"O, wad some power the giftie gi'e us,
To se oursel' as ithers see us."
Bobby Burns Was, what we would
call now-a-days, a "wise guy."
We Americans think we are the
"whole show," but are we?
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the faaway
mous East Indian poet, winner of the
Nobel Prize for literature, doesn't
think we are, and recently criticized us
most unmercifully. He said we are
building ugly cities, are too self
assured, are nationally conceited and
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I honor the man who in the consci
entious discharge of his duty dares to
stand alone the world, with ignorant,
intolerant judgment, may condemn,
the countenances of relatives may be
averted, and the hearts of friends grow
cold, but the sense of duty done shall
be sweeter than the applause of the
world, the countenances of relatives or
the hearts of friends.Charles Sumner.
are forgetting the fine simplicity "of
i
simplicity, taking time to get the
modern ideas of life. Everything is1
He may be white brown vellow or
hiont ,t orown yellow or
black, but he remembers that one of
his ancestors was probably a plumed
grandee of Old Spain. You may scoff
at his ideas, you may laugh at his
smile, treat you with respect and po
liteness and greet you with expres-
A 'T A
R. W. Austin of Tennessee to establish
a Negro Military Training School is
the thinking, far-seeing, intelligent
sponsor sucna bill.
colored men who are willing to barter
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more coming.
"HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT."
My ear is pained
My soul is sick with every day's report
Of wrong and outrage, with which earth is filled.
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
