Life — April 2, 1908 — page 41: what you’re looking at

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inter. d Oil I stand ships liveth Ise of pard ave ook like Too Many Precedents H, POOR young man! He has no chance ‘To show his worth: No undiscovered coatinents Are left on earth; Columbus, had it been his fate To live to-day, Might serve beneath some section boss For little pay Oh, poor young man! He cannot use His gifts, alack! No Austerlitz remains to lose, No Rome to sack. The past has both Thermopyle And Waterloo— What is there that the poor young man May bope to do? Newton, Galileo, Morse, Have lived and wrought; Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, ‘And Burns and Scott! Ak, if they had not written all ‘There was to write, ‘He might take up his pea and give "The world delight. Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt—how With paint and brush ‘May he expect to be supreme? Huge vessels rush From hemisphere to hemisphere, The winds defying, Because a Fulton had a plan He thought worth trying. Oh, poor young man! He sits dowacast; No chance remains For him to nobly free a race From galling chains. The great things have been done, alas! By craft or stealth ‘The magnates have become possessed Of all the wealth. ‘The world has ceased to nced men who Were born to lead; He may not join the splendid few. “Tis sad, indeed! He came too late to win renown Or claim apphiuse; He has na chance to be supreme In any cause. Ah, poor young man! How sad his fate, How drear his lot, To have no hope of being great And yet, why not? At Homer many, many a man Stuck out his tongue And told him that the greatest songs Had all been sung, —Chicago Record-Herald. Hard Fate HHANCELLOR KIRKLAND, of Vanderbilt University, like others of similar office, is tohis students by the briefer name of Besides being the University’s chief executive, he is also its head professor of Latin, and—the boys say—prize long-talker at chapel exercises. One day, after a protracted discourse, while conducting a class in Horace, he called on a certain student to read, who did so in utter innocence and absolute accuracy as folloy “Tt is hard for us to endure the blows of chance. The class burst out in a roar of laughter, and as the “Chance” joined in, the dumfounded student perceived the modern significance of ancient words. —Lippincott’s Magazine. A Deduction OTHER: Yes, dear, Santa Claus is out all night. Tounry: Gee, what a handsome present Mrs. Santa Claus must get!—New York Sun. THE NEW Low Cost Policy Gives MORE LIFE INSURANCE LESS MONEY Whole Life Poticy Per $1,000 Every Feature Absolutely Guaranteed. Annual Cost Whole Life Policy Per $1,000 +2 $14.96 16.77 19.08 22.10 Age 45 Age 50 Age 55 Send your age nearest birthday tor Specimen policy. State occupation, Address Dept. 0. The Prudential Insurance Co. of America JOHN F. DRYDEN, Home Office: President. NEWARK, N J. ADVERTISING RATES, subject only to 5% discount for cash LIFE COPY MAGAZINE COPY @ cents per agate line. 1 page 5 8m 224 lines ceeeee St344go ar ar ceesees $360 S25: 128.02 8 4 gs s 62.59 Back covers of first and third issues cach month in colors, $400.00 Only two of these issues are unsold, June 4th and December 17th comicbooks.com