Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-04-21
RELIGIOUS ANo EDUCATIONAL.


We are not so much troubled by
the events of life, as by our own rcilcc.
tions upon them. -Epictetus
Harvard gives away each year $751;.
moo to deserving students, who are una
bic to pay their own expenses
Harvard college, 1t is announced.
win hereafter not pay scholarship
money to rich mems sons who do not
need it.
The harder our work, the more we
need solitude and prayer, without
which work becomes mechanical and
insinccre.
New York ,ity is to have one of the
largest public schools ever erected.
About 9, 400 pupils will be accommodate
"d in the mammoth structure.
If you want to give the devil plenty
of time to hang around your own home,
don't do any thing to help send the goa,
pei to the heather, Rams Horn.
The library of Johns Hopkins Uni.
vcrSity has recently received four hun
dred scientific theses and other publi-
cations from German universities.
No experience makes ono, grow old
SO fast as struggling TO keep avn the
voice of conscience. No one can do this
without wasting the strength OF his life.
DIR. A. E. Cunning.
Through the generosity of Mr.. VIM.
M. Rice, of New York, Houston, Tex,
will receive new college lis gift
to the institution in land securities and
cash aggregates 5000
President Harper, of the Chicago
university, was prccocious student in
his younger days. He graduated from
college at IA and delivered his COM
mencemcnt Grafton in Hebrew
Rev Henry Fairbanks, Of St Johns.
bury, VT, has given S25, 900 to the acad.
envy at that place to found scholar.
ship in memory of his son Albert, who
died about a year ago while q student
in the institution.
The date of human life is too short
to recompense the cares which attend
the most private condition; therefore il
is that our souls are made, as it were
too big for it, and extend themselves il
the prospect of longer existence. -
Steele.
Keep before thee the idea of what
thou wouldst attain. Thy steadfast
thought will be prayer and a proph
ecy, working out its own fulfillmcnt,
Forget what thou art in what thor
wouldst be, SO that the higher idea
may possess thee wholly.-Trinities ant
Sanctities.
Referring to the popularity of foot
ball, the venerable cX-prcsidcnt o
Princeton college, DR.. James McCosh
says he thinks there ought to be confer
cnce of college presidents and profcs
sors and parents of students ito con
slider how the benefits may be secured
from manly exercises without the ac
companying evils"
Chicago Sunday-school workers
headed by q. T. Jacobs, chairman o
the international executive committee
are taking definite steps looking to tn,
erection of 5000 building just out
side the Worlds fair grounds for com
plcte showing of Sunday-school prog
ress end methods An additional sun
of $4,000 will be required to pay Tho
expenses of the exhibit during the fair
The production of boots and shoe
in 1892 was the largest on record. Th'
low prices at which the goods were SOLE
prevented the factories from earn
ing profits commensurate with thci
output. But comparatively few mum
Der of failures occurred in the sho
trade, and the majority of these wer
due to bad management rather than t.
the lack of business, The shipment
for the year were 1906, 7S5 cases agains
3,417, S43 cases in 1891, s. 1875 cases il
1890, and S,i02, 255 cases in 1882 Tn
increased consumption was confines
largely to the west during the frs
half of the year, and to the south dur
ing the closing months.