THE COURIER
that there will be great changes In
high school curricula In the next
twenty years. Some educators and a
great many taxpayers have at last per
ceived that nine-tenths of the high
school -pupils do not go further than
the high school. In spite of which fact
the average high school course is ar
ranged for the few who intend to go to
college Instead of the many who must
go to work and who should have gone
. to a school which recognized their
needs. Great is the power of tradi
tion! " It is even greater than the spirit
of democracy. The monkish reverence
for learning and contempt of the needs
of the common people has met democ
racy In its stronghold the public
school and throttled it. It is encour-
next January, many young men will
find their way to worthlessness by the
route of the billiard table In the sa
loon. Nine months is a long time for a sa
loonkeeper to And a customer for his
billiard tables. But the Lincoln sa
loonkeeper will not have much time to
hawk either tables or cards this year.
His expenses are seven or eight dol
lars a day, besides the cost of his
goods, and sleeplessness must be his
watchword. One of the effects of a
high license law Is the adulteration of
the article taxed. Just what the peo
ple in Lincoln who persist in drinking
this year will swallow, only a chemist
in the habit of examining stomachs for
evidences of a violent death by poison-
turn-up nose, a long bent nose, a nose
humped In the middle, a flat nose, a
thin pinched nose, a nose fairly
straight and well formed and one of
an Indescribably mixed type. I think
I have frankly described all the noses
in the room. Each one of you has un
consciously drawn his own nose and
placed it in the lovely countenance of
the unwilling but helpless Venus. It
is a tendency which I have noticed in
all art students, and one against which
they must fight if they succeed in be
coming accurate draughtsmen. Alas!
the best of us can not altogether over
come the Inclination to reproduce our
own features, unhandsome though they
may be. But knowing the tendency,
which Is as instinctive as the use of
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and helping on the rising generation to
whom he gives up his place ungrudg
ingly in the light of a. well-spent life.
He advises the young man who is
working on a small salary and who
looks forward to a home, not to a
boarding house, to learn the business
of his employer as well as he can and
not only to learn the operation of that
department in which he is employed
but to become an understudy for all
the departments. Mr. Carnegie says
that by such minute and careful study
the young employe can supplement the
employer's judgment by some advice
at a critical point which will bring
the young fellow to the attention of
his Immediate superior anyway. To n
man of this kind It Is only necessary
that his feet be on the lowest rung of
the ladder. With his nervous huncla
on the side timbers and just enough
above the crowd to be within sight of
the boss of his shop or the foreman of
his gang or the head clerk of his di
vision he is going to mount and gravi
tation is not strong enough to keep
him down.
Because of the lucid simplicity of
the language and the strength and
value of the Ideas Mr. Carnegie ex
presses, this book will be of great
value to the young man who has the
foresight to read It. It Is published
by Doubleday. Page & Co., of New
York, and contains a frontispiece etch
ing of the author.
Although these essays were first
published In the nineteenth century, al
ready the greatest American manu
facturer of his time had begun to see
light on the subject of the tariff. He
asserts that only temporary protection
is justifiable. If after a certain num
ber of years of protection the manu
factured article still needs it, it is
economically wasteful to manufacture
it here. He is a believer in tariff for
revenue only, and for protection for the
development of Infant Industries, but
the steel and iron business of America
has Europe Beared and protection is
aging when a superintendent of public
instruction admits that the colleges
have dictated the curricula of high
schools and that they are not arranged
for the best service to the multitude
of students who will not go to school
again after they leave high school.
A Prohibition Effect
The rule made by the excise board
that no games at all, whether of cards,
billiards or otherwise, can be played in
the saloons is the effect of the large
prohibition vote at the recent election.
That vote in the years in which the
city lost population before the turning
of the tide has maintained its strength,
which means that In spite of the cen
sus returns the prohibitionists have
gained new adherents to their cause.
The new rule will have no Immediate
effect. The saloon keepers are given
nine months In which to sell, loan or
give away their billiard tables and
other toys that men play with. The
excise board was encouraged by the
size of the prohibition vote to adopt
a severe attitude with the saloon
keepers, who appeared before the
board in an unusually humble frame
of mind. A good politician watches
the current of public opinion and
there is no mistake the politicians
were surprised by the sturdy strength
of the prohibitionists on election day.
Whether or not the latter were
spurred to effort by the determination
of Carrie Nation and took a hint from
the powerlessness of the saloon keep
ers themselves, it is certain that all at
once the believers in the practicability
of a temperance town took courage,
"got together, and each one did what
he could for the cause. Dr. Wharton
gained a great many votes by his logic,
the breadth of his expression, its brav
ery and his scorn of the sophistical
commercial argument. Next year the
prohibitionists will have the aid of the
knowledge of how strong they are.
The men who wish to be on the win
ning side will vote for their tenets. But
in the- meantime, between now and
ing can say. The druggists are selling
their liquors at cost. They might lay
in a stock of assorted stomach pumps.
There is every indication that if the
saloonkeeper's desperate energy is re
warded according to the law of the ap
plication of power, a large number of
prominent citizens who pay all bills on
presentation and who are in the habit
of patronizing certain favorite saloons,
will need them before watch night 1902.
The Empire of Borises
Having built more libraries than any
other man In the world, Mr. Andrew
Carnegie has contributed more than
the average man to the stock of books.
He Is the author of "Gospel of
Wealth," "Triumphant Democracy,"
"American Pour-ln-hand in Britain,"
"Round the World," and "The Empire
of Business." All of these books are .
distinguished by simplicity of style and
the effect of a man who has something
to say, of one who does not write for
the mere sake of writing and to grat
ify the universal desire to see one's
thoughts in print.
In one of the essays whose collection
forms the volume which Mr. Carnegie
has chosen to call "The Empire of
Business," he says: "I suppose every
one who has spoken to or written for
the public has wished at times that
everybody would drop everything and
Just listen to him for a few minutes."
This direct phrase expresses better
than any reviewer can the earnestness
and desire to help people and set them
right which is and has been the guid
ing motive of the iron manufacturer's
life and labors.
An artist who was teaching a class
to draw the "Venus dl Milo grew tired
of correcting the many interpretations
of the Venus' nose which the draw
ing class were putting on paper. He
took his position before the black
board, as everybody stopped work;
then he said: "According to the copies
which I have' seen and corrected this
morning the "Venus found at Milo, a
cast of which we are copying, has a
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the right hand, It is easier to repress
it."
One great artist. Shakspere, was so
universal an artist that he reproduced
types, and not the cunnlngest among
us can identify Shakspere's features.
But the ordinary amateur, even though
he be a millionaire building libraries
by the score. Is not aware of the
tendency and writes himself so plain
ly that the runner may recognize the
likeness.
The peculiar quality of mind which
distinguishes a man from the ruck" of
seventy-five million men is an inter
esting study. Mr. Carnegie assumes
that every young man wishes to make
money, not millions, perhaps, but a
competency. All of the essays are ad
dressed to young men. Some were" act
ually delivered to commencement
classes. Others were printed in the
Forum, in the Nineteenth Century, In
the Iron Age, in The Review of Re
views and in other magazines of the
discursive type. But whether he is
talking or writing, Mr. Carnegie Imag
ines himself addressing young men
as absurd as the spectacle of a man
dressed in baby clothes and attended
by a nurse. Protection when it lias
succeeded in producing an article as
cheaply as it is made abroad has
served its purpose. Further main
tenance of the wail is Chinese and an
obstacle In the way of International
trade and the enlightenment and
broadening which it causes. When
Mr. Carnegie wrote this book the coun
try had not been disgraced by the
present congressional attitude towards
Cuba, all In behoof of one man, the
selfish and unpatriotic Oxnard. Never
theless Mr. Carnegie, who It must not
be forgotten Is a believer In protection,
advised a fuller, more comprehensive
trade arrangement with that country
which was then the property of Spain.
After a manufacturer has conquered
his own market he needs no more aid.
The battle Is won and the introduction
of the goods Into a foreign market is
so simple that it almost does Itself.
Persisted in beyond the time, a high
protective tariff limits the industry It
was Intended to nourish. The time Is
