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Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
page 77 of 366 (21%)
The GREAT Napoleon operated in a body tireless and powerful
enough to remain thirty consecutive hours on horseback. It was a
body so powerful that criminal neglect and stupid ignorance of
the laws of health were powerless against it for many years.

The Napoleon that went to St. Helena dwelt in a worn-out body, a
fat, degenerate perversion of the Napoleon that conquered the
world.

The great conqueror of the future, ladies and gentlemen, will be
a splendidly original brain, working through a perfectly
developed body, AND WORKING FOR THE MASS OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THEIR
FARE, NOT FOR THEIR CONQUEST AND OPPRESSION.

All of which is respectfully submitted to our readers for
discussion and criticism.



A GIRL'S FACE IN THE GASLIGHT AND AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE
WORLD'S WORK

On a corner of Rector street, down near the river, a loud drum
was beating. A guitar and a tambourine competed shrilly with the
drum's dull booming. Slowly a careless crowd gathered round the
Salvation Army workers.

There were bare-headed women, little girls holding little babies
in their arms, sailors drunk, and one or two sober, 'longshoremen
pleased with the sound of the drum, and a few of the thin, hungry
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