| Show 3 WORLDS witek WHEN SHALL WE LEARN experience Is a teacher verb lally informed whose school Is dear and supported by those who lack intelligence to learn in any other some months ago we were stirred deeply by the slaughter by fire of hun deeds ol 01 women and children in achl cago cause corruption and ence in the management and over sight ot theaters for last jew weeks we haye been talking about the slaughter by fire ot hundreds ol 01 women and children in new york Cause corruption and indifference in the management and oversight of steamboats the theaters were some what improved temporarily at least the steamboats may also be temper arlly improved we do not kno lit 1 doubtful to say the least for i back of it all lies a ast indifference we americans take the chances we accept grade crossings kless automobiles firetrap hotels buildings which fall down steamers and and railway trains exposed to fire new york central tunnels any thing everything in the way of need less danger just as we accept bollt leal corruption in general because we simply do not care we would rather not make an effort or a fuss or lose our time we tried to get through congress a law making ship owners hable for lives de strayed the ship owners interfered congress was obedient and the people lay down and ft agot we tried to get through congress a law tor more stringent inspection of steam boats and it was killed with the plea of economy let us eat drink and be merry tor to morrow we may burn up ourselves colliers weekly CONTENT AND HASTE IN WORK president charles W eliot says in the july world s work that the prin cipal sources of satisfaction and con tent in dally work are the active ex of one s powers achievement or the getting well done something borth doing harmonious operative effort putting mind into work or using judgment and skill successfully en countering risk making adventures and mastering novelty and variety it is unquestionably easy to have all satisfaction in dally work de by the imposition of condl biens which make satisfaction imps sible it labor la pressed beyond ana limits of strength and health content in it Is impossible any overwork destroys the physical basis of tion in toll it the hours of labor are exaggerated so that reasonable time tor meals family life recreation and sleep Is not to be had the due satis faction in toil will not be realized the conditions of modern urban life tend to develop in the american population an unreasonable haste and stress in both work and play this haste and stress are quite as highly developed in the higher employments as in the lower and relatively to numbers overwork now prevails in the higher employments more than in the lower probably because there Is more and keener pleasure in them and they are therefore more liable to be pur sued with an inordinate zeal A POPES DEMOCRACY the papacy loves precedents and plus X has been vastly gratified by a statement put into his hands by one of his librarians that pope sixtus V of old time had a sister who very finely dressed was brought to her brother by the cardinals thereupon the pontiff affected not to know her she was therefore hurried out of his presence the cardinals says the record led her out of the palace and had her dressed in her usual clothes those of a washwoman then she returned and the pope advanced from his throne embraced her and called her bis dear sister plus X has now a quotation ready tor those who criticism criticise critic ise the present dress of his sisters london chronicle BLUNDER OF THE RICH MAN it is a bad b under for the rich men to try to shirk their civic duties it creates prejudice against them they may not care tor that but it Is a mat ter of serious care to them whether or not the liw Is upheld without law their vast property interests would be worth nothing the more che people respect the law the better it will be for the property owners and it for no higher and nobler reason it Is clearly in the material interest of the rich that law an dorder shall pre vail and it Is therefore in their inter est to discharge their civic duties with faithfulness and with willingness and to respond cheerfully to the de mands of the state authorities rich mond va times dispatch DANGER IN TOO MUCH HURRY it Is charged that while only trained high grade men can operate trains that are not fully equipped with all the latest improvements the in stalla tion of these improvements Is ofte used as an excuse tor employing in farlor men thus offsetting any meas ure of safely that might have been added by the improved equipment the after all is to blame empry man of course regrets the loss of life in railway accidents and Is ready to censure the managers for running tra ns at too high a rate of speed but nhen he starts on a trip he wants the speed limit removed the nation Is in a hurry and the rail road company that proposed to lessen the speed of trains for the express purpose of reducing the chances of accidents would promptly be ridiculed as an old fogy outfit and its business would go to Us rival wellington post every man ought carefully to tol low out his peculiar character provided it is only peculiar and not vl clous cicero ENGLISH IN JAPAN until forty years ago an english book was practically unknown in japan the only foreign literature studied was the chinese and the first language to be taught in the schools was the dutch now while english Is the most common among the people and Is studied by all high school pupils german french are favored generally by scholars and physicians there Is a foreign language school in tokyo where almost all languages are taught and curiously enough russian Is the favorite the study of english literature in japan as represented by rot tsu who has translated into japanese some of shakespeare a plays othello macbeth and the merchant of venicee 1 the most widely known english writer in japan Is carlyle all stu dents of english literature in japan read his works next to carlyle comes macaulay and the new or translation style was practically ere abed by borrowing his language by ohp a literary band in tokyo emerson Is greatly admired and his writings have influenced many notable japanese to day mill and herbert spencer have also influenced the thought of modern japan tennyson longfellow wordsworth byron and milton are the most popular poets and in fiction irving thack eray and dickens are the best known bellamy s 1001 ing backward been recently translated into japan ese chicago journal DISREGARD OF HUMAN LIFE e the widespread condition bt danger to human life in the appliances of our eager and hurrying civilization can only be due to a certain carelessness a lack of earnest attention to the safety of he community partly no doubt it Is due to too much eagerness to save expense and mal e the greater profit even at the risk of occasional unnecessary losses corporations capitalists contractors and builders need to be held to stricter require ments and lawmakers and officials need to be held to a higher responsibility but it all depends in the last analysis upon the state of the public mind and the spirit of the people there Is where a higher regard for ife and care tor the general security deeds to be cultivated new york burnal of commerce JAPANESE HUMANITY without a single white man to advise or control with few war correspondents to comment or criticism criticise critic ise the japanese are 1 beeping up in this campaign as high a standard of hu manity and kindness to their foes as any civilized power in the world prisoners who have escaped sneah in enthusiastic terms of the manner in which the japanese treat the russian wounded the japanese army doctors it seems are splendid and they personally saw to the comfort of all the russian wounded cial llred man Is an incarnate paradox having called to his assistance all the highest talents in one depart ment of science to provide the most awful and barbarous instruments to destroying his fellow man he sum mons with the same breath the mas of another science to undo as far as possible the inevitable conse of the use of shot and shell torpedoes and submarines and all the other deadly machines of modern warfare looked at from one aspect war Is the negation of all humanity regarded from another it evol es hu manity s loftiest products london telegraph WORK THAT SHORTENS LIFE metal polishers are said to become disabled in about seven years for that reason they command high wages most of them die of con the stonecutter s life Is a little longer but death comes to him in the ay workers in trenches and sewers street cleaners canal dig gers workers in caissons tunnels la compressed air bridge builders and railroad laborers are short lived the tunnel under the north river cost more than a score of lives by acci dents besides permanently impairing the health and shortening the lives of unknown scores building of the new york and brooklyn bridges was aery fatal to human life an engineer old me that they kept the facts out t the newspapers as much as lie all great works of engineering ire prosecuted at an expense of hu man life and health health culture STILL EAT MUCH MEAT de ite the vogue of the health food the number of beats slain for food has never been so great as now the butcher shops have beba thronged notwithstanding all done by the pack ing combine ird checking the demand vegetarianism has thus lan gulshen the old and often used ex amples that the greeks who fought at thermopylae arid tho athlete who won tho marathon race ate only lentils have lost their potency through too great familiarity new york globe AMERICA S RIVALRY OP EUROPE america Is becoming a keener rival of europe every year when the panama canal Is opened the field ot battle will be in south america and eastern asia there the interests 0 germany and great britain are seri bously threatened in an equal degree and both countries will therefore be dependent upon one another in future possibilities 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