WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO, by Adolph O. Eberhardt. Both in the _World’s Work_. In Wisconsin, the university “writes many of its laws, directs much of its public service, increases its crops, makes better farmers and housekeepers, conducts correspondence schools, and carries a college education to the door of every citizen who wants it.” In Minnesota a governor who writes of his own plans, is trying to keep farmers on their farms, by using a generous state educational fund, with further grants by the Legislature, to make the country school houses centers for social intercourse for recreation and for practical instruction in agriculture and household economics. CONSUMERS’ CO-OPERATION, by Albert Sonnichsen, and CO-OPERATION IN WISCONSIN, by Robert A. Campbell. Both in the _Review of Reviews_. A résumé by the secretary of the co-operative league of the progress of the co-operative movement in Europe and America, supplemented by the intensive study of one state by an official of the State Board of Public Affairs, created last year with instruction, to make a special study of the state experience in this field. INDUSTRIAL PEACE AND WAR. By Everett P. Wheeler. _Atlantic Monthly._ A plea for a compulsory arbitral tribunal, which would substitute continual peace for recurrent warfare in the relations of labor and capital. Mr. Wheeler does not believe such a method of settling labor disputes would be impracticable or unsuited to American conditions or that the compulsory powers of such a tribunal should be any more repugnant to our ideas of liberty than is the power of our courts to decide disputes between individuals. * * * * * THE FOOL Mary Eleanor Roberts in the _Independent_ There’s a fool runs the mission, that place on the pike, For darkies, and dagoes, and bums, and the like, And if I had his job, why I’d go on a strike. With coal at eight dollars, and working alone, All smiling, and eager, and thin as a bone, “For the Lord,” so he says, “will take care of His own!” And the ghost of a coat, and a stitch in his side, And his eyes bright and starved, and his boots gaping wide— I got tired of waiting for Thee to provide. So I sent him a check; just to shame, it might be Such a God by an out and out sinner like me; But he fell on his knees and gave thanks unto Thee! HOW THE FACTORY GIRL IS BETTER OFF THAN THE STORE GIRL A GRAPHIC PRESENTATION IN THE REPORT ON WORKING GIRLS AND WOMEN OF ROCHESTER OF THE RELATIVE POSITIONS UNDER THE LAW OF TWO GROUPS OF GIRL WORKERS. FACTORY MERCANTILE Law requires one seat to each girl. Law requires only one seat to every three girls.