1 MANUAL TRAINING FADS. Br Ker. K. A. White. Does education fit a man to get on, to make money, to run a store? are 'popular questions about education. Now the utilities of education have their place. An education which does not 1 fit a man or woman to live successfully in our present industrial life talis at an Important point. But in our zeal for education as a utility we are losing sight of the value of education as a pleasure. Life has as much right to Joy as it has to food and raiment. Ed- icv. ic wuuk. ueatlon ought so to be administered and so conceived that It Is a Joy giver. The introduction of the so-called fads into elementary grades has been from a variety of motives. The utilitarian, sees In them a means of fitting a man to use a Baw or a woman to cook a good meal. Others see In tbein a subtle educational value, a means of self-expression. Manual training hus mnde school work Interesting. The child naturally wants to construct, to make things, to pro ject his ideas Into form. However you approach the ques tion of fads, they are of greatest value in nn educational system. Those who talk of a return to the three It's savor of medievalism. There is an odor of the middle ages about uch assertions. The man or woman who attacks the so called fads simply reveals his or her complete Ignorance of the educational value of fads. MILLIONAIRES OWNED BY TI1LIR MILLIONS. By Andrew Carnegie. Men do not own millions. It is the millions that own the men. When you have education this is different. When you gain knowledge it doesn't possess you, but you possess it, and have a treasure. No matter whether you die worth millions or not, you have something that is denied the man who Is Immersed In the accumulation of wealth. Stock gambling Is not a business; It Is I a mere parasite on business. If I had a son I should prefer to have him enter upon a professional ca reer than any other. I have been looking largely Into small colleges of late, and I have entered Into the college busi ness as I not long ago entered into the library business. I think a young man who goes to a small college receives a better education than at a large one. I like to see men not excelling In football or things pertaining to the foot, but excelling in head expansion. Sport is too generally taking the place of valuable kuowta.lge at the big colleges. 3 I THE ORDINARY" WORKMAN. By O H. Oyen, While It may De true that there is little or no chance for the ordinary machinist, or man of kindred trade, to work1 himself up through his vocation. It is equally true that there is plenty of opportunity for the worker in these lines who is not ordinary for the "extra-ordinary" worker. The ordinary worker and the man who succeeds through his work are separate and distinct types. I One has but to enter the workshop of any large concern where a hundred or more men are employed at the same kind of work. Even the most untrained observer, if he tries, can pick out the "extra-ordinary" men from the Others. The ordinary workman is a cog in a machine. lie does I I ff. if JL the work allotted to him with such degree of efficiency as to hold his position. This is all. lie never progresses, never learns anything about the line he is in except his own little stunt, never tries for anything better than a place at his bench or lathe, never reaches out He does what his employers consider a fair day's work, never more, and he does this only because he knows that Just so soon as he falls to do It he will be out of a position. This Is the ordinary" worker, the man of the class Included In the labor leader's sweeping statement. The worker who amounts to something the extra-or dinary worker may not exert himself physically as much as does his companion who stays at his work until the end, but while he works he keeps his eyes open and learns something besides his own Job. This is the difference. He sees that It is not In the performance of the one Job before him that success is to be won, but In the things that he masters from the vantage point of the good workman. If he Is a machinist he learns his machine and the things he makes. He sees them go through his bands day afterday and If there Is any possibility of Improvement he Is sure to find It out Then, If he Is of the right kind he begins to study ways and means to make the' needed improvement Employers begin to reckon seriously with the men under them as soon as" they see they have ideas of their own that are worth something. DIVORCE INCREASE IS WELCOME. Br Ker. Mlnot J. Smrage. Law does not make marriages. The church does not make marriages. Men and women, if they ever are married, marry themselves. All the law can do is to recognize and try to conse crate a fact which already exists. If there Is no marriage, then it is desecration to keep up the sham. One of the distinguished characteristics of modern time is the growth of divorce. Manv persons'are frightened and think this one of the deplorable fruits of the wider freedom granted to women. I believe that on the whole most of the divorces of the present time are altogether to be welcomed. They are 'almost always In the Interest of oppressed women, giving them another opportunity for a free, sweet wholesome life. There are' cases where the divorce laws are abused, but they are not nearly so many as frightened ministers In many of our churches seem to imagine. These cases are exploited in the papers until folk. Imagine society is ex tremely corrupt A SQUARE DEAL IN FOOD PRODUCTS. Br Dr. II. W. mley. This Is the era of the "square deal,' and it ought to include a square dea in food products. There Is considerable misunderstanding of the purpose of the Agricultural Department in seeking food legislation. It is not to restrict trade, but to help it. The primary purpose is to have all foodstuffs sold under truthful labels and to tie what they are represented to be. The same thing should be true of other products. It has been maintained by some per- dr. ii. w. Wiley, .sons that in food products "deception is tne lire of trade." Statistics have proved that where food laws have been enforced there has been an increase of business, not a diminution. This Is due to the increase in the buyers' confidence that when they puj se foodstuffs they ore getting what they ask for. departed and the blue eyes could scarcely keep open, she persisted that she wasn't a bit tired, "on'y hungry." That was a subterfuge she was al ways guilty of at bedtime. Next day I saw Kathleen in the park and we discussed the party. 'lou were a funny man," she said. I was glad to know that I had given satisfaction in this direction. "Did you learn all those stories from pitsher books, or were they Just make believe?" "15oth," I said. "And you didn't cry when you had to go home like little Charlie did, did you?" I assured her I was able to refrain from weeping. r "And you liked me the best of all the little girls there?" "Of course I did." "Quite sure?" she said, coaxlngly, "Quite sure," I repeated. "Then mummle was wrong." she said, triumphantly. "How's that?" I asked. "Well, when mummie and Aunt Mer- va came In to say 'Good-night,' I heard auntie say how fond you were of me, and mummie 'said, 'Yes, and I know some one tlse he's very fond of, too. or would be, if she'd let him,' and auntie went quite funny, and said: Don't be rldlklus, Daisy' Daisy's what daddle calls muninile but mum mle only laughed and said: 'I don't think you're always kind to him." Kathleen stopped to take brenth after this long recital, and then went on: So after mummie went down ouurs, ami auntie Drought me a sweetie 'fore I fell sleep, 1 asked It It was true if she liked some little girl better'n me. Auntie said 'No,' and then I asked her If she wasn't always kind to you. Auntie said. Tertians not, sometimes.' Then I said she ought to love you like I did, 'cos you were lonely and had no nice little girl of your own like my daddy had. Thin she stooped down to kiss me, and her cheek was quite wet, Just as If she'd been crying. I've never seen Auntie Merva cry before." There was a serious look in Kath leen's blue eyes. "What made Auntie Merva cry, do you th'nk?" she asked, quite dis tressed. "I think I can guess," I said, nnd with a full heart I kissed the little up turned face. Kathleen had told me something I wanted to know something that I have been grateful to her for telling me nil my life. Baltimore Evening Herald. A DR AM CRUISE. My prayers I say and lay me down; The lights of Starland gleam afar, liv trundle bed is Sleepy Town, My window is the harbor bar. Beyond the curtained patch of blue There lies a fair and wondrous sea; AIv dream ship feels the flowing tide, I hear my sailors calling me. A shallop skims across the blue, And Jackies touch their hats, polite, "Come, get aboard, dear captain, do, The bells are sounding caudle light" The lullaby my mother croons Crows fainter and still fainter grows; The bos'u pipes his merry tunes And dances on his timber toes. Heigh-ho! a merry crew, I ween, For some are wood, and some are dough. And some before in books I've seen, And some are dolls I used to know. Now. where away, oh, captain, where? I'd sail me swift, I'd sail me far, The evening winds are blowing fair, We'll head her for the Morning Star. Toledo Times. ! mimt .j...4"M"H- ! ! ! i H' l"H'-M"M"fr OMK in!" My office door opened very gently, and a little face I knew well peeped round. In sheer aston ishment I dropped my pen. "Kathleen!" I said. "How In the world did you get down here? You're not by yourself, surely?" "Ob, no; course, nursle's with me," and the blue eyes smiled, at me so sweetly; "but she's gone shopping. I'm not to go till she conies for me." "But what will mother and nuntle say? They'll think you're lost" "I'm too growed-up to get lost," she said, with a dignified little air. ' I could not help smiling. "Now, you little rogue," I said, "when I've helped you off with that pretty blue coat and hat I shall ex pect to be told why you've honored uie with a visit to the city during business hours." . She settled herself sedately In a chair opposite to me, quite unconscious of the pretty picture she made with "they'll think you'be lost.". . . her mass of fair hair and her sweet little face. "It's a most 'portant visit," she said. "I've come to nsk you to my party next We'n'sday." "Indeed? I shall be delighted to come. So that's what brought you down here, Is It?" I had heard great tales about this party, but not from Kathleen. ls was evidently her surprise for me. "Shall I be expected to do anything hi particular?" I asked. "You'll have to make believe all the time, like you always do at our house." This was certainly a candid state ment. I wondered If the rest of .the family shared the same view. I hoped not, becnuse I was, as a rule, particu larly serious after Kathleen had gone to bed. "Aunt Merva will be there, of course," I ventured to suggest "'Course she will," replied Kath leen. Then she made a tour of the room, came back and resumed her seat, and asked me seriously: "Is this where you play all by yourself in the day- timer' . "Well, yes, I suppose I do." '"Do you keep your toys In those big tin boxes?" "Well, they're not toys like tuose in your nursery." - "Do you sit here all by yourself, then?" 1 nodded. . "And never feel lonely?" "Sometimes," I said, smiling In spite of myself at the serious little face. "1 heard mummie tell daddy one day you were a lonely man.'' "Oh!" I was certainly henring some home truths. ' "But you won't be lonely when you come to my party, will you?" "No, denr. I like to come as often as I can to your house," and I spoke the truth. By this time Kathleen's nurse had returned I expect she had been wait ing outside all the time and with strict Injunctions "not to forget the party nest Wednesday," my little vis itor kissed me good-by, and I tried to settle down to work again. But a pair of blue eyes would keep dancing In front of me on my blotting pad. Sometimes I thought they were Kathleen's and sometimes I thought they were some one else's. Kath leen's eyes and her Aunt Merva's were strangely alike. I had noticed It be fore. The room seemed quite cheerless now that she had gone. In the Intervening days the postmai left strange notes for me. Sometimes the missives were stuck together with Jujubes, but, I had no dimcuity in deciphering the signs. They read: "Don't forget the party next We'n'sday." As to the crosses well, .the most ignorant person knows what those moan In a letter. "We'n'sday" came at last, and, of course, I went to the party. It was a great success. The house was turned upside down by a merry crowd of little folks who kept the fun going until long after they ought to have been In bed.- Kathleen queened It all. very pret tily, and after tht last little guest had Humorous - A GRUESOME MEMENTO. Volume of Autographs M'hlch Kelnte to a Dreadful Crime. Among the collections of n manifold chnraeter. Including a volume of au tographs the genuineness of which Is beyond all doubt, and 'many other curios, all In a more or less degree connected with American history, In possession of a well known resident of this city who for more than fifty years has been engaged In gathering such things, the most gruesome of the lot is a series of memorials (If to al low them such a title can be proper) connected with one of the trio of great crimes that bereft the American peo ple of the nation's chief magistrate, says the Washington Star. This particular one concerns the trial, conviction ami execution of Gulteau, the assassin whose awful crime resulted In the death of- Tresi dent Garfield. Not only does this gloomy memento Include the auto graphs and portraits of each member of the jury with one exception, It also contains the autographs of the Judge who presided in the case, those of the lawyers who participated In the event nnd their photographs; also the sign manual of Uulteau himself and the .Tack Ketch who pulled the cord that launched the wretch into eternity. This Is not all, however, that Is shown in this chapter of the dreadful tragedy. The details are augmented In their completeness by a lock of the murderer's hair, by a part of the blnck cap that covered his face when he wns hanged and a piece of the rope that was fastened around his neck when, so far as earthly expiation went, he suffered for his crime. furioiiM I ay Windows. There Is a house In Bridgeport, Conn., that has two or the most cu rious bay windows ever seen. They are made of halves of old horse cars. Holes were cut In the front of the house Just the size of the cars.-and one of the discarded vehicles was cut In two lengthwise. The halves were put In position and pow the front rooms have added light and window seats that used In times gone by to accom modate the riding public of the city. Batn's Impatience. Commenting on the dispatch about lightning striking three churches at once. Brother Dickey said: "Sometimes ole Satan gits tired wnltln' fer sinners, en blazes do way ter 'em." Atlanta Constitution. I When a bulldog chews up a little 1 dog, the owner appears to be Indig nant, but he Is really proud of the bulldog's performance. He So your father asked you what you saw In me to admire? She Oh, no. He asked me what I Imagined I saw. Life. Oracye Maude asked George to kiss her. Gladys Well, I like her cheek I Gracye So did George. Louisville Courier-Journal. "Don't know her? Why, she lives iu the same square with you." "Yes, but she's not in the same circle." Cleveland Leader. Miss Iert Which half Is It that doesn't know how the other half lives? Miss Caustlque The better half. Philadelphia Record. Judge I'll give you thirty days In Jail. Prisoner Good! My wife will be through cleaning house when I get out Kansas City Times. Brother You can't think how nerv ous I was when I proposed. Sister You can't think how nervous she was until you did. Town and Country. Jack Why do you girls spend so much time and money on dress? Nell (candidly) To Interest the men and worry other girls. Philadelphia Tress. She Freddie and Clara are engaged, but they have decided to keep their engagement a Becret Clara told me so. He Yes, I know. Freddie told me. Plek-Me-Up. "Waiter, these nro mighty smnll oysters." "Yes, sir." "And they don't appeal to be very fresh, either." "Then It's lucky they're small, aiut It, sir?" Cleveland Leader. Nell Mr. Kammerer Is so kind. Ha said I took a very pretty and very artistic picture. Belle Indeed? And whose picture did you take, dear? Philadelphia Ledger. "Don't you ever go to school, Jim nile?" "Well, yer see, It's dls way, kid ma gives me a nickel a week ter go to school an' de teacher gives me a dime ter stay away. Judge. She I have a new milliner, Jack. Don't you think my hats are more be coming than they used to be? He Yes; and your bills are becoming more than they used to be. New York Mall. "Charles, have you ever considered going Into any business?" "Naw. The governor wanted me to last yeah, but I told him, dontcherknow, It was enough to have one tradesman In tha family." Puck. The Boss I'm afraid you are not qualified for the position; you don't know anything about my business. The Applicant Don't I, though? I keep company with your typewriter. Chicago Journal. Stage 'manager (Interviewing chil dren with the Idea of engaging them for a new play) Has this child been on the stage? Proud mother No; but he's been on nn Inquest, and he speaks up fine! Punch. Physician (looking Into his anteroom, where a number of his patients are waiting) Who has been waiting the longest?" Tailor (who has called to present his bill) I have, doctor; I de livered the clothes to you three years ago. Glasgow Evening Times. Mrs. Brickrow How do' you man age to persuade your husband to buy you such expensive bonnets? Mrs. Topflatte I take him shopping with me, walk him around until he can't stand, and then wind up In a bonnet store. He'll buy anything to get home. New York Weekly. Lecturer on the French Revolution It is Impossible to imagine the chaos that reigned confusion and' anarchy everywhere. In our morepeacefiil con ditions we cannot even imagine such a state of things. Man at the back of the hall Yes, we can, mister. Come up to our house; we're movln'. Pick-Me-Up. "Yes," Bald he, letting her out an other notch beyond the speed limit, "the automobile lias come to stay." Then the machine slowed down, gave a shudder or two and a dry, rasping cough, nnd stopiied. ' You were right," said his guest a few hours later as they trudged wearily Into town. Houston Post. A Western paper tells of a confused clerk who, asked by a young lady for a certain number of yards of muslin, looked at the cloth for a minute, mean while fumbling for the end. "Finally he s;ild disgustedly, "Dick must have sold both ends of this: yes, I'm sure ho did." And with that he pushed his shears across tho piece, and from the end thus made sold the quantity day In a crowded street car, Rabbi Illrscir, of Chicago, got up to give his seat to a woman. Much to the Jewish divine's disgust a, young man scrambled into It before the lady could take It For some moments the rabbi glared at the offender In silence. Finally the rude young man, growing restless, said: "Wot are you staring at me for? You look as If you would like to eat me!" 'Tin forbidden to do that," answered Hlrsch. "I'm a Jew. Ex.