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TIII- : NOHKOI.KVKKKI.Y NK\Ys-.n > rK.\Ai , . KUIDAY. , JUA n. i : > n. The tloffOlk Weekly News-Journal Tliu News , EbtabllHhed 1SS1. The Journnl. Eulnblluhod 1S77. THE HUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY W. N. . A. Huso , I'rcHlilcnt. Secretary. iSvory Friday. By nmll per year , $1.50. Entered nt Die poatolllco nt Norfolk , Nob. , IIH second class matter. Telephones : Edllorlal Department No. 22. Business Olllco nnd Job Hooius , No. 11 22. Tlio farmer always 1ms a Job. A genius IB a man who can make anything but a living. There Is nolhlng as hopeless as Iho average book of rules on how to suc ceed. Life without humor Is as hard as riding In a wagon without springs nothing to ease the Jolta. ; , , . It Is probable thai Iho whole conn try will bo electrified when Iho eighty it . seven wire trust men corno to trial. f. . ) Louisiana has abolished the roller k towel , but the clllzens of lhat stale \ can sllll dry Ihelr hands on Ihelr Irousera. An exchange asks , "Does travel pay ? " The railroad companies and hotel keepers unitedly answer In the afllrmatlve. The presidential campaign of 1912 promises to bo conducted on the most economical lines of any campaign for many years. Evelyn Thaw says another womai Is trying to Impersonate her. Why should anybody want to be taken fo Evelyn Thaw ? Japan has ordered another dread naught , evidently for no other purposi than to give Lieut. Hobson anothe stretch of sleepless nights. The president took eight senators on the yacht Mayflower , and If he mad them swallow reciprocity , It probably soon found Its way Into the sea. A demand has been started for fire proof money so that the money wll not be consumed when the hous burns. Why not put It In the bank ? An Italian , not an American , ha : Invented a syllable typewriter. Thor are some clever people , aow and then one , who do not float the American flay. flay.It It has been suggested that the steam shovels used In digging the canal should be gilded and used as links In a connecting chain between the two ocei.ua. Montana has sent a long petition to congress declaring the state for rec iprocity and expressing the belief that It will bo for the best Interests of the country. An elephant and a donkey are rac ing from Coney Island to Washing ton , and having given a wide berth to Oyster Cay , one of them will perhaps get there. There was just one person present lo hear one of the senatorial speeches the other day , and the reason why he listened has never been thoroughly explained. Many men have the Idea that In order to be successful they must be at the bat all the time. This is not ' * true. Every man must do his share of the fielding. The senate , It IB said , will vote on reciprocity during July. The country wants congress to act , and then lock up the capltol and hide the key until the first Monday in December. Castro continues to be the real mar Without a country. The "powers that be , " under the leadership of the United J ed States , are said to be conspiring to prevent his return to Venezuela. The telephone Is proving of the greatest value In saving our forests from being swept by fires. Since 100C the forestry service has bulll over 5,000 miles of telephone lines. The express companies volunteer tc lower rates. Some of the high perches nre not so popular since it has beer ! learned that Uncle Sam carries a gur reaching to the top of the tall timber The perjury developments In the Lorhner case would indicate that tin American people were no better thai Cicero pronounced the Greeks , utlerlj without a sense of the sanctity of ai oath. The corporations bureau says $150 , 000,000 was paid for promoting am underwriting the steel trust. Thli must have paid for several families of ofn the 400 to go to Newport that sum mer. Mrs. Hetty Green has sold her holdIngs dre Ings In Chicago real estate for mon than a million dollars , but so far noni of Mrs. Green's wealth has hooi 511o squandered on automobiles or aero planes , LaFollotto announces his Intontloi of talking three days against reclproc Ity. About nil that ho wUl rtrcotnpllsh will bo to oxlinusl himself and In crease the size of tuo Congressional Hucoul. There seems little profit lu forecast- lux the presidential probabilities for next year , but nt least It may bo re marked In passing that It will not ho a LaFolk'lto year , wherever else the lightning may strike. The government closed the fiscal year with a rash balance of $33,000- 000. This largo sum will soon burn a hole In congress' pocket , and It was an awful mistake to let any of our legis lators know about It. Mr. Ilryan positively declares that Gov. Harmon "won't do. " . And Gov. Harmon emphatically responds "The same to you , Colonel , and many of them. " Such Is party harmony among our democratic brethren. The most northerly postomcc In the United States has been established at Sugar Point , In the northwest angle of Minnesota. Why It Is called Sugar Point Is not clear. There are more pines than sugar In that section. Stylish Paris women are having to change their clothes eleven times a day , 'tis said , but wo suspect that some of their husbands have to re main In bed because they can't get money for a business suit to wear down town. A movement Is on foot to so Im prove the St. Lawrence river that ocean steamers can ascend Into the great lakes. President Taft is already on record as favoring a Joint Improve ment of the St. Lawrence by the two governments. An Illinois farmer recently realized $2,000 out of an old rail fence whlcl he considered lit for nothing but lire wood. It happened to bo red cedar and will bo converted Into lead pen ells. That's Just as good as getting money from home. The bricks from the tower of Babe arc being ground Into cement for mod ern Improvements In that old world place. Cement walks will help the people along the highway of progress a great deal faster than it would to gaze at that old tower another cen tury. How long does congress suppose that Alaskans can be compelled to Import coal from Canada and Austra lia , while the richest coal beds In the world He In their door yards ? It can not be hoped that men will not finally take what they feel is their own , when no legal means Is provided for its pur chase or use. Gov. Wilson of New Jersey and Gov. Eberhart of Minnesota have gained admittance into the society of "Peri patetic Governors. " It has been sug gested that their respective state capitols itols ought to be put on wheels , so they could transact a little necessary business for their states as they swing round the circle. An exchange says , "One-third of the fools in the country think they can beat a lawyer In expounding the laws. One-half think they can beat the doc tor in healing the sick. Two-thirds of them think they can put the minister in the hole expounding the gospel , and all of them think they can beat an editor itor running a paper. " Canada Is to have $5 and $10 gold coins exactly equivalent to the coin of the same denomination in the United States , and these are to be accepted at their face value in this country and the American coinage will be similar ] } honored there. This is another kind of reciprocity that will bring the twc countries closer together. The race war In South Africa grows more fierce as civilization advances The English have been very severe in , their criticism of the United States . on account of occasional lynchings Df Dfe negroes. Now that these occur fre quently in their South African cole nles , they may come to understani what a race problem means. The Cornell Era has investigatec e the careers of 170 of the graduates o that Institution , who have distinguish ed themselves above their fellows , am finds that out of that number 101 wen known as grinds during their collegi . This Is " " s course. giving the "grind" n little of the deserved credit for de termined effort that is long past due Complete returns on foreign com merce for the fiscal year ending Jum 30 , will show the country's exports ti have reached the enormous total o over $2,000.000,000. On this basis with total estimated Imports of abou $1.530,000,000 , the balance In favor o the United States will be shown to hi - pretty close to $500,000,000. Not sue ! a discouraging showing , after all. Among the Immigrants who sough - our shores last year were over a quai tcr of a million Hungarians. The ; prove to bo notably Industrious am - thrifty citizens and that they do no forget their relatives left behind I evidenced by the figures given in tin report of the American consul at u - Flume , showing that Hungarians In America have sent homo during lie past ton years over $200,000,000. - President Taft doesn't make as much noise about his Ideas nml achievements as some other presl- donls have , but ho has been doing things the people wanted done over since he entered the white house. A list of the measures for Iho pracllcal good of Iho people which have been passed during * hls ndinliilslratlon' would fill a good long column and make those who think nothing has been accomplished take notice. A New York professor's wife de mands a divorce on the ground that her husband writes homo made po etry and reads It to her at all hours of the day and night. She admits that she likes a little poetry now and then , but declares that she has been gorged with It until her life Is mis erable , her health Impaired and her happlnes forever gone. Give her the divorce by all means. Lord Charles Ileresford says the English speaking nations should com bine to prevent war , that only crim inals arouse a nation to strife and carnage , in which the poor do the lighting , the rich clip the coupons and the demogagues hold the Jobs. The talk about "no peace without honor" Is cheap talk. Peace with honor is the commonest kind of peace. Per haps Lord Deresford has It about right. No small credit Is given to the news papers of the country for the present assurance that the reciprocity meas ure will pass the senate without any amendments. They have been the great force that has made It possible for Mr. Taft to conquer a reluctant congress with such audacity and suc cess. Ills reciprocity light will go down in history as one of the most extraordinary political feats In the history of any administration. The mortality of the babies in large cities during a hot wave Is appalling. Much progress has been made toward I better sanitation , purer milk and more ! healthful surroundings for those who are obliged to occupy the tenement t districts of our great cities. But It Is only a beginning , when compared to what must yet be done to give the little tenement babies a fair chance for life. New York lost 200,000 babies under a year old In twelve months , and Chicago 160,000 last year. A great tidal wave of criticism Is being rolled up by literary authori ties , in which they hope to drown the popular affection lavished upon the memory of Robert Louis Stevenson. Undoubtedly Stevenson's work was over praised according to cold literary standards , but It Is nevertheless true that from the Invalid's bed went forth a song that has made all human life sweeter , easier , and more hopeful. What purely literary triumph can . compare with so moving an influence ? President Taft has already an nounced his intention of living In Cin - cinnati , which has been the home of both his own and Mrs. Taft's families for many years , and also says that his son Robert will follow the example of his father and grandfather and prac tice law in that city. So another ex- president has made his decision to live his own life In his own way after , . his retirement from the chief execu tive's office. Our retiring presidents all seem abundantly able to look after their own future. - A most convincing proof of the abundance of money in the hands ol the people for legitimate Investmenl Is found in the promptness with which the Panama bond issue was taken. was not expected that these Is would prove particularly attractive is Investments , as they bore only 3 per cent interest and could not bo used as the basis of bank note circulation That they have been so promptly tak en is encouraging proof that there Is money obtainable for legitimate en s terprlses even if the profit is noi Sl large , The imposing ceremonies in whicl ; : King George has so recently been th e- central figure are , after all , the mos o- meaningless that a nation ever In dulged In as far as they seem to in vest the king with unucual power am influence. It has conferred upon bin great dignity and there is in it the pc tency of good Influence upon the na ' tlonal character. But Its governlm powers have long since become almos a pure fiction. Compared with tin power exercised by the president o a i the United Stales , or , for that mallei ; with his own prime minister , tin | ieking's position is largely honorary. ' The erratic wanderings of the Grande river are causing much tron io ble In the city of El Paso , Tex. Th | r Internalional commission which ha been Irying Io decide what countr , ; Ibis unforlunale city belongs to sine the river has taken a notion to inves tigalo Ihe lay of the land on the othe side of It , has decided that a consld erable portion of the city is legally 01 Mexican soil. This decision Is decld edly displeasing to the people of El ' Paso , and not wholly satisfactory t , Mexico. When rivers are so fortunat i as to have good beds they ought to Ho Is quietly In them and not roam abou getting Into trouble with their nclgl ; : bora- An Antl-15-Yoar Ago Limit leagu has been organized In Illinois to coir hat the idea advanced by Dr. Osloi that a man had reached the , limit of , his capacity at 15 and would tletorlor- ' ate rather thnn develop after that ago , One of Its founders expresses his purpose - [ pose In these words : "Wo hope to nip In the bud this Idea that mon are 1 In any way Incapacitated at such a ( trivial ago as ' 15. You know the 1m- ' aginations of people are wonderful J tilings , and If you Just lull them often enough that a man's no good after ho reaches -15. they'll got to believe it pretty soon. " This league la out to combat that Idea , and Its purpose Is good. The question of the absolute and rel ative credit of the United States was answered In a very flattering way by the sale of the Panama bonds. Not only did the aggregate bids amount to more thnn three times the Issue , but the prices at which they will be allotted Indicate that this country has the highest credit of any In the world. Paying three percent , the bonds sold I at an averngo price of 102.5. Tills means that the national treasury will receive for the $50,000,000 Issue some thing like $51,250,000 , to reimburse it for advances made to pay the current construction of the Panama canal. The government's financial program for completing the great work Is now clear and easy. Farmers have been told that wheat Is down because of the reciprocity agreement. This Is an entirely false statement. Wheat is down simply be cause the si.pply exceeds the demand. In May Minneapolis had In her ele valors over fourteen million bushels. Other points have largo supplies. Ar gentina shipped forty millions more than the preceding year. These facts have fixed the price the world around. The Canadian proposition had noth ing to do with it. If , however , the agreement Is not adopted Canada will go into the imperial federation and be come our great competitor. With the remedy In cur hand , In the power of repeal , why not take the broad , com prehensive view of the matter and ratify the agreement ? Now lhat the simplified spelling board have the financial backing ol Andrew Carnegie , It announces its In tenllon of resuming Us campaign will renewed vigor. It will Issue circulars to be sent direct to 100,000 persons the postage on which will amount to $50,000 annually. If it does no other good this movement will give employ ment to printers and stenographers and help out the postal deficit , and I seems a harmless hobby to ride. Bu the American people are not Incline * to make radical revisions In the spell Ing of their language suddenly. Sucl changes must come very gradually i they are to be permanent and satis . factory. Col. Roosevelt found ou some years ago that the English Ian guage could not be changed by decree Potatoes have always been constd ered one of the cheapest articles o food obtainable , but for some year past they have been growing gradual ! ; higher. Potatoes at 25 cents a bushe and less are now only a memory ant at the present time they class among _ the luxuries at from $2 to $3 a bushel. This condition Is due to unfavorable o r weather conditions In potalo raising districts , but there is good money In g potalo raising every year for Ihe man who will go about it scientifically and prepare the soil for his special crop. In European countries farmers produce - duce from three to five times the quan tity of potatoes to the acre that are raised In America. Here is a fine field for the agriculturist to Increase his II income , and also , the world's supply of food. r. Statistics show that the amount of money expended in carrying on the elementary and high schools of the country Is approximately the same lg that is spent by the federal govern ment on warships , pensions and the Qt maintenance of the army aria" navy. The "School and Home Education" magazine suggests a rather fantastic n and Impracticable means of bringing < the public to a realizing sense of how much militarism costs. The sugges- n. tlon is that for one year the schools of n. the country bo supported by the revenue enue derived from indirect taxation which now supports the army and 10- navy and the direct taxallon , formerly used for school expenses be used for lg military purposes. This publication believes such a method would bring It homo to the people how much of of their money Is being used in powder r ( and shot and they would demand a ie halt. It is questionable if the public at large would pay much attention to the change. Io The most hopeless thing about our ie American system of education , is the small percentage of those who make use of the opportunities freely placed at their disposal , to complete the highs s- school course. Statistics show that ol or every eighteen children who enter the Idpublic schools , only ten remain in the fifth grade , five in the eighth grade idand but one to graduate from the high school. That Is , 94 percent of those to who enter our city schools fall to com- to pleto the whole course. It Is recog- nlzcd that the school system Is in ut some ways to blame for this deplor- h. able condition , In not providing prac tical Instruction In trades and indus tries that will fit the pupils to leave school equipped to earn their own inlivings and meet the conditions they are obliged to face successfully. Trade and industrial schools are now being rapidly established to muet this deficiency. There Is nothing which will cause the bny or girl who fails to complete the full school course keener regret In later years than to look back on their wasted opportunities. Then tlu-y will realize that they have nar rowed their spheres of usefulness In the world and limited their capacity to get the best things out of life. PROSPERITY AHEAD. Norfolk this summer Is the center of the greatest crops In the United Slates. With pretty nearly the entire middle west burned up , the rich terri tory 'surrounding Norfolk , reaching 200 miles northwest , Is producing the greatest corn yield In history. As a result of the scarcity other places , farm' products will be high priced this fall. And as a result of the local abundance , wealth will pour Into this lerrltory. It ought to be a great fall and win ter , In point of business , In this Held. BUSINESS FRIENDSHIP. One Is often surprised to see for what slight reasons people will turn down an offer by the tried and true home merchant , to accept some more or less illusory bargain offered at a distance. Often the apparent gain of a nickel or a dime Is enough to lead people to send their money away from home. It Is one of the laws of life , that to get one must give. You can't always be absorbing the good things of life from those around you , and never glvo anything In return. All life is a trade. Sooner or later the man who thinks lie can got some thing for nothing always Is found out , and he gets what he gives. Tlio man who Is not a familiar face in the business places of his home town Is not a man who attracts many business friendships. Ho creates very little good will. People buy of him if they have to , if they find that he has bargains that they simply can't re sist , but when things ore about even they never go out of their way to servo him. Such a man gets a reputation for cold Isolation , and If he wins it Is by sheer hard work and friendships never help him. A great many of the prizes in life go by favor. The fellow who feels In terested in' his townsmen , who takes every opportunlly to throw a good business deal In the way of a neigh bor , has created a host of friendly nnd willing debtors. These favors are not forgotten. They may seem bread cast upon the waters of a shoreless sea. sea.Then Then some day when he least ex pects It , along comes some man to whom he has done a business favorv to whom It Is a pleasure to make some return. Hero Is explained the mysterious ease with which some fellows go along In life. They never seem to work as hard as others. But the. have a genius for business friendship they throw business favors to friend whenever possible , they buy every thing possible of their townsmen. The create such a host of business alllei that by and by they find what a lot o people there are In life who enjoy an believe in reluming favors and re membering mulual obllgalions. SWIMMING. With the swimming season here , when the splash of the diver and the puffing of the novice Is heard in every lake , stream and shore from one ocean to the other , the philosopher is led to query why the poets never paid any more atlenllon to this ethereal enjoy ment. Possibly because there is so lltlle illusion about it. When trust magnates - nates , plumbers , clergymen and crim inals emerge from the same bath house , distinguishable by nothing save the small brass bath room checks hanging down their necks , little room for imagination respecting their men tal power or emotional interior is left. However , the boy who grew up without - out learning to swim scarcely can be - said to have lived a normal boy life. Relegated to the inglorious task of - guarding the clothes of his comrades , while they perform aquatic stunts worthy of youthful vikings , how can ho escape some small stain of servil ity from this failure of initiative ? At least In properly conducted swim- mlng lessons there Is an almost un paralleled physical ! development. It has been shown at the Amherst college - lego natalorlura that thirty-four men have made an average gain of eight pounds weight and twenty-three cubic Inches of lung capacity , as the result of four swimming lessons a week for six weeks. This is the result of the deep breathing necessary against the strong reslslanco of waler. No oilier exercise Is so useful in developing the chest and middle third of the body containing all the vital organs. To many a man confined in some stuffy office building or grimy factory , the memories of the old swimming hole have a lovely glamor of romance. Somehow Ihe cool feel of Iho water on a hot day seems to bring boy nature to the highest point of tempesluous enjoyment. The yelling of the boys at a ball IIo game has In It a note of competitive struggle , forecasting but too strongly the envies and emulations of later life. The pure sensuous ecstacy of the swimmers , making the forest , valley and stream sides ring with their mirth , is untainted by the slightest t suggestion of rivalry. U Is human nature's pure exuberance under t In most rofroslHng caress of motln-r unrtti. AN ECHO FROM THE PAST. The news Uoin of July 3 to the effect that Asslatanl Secretary of Slate A1- voy A. Adco has rolurnud from his ovonteonth bicycle trip through K\\ \ \ . opo , sounds llko an echo from the unbs of 11 vanished sport. On reading the foregoing , and curl- us to see to what extent the decline f lutoroHt In the blcyclo IH to be mud In the lltorary records of our moH , wo looked up the subject of Bicycling" in the magazlno Index of 10 years 1S92 to 1S9 ( > . There1 were ovonty-soven articles on that subject leading magazines ? For a similar live years period from 905 to 1909 there were but live ar- icles. One of those related to the isplacomont of the blcyclo by the lotor , and all the others had to do lerely with scientific aspects of the Icyclo. Wo were curious still further to see ow the enthusiastic predictions of lioso days of universal wheeling had timed out. An enthusiastic author In he Forum of 189(1 ( , said , "Tho blcyclo K the most revolutionary social and conomlc force of modern times. It uis entered Into and changed the ourso of human affairs to an extent vldor than any other Influence. The line Is not far distant when for all oatthy persons the universal niclhod f locomotion will bo the blcyclo. " The writer proved his case by show- ng that the bicycle had knocked off ho consumption of cigars 1,000,00(1 ( a ay , that the women's dross goods rado had suffered to the extent of 2.1 o 50 percent of its sales , and thai heaters and churches are depleted. A writer in the Arena nt about that imo remarked that the bicycle mark- d the beginning of transportation by Mechanical Instead of animal power , nd meant the eventual reduction of ho cost of repairing highways to the nlnlmum , as the destructive Impact ) f horses' hoofs would bo removed A'onder what ho would say now t < see n big touring car scrape the dirt out of a macadam road like some cy lopeian grindstone. Today a society girl would as soon be seen wearing n hoop-skirt as riding i wheel. But meanwhile many bicy cles nre still sold. A few devotees of he simple life like Mr. Adee continue hereby Io find brlghler faces and sharper appelltes. But the moderr . oungster won't go even to a Sunday school picnic unless he can be trans lorted in an automobile of recent build. THE ALASKA COAL LANDS. Amid the smoke of conflict and the tangle of opposing opinions regarding the Cunningham coal lands claims In Alaska , disallowed by Secretary Fish er , it may be predicted that the Araer lean people will have at least two def inlto convictions. First , these lands , one of the mos valuable coal deposits in the world shall be disposed of to the hlghes bidder. Stephen Birch , managing dl rector of the Guggenheim intcresls in Alaska , said last year that the land controlled by the Cunningham claims and held under option , as alleged , by Iho Morgan-Guggenheim syndicate , I worth $500,000,000 , and that there I $100,000,000 profit for the party tha operates them. A private Individual owning prop erty estimaled to offer a $100,000,00 profit would have a very widely adver Used auction of the same before h let go his title. Another principle which the Amer lean people would like to see realize in the handling of this vast treasure Is that profit of the nature of an un earned Increment should be the her Itage of our people. As clvillzallo advances , pushing ever back Iho bar Hers of barbarism , as population In creases and transportation develops all kinds of properly become more va uable. A coal pile localed far away i Iho Canadian rockies , remole from our slearaships nnd railroads , wll only a few miners' cabins and wander ing savages near by , Is a very differ ent business proposition today froi what it will be in a few decades , wit better transporlallon , and when th untold resources of the Canadla northwest are developed and furnls a nearby local market for these blac diamonds. For that reason we Imagine tha nearly everyone will want these land to be handled on the lease systen making possible at some future day revaluallon. Could our forefalhers have take the coal fields of the eastern and cen tral slales as public lands , Ihclr In come would have paid Ihe enllro cos of admlnlslering Iho affairs of severa commonwealths. In the same way Uncle Sam has at some future Urn Ihe prospecl of an enormous revenue from Ihe Alaska coal lands If he keeps the title to himself as they advance In value. AROUND TOWN. N What's become of the old fashioned habit of tacking three cat-lalls , lied with a ribbon , to the parlor wall ? And whero's the o. f. little shovel , painted up with gilt , that hung on the opposllo wall ? yAnd why don't wo BOO those old rod plush covered family albums any y more ? IW.7 BY REV.SAMUELW.PtmYiaflB THE CtMMSTONE UNIVERSITY. Text , "Wisdom uttereth her volro In tli trcot. " 1'rov. I , W. Jim , my old chisHinato , mot mo at allege station. He's on the faculty of a rapidly growing colic-go. "Left * stop horu for a sandwich and Java , " I nurniure-d. "Oh , you starved prophet I" 10 taunted. "Walt till I get you to > ld 'Baked Potato Plo' chapter IIOUHO. ; 'll stuff your preacher Jacket full of chicken and wallleH. " I thought of Tantttlos. A college dominate * a town , of course. Princeton town is Princeton university , New Haven la Yale , Cam bridge Is Harvard , Polo Alto Is Loliuul Stanford , Berkeley Is University of California. Sure ! And the only school- ng worth while is right hero. Qed Pity the Poor ! That evening I hurrlenl back to "lit- Uo old Now York" to nddrcss a down town mission. Oh , Iho lure of the cltyl Here the throbbing pulse Is near Iho surface. Hero every forty seconds an emigrant arrives , every six minutes a child Is born , every ccvcn minutes n funeral moves off , every two aoura some ono killed by accident , ev ery ten hours some ono commlls Bul- clde , every Iwo days some ono Is mur dered. 1 passed down Iho most bril liant fltrecl In the civilized world. Sons nnd daughters of luxury rolled by In Haunting touring car or modest limou sine. A turn of a corner and I en tered a now world. In n few slop * I had gone through a do/en layers of society. Every stop is down , darker , filthier , fouler sickening odor from that collar , startling oath from sub terranean den ; everywhere drink and dope for mind and bodies craving food and oxygen , stimulation for flagging vitality ; everywhere Iho hacking cough ; everywhere the fearful fever of unsatisfied poverty. My mind went back Io Ihe college campus and sluido Irecs. Children fill Iho sidewalks- babies that never heard a mother pray , only swear ; babies who will occupy prisons , asylums , brothels. Old and young , black and white , Jew and gen tile , sick and sinning , are herded to gether. Hero the footpad brings his plunder , the beggar hla Bcraps , the scarlet girl of the street her booty- Mary Magdalene without repentance ; Lazarus , the leper , without his God. By the Eternal , though within pound of a hundred church bells , this la the saddest spot on earth ! The Curbstone College. No education here ? Yes , indeed ! This year the department of education will spend ? 27,500,000-nnd this only n fraction of our national school bill nnd book teaching only an Infinitesi mal part of the education of the Amer ican child. The real schools arc out of doors. Most knowledge comes not through books , but by observation- seeing nnd hearing. A university la not ono pchool , but a collection of schools. The school of the street Is the great university. Other schools are open six hours a day , flve days n week , nine or ten months a year. The BChool of the street is always open. Children of the town must go Into the Btrcet or Into the coffin ; there's no choice. There nre no hills , but houses ; no meadows , but asphalt The arc lights put out the stars of heaven. The street is the only school many can attend. In ten thousand cities nnd towns of our great republic the street la the Instructor. Not town hall , or high school , or public library of the community , but the street is the great educator. There the children atlend willing and are apt learners. The dev il's tuition Is free. Every day Is ma triculation day ; every night is com mencement night Ye , Your Children Tool Bay , mother , any of your children getting their education on the street ? Know where your boys and glrla are when you are at prayer meeting or whist ? "Yes ; Johnnie's at Jnck'a bouse , and Susie's at say , duddlo , where did Busle Bay she was going ? Oh , yea ! She's at that new girl friend's , Lottie whaf s her name ? " Are you sure ? Do you know that ? "Of course I do ! Do yea mean to say" All right , mother. Don't feel hurt It's only a preacher's asking , one who used to bo a newspa per man. Some night when Johnnie comes In with the smell of liquor on him , some day when you are puzzled about Susie's actions and hear of clan destine meelings , Ihls educallon will become mighty real. "But we've so many social engagements in the even- Ings. " But you don't let Fldo out Some ono might steal him. Of course Fido'a a valuable dog. Before God. father - ther , I would give Johnnie nnd Susie as much thought as your house dog , though the social sky should fall ! Ev ery now and then n mother Is shocked. Lltllo Bobble , in petulance about some trifle , gives vent to an oath. "Why , Bobbie , where did you ever hear such B word ? " "Some boy on Ihe street" A week ago n mother spent an evening In terror and tears. Her little miss of a daughter with clear eyes asked her the meaning of the vilest term of the underworld. A schoolboy had spoken to her on the way home. What Bhall wo do keep them off the street ? No ; your children rauwt mingle with high and low , impudent and modest , honest and dishonest , clean and unclean. They will absorb the education of the street llko disease germs in Iho air. A healthy body is a wall of protection against the latter , homo teaching and influence against the former. A classified advertiser , who "means business , " will get business. If ho has something to sell that is worth while , \ ho will advertise It in a confident and convincing way aid ho will sell It.
