The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 14, 1902, Image 4
WAS IT YOU.
Somebody did a golden deed;
Somebody proved a friend in need;
Somebody sang a beautiful song;
Somebodj- smiled tbe whole day long;
Somebody thought; "'Tissweet to live";
8omebody said. " I'm glad to give";
Somebody fought a valiant fight;
Somebody lived to shield the right.
Was that somebody you?
j A SOCIAL IMBROGLIO. [ j
Maud Eudicoit was visiting an aunt
who lived in a suburban town in the j
"wild and wooly west" and which was i
certainly breey compared to the solid
frigidity of the classic Hub, albeit
looked upon by the city proper as pro- I
verbially slow. Maud being one of i
the Endicbtts, and related to the Hon. |
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain of "Lun- j
nun," felt it incumbent upon her to j
. keeep up the traditions of old lady i
*1? anolHnc and
.Boston as iu mc tuncti ?? ,
pronunciation of words embodied in lit- j
erary phrasing, and delivered with an
; accent that cold chisels them into a
perfect mosaic of language.
Her aimt, Mrs. Mason, was duly
awed and impressed by her niece's
culture, but was more interested in
having her marry a western man she
' had met and conquered, a prosperous
* and popular young doctor who had
won her favor, and who, although born
in Kalamazoo instead of Boston, could
speak the language of love more
flunetly than any eastern admirer she
had ever known. And just when she
was ready to utter that final "yes"
which would make the three of them
happy, a word that was not Bostonese
desperately offended Miss Endicott.
The season of. the. church fair was
at its height and Mrs. Mason, being an
active member of a popular church
society, had prevailed on Maud to
take a table and sell fancy articles
for the benefit of the guild. On the
close of the second evening the young
woman parted from her lover with
frigid politeness and refusing to enlighten
him as to the cause of his of:
fending, went home with her aunt, to
fwhom she^rould not deign an explanation
that Sight. The next morning,
however, when her aunt, who looked
as if she had not slept, asked her what
was the trohble, the young woman anv
swered with more energy of speech
than she had yet employed.
"I will never forgive him, never!
His words-Vere so rude?so unkind!
r And I believed him a gentleman? j
Auntie, what is?is?oh, the horrid
word?hew can I speak it?what is
? . a* r*
"nim-nam:
"It mea?s getting something for
nothing?nS^ not that exactly, either.
Anyway, it's a trick by which you
keep what you've bought, and the
money you should have paid for the
purchase, too. I know that it is a
form of swindling."
"Yes, and your elegant Dr. Horton
accused me?me?a Boston Endicott
of playing a game of 'flim-flam*?that
. was the very word, so coarse and ungentlemanl^!
I presume the word is
discoverable in his lexicon?thank
goodness, ft has no place in mine."
"But my^dear Maud," said her aunt
in distress^ "what made his say it.
I think I have heard the word?it is
quite harmless?but the meaning is?
is rather questionable. What had you
done?"
"Oh, he expected some of his miserable
money back in change when there
was not a copper coming to him. And
then he laughed and said it was a
clear case of flim-flam. Oh, how glad
I am that he has revealed his inner
nature before it is too late. My life
would have been wrecked in the keeping
of such a man."
In spite of her philippics it was evident
that. anger was controlling the
young woman, and the morning sun
streaming in through the window
made a charming picture of vixenish
young saint, with an aureole of golden
brown hair. For Miss Endicott of
Boston was rather a beauty.
"Did you tell the rector?" asked her
aunt; "I heard you talking to him af
ter which it was paraded round the
I room and saluted by all the members
of the club ii?. turn. At the close of
the dinner the president proposed the
health of all fish.
Joke on Bret Harte.
Joaquin Miller says Bret Harte was
always disgusted with his "Heathen
Chinee" glory, and always begged his
friends never to mention it. Once
Miller and Harte went to breakfast
with Lord Houghton in London, and
on the way Harte asked if the guests
would be likely to quote from that
awful poem. This prompted Miller
to tip Lord Houghton a wink, and the
jolly old nobleman gave the tip to a
lot of good fellows at his table, and
they all talked nothing else. However.
Harte soon saw through the joke
and he never betrayed his impatience
,, on the subject again.?Boston Herald.
w?r jkju luiucu juui ua^n. kjlx . uur
ton."
"Yes, I told him what I thought
about church fairs?that they were
primitive and provincial, and ju'st a
religious form of gambling, and that
we never had them any more in Boston.
Oh, I expect to be tried for
heresy and schism at once."
"Oh, no. dear," said her aunt with a
smile flitting over her troubled countenance,
"we are not in Boston. And I
think you took Dr. Horton's joke in
serious earnest. We call people dense
out here when they can't see a joke.
Your uncle was a western man, Maud,
end he used many expressions I had
never heard when I met him?a young
girl like you. And I grew to like that
freedom of speech just as you will."
"Never," retorted Maud, "I am going
to write to Dr. Horton this morntag
and settle any doubts he may have
sn the subject."
"I am looking for an apple cart,"
said Mrs. Mason, changing the conversation;
"I will send up a plate of apples
if they are good."
"Please do not," implored her niece
tragically, "they would be apples of
Sodom to me."
Mrs. Mason took a silver half-dollar
from the mantel and sat by the window
to watch for an apple peddler
passing'to the city. She had no idea
that Maud's providence was coming in
the guise of an apple peddler, and
she felt very much disappointed over
\he trend events had taken. To have
this favorite niece settled near her had
long been the wl ' ? of her heart, and
Dr. Horton was positively one of the
most eligible men in the state, coming
of as good family as Maud and gifted
with a staying quality of goodness by
divine right. That the girl shculd I
wreck her own happiness for such a
slight provocation?she felt sure it
had not been intentional?worried her
greatly.
Two hours later Maud came downstairs
with a letter in her hand, and
found her aunt walking up and down
the little sitting-room in a feeble,
dazed kind of way. The girl's ill-humor
left her instantly. She had a good
heart under much veneer of culture.
"Auntie, dear," she said, giving the
name a loving intonation, "you are not
worrying yourself about me? Please |
do not, for it is too late now. Dr. Horton
is nothing more to me than a
stranger. Auntie, what is wrong?
Why do you keep your arm hanging
by your side and your hand clenched
so?"
"Maud," whispered her aunt faintly,
"I have had a stroke!"
The girl screamed with apprehension:
"I shall run for Dr. Richards!"
She seized her hat. "He will, he must
help you at once. Oh. it is my fault!
How inconsiderate; how selfish I have
been!"
Maud reached the office of the old
family physician only to miss him;
he was off on his rounds. She cou!4
enither follow nor Intercept him.
Meanwhile her aunt, whom she loved
dearly, might die. Dr. Horton? For
a moment her pride held her. but there
was no other, and his skill was unquestioned.
She met the young man
coming out of his office. His carriage
was at the door, and while she was
briefly telling him the cause of her
visit he swung her gently into it, and
in a moment they were speeding to
the house. Mrs. Mason was still
walking the floor, her right arm hanging
by her side. Dr. Horton took her
hand gently, his face expressing great
personal Interest and a respectful sympathy.
"Why do you keep your hand
clenched- Open it."
Mrs. Mason resisted feebly, but he
exerted his strength, and the tightly
closed fingers yielded. Something
dropped to the floor with a sharp, metallic
ring. The doctor stooped and
picked up a silver half-dollar. Maud
gave a cry; she did not understand.
Mrs. Mason stared vaguely at the silver
piece, then at the relaxed hand.
"Is it paralysis?" she asked in a natural
voice.
"Not a touch of it," said the doctor
cheerily, ulso mystified.
"Then it's?Oh. Maud, that is the
money I should have paid for the apples
. I was thinking of something
else, and I never gave the man his
money, and he a stranger, too, and a
poor man. Oh. Maud, it was a regular
flim-flam game."
But the word went unchallenged, for
Maud, now that the danger was over,
was going into a fit of hysterics, and
it looked as if the malady was con
tagious, ior tne aocror laugnea, ana
Mrs. Mason cried, and it lasted so long
that the doctor's horse, accustomed to
long waits ,pawed the sidewalk in his
impatience, while the genesis and exodus
of one word was being settled to
the satisfaction of all parties.?Mrs.
M. L. Rayne, in the Chicago RecordHerald.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT. #
Great boaster, little doer,?French
proverb.
A fool sometimes gives good counsel.
?Spanish proverb.
An angry man heeds no counsel.?
Portuguese proverb.
The most learned are not the
wisest.?Dutch proverb.
He who knows but little quickly
tells it.?Italian proverb.
Sleep over it and you will come to
a resolution. Spanish proverb.
He who would relish his food must
not see it cooked.?Italian proverb.
Love without return is like a question
without an answer.?German
proverb.
A man is in general better pleased
when he has a good dinner than when
his wife talks Greek.?Johnson.
It is easy, in the world, to live after
the world's opinion. It is easy, in
solitude, to live after your own. But
the great man is he who, in the midst
of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness
the independence of solitude.?
Emerson.
Good manners are the settled medium
of social as specie is of commercial,
life; returns are equally ex
pectea rrom ootn; ana peopie win uu
more advance their civility to a bear
than their money to a bankrupt.?
Chesterfield.
Novel Test of Death.
Horror of being buried alive is
common to the whole human race,
and from time immemorial experiments
have been in progress with the
view of making such a terrible fate
impossible. Some physicians maintain
that satisfactory tests can also
be made by the use of Roentgen rays,
but it is not every one who has the
facilities for making such tests,
whereas any one can make a test on
the plan devised by Dr. Icard, a physician
of Marseilles, France. The
doctor uses fluorescin. the well
known coloring material, and his experiments
have proved so successful
that they have won for him the approval
of the French Academy of
Sciences. Fluorescin injected, intp the
human body produces absolutely nd
effect if the body is dead, whereas it
produces most surprising effect if
the body is alive. Dr. Icard uses a
solution of it which is so strong that
a single gramme is able to color 40,000
quarts of water.
If a little of this solution is injected
under the skin of a living person
in two minutes the skin, and especial- ;
ly the mucous membranes, will
become much discolored, and the
person will present the appearance of
one suffering from an acute attack of
jaundice. Moreover the eyes will
become a greenish color and the pupils
will almost become invisible. These
symptoms will remain for one or possibly
two hours and then will gradually
disappear. Since fluorescin
produces this effect on a living body it
naturally follows, according to Dr.
Icard, that any body on which it
produces no effect must be dead.?
Boston Herald.
Comical Fishing Contest.
A very amusing competition for fishermen
has just taken place in Brussels.
The contest, which was international,
| says the London Express, brought
three fishing clubs from France. The
prizes, which ran up to several hundred
francs, were to be awarded to
those who caught most fish in a given
time. Hundreds of competitors appeared
on the scene, clad in a varitey
of comical costumes.
! Fishing took place in the lake in
the Bois de la Cambre and the Tuelles
j ponds, all noted for their finny inhabitants.
Round the banks the fishermen
sat for hours under a broiling sun
in a serried line, gravely watching
' their floats. All the rods had to go
into the water at a given signal.
Whenever a fish was caught, be it
great or be it small, a gun was fired. ,
The first fish caught in each group
was cooked for the feast and, minnow
or whale, served on a bed of parsley.
The dish was carried solemnly to the
| president, who rose and bowed gravely
! Uiw times to the unconscious fish, af
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY j
The last discovered and mcst distant
of great planets, Neptune, extended the
6olar system more than one thousand
million miles. Prof. George Forbes is
seeking an even more distant planet,
so confidently that he has actually j
named it Victoria, and he expects that
it will be found about 10,000,0000 miles
from the sun.
A new French refrigerator consists of j
closed metallic cylinders surrounded j
by a freezing mixture, being designed '
for keeping fruit at a fixed temperature j
with a restricted amount of air and an
absence of light. Thawing must be
gradual. After two months peaches
were in perfect condition, and the
*1 ?A*J nnrtintr
uieinous auapieu iui uaucijuuiut}
soft fruits including bananas.
All the blood in the human body
passes through the heart in about three
minutes. The heart beats seventy
times a minute, 4200 times an hour, ,
100,800 times a day, throwing out 2Vz
ounces of blood a second, 656 pounds '
an hour, 7% tons a day. It is only
when supplied with pure, rich blood j
that the heart, an organ six inches long
by four inches wide, can accomplish
this enormous amount of work and
rebuild its own wasted tissues.
In Brussels, Malines and other Belgian
towns, a novel method of not only
getting rid of smoke, but turning it
into use, has recently been employed.
The smoke is driven by a ventilating
fan into a filter with porous material, >
over which a continuous stream of petroleum,
benzine, alcohol or some liquid
hydrocarbon flows. The result is
that the smoke is entirely suppressed,
while the filter yields a gas of great
calorific power, which can be used for
heating purposes and for driving gasengines.
The filtering material itself
also becomes a good combustible.
The available coal yet stored in the
earth in Germany is estimated by Professor
Ferdinand Fischer of Gottingen
.at 160,000,000,000 tons; in England,
only 81,500,000, tons; in Belgium, Austria-Hungary
and France, about 17,000,000,000
tons each. The store of
Russia is but imperfectly known. North
America can produce 684.000,000,000
tons, and Baron von Richthofen has
stated that China has a supply nearly
as great. Japan, Borneo and New
South Wales have considerable coal;
Africa, an unknown quantity. Germany's
coal should last another thousand
years, but Engalnd's supply will
begin to show signs of exhaustion within
50 years. In the United States the
production has increased from about
6,200,000 tons in 1891 to nearly 45,000,000
in 1901.
Glass That Will Not Frealc.
Louis Kauffeld, owner of a large
glass factory, claims to have discovered
the secret of manufacturing malleable
glass, the long-lost art of the ancients.
He says he is now manufacturing
semi-malleable ware, according to
the Washington Times, soon will be
able to put on the market a kind of
glass that will be as malleable as any
of the metals.
In the presence of the correspondent
and a workman Mr. Kauffeld took a
glass chimney of ordinary appearance,
put as much wrater in it as it would
hold when it was placed horizontally,
and, placing it over a fire, proceeded to
boil the water without cracking the
chimney.
Next, this same chimney was heated
pun til it was almost at the melting
point and plunged into cold water.
The chimney went through the ordeal
without injury.
Kauffeld folowed this experiment by
taking up the now cooled chimney and
using it as a hammer, driving a goodsized
nail into a tough -card with it.
Again the chimney came forth unharmed.
While Kaufleld's process is unknown
to anybody except himself he volunteered
the information that the lime
and lead that are used in the manufacture
of ordinary glass do not enter
in,to the composition of this. What the
substitutes arc he would not say.
Jellies from Old Koots.
France is not the only nation that
knows how to practice economics, says
Popular Mechanics. Scraps and shavings
of the iron milhs and forges, once
thought too small for consideration,
are now turned into writing ink and
into that beautiful dye color. Prussian
blue. Fusel oil, a dangerous poison,
becomes oil of apples or of pears
for flavoring purposes. Beggars' rags
are turned into pilots' coats and the
seemingly worthless sawdust into
newspapers. Even as the unsavory
drainage of the cow barns becomes a
basis for the most fashionable perfumery,
and the tar waste of our gas
works is turned into the most exquisite
aniline dyes and into saccharine,
the sweetest of all substances. Old
boot legs, soles and uppers, bits of
harness and the hoofs, tendons and
like worthless scraps of our butcher
shops, chemically treated and colored
and flavored with the products of
equally "useless truck," find their way
to the best tables as "pure fruit jellies."
Such is the American method
of inventive economy
A Wonderful Electric Watch.
An inventicn which is likely to revolutionize
the watchmaking industry
has been perfected by a Swiss watchmaker
named David Perret of Marin,
near Neuchatel. It is a watch which
goes by electricity, and its special
feature is its accuracy. It was severely
tested by experts, and it was
found that it gained only seven-tenths
of a second in five weeks. The expert
at the observatory at Neuchatel declares
the watch to be equal in precision
to an expensive chronometer. The
watch resembles an ordinary gentleman's
lever, costing $60, and goes for
fifteen years without being rewound.
?London Mail.
tv.o Anolntintr of William IV.
At the coronation of William IV.
when the archbishop was about 1c
anoint him on the chest, and opened
his robes for that purpose', the King
was discovered to be wearing underneath
his mantle a tight admiral's
uniform. A delay was caused by this,
during which the King became impatient,
and showed frank indifference to
strict adherence to the ritual part of
the ceremonial. Irritability and impatience
were marked characteristics
of William IV., and there was. moreover.
a thin streak of democracy in
the composition of the very eccentric
sailor king.
Could She I'lav? AVell
"Can you play 'Down in the Valley?'
" he asked
"I should sa\ I could." she answered.
"I got down there in two
strokes this afternoon. and then astonished
the crowd by making a sixyard
putt as easy as rolling into a
and pit.?Chicago Record-Kerald.
MYSTERIES OF TIME.
How the Irishmen Were Puzzled Over
Birthdays Here and Abroad.
The two elderly Irish citizens, out
for a Sunday stroll, paused before a
jeweler's show window in which were
displayed three clocks recording time
in various parts of the world
" 'Tis odd," said one. "In some parts
of the earth 'tis yesterday, and in
other parts 'tis tomorrow?while the
United States is the only place in all
the world where 'tis today.
" 'Tis odd."
" 'Tis so."
"Now, when would be mo birthday
if I were in Paris?"
"Your birthday is today."
" Tis."
"And 'tis tomorrow in France, today?"
" "Tis."
"Thin yez could never have a birthhn^onaA
milF
U?*J 11 J Y1C1C t?r Cl 1UV1 b, UU^rukiu J ^ -birthday
comes today."
" 'Tis odd."
" 'Tis so."
"No doubt, that's why tbo populaI
tion is so rayduced in France; but it
has advantages. A man is always as
old as he is if lie is born over there,
I but if he lives abroad he is a year
younger on his birthday, countin' he
I be home."
" Tis odd."
" 'Tis so.?New York Tribune.
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Three Ages of Man.
She first age of man is when he
| thinks about all the wicked things
which he is going to do. This is called
"Innocence." The second age is
when he does all the wicked things he
has thought of in childhood. This is
called "The Prime of Life." The third
! age is when he repents all the wicked
i things he has done. This is called
"Dotage."
EXPERIENCE THE ONLY
TEACHER.
I She?There's really no reason for
! married folks to quarrel,
j He?No except that they generally
| need a few quarrels to find that out
j ?Brooklyn Life.
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Not Always to Blame For It.
Some women think more of their
hats than of "heir husbands, and the
: hats are not always to blame for it,
I either.?New York Times. . ^
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Males preponderate in the population of
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The first complete edition of Poe's works
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i weeks ago.
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The monkey wrench zets its name from
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Albert lurch, Wee Toledo, Ohio, says:
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The foundation of the Bank of England
! strong-room is sixty-six feet below street
i level.
j Plso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible
mediclno for coughs and colds.?N. W.
Sakcel, Ocean Grove, N. J.f Feb. 17, 1900.
A ship's cable is usually 720 feet long,
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j the tenth or s. sea mile.
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UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD I
WHAT THIS OLD SEAT OF LEARNING
IS LIKE,
(eril Fhnde*'n Bold Flail of FUrnldhlns
^rliolarGilp* to Students frorti the l/'nited
State?> the British Colonics and
Germany Makes This Artifc'.e Tlmtely.
Cecil Rhodes' bold plan?provided
for in his will, is recently chrbnicled
?to send each ytar to Oxford University
a number of select students from
the United States, the British colonics
and Germany, with a scholarship
provision of $1500 each for expenses?
this far-reaching benevolence has naturally
called forth much discussion;
and the occasion is ripe for asking
what one of these scholarships at illustrious
Oxford is to mean.
First then, the details as to how
the candidates are to be chosen' what
is to be required of them, etc.?all
this is 'still undetermined. The mat
tor will be worked out wun deliberation
by boards of administrators yet
to be chosen. Rhodes never concerned
himself with ways; all he did was to
supply the means of doing things.
His scholarship endowment plan involves
many difficulties in practice and
it will take tune to assimilate a
scheme of procedure.
The University of Oxford differs
from any educational institution in
this country. It; is not a single, compact
university, like Harvard of Yale,
but a collection of independent colleges
under a form of confederacy
somewhat analcgous to that by which
the various states of the Union are
bound. It is a sort of e pluribus anum.
But in Oxford tie power and influence :
of the colleges predominate over the
university.
Cambridge University, in Engliad,
is the only other school#that is like
Oxford. The other English universities
and. the German and French uni- "
rersities are more like ours, though
there are of course radical differences
between such institutions in the different
countries.
It would take years of residence at
the university to understand the peculiar
relations which exist at Oxford.
The institution is the growth of six
or eight centuries of time, and its history
is as complicated as that of a
nation. Yet a little inquiry will show
us its distinctive characteristics?little
understood as they generally are
by the average. American.
Oxford University was not turned
cut virtually complete at one operation
like Stanford. From the earliest
times the place was a feeat of learning..
There was ? nunnery there as early. '
ae the eighth century, and Pope htar-V
tin II in 802 spoke of the town as an
educational center. Vacariirs lectured
I there in Latin, on law. in 1149. There
were by that time a number of monasteries
and other religious houses
there, to some of which schools were
attached, where students were bred
up for the church.
In course, of time .the teachers, of
the various schools came to meet^fogether
in a Sort of "institute," to dis;
cuss methods and adopt general rules.
From this association, distinct froim
and of higher authority than any particular
school, the University of Oxford
sprang. The word "university"
(universitas) was first applied in a
! statute of King John, in 1201.
Walter de Morton, in 1264, first gave
Ihe institution the character it was
destined to develop. He founded Merlon
college; and from time to time
during 400 years other similar colleges
were founded until there were 21 in
all. These exist today, and beside
them there are some collateral schools
also, sustaining special relations to
the university.
The original purpose in founding the
separate colleges was to give the
friends and townspeople of the founder
a place to live and study together.
The various colleges are by no means
uniform. Each has its own character,
it own customs and rules, its own supporters.
Originally the students lived where
they pleased in the town of Oxford,
but under the college system they
were required to take up their resi
dence in the college buildings called
ii'.DS, hotels or halls?somewhat as
our college fraternities have their own
quarters?where they lived in common
?the meals and the rooms being
called "commons."
Out of the college funds certain
sums were laid aside to pay for the
' support of a limited number of poorer
undergraduate students, and these
provisions were called scholarships.
Then other funds were established
for the support of post-graduate students,
called fellowships, and the possessor
of one of them yas a "fellow."
There are now?not including the
Rhodes scholarships?several hundred
scholarships, worth $400 to $600
each, and about 30 fellowships worth
about $1500 each. The bequests of
i $1500 a year each will therefore put
the Rhodes scholars on a footing, financially,
with the most honored class
of residents at the university.
When a young man goes to Oxford
he is not .as at our American colleges,
assigned to classes where he has to
study text-bocks, recite, listen to lectures,
and take frequent examinations.
There is no university examination at
entrane, but all the best colleges have
an entrance examination, varying in
standard with the college.
The colleges do the teaching, what
there is of it, but always with a view
to the honors and degrees conferred
by the university. The university itself
provides certain lectures, notably
in science, law and theology?though
science is not put to the front at Oxford.
But as a ruie the university lecfnrorc
tnllf tr? pmntv benches. The
students is not really required to attend
any lectures, not even those given
by his own college; but he may attend
any he likes, even those in other
colleges. In recent years the lectures
have taken a somewhat more practical
and definite turn.
Formerly the favorite colleges at
Oxford were filled up several years in
advance, but for the last generation
students have been allowed to live in
their own lodgings, instead of in commons,
and now a student can enter any
college ori short notice. It is hard to
say just how many students are in
attendance, as such statistics aro not
made prominent by the university.
The number runs from 1600 to 2000
perhaps?or much below that at a
number of the German, French and
American universities.
The colleges hold certain examinations
at intervals, and students are
generally expected to pass these up
within a stated time. Specially difficl "
examinations are held for honors.
Finally the university conducts the examinations
leading to the degrees?
the main purpose being to make Masters
cf Arts.
There are four terms each yeas;
Michaelmas, from Oct. 10 io Dec. 17;
!' Hilary, from Jan. 14 to Palm Sunday;
'
Easter, from Wednesday of Eastefr
week to Friday before Whitsunday;
and Trinity, frbm Whitsunday to the
first Saturday after the first Tuesday
in July. The ordinary academic year
is about 26 weeks. Twelve terms of
residence are required as a minimum
for the degree of B. A., and 27 terms
for M. A. It is seen, therefore, that
to be a "Master of Arts of Oxford" is
something to be justly proud of, as it
means at least about seven years faithful
work.
It is customary for students to
"read" with a private tutor, who helps
them over the rough places. These
tutors generally get about $50 a ternfc,
ror three hours a week. They are usually
upper classmen, or post-graduates
working for higher degrees. The cost
of tuition paid, to the colleges averages
about $325 for the whole three
years?not including tutors' fees.
About ?200, or say $1000, a year is
the amount generally accepted as a
liberal allowance for all expenses of
a young man studying at Oxford. The
very minimum would be half this. The
professors draw salaries up to $4500
a year, the average being hardly $2000.
The official title of the university
is: ? "The Chancellor, Masters, ,and
Scholars of the University of Oxford."
The university is mostly self-governing,
and is a republic in itself. There
are four representative bodies that
manage its affairs. There is the Hebdomadal
Council or weekly meeting,
which is a sort of ways and means
committee; the House of Congregation,
a sort of upper house or revisory
board, which grants degrees, etc.;
the Convocation, consisting of all the
Masters of Arts or graduate alumni of
the university, which elects the two I
members to parliament that a law of
James I gives to the university; *nd
the Congregation of- the University,
which passes laws for the government
of the university, etc. Two proctors?a
sort .of police?have authority
over the deportment of the' students?
one of the university bug-bears, as
will be recalled by those that have
read "T(pn Brown at Oxford."
The town of Oxford has about 45,-.
000 people. It is#situated in a beautiful
rolling, pastoral country in one of
the sweetest and most romantic sections
of England?about 55 miles up
the Thames from London, though the
little river here is known by its more
classic name of Isis. The High street
01 principal thoroughfare of the town
has often been called the finest street
in the world. This does not mean that
any particular building is architecturally
finer than those in any great city;
but the vast number of massive, hoary
and ^Impressive structures makes' the
whole subBine. *?? % .%
Oxford stands for grkind of! education
not much cultivated now in America,
where everything takes a practi
- 1 A r?..t T-? 1 3 ^
cai cum. dui nuoues was a piauutoj
man and he knew Oxford; and he was
convinced that the influence of that
great institution, operating on young
men of energy andrjre?ource, from
newer countries, would, be a powerful
leaveiLfor the betterment of the world.
Men ot;broad culture such as Oxford
can produce he knewi^ould be in increasing
demand in iiie coming time.
And it may be that these students from i
other lands will in turn be a powerful
element in the evolution of a newer
Oxford, which shall thus exert increased
influence on the progress of
mankind.?The Pathfinder.
THE BOY AND THE MERCHANT.
How, by fnndry Testa, an Employer Selected
an Errand Hoy.
A merchant prince of this city,
needing aditkmal help, inserted the
folowing advertisement in a morning
paper:
"Boy Wanted?$4 a week; $6 to the
right one."
A group of two or three dozen applicants
awaited the merchant the next
day in his office. One at a time they
were admitted, and to each in turn the
merchant said:
"Take this book and read on without
pause or break until I tell you to stop."
The boy would take the volume and
begin to read. The merchant,after a
moment, would rise with a sharp exclamation
and -drop a heavy paperweight
upon the floor, which would
excite the curiosity of the reader,
who would pause and raise his
eyes from the text to see what was going
on. But if he refrained from
doing this, if he kept up a continuous
flow of reading, the merchant
would put him to another test by
taking a puppy dog from a closet and
beginning to romp with it.
All the boys but one fell before the
test of the puppy dog. They stopped
reading, they looked on at the romp
with smiles, and some of them even
went sg far as to say:
"What's the dog's name, mister?"
Those who failed like this were
bidden to depart. But the one boy
who did not fail the merchant took
by the hand. "I want you,' he said,
"for it is plain that you are master of
yourself. I told you to keep on
reading, and you kept on, though to
test you I dropped an iron paperweight
and pi ayed with a puppy
dog. I'll tc.ke you, therefore, into my
j employ at $4 a week, and if you do as
| well as I think you will your salary
I will be rased to $6 a week within 9
j months."
The boy, who had an honest, open
countenance, said: "I thank you, sir.
Mother will be glad to hear of this.
I will report for duty at 8 o'clock tomorrow
morning."
And bowing politely, the lad withdrew,
holding his cap in his hand.
The merchant gave him, the next
morning, $5 in greenbacks to deposit
in bank. "You are master of yourself,"
he said, "and without fear I
give you a position of trust at once."
The boy set out for the bank, but
never reached it. Neither did he
ever return to his employer again.
He disappeared completely. He was
a scoundrel and a thief.
Thereafter, in engaging help, the
merchant was guided by references
rather than by tests.?Philadelphia
Record.
Kntjlinh Dialect Dictionary.
Professor Wright, chief editor of the
great English Dialect Dictionary, published
at Oxford, now says that he expects
to complete his work by the end
of 1905. The work began in 1895, and
two parts a year have been published.
Dr. Wright is asissted by GOO contributors
in all parts of the kingdom and
some 2,000,000 slips have been sent in,
the mere alphabetical arrangement of
which cost several thousand dollars.
When complete the dictionary will contain
over 100,000 dialect words, Yorkshire
contributing about 20,000.?Pittsburg
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