In this glorious age of progress Has become quite obsolete; So they choose another motto, For these latter times more meet. It is "know thyself" no longer-- So they say, and who can doubt them-- But "Mortal, know thy neighbors, And everything about them!" To attain this worthy object, All other cares forego; To gain this glorious knowledge, You cannot stoop too low. Heed not the ancient croakers, Who ask, with solemn phiz-- "Is it anybody's business What another's business is?" No! we'd join the glorious party, That to giant size has grown, To mind our neighbor's business, And "Know nothing" of our own, Hurrah! for the Rights of Meddlers! For the freedom of our day! For the glorious Age of Progress! And for Young America! MEMORIES OF THE WISCONSIN AND OTHER POEMS. By HARRY LATHROP. Published by Review Print, Flint, Mich., in 1903. THE MAN WHO LAUGHS He loves to make another laugh And laugh himself as well, Nor any one around one-half So good a joke can tell. The less of pain a man can give, The more of joy he scatters; The more excuse for him to live-- Apart from weightier matters. Then emulate the men who laugh, Good health and mirth are catching, The wine of joy is ours to quaff, Life's duties while despatching. OVER THE DIVIDE. And other Verses. By MARION MANVILLE. Copyright, 1887, by the Author. PRELUDE But one of a thousand voices, Oh, how can one voice be heard, When ninety and nine and nine hundred Are chanting the same old word? But one of a thousand singers, What song can I sing, oh pray, That is not sung over and over, And over again today? VISIONS OF A CITIZEN. By PROFESSOR J. J. BLAISDELL, (1827-1896), Beloit College. Copyright, 1897. J. A. Blaisdell. EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS (p. 10). One cannot be a good citizen of Wisconsin without being a good citizen of America. One cannot be a good citizen of America without being a good citizen of the Commonwealth of all nations. One cannot be a good citizen of the world Commonwealth without being a good citizen of the Universal Kingdom of God's moral order. Wisconsin citizenship, magnificent lesson to be learned! JOHN NAGLE'S PHILOSOPHY. Complied by SYDNEY T. PRATT, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1901, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, by Sydney T. Pratt. AUTUMN