The Portland daily press., 1893-06-19

hAu PIdyca tu&t uiS WIG WCulQ tIlxS
time stop with one child. 'sYour pray
ing, Jacob, has no luck this time"
said the doctor. After pause, when
Jacob had ended his prayer with
short oath, the doctor said: "Jacob,
Mary has exceeded herself this time;
she has triplets." seWen," said Jacob,
rising up, now thoroughly mad, "dey
got to be daken care of somehow, but
sha'n't do it."
A very little learning discovered
America; it is possible that Columbus
went to school at Pavia, just north of
Genoa, for time as an academician
around its university. Even that was
enough to point his bark to the west.
The Pole who made up his mind to
study the solar system and come to
some fixed conclusions about it was
died, and he made America the STEP
ping stone to that complete rearrange-
ment of sun, moon, planets and stars
which not to know would make all
other knowledge guesswork.
The exhibition previous to this In
France was to celebrate the French
revolution, which overthrow the feudal
idea in Europe. The French revolu-
ton, however, in spite of its benefits,
has not brought universal conviction
to men that freedom is good for every
race. Where freedom as an expert
ment is tried in freedom of space, as in
the United States, thirteen years pre-
vious to the French revolution, the re-
suit is more satisfactory. Our exhibi-
ton in 1876 was successful enough to
make the present one . still greater
endeavor and triumph. Ihave thought,
as have looked about this exhibition
and the city which possesses it, THAT
perhaps we can get our greatest en-
enlargement a. . nation from the fact
that we can handle such immense or
CARNATIONS.
Not one OF the men concerned In this
exhibition had any Previous repuea-
ton.
The exhibition OF Is7e was put In
the hands Of = Cincinnati merchant
who had been experienced in making
local exhibitions in his own city. Al
lied with him were some Philadel-
phians Of practical experience as build
ers, merchants, Ansnciers and poll
tioians. Il is . singular fact that Mr..
Grosshorn has been tho most emphasize
in his Endorsement Of tho Chi.
cago exhibition, and that PhiIa-
delphia has been the most decided Of
any Of the eastern commonwealth,
outside OF New Englsnd, in coming to
the support Of this fair. It is probable
that each growing city IN America
could with ease discover among It's
citizens men who could have made .
fair like this. an reminded Of what
Attorney General Williams once said
to mo about public mon: "We often
say that If such . man had not been
found the public services he rendered
could not have been done, whereas.
back where he lived, In his own town,
were half . dozen men who would
have been just as successful as himself
if they had happened TO Be called
upon"
It Is respectable thought that the
United States has so absorbed the les-
son of self-help, and has so much inn
agination when practical things are
brought to it's mind, that anywhere in
our country we can handle a worlds
fair. Chicago obtained the worlds fair
this time because of her superior or
ganization to get it, in the legislative
halls. In the law Of development the
west was entitled to fair. Other cit
les had inferior facilities and perhaps
an inferior climate, and that one which
has so often been chosen for national
conventions carried the fair away from
the east.
Shall WORLDS fairs in the future be
based upon an idea, or merely upon the
mercantile spirit?
should think that great occasion
for the next fair would be the ami.
versary of the work Of Copernicus
We have already celebrated Washing
ton, Columbus, Voltaire. The idea
which should bring the world together
next time can be more central yet. He
who remanded us to our minor place
among the planets and stars, and there
in, by rebuking our egotism. taught
us the weakness Of all knowledge COM
pared to the facts of nature yet to be
discovered. was master spirit. It
seems that Copernicus no more than
Columbus was man OF genius. But
genius in our day only means disci-
plined, concentrated endeavor.
GATH