get away from home at night is lack of entertainment at home. Don't reserve all your social charms for friends and strangers abroad, and keep dullness for home consumption.

What might we not hope for this world if we could fill it with happy Christian homes, supported by true men, and presided over by loving women, where every one, young and old, conspired to adorn the home with all the light the mind can yield, and all the love the heart can furnish!

Was Jesus invited to your wedding? Were the nuptial vows sanctified by His presence? Make Him, then, your abiding Guest. Then you will grow in mutual affinity and spiritual assimilation, realizing a happiness in the sacred union which you never dreamed of in your youthful love. Your last days of marriage will be happier than the first, because you lived for each other, and He who was present and sanctified your marriage vows will crown your union with the love that never chills, and keeps on growing until it leaps over the grave and you are caught up to share the unending fellowship of the marriage supper of the Lamb in heaven.

XXXIII.

NO FOREIGN FLAGS ON CITY HALL.

I AM decidedly opposed to the display of any other flag on our State and municipal buildings than the Stars and Stripes. Imagine Americans in London, Dublin or Rome demanding the display of our flag on the public buildings in those cities on the Fourth of July! When the foreigner becomes an American citizen it is his duty to celebrate our own national holidays. It is perfectly natural to have sympathy for one's native country, and foreigners may with propriety privately celebrate any event that may have been a blessing to the land of their birth, but they have no right to expect the municipal or federal authorities to review their parades or float from the public buildings any other flag than our own flag.

It is deeply to be regretted that many naturalized citizens do not Americanize. On the contrary, they propose to Europeanize America. There is no such thing as "Irish-Americans,” "German-Americans" or "Italian-Americans," any more than there are French-Irishmen, Ital

ian-Englishmen or German-Frenchmen. We must all be Americans. One flag, one country. There should be no such thing as the "Irish vote," the "German vote" or "Italian vote," for which rascally demagogues of both parties bid, but only the American vote.

All over our country colonists buy land and build up States within a State. In the West I saw little Germanies here, little Scandinavias there and little Irelands yonder. Certain quarters of our city in language, customs and costumes are essentially foreign. If this insweeping immigration into our land is not Americanized it will foreignize us. Among native Americans there is an alarming tendency to depreciate American life. Many Americans look across the ocean for their example.

I cheerfully admit that thousands upon thousands of our naturalized citizens are useful and honorable men, an inestimable and indispensable acquisition to our country, and these adopted citizens of every land and tongue indorse what I say.

The adopted citizen who is not willing to adopt these sentiments cannot be a good American citizen.

XXXIV.

GETTING ON IN THE WORLD.

GETTING on in the world does not depend so much upon a man's surroundings as upon himself. God gives to every man wings strong enough to bear him far above his surroundings. If a man does not get up and on he should not blame fate, but himself. The man who gets on in the world cultivates the higher attributes of his manhood, devotes his time to learning how to do better work, which so often insures that prosperity which clamor and complaining never win. The men at the summit fought their way up from the bottom. Columbus was the son of a weaver, Homer of a small farmer, Demosthenes of a cutler, Franklin of a tallow-chandler and soap-boiler, and Shakespeare of a wool-stapler. Robert Burns was a plowman, Napoleon was of an obscure family at Corsica, John Jacob Astor sold apples on the streets of New York, A. T. Stewart swept out his own store, Cornelius Vanderbilt laid the foundation of his vast fortune with fifty dollars given him by his mother, Lincoln was

a rail-splitter, Grant was a tanner, and Garfield was a towboy on a canal. Our most successful men began life without a dollar. By hard work and unconquerable perseverance you can rise above the low places of poverty. True, you may never shine in the galaxy of the great ones of this earth, but you may fill your lives and homes with blessings and make the world wiser and better and nobler for your having lived in it. Financial success won at the sacrifice of conscience is the worst kind of a failure. Many crimes have been committed in the name of success. Many men have obtained thousands and millions of dollars by legal or illegal thieving and bought their way into society, who ought to be in the penitentiary. Cash cannot take the place of character. Better to be a man than merely a millionaire. "Tis only noble to be good." My prescriptions for getting on in the world are simple.

First. Enter into that business for which nature intended you.

Second. Stand on your own legs. The best thing to do is to throw a young man overNo man ever drowned who was worth

board.

saving.

Third. Work. Ninety per cent. of what men call genius is only a talent for hard work.