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stock Is large and varied, our aim Il
please And the door shut finally
leaving him alone with his grief.
"UItimate America.
Picks Special Reporter at the Rev. Cook.
Lecture.l
Gladstone says, and | repeatit boldly
and fe%arlessly, that twelve is more
than eleven II | am in the pres
enee of scholars approving nod from
the scholars, and it is with baited
breath | make this statement. Bear
it well in mind, for on this it is that
| base the astounding ideas to be adj
vanced this evening iMl,!!ll! As | sat
in my study in Water street, in Bos-
TON, not a long while since, holding
in my right hand a long and affection
ate letter from Dickens-po, he's dead
from Casar-not from either, but
from Thomas Carlyle, in my left hand
a copy of that vile, filthy and vulgar
sheet, the New York World, | unused
as became ME to muse. | repeat, and
dare a successful contradiction, |
MUsED over the dead of my genera
ton. Beside the graves of that gem
GRAFTON let US muse. All muse.
Caesars empire was not as large as the
United Statesl!i Oh, Ultimate, Ulti-
mate America. Beside the graves of
the departed fast-thinning generation
| say this. Yet who dare contra
dict ?lllnlll In a recent conversation
with Ruth. Hayes and Carl Shurz,
Hayes said that as soon as Conkling
and Blaine were arrested, imprisoned
or banished all would be well. The
other day, while enjoying a social game
of seven-up with that pure and gentle
poet, Jim Lowell, / said: "Jime, let's
take a drink" Tears bedimmed
his gentle and pure orbs, as in
faltering accents he replied {.
I'm your h~uckleberry. Does
this not PROVE that, as we have
great river systems, we must, and | say
it BOLDLY, have plenty ofwater lllllll
All Ultimate, Ultimate America.
By the grave of the departed let US
muse. Carlyle, Macaulay, Mills,
Gladstone, Huxley, Tyndall, Tom
Webster. Jefferson Gall friends
of mine), from the dim and shadowy
of the misty dim distance,
beekOn us on in this noble road. [
for one. though alone and friendless.
shall follow in their footsteps | am
a lone orphan and my strong right arm
is gone (caused by the f. t. g.-fast
thinning ~generation). YET. | say
here, | am proud Of America,
and had rather be an American, CON
temptible as we are, than to be an
African I'LL! Thunder upon thunder
of applause for the mans boldness.
By the graves of the f. t. g. let US
muse. All Ultimate, Ultimate.
America, | shudder to think
Of you in the year 1926. Yet [ give
no date. | could if l would. but
time fOrbids, say in ten or twelve
thousand years. with the population
9Z1 to the square inch. | shudder
all the scholars shudder1 to think of
the crowding there will be. l say it
there would then be a
crowd liM,i IAll the scholars admit
it. Some Of my hearers may live till
then, and will then ponder over my
present speaking.
Civil service reform must come. yet
until this weary heart, sad with long
musing over the departed generation,
finds a home in some fat-fat- No
| an NOT a candidate for any Office
all is bad, and reform. is a sham!!!lll
Yet | had rather be an American with
a good thing under Hayes than to be
an Afrieanl!llll By the graves of the
departed and fast-thinning generation
let us muse. America is dear to me.
Ohll how delr. As dear "as the
blood which swashes in and
out Of this sad, sad heart of mine"
Again seated in study, within a
throw Of jim Lowell. |
dreampt a dream. | say boldly | was
not asleep lis only a poetical and
metaphOrical way | have of calling
to ending of this rambling
So here goes for something
exquisitely fine. the result Of aesthetic
and long musing over the {. t.
| saw three bummers come shut
fling into a warm and gigantic bar
room their Threats were parched
with a long and enforced temperance.
For the NECTAR Of the gods they
Without it life became as a
mockery. Alas! can such things be
America? The black angel trusted
their promises not. "No soap. no
drink was his ieering reply. They
passed sadly, madly, out, and from the
and doors came the fendish
Of ten thousand gamins aud i'll
natured men. This teaches the dis
tribution Of property. They would
have been efficient. but had not SUI
wealth ~ | am about to leave
you soon, soon, soon-soon Joseph
will be heard no more. This
heart will at last. thank God, find
a resting place, this weary brain be
rested!l All! Ultimate, Ultimate,
America nllNm
DR.. Carver, at a recentexhibition in