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Thockeroy Wrofe-

And in the world as in the school, You know how fate may turn and shift, The prize be sometimes to the fool, The race not always to the swift. Who misses or who gains a prize, Go, lose or conquer if you can, But if you fall or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.

Orotory

For extended flights of oratory, for beautiful thoughts and phrase construction that delighted the ear and the mind, the famous agnostic, Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, soldier in the Federal Army during the Civil War, had no counterpart in American history. It is related that Abraham Lincoln once heard Ingersoll speak, and returning home said to his wife: "What a marvelous instrument is human speech, when played by a master."

Our children today ,."r1 "il tJo rt.t. of the great Americans who have put life and color into our history by the grandeur of their speech. Most of them have heard or read of the eloquent Patrick Henry and his immortal words"Give me liberty, or give me death"-his equally famous oration that ended-"If this be treason, make the most of it." But it should be remembered that Patrick Henry, in his famous debates, had no antagonist worthy of his steel, so far did he outclass his field. There were no other titans of logic and eloquence to thunder against him, or to attempt to confuse his golden tongue. ***

History tells of a series of debates that took place in the United States Senate at one time, with the great Daniel Webster and the powerful and dramatic Henry Clay on one side, and John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, often called "the master logician of his age," opposing them single,handed. An English journalist, sent over here to report those debates, wrote back to his paper in London: "History has no parallel. There has been nothing like it since the debates of Milton's angels." Yet few Americans today remember that it ever happened, or that such giants of intellect, with golden tongues attuned to their marvelous thinking machinery, ever graced this American soil, and filled our chambers of Congress with the marvels of their oratorical magic.

The three great orators of ancient history were, of course, outstanding: Pericles, Demosthenes, and Cicero, the first two Greeks, the third Roman. Demosthenes and Cicero were of the faming type of orators, the type which William

Jennings Bryan represented. Their eloquence rose in speed, and power, and rhythm as they pyramided. pericles was the ponderous type of orator. Something of his style may be gleaned from the fact that, before every public utterance, he prayed to the Gods that he might use no unnecessary word, and misuse no word. That was the school to which the late Senator Joe Bailey, of Texas, belonged. As he became more dramatic, more enthused, more inspired by his own thoughts, he slowed down instead of speeding up, making every word carry its burden of power and of logic. He never "shot to scatter."

Bailey ended one of his speeches on Americanism, with these words, slowly, powerfully, every word driven in like a railroad spike: "I agree with Lincoln, that all the armies of Europe could never make a footprint in the Blue Ridge, or drink from the waters of the Ohio. But if this nation ever dies, it will die from within, and not from without: it will be suicide, and not murder. And I warn you, my friends, that if this nation ever dies, there will be no resurrection morn; there will be no guardian angel to roll away the rock from our sepulchre door; there will be no Easter morn for this republic."

Shokespeore's Birfhplace

It was visitors day at Stratford on Avon, the birthplace of the great William Shakespeare, and the guides were busy handling the callers, taking them all through the famous house, and explaining all the sights of interest. Two typical English chappies finally arrived, and a guide escorted them into the house, and began showing them about. One of them had dropped behind his friend and the guide, when those two entered the bedroom where the Bard of Avon was actually born.

"Right here," said the guide to the one who accompanied him, "right there in that corner by that window, in fact, William Shakespeare, the world's greatest poet, was born.,' The chappie showed great excitement at the news, and called loudly to his lagging friend, who came hurrying in to see what all the excitement was about.

"Think of it, Reggie old fellow," said the first one to enter, "this is where William Shakespeare was born. yes sir, right there in that corner by that window, he first saw light of day."

"My word, old deah," said the other, fixing his monocle and staring curiously around the room as though for something he expected to see, but did not. ,.Are you certain?',

"Oh, indeed, very certain !" said his friend. .,The guide here assures me that he was born right there by that window."

"f am very, very much surprised, old fellow,,' said his friend. "I always thought he was born in a manger."

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