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Paris, April 23. —Savants, professors and students of the University of Paris crowded the assembly hall of the Sorbonne this afternoon to hear Col. Theodore Roosevelt lecture on “Citi zenship in a Republic." It was an ap preciative audience and the lecturer was frequently applauded. Mr. Roosevelt said: Foundations of Our Republic. This was the most famous univer sity of medieval Europe at a time when no one dreamed that there was anew world to discover. Its services to the cause of human knowledge al ready stretched far back into the remote past at the time when my fore fathers, three centuries ago. when among the sparse bands of traders, plowmen, wood choppers and flsher folk, who, in a hard struggle with the iron unfriendliness of the Indian haunted land, were laying the founda tions of what has now become the giant republic of the west. To con quer a continent, to tame the shaggy roughness of 'vild nature means grim warfare; and the generations engaged in It cannot keep, still loss add to, the stores cf garnered wisdom which were therein, and which are still in the hands of their hre’hren who dwell in the old land. To conquer the wilderness means to wrest victory from ths same hostile forces with which mankind struggled in the im memorial infancy of our race. The primeval conditions must be met by primeval qualities which are Incom patible with the retention of much that has been painfully acquired by humanity as through the ages it has striven upward toward civilization. In conditions so primitive there can bo but a primitive culture. Building the Higher Life. As the country grows, its people, who have won success In so many linos, turn back to try to recover the pos sessions of the mind and the spirit, which perforce their fathers threw aside in order better to wager the first rough battles for the continent their children inherit. The leaders of thought and of action grope their way torward to anew life, realizing, some times dimly, sometimes clear-sighted ly, that the life of material gain, whether for a nation or an individual. Is of value only as a foundation, only ns there is added to it the uplift that comes from devotion to loftier ideals. The new life thus fought can in part be developed afresh from what is round about in the new world; but it can be developed in full only by freely drawing upon the treasure houses of the old world, upon the treasures stored in the ancient abodes of wisdom and learning, such as this where I speak today. It is a mistake for any nation merely to copy another; but it is an even greater mistake, it is a proof of weak ness in any nation, not to he anxious to learn from another, and willing and able to adapt (hat learning to the new national conditions and make it fruit ful and productive therein. It is for us of the new world to sit at the feet of the Gamaliel of the old; then if we have the right stuff in us, we can show that Paul, in his turn, can become a teacher as well as a scholar. Today, I shall speak to you on the subject of individual citizenship, the one subject of vital importance to you, my hearers, and to me and my coun trymen, because you and we are citi zens of great democratic republics. A democratic republic such as each of ours—an effort to realize in Its full sense government by, of, and for the people—represents the most gigantic of all possible social experiments, the one fraught with greatest possibilities alike for good and for evil. Great Lesson of France. France has taught many lessons to other nations; surely ono of the most Important is the lesson her whole his tory teaches, that a high artistic and literary development is compatible with notable leadership in arms and statescraft. The brilliant gallantry of the French soldier has for many cen turies been proverbial, and during these same centuries at every court in Europe the “free masons of fashion’’ have treated the French tongue as their common speech; while every art ist and man of letters, and every man of science able to appreciate that mar velous Instrument of precision, French prose, has turned towards Franco for aid and inspiration. How long the lead ership in arms and letters has lasted is curiously illustrated by the fact that the earliest masterpiece in modern tongue is the splendid French epic which tells of Roland's doom and the Charm In Expression. An amiable expression while think ing is like an agreeable Inflection of the voice while speaking. An exag geration In either case brings un natural and many times quite unpleas ant results.—From an article In the Circle. Too Little Regard for Others. One of tho greatest mischiefs of the present day Is the spirit of go-as-you please which prevails.—Walter E. Hansel. vengeance of Charlemagne when the lords of the Frankish host were stricken at Roncesvallea Need of Individual Character. Let those who have, keep, let those who have not, strive to attain a high standard of cultivation and scholar ship. Yet let us remember that these stand second to certain other things. There Is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character, the sum of those qualities which wo mean when we speak of a man’s force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor. 1 believe in exercise of the body, always provided that we keep in mind that physical development is a means and not an end. I believe, of course, In giving to all (be people a good education. But the education must contain much be sides book-learning in order to be really good. We must ever remember that no keenness, and subtleness of Intellect, no polish, no cleverness In any way make up for the lack of great solid qualities—self-restraint, self-mas tery. common sense, the power of ac cepting Individual responsibility and yet, of acting In conjunction with others. Courage and resolution; these are the qualities which mark a mas terful people. Without them no peo ple can control Itself or save itself from being controlled from the out side. I speak to a brilliant assemblage: I speak In a great university which represents the flower of the highest Intellectual development; I pay all homage to intellect, and to elaborate and specialized training of the intel lect; and yet I know I shall have the assent of all you present when 1 add that more Important still are the com monplace, every-day qualities and vir tues. The Evils of Sterility. In the next place the good man should bo both a strong and a brave man; that is, he should bo able to fight, he should bo able to serve his country as a soldier if the need arises. There are well-meaning philosophers who declaim against the unrighteous ness of war. They are right, only they lay all their emphasis upon the unrighteousness. War is a dreadful thing, and unjust; war is a crime against humanity. But it is such a crime because it is unjust, not because it is war. The choice must ever be In favor of righteousness, and this whether the alternative ho peace or whether the alternative he war. The question must not be merely, Is there to be peace or war? The question must bo, is the right to prevail? Are the great laws of righteousness once more to bo fulfilled? And the answer from a strong and virile people must be, “Yes," whatever the cost. Every honorable effort should always be made by the Individual in private life to keep out of a brawl, to keep out of trouble; but no self-respecting indi vidual. no self-respecting nation, can or ought to submit to wrong. Finally, even more important than ability to work, even more important than ability to fight at need, is it to remember that the chief of blessings for any nation is that It shall leave its seed to Inherit the land. It was (lie crown of blessings in Biblical times, and it is the crown of blessings now. The greatest of all curses is the curse of sterility, and the severest of all condemnations should be that visited upon wilful sterility. The first es sential in any civilization is that the man and the woman shall be father and mother of healthy children, so that the race shall increase and not decrease. If this is not so, if through no fault of society there is failure to increase, it is a great misfortune. If the failure is due to deliberate and wilful fault, then it is not merely a misfortune. It is one of those crimes of case and self-indulgence, of shrink ing from pain and effort and risk, which in the long run nature punishes more heavily than any other. Idle Achievements. If we of the great republics, if we, the free people who claim to have emancipated ourselves from the thral dom of wrong and error, bring down on our heads the curse that comes upon the wilfully barren, then It will be an idle waste of breath to prattle of our achievements, to boast of all that we have done. No refinement of life, no delicacy of taste, no material progress, no sordid heaping up of riches, no sensuous development of art and literature, can In any way com pensate for the loss of the great fundamental virtues; and of the great fundamental virtues, the greatest is the race’s power to perpetuate the race. But if a man’s efficiency is not gui ded and regulated by a moral sense, then the mote efficient he is the worse he is, the more dangerous to the body politic. Courage, intellect, all the mas terful qualities, serve but to make a man more evil if they are used merely for that man's own advancement, with brutal indifference to the rights of others. It speaks ill for the com munity If the community worships these qualities and treats their pos sessors as heroes regardless of wheth er the qualities are used rightly or wrongly. It makes uo difference as to the precise way in which this sinis ter efficiency is shown. It makes no difference whether such a man’s force Youth ard Springtime. Seeds are sprouting, trees budding, flowers peeping out from warm nooks Everything grows in springtime. Youth is springtime, habits are sprout ing, dispositions are putting out their leaves, opinions are forming.— Beecher. Would Have Commercial Value. The amount of carbon exhaled from a man’s lungs each day, if it could be solidified, would equal that in a lump of coal weighing half a ton. and ability betray themselves in the career of money maker or politician, soldier or orator, journalist or popu lar leader. If the man works for evil, then the more successful he is, the more he should be despised and con demned by all upright and farseeing men. To judge a man merely by suc cess is an abhorrent wrong; and if the people at large habitually so judge men, if they grow to condone wicked ness because the wicked man tri umphs, they show their Inability to understand that in the last analysis free institutions rest upon the char acter of citizenship and that by such admiration of evil they prove them selves unlit for liberty. The Idea of True Liberty. The good citizen will demand lib erty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others re ceive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated In that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor. Persecution is bad be cause it is persecution, and without reference to which side happens at the moment to be the persecutor and which the persecuted. Class hatred is bad in just the same way. and without any regard to the individual who. at a given time, substitutes loyalty to a class for loyalty to the nation, or sub stitutes hatred of men because they happen to come in a certain social category, for judgment awarded them according to their conduct. Uemem ber always that the same measure of condemnation should be extended to the arrogance which would look down upon or crush any man because he is poor, and to the envy and hatred which would destroy a man because ho is wealthy. The overbearing bru tality of the man of wealth or power, and the envious and hateful malice di rected against wealth or power, are really at root merely different mani festations of the same quality, merely the two sides of the same shield. The man who, it born to wealth and power, exploits and ruins his less fortunate brethren is at heart the same as the greedy and violent dema gogue who excites those who have not property to plunder those who have. Of one man in especial, be yond anyone else, the citizens of a re public should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to sup port him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the repub lic, that ho will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no differ ence whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, the man who makes such an appeal should al ways bo presumed to make it tor the sake of furthering his own interest The very thing that an Intelligent and self-respecting member of a democratic community should not do is to reward any public man because that public man says he will got the private citizen something to which this private citizen is not entitled, or will gratify some emotion or animos ity which this private citizen ought not to possess. If a public man tries to get your vote by saying that he will do some thing wrong in your Interest, you can be absolutely certain that if ever it becomes worth his while ho will do something wrong against your inter est. France and the United States. And now, my host, a word in part ing. You and I belong to the only two great republics among the great powers of the world. The ancient iriendship between Franco and the United States has been, on the whole, a sincere and disinterested friendship. A calamity to you would boa sorrow to us. But it would be more than that. In the seething turmoil of the history of humanity certain nations stand out as possessing a peculiar power or charm, some special gift of beauty or wisdom of strength, which puts them among the immortals, which makes them rank forever with the leaders of mankind. France is one of the nations. For her to sink would be a loss to all the world. There are certain lessons of brilliance and of generous gallantry that she can teach better than any of her sister nations. When the French peasantry sang of Malbrook it was to toll how the soul of this warrior-foe took (light upward through the laurels he had won. Near ly seven centuries ago Froissart, wri ting of a time of dire disaster, said that the realm of France was never so stricken that there were not left men who would valiantly fight for it. You have had a great past. 1 believe that you will have a great future. Long may you carry yourselves proudly as citizens of a nation which bears a leading part in the teaching and up lifting of mankind. Seemed So. “Outdoor life is the best thing in the world for people.” she told him. "That’s what your father seemed to think the last time I called on you.” he answered sadly.—Buffalo Express. Barely Possible. "How do you like my biscuit, hub by? I got the recipe out of a papei.” “Well, my dear, I found a button in one and a feather in another. May be you got tho cooking recipe mixed with the fashion hints." The Usual Proceeding. “What Is a young man to do when his attention has been arrested by a pretty girl?” "Why, carry his case to court, ot course.” , I Mississippi News A sensation was caused in the Circuit Court at Natchez when Judge Wilkinson, who is presiding, said to Depnuty Sher iff Ryan: "(ict me some young men for this jury. 1 want to stretch the nock of this negro.” This statement was made by the court in connection with the trial of Thornton Circen, a negro charged with murder. It was overheard by a number of witnesses, among whom were included Messrs. Scott Dorsey and K. 11. Ratcliff, dr., counsel for the de fendant. The court’s remark was fol lowed by a motion on the part of Mr. Ratcliff to reject the live men selected as jurors according to Judge Wilkinson’s instructions on the ground that the judge had dictated to the sheriff the character of men to be selected for jury service. The motion was overruled by the court. Judge Wilkinson admits making the statement, hut contends that he said it merely as a joke. The Upper Yazoo levee district ha# two boards of commissioners, or more properly shaking, two sets of officials, except that the chief engineer and attor ney are the same under both presidents. J. W. Cutrer has one set, with himself as president, (iuy ( lark as his sccrtary and treasurer. The other set is that elected on March 8, at the regular meet ing of the hoard, with W. 11. Caruthers us president, Thomas i. Rice secretary and treasurer and A, C. Tuttle as book keeper. The matter will probably go to tlie courts for adjudication, inasmuch ,1s there is involved not only the salaries and patronage of the hoard, hut also the tremendous sums of money handled by it. Another movement to establish rail communication with the inland town of Carthage in Leake county has started, and may develop, if the capacity and energy of the men behind it amount to anything. The c harterers are asking for authority to build, equip and maintain a line from Newton, In Newton county, in a northwesterly direction into Leake, with Carthage as the objective termi nus. The county commissioners who were to pass upon the charges of an illegal election to form Walthall county de cided that the Slade box should be thrown out. This defeats the new coun ty. Walthall county is dead until the next meeting of the Legislature. ITomiiient among the speakers who have acepted invitations to deliver ad dresses before the convention of the Mississippi Bankers’ Association, which will be held in this city on May !) and 10, is lion. Leslie M. Shaw, former secre tary of the treasury. (apt. F. B. Pratt, one of the leading lawyers of Canton and for twelve years postmaster of Canton, died after an ill ness of several weeks. While lie was a Federal soldier, every attention is being paid him by old Confederate veterans and citizens generally. The Mississippi mills here, which went into the hands of receivers last Febru ary, but were later on allowed by the courts to resume and complete the goods in course of construction when the mills stopped, have about completed the job, and just whether the mills will continue to run or close down indefinitely is not known. Mrs. M. L. Harris of Belmont was tried and convicted for running a blind tiger, both in the mayor’s and justice of the peace’s court and n fine of s."io and ,10 days' imprisonment was indicted by each court. A son of Mrs. Harris was convicted of the same crime and fined SIOO and !)0 days in jail. The board of trustees f Grenada Col lege elected Rev. John R. Countiss presi dent, to succeed Rev. W. F. Clifton, who resigned several weeks ago. Mr. Coun tiss is a graduate of Millsaps College, and is regarded us one of the brightest men in the North Mississippi conference. Avery important industry, the Cotton Seed & Fiber Company, capitalized at SIOO,OOO, has been organized at Grenada. The concern is going to put in operation anew patent, which may revolutionize the cotton and seed manufacture in the South. Mrs. Lillie Upchurch, who was charged with the murder of her husband, which occurred during last year in the northern part of Sunflower county, was convictod and given life sentence. Revenue officers raided a wildcat still one mile north of Kastman, Itawamba county, and destroyed 600 gallons of beer, and a 40-gallon still. Burglars broke into the store of Dr. W. H. Henderson at ITiarie. The safe door was blown oil’ and about $2.->0 in money and checks were stolen. The Benton county record was broken at this term of Chancery Court, there being 21! applications for divorces, all white except one. Fifteen were granted, one dismissed and seven continued to the November Chancery Court. There had never been more than three at any court previously. The cotton season in and near Green wood has almost closed. Greenwood will again lead all other Mississippi cotton markets in receipts, ami expects to hold her own as the fifth largest inland cot ton market in the South. BACKACHE I Suffered Over Nine Months, Nothing Relieved Me Untill Took PE-RU-NA. I vj-wj’.. ': Mrs. Joseph Laoello, 121 Bronson Rt., Ottawa. Kast, Ontario, Canada, writes: “I suffered with backache and head ache for over nine months and nothing relieved mo until X took Peruna. This medicine is by far better than any other medicine for these troubles. A few hot* ties relieved mo of my miserable, half dead, halt-alive condition.” rSn^RTTuFE Say whnt you will of whatever part of the human anatomy they please, the river of life Is BLOOD. It Is either the swift running? stream of health or the icerm ladeu channel of disease, one or the other. 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