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-nr$jwWi The Commoner. 6 . VOLUME 3, NUMBER J, CUEB8NT CrTr-7- .V r 'WoC vx-v- t u- -r-. -. V i i JL - "'JB HC T. T 3mzmmj0Wk f rr , "fc'Si" -i - - IHViWFNu V v r f-U-C DVVtwl A fcLTC? -' K "V -' fc " t 7ATTJAI5LE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CUR- time little has been Known minis country tuu- V w dSaSon on the municipal ownership cerning the development of this work, proposition is provided in a report recently made , jf concerning municipal ownership in England by -t-rqvISION HAS BEEN MADE BY THE EDU- tho local government board. plromnth,sppll0" K cation board of the London -county council printed in the London J; J for kitchen scholarships. Nearly three hundred Record-Herald makes an posting summary. scholarships have been offered by the According to this reno rt it to sh own that there nominated by the teachers of the has been a very rapid growtn England of mu- b elementary schools. The Asso- n c pal ownership, On Marc 31 1902, all 1 but ' frQm referring to eighteen of 317 munlclpa fJXfunZ' this plan, says that "these scholarships are ten- and nhSJTiaSimH able for a ful1 sch001 W of not less than forty tak,Ilif 8V , X?i riivnnfnrrnrnnraHo under- working weeks, and the scholars will be given a fiMi2r Vnniv Z S Ktw "" coiirse of study, including cookery, laundry bunt or bouKhtP anT Uirty begaS rlc, dressmaking and needlework, mending, the' op ratTof oftc t Kays On the latter housewifery (not including laying the tables for date the total investment of the cities in such meals and washing up), hygiene and first ad and enterprises was about $600,000,000, the portion of physical exercises, where possible. The tuition la this which was borrowed money being about five- provided free, as well as meals, and fares to sixths. The average annual net profit was close those living more than three mites from school,, to $2,000,000, after interest, sinking funds and while for the needlework and dressmaking classes depreciation had been provided for, or about one- materials will be provided free. Training dfchol- third of 1 per cent on tho entiro amount of tho arsbips for teachers of domestic economy are also investment offered by the board, and will be awarded on tho result of a competitive examination In general J? & subjects to bo held in June next They will be TN THE REPORT OF THE LOCAL GOVERN- tenabl at the Battorsea Polytechnic Training 1 mont board the undertakings are classified ???0L'?5fauHtt)a,ld a Quarter years. Candi- and the statement of tho capital .invested, debt and Jflffl f daughters of parents possessing an profit or loss for each class are presented as SJ? ,of "?' 0Pe J,",2'0!? a year and must follows Average Averago " resi(1ent in the administrative county of Lon- Capital Capital annual annual tlon They must also be between 18 and 30 years Water- invested, outstanding, profit loss. or age works . 50,943,016 49,556,717 90,128 3? jf Gwnrun 24 02811P. 1 4Q7 RR7 uu 82R -DECATJSE THE COST OP REPAIRS TO THE works . 24,028,110 18,497.587 . 394,825 J) .dynamite cruiser Vesuvius would be in ex- iMoctnc- .nq(m 100770 t n 7in cess of what would be Justifiable under the cir- Tram"" 1A5U8,JJ7 "."4 11,707 cumstances, the navy department has decided to wiSTn 9 7K11M RR72q24 . m ti'r sell this noted vessel. It was long ago dlscov- M2, 2 181 080 ISoti 25 7M Grcd that the plan of flrinS dynamite from pneu- Batl s & 6'181'080 3'92C'671- 83782 matic guns was not practicable and although thero wash fa bas been some tolk In resard to taking out ine honRnn 1 orr -un i 9Q9 rkq 19A nro Suns of the Vesuvius and convert that vessel into houses 1,988,340 1,232,659 124.95J a dispatch boat, the cost of such alterations has CTo'nds 2 382 305 1 m 40R in 7u decided the secretary of the navy to try to dls- WWn's 1,313,405 63,784 pose of the vessel altogether. dwell- K ings .. 1,253,592 1,090,340 26,979 Harbors, . ANOTHER BOAT THAT IS LIKELY TO GO docks, i under the hammer because the cost of re otc. ... 5,421,827 4,936,816 77,724 pairing the Bame would be more than the govern Other un- lnent thinks justifiable, is the old iron merchant dortak- craft Manila. This craft was one of the snips ings .. 713,946 466,506 15,373 ?apt?,rcd by Admiral Dewey in the battle of Manila and much sentiment has been attached 121,172,372 100,786,404 683,426 305,145 to it. Owing to this sentiment the navy depart Not profit 378,281 ment decided to submit the matter of her disposal In its summary the Record-Herald says: "It ?ET JhiCV?Uld B1 eflct to the senti wlll bo noticed that with tho exception of electric 2S2j bJ" f?01?10? or otherwise. This, con plants tho only classes of enterprises that lost 5Sn nlf te d howevfr' and the secretary money woro bath-houses, burial grounds and 2L Vy , ow free to do as he thinks best workmen's dwellings, all of a deiKnevolent fr th SerViCe in tbe matter' character, and harbors and docks. The street railways, waterworks, gas works, markets and m msr n rnTrauAwmn, miscellaneous enterprises made profits sufficient A M OG THE MANY INTERESTING RELICS to pay seven-tenths of 1 per cent on the entire imi Sf? vil,war is,one recently discovered by amount of the .investment, while improving the Thi? SSp in1?0111 ne.ap Jacltsonville, Fla. service and caring for the sinking funds. Tho ,, iJ iT !? , shape of a 4"Inch rifle shell, loss in tho electric plants is explained as being ftm J T?in adJni g.0C?? co,ndItion. The Florida duo largely to the fact that over half of tho ?w . v?ch telIs the Btory of this find, plants had Ueen established within four years. S1 :a: "T3, bent recalled by a veteran of the A number of tho largo city plants made good qV Mil P10 that during tho invasion of the profits." iril,1 'ederal gunboats, a number or shells similar to tho one found were sent at tho ti rt.2?? a ?attGy bGl0W JBonvineand that A SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE PER- went intnSS. Mn Ueml0no tnat fel1 8hort and A son of Charles M. Pepper has boon ap- Th$ BhM X Jk J? Fm adds: pointed by this government to take tho initiative four inches In dtameSJ tG f PreservatJn. It is in dovoloplng inter-continental railway plans lna,W hnrw? ? i "neter and wrapped with a This project was first inaugurated by the pan! ng the shell fnLU t0T the purpose o caus" American conference of 1890, at which conference gofnJ Tthrouab tlS ? numei;oll8JevolutIons while closer co-operation between tho United States and Ireat ???, n rdeF JLhat ifc strike with the Latin American republics was urged. At a con- Bay is a cannon hSf S8? Abard the Win feronco hold in Mexico ono year ago resolutions xvL wmS? 5 baP " waa 8Uclted up at Key wore adopted for a permanent pan-American S! tohor fw iat wasm1nBaSed in clearing the way commission with headquarters at Washing- oS accoun? of wi76"' Thls bal1 is loaded: ana ton, and this commission was duly appointed. Tho th such mtsE h n pue. those familiar special representative, Mr. Pepper, is well known onp u 7Jiii VCn b(!en F11 to venture to as a newspaper writer and has also served as S ' g m explosion-" delegato from tho United States tn tho ti SS5hSUctS5rffl? So rsTfc A fs11 m hboston- tboript trana-continouta, raUroaa buUdins Is TSs Lt gS 2?22&&X family in Dedham, Mass. This plan was made at a large reunion of the family held in Dedham last August and is to provide for articles of incor poration to be filed for the Fairbanks family in America. The writer in the Transcript says that "Hon. J. Wilder Fairbank, secretary of the asso ciation, has been working upon the idea, the pur pose of the organization, as set forth in the ar ticles of incorporation, being the collection and preservation of all matters pertaining to the his tory of the family in America; the study of tho material and the education of the members ia historical and antiquarian subjects relating to the family; the collection of books, pamphlets, manuscripts and articles referring to its history; the acquisition and the preservation of the home stead in Dedham, and the publication of articles and papers of interest or instruction. Thus In corporated as a society for historic purposes, with power to hold property, the place once purchased will be non-assessable and non-taxable. It is known that there will be no trouble in raising the $4,600 asked for the old homestead, as ono man has already said he would advance the money, but the society hopes to raise a much larger sum as a fund for its preservation. Hon. J. Wilder Fairbank has discovered more than 4,000 families descended from Jonathan Fairbanke, and he has prepared a circular to be sent to each, asking their assistance." $T tf - IF THE STORY TOLD BY THE ST. PAUIi (Minn.) correspondent of the Chicago Tri bune is correct, then there is important work to be done by missionaries right at our own doors. According to this correspondent, in five counties of that state "the word of. God is comparatively unknown, young men take girls to wife without any ceremony whatever, and dead are buried with out prayers being said over the rough casket' This correspondent adds: "In a haystack on a farm a few miles west of Brainard, in Crow Wing county, rests the frozen body of a two-year-old child and there it will remain until the father finds time to give it burial. In and near the little settlement of Sylvan Lake, Crow Wing county, are living several couples for whom no marriaga ceremony ever was performed. In a hundred or more graves in various portions of the northern counties repose the bones of men, women, and ' children over whose bodies no prayers were said. Near the little town of Backus, forty miles from Brainard, lives a woman who married ten days after the death of her first husband, whose body she buried without religious ceremony at her kitchen door. There are no clergymen in theso places. These are a few of the things that havo impelled the Minnesota Sunday school associa tion to put a force of missionary workers in tho field." ANEW AND INTERESTING DEVICE FOR the extermination of mosquitoes and gnats has been suggested by an electrical engineer em S by Thomaa A Edison Accordi to a ! te5n In llG Ktaaw City Journal, this engineer w Jn f il3I enSaeed upon experimental work on XTf,' telef aphy He happened to notice that 2SSL o t0, giv,en out bv the instrument SSS w e1rtaIn Pitch a11 the mosquitoes in the ah ? 5 Sh00d ?ame flvinS towards the appar Saner wm, ?man " a quantity of fly bKAWWc5 h? covored the machine, and so ESS? ? rnln caPturinS thousands of the noxious t?on LZ hf TS?, 0f tllIs ueer musical attrac SSwSS to b0 tllat th0 nte Produced by the mm vihHn"7 Similar t0 tnaL caused by the flyw qf ?wi0f thewln8B ot the mosquito when per?ment nf Imm ,Maxim has sie made ex tun Z fjfrir i!i SimIla,r ldn3' and found that, a SacSvP f tn nga SimIlar otG was eluallv at" borhood SnatS and mos(luitoes in the neigk- ST F 8lLERE ASKED T0'SA-Y WHETHER number 5! E?0' ert Burns -had the larger prZntlv "dJSf68; th0 lncllnatioii would be to a miter t 5hd0TIn vop of Shakespeare, and yet people DavnntbLLnd0Il Sphero assts that more with Row npannualJi8it to the places associated tte b2?? ? P? ihan pay -annual visit to port of Sib nSlat5d with Shakespeare. In sup, pent of this claim figures Bhowingtlie number of Wff"f9 Jl ri4-fiiitfij