Notes

NOTES.

Character is the one thing whose foundations go down to the world's granite; and when to character we add culture, we come into an inherit- ance more durable than time, and richer than the kingdoms of this world. Edwin Markham.

And in reviewing the lives of the great, we can only say that failure is the selection and emphasis of secondary and important things in life, and that success is the skill in selecting the essential and converting one's offices and honors upward into character and service that abide and are really worth while. Dr. Rillis.

To be able to throw the searchlight of a superb personality before us, wherever we go through life, and to leave a trail of sunshine and blessing behind us; to be loved because we scatter flowers of good cheer, wherever we move, is an infinitely greater achievement — a grander work —than to pile up millions of cold, unsympathetic, mean, hard dol- lars. Success.

And after all it is the people that constitute a State. Let me quote a few lines on that subject: What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlements or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate, Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned, Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake, or glen, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude;

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                 Men who their duties know,
            But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain.

These constitute a State. Hon. B. S. Rodey, N. M.