The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-02-01

get everything in good working order-tC
have matters SO arranged that in the event
of my death they will be carried out accord
ing to my wishes"
Who can read these simple words and moi
exclaim, swell done good and faithful SER
want, having been faithful over few things
you are made master over many things" I'm.
like the Johns Hopkins and similar insti-
t1tes OF learning which begin to educate al
the top where it is least needed the Tome
institution will direct its first efforts to lih
up the humble and lowly. The orphans Of
next door neighbors are first to be provided
for. The town is searched for those who
are needy and bel pless, next the suburbs
and the country round about. The mission
airy is not sent to the far away Indias. But
right at home his own neighbors and asso-
ciates are crying for help. A fountain Of
pure, useful knowledge is opened and a
lighted lamp placed above it, and FIVE hum
dred children of the lowly are invited to
come and fill their tankards and light their
lamps, and 60 out into the world to estab-
fish other fountains and light other lamps
till the light of useful knowledge illumines
the world.
The teaching of this institution is to en-
noble labor, not degrade it as the majority
of the great seats of learning do. The pupils
are not to be fitted 10 shine as the gloworm
but TO worE and shine. The brain and the
hand are to be more closely allied, and not
estranged as the majority of the "higher
educational schools have done.
Five hundred children may be educated
at this proposed school. This will include
all the children in Cecil county capable or
desirons of learning trade or business
scientifically. A little army drilled in the
art Of labor, all in one battalion, not scat
tered over the whole country and almost
lost sight of, but all in a compact mass. A
Spartan state, drilled under scientific Of
ficers, not in the art of war but arts of .nse.
full labor. This is the solution to the social
and economic problem that is giving the
thoughtful so much concern for the near
future. An industrial school in every
county IN which seats are reserved for the
lowly until all are supplied, and if any are
left let the better class-better in the worlds
gcods-take them. The problem which has
so long defed solution by pihlanthropists
and philosophers was reserved for son Of
humble labor to solve, who though sepa-
rated from, by fortunes golden fayors, ever
kept in touch with his early comrades, re-
fusing to lose sight of them and their needs
for single moment, and when full of years
comes with his golden sheaves to lay al
their feet. Mr.. Tones greatness is not in
the largeness of the gift but in the wisdom
of its bestowal; not in his ability to acquire
wealth but in resisting its destinations and
false lights which are every where display
ed along the pathway of the rich man, lur.
ing to ruin. These are the spices which
embalm the memory of the truly great and
pass their names down through thecycles Of
time, ever fresh and ever fragrant, refusing
to allow them to cross over the gulf Of
oblivion, but keep them forever among the
names of the unforgctten brave, the names
that never die!