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consistent with the terms of this act,
are hereby repealed.
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and be in force from and after the first
day of July, 1908.
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PATRIOTS AND HEROES.
Lecture on How They Are Made and
What Makes Them.
I Rev. Harry W. Knowles lecture on
''HoW Heroes are Made'' which was
delivered at the opera house last Fri
DAY night was listened to by a small
audience. The storm kept many away
and non-interest also was responsible
Tor many vacant seats. Mr.. Knowles,
lecture was one fascinating medley of
wit and wisdom, satire and sarcasm,
and humor and pathos. He interspersed
his lecture with many stories told in a
manner to point a moral and adorn a
tale, and with his sunshine and shadow
OF eloquence he kept his audience with
him in close attention for over two
hours. In his delivery and his gestures
he showed clearly his dramatic genius
which gave him the power to make his
audience laugh at some nirth-provok-
ing story and then awe them with
some tragic bit of oratory. 80.
He showed that the present age was
one in which there were the grandest
opportunities and possibilities. The
pessimistic ideas and forebodings of
the chronic kickers looked like thir-
teen cents when the speaker got
through laying out his field for twen-
-tieth century action. He denied that
the opportunities were growing less
and that the land was all being taken
up and that in a few years there would
be no room for the race. Texas alone
could house and feed the world, and
still have enough room left for play
ground as large as Connecticut and a
burial ground as large as. New: Jersey.
Canada alone, as yet undiscovered in
many respects, was larger than the
United States proper with Alaska not
included. In China and South America
and Africa there were hundreds of
miles of territory that has not as yet
seen the traces of the march of empire.
In the development of the race for
the higher duties of life the speaker
said that we lacked play ground as
communities and nations. ALI our
sports are getting to be betting and
money making propositions Heroes
and patriots are made from free romp-
ing children whose parentage was one
of supreme love and affection.
The innocent and ambitious barefoot
boy was the proper kind of material
from which to make heroes and patriots.
A patriot was one who lived for his
country, while parasite was one who
lived off of his country. The thing to
be regretted in the educationzof chill
dren was that eighty-five per- cent of
the school children never get beyond
the eighth grade. There was never
more need Of Intelligence and the best
education that our schools and colleges
could give the children of the country.
We are on the threshold of great dis
coveries and developments in which
wireless telegraphy, liquid air, and
gravitation are to play an important
part. The times called for and de-
manded the best that was in man who
should be equipped in every way pos
sible for the great battles of life.
knowledge was power and could make
the desert to, blossom as the rose. In
the matter of farming the man with a
college education who understands
chemistry, etc., was armed and
equipped as his forefathers never were
and was able to make the soil much
more productive.
The speaker referred to the many
changes that. were taking place in
trade conditions, and said that comb
nations would lead to cooperation in
the long run, and that legislation nor
courts could not stop the inevitable
tenency of trade and commerce.
Heroes and patriots were not always
to be found in the high and public
places. Most of them were in the
humber walks of life. If only the cur
tain could be lifted the world would
see some awful battles of the soul, with
heroes just as great as the world has
ever known. The ideal hero was the
man or woman who would do that
which was right, whatever the cost
and sacrifice. We as nation needed
to preserve our Puritan conscience for
without it we could not expect to last
long as great nation. ....
The speakers heroes and patriots
were like Garibaldi, who at the age of
seven told his mother that he wanted
to be George Washington, and the
life and deeds of the great Italian
patriot were graphically portrayed by
the speaker. President Roosevelt in
his bitter hatred of corruption in high
and low places and his unblemished