THE SILVER
QUESTION
Tbe organs of gold monopoly are
i loudly proclaiming that the silver
is dead. These same papers have
diligently during about ten months of
ch of the last twenty years iterated
reiterated that the silver Issue was
dead that it would not be heard of
tin. Therefore to those who have
followed the trend of events and noted
. attitude of these papers in the past
present shriek about the demise
the silver issue is a good deal or a
stnut. we desire to remina in,
fcowever, that they are as much in er
gar bow as they hare been in the past,
snd that before the election of 1900 is
passed they -will discover that the sll
- question is still a vital issue, having
lost nnoe of its force, but that, on the
wootrary, on account of being so much
setter understood by the people gener
ally. It will command a larger support
than ever before.
During the past year extraordinary
commercial and industrial conditions
fcave prevailed which have materially
avlieved the United States for the time
fjeimr from the strain of gold contrac
tion and mad business conditions more
tolerable. If these extraordinary and
usual conditions would continue In
definitely, the silver question would
to be an issue In our politics, but
prospects are that within the com
.year the unusual, conditions that
re inured so much to our benefit will
disappear and give way to normal con
ations of trade, when the gold stana-
wlll again become oppressive and
atolerable. In 18M a drouth In India
dMatreyed the wheat crop and not only
deprived that country of any wheat for
export, but caused a famine resulting
4a the death of ten mtlllons of the na--ajve
population from starvation. Th
fcrgely Increased the demand for Amer- j
Seaa wheat in the European market to
take the place of that which India fur
bished In ordinary ye" nd materially
advanced the price of that cereal. Again
tm 17 the wheat crop of all European
countries was far below the normal,
-while In many of them it was a prac
tical failure, which, together with the
-total failure of the wheat crop In Ar
gentina created a demand for America's
large surplus at fairly remunerative
prices. The result was that in ISM the
agricultural exports from the United
.States reached the enormous figures of
fff mnm and the total exports from
,fco United Stales amounted to $1,231,
During the year 1898 the total
-imports Into the United States amount
ed to but $1,M,6M, being the lowest
tf for any year sine U7, with the
uomngle exception of the year 1885, not--vxthstandlng
the fact that the popula--sttan
on the United States had Increased
fifty millions in 180 to seventy-
millions In 1898. The extraorai-
conditlon produced by the phe
nomenal trade balance In our favor in
tke year 1898, amounting to (6i5.MZ.nii,
.circumstance that may not be repeat
. fjt again ta several decades, and the ex
riuiiinr expenditures by the gov-
evtuneat occasioned by the war with
tfr.it. together with the increased pro
dtaet of our gold mines, has very ma--tscially
relieved the strain upon the
iff slnrn of the country by arresting the
of gold from the country ana
onlr leaving us the product ot our
.mines to be added to the circula
te, bt drawing gold from Europe as
trail-
f Ike exceptional conditions in trade
aa Kimrr which resulted so bene-rtVslsd-
to the United States during the
"mast year will be appreciated when it
f remembered that the agricultural ex
. ports tar the year amounted to more
- tfcaa $gS4,00O,0SS ana ma ue
-lltl of ,ji kinds never reached nine
- fcawdred mllUons in any year la our
r fttetery trior to 1898, except in MM and
rfJW. This, when taken in connection
With the fact that our imports were
lowest for nineteen years, wim i
exception of 1886, reveals a con
whlch is so unusual that it is
JT ukelf to occur again very soon.
rOn the other hand, there is every rea
son to believe that these unusual con
4Ulcms are already passing, not to re
tar, (or years- The indications at the
wrirt ume are that the wheat crop
ef the United States will not exceed an
.average the coming year, and that the
,mfm ta South America. Europe 'and
.... -in .xceed that of an average
.'ajood year, and that while It is possible
4hat we may nave a iutsim
nerhaps to cause tne pnw m
i country to conform to that of Eu-
, the competition from other couu
'tries la the market where the surplus
fts aotd will be so great as to force the
rce of wheat considerably lower than
,jt has been during tne ' -
When these normal conditions return
-the competition from silver standard
Matrie will assert itself and the low
jmfat ot silver exchange will again ren
' fT production of wheat and cotton
, ajnpcofttaWs to the American unu.
: f the world bad been on the blmetal-
r standard in vm. W ana u,
the United BUtes bad annually
eroaa and the countries ot South
rtra. Burop and Asia had abort
at pas, the price ot mmoss wm
uM4M would not only be advanced on
. Wswowat of the shortage la other coun
gm, but woaM be still further ad-
. m si nsat Of an rami" v
v' . i- -at aiiiirT la the count lies where
. !J-wa-.l-wlsli ease the
'atMmU law of the United
In securities and real estate, togethet
with freights paid to foreign ship own
ers, insurance paid to foreign insuranc
companies, and the money spent bj
American travelers abroad, there hai
been an annual drain against the Unit
ed States amounting to about four hun
dred millions of dollars. Therefore, is
ordinary years, after offsetting imporU
wKh exports we are compelled to sell
to other countries commodities suffi
cient to show a trade balance In our
favor of $400,000,000 in order to prevent
the exportation of money. It is worthy
of note in this connection mat in i5
when our exports exceeded our Imports
by the enormous sum of $815,432,67. that
we were able to draw from other coun
tries only $104,985,283 of gold. It seems,
however, that notwithstanding the In
creased production of gold In South
Africa and other countries that even
this amount has caused great distress
in Europe and has so affected price
levels that the tendency will be for gold
to flow to Europe during the coming
year. In addition to the foregoing the
Paris exposition og 1900 will attract a
vast number of wealthy Americans and
It is safe to predict that the expendit
ures of American travelers abroad next
year will double that or ordinary years.
In view of the foregoing. It would be
well for the newspapers and politicians
who are clamoring so loudly about the
death of silver to hold up a little and
restrain their ardor in disposing so vio
lently of this great far-reaching ques
tion. Questions are never settled until
they are settled right. It is safe to say
that the American people are sufficient
ly well educated upon the money ques
tion to insure a correct settlement of
this issue at an early day. At all events
the silver Issue will be an Important one
in 1909 and will receive support from
many who through Ignorance opposed it
In 1896. The gold standard organs are
altogether premature in disposing ot
the silver Issue.
If the silver issue is dead, why are
the organs of gold monopoly so anx
ious that the democrats should drop
It? If it is dead. It will be a burden to
them and cause their defeat, and cer
tainly will be Incapable of doing the
republican party any harm. No, they
know that It Is not dead, but that It Is
very much alive, and they fear the
consequences when the people approach
this question at the ballot box in 1900.
This Is the cause of their great anxiety
to turn the public mind Into other
channels at this time. The old chestnut
of burying silver through the columns
of the organs of gold monopoly has losti
Its force, and no one will be deceived
thereby. National Watchman.
PREACHER DE
NOUNCES TRUSTS
(By Rev. Dr. Hiram Vrooroan.)
"And what I say unto you, I say
unto all. Watch." St. Mark, xlli., 37.
On the fifth day of this month, in one
day, more than a billion dollars was
consolidated In the formation of new
trusts. The valuation of all the proper
ties in the United States combined In
less than sixty billon dollars, so that
sixty days, or two months', progress
in trust making such as that which was
made on the fifth of this month (May)
would cause all the wealth ot our na
tion, Including every private fortune,
every home, every business enterprise,
every farm, to be absorbed by the
trusts.
Over six billion dollars, or about 10
per cent of the wealth of our nation,
has been consolidated in the formation
of new trusts within the past few
months, not to speak of the trusts that
have been forming during recent years.
Capital controlled by a trust is aggres
sive and warlike.
We are told that Agulnaldo's army
consists of not more than 10 per cent
our tnenas, me giuiy u?i uiuch wi
our country, and the independence and
triumph of the church are all involved
Now. how are we, as worshippers of tlx
Lord Jesus Christ, going to meet thli
situation?
If the army of a foreign foe wer
threatening our country. then out
church would say to the young men:
Confide your life to the Loid and fear
lessly go to the front and In brittle flghl
like a lion. It would say to the women
and those past the age for service In
battle: Trust God, and give your sym
pathy and heroic cheer to those who
fight your cause.
The patriotic duties before us do nol
require that we neglect the spiritual In
terests of our church; but they call
upon us to make our church an inspi
ration to the ArK-rlcnn people ln their
patriotic endeavors. We are not called
upon to forget our religion, but our re
ligion is called upon to be our banr.tr
bearer as we go forth to duty.
Many people permit themselves to
wear out in regretting that things are
as they are. Religion does nfct look
regretfully behind, but It looks exult
lngly forward. The existence and
power of the trust is the unhallowed
fact that which we are obliged to look
square ln the eyes. Religion Inspires
SOME ADVICE
TO CARNEGIE
Mr. Carneple Is enld to ts willing be
fore he dies to devote one hundred mil
lions of dollars to the public welfare.
As soon as this was announced a great
many peni le romn-cieed to rusy their
brains with giving Mr. Carnegie g.ud
advice. As a matter cf curs.', a r.u.n
ber of propositions have been forth-
vear of age. The second requirement Is
hat It I. the primary school that mu.
be taken hold of, since P" cent of
our children never see the Inside of any
other school.
What should be the character of this
national education? First, It must be
democratic; that Is. all children must
be partakers of It. and they must all be
made into all-round men; and. next,
they must all be made Into P1"'
capable specialists, each capable of fill
ing his niche in a perreci aemuv,.,.
Every child must be taught to do some-
... ,1. w l tier&us
coming, each requiring t:-.j expenditure thing supremely i
of some hundreds of thousands of dol- education means the adaptation oi
lara, and of such schemes hundreds 1 human nature to the social state Into
and even thousands r.'.iht be evolved. which we are born.
But a hundred million of dollars In j 0ur present primary education Is
ready money, all under the control of j purely mechanical. It simply consists
one man, Is zw c vat run such a ,n learrilng- by mechanical means to
glorious opportunity, that something rpa(, tQ wrue and to cipher. The na
far more tmnortant ought to be achlev- ' -ju-ion should adopt two
ed. something that will benefit the ! -mcipiBgthe principles of the kinder
of the population of the Philippine Is!- ( the question: What are we going to do
ands and yet this army has been su- with this fact?
preme In IU power over the remain- The first duty which the situation
Ing 90 per cent of unarmed people. gives us to perform Is the task of en
A trust Is an army of capital, and ev- lightening ourselves so that we will
IS DISARMAMENT A FAILURE?
The conference at The Hague was
proposed by the czar ln the hope of re
ducing the military burdens of the tax
payers of Europe. In his proposal of
August 24, 1898, the first lines read as
follows:
"The maintenance of the general
peace and the possible reduction of the
excessive armaments which weigh upon
ail nations."
Another passage read: 'The econom
ic crisis, due in great part to the sys
tem of armaments a ou trance, and the
continual danger which lies in this
massing of war material are transform
ing the armed peace of our days into a
crushing burden, which the peoples
have more and more difficulty ln bear
ing." Let us see for a moment how heavy
this burden Is:
Men.
Austria -Hungary .. 37.271
Belgium "
Bulgaria 0W
Denmark W.5J
France 61 ' 'I
Germany 611.829
n. Rrltaln 393.849
Greece JJ'ii?
Italy 277
Netherlands
Portugal I'?r;
Russia 9M.B1B
Roumanla iz.wtt
Servla
Spain
Sweden and Norway 64.041
Swltxertand Militia.
Expenses
$100,000,000
15,000,000
5,000.000
3.000.009
185.000,000
158,000.000
2Ol.O0O.O0d
4.000.000
77.0OO.OO0
15.000.00
g.OOO.OOv
290.000.006;
9,000.000
3.000,000
32.OtO.OM
13,000,040
6,000,000
XoUI, J.872.102 1.153.000.000
According to the latest figures the
totalpopulatlon of Europe Is 38O.0O0.00Oi
so every man, wuin
$3 annually for military puri
AN ELECTRIC FARM.
yeassweaM
lartsr than it was aad
BV. Wl II w ' ,
acr7,U3
Veer St. Johnsvllle, N. T.. to a farm
of 360 acres belonging to O. R. Beards
On this place is a completeelectrio
, . ,hinh nrtfirfiiree the current for
lighting and heating, as well as supply
! tnr other Derations con
nected with the farm, according to the
- Vnrl, Wftflll
This electric Installation la the first
of Its kind ever used for doing the worn
of VE Entaal energy to supplied
by nature, and the cost and mainten
ance ot the plant is Inexpensive. It
Krdemonstrited that electricity used
for msnual labor Is a success.
The farm land Is situated on both
h. rut Canadian creek, which
U a good-slsed stream containing two
falls within the bounds of the Beards
waterfalls, one of
rhlcVS sixty and the other 180 feet
high, furnish tne power.
The owner of the farm employed the
Westlnghouse company to put the plan
was used as the op.
. near It WSS built
. m hMU in wuicu mmm
iBAjkiiAtt Westlnghouse generator,
connected with a horixontal turbine op
- fc. ik a Wat T
"Eom "Vto cenira, power hoase the
current to transmitted by wires to the
dwelling house ana ouwr
" " ... .fi.hnne nower runs
nngmhine: aether a throng
.hiu and a third works a torty-
r!: , mhiu Iocs.
lovr-we r--rn;.i uMt
The farmhouse m
es4 weUMU4 by sctrtetty. The
aaafiaaoso an wave m"z
are iLchts. aad their
try dollar belonging to It Is an armed
toldier in the field. Ten per cent of
the nation's wealth, when controlled by
trusts, can dominate the remaining 90
per cent of wealth as ruthlessly as does
Agulnaldo's army control the 90 per
;ent of unarmed natives.
The trust, like Alexander the Great,
has started out to conquer the world;
but. unlike Alexander, Instead of cross
Ing the seas seeking the subjugation of j
Torelgn nations. It begins by following
the methods of Insurrection and rebel- j
Son and is making war on private cap- j
ital and private business at home.
Long after our late war with Spain
has been forgotten, and after the pres-
t controversy relating to Imperialism
has passed out of mind, the events ln
e progress of trust making that are
now of dally occurrence will be fresh on
pages of history. How blind this
feneration Is to the momentous events
by which It will be known In history!
The Individual life of every man, wo
man and child In this congregation is
roing to be Influenced more or less by
e social conditions which will result
from the present activity ln trust mak-
ng. Our church and our religion both
ill be likewise Influenced by the same
things. Eminently appropriate it is,
therefore, to throw some religious light
apon this panorama of human affairs
from the pulpit.
Poverty is more deatruvtice to lite
lhan war, and It Is more destructive to
religion than war. A cyclone In pass
ing through a village leaves the debris
trom beautiful cottages and happy
tomes to mark its course; likewise a
ritat In naatttnir throuirb any line ot
Business leaves the wrecks from prl
rate enterprises and private fortunes
Its wake.
Private business enterprises cannot
sompete with trusts more successfully
lhan can a mob compete with an army.
Hie trust, by virtue of Its organization
tnd enormous wealth, gains a control
ver the natural resources of the coun
try and causes an economy in the pro
luctlon aad distribution of products,
which things private enterprise cannot
lo. For these reasons, and others, the
just can generally declare dividends on
,ta capitalisation at times when com-
etlng private enterprises are earning
io dividends, but instead are a rawing
n their original capital in advance of
Business failure.
If the trust accumulates dividends
ehen private enterprise is losing mon
y; If the trust, like a snowball, ln roll
ing, doubles Its size every few years
oy the reinvestment of its dividends,
while private enterprise melts away,
Miable to earn dividends; If the trust
tan water Its stock and thereby double
its capitalisation In the twinkling of
in eye without any reinvestment of
Jivldends whenever the ruin of com
peting enterprises gives it a clear neid
tor operation ail of which things the
rust can do then the time is near ai
band when the trust will control the
.( distribution of all
pi ...MUt-iavM
wealth.
The trust Is, by Inherent nature,
business despotism an economic ur
make nr m (stake in taking sides, be
cause, sooner or later, we all will be
forced to take sides In the Impending
struggle.
In entering upon a study of the Is
sues before us, we should endeavor to
rise above former prejudices; we should
Ignore personal interest; we should
come Into warm sympathy with the In
terests of the people; we should cast
out every aristocratic and class feeling
as we would cast out Satan; we sshould
be wary of the sophistries of politicians,
of partisan newspapers and of all those
who argue for the purpose of protect
ing selfish Interests. We should study
with the single purpose of understand
ing how we might help In the right
eous solution of these problems.
We know that men can be dead to
poetry, dead to art, dead to history,
dead to music, dead to science, dead to
literature, with apparently nothing but
heir five vlbratlna- senses alive; but
the worst death that a living man can
experience is that sleep of Ignorance
and cold-heartedness which separates
him from the great people who are
contemporaneous with him.
Religion is a protest against all forms
nt rteath. "And what I say unto you I
say unto you all. Watch."
THROUGH A SPY-GLASS
inny.
Under a trust system all
A marked Improvement has been In
troduced by the English ln the form of
the submarine spyglass used in Ber
muda for viewing those wonderful flow
er gardens of coral and the other
strange and beautiful things that lie
henenih the waves which roll and
tumble over Its famous reefs.
In the native form this Instrument,
commonly called the "water glass," Is
simply a square funnel of wood, with
a pane of glass closing the smaller end.
This closed end Is lowered Into the
water, the open top remaining above
the surface, the object being to avoid
the blur caused by the ripples.
Tho Improvement consists In exactly
reversing this arrangement by leaving .
the small end of the box open and clos
ing the other with a much larger sheet
of glass. If this becomes misted It
can be cleared merely by running a lit
tle water over It. The whole thing Is
about two feet In length. Though the
glass Is not a lens, but perfectly plain,
the effect is said to be simply magical.
When it Is thrust under the surface it
cuU right through the glimmering veil
which had obscured one of the most
fascinating scenes to be seen anywhere
on earth. With this apparatus it is pos
sible in those clear, tropical seas to
look down to a depth of many fathoms.
Photographs may even be taken thro' It.
As to what one sees there, probably
the best description ever written Is that
given by Julia Dorr.
She had been rowed out among the
reefs and was spying Into their myster
ies, gazing "far down into azure, and
amber depths, so translucent, so pure,
that the minutest object Is distinctly
visible."
She saw "great sea fans wave their
purple branches, swaying to the swell
as pine boughs sway to the breeze.
employe , Magnificent sprays of star coral some
country, not only for a time, but per
manently something that should
greatly hasten our evolution In civiliza
tion, though we deem It Impossible that
this evolution can be given a new
trend. It Is to such great schemes that j
Mr. Carnegie's attention should be
called.
We can think of but two such tre
mendously Important subjects, to-wit
the matter of the unemployed and the
matter of national education. About
one-fourth of the hundred millions
should be devoted to the former and
three-fourths to the latter.
But the subject of the unemployed Is
Important enough In Itself, though It Is
only of temporary Importance. Observe,
however, that this matter Is the great
est stumbling block ln the path or our
civilization at the dawn of the twentieth
century. The state of being unemployed
has now become a chronic one In our
country, as It has been for a long time
ln Burope. The unemployed we shall
have with us as long as the present
competitive system lasts. The able
bodied man, willing to work, but unable
to find work, is, in fact, the social prob
lem In epitome.
What Is here the real trouble? It Is
this, that no man Is at present allowed
to live by work unless some other man
can make a profit out of him. This
cannot be denied. Observe, we speak
strlctl yof the "unemployed." By that
term we do not mean a man who can
not work or who will not work, but the
man who both can and will work. If he
can only find the chance. These men
may properly be divided Into two class
esthe efficient men and the less effi
cient men. Of the latter class there are
always plenty to be found among the
unemployed. The former class are
found there generally only during hard
times. But mark this Important point
these two classes, furthermore, are
always a threat and a danger to those
who are so lucky as to have employ
ment, because they always are ready
to take their places and cut down their
wages. They constitute the so-called
"reserve army of labor," who cause
the most righteous strike to fail and
there have been most righteous strikes.
Consequently they are ln some sense
the pets of capitalists. But we devoutly
hope that Mr. Carnegie in his proposed
benevolence will rise above the preju
dice of the class to which he has belonged.
Our point Is this: We say that an un-
garten. to be predominant during the
first five years, and the principles of
manual training to predominate during
the last five years. That Is the reason
why the tender years from four to seven
can be made so very fruitful.
Kindergartens should be attached to
every primary school. They should be
made an Integral part of the public
school system-that Is, the first heavy
expense to be Involved; secondly, a
manual training class should be at
tached to every primary school, that Is
the second heavy expense, and thirdly,
there must be many more teachers than
now, especially many more male teach
ers. What should the kindergartens do?
They should organize the plays of chil
dren, so that they will really work
while they think they are playing. They
will gather the squalid children, teem
ing In our tenements, lsto their sunny
schools, teach them neatness and gen
tleness, open their eyes to beauty, train
tbelr hands In useful activities and de
velop their minds naturally and by an
orderly method; thus the gravest dan
gers to our civilization will be averted.
The boy especially Is now exposed to
great demoralization, both at his home
and In the street-he will here be sub-
Uted to a gentle but firm discipline.
This will especially be the gTeat advan
tage; In the kindergarten he will ac
quire a large mass of superior snow.
edge, and Incldentally-lncldentally. ob
Bervehe will gain as much proficiency
ln reading, writing and ciphering as
now. This training will last till bis
ninth year.
Then manual training principles
should be applied. Manual training is
not meant to make the boy Into a skill
ed workman; to introduce a trade Into
a manual training school is to degrade
the school and woulJ make the mass ot
men even more machine-like than they
are. Never forget that our object Is to
make capable specialists and all-round
men. Manual training is Intended to
sharpen and stimulate all capacities; It
Is Intended to create mental dexterity
far more than manual dexterity. It
should rouse the minds of boys, now
deemed dull, and qalcken those Intel
lectually Inclined. A 14-year-old boy
under such a ten-year regime should be
the equal of a young man of it now
graduating from Harvard.
Of course, we are aware that one hun
dred millions will not be sufficient to
carry out these plans; especially are we
. a I a.,.a.a Ann IwlVI OB TTl I
h7v ng. and th7 7f hto UmUy If he aware that seventy-five million, win be
T. ,!,. and more- but a drop In the bucket to carry out
. , .... -. irh a scheme of national education ss
aver, mat Deeiaes mis ne L-aa ...... .
h nntlnvs. made in his behalf. All
ouId be as directly dependent upon as fine and delicate as lacework. and so
the trust for a livelihood as the mean- fratll that It would be Impossible to
est subjects of any tyranny have ever ; remove them from their beds, and some
been dependent upon their king for so
la! liberties.
like the strong antlers of some forest
monarch grow upon the sides of the
As sure as the stars shine, one of . deep-sea mountains. Here the shelf
two things will shortly come to pass; COral hangs from the rocks like an In-
elther the trust system will prevail ana verted mushroom, aeiicateiy wrougm
establish an economic despotism, wnicn
despotism will destroy, soonor or later,
political democracy and our republic;
or our republic, through political de
mocracy. will prevail and transiorm
the trust tyranny into an economic de
mocracy. Political democracy and economic
despotism cannot abide together In the
same country at the same time, rney
are mortal enemies, and one of the two
Is certain to destroy the other. No free
republic can exist where the trust con
trols tht production and distribution of
wealth; tb republic will yield to the
despotism of the trust or the trust will
hand to the democracy of the republic.
The conditions existing at the present
hoar la oar political and Industrial or.
der are as critical aad aa serious as If
ws wart la war with all of mi-opt
This la the altaatloa that faces us. In
the ovteoBM of the toavaa which the
baa thrust apon the Amertcaa
aeoaU. Ust Moaal la teres of
of as, Ow lksatassa aad arosparttr
and the rose-coral unfolds like a fair
flower,
Nor were the corals all. There are
starfish, sea-urchins snd sea anemones
gorgeous creatures In ashes of rose
snd orange. And In and about them
all glide the blue angel-fish, with their
fins Just tipped with gold, yellow ca
nary-fish, the sebra-strlped sergeant
majors, and a ruby-colored flsh that
gleams in the water like a ray of light.
that is necessary Is to give mm me
chance. Give him simply what a Penn
sylvania statute gave him 120 years
ago (which, however, was never en
forced), raw materials, tools and a
workshop. That is all. If the states
would copy this Pennsylvania statute
and enforce It, there never would be
any more really "hard times." There
need be no competition with private
employers, for the unemployed would
be a sufficient market among them
selves. As to the outlays to be restored
that can be done from the labor o:
the unskilled laborers, fit to create the
country roads we so much need.
The great trouble consists in tnese
outlays. To raise them, the states must
either tax themselves or Issue bonus,
and they will do neither. Now, let Mr.
Carnegie devote twenty-five or his hun
dred millions of dollars for these out
lays. It will be ln the highest sense
.. . . . i i.t.M.1' atA never for-
enllgnieneo uii-iuwui'i ---
get that It Is not only the unemployed
to whom Mr. Carnegie win De a provi
dence, but he will render an essential
service to the employed and, most of
all. to socle
But the second matter, that m na-
Is here contemplated. Indeed, before
the war with Spain we had hoped that
the one hundred and fifty millions we
annually and Justly expended In pen
sions might, as the pensions lapsed, be
continued to be appropriated and used
for precisely such educational purposes.
But we are confident that such a begin
ning made, such an example set, by
Mr. Carnegie will move other rich men
to follow In his fooUteps, and thus that
the glorious end we have In view may
--compllshed. Laurence Gronlund.
Test Your Eyes.
Here Is an Instructive eye test. Is
your right eye the stronger, or your
left eye? You are right-handed, are
you also right-eyed?
Make this test and see: Place an ob
ject of about two Inches in diameter,
perfectly round, on a level with your
eyes and move back from It to a dis
tance of ten feet. Then take sight over
your forefinger until the objective point
and the tip ot the finger are exactly In
line with the eye from which you are
sighting.
Now open the other eye. With both
your eyes open, has the objective point
Ion does not divert the complete vis
Ion from the original focus of the one
eye. If the objective does move to one
NOT SUSCEPTIBLE.
"That man who called here yesterday
says that you are the most formidable
specimen of political boss be ever saw."
"The one who was talking about leg
islation?" asked Senator Sorghum, aa
a smile gently Illumined his face.
Taa."
WtLM was the rejoinder, aa a hard.
eoM look supplanted the smile, "you
fna't waat to pay too much attention
to Mat. These lobbyists an all sack
gatteretmr-Waswlactoa Kvsalac Mar.
side? If not the eye with
tlonal education, is of Infinitely Kreater .i-rhted is the stronger.
importance, and richly deserves three- addition of the other's vis-
fourths of his bounty, u nn inure. .
doing that Mr. Carnegie may become a
true national hero, always to be re
membered and venerated, far more soj ht weakpr ejfe
than Admiral uewey. , . d(jne ,ne flr,t KhUnI, whch the
are not thinking of any educational In- ef alverted M )t
Stitutlon, of either high or to degree.
here snd there; we are thinking ot
nothing less than of a true primary ed- Perhaps there I. very little d fference
"cation of a whole generation; of our ; In your eyes. Take sight a. before, but
cmidren say. from the fourth to the1 with both eye. open. Now clow h,
Surteenth year of sge-and In spite ot I. ft eye. How far out of line Is the
the thunders of our woman suffragists . right eye?
we say, especially, of a whole genera-, Now take sight again with both ye
tlon of our boys. oen. Clofe your right eye. How far out
Prof. Shaler has well mid: "The slm- f,f line Is the left eye?
olest of all ways of making a new heav- ; whichever the farther out of line
en and a new earth Is through a fond,
discerning and individual care of each
child." A whole generation of our chll
dren must be properly trained before
we can have a decent civilization. The
first requirement Is that the slate must
control all Its children, at least all Its
boys, for ten years of their lives, and
slme our dnmnsble economic system re.
qulies so msny of our boys for busi
ness purposes, when they have leached
their fourteenth r. we siy, that the
shall hsve chsrge of the child, en
from tlielr fourth to their fourteenth
In these two tests Is the weaker eye.
If you are strongly right-eyed the right
eye wilt hold firmly to the objective
point which has been focused by both
eyes together when It Is left to view the
object alone. It you are strongly left
eyed, vice versa.
Mrs. Ormlston Chant ssys tr.nt while
In this country ens compiled with 1.3M
requests for sutogrsphs, and, most
wonderful of r 11. never once lot! ht
temper while doing so.