialism. The Dutch
were very wealthy. They grew to be-
lieve that they could hire others to do
their fighting for them on land; and on
sea. where they did their own fighting,
and fought very well, they refused in
time of peace to make ready fleets no ef-
ficient as either to Insure the Dutch
against Ihe peace being broken or else
to give them the victory when *ar
came. To be opulent and unarmed Is to
secure ease In the present at the almost
certain cost of disaster in tho future.
It Is therefore easy to see why Holland
lost when she did her position among the
powers; but It Is far more difficult to ex-
plain why at the same time there should
have come at least a partial loss of posi-
tion In the world of art and letters. Some
spark of divine fire burned Itself out In
the national soul. As the line of great
statesmen, of great warriors, by land and
sea. came to an end. so the line of the
great Dutch painters ended. The loss of
pro-en lnen e lu the echoda followed the
loss of pre eminence In canvp and la
council chamber.
In ti e little republic of Holland, as In
the gi ' empire of Rome, it was not
death ilch came, but transformation.
Both Holland and Italy teach us that
races that fall may rise again.
Danger of Race Suicide.
There are questions which we of the
great civilized nations are ever tempted to
auk of the future. Is our time of growth
drawing to an end? Are we nations
soon to come under the rule of that gr« at
law of death, v/hlcli Is Itself but part of the
great law of life? None can tell. Forces
that we can see and other forces that are
hidden or that can but dimly be appre-
hended are at work all around us. both
for good and for evil. The growth In lux-
ury, In love of ease. In taste for vapid
and frivolous excitement, is both evident
and unhealthy. The most ominous sign
Is the diminution In the birth-rate, In the
rate of natural Increase, now to it larger
or lesser degree shared by most of the
civilized nations of central and western
Europe, of America and Australia; a dim-
inution so great that If It continues for the
next century at the rate which has ob-
tained for the last 25 years, all the more
highly civilized people will be stationary
or else have begun to go backward In
population, while many of them will have
already gone very far backward.
There Is much that should give us con-
cern for the future. Put there Is much
also which should give us hope. No man
is more apt to be mistaken than the
prophet of evil. I believe with all my
heart that a great future remains for us;
but whether It does or does not, our
duty Is not altered. However the bat-
tle may go, the soldier worthy of the
name will with utmost vigor do his al-
loted task, and bear himself as valiant-
ly In defeat as In victory. Come what
will, we belong to peoples who have not
yielded to the craven fear of being great.
In the ages that have gone by, the
great nations, the nations that have ex-
panded and that have played a mighty
part In the world, have In the end
grown old and weakened and vanished;
but so have the nations whose only
thought was to avoid all danger, all ef-
fort, who would risk nothing, and who
therefore gained nothing. In the end the
same fate may overwhelm all nllke; but
the memory of the one type perishes with
It while the other leases Its mark deep
on the history of all the future of man-
kind.
A nation that seemingly dies may be
born again; and even though In the
physical sense It die utterly, it may yet
hand down a history of heroic achieve-
ment. and for all time to come may pro-
foundly Influence the nations that arise In
Its place by the Impress of what It has
done. Pest of all Is It to do our part well,
and at the same time to see our blood live
young and vital In men ami women fit to
take up the task as we lay It down; for
so shall our seed Inherit the earth. Put
If this, which Is best, is denied us. then
at least It Is ours to remember that If we
choose we can be torch-bearers, as our
fathers were before us. The torch has
bewi handed on from nation to nation,
from civilization to civilization through-
out nil recorded time, from the dim years
before history dawned, down to the bla-
zing splendor of this teeming century of
ours. It la dropped from the hand of the
coward and the sluggard, of the man
wrapped In luxury or love of ease, the
man whose soul was eaten away by self-
indulgence; It has been kept alight only
by those who were mighty of heart and
cunning of hand. What they worked at,
providing It was worth doing at nit. was
of no less matter than how they worked,
whether In the realm of the mind or the
realm of the body. If their work was
good, if what they achieved was of sub-
stance, then high success was really
theirs.
In the first part of this lecture I drew
certain analogies between what had oc-
curred to forms of animal life through
the procession of the ages on this planet,
and what has occurred and Is occurring
to the great artificial civilizations which
have gradually spread over the world'3
surface during tfie thousands of years
that have elapsed since cities of temples
and palaces first rose beside the Nile and
the Euphrates, and the harbors of
Mlnoan Crete bristled with the masts of
the Aegean craft. Put of course the
parallel is true only in the roughest
and most general way. Moreover, even
between the civilizations of today and
the civilizations of ancient times there
aro differences so profound that we must
be cautious in drawing any conclusions
for the present based on what has hap-
pened In the past. While freely admit-
ting all of our follies and weaknesses of
today. It Is yet mere perversity to refuse
to realize the Incredible advance that
^as been made In ethical standards. I do
not believe that there Is the slightest nec-
essary connection between any weaken-
ing of virile force and this advance In
the moral standard, this growth of the
sense of obligation to one's neighbor ami
of reluctance to do that neighbor wrong.
We need have scant patience with that
slliy cynicism which insists that kindli-
ness of character only accompanies
weakness of character. On the contrary.
Just as in private life many of the men
of strongest character are the very men
of loftiest and most exalted morality, so
I believe that In rational life as the ages
go by we shall find that the permanent
national types will more and more tend
towards those in which, while the Intel-
lect stands high, character stands higher;
in which rugged strength and courage,
rugged capacity to resist wrongful ag-
gression by others, will go hand in hand
with a lofty scorn of doing wrong to oth-
ers. This Is tho type of Tlmoleon. of
Hampden, of Washington and Lincoln.
These were as good men, as disinterested
and unselfish men, as ever served a
state; and they were also as strong men
as ever founded or saved a state. Surely
such examples prove that there Is noth-
ing Utopian In our effort to combine
Justice and strength In the same nation.
The really high civilizations must them-
selves supply the antidote to the self-ln-
rtulgence and love of case which they
tend to produce.
Problems of Modern Nations.
Every modern civilized nation has many
and terrible problems to solve within Its
own borders, problems that arise not
merely from Juxtaposition of poverty and
riches, but especially from the self-con-
sciousness of both poverty and riches.
Each nation must deal with these mat-
te's In Its own fashion, and yet the spirit
In which the problem is approached must
ever be fundamentally the same. It
must be a spirit of broad humanity; of
brotherly kindness; of acceptance of re-
sponsibility, one for each an I each for
all; and at the same time a spirit as re-
mote as the poles from every form of
weakness and sentimentality. As In war
to pardon the coward Is to do cruel
wrong to the brave man whose life his
cowardice Jeopardizes, so In civil riffairs
It is revolting to every principle of
Justice to give to the lazy, the vicious, or
even tho feeble and dull-witted, a reward
which Is really the robbery of what
I braver, wiser, abler men have earned,
i The only effective way to help any man
1 is to help him to help himself; and the
I worst lesson to teach him Is that ho can
j be permanently helped at the expense of
1 some one else. True liberty shows Itself
: to best advantage In protecting the rights
i of others, anil especially of minorities.
' Privilege should not be tolerated because
: It Is to tho advantage of a minority, nor
i yet because It Is to the advantage of a
' majority. No doctrinaire theories of
I vested rights or freedom of contract can
stand In the way of our cutting out
I abuses from the body politic. Just a 111-
| tie can we afford to follow the doctrln-
I aires of an impossible and tnoldetitally
I of a highly undesirable -social revolution
I which, in destroying Individual rights
j (inoludtmg property rights) and the fam-
ily. wou! I . thi twi if .i^ents in
the ad/anee trf mankind, anS the two
chief reasons why either the advance of
the preservation of mankind Is worth
while. It Is an evil and a dreadful thing
to be callous to sorrow and suffering, and
blind to our duty to do all things possible
for the betterment of social conditions.
B it it Is an unspeakably foolish tiling to
strive for this betterment by means so
destructive that they would leave no so-
cial conditions to better. In dealing with
all there social problems, with the Inti-
mate relations of the family, with wealth
in private use and business use, with la-
bor, with poverty, the one prime neces-
sity is to remember that, though hard-
ness of heart Is a great evil, it is nS
greater an evil than softness of head.
Hut In addition to these problems the
most Intimate and Important of all
which to a larger or less degree affect all
the modern nations somewhat alike, we
of the great nations that have expanded,
that are now in complicated relations with
one another and with allen races, have
special problems and special duties of our
own. You belong to a nation which pos-
sesses the greatest empire upon which the
sun has ever shone. I belong to a nation
which is trying, on a scale hitherto unex-
ampled, to work out the problems of gov-
ernment for, of, and by the people, whil*
at the same time doing the International
duty of a great power. Put there are
certain problems which both of us have
to solve, and us to which our stumlards
should be the same. The Englishman, the
man of the Prltlsh Isles, In his various
homes across the seas, and the Ameri-
can, both at homo and abroad, are
brought Into contact with utterly allen j
peoples, some with a civilization more an-
cient than our own, others still In, or
having but recently arisen from, the bar-
barism which our people left behind ages |
ago. The problems that arise are of well-
nigh Inconceivable difficulty. They cannot j
be solved by the foolish sentimentality of ;
stay-at-home people, with little patent
re'Mpes, and those cut-and-dried theories
of the political nursery which have such i
limited applicability amid the crash of
elemental forces. Neither can they be I
solved by the raw brutality of the men
who, wh"ther at home or on the rough
frontier of civilization, adopt might :ie !
the only standard of right in dealing with
other men, and treat allen races only as
subjects for exploitation.
No hard and fast rule can be drawn ae
applying to all allen races, because they
differ from one another far more wide-
ly than somo of them differ from us. Put
there are one or two rules which must
not be forgotten. In the long run. there
can be no Justification for one race man-
aging or controlling another unless the
management and control aro exercised In
the Interest and for the benefit of that
other race. This Is what our peoples
have In the main done, and must con-
tinue In the future in even greater de-
gree to do. in India, Egypt, and the Phil-
ippines alike. In the next place, as re-
gards every race, everywhere, at home
or abroad, we cannot afford to deviate
from the great rule of righteousness
which bids us treat each man on his
worth as a man. He must not be senti-
mentally favored because he belongs to
a given race; he must not be given Im-
munity In wrong-doing, or permitted to
cumber the ground, or given other privi-
leges which would be denied to the
vicious and unfit among themselves. On
the other hand, where he acts in a way
which would entitle him to respect and
reward If he were of our own stock, he
Is Just as much entitled to that respect
and reward if ho comes of another
stock, even though that other stock pro-
duces a much smaller proportion of men
of his type than does our own. This has
nothing to do with social Intermingling,
With What Is called social equality. It
has to do merely with the question of do-
ing to each man and each woman that
elementary Justice which will permit him
or her to gain from life the reward
which should always accompany thrift,
sobriety, self-control, respect for the
rights of others, and hard and Intelli-
gent work to a given end. To more than
such Just treatment no man Is entitled,
and less than such just treatment no man
should receive.
Duty of Nation to Nation.
The other type of duty Is the Interna-
tional duty, the duty owed- by one na-
tion to another. I hold that the laws of
morality which should govern individu-
als In their dealings one with the oth r
are Just as binding concerning nation.-: fn
their dealings one with the other. The
application of tho moral law must be
different in the two cases, because In
one case It has. and In the other It has
not. the sanction of a civil law with force
belfmd It. The Individual can depend for
his rights upon the courts, which them-
selves derive their force from the police
power of the state. The nation can de-
pend upon nothing of the kind: and
therefore, as things are now, It Is the
highest duty of the most advanced and
freest peoples to keep themselves In such
a state of readiness as to forbid to any
barbarism or despotism the hope of ar-
resting the progress of the world by stri-
king down the nations that lead in that
progress. It would be foolish Indeed to
pay heed to the unwise persons who de-
sire disarmament to b begun by the
v°ry peoples who, of all others, should
not he left helpless before any possible
foe. Put we must reprobate quite as
strongly both the leaders and the peoples
who practise, or encourage or condone*
aggression and Iniquity by the strong at
the expense of the weak. We should tol-
erate lawlessness and wickedness neither
by the weak nor by the strong; and both
weak and strong we should In return
treat with scrupulous fairness. The for-
eign policy of a great and s If-respectlr.g
country should be conducted on exactly
the same plane of honor, of insistem e
upon one's own rights and of respect for
the rights of others, as when a brave and
honoJMde man is dealing with his fel-
lows permit me to support this state-
ment out of my own experience. For
nearly eight years I was the head of a
giVat ration and charged especially with
the conduct of Its foreign policy; and
during those years I took no action with
reference to any other people on the face
of the earth that I would not have felt
Justified In taking as an Individual in
dealing with other Individuals.
I believe that we of the great civilized
nations of today have a right to feel that
long careers of achievement lie before
our several countries. To each of us Ii
vouchsafed the honorable privilege of- do-
ing his part, however small, in that work.
Let us strive hardily for success, even If
by so doing we risk failure, spurning
the poorer souls of small endeavor who
know neither failure nor success. Let us
hope that our own blood shall continue
in the land, that our children and chil-
dren's children to endless generations
shall arise to take our places and play •*
mighty and dominant part in the world.
Put whether this bo denied or granted by
the years we shall not see, let at least
the satisfaction be ours that we hav
carried onward the lighted torch In our
own day and generatidto. if we do this,
tin n. as our eyes close, anil we go out
into the darkness, and other hands grasp
the torch, at least we can say that ouf
part has been borne well and valiantly.
NOT THE SAME PARTY.
Clergyman—Remember, niy friend
"whom God hath joined together, let
no man put asflnder."
Seeker After Divorce—Er—it was a
justice of tho peace.
His Pulf.
"Does that 'era thin, atoop-shoul-
dered, dyspeptic-lookin' drummer that
you bought so much from today sell
any better or cheaper goods than the
fat one ye turned down so hard yester-
day?" inquired Hi Spry.
"D' know as he does." confessed the
Sqnam Corners merchant, "but his
views on the criminal rapacity of the
trusts are a whole lot sounder."—
Puck.
Charity and Prudence.
The contradictions of life aro many.
An observant man remarked recently
that ho was prowling about a certain
city square, when he came upon a
drinking fountain which bore two con-
llicting Inscriptions.
One, the original Inscription on the
fountain, was from the Bible: "And
whosoever will, let htm take the w*.
ter of life freely."
Above this hung a placard: "Pleas#
do not waste the watur."—Youth'i
1 Companion.
LTHE KEYSTONE^
TO HEALTH
IS
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH
BITTERS
A
The fact that Ilostett-
er's Stomach Bitters has
helped thousands of sickly
people back to health during
the past 56 years should
convince you that it is the
medicine you need for Indi-
gestion Stomach His.
■B—a JOM.fi — ——n—
WESTERN CANADA
What Prof. Shaw, tho Weil-Known Agrt
cultur!s'>,* Say© About It: ■—■■■ ^
**I would pootior rnlflo cuttle In Western
(Junuilu than in tho pur n bo it of
tho United Staton. Feed
Is cheaper and climate
bettor for the purpose.
Your murk<-t will iru-
prove fttKtcr than your
farni'-r < hi I ;>r< : .< • the
KUpi'liea. Wlieiit run ho
grown up t" tho COth ear
nllei l^.i) miles north «<f
the International bound-
larvl. Your vacant land
will bo taken at a rate
beyond pre-eet concep-
tion. We Lavo cm. unh
people in the I nitod
HtatCii ah<ne who want
homes to take up this lund." Nearly
70,500 Americans
will enter ami ntnke t heir Imiiiich
Iii \Wntern Cmmdn thl* jeur.
1909 produced another lartro
crop <>f wheat, ont* ami hurley.
In addition to \\ bleb t he • it tie
exports was an Immense Item,
'attlo raising, dairying, mixed
chewati and Alberta.
Free homestead ami pro-cmp-
areas, hh well iui binds he '
lid oompni
for mllll
Adaptublo soil, healthful cll-
liiutc. splendid schools and
Churches, and kooiI railways.
For settbrs' rites, descriptive
to Sup't of Immi-
gration, Ottawa, Canada, or to tho
Cauudiun Government Agent.
J. S. CRAWFORD
No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City Wo.
^1 (I'se address nearest you).
mm.
Carters
ITTLE
IVER
PILLS.
The Wretchedness
of Constipation
C*n quickly be overcome by
CARTER'S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS
Purely vegetable
—act ure]y and
gently on tne
liver. Cure
Biliouxncu,
Head-
er he,
Dizzi*
nes«, and Indigextion. They do their
Small Pill. Small Doee. Smell I nto.
GENUINE must bear signature;
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and VELIE VEHICLES
Ask your dealer, or
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You cannot afford to experiment with
untried goods sold by commission
agents. Catalogues free
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14 W. Main Street, Dept. B. Oklahoma City. Okla.
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Good*. Full weight Q U. First claw
construction. Price* Right.
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