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years-old closes, wyndes, and laimdes of Edinburgh and Glasgow; 

 but also in homes on light and clean streets and famous avenues. 



Obligations of society toward the poorest poor can not be less- 

 ened, but they can be increased toward the rich and the richest. 

 " There is no duty of one class toward another which is not essen- 

 tially the duty of each human being to all his fellows. There is no 

 genuine charity toward the poor which is not, in principle, the duty 

 of the rich toward the rich." 



The art of living together domestically is a fine art, that seeks 

 expression through beautiful family life which is not extinct, but 

 comparatively rare. Along with renaissance, in architecture, paint- 

 ing, and sculpture, why may there not be a family renaissance, so that 

 men, women, and children shall feel that the real life of the world 

 is not in the counting house, clubhouse, schoolhouse, meeting house, 

 courthouse, or statehouse, but in the family house — the dwelling 

 house? 



SKETCH OF CHARLES D. WALCOTT. 



A" NEW YORK GEOLOGIST," whose name is not given, is 

 quoted as having attributed Mr. Walcott's success largely to 

 his having persistently followed one track. Acquiring a taste for 

 geology when very young, it eventually became dominant, and more 

 and more manifest to the world about him, till he secured a position 

 in the United States Geological Survey. There he has risen, chiefly 

 by the force of his ability and energy, to his present position of 

 director of the survey. 



His grandfather, Benjamin S. Walcott, moved from Rhode 

 Island in 1822, and became one of the leading manufacturers of cen- 

 tral New York; he had broad interests in educational matters, was 

 the founder of a professorship at Hamilton College, and was well 

 known as a philanthropist. His son, Charles Doolittle Walcott, was 

 a man of unusual energy, was well established in business, and held 

 an influential and leading place in the community. Dying at the 

 early age of thirty-four, he left a wife and four children, the young- 

 est, two years old, being the subject of this sketch. 



Charles Doolittle Walcott was born at New York Mills, 

 N. Y., March 31, 1S50. His scholastic education was in the public 

 schools of Utica, which he entered in 1S58, and in the Utica Acad- 

 emy, which he left in 1868. He then entered a hardware store as 

 a clerk and, continuing in such occupation two years, acquired a 

 practical business training, which has proved of great value to him. 



His scientific tastes were developed at the age of thirteen, when 



