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to his wife. Noble of St. Louis saw Logan dressed that way and 

 asked what brought him so low. He was a cold blooded fellow, 

 but he didn't know that Logan was worth nearly a million. 



Down here in Egypt we have the best of everything, great 

 men and women. We have an old-fashioned time of it. If one 

 plays the violin, he calls it fiddling. When the war sounded 

 there were not any better soldiers than those who followed old 

 Black Jack Logan from Egypt. You must get acquainted with 

 these people that come from the south. You know they have that 

 idea of taking life easy. You thrifty people in northern Illinois 

 do not understand this life; you are not going to see any more 

 of it by going fast. They sit on a fence rail here and map out 

 the destiny of the world; they pause in the cornfield and name 

 the president. They are wonderful in that way, and though they 

 may have no money in the bank, but they get so much out of life 

 by living it from day to day. The more you mix with them the 

 better they like you and you them. There never was a greater 

 people than those living in this belt. 



What makes a great people? It is not in the universities 

 not in the moneymakers, but in the distribution of the means of 

 livelihood. It is not that one man is rich, but many are com- 

 fortable. The laboring man has three square meals a day and his 

 children are raised and sent to school. They are all strong and 

 healthy and contented. It is this, sterling worth that goes to 

 make up a great nation and a great people and the great American 

 republic. 



Ruskin says you never get anything out of life at half price. 

 If you want to be strong you go to work ; if you want to be wise 

 you go to reading and thinking. If you want to be happy you 

 go to love some one, and many a king has left his throne to find 

 true happiness in the homes by the wayside. A man who lives 

 with his family on a farm, with health and industry, as a means 

 of livelihood, is in the happiest conditions that can come to them. 

 .No man is perfectly happy unless he lives much of his life out- 

 doors. 



