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Show I TWO GREAT LIVES. The funeral of Chicago's most distinguished educator was hardly over when her most distinguished distin-guished merchant and business man died. Both were wonderful evidences of the possibilities of our free country; both supply shining examples to all the young men of the country, to incite their hopes, to quicken their energies, to cause them to make their fight for fame and fortune on high lines. Indeed, it is easier to make the fight that way than to take a level that brings men more or less in contact with what is base and unclean. un-clean. First of all, Professor Harper and Marshall Mar-shall Field were gentlemen. One was a gentleman gentle-man when a student unknown; the other was a gentleman when clerk in a country store. The self-respect they left their early homes with never forsook them; neither ever had to seem to be better bet-ter than he was. They were splendid men every day, and young men should note the fact and realize that after all it is easier to live a high life I than a low one. |