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Show populace to tlio dignity of poo-pie. poo-pie. He taught, paciliealed, civilized. civ-ilized. He was Indefatigable and immovable, lie conquered violence by a smile, despotism by sarcasm, Infallibility by Irony, obsdnancy by perseverance, Ignorance by truth. I have used the word, smile. It Is Voltaire. Vol-taire. Whatever may be his just wrath. Is passes, and t lie Irritated Voltaire always gives way to the Voltaire calmed. Then In that profound pro-found eye the smile appears. That smile, I repeat, is Voltaire. Luminous, Lumi-nous, that smiie was fruitful also. The new soecity, the society for equality nr.d concession, and that beginning of fraternity which calls itself tolerance, reciprocal good will, the just accord of men and rights, reason recognized as the supreme , law, the annihilation of pre.lr and fixed opinions, the sereif" souls, the spirit of indiilgoneceiving-of indiilgoneceiving-of reason, harmony, peacemiage of nil has come from that grenicity and nington Earmark Identification ill the Earmarks rather than linger-pri,., as a means of Identification Is proposed pro-posed by Prof. Henry F. Perkins, director of the Fleming museum of the University of Vermont, who has discovered nearly l."0 distinct characteristic char-acteristic formations in the human ear. Not necessarily connected with the criminal, eastern monarchs have used the thumb's impression, the "sign manual," as a surety against forgery, India's courts have used prints for Identification and Amcrl-ican Amcrl-ican maternity hospitals for Identifying Identi-fying babies, photography, not portraiture, por-traiture, has shown individuality In the human ear, once thought only found in the hands. I'rofessor Por-kins Por-kins lias called attention to this most easily recognized means of identifying criminals. Literary IM-gest. HUGO'S TRIBUTE TO GREAT SAGE i Eulogy of Voltaire Held as Masterpiece. Just a century after Voltaire's 'death In 177S, Victor Hugo delivered an oration on the man and his abiding abid-ing influence, a writer in the Kansas City Star recalls. Hugo was not only his country's greatest poet in the Nineteenth century, but equally famed as the writer of such celebrated celebrat-ed dramatic novels as "Notre Dame" and "Les Miserables." He was also a superb orator, and it is safe to say that no more eloquent words have been spoken concerning the Eighteenth Eight-eenth century sage during all the years which elapsed since 177S when Voltaire laid down the burden of his body. The following passage from that address, May 30, 1S7S. vividly sums up what the later great Frenchman felt concerning the earlier great man of the same race : "In the presence of this society, frivolous and dismal, Voltaire alone, having before Ii is eyes those united voices, the court, the nobility and capital ; that unconscious power, that blind multitude; that terrible magistracy, magis-tracy, so severe to subjects, so docile to the master, crushing and flattering, kneeling on the people before the king: that clergy, vile melange of hypocrisy and fanaticism: Voltaire alone, declared war against that coalition of all the social iniquities, against that enormous and terrible world, and he accepted battle with it. And what was bis weapon? That which has the lightness of the wind and the power of the thunderbolt. A pen. With that weapon he fought: with that we'apnn be conquered. "Gentlemen, let us salute that memory. . . . He conquered the old code and the old dogma. He conquered the feudal lord, the Gothic Goth-ic judge. ... He raised the |