The Sunday Oregonian., July 11, 1909, SECTION FIVE, Page 7, Image 51

7
In the Lull of Changing Seasons the
Women Look to Trifling Things
Fair Shoppers List to Call of Dame Fashion and Replenish Stock of Attractive Accessories What Local Stores
Have to Offer to Meet Milady's Taste.
9,
OOOCa
JUST now, during the between-sea-sons
lull In business, the local mer
chants are all making a point of spe
cial displays of attractive novelties, and,
through the appeal of especially natty
accessories to the feminine wardrobe, are
holding the Important and remunerative
Interest of the woman shopper. Even
though the sale of cool mid-Summer
lingerie frocks and "marked-down" suits
of linen and wash silks is still brisk, it
Is really the special display In new veil
ings, smart shoes and slippers, dainty
neckwear, novelty purses, pocketbooks.
and the like, along with the new offer
ings of the versatile Jewelry case, that
attracts the eye of the fair shopper most
profitably. For by this date her Summer
wardrobe Is practically complete and
further expenditure for frocks and gowns
takes on the nature of extravagance.
All IiOok for Novelties.
This Is the reason why. one of the local
merchants explains, that one now finds
the largest crowd and the most interested
shoppers centered about the counters
where novelty necklaces, jeweled hair
ornaments, dainty collars and collarettes,
fancy veilings, etc.. are being shown in
their most versatile and most attractive
varieties.-
The accompanying sketches are from
the showings of one of the large depart
ment -emporiums, where the afternoon
shoppers regularly swarm despite the be-tween-season
quiet, attracted thither by
the opportunity to indulge the purely
feminine delight of shopping, even though
further investment in suits, towns and
millinery are out of the question for an
other month or so."
One of the busiest departments is the
veiling counter, where natty new meshes
and all manner of new patterns are be
ing shown.
Wear Jewels and Spangles. -
Among the new wrinkles is the spangled
or jewelled veil. No. 10 shows a brown
chiffon motoring veil, spangled with
brown scales, and the smart affair shown
in No. 11 is a gray mesh with tiny silver
dots, mere flakes of some mock metal.
The border Is Jewelled with Bilver dots
almost as large as a dime. No. 14 shows
one of the modish new drape veils, which
has openings through which a silken rib
bon Is run to hold the fulness in about
the neck. This veil is in the rich banana
tint, with ribbon of black. One of the
new ways of draping the long mesh veil
over the prevailing "inverted punch
bowl" hat is shown in No. 12, a large
amethyst oval pin being used to hold the
fulness at the front.
In the shoe department special showings
are also being made, and the rather strik
ing smartness of some of the new foot
wear is suggested by sketches No. 13, No.
IS. No. 16 and No. 17. No fewer than 13
straps and buttons are used to hold to
gether the fiaps of the smart little patent
leather garden boots sketched in No. 13.
and quite as novel are the high-topped
hoots of checked canvas sketched in No.
1. No. 17 shows a hieh-tonned mitx-to hnnt
I and an eccentric slipper, much like a bath
slipper, except for the high heel.
The new purse and pocketbook show
ings are of wide variety and some are
exceedingly novel, among the latter being
the "shirtwaist bag," sketched in No. 18.
This name does not mean that the bag
Is a receptacle for shirtwaists, but that
it Is of a pattern which suggests the
shirtwaist, in general shape and in its
bindings, buttons and mock pockets. "No.
20 shows one of the new bronze leather
bags, with Jet ornaments where the
straps are secured. No. 19 shows a bag
of elephant hide with gold clasps.
Smart little bows and Cupid's wings
of silken gauze with spangles of silver
or gold, are finding popularity as
coiffure ornaments. No. 9 shows a
natty little gray bow with a scintillat
ing butterfly of many-colored jewels.
A jeweled seml-tiarra of amethyst and
jet, to be secured by the little . gold
hairpins at the ends, is sketched In
No. 7.
Trinkets Have Their Vogue.
Among the many offerings in quaint
beaten brass or bronze metal are many
pretty patterns in short watch fobs,
to be worn when the watch is tucked
under the belt. No. 6 shows a heart
shaped fob of beaten bronze metal, with
a butterfly pattern and strap of bronze
leather. No. 5 shows a quaint art neck
lace In this odd and attractive metal,
with harmonizing chains.
Three of the new and very dainty
patterns In Dutch collars are sketched
in Nos. 1, 2 and 4. and No. 2 shows
a dainty laoe "turn-over" with a frilled
Jabot of embroidery and lace, secured
in place by a quaint pin of burnished
silver with amethyst ornaments.
"No Vote, No Wedding" Campaign Is On
Chicago Girls Take Pledge, hut Bachelors Don't Care-Mayor Busse 's Year of Trouble-Liquor Men to Reform
Saloons Great Exp ansion of Business.
BY JONATHAN PALMER.
CHICAGO, July 10. "Do you promise
to love, honor and obey this woman
and boost for woman suffrage?"
Plighting the troth tit the altar probably
would contain that modified pledge If a
lot of girls of Chicago had their way.
As It is. the race euicide business will
flourish if these same girls stick to their
slogan. "No vote, no husband." The
Political Equality Union of this city
quickly fell to the domestic programme
mapped out by some of Its New York
sisters, the said sisters vowing they would
marry no man who had not previously
"come across" with a promise that he
would put in a good lick here and there
for woman suffrage. Then Margaret
Haley, the militant head of the Teachers'
Federation, took it upon herself to pledge
6ono school ma'ams In advance to the "no
vote, no wedding bells" platform. Third
to fall In line was Mrs. Catherine Waugh
McCulloch, Evanston's woman Justice of
the Peace, who said the campaign slogan
was to be echoed In the co-ed colleges
of the country.
Bachelors Not Worrying.
Chicago's bachelors are not worried over
the prospect. "We are getting along very
well, thank you," is the burden of their
comment. "I guess a lot of these girls
haven't anything to lose in making- that
promise," Is the argument. "I don't no
tice that the bachelors are breaking their
necks to get to these girls and try to make
themselves the party of the first part.
"Have you noticed what the price of
women's hats Is on State street? When it
take as much money to cover the rats
and puffs that the girls buy on this
fame State street as it does for a man
to buy himself a complete outfit, including
a cane and a smoking set, I gitess we
inn worry .along In single blessedness a
hit longer. You know they are singing
a song now called 'Everybody Else's
Girl Looks Better to Me Than My Own.'
When we bachelors see how the married
men wink at each other when that song
comes over the footlights, we have a
'hunch' that makes it more attractive for
us to eit In on a stag dinner after the
show Is over. As a rule, we have no ob
jection to the girls voting, but this 'no
vote, no husband' bluff Is a pretty poor
weapon with which to wage the battle."
Troubles of Buss Family.
Mayor Busse Is having his share of
trouble aside from the berating he gets
in some of the public prints for alleged
official shortcomings. As evil star seems
to have been hanging over the Busse
family for a year or more. First, the
aged father of the Mayor sickened and
died under distressing circumstances,
blood poisoning from an injured toe prov
ing the fatal ailment. Next the younger
brother of the Mayor accidentally shot
and killed a, prominent woman while she
was standing before a mirror In her
apartment Just across an area way from
the Busse apartment. Then Mrs. Busse
was compelled to go to a hospital and un
dergo an operation. Finally the Mayor
himself was taken down with appendicitis
of a malignant form and an emergency
operation was necessary. For 48 hours he
hung between life and death, the attend
ing physicians not knowing what minute
might be his last.
While he was in the hospital, the Dailv
Socialist printed a series of the most
rabid attacks on the Administration that
ever have appeared In a Chicago publi
cation regarding any public official. The
Mayor was not only held up as a malad
ministrator of municipal affairs,- but as
morally delinquent. It was charged that
he shared in an extensive tribute levied
on vice, that he protected gamblers of
a certain faction and that he was making
millions out of the alleged partnership in
crime. When called upon before the
grand jury to substantiate their charges,-
the editors of the paper made the most
miserable fiasco imaginable. They could
not furnish the basis for any sort of In
dictment. Liquor Men Reforming Saloons.
Evidences are multiplying that the
"drys" are pressing the issue success
fully against the liquor interests. One of
the latest straws comes from Milwaukee,
where the Internal revenue receipts
dropped $322,000 during the last fiscal
year as compared with those of the year
preceding. This decrease means an enor
mous falling off in the business oT the
brewers of that city. Other brewing and
distilling centers show a like decrease in
receipts end a situation Is rapidly forming
which will give the authorities something
to think about. J
The liquor interests are giving their
best thought to the problem of making
the saloon a more respectable place. They
realize it is high time for them to clean
house and get on the side of decency if
they are to continue In business at all.
Liquor men of Chicago and Cook County
have taken up the problem In a. formal
way. They are on record in promises to
promote the moral status of the com
munity and to wipe out the objectionable
features of Chicago saloons. It is abso
lutely in their power to do so If they
wish, and the next year will tell whether
they are In real earnest or whetner. as
some of the anti-saloon leaders say, they
are "making a bluff." A very large per
centage of the groggerles are controlled
by the brewers or whisky houses. It will
not be hard for these interests to put
the ban on the making of the saloon the
rendezvous for criminals and for social
vice. It would be an easier task for them
than fop the city authorities. They have
it in their power to stop the wheels by
refusing to furnish goods which the sa
loon must have. The city cannot do that.
Bank clearings in Chicago are taken as
competent evidence that business in the
Mississippi Valley Is expanding In a heal
thy way. The total of clearings for the
first six months of the calendar year is
more than a billion dollars In excess of
that of the same period last year. This
is an increase of 18 per .cent. Some of
this growth is to be credited to specula
tion on the Board of Trade during the
Patten wheat deal, but the very great
bulk of it goes into the ledger on the
pages devoted to legitimate business. It
is probable the total clearings for the
year will be 1 4.000.000,000. compared with
J11.800.000.COO in 1908.
It is one unfortunate feature, perhaps,
that so much of the money derived from
business Is allowed to pile up in the
banks. The latest reports of Chicago
banks show that. the total deposits have
broken the record at $810,000,000. Since
April 28 the increase has been $38,000,000.
It is nice to have the money near at
hand, but financial and industrial inter
ests would prefer to see more of it going
back into business. That policy would
show a more sturdy faith in the future. '
Chicago is rapiuiy approaching the
point where it will be necessary for it,
like New York, to seek a wider field for
Investment. Preparatory to that day
there is a growing tendency toward the
merger of big financial institutions. The
latest' combination is the Continental Na
tional Bank with the American Trust &
Savings Bank, the combined deposits of
which are nearly $120,000,000.
George M. Reynolds, who was offered
the Secretaryship of the Treasury before
that portfolio was tendered to and ac-,
cepted by Franklin MacVeagh. Is presi
dent of the Continental National Bank.
To The Oregonian correspondent the
other day Mr. Reynolds said:
"With the wonderful development of
the western part of this country. Chi
cago as its financial center will soon find
it to advantage to share with New York
In tig foreign bond and loan transactions.
The resources of our farms and mines
eventually will furnish so much capital
that we shall have to look to the Orient
and elsewhere for opportunities to Invest
our capital. Hitherto the development of
th West has been so rapid that we have
had quite enough to attend to in financ
ing our own projects at home.
But the financial center Is bound to
shift westward In future years. Chicago
Is getting into the van now with some
Institutions that measure up well with
the biggest of the financial concerns in
the East. This is preliminary to the
larger part which the West is destined to
take in the world's financial history."
Talking of returning prosperity. Clerk
Salmonson of the marriage license bureau
comes to the front with a good straw
showing the drift of things.
"I have been dealing out licenses here
for a good many years," he said, "and
I want to tell you that when the bovs
crowd up to this counter for papers that
permit them to hook up with the girls,
you can bet there is something doing in
the prosperity line. We issued during
June .just 3306 licenses and that is 762
more than I passed out during June a
year ago. Why, they were coming in
such droves that I actually had to refuse
some of the laggards on the last day of
the month. They did not get in under
the wire and there was some pouting be
cause the prospective June bride had to
content herself with being a July bride.
Y'ou know there Is a lot of appealing
sentiment in this June bride business.
It's more than a newspaper romance.
"There never was a better place to
study human nature than right here at
this counter. I've been at It long enough
to know that plenty of marriages mean
plenty of good Jobs and salaries. The
-marriage license bureau Is somewhat
overlooked as a depot for prosperity
clews, but I've got the best barometer
here you ever saw."
Preachers, furniture houses and flat
renters confirmed Clerk Salmonson's
rosy tale of prosperity. The preachers
had a harvest of fees, and the furniture
men say they have rarely experienced
such a rush of business. All over town
"for rent" signs came down out of flat
windows.
Bombthrovrer Angers Chicago.
Chicago has been slow to wrath
against the bomb-throwers, but that
tremendous crash in No. 31 which put
15.000 telephones in the heart of the
business district out of commission, de
stroyed $125,000 -worth of property,
nearly killed one man, seriously Injured
a half-dozen others, and threw panic
into the hearts of theater patrons, ho
tel guests and home-coming excursion
ists, certainly has stirred up things in
this- long-suffering town. And at that
the perpetrator of the outrage is as
free as . ever to go about his nerve
racking business. He is the most elu
sive criminal that ever contributed to
the bad name of Chicago.
Theories are plentiful. The bomb
thrower Is a gambler with a grouch, a
striker with another, a reformer with
depraved ideas of his duty to the pub
lic, an anarchist or an out-and-out
crazy man. That is the lay-out. Every
one can have his choice of theories.
The campaign of destruction has been
carried on as craftily and cunningly
that many incline to the view that only
a crazy man is behind it.
Here Is the grand summary up to
date: Number of bombs thrown. 31;
value of property destroyed. $500,000;
number of buildings damaged more or
.less, 500; number of persons killed,
none; number 'of injured. 50; length of
campaign, two years. There have been
several periods of three months of in
tervening quiet between bombs, when
the city fancied the miscreant had run
his course. And now the promise is
held out from a mysterious source that
the next outrage ' will be a double
header, besides which all previous ex
plosions will appear as gentle little dis
turbances. It is a pleasing prospect.
It is estimated that a million per
sons visited the scenes of wreckage
after No. 31. Broken glass was swept
up like icy snow in the streets. Two
hundred policemen guarded stores, the
windows of which had been shattered.
With a reward of $5000 out for the cap
ture of the criminal and the plate
glass Insurance companies taking an
active Interest In the search, it is still
hoped that the mysterious stranger will
be run to earth.
That there are some gentlemen In dead
ly earnest about the creation of a "Chi
cago Beautiful" became manifest when
there was published by th Commercial
Club this week an expensive book de-tail-ing
plans on which a special Commission
has been at work three years. Also
there4were hung in the Chicago Art In
stitute for public inspection 60 original
drawings, picturing the dream city in
bewitching colors. The largest of these
drawings is 20 feet long and there are
many others 12 feet long. It Is said the
cost of the drawings and books is $40,000.
All the local papers devote special sec
tions to an exploitation of the plans
which include a magnificent civic center,
outer driveway in Lake Michigan
with a beautified shore, an extensive
lagoon system softened by shrubs, trees
and flowers, a harbor of surpassing love
liness, recreation piers, a series of plazas
and most wonderful of all an Idealized
Chicago River with wharves like a Ger
man housewife's kitchen in a spotless town
and ornamental bridges that would make
one long to sit all day and admire.
The plans are predicated on the ex
pectation that within half a century Chi
cago will be .a city of 12.000,000 souls and
that the very necessities of the case will
compel a new civic plan on a vastly
broader scope than that of today. it
seems a far look ahead to this ideal
'city, seeing that Cook County lately com
pleted a new $4,000,000 Courthouse and the
city Is duplicating it for a City Hall in
the same block at a like price, the two
to be welded together as one building
with unbroken rows of huge granite
columns on the four sides. By 1950. how
ever, these structures may not be any too
large for halls of record or something of
that sort. Precedent for this expectation
is found in the new Postoffice. which had
become entirely inadequate for local Fed
eral needs before the building was
finished
"A Safe Place to Trade Best Values, Lowest Prices
"We are doing tbe business keeping: the stock moving by making; the purchaser a present of nearlv all the
proiit, and in carpets which we are closing out we give you ALL of the profits. ACTUAL COST bein- the.
prices quoted on this line. Our store is booming. It ought to boom, and will boom while we continue this
midsummer -sale. A dollar saved is a dollar made, and we will save you a lot of dollars if vbu purchase
here. We quote a few of the many bargains seen all over the house.
Try one of our Solid Comfort" Silkoline Mattresses $6.50
Made with pure silk floss and felted with cotton Roll edge
FURNITURE SLASHED
Kitchen Gem, exactly like cut; stands
6 feet high, 42 inches wide, has two
flour bins, two drawers, two bread
boards, and the too has three small
drawers and larjre cupboard; this Geml'
soned lumber, and is finished in the
natural or golden oak; mid
summer sale price . . . .
Parlor Suite. Mahogany frame, five
pieces, covered in best Velours; spe
cial price . .$25.00
rvi m lug
$7.50
Parlor Suite, three pieces, loose cush
ions, extra special price.. $20.00
Couches made in feood
velour. roll edges, spe
clal ST.50
Soft Cotton
tress, extra
price ,
Top Mat
spec I a 1
. . S2.50
CARPETS AT COST
Axniinster Carpet, best qual
ity Sl.OS
Extra Velvet Carpet S1.05
Roxbury Tapestry, 10 wire.. $1.00
Good quality Tapestry Carpet. 75
Extra all wool Carpet 70
LINOLEUMS
12 feet best quality .75
6 feet best quality 65
6 feet good quality.. 5Q
ROOM RUGS
9x12 Axniinster
9x11 Tapestry
9x12 Tapestrv ,
9x12 All Wool..."
Bokanva". 9x12
PRINCESS
DRESSER
Exactly like cut.
made in genuine
birdseye maple, has
French bevel oval
mirror, size of same
1 8x38. the top is 21x
Al Inches. This is a
very attractive pat
tern, regular J25.00.
Our Special
Price $18.50
We have this plain
white maple Dress
er for .$10.50
We are showing: a
h e a u t 1 ful line of
Chiffoniers in
birdseye maple ma
lt o g a n y, g o 1 den
quartered oak: also
In cheaper woods at
g r e a t 1 y reduced
prices.
S18.50
$10.50
S12.50
..$8.50
S12.50
RO U ND
G - FO OT
1 A B L t i
Hound Exten
sion 6-ft. Table,
like cut. with
h e a vy pedestal,
made In royal
oak. This table
Is the best value
ever offered to
the public. We
ran furnish same
in weathered or
royal oak finish.
Special . -S8.50
'iiii'li..miiiliil...i)ir x ,i , .,. -- '---
Taubenheimer & Schmeer Carpet and Furniture Co. coR;ERSoTF?ISgfLI
HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM FAILINGS
Prisons. AlmxhonHea and I.nnatle Aiylum. Keep Pace With "Diploma Fac
7', Ma'.", IirnlT'' ,,,r Knowledge, bt fr Trash Readl.
T B 0" AU" ln"tea ot W ork Sorry Rnn.lt. of an "Educa
tlonal Ideal. "
The Patriarch Is a peculiarly plainspoken
and outspoken paper published weekly at
Seattle. Its opinion on many subjects are
outre and Krotenque. But let any reader
consider the foIlowlnR, which Is signed by
the editor. Edward Clayson, Sr., and then
think- some more:
The following figures presented to
the Legislature by the committee on
appropriations at Olympia in 1909 are
well worthy of serious study. Alms
houses, penitentiaries and lunatic
asylums are keeping, pace with high
schools, colleges and universities:
Western Washington Hospital for
the Insane 2S2.700
Eastern Washington Hospital for
xne insane
State Penitentiary
Reform School
121.200
124. "SO
32.2O0
Total
State University
Agricultural College
Whatcnrrr Normal School .
Ellensburg Normal School
Cheney Normal School
Total
. .54I),S5II
. .j.-ins.nno
. . 140.O0IJ
. . 1.M.2.M)
. . 8H.0O0
. . 4.-1.744
1.00
These figure present a frightful con
dition. It is not only unwise, but posi
tively criminal, for the state to ap
propriate large sums of money for the
purpose of stimulating the minds of all,
indiscriminately, regardless of their
mental capacity to bear it.
It is only the "few" that are of suf
ficient mental strength to bear the
burden of thought such as the high
schools, colleges and universities
stimulate, as it Is only the "few" that
are so constituted physically that they
can bear great physical burdens.
If we should act as foolishly in re
gard to the physical labors of our
youth as we do of their mental, by
urging them to carry weights, etc.. be
yond their physical strength, we should
have the country full of knock-knees,
hump-backs, bandy-legs and other phy
sical deformities, needing large appro
priations for hospitals in which crip
ples would be cared for. As It Is, we
cripple their minds with great "mental
burdens," and the lunatic asylums take
care of them. And again, those stu
dents who have the strength of mind
necessary to carry the burdens of
strenuous mental stress the few
where Is the field for their costly edu
cation? Their ambitions are founded
upon the false standard of making a
living without work. About 10 per
cent of them, by living parsimoniously,
will eke out an existence in the pro
fessions; by strength of.mlnd they will
struggle on in their poverty and main
tain respectable appearances, viewing
with envy the condition of the navvy,
or sewer-dlgger, whose spirit of inde
pendence and material prospects keeps
pace with his ability to work. The
"diplomaite" of the diploma factory
points with a justifiable pride to his
useless diploma, and the many years of
labor and mental toil It represents, al
though he must be conscious of the
fact that it has enslaved him; whilst
his brother navvy in the ditch, who Is
looked upon (by educated fools) as a
mere bea3t of burden. Is In a position
to look upon the "diplomaite" with
compassion, or even with patronizing
condescension, for he (the diplomaite)
Is quite often In the position of an
hungry, educated, aristocratic parasite
dependent, and a representative of the
society column, delinquent tax Hat, and
Cholly-pretty-boy morality. And what
becomes of the other 90 per cent of the
graduates? They will never seek hon
est toll as long as the more seductive
enterprises, such as burglary, gam
bling, selling stock (which has rro sig
nificance whatever except on paper),
political jobbery or educational graft
ing presents an opportunity for their
"educational smartness."
I think that It was "two thousand"
dollars which the last State Legislature
gave for libraries, and it was seven hun
dred and thirty thousand, nine hundred
and ninety-four dollars for "diploma fac
tories." If a quarter of a million of this
money had been spent In valuable books,
and the books distributed throughout the
state In various school districts, and no
money whatever spent upon . the "di
ploma factories." the state would have
saved five hundred thousand dollars, and
the Inhabitants of the state would have
acquired 500 thousand times more educa
tion, without leaving their homes, or their
valuable employments. A good common
school education, and then, free access to
good books, should be the order of the
day Education, then, would be general,
not exceptional, as it is now, and the dis
tribution of appropriations (spent for
books) for educational purposes would be
equitable.
"Equal rights (and equal opportunities)
to all. and special privileges to none."
would then be exemplified in our educa
tional interests.
"Carnegie." the educator, knows the
correct thing to do. He is not endowing
"diploma factories" for the demoraliza
tion of the few; he Is establishing libraries
for the education of the many, and the
state might emulate him to great ad
vantage. But this system would remove
one of the levers now In general . use- for
personal aggrandizement by the politic
ians and the educational grafters, who
pander to the follies of the people in
stead of pointing out to them their errors.
The watchword for Intelligence and wis
dom to adopt in the Immediate future
should be: Liberal appropriations for
common schools and libraries; not a
cent of public funds for the High schools,
colleges and universities. No common
school in the state should be closed for
lack of funds, as long as the "diploma
factories" are running full blast at the
public expense.
.
This system would enhance the educa
tional opportunities of the masses, and
would curtail at the same time the
aristocratic pretensions of the classes,
who now wear an "educational garb" to
distinguish them from the "common peo
ple." Is this not so? By adopting the
"educational garb," we are unwittingly
emulating the Chinese. The make of the
coat, the color of the cloth, the shape
of the cap." and the color of the tassel
with which it is ornamented, all mark
the standard of the Chinamen's "educa
tion." China is the only nation except
America (we are just beginning) that has
made "education" the standard of all
her national ambitions. The "education
al" Ideal has been carried on in China
for centuries, and what has it developed?
Cunning. When cunning becomes a na
tional ideal nobility withers and dies.
Cunning is the weapon of the cheat, the
falsifier, the pickpocket, the thief and the
liar. Cunning is "smart." Cunning is the
brutish part of man's mentality. Cunning
is used by wild beasts to protect them
selves against man's superior intelligence;
but whenever the man with a superior
intellect condescends to use the weapon
of the inferior man (cunning), intelligence
will annihilate cunning, for human en
dowments are superior to the nature of
brutes. The intellectual man can see clear
through the cunning man whenever his
suspicions are aroused, but the cunning
man can never measure the standard of
the Intellectual man, no matter how
many "diplomas" he can boast of.
Extravagant education robs the soil of
the tiller, and it robs the tiller of th
soil, for It prevents Its victims from
tilling the soil during the best years of
his life, and It robs those who do till the
soil. In order to maintain the educated in
idleness. It also creates a large army of
poverty-stricken school teachers, together
with the surplus lawyer, the quack doc
tor and all other quacks, who dare not
soil their hands with wholesome drudg
ery or they lose "caste." A cursed philos
ophy this, for it robs honest labor of its
dignity by placing a stigma upon it. and
it adds great importance to pretentious
knaves at the same time.
England made herself the workshop
of the world for an hundred years; her
great mechanical skill was not achieved
through the Instrumentality of her col
leges and her universities, nor were
her beautiful roads and gardens, which
add so much to the material and-moral
welfare, the result of high school ef
forts. It was work physical work
constant application of the spade and
the plow, the hammer and the plane
which developed this skill of her arti
sans not the "pen." The manipulator
of the "pen" seeks leisure; leisure ob
tains knowledge; but work, physical
work, enhances morality and material
Interests at the same time. It Is
worthy of remark that a large per
cent of men make their fortunes with
out the aid of "education," and how
bright and intelligent they always are?
This brings me to a vital point of
thought in tills essay, viz.: Not being
educated, his mind Is not clogged: or.
In other words, overburdened: hence
his Intellectual activity' and brightness.
He stopped studying -when, he got
through the common school. Thug he
retains his common sense, and if ho 1s
studiously Inclined, and has access to a
"library." he will acquire more substan
tial knowledge during his leisure hours
in ten years, and have the foundation
of a competency and a family secured
besides, than the average "diplomaite"
bacnelor can boast of who has spent
the whole of his time at a university
upon the proceeds of a mortgaged horn
and pauperized parents. The one ac
quires independence, the other depend
ence. The one stands forth as a shin
ing light of honesty and Industry: tho
other is a victim of -vanity and folly.
The one is a builder of homes and the
mainstay of nations; the other is a
parasite upon homes, and a. doubtful
speculation.
The one is a producer, as -well as a
consumer: the other Is a consumer, and
a non-producer.
The one is honesthe can afford to
be; the other is as "smart" as he can
afford to be, and keep out of jalU
The one gets married and supports a
family; the other remains single and
supports the prostitutes.
The one has laudable and reasonable
aspirations in keeping with his deserts;
the other nas vain ambitions, stimulat
ed by his -extravagant "education."
"Satan finds some mischief still for
Idle hands to do."
Forty year.s ago the diploma was a
boon to a young man; today it is a bur
den, if not a curse.
The "diploma factories" at the pres
ent time are the "side entrances" to the
lunatic asylums, almshouses and peni
tentiaries. Corroborative of this Is the
official report of the officers of the
prisons showing thaf the majority of
the prisoners were not of the Illiterate
class.
The reports from all the libraries
show that the increased desire for
knowledge is not going hand in hand
with extravagant education, for the
people are reading trash.
The Patent Office and the Copyright
Office at Washington show our mental
activity. The skill of the mechanic as
represented at the Patent Office is
worthy ot great praise, but 7R per cent
of the productions of the "diplomaites"
from the copyright department should
have been consigned to the flames in
stead of being dignified with a copy
right. The Chinese have their graduating
exercises .t regular intervals in their
colleges, and those students who fail
to pas.-, are encouraged to try again
and again, and if they have not mental
capacity to graduate at all. and keep
on studying until they are "60 years ot
age." then they are given an honorary
degree for their perseverance. We have
not reached that extraordinary stand
ard of absurdity yet, but we shall if
the "educational grafters' are not
checked by common-sense admonitions.
THREATS SENT TO RULER
Servians Kins Told That Affairs of
Nation Are Unsatisfactory.
BERLIN. July 10. (Special.) Follow
ing upon the discovery of a plot against
Prince Nicholas, of Montenegro, and the
arrest of 39 conspirators, comes the news
of growing dissatisfaction In Servia with
the King.
On the sixth anniversary of the assas
sination of King Alexander. King Peter
received an enormous number of threat
ening letters from all parts of the coun
try.. These made the deeper impression
upon him as most of the writers declared
that the condition of things in Servia
was never before as bad as at present.
A Clean Man
Outside cleanliness is less than half the battle. A man may
scrub himself a dozen times a day, and still be unclean. Good
health means cleanliness not only outside, but inside. It means
a olean stomach, clean bowels, clean blood, a clean fiver, and
new, clean, healthy tissues. The man who is clean in this way
will look it and act it. He will work with energy and think
clean, clear, healthy thoughts.
He will never be troubled with liver, lung, stomach or blood
disorders. Dyspepsia and indigestion originate in unclean stom
achs. Blood diseases are found where there is unclean blood.
uinsuinpiion ana Bronchitis mean unclean lungs.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
prevents theae diseases. It makes a man's insides clean
and healthy. It cleans the digestive organs, makes pure,
clean blood, aad clean, healthy flesh.
It restores tone to the nervous system, and cures nervous exhaustion and
prostration. It contains no alcohol or habit-forming drugs.
Constipation is the most unclean uncleanliness. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pel
lets cure it. They never gripe. Easy to take as candy.
it