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Show CHAUTAUQUA HAS A FUTURE. Today Kcv. Chas. F. Aked lectures at Chautauqua; on "Wednesday "Wednes-day and Thursday. Henry J. Allen of Kansas spoke; Dr. C4. Stanley Hall has been lecturing on educational subjects during the entire week. Other speakers of national reputation have been present, each with an important message to convey. This Chautauqua appeals to us with great force, not that the beginning has been encouraging, but because the organization promises prom-ises so much more that is good in an educational way and carries with it possibilities almost unlimited in the making of these annual events the most important intellectual treats in the West. The men who have lent-their time and talents to begin this work will live to see the Ogden Chautauqua a success beyond their fondest fond-est dreams if, now that the foundation has been well laid, the people generally join in shaping the structure in all its prospectively beautiful beau-tiful lines. With the brightest minds making a yearly pilgrimage to Ogden, to convey great truths and new thoughts, it should not be long before be-fore the audiences at Chautauqua include many of the best people of every place within 500 miles of this city. We arc prone to measure success in dollars. Here is an opportunity oppor-tunity to not only achieve a financial success, but to win an intellectual intellect-ual triumph and a moral victory that would be priceless, while af-Xording af-Xording Ogden the best advertising it possibly could receive as a desirable de-sirable place in which to make a home amid the refining influences of a well conducted Chautauqua. |