Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-06-21
GENERAL NOTES.

THE commencement season mas come
and gone. and for the next few months
several hundred college students III
almost every state in the Union VIII DC
seeking admission into the various pro
fessions and walks of life, armed win
their college diploma and an indomita-
ble will. 1t has become the custom 10
sneak of the college graduate as though
he were an afiliction instead OF a boon;
and in no class is this unjust criticism
more noticeable than among the gradu-
ates of ten or dozen years standing
and ON every occasion the stale, time
worn jokes are paraded at the expense
of the fourger graduate.
In these jokes the graduate is depicte d
as a conceited young person whose
four years in college have only served
TO fiji him with notion that his place
in the world can never be worthily
filed by anyone else, and that what
ever profession he chooses to enter he
is certain to adorn and illuminate from
the start. There are graduates OF this
stamp to be sure, but the great body OF
these Young men are sensible fellows
who have worked hard and conscien-
tiously in order to better themselves
for the great duties of life. None know
hotter than themselves the many OBJ
stacle they have met in the struggle
for knowledge, but they have faced
every and struggled on foi
four years, toiling "without sound OF
hammer or axe Bat who shall say
that the result of their labor is not as
grand and useful as was the temple
built by the wise king Solomon? Those
young men may be perplexed by the
multiplicity of avocations open to them'
but the college life of to-day is so little
isolated from the bury model
that young man has nc
trouble in perceiving that success IN
life is won by hard work, and not by a
diploma.
VIM. +. WARREN, DID,, LID, Pres
ident of Boston university, and lead
ing scholar of the Methodist church,
advances new and rather surprising
theory as TO the location of the Garden
of Eden. The cradle of the race is
generally believed to have been in the
vicinity of the Tigris or Euphrates
rivers, and even among those who do
not locate it there, the belief is that il
was IN middle or southern Asia. DIR.
Warren believes il to have been in a
now submerged country situated at the
North Pole. and that ''all ethic tradi-
tions point us thither." When he first
made public his theory the doctor be-
lieved himself to be alone in holding it,
and so original and improbable was it
that it was not Endorsed with the degree
of enthusiasm that beliefs which bear
some relation to scientific research are
sometimes favores with. Greatly to
DIR. Warren's surprise and joy, a French
scientist, M. lie Marquis G.. de Saforta,
in a recent article in the Revue DIES
Deux Mondes, expresses his belief tina:
''the cradle of the human race, in the
light of the latest science, must have
been within the Arctic circle" DIR.
Warren has up TO this time refrained
from giving the public an opportunity
10 read and study the evidences sup
porting his theory, combining himself to
the lecture platform; but he promises
TO write and in the course of year pub.
lsh book containing them.
The people of Ohio will, at the next
election, have the opportunity of voting
upon two amendments to the constitu-
ton of that state, relating to the tenn
perance question. These amendments
are submitted to them separately. 50
that each voter can vote for both, or
against both, or for one of them and
against the other. One of the amend
ments provides for absolute prohibition,
and will doubtless be voted Tor by all
the Prohibitionists of the state; yet we
do not suppose that any Prohibitionist in
the state thinks that there is the slightest
chance of its being adopted. The Demo.
Gratis will not vote for it. and the great
mass of Republicans will not and the
Prohibitionists themselves are but O
mere handful as compared with the
great body OF Ohio voters. The other
amendment gives to the legislature the
power to regulate the liquor traffic, to
tax it, and restrict by license system,
to adopt the principle of local option,
and, in general, to deal with the whole
question by law. The Republicans OF
Ohio will unquestionably support this
amendment, and probably some Demo-
Gratis will vote for il. 1t has fair
chance of being adopted; and if the Pro-
hibitionists should all vote for it, there
would not be much doubt of its adoption.
The wise thing in our judgment, for
them to do, is to ally themselves with
the Republicans and help to carry this