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JLl on bofcrd tho English ship Bcllcrophoa, gazing ot across the eolean sea toward Franco, whero ho was once Emperor. Ho realizes that
his dream of Universal Empire is at an end, yet is nnconsdom that he is msem to b banished like an outcast a thousand miles from shore to
the lonely and barren rocks of St, Helena. This famous picture from RMysrfh" History Illustrates but ono event out of thousands -which mato
up tho history of every empire, kingdom, principality aad power, all accurately and entertainingly told in tho world-famed publication,
Ridpath's History of the World
Br. John Clark Ridpath is universally recognized as the world's greatest historian. He was the friend and advocate of the masses; of
the common people. In 1896 he was the democratic nominee for congress in his home district and received the warm support of ,the
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great man and America's greatest historian. To read bis His
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Tariff Policy, the Question 0f tho Trust agitating the great business
and commercial world, the respective rights of labor and capital, ths
conflict batweea Socialism on the ono hand and organise swiuM and
iahastry as the other these and hundreds of other Important questions
press pa us as a nation for intelligent discussion and decision. How
have such questions been met in the past? For the answer read th his
tory oi ancient civilizations which flourished, decayed and died and hav
been so thoroughly obliterated from the face of the earth that even ths
location their splendid cities is unknown. Read the history of mighty
Bafeylea, or 6f imperial Rome as a kingdom, then as a republic, and finally
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decay. Read the history of the Freaek Revolution, the .establishment of
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greet nuestlona that are pressing now everywhere for attention, Tha
grswta, eteveiapHient and decay of the nations of the world constitute ths
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