PETS OF THE WHITE HOUSE HERE'S to a brace of birds high in favor with the present Master of the White House THE STORK AND THE ALBEMARLE WILD TURKEY! JULIA WYATT BULLARD. THE STRENUOUS LIFE I PREACH to you, then, my countrymen, that our country calls not for the life of ease, but for the life of strenuous endeavor. The twentieth century looms before us big with the fate of many nations. If we stand idly by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace; if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world. Let us therefore boldly face the life of strife, resolute to do our duty well and manfully, resolute to uphold righteousness by deed and word; resolute to be both honest and brave, to serve high ideals, yet to use practical methods. Above all, let us shrink from no strife, moral or physical, within or without the nation, provided we are certain that the strife is justified, for it is only thru strife, thru hard and dangerous endeavor, that we shall ultimately win to the goal of true national greatness. Theodore Roosevelt Chicago. THE MIGHTY WEST THE Mighty West! I love it best, The Mighty West! I love it best, The Mighty West! I love it best, Of sentiment they also have "Right Much" and more a-coming; The Mighty West! I love it best, C. E. FISHER. |