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Show INCERSCLL'3 CHOICE IN LIFE Dcautiful Word Painting of an Idral Existence. A young man who sought a cleik-ship cleik-ship In ono of the departments tt Washington once nsked the lato Robert Rob-ert O. Ingersoll for his Indorsement end this was Ingcrsoll's reply: "Young man, 1 would rather have forty acres of land, with a log cabin on It and the woman I lovo In tho cabin with a little graBsy, winding path leading down to tho spring where tho water gurgles from the lips of tho earth, whistling day and night to tho white pebbles a perpetual poem with hollyhocks growing at tho corner cor-ner of the house, and morning glories blooming over tho low-thatched door with lattice work over tho window so thnt tho sunlight would fall checked check-ed on the dimpled babe In the cradlo aud birds llko songs with wings hovering In tho summer air than bo tho clerk of any government on earth." |