and forced on us by others this indeed should be accounted the very calamity and shipwreck of a higher education we have to deal with men after we leave school and in order to do that successfully we must have a knowledge of men and be able tc discern their good qualities our savior possessed this power to a greater degree than any man then to cultivate it not only brings success here but draws us nearer him in one way the difference between christ and man lies in his greater degree of appreciation of the true sense of values study your classmates study men that you may be able to know good men when you see them search for truth that you may place the proper value upon it and learn not to reject a five hundred per cent increase a few weeks hence for the ten cents now miscellaneous mohammed put into words a great symbolic truth when he said to his disciples if any man have two loaves let him sell one and buy some flowers of the white narcissus for the one is food for the body and the other is food for the soul the attacks by fanatical tribesmen upon the foreign settlements in morocco and the inability of the moroccan government to furnish protection have thrown upon spain and france the duty of such pro tection yet this is the question how can it be protected from with in or from without morocco is a relic of medievalism in the dawn of the twentieth century politically speaking it is a state hopelessly out of joint with the spirit of the times and its environment and it no longer fulfills the primary duties of a state the situation is well worthy careful study — the forum the tarentine gulf the instep of the italian boot is the birth place of oyster culture the shores are dotted with oyster parks which are made by driving four posts into the bottom of the gulf and connecting them by wire grass ropes from the ropes bundles of hazel are suspended and to these boughs the oyster spawn attach themselves these dangle in the water and sway back and forth with the tide in this way the oysters get all the floating food but escape the seamen after about two years and a half the tarentine oyster is ready for market a rope fourteen feet long will rear about 2000 oysters — chronicle prof james says an education is to help you to know a good man when you see him if this is true then our great universities and colleges have failed in what they should teach there are men who have endowed both yale and harvard who have been honored in church and university and who have exhibited a character status which differs in no way except in degree from that of the common thieves and burglars which fill the jails the young men who go to these colleges are taught to honor men who have made their money dis honestly even taking from widows and orphans it is no wonder there are so many dishonest men let college men have for their ideals another type than this given and the country will better itself — literary digest the united states has been put to great expense in trying to get rid of the water hyacinth this plant with its broad green leaves and beautiful flowers has clogged up the water ways in southeastern united states to such an extent that ships cannot get through it is claimed that in one place a house-wife threw a few plants in the river and soon they were so numerous they had to be dredged out it is strange that so beautiful a flower should become such a pest the new british prime minister herbert henry asquith who is to succeed sir henry bannerman appears to be a very different person from his genial good-natured and extremely popular predecessor one paper says he is too unsympathetic to please the crowd and too stiff to get on with his colleagues many may be his virtues but personal magnetism is not one of them he is slight of medium height hale cold and distinguished looking on the whole his attitude is reversed and haughty — literary digest a large group of the singular excavations known as dene-holes was recently discovered in the forest between woolwich and erith england two of the holes have been explored each possess a circu