Show as educators expositions have proven to be great educators they have interested the people find inspired architects artists and managers with combined capital to do heir utmost because they are educational they are the one great periodical undertaking to which peo pie contribute their money without ex pec tation of getting a direct money profit return no exposition yet given in this or foreign countries has paid a return in money or investment the great world s fair and in chicago recognized as the finest and most expensive of its kind ever pre dented cost between thirty and forty millions of dol ars to present it it paid its stockholders only about ten per cent substantially the same or a much worse showing resulted in all expositions yet held with the one ex of the trans mississippi ex position held id omaha in 1898 which paid Us stockholders SO per cent it Is never expected they will relm burs the men directly who contribute the money to put them before the public but it Is an educator for all who see it it shows the agriculturist the very best product in the world from labor it shows the best of its kind in all kinds of machinery used on the farm and in the shop it gives full tion as to the best soil climate and conditions for all sorts of productions it shows the best workmanship in the manufacture of wagons carriages ve hides of all kinds also of planca or gans musical instruments sewing machines cooking and kitchen utensils shop tools and machinery throughout the world it presents pictures from the plain photograph up through all kinds of pictures to the finest oil I 1 paintings by the best artists its build ings are architectural perfection and teach the prospective home builder to get the most convenience comfort and pleasure out of it and for the leas money it demonstrates the evolution of electricity its power and adaptable ity it enables those who want to make a trip abroad to some foreign country to see how the people live work and dress but have not the means to take such a trip to see the foreign country in miniature its peo pie dress etc as they aou d see it abroad a reproduction being given at the exposition of south america cuba our newly acquired dorfo rico and philippine islands to visit china ja pan france and other nat ons the pan american exposition at buffalo Is a good one it Is beautiful located elegantly built and equipped and has the best electrical display ever seen anywhere in ahe world they have harnessed the water power fur dished by the great niagara falls and utilized it to run the machinery and produce unlimited electrical display A few miles from the exposition trolley line of cars connecting Is th niagara falls the emptying of one of the great lakes into ano her lake erie and lake ontario falling over a precipice feet high to get there then the rush of the niagara river itself Is a sight worth a long journey to see all these and many more are ad vantages worth a trip to buffalo to see low rates have b en arjang d to I 1 enable people to go cheaply and hot and boarding house accommodations are said to be ample information will be given by any agent of any railroad about tickets rates and baggage checking travel with as little baggage as possible jo gentie surgery jor moors from bradstreets ordinarily the vagaries of weather forecasters are re carded as furnishing material only tor the gentle surgery pt the humorist but the experience of the last week or so would seem to indicate that more dras tic treatment may sometimes be de seivel the country has just passed through one of the severest periods of heat of which there is any record a period in which any undue agitation of the mind is in the highest degree undesirable it so happens that during this anxious time the official weather predictions have been shown to be unreliable this would not of itself seem to call for more than the usual humorous remark but the errors have been in a direction likely to aug anent the feeling of apprehension in the public mind and they have been supplemented by statements purport ing to be made by the chief of the weather bureau which magnified the duration of the hot spell thus adding a feeling of hopelessness to the dis comfort and danger of the high tern pera ture it would seem to be der able anat the out givings of the weater officials should at such times be con fined to strictly official statements so that on the one hand responsibility for the statements made could be lo 10 bated and on the other that the temptation to excited unofficial aries of individual officials might be avo ded scottish trusts A short time ago all the firms in scotland manufacturing rivets bolts and other mall things used in ship yards entered into a combine tor the purpose of raising prices but the shipbuilders would not submit to this they met and discussed the matter and decided that rather than pay the high prices of the trust they would start works of their own and supply themselves with this object they have purchased five acres of land at airdrie and have commenced the erection of works As one of the shipbuilders said this is our way of fighting the corn bines we 11 do without them and we 11 have better stuff and cheaper stuff than they could give us population centers in cities new aorl now leads all the other states in the predominance of its city over its country population of every inhabitants of the empire state 77 live in cities and towns the percent age of the population living in cities and towns tor the whole country Is only 47 |