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THE LA xiOME JOURXAI* 



The May issue of this publication is, in 

 our opinion, much the best that has ap- 

 peared in a long time. This is saying a 

 great deal, as it is always an attractive 

 journal. One of the most interesting arti- 

 cles is that of Joseph E. Chamberlain, 

 "Helen Keller as She Really is." Few 

 there are who have not heard of Helen 

 Keller, and her wonderf ull progress in an 

 educational way in spite of her having but 

 three senses instead of five. To be deaf 

 and dumb is a calamity: to be blind is still 

 worse. But to be deaf, dumb and blind 

 would be almost sufficient to cause one to 

 curse God and die.'' From her infancy, 

 when she lost her sight and hearing, as a 

 result of sickness. Helen Keller has been 

 an object of compassion to all who have 

 read of her. but the wonderful way in 

 which she has made the best of things and 

 made the most of life, is a lesson which 

 pessimistic people should take to heart. 

 Being blind as as well as deaf, it has "been 

 a source of wonderment how she ever 

 learned to read or to understand anything. 

 This article explains the methods em- 

 ployed to teach her. The anecdotes con- 

 cerning Geo. Washington are also 

 interesting, while Anthony Hope's story. 

 'The Countess Emilia:'' "A Girl's Life on 

 the Prairie" and the many other good 

 things make the May number a banner 

 issue. 



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Robert Barr. in the first of a series of 

 papers on his Travels and Troubles in the 

 Orient, tells some stirring stories of 

 American "guns that can speak Turkish." 



"Life would not be so very well worth 

 living along these shores if it were not for 

 the American cruisers. ***** which do 

 many things that fail to appear in the 

 official dispatches." Just how United 

 States Naval officers sometimes deal with 

 troublesome Turks. Mr. Barr tells in 

 The S<iturday Evening Post of May 13. 



THE FORTJM. 



A leading characteristic of 2 he Forum 

 dui'ing the thirteen years of existence has 

 been its impartial discussion of the quest- 

 ions of the day. The May number ad- 

 mirably illustrates this feature by the 

 presentation of two articles on the Trust 

 problem. Aldace F. Walker, formerly an 

 Interstate Commerce Commissioner, and 

 now chairman of the Atchison, Topeka & 

 Santa Fe Railway Company, writes on 

 "Anti-Trust Legislation": and Wilhelm 

 Berdrow, the eminent German economist, 

 discourses the ''Trusts in Europe." The 

 temperate tone of these papers is excellent: 

 and they form a valuable contribution to 

 the discussisn of this burning question. 



"The Irish Leaven in American Pro- 

 gress" is the title of another paper which 

 supplies a pretty strong case for the part 

 which the Irish have taken -in the upbuild- 

 ing of the Republic. The author,Mr. Jno.J. 

 O'Shea, editor of the Philabelphia Catholic 

 Standard and Times, is himself an Irish- 

 man, and he brings to his task a forceful- 

 ness begotten of full belief in the justice 

 of his cause. His paper cannot fail to be 

 of interest to all readers of Irish decent 



