El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-12
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Mr.. Carnegie's article or
trusts 10 the May Century
is interesting as view OF the
matter from the comfortable side Of
many millions made thereby ADD also
because, as far as it goes, 1T has truth
loeic and RESPONSIVENESS In Its senti
mems. Mr.. Carnegie argues thai
trusts cheaper the price of manufac
ture and distri bution, thus lowering
prices aud putting comfort. and lux
urie5 more and more within the reac
of every home. Our generous allow
4nce of books, clothes, shoes, our Va
riety of foods and comforts of light,
water.snd trauspor tatiOn which we now
call O binary comfort wsrs DOLLY agen
GRAFTON ago luxuries- He argues that
trusts will die OF their own efforts
whenever they disregard the great and
uncOoqueraole laws of demand and
supply and of compel ton. He argues
that for trusts to keep up the prices Is
for them to commit suicide In almost
every case and That only rarely has q
trust a monopoly.
magazi Ne. Significant Ignorance
About the Bible" gives the result of
questions put to college men and
women. Quotations from 1ennyson
alluding to B. blical stories we're given
to college men ana women for them to
explain the illusions. Tn rty-one men
and ffty-one women we're thus ques-
toned, and of them all there was only
one girl who answered every question
correctly. Ga the whole, the women
did better work than the men. but an
average OF less than half the questions
were rightly answered. The questions
were not extraordinary. The refer
ences we're to Jonah's gourd, Gains
mark, Ewes disobedience, and such
supposedly we'll known stories. That
this generation has greatly neglected
this b ok Of books, which every think
ing person, believer or uubeliever, re-
CARDS as The most valuable of writings,
Is greatly to this generations loss.
"a Word of Warning to Young
Actresses" by Clara Morris. ia full of
every day sense. 1t will be discour-
aging to the many stage struck dam
sells but will not hinder her in whose
soul burns the unquenchable fire of
genius.
Doctor North aud His Friends con-
tiuues to be inter estinR in Q quiet way.
All of Doctor Weir Mitchel,'s admirers
who were disappointed in his Auto
biography or Qlack can return to
the fold. This story ia written in his
most genial style. John Morley's
splendid Cromwell with its many fine
illustrations continues and Erne-t
Setoo Thompson article on the Ma
tfonal z,o at Washington is finished
Onion Square, New York.
The New England Magazine prese nts
every month some very interesting
pages of American history, early or
modern, besides special New Eng land
articles, two or three good stories, q
poem or two worth reading and several
pages of editorials aud book reviews
that are timely and we'll balanced.
The May magazine has an article on
the founder OF Arbor Day with por-
reader would probably give the credit
of Arbor Day to J. Sterling Morton,
but it seems he only applied what Dr..
Northrop preached for years. DR..
NorthrOp not Only founded this day
but he also originated the idea of
the village improvement society.
He studied the problems of for
estry, of pub ic schools and ofbeautify-
Ing towns and villages, in his own and
In foreign countries and many a baauti-
full vi lsge of our land, among them
Pasad lena, California, owes it's beauty
to his Inspiration. The village i'm
prOvement socity idea has much firm
or hold in the north and east and in the
far west than in our part of the world.
There the young women and masrons
organize associations devoted to
funds by giving musical entertainments,
lectures, plays, bazaars, and in all the |
ways known to the charitably deter
mined feminine mind, and the money
10 spent in buying park lots, setting out |
bress, establishing fountains, buying |
And destroying shabby old sheds and |
unsiRhtly fences. They also plead |
With city councils and get help In their |
plans. The result is many q tidy, |
sh abbyness, tincaus, neglected fences,
alleys AMI trash piles.
In the article on THE Original
Shaker Communities in New Eng
Ia nd - there are extracts from lett ers |
written in 1882 by young man who
had investig sted the belief with all the
curiosity of an outsider. The Shakers |
of to-day, peculiar as We hold them to |
be, are not at all so odd as those of q |
we're a regular part of the religion |
then. ''Unitarianism in American is |
discussed in q long, we'll illustrated |
article. the Founding of Small Hos |
pitals'' ia also of Interest. s Park
Square, Boston. Price 25 cents.
The Forum for May has several |
articles of particular interest to FL |
Pasoans. The institution and the |
Flag by Charles DENLY; Uacle Sans
Legacy of Slaves, by Henry o. |
Dwight; A Plea for Trees and Parks |
Ia cities, by Louis Windmueller; The |
Presidential Campaign,
by Henry L. West; aud John Ruskin,
by William P. Longfellow. Charles |
Dsnby's short, terse, logical statement
Of the conditions of the constitu ton
iOaloWing the flag has further author.