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George IV.
HE mere students of technical Knowledge have not taken
quite the rank lil American social and political life coni-
Tl nieusuratc with their accomplishments in uieir uu
1 fusions. I ascribe this to the fact that their training has
B been too purely technical; they have specialized too early
I in life and without that broad and catholic foundation upon
which special training snouia De uasu.
All educated men concede the full value of the technical
education, but the defects in a merely technical education
also are easilv perceived. The requirements of a civilization mai is
purelv materialistic have not dispensed with art and. literature, nor Ignored
the tremendous importance of the imagination-M.he value of poetry and song
in inspiring that Impulse which achieves the greatest practical results; nor
can it minimize th." iiuiKwtance of the study of the past history of man, for
contrast and example, for warning and. for emulation.
In an age of great technical and industrial development the tendency Is
toward pure materialism the exalting of practical accomplishment In the
production cf wealth over the less tangible result of the study of history, lit
erature and art, and so there is cn the part of many men who have attained
success in business life or in the prac tical sciences a disposition to extol such
accomplishments above ail others and to undervalue or not at all to
realize the value of mental culture in any other than purely technical lines.
It is to be noted, however, that the greatest discoveries in science followed
the treat intellectual awakening which lew known as the Renaissance. At
most without exception, the great men whose names have been written large
in the history of science were men of broad culture, often almost as proficient
iu literature and art as in science.
The man who gees out into the world without the knowledge of the human
ities is therefore lacking in a mental equipment which leaves him subject to
a serious handicap. General cultivation today is so widespread that the man
who enters upon his life work with a mere technical training, when he
conies in competition with men of broad culture, is at a decided disadvantage
A combination of the ideals of purely technical study with broad university
culture offers to students the opportunity of becoming not merely engineers,
but educated gentlemen.
College Girls Less Fond
of Matrimony
And Fewer Children to a Mother
Ey President G. Stanley Hall of Clark
N Smith College during the ten years which ended with the
class of 1888. there were 370 graduates, of whom, by the
spring of 1903, 15S were married, being 42.70 per cent. The
secretaries of these classes report the number of children
born through these marriages to have been 315, or an aver
age of 2.08 to a mother. That is 1.99 to a married mem
ber, seven married members of the classes having no chil
dren. Of these children 26 died.
Of the next ten Smith classes ending with and including
the class of 1S98 there were 1.130 graduates, of whom 331 were married-;
this being about 29 per cent, of the graduates. Of these classes six report
the number of children born, which is 1G1 or 1.22 to a mother, or .77 to a
married member, some married members having no children. Of these
children, nine died.
This shows that comparing the graduates of the two decades, there was a
falling off of about 14 percent in the marriages and that fewer children were
born to a mother. Other figures show that fewer than 27 per cent, of the
total number of graduates from Smith and Radcliffe, up to 1907, were
married.
Of 3000 graduates from Smith College and 800 graduates from Radcliffe
College fewer than 16 per cent, are pursuing occupations in the business
world.
From the total of 3,800 graduates from both Smith College and Radcliffe
College, thirty-three have become doctors, seven lawyers, two preachers,
twenty-two nurses, fifty have entered literary pursuits, 100 have become phil
authorpists, eighty-five library workers, five actresses and two architect.
Eight hundred Smith graduates, or about 27 per cent., are teachers, the
same number are married, and 900, or 30 per cent., have no occupations.
Of the Radcliffe graduates, 44 per cent, have become teachers, 22 per cent
are married and 19 per cent hare no occupations.
The Church in Danger
Ey the Rev. Julian C Jaynes before the w
I American Unitarian Association rJli i0Kfm
N recent years, the Church hag been summoned to the bar
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of judgment. Prom all quarters of public opinion various
charges have been made. The poor say that it is the sa
cred toy of the rich, and the rich say that it is pandering to
the socialistic notions of the poor. Some declare that it
is too conservative, others that it Is too radical, some too
exclusively sentimental, others too inclusively practical.
The Church, smarting under this criticism, part of which
is true, has been unduly alarmed, and is tempted to aban
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don Its real mission in the world. It is in danger of being misled by specious
programs of agitators and doctrinaires and of transforming itself into a civic
forum, a therapeutic hospital, a dispensary of charities, an institution for vis
ible social betterment
The Church stands aa the specific antidote of materialism, safeguards
the reverences of life, cares for the moral visions of the soul and pronounces
every Godward aspiration of heart and mind as the noblest expressions of
manhood and womanhood. Its legitimate work is not to supply new social
furniture, but to make men righteously efficient, and then to trust to them
to go out with wisdom and consecration to Improve in their own way the
social conditions of life.
Hot Weather Diet
SyR. C
N law ignorance is no
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I make bold to assert that deaths from neat prostration
are nothing short of criminal. Every hot wave brings forth
a flood of advice on "tor to keep cool,; but people go on
dying by the scores, because seldom, if ever, is there any?
thing of real value in such advice. An eminent physician
will come out with the sage suggestion to "dress lightly
and avoid greasy foods" as though any sane man would
wear flannels and feast on fat -pork in July and August.
. It Is easy enough to ten us what -not to eat, .but eating has become such a
fixed habit with most of us that we Insist on our three meals a day, with a
few drinks of something thrown In between, regardless of the temperature.. -
Thia being the ease, will not some "prophet" arise who can tell us what
-we should eat and drink, tie dress will take care of itself,
I have a little knowledge along this line myself, which I haT pot into
practice for several years past with most excellent, results, but I am only a
"layman," and, therefore, not entitled to teach. ? -
Is it possible that? the medical schools teach, nothing of the chemistry of
flood, or that oar physicians are Ignorant of our bodily needs' in hot weather?
If they know, wthy do they not tell as, and not force as to go outside of the
profession for such knowledge, as I had to dot
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Attorney General
Wickersham
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University tWI"1
MclVane
excuse for crime, and on this theory
CartocTi by
AMERICA WINS SHARE
China Agrees to Increase Amount From $27,500,000 to $30,000,000, One
fourth ot Which Is to Gome to the United States and three-fourths
to Go to British, French and German Interests.
Pekin, China. American partici
pation in the Hankow and Sze-Cliuen
railroad loan was assured at the
offices of the Foreign Board by Henry
P. Fletcher, the American Cfc.irue
d'Affaires, and Liang Tun-Yen, j.r.-l-dent
of the board. The loan is n be
increased from $27,500,000 to ?.".
000,000, and American bankers rre
to get one-fourth, the three-fourths
going to British, French and German
interests.
Americans are to have equal op
portunities to supply material f'.T
both the Sze-Chuen and the Canton
lines and branches; they will appoint
subordinate engineers, and they will
have also one-half of all future loans
of the Sze-Chuen Railroad and its
branches, with corresponding advan
tages. The details of this settlement will
be arranged after the arrival here of
Wlllard D. Straight, the representa
tive of the American financiers. The
protest lodged by Mr. Fletcher agninst
the completion of the loan with Brit
ish, French and German interests
alone will be withdrawn, and an edict
FIGHT ON CORPORATION TAX.
Internal Revenue Bureau at Washington, D. C, Told of
Legal Contest Impending-,
Washington, D. C. The officers in
the internal revenue bureau who are
charged with the responsibility of
administering the new corporation
tax law have been apprised of the in
tention of corporations to resist the
law in the courts and test its consti
tutionality, but the Treasury officers
have npt been able to learn the point
of attack. They believe that the law
will stand the test, and their chief re
liance is on the fact that it was
drawn by able lawyers, who carefully
safeguarded it by adhering strictly to
the Supreme Court decision uphold
ing the right of Congress to tax a
corporation for carrying on a busi
ness. President Taft called to his assist
ance in the work of putting his ideas
Into written language Secretary Knox,
Attorney-General Wickersham and
Senator Root, all of whom are ad
mitted to be able lawyers, while the
President himself is not without a
reputation for legal ability.
It has been suggested that one
point of attack would be that the law
NO CHINESE HOGS FOR THEM.
Even London's Poorer Classes Show a Strong- Prejudice
Against Foreign Porkers.
London. The first shipment of
Chinese hogs to England bids fair to
be the last. The Peninsular and
Orient Steamship Company believed
that the carcasses could be brought
in large quantities in refrigerating
ships, and that the trade might prove
a competitor with frozen beet and
mutton.
The carcasses sold well In the
wholesale market, but the retailers
find that the public will not have It
OW AMERICA PASSING.
Industrialism is Destroying Conditions ot Early Days,
'c ' Ferrer,. Says. .
Paris. Concluding; a series of Im
pressions of America, which he gained
during a recent visit to that country,
Gugllelmo Ferrero. the Italian his
torian, finds that the anti-plutocratic
movement is essentially a struggle
between the old .traditions of, the
Puritan democracy and civilisation,
gold, luxury and pleasure a repetion
under modern and more complicated
forms ot the struggle which , rent
Rome for three centuries.
The rapidity of development,
lightning changes in customs and the
creation of a multiplicity of new
Mates In Census Work Secretary
' v tJses Tbem to Operate Machines.
Washington, D. C. Believing that
deaf and dumb mates will make good
operators for the puncturing and tab
ulating machines to be used in mak
ing np the returns of the next census.
Secretary NageL of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, is Inclined to
appoint them to such positions if ca
pable ones apply for the places. .This
work requires great ears in its per
formance, for the reason that there is
no way to obtain a check on the re
sult
Robert Carter, in the New York World.
IN THE HANKOW LOAN
will be issued authorizing the under
taking. This settlement prevents actual
American Investment in the aban-
doned Hankow-Canton line, but it is
the opinion here that American capi
tal has been placed on an equality.
Washington, D. C. The news from
Pekin that America would have a
share in the Hankow railway loan
was received here with intense satis
faction. The settlement of the issue
is a victory for the State Department,
which has insisted on the fulfilment
of the promise made to Minister Con.
ger in 1904. The State Department
has fought successfully the alignment
of the European group which sought
to exclude it. Its victory, department
officials say, augurs well for the fut
ure, as the dispatches from Pekin in
dicate that American capital will be
placed on an equality with foreign
money in the empire.
The result is another step in the
consummation of the policy of the
open door in China, so steadfastly in
sisted on by the American State De
partment.
Is in reality not a tax upon the privil
ege of doing business, whatever it
may have been meant to have it be,
but is, according to the fairest con
struction, a tax on profits.
The officers of the Internal revenue
bureau have collected evidence from
all over the country as to the number
of corporations, and conferences were
held as to the methods to be pursued
In collecting the tai. No definite
plan will be formulated until the new
commissioner of Internal revenue
takes office. The Congress appro
priated $150,000 to assist the Treas
ury Department in organizing a spe
cial force for the collection of the tax.
The officers of the Internal revenue
bureau express the opinion that this
sum will not be sufficient, and the
next session cf Congress will be asked
to make an additional appropriation.
The tax Is to be paid on the earnings
of corporations for the calendar year
ending December 31. Returns must
be made before March 1, 1910, and
payment be made before June 30, or
heavy penalties will be imposed.
Some 5000 hogs were brought over
on a trial shipment and placed on
sale at the shops for the first time
at twenty-five per' cent, below the
prices charged for other imported
hogs.
But the public prejudice, even. In
the poorer classes, was so pronounced
that the butchers had in most cases
to raise the price of other pork, such
as-American and European, before
they were able to sell It.
needs, he says, eat up the large earn
ings of the people, who are living bet
ter than the Europeans. ' v
Slgnor Ferrero believes Gat while
the antl-plutocratle movement is a
triumph in some directions, it is des
tined to fall in others. ' ; ' j
"Industrialism," says Slgnor Fer
rero in concluding, "seems to be de
stroying a part of the old-time Amer
ica of Franklin and Washington and
creating an America leu American
than that of the past When and
where this destruction will . cease
no one can say." : :..
Mint at Denver Bobbed Employe
Allowed Gold to Splash on Clothes.
Los Angeles, Cal. Charged, with
one of the rarest offenses ever com
mitted against the Government that
ot abstracting gold from a mint
Charles W. Dakln, an employe of the
mint at Denver, Col., was arrested
here. Dakln is said to have sold gold
to local dealers in small lots. The
employe allowed the melted product
to splash oa to his clothing while at
work in the mint and than scraped
it oft and kept It for his own use and
profit , :
Fraternity
Diamond Gossip and General Sporting:
KETCHELL FAVORITE
0VER LANGFORD
Johnson Will Have to Reckon With
Ketchell Before He Makes More
Plans for Fight Wiih Jeffries.
(By A. Jay Cook.)
Ketchel, the heflder of the raWdle
welght championship ot the world, is
to defend that title against Sam
Langford in a ten-round bout at New
York the first week of September.
Ketchel should beat him. But he
must be in condition, and it's no easy
matter guessing on the physical con
dition of the middleweight champion.
It ia hardly probable though, that he
will take a chance of not being In
condition and that Is why I look for
a victory. Despite the extravagant
praise that has been given to him at
various times, Ketchel is stlM a pugi
list of underestimated ability. In
the four years of fighting that served
as a nrelude to his Initial battle with
Joe Tii'imas he made the amazing rec
ord of P.5 clean knockouts in 38 fights.
And when he got In first-class com
pany he kept up his good work. He
put Joe Thomas to sleep In 32 rounds.
He put Mike "Twin" Sullivan out in
a punch. He finished Jack "Twin"
Sullivan in 20 sessions. He knocked
Hugo KtHly In three rounds and came
back with the put-out of Joe Thomas
In two rounds. Then he went the
pace and was knocked out by Papke,
but came right back and put Billy to
sleep in 11 rounds. He stopped Jack
O'Brien In four sessions, and then
won a 25-round decision over Papke
In one of his poor, away-below-the-average
fights. LangfofH is overes
timated. There la a record of his hav
ing only 25 knockouts in 80 fights,
spread over a period of seven years.
If there is anything in that record
that would make Ketchel's chances
look bad. It has yet to come out If
Ketchel does knock the negro out he
will go into the ring with . Johnson an
even money chance and Jeffries jvlll
temporarily be (lost sight of. 'Ketchel
and Johnson are scheduled to settle
their differences as to the heavy
weight championship sometime In Oc
tober. It will be a surprise to me if
the white man does not beat the
black. Of course there is the weight,
height and reach advantage of the ne
gro to contend with. But with all
this Ketchel, if he beats . Langford,
should beat Johnson.
Johnson left for the coast of Cali
fornia last Sunday, satisfied he had
done all that he could to make the
match with Jeffries a certainty. Sam
Berger, who acted for Jeffries In the
signing of the tenatlve articles, pre
pared to return Eastward. in.
slated that Jeff was sincere in wish
ing to meet the negro, and that there
surely would be hostilities within the
required eight months. ' Berger ex
plained that he bad spent $32 la cab
ling the details to Jeffries and that
he had no doubt the ex-hollermaker
would approve of them. The articles
are good as far as they go and reflect
the true disposition of the principals.
Johnson's willingness to make a $5,000
side bet and to have the purse epCit
GO and 40. 75 and 25, or winner take
all, at JefTrles option, makes one real
ly believe that the negro thinks he can
beat Jeffries.
This struggle for the heavyweight
championship If "tally a three horse
race, with Ketcnet, Johnson and Jeff
ries as the contenders. But If Ket
chel beats Johnson in October, there
will, of course be no Jeffries contest
unless Jeff wants the championship,
of which I have my doubtB. But if
he does he wlX beat Ketchel, of that I
am positive. . . .
FANS WATCHING GIANT8
AND BOSTON AMERICANS.
Some of the members of the Chica
go White Sox say that , the Boston
Americans who began a series of four
games with the Highlanders at New
York last Monday, will win the pen
ant; that they are playing faster ball
than either the Detrolts or the Ath
letics, and that they are improving
steadily.: c ''(. . v , .
Because, of their excellent pennant
chances the Bostons are drawing lar
ger crowds in the Hub than at any
time since the Red Box. managed by
Jimmy CoXlns, won the American
learutt chamnlonMi; . .v -.Huh fni now
aunreciate tne wisom oiupiayed by
President Taylor when he released
Jim McGuIre from tho ' management
last year and 'placed the team in the
hands of Fred Lake. - . -,-
It ia not too late for the Giants to
win the National league pennant
They are going at a fast clip now,
and If they keep it up the fans ex
pect to see them make - a ' rousing
finish, H is a fact that the team be
gan to take a new lease of life from
the moment that Cy Seymour resumed
playing and Fred Merkte supplanted
Tenney on first base. When the
Giants return to the Polo grounds
they will .doubtless receive an ovation,
If only because of their great playing
against the Cubs in Chicago. But
nobody has yet been able to dislodge
Pittsburg from -thsvtop perch, v .
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LEWIS-BURKE BATTLE
WAS SENSATIONAL GO.
New York. It was the general opin
ion among sporting men that the
contest between Willie Lewis and
Sailor Burke at the Fairmont A C.
August 13,. was one of the most sen
sational seen here (In many years
While Lewis won fairly and by a
technical knockout, he played in great
luck. It was not until Charles Har
vey, Jem Drlscoffi's manager, ordered
Lewis to cut out the "trading of
swings" and use a short left uppercut
or hook to the Jaw that Burke's
chances for winning disappeared.
In the first three rounds the slug
ging was terrific. A moment before
the third round ended both men
swung right-handers simultaneously
and fell together In a corner. Lewis
luck was in evidence right there, for
as he fell backward his Shoulders hit
the ring ropes. If this mlxup had
taken place near the middle of the
ring Lewis' head would probahCy have
hit the floor with a crRck and he
might have been seriously injured. As
a matter of fact, Lewis was so closo
to defeat at that period of the fight
that whan he staggered to his corner
his seconds were clearly rattled. It
was then that Harvey took a hand In
the proceedings.
"If you keep on exchanging swings
Burke will knock your head off. He
has got a terrific wallop, and is after
your Jaw. Take your time, stall a bit
and wait for a chance to hook your
left to his chin."
Lewis obeyed Harvey's Instructions
to the letter. Lewis, cr.ear-headed
and as foxy as they make 'em, allow
ed the sailor to bore In again. The
round was half over when Lewis sud
denly got the opening he was looking
for. His left shot up to Burke's Jaw
after going about six Inches, and the
blow had so much steam that the tar
was groggy. Lewis rushed in like a
bulldog then end) lltera'.y belted
Burke to the floor, where he remained
10 eeconds. i
Burke has borne the name of quit
ter for years. His unwillingness to
stand up and take punishment from
Jack Johnson at Bridgeport several
years ago convinced ring, followers
that he lacked gameness. But if
Burke had shown the courage of a
Ketchel It is believed that Lewis
would have experienced greater dlf
Acuity in Handing the bacon.
GRIFFITH TABOOS
WINTER BASEBALL.
Cincinnati, O. The members of the )
Cincinnati team will not play ball on
the coast or in Cuba this winter with
the consent of Manaerer G-'ffith.
"Playing bn.il l winter," said the
Red leader, "ruins a man for his best
work in the good old summer time. I
have been watching it for 20 years,
and I have never known a case where
a player was out on the coast playing
ball in the winter, and then showed
bis' best form in the league games in -the
summer. Baseball is a sport
which taxes the nerves as well as the
muscles, and a man Is sure to go stale
unless he has plenty of time to recup- '
erate. A good ball player, who is al
ways in the .game, gets all that he
can stand during the regular season..
None of the Reds wir.l be allowed to
hurt themselves for next year by play-.
Ing winter ball. Any man who does -it
will find vhls contract considerably
cut in the spring, for it Is a cinch he '
will not be worth as much to thecliro
as if he had put in the off-season rest- -
ing up. mere win aiao ue a i"w
In the Red contracts next year requlr- .
ing the players to live, up on the hill
tops during the summer months. We
have not had a single easff of illness
this year among the boys who live up
there, while nearly every man' who
Btays downtown has been off his feed
fit imf) Mtyia nr nnnthAi . .
; Warrants Out for Promoters, ; -
Terre Haute, Ind. Under direction
of Governor MarahaCl nine promoters
of boxing , matches I at . Shelburn, . all
members of the Shelburn A. C. hare
been arrested. Warrants are also out ..
for Mike ' Schreck, Marvin Hart,
Mickey Ford, : of Indianapolis ; Will- '
lam York, Thomas jScanlonv and Andy .:
Howell, all fighter!; Harry Rodgers,
referee; James Shepard, timekeeper,
and Richard Wernecke, announcer.
Screck and Hart fought here July 26. -
Hart's Jaw was broken In two places- ,
nd be w frcTi kmWont
by his friend id we touith round. It
was this fight' that led Governor Mar
shall to condemn the so-called boxing
exhibition as a prize fight '
v los Angels. a vicious aswu.
made by big Jim Barry upon Phil
Brock, the Cleveland light weight and
MoGInty, Brock's . trainer, has done .
more to hurt the prise fight game in
Los Angeles than any other evtmt
since the Infamous . O'Brien-Burns
fake fight three years ago. Accord
ing to the most authentic accounts
Barry flew into a towering rage over
nothing, cracked Brock over the head .
with the hard end of a door mop and .
then rammed the broken end of the
thing into the abdomen' of Trainer
MoGInty, who had come to Brock's
rescue. ' .. -":.;,