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TfIC 3iiNXKA'0IJ UN DAY TmiiUN'Y MAY 11 II 1 'i, I paw -If': irt rvfc 8. IH.i tiny ijj I Y- Kean, Philip Livingston. James Wilson, George Ross, l-wis Morris and th Reverend John Witherspoon. John Witherspoon wa the president of Princeton Walpola blamed for the revolution, saying: "Our cousin America has run oil with a I'resbyterinn parson." Of all thj Scots of Revolutionary times Wither-H(ioou'. voice rang clearest, loude-f and oftencst for the cause of freedom.

Among Washington's generals' ii'uri'M that aie undeniably Scot ard I.achlan Mcintosh Alexander McDougall, Arthur Saint Clair. William Alex- YY sr- the University of Texas: Robert E. Allardice, professor of in Iceland Stanford, university; Alex ander Smith, head of the department of chemistry in Columbia university; Gabriel ''ampbell, professor of philosophy in Dartmouth since who declined the presidency of both the I'ni-versitj" of Minnesota and Western Reserve university; Alexander Kerr, who was born in Scotland H.i years ago and has been teaching in tins country since lMti and was professor of Greek language and literature iu the sity of Wisconsin from 1S71 to when he was made professor emeritus; aua James ri. t'atterson, who was 1 tucky from 1809 to 1910 arid now is president emeritus the record long service as college president in America. Many Eminent Ministers.

The Scots are a devout. God-fearing race and naturally they have produced many eminent ministers. The Presbyterian church is in the main Scottish institution, in the United States it has 1,914,000 communicants, and it is to be expected that the larger number of Scottish-American preachers are of that faith, but there are notable exceptions. lhe iieverend ueorge A. Gordon, pas tor of the historic Old South church in Boston for instance.

He came here penniless from Scotland when he was 18 and at 24 was ordained a Congre gational minister, in 177. During his present pastorate, which has lasted since Jat, lie has become one ot our most famous preachers. He has been overseer of Harvard since 1S97 and is a frequent lecturer in other universities. the Iieverend John MicDowell, pus-tor of Park church, Newark, N. is president of the Presbyterian Ministers' association of New York citv and vicinity.

He is considered an authority on social and industrial ques tions and frequently is called on to assist in arbitration cases. A Scot minister, who has for mauv veais been prominent in England Unitarian cnurch affairs, is the Reverend Daniel M. Wilson, now of Kenue. bunk, Me. Another Scot who has been equally prominent in the Methodist Episcopal church is the Reverend Andrew Gillies, now of Minneapolis, Minn.

Au honored Scot Congregational clergyman, the Reverend James M. Campbell, has for a number of years been devoting bis effort to the writing of religious boojs, making his home in Sierra MadreT Cal. Noted Actresses. Without doubt, our best-know uscots-woman is Mary Garden, of enviable grand opera fame. Her father is Robert 1).

Garden, born in Aberdeen. The adorable Maggie Mitchell, the actress whom our fathers loved so well, is still living at the age of 81. She is now Mrs. Charles Abbott of New York. (T the Scottish-born actors Robert Bruce Mantell is the star.

He is an Ayrshire man, but has spent the greater part of his professional career in the Unitod States. That late James H. Stoddart gtaced the American stage throughout most of his long career. As authors, the Scots in this country have figured most, prominently as journalists. Throughout the history of American journalism Scotsmen have been among the most fearless editors CHAEACTEmSTICS OF CRIMINALS Colorado Professor Tells the Marks of Various Types.

If von meet a man coining down the street whose noso is large and aquiline and perhaps a bit twisted, whose lips are swollen and protruding and whose ears are large, with large lobes, it might be just aa wise to right about face and take to your heels, for in all probability thut liian is a murderer potentially if not actually. If the, man raises his hat, aud displays a plentiful thatch of hair, if it i' 1 1 is not gray, ins loreneao hiiu his skull is abnormally lurge, coming to a noticeable point, you can be sure that yon have diagnosed his case correctly and can accelerate your pace without laying yourself open to the charge of cowardice. At least that is what Prof. Frederick A. Bushee snvs.

and he ought to know, says the Denver Post, for he holds the chair of sociology at the state, university. The thief has the same egg -like head that marks the murderer and the same long arms aud big ears, but he can be distinguished by his flattened nose. His face is apt to show many wrinkles, especially on the side of the face and ir- the forehead, probably caused by the shape of the skull. is a ruavk if i that it was when he began trying to give it away, so it is reported. Carnegie and' His Associates.

In dispensing his millions Carnegie true Scot, fashion, began at home. When he gave up business he divided interests among his associates with such liberality that he made millionaires of several Scots who never dreamed of being in the plutocrat "column. of his cousins, George Lauder, retired later with more than $20,000,000 his credit, and settled down to quiet in Pittsburg. Thomas Morrison, a distant relation of Carnegie, aud Alexander K. J'eacock, who came from Carnegie's town of Dunfermline in Scotland, were among the Scots he made millionaires over night.

Among the iron master's former partners were men with the good Scottish names of Stewart, Blackburn, Kerr, McLeod, Lindsay, Oayley and Me-Candless. Sounds clnntiish, and it is. Nobody but a Scotchman ever did or ever could have done whaf. Carnegie did, aud, as 1 have snid, he could not have done it in any other land than the United States. While Cnegio waa at the height, of industrial power two other Scottish Pittsburgers were industrial leaders in other lines Charles Lockhart.

supreme the oiltields, aud Robert Piteairn in railroading. Which brings me to one of the most distinctively Scot industrial institutions nave, the Pennsylvania railroad. That road, with a succession of Scot presidents, Thomas A. Scott, Alexander Cassatt aud James MeCrea among them, has been developed to its present tremendous proportions chiefly by native Scotsmen or men of Scottish descent. The present president, Samuel liea, is of Scottish-Irish descent.

Fruits of Inventive Genius. The man who has done more than any other to make possible the marvelous industrial development of this country is the Scot that invented the telephone Alexander Orahanv Bell. He was born in Edinburgh in 1847 and he was 24 years old when he came to Boston as professor of vocal phvsiologv in Boston university. It was iii 1876 that patent was -granted to him on the telephone. Just contemplate for a moment the possibility of doiug the gigantic business that Is whirling all about without the use of telephones.

Gordon McKay, another Scot, was the inventor of the sole-stitching machine that revolutionized the shoe industry. That invention made possible factories turning out hundreds of thousands of pairs of shoes a dav. It has made it possible for one manufacturer to make more than 20.000 pairs of footwear ev oay in tne wees, ny the way, wnen, after a long succession ot Hepul)- bean governors, Massachusetts awoke one ivovember morning in 1905 to find that she ad elected a Democrat, the man mat accomplished the teat was a scot, shoe manufacturer. The horseshoe certainly was luckv for the Burdens, one of the ultra-wealthy families of York and New England. The horseshoe machine was the invention ot Jienrv Mnnlen.

who was! Horn in Scotland and was the founder the Burden fortune, While we are on the industry and big business phase of the subject it will be interesting to recall briefly the most spectacular and most disastrous scheme ever undertaken in connection with the early development of the new world, will be specially interesting just at this time when we are all fussed up about the final success of the Panama canal, Tor it is the talo of a Scotsman who was the pioneer, more than three centuries ago, in the struggle to conquer the Isthmus of Panama. William Paterson was the Scot. He was man ot original ideas and a very daring disposition. He was the projector of the Bank ot England and.be-i ing piqued because he considered him- selt dclrauded ot his just recompense. founding that institution, hedecid-i ed hereafter to give his own country-' men the b-neht of his genius.

More than half the population of Scotland soon wished that he had not. The Disastrous Darteu Scheme. Hh plan, which was known as the Darien Scheme, was to divert the East India trade to Scotland by colonizing with Scotsmen the Isthmus of Darien, of which the Isthmus of Panama is a part, and establishing an emporium on each side of the isthmus to handle the trade ot the Atlantic and The manutacturers ot hurope were to be f-ent to the Gulf of Darien. thence con- vpv'' V. land over the mountains and to b- pfchangt-d for the produce of Asia and South America.

This whs away back in the latter part of the 1 tli century. It was a dazzling f'Htr0tn: a ream, MT1, pnuse or fatersou pierced the highlauds and resoun.led er tl.e dunes. I'eople impoverished themselves to finance the enterprisi At the tune the estimated cash in the kingdom was if yet within an 'incredibly short time nearly $2,1100,1100 subscribed and a little more than l.looiiut) in cash actually was put, up Vonog and old alike sold everything salable to raise money. Widows put in their last pennies. Scots numbering started for the isthmus in three expeditions.

Paterson the first cxjwditioti, In winch there were j.uill) colonists, lhcv called their settlement New CaKloiiiu. But disaster came speedily, A majority of the men were gentlemen i m- Ki-ciiMiomed to nar.i lalxir such as wuiuu nave oeen needed lor the sue- cess ol the colony, and none in the party was equal to the task of work-l ing under the tropica) sun arid in the disease infected swamps. Aouie starved till dead; some were shot by Spaniards. With a few others. Paterson got back to Scotland and lived maiiv vears longer, a pathetic, Pitied, respected, but neglected man.

A few of tlie'colonists worked their way northward and were among our earliest Scottish-Amcr'can ancestors. do not doubt that some of that Scot Mood is now going into the construction of the Panama ean il, i u-aided at last, because of modern pai.1- tai.oii. to carry out on fc errand sculu Si Hi '(OewrtuM, JM3. MoCliire rule! By William W. Young.

SCRATCH the American body politic anywhere from Maine to California and you are Bure to see Scottish blood rise to the surface in surprisingly large quantities. Scratch the physical body of an American anywhere from the Canadian border to the southern; extremity of the United States and the chances are ten to one that the cor-luiselen will reveal a distinct Scottish strain. The bones of the average American are larger and his business acumen is greater, his will is stronger, his conscience is clearer because of these corpuscles that have been filtering through our blood for many generations. Scotland Is not as large as South Carolina; it is less than a third as large as Wyoming; it lacks about 3,000 square miles of equaling the size of Indiana, and if all tue highlands were rolled tut flat the area of the country would not equal that of Kentucky. Its population is less than that, of Ohio, But what a population! (Quality counts.

It is a nation with a maximum of doers nd a miuimnm of drones. Few But Mighty. Throughout our history from 1S20, when our government first began to 3tecp immigration fewer than 3.0(i0.000 Scots have come to us, and there are now only about 400,000 men and women who were born irr Scotland among our population. Yet so widely are they distributed, and so thoroughly have they amalgamated with the other peoples here, that in all of my travels I never yet have found a community of any considerable size where there was not a distinct element either of pure 8cot or an ancestral strain that was unmistakably Scottish. Scottish raw material has gone, into -he making of every one of our states.

InrSriably the Soot has made ft high-class citizen, active in public and social affairs. None -other has intermarried eo freely, and that is the reason that so much Scottish blood flows in our "Veins. We call the Scots clannish, but have you noticed that in this country they jiover live apart? We have no distinct Scottish colonies; even in our cities we lave no Scottish districts, and, above all. have no Scottish slums. Scot and: industry seem nynomymous.

In public service, in polities, in higher education, in religion, in invention, the Pcots in America have supplied many of cmr niot eminent leaders. But it is in the realm of commerce, of business, of nearly every kind that the Scot is supreme. From our early fur trading days to the present time the success of the sons of Scotia in the business activities of this country has been' wonderful. Especially prominent have they been in steel ami 'textile manufacture, in the dry goods business, in footwear and farming industries," in railroading and tanking. Scots Boru Business Men, The Scot, is a born bargainer.

Busi- BfiiS for business' sake, with his Vve alH on the profits, is his And ox will notice that it is in what we term legitimate business, in the making and buying and selling of, the products of toll, that he is con-! ppidious. Hardy is he a gambler or a gft-ricb quick man. But he has a way of mixing sentiment and trade. With him addition (never subtraction), the, multiplication table, the balance frheet and Burns hand in hand. The hiits and heatlicr of the homeland have made him romnntic, and at the titne the limited and stony sod of th'jt homeland has made him 'thrifty- Because there lire so many Scots that were boru iti Scotland and.

came here to vise to the front rank in -indus tries ana the protessions, 1 shall, in this necessarily limited article, confine my writing mainly to our living citirens of Scott birth, digressing only to bring in important bits of history and to ehow the diversity of he inliueuce of this remarkable race on American activities. Speak of the Scot in America and involuntarily the of Andrew arncg conies to mind. The richest liian of Ins race that ever lived, tl te- ori ri' hi-st mau in the world, the iiuit nrriflifiite distributor nf wen It the world has ever known, the hardest- fisted man in the making of that nnJ the innst n.i.i, in dixpeusing his riches -Carnegie's! uuuiiie career would not have w.Pn If in anv ni.ti.ni other thl i'mted States Driven from Scotland by poverty, lurw-'iic parents came lu re when he hticeu years old and he was to go to work immediate! Vrf l'irt he wa a weaver's then a telegraph messenger boy in Pittsburgh. But he was the kind of boy that -vanied to learn the whole business, fcO lie became a telegraph operator, and eventually a division m-perint. ndent, and during the civil war hi- was superintendent of military raiU wave; government teicgrapn lines in 'the East.

Scot eh thrift and ((ale-doniun care in making investments made hirn a millionaire almost before he knew it. Until he was years old. lie voa too tms-y making more itlions to get mairied. ibe story of is too well known to dwell upon and the biggest thing in the storv is the littlest man that tver went into-the industry Andy Carnegie. In ll'Ol.

he retired and since has; been devoting his efforts to the cause! tmiveral peace and the dispelling! i't bis ffirtune in various In the latter he has succeeded so well et his total benefactions have tea bed nearly And still, on account of unearned increment few Tittle thing" ViVv that over which nine of us pdr fellows get excited, is fortune remains about th siiwc I Bize in his One to life his in we J. a us ery of it i i i I if I I i i I I NispHr Syndi- the disastrous dream erson. The first large body of Scot colonists came here In 173H. There were about 500 of them, brought over by Captain Lachlan Campbell, who had 'secured a land grant iu the Adirondacks and intended to live happily ever after with those 500 retainers serving him. But there seems Co have been in the air of North America that killed serf germs and inoculated with Jiberty bacilli from the very first, so those retainers had ideas different from those of their master.

They revolted and told him they would earu money and pay him for bringing them over, but would not serve him. Their descendants are now scattered far and wide, but many still linger in Washington county. New York. Scots iu Industry and Finance. But to get back to present day Scot industry in the United States.

On the great inland lakes the Scot masters of iron and steel and timber have developed wealth undreamed of by Captain Kidd as he swept the seas. And there is living in Duluth, a Scot named Alexander McDougall who has had much to do with the development of that business, for he is a master shipbuilder. He came to America in 1So4 and sailed our inland seas for 21 years, and for 26 years has been closely identified with lake shipbuilding and trans portation. He is president, ot the iNorth-em Power company of Wisconsin, a di rector ot biu power corn-panics in Min nesota and Maine, and a bank director. A AlaciJougali, Clinton wno was born in Glasgow in ISM, and now lives in Aubnnr, N.

was sufficiently powerful in 1876 to have been offered the treasurership of the United States, aud the commissioiiership of patents or internal revenue, all of which he declined. Jn 1878 President Hayes offered him the choice of consul-general positions at either Paris or London, which he declined. He has been a member of congress, aud in the Civ il War rose to the rank of brigadier general. 1 have spoken of the predominance of Scot bankers and have mentioned some names. There are two in Chicago that typify this -Scot financial trait Fo'rgan brothers.

James B. Forgau, who has been president of the First National bank of that city since 1900 and was vice president before that was born in Scotland and got, his first business training in the Koyal Bank of Scotland. David R. Forgan. president of the National City bank of Chicago, also was born in Scotland and began his career as a messenger in the Clydesdale bank.

Chicagos first banker was a Scot named George Scott, and ho retired with a t.iD.OOO.OO.i fortune. and the most 1'oivrful editorial ers, John D. Ross, who came here from Scotland in vheu he was 20, start ed riaht in producing a remarkable series of books on Scot subjects seems bent ou never letting a Scottish American forget ins homeli Scots iu Public Life. James Grant Wilnon calls himself ar. author aud is a noted one, but he is a soldier as well.

He was born in Scot land hi and founded journal ol arts and literature in Chicago in In the civil war he was breveted briga dier general. Since lt. has I ciiLMue.i nierafv worK in i or 1''' of th' some ot on scot Mil'jeets. lie is president ot the m- rriean Ethnological society aud has a record of many notable public ser ices, including the erection of ihree of th- statues iu entral park. Just a few more paragraphs about Scots in American public life.

One of the mayors Buffalo, N. ever hail was James Noble Adam, who was born in Scotland in 1812 and did not. come to this country until lie was years old. He did not get to Buffalo iiiitil I'-Hf, but he took an rtcthe and ilteetive interest io the city's iifiair right away, being an advocate of the businesH-niaii in politics, lie was an alderman, a councilman, and mavor from lHOd to liioo. In New York .1.

Kennedy Glasgow mini, has been active Tod, a in more railroad rfnd other iudii trial companies vet lie has- than dimot anyoodv found time to keep at the front in larities and in political reform move ments, always being unhampered be cause of his independence in polities. lie was three tinier treasurer of the Citizens' union in the anti-Tammany movement and has been an active member of the committee ot ill. Alexander Bruce, with many pure Scot generations refund Mm, was lnt fall elected associate justice ot the supreme court ot UaKota, a lit- tin climax in a litework tor humanity's good. Educated in England aiol later the University ot isconsiir, for years after he specialized iu the correction of injustices to child workers iu factories and was a leader in the enforcement of the child labor and sweat-shop laws of Illinois and Wis consin, later he president oi the North Dakota State Bar. associa tion.

Long a Congressman. James Me l.achlau, a Pasadena attorney, has to his credit notable ser vices in six of our congresses. William B. Wilson, representative from IVuu- sylvanm iu the Mtth to'u-d congresses, has long been prominent in the al-fairs of the mine workers of America. In our consular service John Niven MeCunii is specially interesting because he is a Scot who came here to get his education and start in the business world, then we sent him back to represent us in Andrew Carnegie's town of Dunfermline and later trans-f ei red him to his own biithplace, Glasgow, where ho has been consul since 10'iS.

Speaking of public service, are you aware of the fact that six of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Scots Thev were ThomasMc- of all born criminals, as is the depression a't the base of the skull, which probably indicates a similar depression in the brain. The swindler can be recognized by his thin lips. His features will probably be symmetrical, one side of the face being different from the other. This characteristic is not confined to swindlers or to criminals, but is one of the traits generally found iu with the others mentioned. If a man is bald or gray-haired, according to the professor, you can be reasonably certain that he is not a born criminal.

Of course he may be of a class of unscrupulous money makers, but. he can't blame his wroiigdoiug on heredity. The Crater of a Meteor. Coone Butte, contains uu crater feet iu diameter and Ii'O feet deep, which is believed to have been formed by the impact of an immense meteor with the earth, says an exchange. Great weight has been placed upon the meteoric theory owing to the fact: that hundreds of pounds of meteoric iron has been found scattered over the surrounding country, and countless numbers of pieces of iron and meteoric fragments nre 9'nttered oa the sides tkv-i" of and' and Hugh Mercer.

Washing ton 's geographer aud close personal friend aud mlviser, Robert Erskine, came from Dunfermline. I'idil Jotic, moot famous of American naval fighters, was thirteen years old when he left Scotland to come to America, and Alexander Murray, who commanded the ConKtcllutcn, was a Scot. Hamilton, Randolph and Knox, three' out ot the fctir members of Wa-hinuton 's cabinet, were of Scot- fish di M-eiit. Simon Cameron, a scot, was secretary of when the Civil War began. Dnritg iiie war the family that earne'l the most glory as a 'amilv were the "fighting MeCooks" if Ohio Daniel Mcl'ook.

his nine '-oils and five cousins, every one an officer iu the Federal forces. There is authority for the statemeui that Jeilerson Davis vas descendant of the Simpson clan, likewise General Grant and that Robert was ons of lb" ancestors of General Lee. While tli'-re now are a dozen rear admirals and brigadier generals whose names denote recent Scot descent, tbero is only one who is Scottish boru, Brigadier General Francis Moore, Both President Wilson and Vice President Marshall are of prominent Scottish ancestry. The new" secretary of labor, William B. Wilson, was born in Scotland.

The Saint Andrew's Society. A Scotsman is always ready to help Scotsman. No other people takes bet. care of its own. That is whv Scot- tish cnaritable societies were among the first in America and why they always have been prominent.

Arid of ill sin li organizations the Saint Andrew's society is the greatest and most far-reaching. Nearly every state has its Saint Andrew's society and every city of prominence its Saint Andrew's almoner office, where charity is dis. pensed t6 all worthy poor Scots that apply. To Boston belongs the glory of tba first Scots' Charitable society. That was its name, and it wa organized in Charleston.

Philadelphia, Savannah and New York followed with Saint Andrew's societi-s, and in the order named ocoi ever has been known to go to the potters' field in com-, ni mi it wjiere there is a Scottish char, ital le society. Such are the Scots in America, wonderful race, a wonderful component part of our conglomerate nonnlation. We love them for the money thev have made und have helped the est' of us make. We love therti for the biawn and Hurdiness of chant'ter they have contributed to our general makeup, We mav not consider that bagpipes make music and we may still hold that oats are food for horses, not men. But if proof of the Scot blood that flows in our veins is needed, show mt, the man or woman or child that does not foil a sentimental thrill that manes him join in the singing of Comin' Through ths Rye or Annie Laurie.

the crater. It is estimated that there were between two and three million tons of earth displaced when this meteor struck the earth's surface and formed this crater, and that the meteor must have weighed over tons. Prof. Elihu Thompson savs that the meteor must have struck the earth surface at an oblique angle, aud that soundings made at, the south and the southwest sides of the crater should reveal the original mass which would not bnl.n solve the much discussed problem, but result profitably, as this meteor would undoubtedly prove to contain much iron, nickel, platinum and, possibly diamonds. Just Possible.

"I don't understand why we neem to be growing tired of each her," sabl a husband of but a few mouths. I haven 't an idea!" said tho wife, "Well, replied tho young man, "per haps that is tho reason." Lippiucotl "If New Year resnlutlmis unly luntej whn a Ann world it. we.ild be!" J'ulire Hen II. Umlsiiy wus talking anout young OffcthielH, "An old onm.lcr tm the plcdBe bnfnrx ins cue New Year's In liem-fr," tin lonur nre juu L-olnst to tako IHH I inked. life, of cmirse.

I alnajs tnk' i fol Hm old offender mwer-etl. I York of their people at the head of our ag ricultural interests so long. Secretary Wilson's son, James has followed in his father's footsteps. He now is director of the South Dakota experimental station and profes sor of agriculture and animal husbandry in the South Dakota Agricultural college. Another Scot who has made his mark along allied lines is Alurdo Mackenzie, who was born on a farm in Scotland and did not come to the United States until after ho had completed his education and married a Scottish lassie.

Ho came ivell equipped and started io as a stockman on a large scale right away. Now he is president of the American National Live Stock association, and has been since 190-1. He lives in Trinidad, Col. The Marvelous Mackenzies. Wonderful Scot clan, the Mackenzie I They have sent to us some of our best soldiers, bankers, educators, farmers, editors and clergymen.

I will mention a few others of the Scottish- borrf that are living and doing. I There is Kobert Mackenzie who come to America in 180i and after having been pastor of several Presbyterian churches was made president of the San Francisco Theological Seminary, and is now executive secretary of the college board of the Presbyterian church, with headquarters in New York. And there is Willium D. Mackenzie, who happened to be born in South Africa, where his illustrious father was a missionary, but went to Scotland to be educated. Then he came to the United States to rise with the rest of the Scots here, and for ten years he has been president of the llartfor.l (i Theological Seminary.

Alastair Saint C. Mackenzie is professor of English and comparative literature iu the University of Kentucky. He hails from Inverness, Scotland. James Cameron Mackenzie, who came from Aberdeen, is famous as the or ganizer in head master until 100 of the Lawrenceville school. Now he is director of the Mackenzie school at Dohbs Ferry.

In the Eealin of Learning. Which brings me naturally to the influence of this race in the realm of science and higher education. This is the field in which the Scot star shines with special brilliance. No race has a higher reverence for learning. The first gTant of land for college purposes in America was made for William and Marv University, founded by a Scot, James Blair, Harvard, however, was actually started before William and Mary trot under wav.

PrinCcton university was established by the Scotch Presbyterian church, which religious institution has founded is colleges in various parts of the country. Our first English grammar was writ Murray. Our first series of American school renders were produced by lleury lvi son. Father of American geology is the title earned by William Mo Luce. Thomas Hutchius was our first geographer.

James MeCosh, the president of Princeton, who brought that university up to the fop rank among higher educational institutions, was for a quarter of a century recognized as our furemost philosopher. The 'dean of our Scottish scientific fraternity at the present, time is John Muir. discoverer of the Muir glacier in Alaska. He was born in Dunbar. Scot- ervation of our forests nnd the estao- lishment of natural parks.

Because of the Scot business proclivity it is fitting that in the presidency of the Massachusetts lustitute of Technology is a Scot, Richard C. Mac Uiiirii). Many Educators. Other Scottish-born American professors who stand high in our educational world are Duncan B. Maedonald, professor of Semitic languages iu Hartford Theological seminary; George R.

McDoriintt, professor iu charge of the department, of unviil architecture aud murine, enoineeriug in Cornell, i Sutherland Simpi-oii, professor of phy- phy-Wil- oloij in tli same universit iiam KeiMc professor of aaatomy in by a Scottish-American, Lindlcy ing industry in New England is James R. act 'oil of Providence and Paw-tucket. He has been president of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' association, the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, and of other industrial associations aud international conferences. In the West the biggest Scottish figure iu the wholesale and retail drygoods business is Andrew MeLeish of Chicago. He was eighteen years old when he went from Glasgow to Chicago iu In the East the huiisu of.

Marsh in Boston stands at the top. tA Amtnn- in A crHeiitiiii'a t. Jl mini, years ago. ju Among the men of prominence in elui-iitioii" iii that country and later in our national public service the leading 1 t(m University of Wisconsin. Few men Scot long has been James Wilson ()0lp more for tie Pacific coast, has just completed his sixteenth none has carried on a more per- (ecrctary of agriculture.

Jo hayejjBt0t (ulj effective tight for the pres broken the cabinet-service record, to have presided over the agricultural and food supply interests of this ua tion, the most important position of the kind in the world, iB a record of which every Scot is proud. Aud this is the record of a Scot who had never been outside of the narrow confines of Ayrshire, the home of obert Burns, until he was sixteen year old, when bis parents started with him for the United States. The Scots pride be in selves on their skill as farmers and and thev have shown that skill by making maiiy of the best farms in the and in breeding thev never have been beaten That is whv they look -aK'n s-ntlsfaction upon having hni O'-Hi i.