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Show WEALTH WAITS THE GARNERING To every man there will come his dally bread In answer to tils dally prujer, though It conic from the milling mill-ing of vvheijt or be the salmon caught nt the falls of the Spokane, without let or hindrance from any power of earth. If there Is food In plenty In one region, ns by the fnll of nn avalanche ava-lanche down n mountain, It will certainly cer-tainly seek consumption In nnother region. And this the American boy and girl owe to the good Providence nnd to the brave men who made this country ono nnd have kept It one. It Is too much the blindness of our time to speak ns If MJch n simple business busi-ness ns dally food came to us ns n matter of course. There Is, Indeed, n careless habit In which Americans often speak. Pnurtli of July orators and street-corner street-corner braggarts alike talk of the natural nat-ural pioducts of this country nlmost In the tone of the emigrants who expect ex-pect to pick up n doubloon upon the sldevvnlk. One Is tempted to nsk such braggarts why the country did not produce such wealth 100 years or 'J00 years ago. Why was Dakota then a desert? Why were the hills of Alabama only n biding plnec for n few thousand Creek lndlnns? Why did they not forge the Iron under their feet? Why did not the Iroquois In westem New York pick from their trees the peaches nud the pears such as have been growing there this autumn? The answer Is this: All the wealth of America comes to her from the work of her men and women. The victory which yields It Is their victory. vic-tory. It Is the victory of spirit conquering con-quering matter. It cornea In the dally miracle of dally life, where children of (Sod, led by Cm, taught by Ood, alive In his life and fcllnw workmen with him, carry out his designs and subdue the earth. It Is neither sensible nor grateful to speak of teeming granaries, of Increasing In-creasing trade, of new mines, of oil, of Iron or of gas as If these things were wealth In themselves. They are only wealth when man strikes the rock and Its wnters flow. And this man must be not the savage man who enrcs only for his own personal per-sonal appetite. It must lie' man, the child of (lod, seekltiK n future better than today, determined to bring In a nobler ago than that which he lives In. Kdvvnrd Kverett Ilule. Almost new eight room frame house with clothes closets, pantry nd Incomplete bath room. Large lot 11 1-2 by 13 1-2 rods. City water wa-ter on place. Unusual bargain. Quick sale desired. Call this office. of-fice. AdT-ll!0 FolDles tf DlcVeno. Ciarles Dickens Invariably wrota In blue Ink on blue pnperns he helu' the impression thnt the color of Ink nnd i.aper grcavly facilitated the flow of bis Ideas. Another Idlosj ncrnsy of his was tho writing of day nnd month lb full, ns, January twenty-sixth." |