Show tho necessity for the rising gen aeration or men to learn some useful trado is impressing itself on many minds they recognize that the inclination of young men of the middle and lower classes tu prefer clerkships clerk ships to the knowledge and mastery of a trade is at the bottom of more than one social problem in the country and it ia gratifying to see rich men hero and there mating bequests for the establishment of training schools to overcome this evil to a certain extent the late homr P montoy the well known publisher of louisville was one of those men who had a thought for the poor and friendless and his will which has just been probated in haac city contains a provision which will forever keep his memory green in the hearts of all friends of humanity tho carrying out of his bequest will result in the establishment of a manual training school at which the boys in the orphan asylums of louisville will be taught some useful trade there they will receive the training which will equip them for the struggle which is sure to ensue n after life it is seldom indeed that the poor children of dead parents are thought of after shelter has been provided for them once housed in an asylum they are soon forgotten MRM bequest however looks further than foad and shelter it proposes to put within their hands the means of earning a useful and livelihood when they have arrived at a suitable age the boys can leave the orphanage prepared to handle the saw and hammer in the carpenter shop or guide the lathe of the machinist and will take their places in the ranks of honest labor how much better is the use such money put to compared to the millions annually left for heirs to fight over and squander it is amazing that so many men who have amassed their wealth by laborious and honest ways die without a thought for the thousands who are struggling without the advantages which they possessed and leave their bank accounts to heirs who will not appreciate the gift and who scorn the methods by which the money was accumulated these are so many that an exception like that of seems all the more beneficent |