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The Jewish outlook., 1907-05-03
New York.

New York.
About one thousand persons attended
an enthusiastic meeting Sunday night
at the Educational Alliance, which was
intended to make known the plans for
the establishment of an international
Jewish congress- The meeting was called
by the committee, which has the work
in hand, and numbers about 1000 men,
bers, including rabbis, journalists and
other professionals. This movement to
establish an International Congress Of
Jews is not akin to the Zionist move
rlent nor any territorial plan Its aim
is to create central board and head
chosen from the representative Jews Of
all countries, to act and speak for all
Jews in matters affecting them. So far
the plan is regarded by many as chimeri-
cal, as the body could not exercise the
power of a government, and if good is
to come from it it will be only to perse-
cuted Jews Of Russia, and those of Rou-
mania. AS one speaker said: AS for us
American citizens, we are satisfied with
cur own congress The organizers of
the movement, some of whom are Zion
lists, believe that organization is first
necessary before the ideals of the latter
can be realized, and they see in the inter-
national congress a way to the founding
of their own territory They believe
that the congress will open an epoch of
peace and happiness in the history Of
Israel. At Sundays meeting, which was
the first, the movement encountered
some difficulties however. One was the
statement of the Rev. A. R. Radin, that
it would require twenty-five years for it's
consummation, to which Abraham S.
Schooner, the president and chairman,
replied that not more than one year
would be necessary to put the plan into
effect. Another setback to the spread of
the propaganda was the address of the
Rev. DR.. Samuel Schulman, Of the Tenn
pie Beth Ell, who declared himself op-
posed to the establishment of the pro-
posed congress Education was first
needed," said DR.. Schulman Incident
ally the rabbi said that much hypocrisy
permeated the recent Peace congress
held in this city.
The Jewish outlook., 1907-05-03
Baltimore.

April 21st.-During the progress Of
the annual meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum
this afternoon, the president, Moses j.
Oppenheimer, began to read his annal
report. He had finished the first page,
when he suddenly fell dead, victim of
heart disease. At the meeting inter
rupted by his death he was to have been
reelected president of the institution
for the eighth term. Mr.. Oppenheimer,
who was sixty-fve years old, was the
head Of a prominent firm of wholesale
jewelers..
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The absolute prohibition by the
British government OF an entrance
into Tibet from India is emphasized
by the veto placed on elaborate
expedition to explore Mount Everest
organizd by the Royal Geographical
society and the Alpine club and to be
commanded by Major Charles Bruce
Mount Everest the highest mountain
on the globe, estimated to reach be-
tween 10000 and 10000 feet above
sea lever and known to the Tibetans
as Chomo-Kankar ('the lord of the
snowsl has never been reached by
any human being no has any white
man come within 100 miles of its
base There no real reason why
anyone ever should want to reach it.
for that matter; there is not much
reason for seeking the north pole.
but there are excuses which do not
ply to Chomo-Kankar.- Springfield
Mass. Republican.
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OUR TRUST.

The use of the legend In God We
Trust on some of the coins OF tho
United States, grew out of letter
written by a Maryland farmer to Sal
mon p. Chase, secretary of the treas
ury. The letter was written in No
vember. 4oo4, the writer urging that
ives should, as a Christian people,
make some recognition of the Deity on
our coins. Mr.. Chase referred tbs
letter to Director Pollock. of the
mint who approved the suggestion,
and proposed one of the legends Our
Country, Our God" or God Our
Trust" Mr.. Chase then referred the
matter to congress, and again in 1862
and 1863 he urged that the matter be
acted on. Finally, on April %, 1864.
congress authorized the coinage of a
twocent bronze piece, and on 1t was
stamped the legend, In God We
Trust" instead of "E Piuribus Unum."
Subsequently on March 8, 1865, the
director of the mint with the APP
prevail of the secretary of the
treasury, was authorize to place the
legend on all the gold and silver coins
susceptible of that addition thereafter
to be issued The legend is taken
from the following line in the Star
Spangled Banner" and this be our
motto, In God is our trust"
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Shakespeare's Own Self.


Theodore T. munger in the Atlantic
Monthly.-As we found Shakespeare
in Warwickshire, so we leave him
there; indeed, he is never far away
from the field of his keenest delight
and deepest impressions. His retire
me9t to Stratford, when regarded 10
its various lights, is the most reveal
ing Praises Of his life Indifferent as
be was to his plays in one way, he
laid clear emphasis upon them In
others. He rounded his work as a
playwright with personal significance
The Tempest" is not only farewell
TO the stage,-filled with the very
spirit of it. airy. unreal fascinating, -
it is charged with his weightiest con-
victions and also with his anticipations
and purposes. The play breathes
Throughout forgiveness toward his
enemies In lofty and yearning tenn
per, struck through with the mercy
and pity Of father. Over and over
again is the same gracious quality
seen in his plays, but in The Tempest"
it wears the pathos of farewell 1t
sheds a flood of light upon his ethical
convictions Even a dull reader may
note that he often forgets the best in
terests of the pay as to effectiveness.
and INDUCES in meditation over the
rights and wrong Of what is involved,
the Playwright forgetting himself in
the moralist
In the most quoted of all his words:
we are such stuff as dreams are
made on we are not to understand
that he gives a definition Of human
life. nor even as intimatiOn of its des-
tiny, for Shakespeare never seriously
transcribed the bounds OF this world.
Prospero is stlll In the field Of this
life, and would only say that so long
as he has duties In this world Of
Idream-like phantasy he will meet them
though his brain Is troubled" And
shakespeare has another field in mind.
When in Stratford. though life may be
short, it is real, and it's duties will be
met as realities. We find liz him still
| the freedom and exhilaration of his
period. intensified by the full tides Of
joy and vitality that flowed through
his own veins; but along with them
and deeper than any were ethical con
victions whose solidity and depth out
weighed all else within him. Of his
conduct little is known, but Of his ma
ture much may be inferred. 1t was
beddcd in the ethics Of human life,
and especially Of conduct in the fund
amental relations of men to one an
other Three things he Invariably de
manded and set on high,-justice,
mercy. and love as the soul Of each.
Ar these are set forth in Prospero
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1 fist denomination, as it has been since
1922, though there is nothing sectarian
in the character of the instruction
offered.
To provide for scientific training OF
the most advanced kind, the Washing,
ton college OF engineering was organ
lied in 1905. Besides this there are
various divisions of the university
which may possibly become separate
colleges. Professional departments Oh
medicine, law and politics, and OF di
plomacy are strong features. The
graduate school already has large en-
rollment, and at a recent meeting
President Needham stated that where
as the Harvard graduate school. the
largest of its kind in the countl Y.
now has somewhat more than 400
students, the educational opportunities
in Washington are so exceptional tina.
without doubt when George Washing
ton university has been settled in its
new home it may easily gain an at
tendance of 5000 graduate students.
Particularly for American young
men and young women who have TAX
en- their degrees at their colleges or
technical schools, Washington already
affords greater facilities for advanced
study than any other American city.
Leading authorities in various lines
OF scholarly activity are at the head of
governmental scientific departments
and many of these men are regular
members of the faculty OF the George
Washington university. II a young
man has studied chemistry, for ex.
ample, and wishes to make a series OF
special investigations relating to the
chemistry for foods, nowhere in the
world viii he have a better chance to
work among men who are themselves
engaged in first-hand investigation of
tremendous consequence than in the
governmental bureau of chemistry
presided over by DR.. w. H. Wiley
George Washington university already
has extensive laboratories of its own.
and these will be largely increased in
the new plant; and to these adyan-
tages it adds those given by the act
of congress which allows university
studnets residing In the District OF
Columbia special privileges in the use
of the laboratories and scientific col
leetions of the government.
So energetic is the movement for
further endowment Of George Wash
ington university and such Is the
growth of the apparatus of scholarship
at the national capital. that many old
are asserting the day
is at hand when the city our first presi-
dent took SO much pride in founding
viii be not only the political but the
educational capital of the United
States.
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voked. The foundation of the Car
negie Institution in 1902 gave an iEl-
petus to advanced scientific study
in Washington, and conditions were
seen to be preparing which would
give the capital supreme educational
advantages Accordingly in the spring
of 1904, the university's charter was
revised by act of congress, making
the institution nonsectarian and Civ
ing the board of trustees power to
cnange the name.
Since then remarkable progress has
been made and the George Washington
university, in its various departments,
is already one of the larger institu-
tons OF the country. Its growing at,
tendance has been attained not by
lowering standards but in spite of
raising them. More than thirty pro
fessors and instructors have recently
been added to the teaching staff,
night classes have been discontinued
and regular lectures made to close at
$50 Teachers courses have beer
provided in accordance with the lat
est educational idea, to enable those
who are engaged in educational work,
Whatever their age and previous ex-
perienc, to gain the advantage of reg
ular contact with trained scholars.
Above all, a beginning has been made
Of developing for the first time In this
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George Morse the well known Hav-
erhill auctioneer, used to tell story
of young fellow who had been some
thing Of a ''highroller' whom he once
employed. Two or three days after
the young man entered Mr.. Morse's
employ, says the Boston Herald, he
was minded the keys of very nice
house in the aristocratic part of the
city, tie furnishings of which were
to BE disposed of, and told to take an
Inventory of the contents and to be
back before o'clock, so that they
might get the announcement in the
papers.
When the young man got to the
house he found sideboard with a
good stock of liquor and cigars re-
naming
About s o'clock Mr.. Morse asked
where the new man was. No one had
seen him since he left in the morning
and a clerk was sent to investigate
On arriving at the house he found the
new man lying on a couch near the
sideboard, With empty bottles and CT
gar stubs scattered about He was
sound asleep, but had evidently meant
to do his work, for in one hand he
held the long blank form on which
inventories are recorded. and 1t had
one entry at the top which read, Zone
revolving carpet
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way there, or you will get killed."
The poor little piekaninny paid little
attention to all the noise and yelling.
but ran on through the tangle of
horses, mules, men and wagons moan
ing out his baby cry, Il want my
nanny. | want my nanny" The
sound beanie faint as he went on and
was soon lost In the general babel.
But as the night closed in upon us,
could yet hear it in imagination
SO can still hear it.
Where was his nanny? l don't
know. DID he find her that night, or
the next day, or ever? l do not
know. What became of the little fel-
low? do not know that either, but
have often wondered about it all
these years.-Madiscn Democrat
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University Planned by
George WaSbinatcn

Washington. April 24.-An i'm
portant movement in American higher
education is the plan Just developed
in detail to carry out or large scale
the original idea of President Georse
Washington for worthy university la
the city which he established. Few
undertakings are mentioned more ire
quently in Washington this spring
than the steps thai are beng taken
for the fulfilment of the thought o.
the father OF his country that a we'll
equipped university at the capital 0i
the nation would bring together giftec
students from every section of the
United States, giving them the tram
ing that broadens the viewpoint are
obliterates provincialism, and return
ing them to their homes the stronger
for having come into personal contact
with the activities of the national GOV
eminent
The notion that there is NJ local
patriotism in Washington is erroneous.
People In all walks of life have con
tributed something toward the money
necessary to purchase a worthy site
for the principal buildings OF the
George Washington university. formal
ly incorporated in 1904 and now about
to become a reality as well as a name.
This fund is all coming from people
who make Washington either their
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When Cleveland Said "5y Gosh, She
paneiss

When Cleveland Said "5y Gosh, She
Pops!'
All the inheritors of the mantle of
Oklahoma Payne claimed credit, and
many men in Kansas arrogated to
themselves a certain Importance A
longlegged friend of mine, who may
be called Bill Jennings as well as any
thing else, always insisted that he was
responsible for the opening Of the
Cherokee country.
! went down to Washington, said
he. ito see Ceyland about it. l went
up to the door of Cleveland's house
right at the front door-and l knocked,
and | heard Cleveland boiler out to
me, Come in l went in, and there
was Cleveland settin' in the parlor.
with all his cabinet there, too. /
says to Cleveland, Cleveland, them
Injuns has got to so, and them COW
men, too | put it to him right
plain. Cleveland, he listened. and by
and by he got up and come and put
his hand on my shoulder, and says he,
BIZ, by gosh, she pops,' Emerson
Hough in Appleton's.
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as consciously his own. When he ab.
iures his magic, breaks his staff, and
browns his book, and so frees himse
from the unreality of the stage and
betakes himself to house and home. he
carries with him these high qualities
of law and conduct, else the picture of
himself which he has so long fore.
Swallowed is ont of keeping with truth
fulness with which he had mirrored
all human conduct. In the develop
.ment of society nearly all the great
men Of the past are now accord d
larger measures Of goodness than here
tofore. The humor, the insight and
breadth of vision, the Imagination
the charm of Shakespeare will remain
as ever, but his ethical sense Is more
patent and rises to meet the new
standard of the unfolding world.
There can be no better text book in
our universities for the study of high
and spiritual ethics than the plays of
Shakespeare,-unde.- the one condition
that the teacher shall be adequate IN
perception and temper of mind and
soul to unfold the inwoven lessons.
After ALL there is more of nature ia
Shakespeare than can be found in
Warwickshire or in England; more of
humanity than can be seen in any one
generation. He is as ancient as Job.
as modern as Emerson. He did more
than fill a place made ready by the
political and religious acknowledgements
of the English people; more than
mount and ride the topmost wave of
the nations genius Place and age
and opportunity worked in accord for
his production. but they did not pro
duce him. We must relegate the
problem of his university, his tran
Iscendence, his prophetic outlook, his
fathomless insight-all as easy and
natural as breathing-to that region
and power where all problems must ut
last be left, namely, creative endow-
ment, the only explanation Of great
linen The truest measure Of him Is
his unconsciousness Of himself; he
was too vast to be comprehendeu by
his own thought; he 50 far surpassed
all known standards that he had none
for estimating himself; and so. appar-
emily, he made no estimate beyond
what might be set down In pounds
sterling He seems in his unconscious
greatness almost to lose the qualities
Of e man, and to be simply a voice of
universal nature
And yet he speaks of no world but
this, and touches only everyday hu-
manity. He speaks Of man as he is
here and now He deals with the mas
ter passions love. ambition, jealousy,
ayarice, pride, and lust. He moralizes
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-01

on the chief mistakes of men.-the
parting with heayen-imposed response
bility as in Lear; indscriminate aud
unregulated generosity, as in Timon
of Athens; cyer-thoughtfulness and
brooding in world of action, as in
Hamlet; the insidious growth of evil
as in Macbeth. He is a quarry out OF
which philosophers dig their most ut-
impeachable truths; a judgment-seat
for whoever brings cause, outweigh
ing all presidents and decisions; a di-
vine 10 divines, a fixed star by which
all poets measure their flights; yet all
this is not more wonderful than a GER
tain Trotean adaptation to all classes,
grades, ages, and generations OF men.
The Shakespeare of two centuries ago
was not the Shakespeare of the last
century, and we have today a Shake
speare whom even DR.. Johnson did
not know. Yet each was real. Equal
ly does he accommodate himself TO the
varied periods of life. He is a story
teller in childhood; In youth hood he
is the reflection of our passion and
purpose; in manhood the measure OF
our strength and action; and in age
the philosopher who interprets and
confirms our observations of life. And
so he delights the rude throng with
trenchant wit and hoarse laughter.
yet sings to the finest ear in measures
unapproachably faultless.
His greatest service, perhaps, is to
be found in the fact that he gave the
world an inexhaustible body of essen
tial and practical truth in the best
form; by which l mean truth stated
beautifully, nobly. and engagingly.
What a wealth of it, and how accurate
answering to life as the courses Of
the stare answer to mathematics. But
the truth of Shakespeare is more
than exact more than the mirror held
up to nature and humanity; it is truth
with its heavenly radiance and native
glory. Montague tells us the truth in
plain and homely ways, and Plutarch
prattles it like a child; but Shake
speare penetrate into the temple of
truth, and brought it forth in its shin
ing robes and made it speak In its di-
vine accents. 1t is one thing to see
truth as the reality Of things; it is an
other to behold the glory and majesty
and strength and beauty of truth.
This is the high achievement of
Shakespeare; .Aat the eternal secret,
the spiritual essence. the absolute ma
ture of any truth he touches, is re-
vealed in his statement of it.
Such work as this is to be put by
the side of Magma Charta and habeas
corpus and trial by jury, and the Dec
laration of Independence-as a real
contribution to humanity and civiliza-
ton. What does man more need;
what richer heritage can he have than
the truth pertaining to himself, put in
exact and noble form? This, We con-
ceiye, is the browning glory of Shakes
peare; this is what puts him above the
homely Socrates, the dreaming Plato.
the Flooding Aristotle, and the whole
race of hilosophers,-that he has re-
vealed humanity to itself, and made 1t
feel its own greatness and glory.
but we must not ask or one mortal
man 10 be the revealer of two worlds.
He has shown us one; he uttered no
syllable that forbids us to believe in
another. Nay, he has made this world
so great and beautiful that of itself it
calls out for eternity.
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country 8 university of the type Of
Oxford or Cambridge in England-one
made up of a number of component
institutions each with its own man
agement yet all educationalIy con
nected. Under the charter Of George
Washington university there is moth
ing to prevent any religious denomi-
nation, for example. from building as
a part of the great school a college
whose degrees would have full value
and whose students would be admitted
in due course to other departments of
the university. Thus, as an important
part of the institution, the time-hon-
ored Columbian college still is CO.
t.nued under the auspices Of the Bap-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-01

The library at the British museum,
which now contains between 3,000,-
100 volumes is without ex-
exception the largest in the world,
the only one which approaches it in
size being the Bibnotheque Rationale,
+ arts, and it is in .eresting to note
that for the accommodation of this
immense number of books upward Of
forty-tIree miles of shelves are re-
quired.-Chambers Journal
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BOTTLE THE SUNSHINE.

Bottle the sunshine up, my dears,
And lay it safe away,
Hammer the cork in good and tight,
Keep for rainy day.
For clouds will come and showers Will
fail,
And earth and sky look sad;
Then fling the CHEEKY rays about,
And make the old world glad.
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"Divorce?' repeated the man Of the
future, with laugh. "Oh, bless me,
no Their are no divorces any more.
Everybody goes in for the simplifled
morals, now. Why, II you were TO
try to get a divorce, you would make
yourself almost as ridiculous as II
you were to spell tho with ugh"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-01

Captain. please, SIR, your wife
has fallen overheard"
Owner. "Confound IT. Another of
those sinking4pells of hers!"--Har.
pers Weekly