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Show Theodore Tiltos opened his lecture lec-ture season at the Cooper Institute, New York. He had a very large audience, including many ladies, and was received with great applause, which, says the New York Times, "was manifestly based upon an active ac-tive sympathy in a cause he was supposed sup-posed to represent, not unmiiod, however, with a natural feeling of curiosity at the character of his utterances." ut-terances." His address was on "The Problem of Life," and displayed the peculiar characteristics of Mr. Til-ton's Til-ton's style. One of his best sentences is reported as follows : A man's cbaricter wai not only in bis own koeping, bu'. i', was in bis own making. Ah I bo said, Uo mi-ant character char-acter and not reputation, A m-iii's character char-acter was what he was; a mtn's repuU-tijnwsswbat repuU-tijnwsswbat people irnaginei him to bo. Character was one thing, reputation reputa-tion another, ar.d somonm-s they wcto ns far aDftrl as the est and west difltir-ont difltir-ont as day and night. Character and reputation I Why, the grout t-t character char-acter in all hWtory m-ido b'Uiself oi no reputation. Public men were constantly m making And losing reputations, as tho stars went down and came up; but there was this diilarence, that a ttar that sets will rise ajiftia, but a etar that fills is lofit fjrever. |