CHEAT EVENT IN CHP.I8TEN00M.
Wartd'a liadar Scaool CTtilei
ta Be Held la Roma.
Next month, In the "Eternal City" of
ftorae, Italy, there will b held on of
the moat Important and far-reaching
fathering, of the time the Fifth
World' Sunday school convention.
Previous conventions were held In Lon
don lu 1S89 and 1808, In St. Louis In
1893, and In Jerusalem In 1904, but the
coming assemblage 1 expected to stir
pes them all in Interest and results.
Extensive plana are already In opera
tloa to make It a leathering unique In
the history of the Christian church.
The thousands of delegates and work
rs In attendance will represent 202,000
Sunday schools, with 26,000,000 mem
bers, from Iceland to Cape Colony, and
from Alaska to Tibet. Men and women
speaking more different tonguea and
representing more different secta and
creeds will meet In hnrmonloua con
clave to promote God's kingdom than
probably ever before In history. While
the official language of the convention
will be English, sectional conferences
will he conducted In German, Freuch
and Italian. The convention will last
four dnys, from May 20 to the 23d, and
will be held In a large hall In Rome.
But the most unique meeting of the
gathering will be a vesper service,
which It is planned to hold within the
ruins of the Coliseum. It will truly
i a memorable scene to witness men
nd women of all languages and
tongues singing praises to God on the
pot where the blood of martyrs of our
faith was shed in the early centuries
of the Christian era.
The "call" for the fifth' convention
baa been Issued by an International
committee of business men and minis
ters representing the Sunday scliool In
terests of the world. The body is com
posed of eleven mqn for the United
States, an equal number for Great
Britain and others for Germany, Swe
den, Italy, Switzerland, Mexico and
Canada.
Dr. Bailey, the bead of the world
committee, Is a business man of Phila
delphia, who la one of the foremost
Christian leaden of that city, and haa
long been actively Identified with the
Sunday school Interests of America,
luring been for many years treasurer
of the International Sunday School As
sociation. Tbe American delegation will go to
Boom In a specially chartered steamer,
tbe Romanic, Just as tbe delegates In
3904 attended the Jerusalem convention
In a aiiedal ship. This cruise will con
stitute one of the moat valuable fea
tures of tbe convention, for meetings,
will be held on the steamer all the
wy going over and returning, and as
ated by Dr. Bailey, several mission
ary conferences will be held. The Ro
anftnlc Is expected to leave Boston April
tT and en routs to Home tbe delegates
will visit the quaint and beautiful isl
and of Madeira, as well aa Gibraltar,
Algiers, Naples, ' Pompeii, Genoa and
Pisa.
PQ8TOFFICE 18 SWAMPED.
Maw Rata Concerning; Orders (ar
Sappllca Caaaes Traable.
One of the reforms Inaugurated In the
division of supplies of tbe Postoffice De
partment by Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral D Graw Is the requirement that
paymasters throughout tbe country shall
order supplies for their offices in sufficient
quantities to serve for one year.
Upward of 87,000 requisitions have
been received from postmasters. This
large iuflux of orders has caused the di
vision to fall considerably in arrears In
the matter of filing requisitions, 13.500
tsdng unfilled now. The receipts of re
quisition, however, which a week or so
ago ran up to more than 1,000 daily, are
now only between 500 and 000 a day and
the division is filling betweeu 1,000 and
1,100 a day.
Arrangements are being made to (In
crease the numlier filled each day, so that
within two weeks It is expected all requi
sitions on hand will he filled. After that
all orders will be filled promptly, as un
der the new arrangement the number of
requisitions received will continue to de
crease. ,
-The department still has considerable
difficulty in securing sufficient twine,
which is needed In large quantities by
postofficcs and the railway mall service,
ttut the twine contractors report that they
are making every effort to forward ade
quate shipments during the coming week.
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No doubt Mr. Rockefeller needs the
liioney.
Still, we don't hear anybody making a
Boise like digging a canal.
Those British women suffragists are
not only strong-minded but strong-fluted.
President Baer of the Reading Rail
road Company acts like his name sounds.
, The Rockefeller college is becoming al
noat as frequent as the Carnegie library.
The Russian generals can fight each
I her much fiercer than they fought the
Japanese.
Ministers are divided as to whether
Mr. Rockefeller's great gift should be
called pbilunthropy or restitution.
Marie Coielll says she cannot resit the
impulse to wrtie. It must be terrible
to have a Corelli novel in your system.
With Mm of the stateHinen it is not
so much what are we goiug to do about
'uba a how are we going to do Cuba.
The effort to raise the pay of govern
ment clerks is being heartily seconded by
the Washington boarding bouse keeper.
To rent ore public confidence the rail
roads might print testimonials from pas
tswgers who have ridden on their trains a
number of times aud nev&r have been
killed.
Kioce the Congressmen raised their
own salaries, you rau't convince them
1iiat tl country isu't getting along all
right.
Mr. Rockefeller Is said to feel disap
pointed that he is not worth mors than
g:iOO,'X"UJiX). Pity the sorrows of a poor
old una !
Anyway, it Is some sign of progress
when the railroads begin to get so eUaia
"l of the wrecks that they refute to tell
jihoul them.
The liritiNh ambassador's salary of
$.V.M)0 s year will make our members
of Coujres feci like voting themselves
another raise.
The Jamestown Exposition seems in
danger of being pastorlzod. New York
Mail.
If ft man keeps his friends It's a sign
they don't see much of blm. New
York Presa.
Railroads are becoming the prime
factor in American race suicide. New
York American.
When a bride has to get down and
learn bow to keep bouse tbe honeymoon
Is over. New York Press.
The Jap war scare ought to be good
for two new boats for our navy and
three for Japan's. Detroit Freo Press.
It would be Interesting to see Mark
Twain wn ring that white evening suit
of his In Pittsburg. Chicago Tribune.
Of course, the railroads are not go
ing to refuse two cents a mile if they
can't get any more. Philadelphia
Press.
A woman likes to visit her relatives
so she can let them know how much
better things she haa at home. New
York Press.
After all, isn't there just a little too
much block In the railroad systems,
especially In the heads? Philadelphia
North American,
A German scientist has discovered
that gold emits an odor, but that Is not
likely to make It worth a sceut more.
Washington Post.
Yes, of course, these government coal
lands are public property; but It's a
mighty long way to go for ft scuttlcful.
New York Herald.
We cannot get good government In
this country except we go to the polls
and push It Into the ballot boxes.
Philadelphia Record.
Why should Philadelphia start an
aiitt-aulclde bureau T What harm Is
there in changing from one sleep to an
other! New York Mall.
Senator Depew Is anxious to saw the
forests of the country. Docs he know
the meaning of taking to the woods?
New York Evening Sun.
It is with pleasure that one sees a
railroad fined $1.1,000 for rebating, but
what hurts Is that an Ice company got
the rebate. Buffalo Times.
Ambassador Bryce will find a $30,000
salary as useful at Washington as at
almost any place that could be men
tioned. Philadelphia Ledger.
"Llfesavlug" appliances aboard
steamships unfortunately appear to be
regarded by many owners more aa fads
than possible utilities. New York
American.
A Western financier is sure "the peo
ple and the railroad,, ore coming to
gether." He must have Ixt-n reudlng
the full list of recent accident. New
York Herald.
A Alfred Austin, poet laureate, lias
been saying a good word for Longfel
low. That was a good deal kindlier
than writing u jxeiu about him. New
York American.
Chulrmnn Burton, of the Rivers mid
Harbors Committee, is a bachelor,
which' may account for the general
movement in favor of taxing unmarried
men. Philadelphia Press.
No doubt the railroads consider the
proposal to stop their theft of $ 1V..OOO,
000 yearly by dishonest weighing of
the malls, as an attack on vested rights.
Philadelphia North Anierlcuu.
Each mule person of smoking age
smokes an average of 320 cigars a
yeur. Eight years ago that average
was 180. Thus our prosjerlty goes up
lu smoke. Ohio State Journal.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., says it Is
much eusier to tell the truth that It is
to lie. Johnnie has probably never
gone home t 4 a. in. and undertaken to
explain to his wife. Houston Post.
The physician who says walking on
the toes is conducive to longevity is
substantiated by the fact that many
toe dancers attulu great ago even dur
ing their girlhood. St. Louis Globe
Deniocart Surely graft has haO some hard
knocks lately. But the desire to get
something for nothing la mighty ier
selstent and Its elimination from hu
man nature may require a few more
age.. New York Suu.
People who believe that big accidents
come in threes will put together the
sinking of the Larchmout, of the Berlin
off the Hook of Holland and of tho
Austrluu-Lloyd Impcratrlx off Crete.
More than 500 ieroua havo probably
been lost in these thrci accident.
New York World.
The Houso of Representatives has
voted to abolish1 all tho pension dis
bursing agencies but one that main
tained at Washington. It was a sensi
ble, move. Why 'not go ahead now and
abolish useless custom houses, at which
the cost of collecting a dollar ranges
from $7 to $1,203? ,ew York Tribune.
John D. Rockefeller seems to be al
most as magnillcent In his giving as lu
his taking. In both directions he is
great. Philadelphia Record.
t'hrlstlnn Science Dlacoased.
Ia treating of the foundations on which
Christian Science teachings are based, the
Earl of Dunmore, a prominent Scotch
peer, lu a recent lnue of the Cosmopolitan
Magazine, contends that Mrs. Eddy Is
Indebted entirely to tbe ltiblo for her
revelations, aud that Christian Science Is
simply a clear understanding of tb prac
tices of Jesus nearly 2,000 years ago.
On the other hand, the editor of the
Christian Advocate of New York City
contends that neither the Old Testameut
nor the lie agrees In any respect with
Mrs. Eddy's theories. He says that ev
erywhere the Bible refers to health snd
disease as conditions of the human body,
one as real as the other, with so refer
ence anywhere to the idiu that disease ia
"an error of mortal mind," "fnliw clalui,"
"false belief" or an "illusion." He says
that the cures made by Christ were in
stantaneous and that he rained the dead,
and without a single fuilure when an at
tempt wns made, in ell of which respects
he thinks Mrs. Eddy Is sadly lacking.
BUSSE WINS IN CHICAGO.
ftennttllcan Candidate Chosaa Majror
of Weatera Metropolis.
Fred A. Busse, Republican, was
Tuesday elected Mayor of Chicago, for
four year by a plurality of 13.121. He
overcame a plurality of 24,618 by which
Edward F. Dunne defeated John M.
Harlan two years ago, making a total
change In tbe figures between then and
now of 87,639 votes.
The total vote on Mayor, according
to the police returns, was 330,901, out
of a registration of 801, 5HH. Tbe total
for Busse was 164.83J) and for Dunne
151,718. George Koop, the Socialist,
candidate, olleil 13,400 and W. A.
Brubnker, on the Prohibition ticket.
received 8,873. The Socialists stood a
net lows of nearly 7.000 from the figures
of two years ngo. while the Prohibi
tionists almost doubled the vote for
Oliver W. Stewart In 1!H3.
John E. Traeger was the one Demo
crat to he elected. He wns chosen city
treasurer by n plurality of 7.0S3 over
Gen. Edw. C. Young. John R. McCalie.
Republican, was elected city clerk.
Thomas F. Little, tho Democratic nom
inee, running a shade behind Mayor
Dunne aud losing to Mr. McCalie by
15414.
The battle was waged and won with
tbe entire country and no small part
of the world at large looking on with
Intense Interest and waiting tbe result
In suspense. The traction ordinances
en rr led In the election by nearly 40,000.
A new charter for the city of Chicago
Is assured.
Frederick A. Busse is the. first execu
tive of Chicago to le chosen for a term
of four years and likewise the Brut to
have the very profitable privilege of col
lecting $1S,000 every twelve months for
his services. Tbe issue between the Ro
publicaua aud the Democrats were as dis
tinctly drawn as widely differing plat
form declarations could make them. Chief
est of the contentions was traction. The
Republicans declared for the adoption of
the ordinances as passed by the City
C-ouncil over the veto of Mayor Dunne,
while the Democrats urged their defeat.
In 1002 Mr. Bussn won elected Treas
urer of Illinois and in December. l'.HKi,
was commissioned as postmaster of Chi
cago by President Kooxcvelt. It Is a
rather remarkable thing in the history of
mayoral campaigns in Chicago that the
Republican candidate made no speech of
acceptance to the convention which nomi
nated him, nor uttered a spoken word to
the electorate during the -nmpaign. Mat
tered up In a wreck on the Pennsylvania
limited, which claimed the lives of u num
ber of his fellow passengers, Candidate
RuNxe was lying in bed severely injured
when mimed as tho standard 'bearer of his
party.
Spirit Voice of Death.
The alleged spirit mesNages from tho
late Dr. Richard Hodgson to"his living
friend and former co-worker. Prof. Hyg
lop, through the mediumshlp of Mrs.
Piper of Boston, are descriled by Dr.
Isaac Funk, the New York publisher, in
his book, "The Psychic Riddle." Dr.
Funk says the subject Is one that should
not be scoffed at. The spirit of llodsou
is believed to have talked to Mrs. Piper
while she was in tho trance stutu and
wrote what was said on sheets of paper
In Hyslop's presence. One mrsxage says
"it is delightful to go through the cool
ethereal atmosphere and shake off the
mortal body." The spirit said further
that during liix effort to communicate
to the living he felt as if in u stuffy at
mosphere or as if going Into a pluce of
foul smells. Dr. Funk believes that we
are iu the presence of '.'a scientific dem
onstration of a future life." if Hyslop is
right nbout these messages being rweived.
He, Funk, has no doubt now that "in
telligences foreigu to our Dve senses can
aud do communicate with some of tlioxe
who ore living in the flexh." Rut he is
not certain that "they can and do identi
fy themselves us thoxe who ouce lived in
the flexh."
Alt Around tba Ulobe.
Gov. Sheldon of Nebraska has signed
the railway commission hill, which be
comes effective immediately.
Mixs Nancy Miller, a Pittsburg wait
ress, was stabbed seven times with a
butcher knife by Walter Howard, whom
she had ji'ted, and died.
Hugh G. Shaugh, tbe organiser of the
Brotherhood of Railway Postal Clerks,
was dismissed from the railway mail ser
vice. Shaugh was employed iu the Ixs
Angeles division and was suspended two
weeks before.
A child answering descriptions of the
kidnaped son of Dr. Horses N. Marvin of
Dover, Del., Is reorted to have beeu seen
at San Antonio, Texas.
The Pennsylvania Senate passed the
House 2-cnt railroad fare bill, with an
amendment providing for a heavy fine
for failure to comply with the law.
The Nebraska Legislature passed a bill
providing for the taxation of terminals
of railroads iu the cities. In addition to
the regular mileage assessments.
Two men were killed and four or five
injured by an explosion in mina No. 211
belonging to the Sunduy Creek company
at Sugar Grove, near Atbeus, Ohio.
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MAYORS OF CHICAGO.
1 William H. Orfrten. Item
2 Huctner 8. MorrU. Whig
Htnjamln YV. Karruoud, Vhlg...
4 Alexander Lloyd. Iem
8 Francis C. Shcrmnn. Ietn
fl Benjamin W. Knjnwnil. fieto...
T Auguatu (Jar rut, l)eni
5 Alaon 8. Kbermsn, lem
t AugUBtiM Warrett, lni
10 John I. Chopin. Whig
11 Jamoa fmtle. Irra
12 Jaa. H. Woolwort.i, tx-tn.-Wlilg.
18 Jaa. II. Wnolw.irtli, lfin.-Wblg.
14 James Curtlaa. Ueni
10 Walter 8. Murnee., Iem
I 'Walter H. Oiiroee, r.n
17 Charlea M. tlrav. Item
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20 1 horns lyer, lein
21 John Went w.irth, Hep.-Kunionhit.
22 John C. Maine, Hep
23 John C. Illn.
24 John Wentworth. Hep
2.1 Julian H. ItiimsPT, Hep
2tl Kranrln C. Khcrionri. Iein
27 Krsncls C. Klierman. Dem
2M-"John B. IMee. Hep
2 John It. Itlee, Hep
:tO Koiwell It. Mason. I'eoplea
Ml Joseph Medlll. Citizen
82 Harvey l. Colvln. People
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ROADS WOULD COST BILLIONS.
Government Could tmainr Control,
hot nl Ureal l'rlee.
The growing Interest in government
control and ownership of railroads has
led ofiicials in Washington to make some
estimates as to the cost and methods by
which such ends niixht he reached. Here
are some couchiidoris :
It will cost the government in the neigh
borhood of SKUMl.lim.dOO to buy the
railroads. That is. this is the commer
cial value of the whole railway plant, In
cluding terminals, depots and all appurte
nances, as estimated by the Cnited Ste.tes
census.
The government has the constitutional
lower now to assume coutrol and owner
ship of the roads. This was demonstrat
ed in the case of the Panama road, where
the government condemned the stock and
paid a fair market value for it.
In order to bny the railway system ol
this country it is only necessary for the
government to appraise the property and
then to issue government securities in
exchange for the private securities now
standing against these properties.
There would be no real drain on th
Cnited States treasury. The government
would simply start its print lug presses
and print the necessary $ 1 tl,244.0OO,0OC
worth of lionds; then these would be is
sued in exchange for the private securi
ties, which would be destroyed. Any dis
pute as to valuation would be settled by
conduaiustion proceedings.
Then Congress would probably have to
create another cabinet oHIcer, a Secretary
of Hallways. . He would run the railroad)
of the country Just ns the I'oMmastei
General rims the IWotiice Ilepartment.
When Swirierland decided to take ovei
its raiiroadx a few years ago, the govern
ment concluded to pay for them on the
basis of twenty-live times the average net
arnings for a Mriod of twenty years.
This wns easily determined In that coun
try, owin to the fact that the amounts
of the railways had been under strict gov
ernmental supervision for that period.
What was said to be one of the greatest
ratepayers' demonstration seen in I.ou-
don iu muny years occurred recently when
several thousand marclmd through the
streets to Trafalgar fquare, where a mass
meeting was held to protest against fur
ther municipal ownership experiments on
the part of the Loudon county council,
The procession, which was more than a
mile iu length, included many unique lea
tures intended to cast discredit upon the
inuuTt-ipal Industries, among these being
fifty large gramophones which emitted
bitter comments uihju "wastrels." The
meeting adopted a resolution stating thut
"Tills muss meeting of I-ondun ratepayer!
indignantly protest against the increas
ing burden of rates, caused by the pro
gressive socialist party, and pledges itself
to exert every effort to turn the wastrel
out oil March '2, and place in power the
party of municipal reform. '
Primo Minister Sir Henry Campbell
Hatiuernmu contributes to the Nation,
the liberal weekly, an article on The
Hague conference, iu which he refutei
the objections to raising the question ol
limitation of arniumcuts, contending that
nothing has occurred since IK! 18 to rendei
inopportune or mischievous the reduction
of uruiaiuents which was then recognized
as desirable. On the contrary, he says,
the passage of years has only served "to
strengthen the impressiou of 1808 that
the endless multiplication of engines of
war Is futile anil self-defeating, and that
what was then a suspicion, that no limit
could he set to the struggle for sea pow
er save by the process of economic ex
haustion, has uuw become something like
a certainty, He asserts that Great Brit
ain has already given un ea'-uest of het
sincerity by reducing her naval and mili
tary expenditures, and by undertaking to
go further if a similar diKposi'ion is
shown elsewhere.
Paris had the news Tuesday that a
French column under Celt. Liautey had
occupied the nerve center of Morocco,
Oudjn, a walled city near tbe frontier
where caravans arrive from the desert.
Foreign Miuister I'ichou, ia explaining
the move to the French chamber, said that
the Moors hud become more and more iu
soleiit, until something had to be done.
Claims for damages bad beeu loug neglect
ed, and the Sultan had to be taught
lesson. It was a matter for France
aloue, aud Germany appeared to be giviug
her a free baud. This was to be only tht
hrt of a series of punitive acts by Franca.
Coder the leadership of Lady Marber
ton, a body of wotueu suffrage advocates
marched to the eutrauce of the House of
.'ommous the other day to deliver a res
olution which had beeu passed at a pre
vious meeting deuounclug the government.
The authorities bad beeu forewarned aud
over 700 isdiewieu were on band to pro
tect the British lawmakers. Tba result
was the arrest of seventy-five women uud
the refusal to allow the leader to inter
view the premier.
The government of Japan has organ
ized twenty-four new infantry regiments,
to be concentrated mainly iu the uortherf
islands.
The boy was last seen near tho haystack. This has been torn down and
raked. The pond wna frozen over, precluding tbe possibility of drowulng.
The marsh waa searched thoroughly. The father wag In the kitchen of the
house when tbe boy disappeared. No strangers were seen Iu the road.
WAR IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
Present Conflict Was Precipitated
r Trillin- Incident.
The present war In Central America
wu precipitated by a trifling Incident
A NIcaraguan agitator who fled into
Honduras was followed by NIcaraguan
soldiers, who failed to capture him, but
went away with bU mule. After hasty
diplomatic notes bad been exchanged
war was declared and real war began.
Better organized, better armed and
better trained than ever, the forces of
Nicaragua on the one side and Hon
duras and Salvador on the other,
clashed. The recent battle of Fotlllos
do Namaalque saw 100 killed on the
side of Honduras and Salvador alone.
This Is three times as many as the
American fatalities In battle In tbe war
between Spain and the United States.
There were 5,000 Salvadoreans and
Guatemalans In the fight, so the loss
was 20 per cent
Personally leading bis armies, which
have Invaded Honduran soil and cap
tured town after town, Is President
Zelaya of Nicaragua. War found him
doubly ready for tbe conflict nis suc
cesses on the coast have been followed
up, by tbe United States navy, which hits
landed small forces of marines at La
Celba and Tnijillo. towns captured by
Nicaragua, and at Puerto Cortez,
threatened by Zelaya, to protect neu
tral property. Costa Rica may become
Involvedan old feud against Nicaragua
making It potentially an ally of Salva
dor and Guatemala.
The arrqles of Central America are
made up of Indian stock mixed with
Spanish blood. The socondary wenpon
consists of the ever truty machette.
Largo bodies of the troops are armed
only with these long, heavy knives.
The deadly machete Is responsible for
most of the carnage. Even when pro
vided with guns the Central Ameri
cans are notoriously bad shots.
Honduras has been helped In this
war by Salvador, with whom she bad
an offensive and defensive alliance,
and she has had to contend with a re
bellious outbreak of her own people.
This was tbe case In Nicaragua, the
latent revolutionists la each country
seemingly taking advantage of the diffi
culties of the government to further
their own cause. Only three Central
American states have becosse Involved,
Costa Rica and Guatemala remaining
neutral.
The government of the United States
sent gunboats to both tbe Pacific and
Atlantic coasts and marines were land
ed at two or three ports on the north
ern coast of Honduras for tbe protec
tion of American Interests. These ports
were In the possession of enemies of
the Honduran government at the time,
FBXB1DENT ZELAYA.
and the government of Henduras ap
proved the action taken by the United
States.
The capture of the capital of Hon
duras by the Nlcaraguans, coupled
with the recent defeat of the forces of
Honduras and Salvador at Ckoluteca
and the flight of President Bonllla of
Honduras, It Is thought practically
puts an end to the war.
Herbert I). Peli.e, United States min
ister to Norway, returned to Boston and
Issued an explanation of the charge that
had been made against bim that he sought
a fee for legal services before The Hague
tribunal in a suit for damages brought
by the owners of American sealing ves
sels against the Russian government.
SCENE 07 MAS VET KDNAPIUO AND PICTURE
gr (OLLEiGES
The school authorities of the city of
Plainfleld, N. J., have raised the pay of
the teachers from 25 to 40 per cent with
out the least solicitation by the teachers
or the superintendent
In connection with the big plant of the
Bethlehem Steel Company at Bethlehem,
Pa., a new industrial school is to be es
tablished by Charles M. Schwab, where
a small army of highly skilled workmen
can be turned out each year.
Goldwln Smith, the veteran Canadian
scholar, writes in the Cornell Era that
phonetic spelling can never hope to make
English the dominant language of the
world, as there are more serious objec
tions as to declension, conjugation, etc.
He says simplification would Involve a
jettison of our books.
Alain LeRoy Locke of Philadelphia, a
colored student in the senior class at
Harvard, has won this year's Rhodes
scholarship for the State of Pennsylvania,
aeing chosen on his merits. The Rhodes
will make no distinction on account of
race or religion. Locke will be the first
negro to get one of these scholarships.
Supt. Maxwell of the New York City
school system appealed to the board of
education to supply simple food at cost
price to the pupils who were found to be
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improperly nourished. At the same time
he asked tho board to supply eyeglasses,
free of cost to children of needy parents,
who may be suffering from imperfect vis
ion. The commissioner of health had
found 17,028 children with defective eyes
in the schools last year.
Through the energetic efforts of Mine.
Frisson, a university for women oas been
opened at Paris, in which a course in
housekeeping is to hold the place of honor
in the curriculum. There will be other
courses in dressmaking, millinery, short
hand, hygiene, morality, hiBtory and lit
erature. The idea is to attend to the
practical matters of life first, but not to
neglect the ornamental.
Although President Eliot of Harvard
refused to make any reply to tbe speech
of President Roosevelt iu defense of foot
ball and other rough sports, he has given
out a statement saying that no one bad
proposed to stop Intercollegiate athletics
at Harvard. Last year they said they
would stop it or change it. Football had
been changed and it would be played next
fall. President Eliot thought his position
on this subject was not essentially dif
ferent from that of President Roosevelt.
Taking direct issue with President
Roosevelt in his recent "molly-coddle"
address at Harvard in defense of all
rough college sports, the annual report
of Harvard's head. Dr. Charles W. Eliot,
takes the radical stand that football is uo
game for gentlemen to play or for gentle
meu to watch ; that is. an undesirable
one. President Eliot admits that under
great pressure of public opinion last year
the game wss much improved, but says
tbe Harvard players suffered about the
same kind of injuries as before. He in
sists thut no game is fit for college uses
"in which recklessness in causing or suf
fering serious bodily injuries promotes
efficiency, and so is taught aud held up
for admiration." He t.nds the same sort
of recklessness in hockey and basket ball,
and thinks that intercollegiate contests
should be limited to two a year in each
sport. He believes it high time that the
teaching profession unite "to protest
against th present exaggeration of ath
letic sports during the whole period of
education." He deplores the waste of
money and says that pumped cheering
during good and bad play "has do coun
terpart in tbe contests of real life," and
is "weak, hysterical and Ineffective" on
tbe part of tbe spectators.
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BOY.
Marvin Case l.lkelr to Be Parallel
to Charier Itoaa Kidnaping-.
As the dismal days come and go the
seemingly ImiMUictrable mystery lu the
disappearance of llttlo Horace Marvin
from Hover, Del., grows deeper. And
the army of astute detectives on tha
case, several of them masters of crime
and hidden circumstance, admit that
they are utterly bullied. It Is an aston
ishing fuct that the.e detectives, to
gether with the police machinery of all
the prlnclpnl cities iu the United States,
the famed Plnkerton Detective Agency,
and a host of amateur sleuths, have
failed to develop one single distinct
clew to the missing boy's whereabout1
since the search was begun on March 4.
Whut did happen to little Horace
Marvin when he'pussed from the eye
of his now sorrowing father for the last
time? It is a question that may never
be answered. Aud from present Indi
cations the case will go down as rival
ing all other kidnaping mysteries la
the history of the country.
Charles Brewster Boss, whose case l
a classic in criminal annals, was ex
actly the same uge as the Marvin boy
when he disappeared from tho home of
his father. Christian Ross, Washington
lane, Germuntown, Pa July 1, 18T4.
He Is now generally believed to have
been stolen from his home, although
kidnaping was not at first suspected.
Ross reiiorted tbe losa of the child ta
ttle Philadelphia police. He had hope
of the safe return of Charley up to July
0. Then be received a letter demand
ing $20,000, conditional on the safe rev
turn of the boy. The police set out t
capture the kidnapers. From aU part
of the country boys who looked like
Charley Ross were reported. One after
another they were shown to be other
children.
On Dec. 14, the Bame year, the first
real clews were found. That night two
men committed n burglary In the Bay
side district of Brooklyn. Their name
were William Mosher. and James Doug
las. Both men died from wouudu re
ceived In trying to escape from the po
lice. Before dying Douglas confessed that
he and Mosher had kidnaped Charley
Rws. Search wns renewed for their
fellow conspirators, and Wllllnm Wos
tervelt. brother-in-law of Mosher, wu
arrested. He was finally convictfvl as
accessory after the crime and was sen
tenced to seven years' imprisonment
No trace of t'.ie boy ever was found,,
and It Is now believed by the Philadel
phia police that the kidnapers, in foar
murdered the boy to get him off their
bands.
Horace Marvin, the lost boy's father,
is In great fear lest the kidnapers of
his son ls driven to some such 6er
ate n t by too strenuous police action.
I)raf-Miitr (iiiod Workers.
A business man who conducts a large
bottling establishment in the lewer eat
side district of New York City has dis
covRred that deaf-mutes make the most
reliuble help that he can obtain. He
commenced about seven years ago by era
ploying a deaf-mute boy, who fillod bi
place so satisfactorily that others were
employed fnmi time to time, until now
there are a dozen or more of these af
flicted persons drawing good wages at
this efttuhlishment. The employer says
he finds them faithful, and when they
have fully grasMd the idea of the tabk
to he accooiplUihed, rather more intcilt
gint than the normal workman. More
over, they are very little given to dissi
pation. Aaralnat Paate-irtaslaar Milk.
Prof. Bearing, tbe famous Berlin spe
cialist on pulmonary diseases, is quoted
as opposing the Pasteur system of puri
fying milk. He condemns alse the ster
ilisation of milk and the boiling of water
to render them inscuous. He says that
boiled milk is unsuitable food for in
fants, and that the boiling of water kill
tbe elements intended by nature for the
making of bone and sinew. True protec
tion for those who vse tbe milk of cows,
in his opinion, is the production of
healthy cows.