THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDAPONS

not
10-14-t

OUR OWN COLUMBIA

THAT IS TO BE

BY

LEONARD BROWN
Author of Poems of the Prairies, American Patriotism, The Promised
of the Prophets, Popular Perils, Money-Its History, Nature

and Office, Etc., Etc.

Ye Old Schoolmaster
of Ye Olden Time
** HIS BOOK XXX

"All literary works are good and useful, not when they
describe what has taken place, but when they show what ought

--Tolstoi.

to be."

Published by
E. T. MEREDITH.
DES MOINES, IOWA.

1908.