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horses to the cock-pit on Sunday afternoon. This was a 

 droll conception of the brilliant iconoclast, but it is ex- 

 actly the reverse of the fact. The New England type 

 will keep in every climate and dominate wherever it is 

 found. 



On the Pacific Coast from Seattle to Bering Strait the 

 white men are divided into two classes by the Indians 

 and referred to as "King George's men" and "Boston 

 men. ' ' 



Our English kinsfolk are complaining of our monopoly 

 of the title American, and it is suggested that we should 

 not assume the name which would indicate that we con- 

 trol the two Americas, North and South, but that we 

 should modestly assume the name of Usonians. Should 

 we make a change it would be to accept the distinction of 

 being called Yankees. This name adheres to us every- 

 where when we go abroad, and even the Georgian when 

 he stops at a Swiss hotel ceases to be shocked when he 

 finds himself referred to as a Yankee. 



The founders of states and nations are always objects 

 of interest to posterity, and are usually little noticed in 

 the beginning when they are plowing and planting the 

 seeds of future greatness. The origin of the nations of 

 the Old World is veiled in the mists of antiquity. We see 

 the streams as they flow through the plains, but the 

 sources are lost to sight in the clouds which surround the 

 mountain top. The Greeks and Romans ascribe to their 

 old settlers the intimate friendship of the gods or direct 

 descent from supernatural ancestors. When we read of 

 Hercules and Romulus we feel that we are in the domain 

 of myth and poetry rather than history. But the people 

 who settled the United States trace their ancestry back 

 to the beginning. It is a plain, practical beginning, full 

 of harships and sorrows. 



The pioneers were chosen by the laws of natural selec- 



