Show 1 biti ON HOW TO GET 1 since some of ir very rich men have taken to public discourse upon all sorts of matters their utterances have somewhat diminished their reau for infallible wisdom it has been discovered that a man may pos sess great wealth and still fail ot complete mastery ot the science of government or the principles ot po economy aay it Is evelent that such a man may not even a reliable gu de to the inquirer who seeks for the road to wealth one of the most didactic of our vivacious millionaires has recently de dared that riches are within the reach of every man who wishes to be rich he asserts that there are but two requisites for the acquisition of wealth moderate intel gence and un limited industry given these he de lares that any man can get rich which is of course entirely false and misleading even though it comes from a fendleman fent leman who has piled up great wearth and s now engaged in piling up free libraries everyone knows that intelligence and industry are not the sole essentials to the ac of riches knows of aien intelligent and industrious who can scarcely male a living it Is true lat intelligence and in austry are qualities favorable to th attainment of wealth but it is not true that the ol 01 those qualities even S the degree constitute suy su y assurance of riches e money making faculty is a S apart from other natural endow ments an ignorant illiterate man who possesses it will get rich and intellectual genius without it will re main poor all hiff life like abitt for music it can be cultivated but it can not be acquired the sayings of our loquacious mil llon alres like the aphorisms in the copybooks will not always bear abaly sis in the present instance the fal sity ol 01 the proposition Is evident to everybody since a vast majority ot the people though they are intelligent and hard working never acquire so much as a modest competence let alone wealth chicago record her aid MEDICAL COLLEGES medical colleges are responsible for the horde of failures who parade as doctors and do what they can to men ace the public health some of the medical schools are get rich quick schemes taking every applicant who comes along with the requisite fees they spoil hundreds ol 01 good farmers mechanics shoemakers and black smiths issue sheepskins and leave the medical profession to struggle with the reproach every decent doctor should join bilm and pursue the fak ers gratteri grat and moral pervert ers un til it Is made too warm for them to continue in the profession A med cical diploma bughi be beyond pur chase by anyone not fitted in every arway for the responsibilities of a phy sioux city tribune THE CZARS PRIVATE FORTUNE many newspapers have seriously re produced a telegram which appeared alln a paris journal announcing that ithe emperor nicholas had presented ahls private fortune amounting to eighty millions sterling to the russian government tor war purposes it was added that this huge sum stands to the credit of the emper or in a bani of a country not friendly to russia eighty would be a pretty bort of a sum to be held at call by any bank but the whole story ie a romance and so are all the other stales about the emperors dealings with his civil list the fact is that the emperor of cussia has no civil list and he draws at his discretion on the imperial treasury every ro ible of which is supposed to be his property and absolutely at his disposal london world HIGHER EDUCATION it is not the least but one of the greatest advantages of higher aduca tion that the woman of today does know herself much better than did her mother or grandmother and with that self knowledge comes a better under standing of her relations to the world about her the college girl of to day Is healthier stronger saner more in dependent more resolute and more useful than were the social butterflies or the household drudges of her grandmother s time in the expert mental stages of this new development there may have been danger but the education of the body as well as the mind is now looked after in all our iris colleges indeed much better than in colleges for the other sex boston transcript AMUSEMENT AND LABOR there is a savor of philosophy and a dash of originality in the venerable bishop huntington s diocesan address particularly when in speaking of amusements he say when we see how persons make a labor of their amusement how can we help wondering whether they would not better fand amusement in their labor the beloved old churchman has struck the nail on the head there has struck it a blow which lights up the darker recesses of the human mind with the fire of everlasting truth utica N Y observer LIMIT OF LAWYERS DUTY A lawyer has no right to do any thing as a lawyer which he would acorn to do as a man and a citizen his obligation to the court and to the public is and must be paramount to bis obligation to his client unless this is recognized the lawyers would be the most dangerous class in the community indianapolis GETTING BACK TO NATURE students of american life think that they detect a distinct tendency to revert to nature the first effort of course to acquire a competence the second to amass a fortune but the tard is to on a country place and to be able to spend all bu the winter months it in the open away from the crowded dusty city cheth er this be an effect of inheritance a harking back to the form whence all city dwellers at one time or another sprang or not it is an interesting fact health is better life is longer and happier if all the time that can be spared from the exactions of bousi ness be spent in the open air where the breathing spaces are large the air pure the sunlight clear warm and full of comfort CURBING BUTCHERS it is satisfactory to note that public opinion is being aroused on the bub I 1 eject of the wanton destruction of shade trees by the servants of telephone telegraph and electric light companies w ho are sent out to string v res md who carev the v iab wn ch to make short w ork of a atje aitch they deem in the way of their operations such outrages are usually committed when those able nd willing to protect trees are away from home protects from women count very little and tears for even less against s ib sequent suits tor damages the companies are well fortified valuable tree is once spoiled ant its owner can recover by a suit 81 law would not trouble any one chicago chronicle COST OF INSECT PESTS the extent ol 01 damage done by in sects which a the agricultural interests of the united states is but little appreciated twelve bugs ac cording to statistics do an estimated dabag to fam products pio ducts ot pera the chinch bug heads the list with a year grasshopper 80 hea sian fly a reminder ot the revolution since the hired by king george brought its eggs over in the straw for their horses cotton worm an I 1 boll worm cotton 25 apiece cotton boll weevil 20 san jose scale grain wee til apple worm and army worm 10 apiece potato bug and cabbage worm al bany N Y algua WHOLESALE BANKING no personal accounts large or small wanted here we do business only with large corporations this was the reply the president of one ot the 25 wall street banks gave to an inquirer as to the minimum de posit that institution would accept it was a notification that this was dis a wholesale bank such an ansbe would not have been nade five years ago but this is a new age the billion dollar trust and the 25 bank are to wall street what wireless telegraphy is to electricity ft onders the vast demands ot mod ern industry often requiring the negotiation ot a loan of 5 upon a few hours notice with frequent calls for stupendous accommodation from transcontinental railroads or kyndl cates financing foreign government bond issues have called into eing these new banks veritable encarna alons 0 power holding indeed the safety and happiness of a people in their hands saturday evening post KEEPING IDEALS that was a wise old clergyman who urged bis brethren not to admit young men to the ministry unless they were evidently more broad minded and en thusia in their faith than their elders we must allow he said for the inevitable shrinkage the same allowance is necessary in every life for the sure closing in of the real upon the idea s of youth and the un avoidable narrowing of hope and aim that must come ath middle age the more idealism we start with the more stoutly we defend it against the shocks it is certain to receive the more jaous life will turn out to be as we go on living the dreariness of the middle aged view of life springs largely from the fact thai its ideals are so shrunken as to be no longer a source of vitality of renewal says harper s bazar As long as we be 1 eve in life and in love and in friend ship and in heroism and in other ideal possibilities life is worth living and we are strong to take our part in it living tor ideals is happy and courageous living living without them is the dull gray life and end WOMEN IN GERMANY the movement in germany to open the doors of the universities to worn en has failed in its chief purpose but it has led to something girls are to be admitted to the classical schools preparatory to the university as an experiment but there is a alve opposition on the part of the gov eminent to a classical training tor women instead and to maintain the ideal position ot german women in the home the instruction of girls in the high schools is to be better adapted to domestic requirements that is to say the ambitious young women are to be taught the art and science of cooking and of household work generally the minister of in st ruction docs not seem to be am pressed by the arguments in favor ot erudite women but he has a lively sense of the importance to the coun try of general good cooking palla delphia record every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at tta back kingsley rt IM y 14 sf r efee |