Says a level headed writer in an ex
change : " Parents are as censurable
for not providing newspapers for their
children to read and learn to read as
for not sending them to school. The
child receives far more information
from the reading of good papers than
it does from school books. Education
such as the child receives in the school
is indispensable, but give the boy or
girl no other opportunities for acquir
ing a practical educatiop general in
formationand he will be a dunce in
spite of all the work he may do or
that may be done for him in the school
room. The country is full of edu
cated numskulls, men and women who
have a little school book knowledge
but practically no education."
Tou will seldom need a doctor if you
have Simmons Liver Regulator handy.
THE OPENING PRAYER.
Dr. Milburii, the Blind Chaplain of
the United States Senate, Invokes
the Divine Blessing: Upon the Col
umbian Exposition.
All glory be to Thee, Lord God
of Hosts, that Thou has moved the
hearts of all kindred tongues, people
and nations to keep a feast of taber
nacles in this place, in commemora
tion of that most momentous of all
voyages, by which Columbus lifted the
veil that hid the new world from the
old and opened the gateway of the
future for mankind. Thy servants have
builded these more than imperial
palaces, many chambered and many
galleried, in which to store and show
man's victories over air, earth, fire and
flood, engines of use, treasures of
beauty and promise of the years that
are to be in illustration of the world's
advance within these 400 yeais.
