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IUNCl.li "NAT'S" GREAT SECRET.
Old Visiting Minister Little Good to
Find It Out.
Having accumulated a considerable
property, tho lato Nathaniel Whltmoro
of Gardiner, Mass., moro familiarly
known by people of the Kennebec vnl
icy as "Uncle Nat" Whltmoro, received
naturally enough, numerous requests
from various organizations to contrib
ute toward the work in which these
organizations were interested. Sel
dom, however, did ho respond to the
appeals.
On one occasion tho minister of a
certain church in Gardiner approached
him, only to be politely turned away,
as many others before him had been,
on the plea of poverty.
"Hut, Mr. Whitniore," said tho ill-
Ino, "you aro reputed to bo very rich.
What, pray, since you have no chll
ilien, do you intend to do with youi
money when you die?"
"Uncle Nat" rubbed his long, bony
.hands together, and with a sinister
smile on his face, replied:
"My good sir, that is a secret I have
never confided to anyone, but as you
aio a minister of tho gospel, and will,
riesumably, hold inviolable anything 1
may say, I'm going to toll you."
Tho clergyman assured Mr. Whlt
moro that tho secret would be well
Kept, whereupon the latter drew close
and, In a tone of tho greatest confl
, deuce, said:
I "When I die I'm either going to
take- my money with me or leave M
behind."
I HEROISM IN EVERYDAY LIFE.
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There Displayed In Higher Form Than
on the Battlefield.
Prof. William James of Harvard uni
versity relates that upon a certain
journey ho was questioning with him
self whether or not tho higher hero
ism of life was passing out of human
society; and that at tho very moment,
ho looked from tho car window and
suddenly got sight of a number of
workmen performing somo task on tho
dizzy ledge of an iron construction at
a great height, says Success. This at
onco brought to his mind a sense of
tho everyday bravery of men in every
day occupations. It flashed upon him
on tho instant that tho true heroism
Qt life is found not only on tho day
of battle and In desperate adventures,
but also In building every bridge, or
in tho ordinary day-by-day servlco of
tho world, whether of tho salloi upon
his deck, tho brakeman upon his train,
tho lumberman upon his raft, or wher
ever else men aro at work. "As 1
) awoke to this unrealized heroic life
i nround mo," ho says, "the scales
I seemed to fall from my eyes, and a
1 wave of sympathy greater than I hnd
i ever before felt with tho common life
1 of common men began to ill! my soul."
I
i Autograph Quilt.
Displayed at a salo of work at u
0 Nonconformist church In London re-
J cently was a gorgeous quilt, bearing
. tho autographs of over 400 persons
j mainly members of tho congregation
The signatures, orlriniUy mado lr
j pencil on diamond-shaped pieces o
t bluo and white- drill, were feathoi
e stitched in colored cotton by the won
en of the church who, on finishing th
e quilt, presented it to their uastor.
,. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF UTAH
1
lr Hubert M. Skinner, a well-knowi
Chicago educator, who came to Sal
I.aki City to assist in tho State Teach
ors institute, January 3-7, 1905, ex-,
presses his stu prise at the high rank or
tho Utah schools In language, which
voices the sentiments of every honest
eastern observer of our splendid school
system.
He says, In tho St. Paul Globe:
"Utah is on one of tho world's great
highways and basks in tho full light
of twentieth century development. S.ie
seeni3 to have passed through throe
thousand years of history In less than
six decades."
Until I came to Utah and saw the
wonderful development of her schools,
I, like most other eastern pontile, too
busy to look up statistics, expected
to find conditions similar to those ex
isting In the eastern states fifty jears
ago; conditions not much exaggerate.!
in Eggleson's Hoosler School Master.
Imagine, if you can, the gratification
of an optimist in finding the rural
schools or this, my new home, far In
ndvanco of those In New ork, Peini
sylvanln, Mincis and Missouri. These
are grand old states and they Imagine
they do much for the rural schools,
but, until they hunt the union over as
Utah loo3 to got first-class teachers al
salaries ranging tioni fifty to seveny
llvo dollnrs per month, and luiulsh
every school with maps, globes, char.s
of all kinds, with froo hooks, blank
books, paper, pencils free, everything
needed by tho pupils, and pay their
smallest salaries to tho city leatheis,
where those not iully tried an de
velop under tlto supervision of an ex-
states. Last year, the smallest salary
paid to tho mini teacher was lllty del
bus per month. In the southern part
of the state, rural teachers are paid
from seventy to ninety dollars per
month. Uontd, in this district, Is fiom
two to four dollars per week. Seven
years ago, there was not a school
house in this district, so that all the
wildings are nearly new, and all aro
hirnlshed, as before stated, with every
lelp needed to assist the teacher in
ler work.
Tho "Coin so of Study for Public
Schools of Utah, not intended for c.I!ot
it tho llrst and second class," was
U'oiu uncoil one of the lluest shown at
ihe I.oulgiinn Purchaso Imposition.
This euirse, In addition to tho common
iirnui'lies, Includes music (vocal) In all
grades, civil government, algebra, phy
sical geography, physiology, physics,
m extended com so In history, begin
ning with reading, lessons about C
lunibiis. Washington, Lincoln, etc., in
lie lower grades, and taking up
"Gi.rdy's American Leaders and
Heroes," as a study In the fifth grade,
and a course in drawing, modeling and
the study of tho "Great Artist Series."
Tho state of Utah not only invites
but urges all who visit tho Lewis and
Clark Centennial Exposition to Inspect
the Utah School exhibit. That exhibit
will astonish those who do not now
know what wonders can be winked out
of tho raw material, beginning filly
yeais ago with no aids, by a state
LOWELL SCHOOL, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAL i MM
perlonced superintendent, and tho help
lecelved fiom daily seeing the work of
other teachers, not until then, will
any of the states, oast or west, accom
plish the results obtained hero, whoro
the school is placed abovo any and
every other Interest.
I have hnd all ncessary opportuni
ties for observing the conuitlons of
rural schools In Hear Itlvcr District,
Box Elder county, Utah, and my best
information is that this district Is a
fair sample of the efforts made
throughout tho state to provide tho
best teachers obtainable, without ref
erence to religious belief or anything
but moral and teaching qualifications.
Of the thirteen teachers employed
'n this district, where all tho directors
ire Mormons, seven teachers aro Mor
mons, who were educated at the Stato
University or ether first-class schools,
while of tho remaining six, three aro
Methodists, one Daptlst, and two Pres
byterians, all educated in the eastern
which places her schools at the head
of all Intel osts.
Is it not a significant fact that Utah
ranks thirty-seventh in population, and
third In educullon?
Tho Utah school for tho Dear and
Ullnd at Ogden Is doing a wonderful
work, nnd ranks, I nm told, among the
very llrst In tho world in what It has
accomplished.
Jnnuniy 0, 1905, sitting on a low
step In the gallery of Uarrett Hall, Salt
I ako City, I listened to an address by
a deaf, but no longer muto, young
lady, a graduate of this school. The
hall and Its entrances wore packed,
and yet cut off from tho sound wnves
as I was by tho Iowno3s of my gnllory
scat. I heard every word uttered in
sweetest, purest voice, and, to this
day, I am wondering wherein lay tho
power to carry those low toned, quietly
spoken words to every part of that
largo hall. Two primary classes of
deaf mutes were brought beforo us, to
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Illustrate the methods of teaching lip ! litf
language. After this, a blind pupil ' IrrHfl
read a greeting from tho Ogden School mMI
to (.in- Institute, following with hor -19KI
fingers the Hrnille typo. Another blind ''HI
gill lendered a piano selection very fljli
beautifully. So much I saw of what BHE
Utah Is doing for its deaf and Its blind. iBHjf
Statistics arc tiresome, but hero nro IRRh
a few from tho Utnh School Report JwKia
for 1902, tho latest ono I havo at hand: Klill
In 1902, Utah had $:t,220,159.Gt In- :j?l
vested in sclu.ol property, not Includ- 'EHs
lug books and current supplies, for kE3'
71,r78 pupils, which figures out $11! per )HhEP
pupil In cost or grounds, buildings, fur- lra 3
nltuie and apparntus; and, Inst year, kHI
(19015), the pupils' supplies cost tho 'BrttT
state $1 per pupil. TSfift i
As (his article Is to be read by mnny ilHrraS
ot my Irlends In the east, I wish to 'JBirJl 1
speak brlelly of that icaturo of tho JHafl
Mormon religion, about which so mnny JMfl
east ei u people (myself among them, ilIISl
until I caino here) are misinformed. ffUl
While It is true, that those who mar- ImDjl
lied plural wives previous to 1890 havo HI
provided comfoi table homes, sepnrato ShR?? m
fiom (heir own, for these wives who Gjlili
clung to the fathers or their children, HlflM
It Is equally true that It would bo Just fllilS
as hard (and n little scarcer) now, for P?jj 1
a man to obtain a second wiTo In Utah iJs9
while the llrst Is' living, as It Is In tho I'llRfl
eastern stntes. There aro fewer dl- IBa f
voices among Mormons than tho so- kJJPI
called Gent lie", ami very, very few of ' jjl
the younger generation would rotum jJcT I
to polygamy If they could. Hul
My observation toadies mo that MK
Utah Is abovo tho other six states in Wk j
which I havo lived, In granting to ovory ftJjH j
one tho right to enjoy his own religion, iW j
be It what It may, unmolested. tilt
Among my acquaintances, Is a Pros- Wmm
hyterian lady, a native of Ponnsyl- 9k)
vnnla, and a graduate of an eastern fij ll
normal school, who has taught In two wm 31
graded schools In towns whore sho was agS I
tho only non-Mormon, and yet, either Wm 1
ono of these towns would bo glad to sc- jfflBj fl
euro her services neat year, becausb MafVi
sho Is a good teacher. -XiM
More than half ol tho teachers In m:H
tho largest cities of ho stato aro not CH
Mormons. isEvI
Insubordination, rowdyism and HUM
roughness aro prohibited by tho school H9
law, and tho dlrectou stand by their IBfl
teachers loyally; all of which means tKI
that Utah schools ar& easily; governed. kJHKl
ALICE 1'EET-BISIIOP. INH
Evans, Utah, May 20, 1905. 'WLi