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him which, tend to weaken his self-reliance, his honesty, and his 

 self-respect, and bring him to the level of the common tramp. If 

 he is given an opportunity of earning his living as a man and is 

 treated like a man, chances are in his favor, but if he is forced to 

 accept charity like a tramp he is very likely to become a tramp. I 

 believe the establishment of municipal wood yards, run on the plan 

 of those now found in many cities, to be the proper solution of the 

 tramp problem. In these a meal or a night's lodging is given in 

 payment for two or three hours' wood cutting. Then the co- oper- 

 ation of the citizens must be enlisted. They must cease entirely 

 all private charity of this sort and send tramps to the wood yard. 

 In this manner tramp life will lose the attraction of an easy, 

 worthless existence. The wood yard will become abhorrent to the 

 genuine tramp, but will be welcomed by those who are really 

 forced on to the road by lack of work. The tramp who finds him- 

 self in this manner paying his way will in some measure regain 

 his self-respect and will stand a better chance of being reclaimed. 







SKETCH OF HENRY DARWIN ROGERS. 



THE family of which the " Rogers brothers " were conspicuous 

 members furnishes a striking instance of the concurrence of 

 consanguinity and affinity of genius and mental tendencies, and 

 its history afiiords a marked confirmation of the doctrine of hered- 

 itary genius. Instances of sons inheriting the mental qualities 

 and capabilities from their fathers, and of brothers achieving 

 distinction in allied or different lines of effort, are common enough 

 and may be cited by the dozen, but very few can be found where 

 so many members of the family became eminent at the same time 

 and in fields so close to one another. In this family we have the 

 father and four sons, all able teachers, and all becoming distin- 

 guished as geologists or chemists, and all the brothers at least 

 gaining their fame on so nearly the same fields that they were 

 able to co-operate with one another in experiments and in the 

 preparation of papers. Doubtless the occupation of their father, 

 which made him the academic as well as the parental teacher of 

 the elder brothers, had much to do with shaping their tastes and 

 giving direction to their studies, while the youngest, we learn, 

 was taught under their direction. The relations of this quintet 

 and of their work are admirably set forth in the late Dr. Ruschen- 

 berger's memorial sketch, which is our chief source of informa- 

 tion concerning all of them. 



Sketches have already been given of Prof. William B. Rogers, 

 the second of the four brothers, in the ninth volume of the Popu- 



