Humanly Speaking

anger's attention to a projecting mass of rock which bears some resemblance to a human co

suggestion and will not push the analogy too far. The similitude is strictly confined to the locality. It is enough

one. Of course, a nation is not one kind of person; it is composed of many kinds of persons. These persons are diverse in character. All Scotchmen are not canny, nor all Irishmen happy-go-lucky. Those who know a great many Chinamen are acquainted wit

. An English writer says: "As the English, a particularly quick-witted race, tinged with the colors of romance, have long cherished a false pride in their reputed stolidity, and have accepted w

ng crowds and only now and then catch sight of any one who suggests the burly Jo

hat there are certain ways of thinking and feeling that are common to those who have had the same general experience. The

quanimity the reputation for being quite otherwise. Why should they do this? Why should they take pride in their repu

im. He represents a combination of qualities which they admire. Dogged, unimaginative, well-meaning, honest, full of

ndian tribe chooses a fox or a bear as a totem, they must not be taken too literally. But the symbol has a real meaning. It indicat

t been the builders of the Empire, or those who have sustained it in the hours of greatest need. Men of a slower temper, more solid than brilliant, have been the nation's main dependence. "It's dogged as does it." On many a hard-fought field men of the bull-dog breed ha

nswer to that question would be a generalization as wide as humanity. They are of all kinds. Among the ninety-odd millions of human beings inhabi

choose as their symbol? There is a typical character understood and appreciated by all. In every c

scholar that he was, describes a t

ed rough, this s

Charlemagne o

ar's self would

orse' and chall

ted in such an unconventional fashion. Nevertheless he was an American and was able to understand that a man might be capable of such improprieties a

braver air, m

hood, and I fac

rson Brick and Lafayette Kettle and the other expansive patriots whom he met on his travels

always been the strongest. There has been no capital to which ambitious youths went up to seek their fortune. In each generation they have gone to the frontier where opportunities awaited them. There they encountered, on the rough edges of society, rough-and-ready men in whom they recognized their natural superiors. These men

ackson, Black Hawk, and me were to travel through the United States we would bring out, no matter what kind of weather, more people to see us than any other three people now living among the fifteen millions now inhabiting the United States. And what woul

to "a place he ain't used to" is not only an object of curiosity, but he elicits enthusiastic admiration. Any awkwa

they are assured of a sympathetic audience when they tell of the way they have risen in the world. There is no need for them to apologize for any lack of early advantages, fo