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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16


mental digestion. TIE result is not far.
to seek. Cerebral indigestion comes
sooner or later. A generation that
is not required to chew it's
food will lose it's teeth. Many
men before the day of Prof Starr have
known that, with majority, a college
education detracts from the thinking
powers. 1t is the contact with rugged
nature that makes the mountain athlete.
1t is the contact with the world of
thought and fact at first hand that makes
the Intellectually great. The greatest
misfortune that can befall a child is to
be born of wealthy parents and compelled
to spend the years of its plastic youth in
city. In the years when the soul is
gathering strength it should be alone
with nature Alone with the forest, the
plain, and the storm BY this we do not
mean that child should be robbed OF hu-
man companionship or of a parents care,
these are essential but not the most es-
sential. The fields and the forests, the
rivers and the lakes will co more for the
child during the first fourteen years of
life than all the tutors and governesses
that wealth can procure.
1t is in solitude than men learn to
think. He who has learned to think is
educated, whether he has received his
schooling in a log cabin or In the rniver-
oO1
lege education Of the man who has not
learned to think is like the wig of bald
headed man on hot cay. uncomfortable
as well as unbeeoming; it is of no use
where it is and can be used for nothing
else.
A modern college education gives the
possessor a certain glibness of tongue;
a fund of ch.tter-chatter that takes the
place often of conversation, but it gives
no power of assimilation, no power of
fact combination. The educational pro-
cess has left the imagination dwarfed
and the reason paralyzed. Such men are
never leaders because they have not the
origin of thought within. They are neither
builders nor destroyers. They have not
the imagination to create, nor the moral
courage to destroy. They are the intel
lectual drones that feed on the garnered
stores of the workers. This is the prod
uct, sent out from our colleges and uni
versities of which Prof. Starr speaks,
and we are sorry to say it constitutes the
larger proportion of the output.
Schwab was not far from right when
he asserted that a college education is a
handicap in the race. But all this is
heresy. To oppose the modern education
al craze is to place ones self in opposition
to all the social forces that are supposed
to make for civilization-our own espe-
cial higher civilization. Nevertheless the
! Ito b e is inclined to say to Schwab
and to Prof. Starr, well done; you have
spoken the truth although your ideas
may not be popular.
Much of the so-caned mental training
is howling farce is true it's pity,
and pity tbs it's true"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16

speech at Chicago, and the. saying Is
eminently wise, timely and true. Amer
lca magnificent public school system
ana IT'S most of well-equiped and richly
endowed colleges and seminaries are the
pest guarantees the nation possesses. or
can possess of it's future peace and sta
pldey More th9n its inexhaustible mines
or golo and iron. more than it's vast and
eVer-increasIng number of manufactures
and railway systems. its agricultural re-
sources and other wealth-producing
agencies do these public schools and
other institutions of learning stand for
the Things that promise strength, per-
petulty and tranquility to the American
repuphc. The teacher is, after all, the
greatest Oh ffpeacemakers. Breadth of
view, refined sensibilities, enlarged sym
pathy, lofty and ennobling sentiment, a
hlgher range of thought and feeling-all
these and other things developed by true
educatlonal process-count against re-
sort to the crnelties and barbarities of
war. AS a people rises in the scale of
genuine intellectual development, so must
1t as surely grow less and less inclined
to the ways of blood and carnage Be-
cause of this our Carnegies and Rookie
fellers. our Morgans, Pratts, Stanfords
ana Coopers, with their munificent bene-
FACTIONS for libraries and schools are
building even better than they know
They may deserYedly rank among the
great emancipators and apostles of peace.
Trade relations and business exigencies,
as M. Cambon says will not prevent
future wars among civilized nations. But
the spread of education. of enlighten-
nent can and will bring about day
when war shall be no more. AS America
leads all the world in the excellence and
popularity of her educational system, so
TINS nation is destined to be the Leading
factor IN the solution of International
disputes and the promotion of universal
peace
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16
roo MANY GO TO COLLEGE.

Prof. Starr. of the Chicago university.
VIII get himself in trouble with the au-
thorities of that culture shop if he does
not watch out He is accredited with
the remark that too many young people
are attending college. mo one should at
tend college except with genuine desire
to learn and, furthermore, the average
college student commits an ostrichlike
fallacy by swallowing everything that is
given him without question. The result
is detrimental in it's effects on cur social
and industrial activities and is sapping
the mental strength of the country" says
the iconoclastic professor. We agree, with
Prof. Starr in every particular. A COL
lege degree has become a sort of respect
ability badge to wear in society. Too
much is taught and not enough learned
The mental food is already prepared and
brought to the consumer on hot plat
ter Nothing is left for the organs of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16
PEDDLINC BOOKS TO BOYS,
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
A fairly well-dressed Young man GARRY
ing dress-sult case was walking along
a street in one of the better Residential
districts Of Brooklyn, the other day
Wnen ne saw group of boys ranging
rom ten to sixteen, talking on the side
down the dress-suit case and as he nro-
ceeoed to open it, said quietly:
We got something here 1 think YOU
boys would like to look at"
vo Inc Dogs crowded about him, and the
young man took out four or five paper
covered books and passed them around
~ =! couIu De seen at a half glance that
t they weren't dime novels. at least not of
'oeclmos OF from eighty to a hundred
pages, decently printed on fairly good
paper with picture cover. They were
profuSely illustrated too. and Wbep y
pa5Sser-py whose interest had been arous-
e9 by uhe proceedings, stopped and look
60 over the boys shoulders he saw that
the PICTURES were good, most of them
graphs P4io'o-
He saw, too, that the books were all
OF similar character. They bore titles
HiIe these: Fighting Spaniards in
Euod, scouting After Filipinos," AN
American With the Beers, - and were evil
9ently descriptive Of actual experiences
4 t Oh action, anecdote and conversa3
LOIS cioIs. ana when the man who had be-
CoIhe interested got chance to look a f
the title pages he found there the names
OF more or less known newspaper war
correspondents val
There was no mistaking the interest of
the Boys in the books. They hung on
one another to get a chance at them #
seen seemed d as though the illustrations had
9 pee placed with cunning that made a
up up INTO the letter press irresistible to
They're mighty good books" suggest
e 60 the .. young man with the dress9suit
case. Fighting and fun and escanes
from the natives and strange people and md
places. Just begin one of them once and
you won't be able to do much else iii III
y0gHe Finished finished It Now that fellow
youthful American officer, 'the wasn't
much older than some of you bows and
the Flilplnos captured him and carried
MIN cir to cave up in the mountains >
The young man told the whole story of
the kidnapped soldier, and he told it wei
AND an! every one of the books is full Of
stories just as good he continued. land
they re only Is cents apiece"
i've, Two Of the boys bought a book at once
Ihree others borrowed the volumes thev
coveted and went to their homes nearby
Tor financial assistance Two re+urnaJ
with 10 cents each. The third hadn't
found the family treasurer at hoSxe Tbe
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16
AT THE THEATERs.

'My Wife's First Husband" as pre-
sented by the Criterion Stock company
at the Metropolitan is as funny comedy
as has been seen on the local stage in a
long time. The specialties introduced are
unusually entertaining and many hearty
laughs are afforded the large audiences
The Wagner programme, which mazda
such hit among the patrons of Lake
Harriet and the Banda Rosa upon a re-
cent evening, is to be repeated as a mat
inee this afternoon. The programns6 for
this evening is of an interesting and well
arranged miscellaneous character, and is
as follows;
Overture The Prophet Meyerbeer
00yerture-''Gazza Ladra'' 49,. Rossini
Mine, Still Mine" ....... Sorrentino
SCR. Bottega.
Selection from La Tosca'r .... Pusccini
Solos by Sgrs. Bottega Liberat01s and
Barilotti
Spanish Waltz" .............. Waldteufel
Selection from Donna Juanita is snppa
Solos by Sgrs. Bottega. Liberatore and
Barilotti.
March-"OVerland' .................. Morse
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16

and the Holland house. -Four dinners9
Not at all. One. Six o'clock at DeI's.
Gernet Branca, anchovies and soupe a Ia
ecItroulile A dash across the avenue to
milk pig with apple sauce, champagne
cigarettes. Enter mobile" and arrive al
the waldorf at S-Chicken in shell. Tur-
champagne, cigarettes Re-enter "mobiIe"
and drive to Holland house, arriving ~
8:45-Jellied onions, dandelion salad
papaWs garnished with peach nuts. negus
mobile Club at $50 Ten courses ~
TOUR hotels in less than four hours. IN
Guiding time spent on the road.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16
WAS POE A PLAGIARIsT.
Baltimore American.

Baltimore American.
Col. ]. A. Joyce, the well-known writ
er of Washington, has just had pub
lished review of the poems and ESSAYS
of Edgar Allen Poe, together with a. bio
graphical sketch and analysis of the au-
thor. In one chapter Col Joyce saws
that in 1878 he met in .>ew York and be-
came intimate with one Leo Penzoni, a
native of Milan. the Raven" being
adverted to in one of their conversations,
Penzoni alleged that Pee had stolen it.
In substantiation of this claim he fur
nished Col. Joyce with a. free TRANSLATION
OF poem entitled The Parrot" which
he claimed was written by his grand
father in 1869, and then published in the
Art Journal, Milan, Italy Col. Joyce
reproduces in fac-simile the letter from
Penzoni, transmitting this translation. in
which, after teeiting the fact to his grand
fathers authorship of THE Parrot" con-
cludes: g The Raven, by Poe was taken
almost bodily rom The Parrot Who
is the plagiarism
Ihere is a. most remarkable similarity
between THE Raven" and "Tne par
rot extending to thought, construction
and verbiage. Here is q sample of this
striking similarity:
(The Raven-Seventh Stanza)
open here flung the shutter when. with
many a fiirt and flutter
In there stepped a stately Raven of the
sanity days of yore;
MOI the least obeisance made he; not a
minute stopped or stayed he,
but with m1en of lord or lady, perched
above my chamber door
Perched upon bust of Pallas just above
my chamber door
Perched and sat, and nothing more
(The Parrot-Seventh Stanza.)
open wide [ flung the shutter, when a
Parrot with a mutter
Flew into my lonely chamber as it did in
days Of yore,
And it seemed to be quiescent, somber
and evanescent,
AS it sat in lonely grandeur above my
chamber door,
Perching on the bust, Minerva. above nv
oaken door
Perehed and blinked. and nothing more!
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16
BROWBEAr1NG WITNESSES.

Many an attorney has gained a repu-
tation as at trial lawyer by evincing the
characteristics of coward and bully
in dealing with witnesses. The laymen
who attend court, and who as rule
make or break the reputation of the
legal advocate, seem to think that
lawyer to earn his fee must resort
to all manner of shameless acts, prom
browbeat:ng witnesses
The rules governing the production of
testimony in a trial court are not monu-
ments of good sense by any manner Of
means. The latitude given counsel in
cross examination is too great and it is
too often abused The general rule COM
Polling a direct answer of Eyes" or mo-
is unfair to the witness and can lead to
no good. Many a witness has been COM
PEELED to tell a half truth by not being
allowed to explain a categorical answer,
or by being compelled to answer a ques-
ton of mixed fact either one way or
the other. This abuse of witness on
cross-eXaminat:on can be illustrated by
the story of witness who refused
to answer by yes or no, and appealed to
the court for protection. The court being
inclined to enforce the usual rule the
witness 6ed to answer all questions
which the counsel might ask, by yes"
| or mo" providing the learned counsel
| would answer by yes or no, one question
which he would PROFOUND to him. This
challenge, so the story goes, was accepted
by the attorney; whereupon the witness
asked him if he had ceased from beat
ing his wife. An affirmative answer
would place the limb of the law in
most unenviable light before his fellows
as it would be a public acknowledgment
that he had been wife-beater. A mega
tive answer would only make the matter
worse. Many a lawyer spends his spare
time framing questions to annoy and
confuse the witnesses for the opposition.
witness should be protected by the
court against all such witness-baiters.
AS general rule a witness in court is
disinterested person and means to tell
the truth. It is only when a witness
is suspected of perjury that he should
receive the severe treatment that is
usually administered by the astute cross
| examiner
The supreme court of New York has
recently handed down decision wherein
the power of a vicious cross-examiner is
somewhat circumscribed In Mowbrav vs.
Howard Gould, suit brought by the
valet of the defendant, the trial court al
| lowed the attorney for the plaintiff in
his cross-examination of Mr.. Gould TO
go into personal and irrelevant matters
concerning the social life of the defend
ant. This practice the supreme court
criticises and remands the case for a
new trial, as it was the evident purpose
of the plaintiff to discredit the witness
in the minds of the jury. This is = long
step in the right direction Many a so
called lawyer will lose his occupation and
his reputation, If the courts begin to
protect witnesses in TER natural rights.
When the efforts of the officers of the
courts are directed to the uncovering of
truth and not to the making of false
impressions, Justice may sleath her
sword and remove the bandage rom her
eyes. Much of our judicial machinery is
three hundred years behind the times.
Edward n,,p,har sa,,o,, -;
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16
THE UBIQUITOUS opp LINE.

When you start to read a story,
And your energies you bend
In a tense and rapt attention
To the interesting end.
Don't it jar you don't it thrill you
With a rare ecstatic bliss,
When there's sandwiched in the story
A line
like
this:
Gilbert's knife glittered and described n
semi-circle in the air, but as his arm
shot down upon the trembling victim
radwhte vbgkq xsfiffffn cmfyp etaoinind
It's the ''pi" line of the printer,
Which will happen to the best
And no makeup man has ever
Yet been found to stand the test;
For in spite of all endeavors,
Sometimes they are bound to- miss
And an interesting story's
Spoiled
like
this:
Washington, March PIT Is reported
that the situation in the Philippines is
erojuse shrdlu cmfwyp vbgkqjetaoin etai
Indianapolis News
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16

Lord Kitchener has accomplished some
ment of the Orange Free State and
Steyn's coat. 1t is d question whether
he will condscaie both as contraband of
war or return them with his compliments
to the general.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16

The ruins of the holy city are to be
screened from the eyes of the Chinese en-
peror. Temporary repairs are to be made
and painted to resemble the ancient walls
and gates Would it not be cheaper to
blindfold the emperor as he is being tax
en- into his imperial domain.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16

wide. Pasted into stamp collectors
book of the conventional size. the issue
ICF the year would fill 100000 volumes
winch placed one upon another. would
i solid column twenty-five miles
high. If it is true as Edward r.,, 800
Hale says. that the United states nost 81
system is the greatest of popular educa
tors these figures will serve to show
the extent of Uncle Sans present serv-
Ice as school teacher.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16
THE LATEsT WRINKLE.

New York Press.
Two young bucks stepped out of an
automobile at $50 p. m, entered the
Metropolitan club, ordered kunmel and
ice and cigars. and informed their friends
that they had broken all records. Ex-
plantations being demanded, they said
that they had just dinad heartily at Del
monico's, Sherry S, thu Waldorf-Astorla
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16

The various accidents which occurred
Sunday night on Wabasha street by the
collisions of street cars were all on &C
count OF big bugs. st. Paul is getting
altogether too aristocratie when the b g
bugs not only take possession of Summit
avenue but Wabasha street also.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16

1t is reported that the merchants of
South America cannot get their orders
filled as quickly from the United States
as they can from Europe while at the
same time the European merchant can get
his orders filed from the United States
quicker than he can from his own jobbers.
A contemporary asks, "Wny is this
thus?' 1t is thus because we have not
control of the transportation lines from
our ports to South America Indeed the
means of transportation are so meager
and so uncertain that regular trade is
impossible for the very reasons above Civ
en-. And yet the Republican ship subsidy
experts would pass subsidy bill giving
millions to established European steam
ship lines. But then that push is more
interested in who shall get the swag than
in the advancement of American COM
merce.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16
Careful.
Exchange.

Lady Ito shopwalker. who has accom-
panied her through various departments
to the front door)-rm sure you arc
very attentive Did you think l could
not find my way out again?
Shopwalker-Wel 1t wasn't exactIv
that, ma'am. You see, we've missed so
many things lately that we've got to be
very careful.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16
An Opportunity sOou

Somerville (Mass) Journal
WatSon-Good morning Miss Taol,so,
haven't seen much Of you lately,
MISS Jacksop-No; haven't been IN So
clety this winter; but the bicycle season
Is coming shortly
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16
Proof.

New York Herald.
He-What makes you think, dear. thar
L don't love you any more?
She (pouting)-You haven't kissed mo
any more tonight than you ever did.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16

Graham, the idiot, went through the
whirlpool rapids below Niagara Falls in
a barrel again Sunday and was fshed
out somewhat exhausted but still in the
barrel. He was exhausted, not from any
mental or physical efforts he had been
making, but from lack of air. He is ex-
pected soon TO initiate the feat Of the
crocodile who recently swan over the
falls. The crocodile came out all right
because he has a tough hide and very
little brains. By this token Graham
ought to be able to go over the falls and
live a thousand years.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16

The question is asked. is France stand
ing still? No, of course France is not
standing still. Who ever heard of a
Frenchman standing still? If France
is not increasing in population it
only indicates that the Frenchman has
begun to learn how to live for the pres
ent. The chief end of man is not to
multiply and replen.sh the earth France
has come to realizing sense of this fact
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16

The latest addition to legitimate Eng
fish is Morganize. This is legitimate pc
cause it comes from the only fountain
of pure English-England.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16

Calamity Jane is found. Now Pat
Grove will never rest until the same can
be said of him.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16

not think that simply because he has at
last got life job he can afford to ignore
the press He can't do it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16
EDUCATION AS A pEAcEM.Krp

Leslie's Weekly.
Eoucatlon makes for peace more than
an the business in the world, said Am
passador Jules Cambon, of France, in y
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16

Edward. number seven, is reported az
being opposed to reporters. Edward neea
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-02-14

portionment will give the first hearing to
those other than members of the Legisla-
ture After that the committee will con-
fine the discussion and work to them
selves
Ten districts are to be laid off, as we
gain one Congressman under the new APP
portionment bill passed by Congress.
There are several plans already formu-
lated. One of these gives only one dis
trict to the Republicans while another is
claimed to make all ten of the districts
Democratic. The committee wilt have
much difficulty in preparing bin that
will satisfy ALL
AMENDMENT TO FERTILIZER LAW.
A matter of special interest to farmers
is the amendments proposed to the law
regulating the sale Of fertilizers, etc. as
prepared by the special committee of the
Board OF Agriculture The bill thus pre-
pared leaves the tax ON commercial ferti-
lizers at 20 cents per ton, and provides
that untagged fertilizers shall he treated
like whskey ia by the United Stat when
seized; that is, sold without case in the
courts. The present law requires 8 per
cent. phOsphoric acid and declares that
fertilizers without this is illegal The bill
proposes half dozen different formulas.
as Eastern soils do not need phosphoric
acid and for years fertilizers really illegal
have been used there. In the matter OF
fertilizers not up to guarantee. the bill
provides for a rebate of double the value
OF the deficiency. 1t also provides that
all fertilizers in which there are leather.
hoOf. meal and hair, shall be confiscated
and no pay can be collected for it from
buyers.
MINOR MENTION
A party OF Northern capitalists are
"doing" the State this week. chaperoned
by Mr.. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte at
which place they were entertained first.
They are said to he on the lookout for
desirable opportunities for investments.
The committee on agriculture approves
the plan to authorize the penitentiary
authorities to go into the fertilizer manu-
featuring business.
Senator Springfield. Democrat. of the
33rd district. whose seat was contested
by Stamey, Republican, was unanimously
awarded the seat already held by him
even the Republican member of the com
mittee on privileges and elections did not
vote to seat Stamey.
The public printing contract is again a
bone OF contention with four bidders
two from Raleigh. one from Charlotte.
and one from Goldsburo The matter ia
to be settled on Wednesday of this week,
if possible.
TarborO adopts the dispensary by a
vote OF more than three to one Fayette-
vile in to vote on it soon. At Tarboro
party lines Were not drawn" At FAY
etteville only white Democrats will vote
at the primary. Funny that the dispen-
sary plan should be so unpopular in some
counties tGuilford, for instance) and so
popular in others. LLEWXAM