Show 0 TEMPORA 1 0 MORES 1 the years how they fly the th changes how they comel come more white on the head more mellow let us appe app in the heart are the old more grey tu in the heart and more moire generous in the heart the young both are twel twelve months older and both ought tp ba twelve months better yet I 1 sometimes think lift life in the W conception is wrong end rp the lower end of all life Is more powerful for good or ill III than toe thle upper although in animal life the currents current fl are horizontal as a matter of fact I 1 believe the human being was once a horizontal animal and much of hw but beastliness cannot be satisfactorily accounted for on any other hypothesis he became erect through the enlarge ment of the frontal vertebrae of bb spine he became a civilized being so flo much faster than the physiological cal changes goll followed owed that we have man with head in the skies of intellectual activity while all below his waist diat ul ix buried in the mud of animal passion that is why civilization never con quers auers but only rises to the height where wealth gives passion power to reign and then comes a tall fall I 1 that has been the history of the world of man and judging from preb present indications that history wll repeat itself the united states the heir or of all the ages and the latest botn born OU of time is no exception to the rule rn la poverty our people were godlike in wealth they are pirates the future reads that we are to become serfs to those who hold the money of the us notion in their clutch we are over tha edge of that condition now all tam talk of immediate revolution is the rt rant of men who are merely irritated ards they have the ballot in they their hands and dare not use it they WM will never use other weapons their chil dren born in serfdom and elu education cation under hardest lines may do so out but tb taft present generation never there is only one man now before tho public who may may change conditions hla r name is wolcott and he is a western man belonging to the new civilization of ef the united states six months ago I 1 sent a letter to a boston paper ing that wolcott would be the man woo in 1900 would sweep down from the crest of the continent as aa the choice of r the people for president and it loolen now as if my prediction would be fulfilled i ed wolcott has no longer any bade element he left that in england i two or three years ago he has now only ats head to take care caare of and he seems gems capable of doing that in the new year we are to see some remarkable political changes but re laiglon them the thing that claims to be all in all will vo igo on grovelling gro velling in the maze of cobwebs as before 0 for a man i A whole man who can stir the people from their rust and rot of into doing something for humanity to pats the compliments of the season and wish your friends a happy new year is stale and unprofitable there Is nothing in it and we ak au know it if we know anything I 1 wish my friends a universal earthquake that shall shake cowards and hoarders boarders hoar ders of sold gold into a conviction that this earth and all on it is but a chip floating on the sea of time that may be ground to pulp at any unexpected minute and wl all its inhabitants sent to hell un 2 shrivel shrived sh alg rived I 1 have done the best I 1 coul could d aad and ready to take my chances I 1 have wronged no living being but have wrong in my opinion arefes slon blon of fajth faith in christ amounts to less than nothing if you have not been and there are millions of professing christians who will wake 5 to the awful mistake that faith alone can save faith without works is leader deader than a last years maggot A works without faith will beat it out of 0 sight eight so I 1 can only say to my friends get in the works even if you neglect the faith in that way your lives will count for the benefit of your posterity no matter what becomes ot f you I 1 CHARLES ELLIS |