The age-herald., 1902-05-18

southern and northern leaders of thought together, causes them to live together, eat together, laugh and fraternlze ana be entertained together. He brings into a great family Cor into narrow clrcle) all the people and sorts of persons ne
 wishes to know one another in order that they may fraternize, harmonize and work with one another. Divines, college professors schoolteachers, millionaires,
 politicians bankers merchants, journal ists, orators, organizers--all comminge under the influences of good fellowship made doubly attractive by the presence
 of many fair women. They soon come to learn that no one in the party has any se1f-interest, but all are enthusiasts in the cause. Or, if any are not enthusiasts,
 but come in on the foot of the wave as lockers on they quickly become enthus- lasts. The whole scheme depends Tor US success upon the disinterestedness of the philanthropy of all. If there should be men with personal axes to grind, or any man should be seen to be seeking person. al notoriety, the heart of the movement would lie and the purpose of the excur- sion would fail.
 To the members of the party the expe- rience was delightful and the memory of participation in one of these tours must remain bright while life endures The excursionists were all persons of impor- tance, and consequently were all modest, free with one another genuine and nat ural. You could not find enough of airs and affectation in the whole sixty to equip a pouter pigeon. Every man among them was a teacher to the rest and each learned from the others. For it is truth that great and important men are
 little, children, always learning, always wanting to know.
 We think of a steamship as the ideal place for making pleasant acquaintances and the best ships for the purpose as the ones which make the longest voyages those going to China, India and Aus tralia. But I know those ships and their human loads and can truthfully say that they never carry upon a single voyage one-fourth as many interesting people as MT. Ogden gathers around him. Besides the etiquette of the travellers life is that he may cut any acquaintance on ship board and dismiss all his companions from his heart and mind once he sets foot ashore. The passengers on ships are like ships themselves-mere passersby to one another on the voyage of life.
 Robert c. Ogden's company is very diff ferent. The mem bers do not even need to be introduced to one another. Hello, Dr. Alderman says Prof. Felix Adler. T know all about you and am glad to meet you" And Dr. Alderman replies: Well this is a pleasure. I have read after you and about you for ever so long" These old friendships and loves of the heart need nothing more than the spark of personal contact to meet and fuse them into friendships for all time, These ships will ply their lines far away from another In some cases, side by side in others, but they will never pass in the night of acquaintance while the captains walk their quarterdecks.
 Thus with a comparatively very little money. Mir. Robert c. Ogden is doing more than any millionaire could do by lavish gifts for the cause of educating the dark masses of whites and blacks in the South. whose ignorance Is an intol- erable reproach to every American and a menace to our peace and prosperity, perhaps to our institutions. IT. Ogden could not have hit upon a happier way of introducing to each others close acquain- tance the men, who propose to send the Ramp of wisdom into the pine barrens the cotton patches and the Alleghany cram nies. He could not in a year of argument show millionaire as much reason for helping the cause as he does when he in- vites such a person upon one of these excursions. He is a trained and a great organizer and the talents he displays in business are the same which made him hit upon this as the best way a man of | his comparatively small means could help | the greatest and most sacred movement | now beginning to stir this nation.
 Be very sure that if he kept in the sec | recy of his heart and head an account | book in which he charged the expenses |