expressions of
democracy--Mark Twain's conception of an ideal gentleman:

"No, he was never old--Patrick. He came to us thirty-six years ago. He was
my coachman on the morning that I drove my young bride to our new home. He
was a young Irishman, slender, tall, lithe, honest, truthful, and he never
changed in all his life. As the children grew up he was their guide. He
was all honor, honesty, and affection. He was with us last summer, and his
hair was just as black, his eyes were just as blue, his form just as
straight, and his heart just as good as on the day we first met. In all
the long years Patrick never made a mistake. He never needed an order; he
never received a command. He knew. I have been asked for my idea of an
ideal gentleman, and I give it to you--Patrick McAleer."

The Latest Viewpoints of Men Worth While

Stuyvesant Fish Says That Americans Are Wasteful, While
Pastor Wagner Praises Our National Character--John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., and Professor Fagnani Discuss Joseph's
Corner in Corn--Thomas F. Ryan Holds That Opportunity to Win
Wealth is Necessary to Industrial Progress--Andrew Carnegie
as the Financier of Spelling Reform--With Other Opinions of
Representative Men on Questions of the Time.

_Compiled and edited for_ THE SCRAP BOOK.

A PLEA FOR THE HIGHER ECONOMY.

Unnecessary Waste is the Crying Evil in
All Our Business Administration,
Says Stuyvesant Fish.

"The Higher Economy" is the theme upon which Stuyvesant Fish, the
well-known president of the Illinois Central Railroad, discourses in the
_Arena_ for March. Mr. Fish is a solid figure in finance. His idea of
economy is not parsimony, but thrift--the prevention of waste. The higher
economy, he points out, is needed in the household, in the state, and in
the management of corporations. First, he speaks of waste in the
household:

No one will question that our people are spendthrifts,
earning money freely and wasting it to such an extent as to
make it proverbial that what is thrown out of our kitchens
would support a frugal people in almost any country in
Europe.

Conditions in local, State, and Federal government are much in need of
reform, continues Mr. Fish:

There is not only waste and extravagance in administration,
and what is now commonly called graft, which is a
combination of bribery and larceny, but, what is
economically worse, the laws are so frame