HE hardest thing in the world to
kill is an Idea,
You can destroy the man who has
it; you can reduce his brain to dust
nnd his body to ashes, but his idea, If
it is a right idea, will live on and
thrive despite your efforts,
The crucifixion did not kill the idea
of Christianity.
The burning of Joan of Arc did not
wipe out the truths she stood for,
John Brown's idea did not die with
him on the scaffold.
The Imprisonment of Bunyun did
not Kill his idea; it rather helped to
strengthen it, for in his cell he wrote
his great “Pilgrim's Progress.”
The threats of the greatest powers
in the world, while they made Galileo
deny with his voice the truth of his
theory that the earth revolved around
the sun, did not change kill his
fdea, for uader his breath he whis-
pered “E pur si muove" (“It does
move though").
or
On the other hand a wrong idea is
sure to dle,
Nothing is eternal except the truth,
The false promise destroys both
argument and conclusion. The fulse
idea eventually Kills itself. All error
is self-destructive,
There is a right and a wrong way
to Kill a bad idea. The wrong way
is to kill the possessor. The right way
Is to prove the idea itself wrong
und then It dies of itself.
Witcheraft was not obliterated by
the burnings of Salem, It was wiped
out by the proving of the truth that
there is no such thing as witcheraft.
ig
The
not
decadence of monarchies
resulted from the beheading
nor the 1mprisonment ot
It is the. result of proving
to the people that there is a better,
more just and more useful kind of
government than the rule of a sover-
eign,
The greatest suppert that wrong
ideas have ever had was violence.
The human soul somehow or oiher
leans to the aid of the abused, even
if it be in the wrong.
Normally, man wants to see every-
thing and everybody have a fair
chance, a square deal, an opportunity.
The surest way te give a wrong Idea
has
of
kings
princes,
eClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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"THIRST for glory Is Instinctive.
Like most things which are in
stinctive, it is useful
Ferly in life a littie boy begins to
take pride In the things which his
parents own.
He is sure that their piano is a bet.
ter piano than that of the neighbor's,
and that they trade with a better
butcher,
He does this because he can thus
shine in reflected glory, which is bet
ter than no glory at all
By and by. as he grows, he fights
with other boys, not so much because
he is quarrelsome, but because fizhting
is the best way to get credit in the
eyes of other boys,
A little later be “shows off” such
accomplishments as he has in order
to gain the admiration of the other sex.
It is a mistake to regard this thirst
for glory as vanity,
One of the reasons that war ap
peals strongly to young men is that
added support i# to treat it unfairly.
Give the right haif a chapce and
it will annihilate wrong and wipe
error out of existence, It Is sironger
than iron bars. [It is more potent
than the scaffold, It Is the only thing
with whi¢h to tight and win.
{© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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Yl
Ceapyeighe, 1909, by The 2d Gyo oon, lon? %
“You have te give the Spanish In
quisitors credit for one thing"
Cynieal Sue; “they didn't
citizens fo- jury duty.”
snys
impanel
he
el
leh
Side
for
view os U. 8
American
8 V4,
navy. It
the
tlie
=
submarine the
for
in world,
we were starting
the Wild
and tne leader
“Yes, it is time we shonid be starting
Tam fae
“1 IS about thine
Isn't it? asked
their leader,
(ipese
of
sald:
Journey up further north
the winter time—bur we when
it is not yet spring. but then, spring
expects to be along before muny, many
weeks pass.”
So the
Journey.
“Even
marshy
sald the
start
geese started off on their
in
mind
there is ice
will
And as they
along, they “No, we wil
mind it. We want to head the travel
ing procession.”
“Chirp, chirp,” eaid little Mr
“It Is time for me to go North.
though
home we
geese,
our
in
flew
not
said:
tobin
“l like to be an early arrival, too,
Perhaps some of my family will not
come until ater.
“Bot | want to go soon now. There
is one person who greets me with ab
solute delight and joy when | appear
“Oh, there the first robin’
says, ‘how glad | am to gee him
seems like spring at last’
“And it
say that”
Then the purple grackies began to
travel, and the bioebirds said it was
high time for them to be leaving
And the other birds vegan to follow
traveling for their spring and summer
homes,
she
is
is a pleasure to hear
They went, carrying with them neo
trunks and no food and no suitcases!
jut their little wings were strong
By JOEBN BLAKE
for
affords an opportunity glory.
- * -
There are men who fight ig the
wrmies of other countries. which
proves they are not fighting for patri
otic motives,
Nor do they fight for the sake of
killing.
They “seek the bubble reputation,
even a! the cannon’s mouth,
We have known many men who
have accomplished important things
in life, and we have never known one
who hns not been very proud of the
recognition his work brought him, and
very glad to work hard for more rec
ognition,
If every one was contented to be a
mere plodder, to walk aleng the by
ways of life, without ever seeking a
taste of fame, nothing worth recording
would have happened in the history of
the world.
The ctatesman who fights for a
cause, the painter who paints a mas
ie i a J
families.
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By MARTHA MARTIN
small bodies full of bravery
The and eagles and owls
were
ravens
already starting in housekeep
their domestic
Leg
Zin
to
hawks
ng and attending
duties when the
The
they
hnwks
traveled
afraid,
than
hawks
not
flew
by
Ihe
the
day,
Were
higher others
rr
So the Geese Started Off on Their
Journey,
duck hawks
for prey as
They would even satiarck
The by night
from all over the birds started on their
journey, which would keep them awny
the
lovkout
and were on
they traveled
the plovers
bobolinks flew
during the spring and summer months
Always the birds had
terpiece, the preacher whe sways con
gregations, all are working partly for
glory, and all eagerly welcome It
when It comes,
And why not?
What is there in life any sweeter
than applause and praise, so long as
it is honestly earned?
Lincoln, as a young man, was de
lighted at the approval he won when
he fought successfully an important
Inwsuit.
Even modest John Keats sought ap
proval, and was broken hearted when
work which he knew to be remarkable
was sneered at by a parcel of smug
critics.
Ambition has played a great part in
the progress of the world, Sometimes
it has been mean and selfish, but as
often it has been high und seble,
It has always been an incentive to
that tremendous effort and labor with
out which no fame and ne achleve
ment is ever possible.
(Copyright)
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Conceived by Lawyers
The expressions “bralnstorm” and
“dementia Americana” are connected
with the Thaw cases, 1907 and 1908
Brainstorm was used to indicate sud
den impulsive insanity, and dementia
Americnnn to deseribe a kind of right.
eous frenzy,
F. IN seating people at a table, an
unmarried person is inadvertently
placed between two married persons
—hushand nna wife-the person so
placed will be married before the
year is out. This is a more or loss
common superstition in the United
States and is one of the many super
stitlons bused upon what might be
called the “contagion of marriage,”
It is, in fact, another example of
sympathetic magle of the “contagious”
variety. Those three great changes
of man's existence~birth, marriage.
and death-appear to have been in
vested by the ancients with peculiar
magical qualities. Or rather, from
them were supposed to emannte pe
evllar minglenl fufluences, They were
Ee
the way for the others to fol
There were birds whe
a Journey of
distance wfore, and they bravely
lowed it
some
young
had never been on “rn
fo
I seemed
al £
along. ai
although
new and strange
“Come along,
“this
come along.” suid tin
tender bird
“In
to vome
Stas
is the way
not get away fron ne.
Follow right behiml’
And the birds did as their leader
flock of the robbins were
Leader Robio
As a great
Hying along, sang
We follow the
spring
Ang some of
bring,
As We Bo up
so cold,
And even now we're being qu
in go #6 sarily in the ses=on
Same think it's
call of spring. spring
It with ue we, too wil
north where it has been
te Doig
birds
reason
we want 10
what 3
upon the
robbins will
we call
spring.
with
bring,
be
entirely out of
But £0 early and see
Ang very
sup
the call of spring
first worm we
spring
Which it soft
bring
happy we'll
the spring
ralne will bring
Weld ne he
we'll
BO ERY
follow
aiway!
‘Yeu
hecome
Leader Hobin added
quite and
ing to sing this song with many vari
and beantiful the
little person known as Dolly whe loves
poetical, we re gw
ntivns tourhes for
us and whom we love.
-
ns ARR
the other day at Porismouth oa
tines,
“We're pol
birds, let
And
Hrain
eo
GOOSE AND GANDER
HINTS
Cy Viola Brothers Shore
.
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TT HERE
fie
NI excL
~~
w lint
siuvin
feed It,
youre prety
govod
people know you think
FOR THE GANDER
A ikes 8 »
straight in
girt | #hi to he ahle (0
her the even if
i
Leave every have
in you, but
you,
woman
never el pone
Be unexpected but dependable
Don’t tell a wortan when you re gonm
her up next But i y¢
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Caps riehty
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© McClure Newspaper Syndicate
“A FINE
at Table
keavily charged with sympathetic
magic,
Many are the superstitious prac
tises nmong people living today in a
primitive state by which it Is sought
to insure the fertility of the race and
they are all based upon sympathetic
magic. Among our current supersti-
thong, alse, there are a number of
exactly the same nature, Supersti
tions regarding death and the dend,
into which sympathetic magic enters
are universal and very numeicus As
to the marriage contagion it, ‘aise,
has Its magical Uterature, though it
is apparently less voluminous than
that of birth ‘and death,
ft will readily be seen then how
a single person placed between a
become infected with
bacillus hy sympathetic
it will be noted that
the unmarried one must be done innd
vertently In order to have the magi
work. Fate must be
hand--no stacking the cards. AM
maglenl operations were, apparesily,
divided by the ancients into wo gen
ernl clasges—one in which the mag
wus performed with the express in
tent of bringing about a result, and
the other in which the magical mwra-
tion, In order to be valid, mas “jas
happen.” The superstition In gues
tion belongs to the Inner class,
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time acting in their own interest
alone—well, these naticns” she sald
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