Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-03-01
RELIGIOUS ANo EDUCATIONAL

We arc not so much troubled by
the events of life. rs by our own rcilee
tons upon them.-EpictetuS
Harvard gives away each year $751;
900 TO deserving students. who are una
bile To pay their own expenses
Harvard college. IL Is announced.
will hereafter not pay scholarship
money TO rich mems sons who do not
need IL
The harder our work. the more we
need solitude and prayer. without
which work becomes mechanical and
insinccre.
New York city is 20 have one Of the
largest public schools ever erected.
About ., 400 pupils will bc aeeommodat-
al in the mammoth structure.
If you wan, to give the devil plenty
of time TO hang around your own homo.
don't do any thing TO help send the goa
pei 20 the heather. Rams Horn
The library of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity has recently received four hun
dred scientific theses and other publi-
cations from German universities.
No experience makes one grow old
SO fast rs struggling To keep down the
without wasting the strength of his life.
DIR A. L. Dunning
Through the generosity OF Mr. VIM
NJ Rice. OF New York. Houston. Tex,
will receive n new college Ills gift
10 the Institution in land securities and
cash aggregates S5OO.ooo.
President Harper. of the Chicago
university. was n prccocious student in
his younger days. lie graduated from
college at IL and delivered his COM
mencement Grafton in hebrew.
Rev. Henry Fairbanks. of St Johns
bury. VT, has given SIS. 600 TO the acad-
envy at that place to found scholar
ship in memory OF his son Albert, who
died about year ago while n student
in the institution.
The date OF human life Is too short
20 recompense the cares which attend
the most private condition; therefore it
is that our souls are made. as it were.
too big for IL, and extend themselves in
the prospect OF longer existence. -
Steele.
Keep before thee the idea of what
thou wouldst attain. Thy steadfast
thought will be prayer aud proph-
ecy. working out its own fulfilmcnt
Forget what thou art in what thou
wouldst be, SO that tho higher idea
may possess thee wholly. -Trinities and
SanctiticS
Referring TO the popularity of foot
ball, the venerable cx-prcsident of
Princeton college, DIR. James McCosh,
says he thinks there ought 20 be n confer
cnce of college presidents and profess
q
slider how the benefits may be secured
from manly exercises without the ac-
companying evils"
Chicago Sunday-school workers,
headed by r.. Il. Jacobs, chairman OF
the international executive committee,
are taking definite steps looking 10 the
erection of $50. 600 building just out
side the Worlds fair grounds for n COM
plete showing of Sunday-school prog
ress and methods. An additional sum
of $50, 600 will be required TO pay the
expenses of the exhibit during the fair
The production of boots and shoes
in lS92 was the largest on record. The
low prices at which the goods were sold
prevented the factories from earn
ing profits commensurate with their
output But n comparatively few num-
Der of failures occurred in the shoe
trade, and the majority OF these were
due TO bad management rather than to
the lack of business The shipments
for the year were S.G96. 7s5 cases against
3, 81, 34S cases in 1891, 5, 4S3, $40 cases in
1890 and S.402, 255 eases in 1889. The
increased consumption was confined
largely 10 the west during the first
half of the year, and TO the south dur
ing the closing months