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Evangelists ajid Laymen
Join to
Drive Devil from Chicago
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Chicago.—A strenuous effort is un
der way to make this city too hot for
bis Satanic majesty, the devil. If the
campaign inaugurated is successful
the forces of evil will retreat before
the onward march of a victorious
army whose slogan is civic purity and
whose emblem is the banner of Christ
Rev. Dr. R. A. Torrey, whoso singu
larly successful career as an evangel
ist has encompassed practically every
nation and every country of the globe
within the past few years, is the gen
eral in command of the campaign. Be
hind him and the ministers who are
joined with him in the effort to drive
sin from Chicago is what is known
as the Layman’s Evangelistic council,
a body made up of business men of
Chicago, many of them prominent in
financial, commercial and industrial
circles. It is a business men’s move
ment backed financially and morally
by substantial and successful laymen
who believe in the efficacy of Chris
tianity.
Being a business man s movement, <
the campaign has thus far been car
ried on in a businesslike manner. The
opponents of Satan, who are seeking
to wrest Chicago from the grip of the
evil one, have provided a big Gospel
tent, heated by steam, radiators being
run into the building and connected
with a near-by plant. The tent is
guaranteed to seat 12,500 persons.
It is doubtful whethet such a com
prehensive campaign against sin in all
Its hideous aspects has been under
taken in Chicago since the days of
Dwight L. Moody. It is possible that
the present Gospel campaign may
reach proportions beyond anything of
the kind ever undertaken in this
city.
Dr. Torrey himself is a most inter
esting personality. He was born in
Hoboken, N. Y., January 3, 1856.
Early in life his father, who was a
prominent Democratic politician, lo
cated in Brooklyn, N. Y., and in that
city, adjacent to New York, with the
metropolis affording an excellent
school for the study of life conditions,
the present evangelist was reared.
The connections of his father, who
for years was collector of internal rev
enue in Brooklyn, and who was such a
power in the prevailing politics of that
city that he was tendered, but refused,
a nomination for the mayoralty, which
was tantamoumt to an election, gave
Dr. Torrey other ample means of
learning by personal contact of the
great realities of life.
Dr. Torrey was educated at Yale,
from which institution he holds two
degrees, the first being taken when
he graduated at the age of 19. He is
one of the two last men to graduate
from that famous institution at such
a youthful age, the limit being raised
to affect the graduating tSass of the
year following his degree. Later he
went to Berlin and Leipsic, where he
studied for four years. Returning to
America he entered the ministry, and
in 1894 came to join Moody in Chi
cago.
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' After the death of that beloved min
ister and evangelist Dr. Torrey re
mained in charge of the work until
1902, when he began his career as a
world evangelist. His first cosmopoli
tan campaign was held in Japan in
that year, and in the month he was
there 1,000 conversions of natives
were recorded. About the same num
ber embraced the teachings of Christ
during the month he spent in China.
In both of these countries, as well as
in all others where a different lan
guage than English is generally spok
en, Dr. Torrey addressed his audi
ences through an interpreter.
From China Dr. Torrey and his
companion. Mr. Alexander, went to
Australia, where they preached and
sang the Gospel in nearly every city
of prominence. They were one month
in Melbourne, and in that time 50
meetings were held and 8,642 pro
fessed Christianity and had their
names enrolled as among those saved
from reckless and unthinking living
through the power of God, shown
through Dr. Torrey and Mr. Alexander.
Similar results were produced in Syd
ney and the three leading cities of
New Zealand, and Tasmania was
awakened as well.
The next step in the world cam
paign undertaken by Torrey and Al
exander was England, where all the
principal cities were visited, and serv
ices conducted in halls seating not
less than 5.000 persons. Three months
spent in Liverpool resulted in the con
version of 12,500 persons. In London,
at Royal Albert hall, which was se
cured for the meetings, the evangelists
remained two months. The hall seat
ed 10,000 and accommodated 2,000
more, standing. This hall was filled
every afternoon and evening, special
meetings for men and women being
held, so that those who flocked to
hear the evangelists might be better
accommodated. But, as it was, as
many were turned away from every
service as gained admission.
In Birmingham where there was a
seating capacity of 8,000 with room
for 2,000 more standing, thousands
were turned away from every service
and the campaign attracted so many
people that the services of the mounted
police were necessary to keep the
crowds in check. In one month 7,700
people were converted.
In one day during the Liverpool
campaign, which was the greatest
single day of the crusade in England,
220 women professed conversion at
the afternoon meeting, and 440 men
at the evening service. In the world’s
campaign of Torrey and Alexander
102,000 persons whcse names and ad
dresses were recorded professed Chris
tianity. They occupied positions in
life all the way from earls to “bums.”
In London, especially, royalty became
interested In the mov.ement and at
tended the meetings at Royal Albert
hall, and many a coroneted head
bowed at the altar in complete surren
New Shades of Colors
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Designers of Fashionable Garments
Go to Natnre for Inspiration—
Scientists Frequently Employed
in the Quest.
. For weeks and months past many
acute scientific minds have been hard
at work in the attempt to solve prob
/ I4>TP» of which my lady Is to have the
benefit this season, says Chambers’
Journal. Not only must shapes, as a
man would call them, change, but
shades-of color too, and each season
there must be some absolute novelty.
New, it is a difficult thing to find
shades of color that have not been in
ose before; but they must be found,
apd every spring bales of material are
delivered to fashionable houses all la
the new tints that the scientists have
evolved during the preceding months.
Which forthwith become the fasbioa
•Wa faroritee, v
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The discovery of these tints in the
first place and their commercial pro
duction i,n the second are a very long
and expensive business. For the moBt
part the persons who make this their
business go to nature for their ideas,
and the whole thing was explained to
me in close detail Borne time ago by
the head of one of the ladies’ firms
with whom'1 happened to come in con
tact.
The man who has the commission to
find a n«iw color wanders in gardens
and over fields and moors for the sole
purpose iaf finding such. There are
suggestions to him at every turn, but
for one Teison or snotlfmr they are re
jected time after time, tihUl at length,
after .much weary wandering; his oye
lights happily on the Hooked-tor tint
Perhaps It was !n a garden that he
found it and then he has very likely
days of work la sitting beside it while
it is still growing; alive and In Its
A11 the pigments and chemicals ot
an artist’s shop and a large laboratory
are brought into service and when the
color is really there on a piece of pa
per or cardboard It Is borne off in tri
umph to Bond street or Oxford street,
where it is decided that it shall be
the fashionable color of the next sea
son.
So It is these people wandering in
gardens and mixing their chemicals
afterward who rule the color destinies
of the London season, and not the
great ladies who have garments made
of these colors, though the latter might
scout the idea of the selection being
due to anyone save themselves. It was
told to me on this occasion that a par
ticular shade of red—and a really very
nice red, too—which was then much in
vogue bad taken IS months to fix and
get into the shop.
On* of the colors of the present atm
eon comet from the imitation eftks
new Banksla rote, which gate hr the
names of “Dorothy Pnrktof" sad “hen’s
wing." "Mignonette greed" and “atm
holly blue’’ are otter Unto that hare
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der to the Master whom Dr. Torrey
feels he is' serving in his most inieful
capacity.
The campaign in Berlin was inter-']
estlng In that Count Wiebohn and
Count Bernsdorf, two of the best ]
known and most respected members
of the German nobility, acted as in
terpreters for Dr. Torrey. Dr. Torrey
himBelf is a fluent German speaker,
and often addressed his meetings in
Berlin In the tongue of the fatherland,
but usually one of the two counts
was present to give the proper Inter
pretation of the words of the evangel
ist in a manner that would be the j
meat effective with the audience.
Dr. Torrey has spent much of the
time since his return from the world
tour in evangelistic work in this coun- !
try. In some respects he believes
that Sunday, March 17, of the present
year wan one of the most remarkable
days he ever witnessed. He was hold
ing evangelistic services in Buffalo.
There were three meetings, one for
women, one for men and boys, and the
third for men only. At the meeting
for young men and boys 702, ranging
in age from 15 to 35 years, came for
ward and professed Christianity.
Bishop Berry, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, who was present at
this service, said to Dr. Torrey: “1
never saw such a sight before. This
Is Pentecost."
In all there were 1,002 conversions
la Buffalo that day.
Such, is brief, is the evaageiistls
history of the mas who has beau se
cured to head the laymea’s movement
to “drive the devil from Chicago."
With the record of accomplishment
which Dr. Torrey has, and with the
’uterest that already has developed iu
theso remarkable evangelistic! meet
ings, there is every reason to believe
that what the^ laymen’s council ex
pects will come true, and that, before
the end of next month Chicago will
nave had a religious awakening such
as It never has experienced.
An idea of the businesslike meth
ods with which this remarkable cam
paign is being pursued is manifested
in the pesters which advertise the
meetings. They are printed on yel
low cardboard in black and red ink.
The word “Sin" appears in large red
letters 3t the top of the poster. The
top two lines read:
“What Sin Costs Chicago."
Beneath, in .black type, with a red
ruled border, appear these state
ments: i
“Thousands of lives every year.
“Millions of dollars to suppress
crime.
“Hundreds of widows and orphans
caused by drink and crime.
“Thousands of girls led astray.
“Thousands of boys arrested for
crime.
“Hundreds of insane and suicides.
“Dozens of women assaulted.”
In a circle with a red background
near the bottom of the poster appears
the slogan:
“To Win Men to Christ.”
At the bottom of the poster, in. large
black type, is the war cry:
“Help Drive Sin From Chicago.”
“Are you not aggravated at times
by these men who profess an interest
in your meetings for the sole purpose
of getting money for their present
needs?” was asked Dr. Torrey.
“Indeed, no,” he answered. “Some
of the most steadfast of the converts
I have made in my evangelistic cam
paigns have been the filthiest, appar
ently the most hopeless, specimens of
humanity upon whom your eyes ever
rested.
“There was one man, a particular
case. He hung around the Moody In
stitute for three years. He was a
drunkard and one of the kind who ap
parently had lost every atom of man
hood and responsibility. He once
nearly killed his wife while on a
drunken spree. He used to come
here and work every possible pretext
for getting money with which to buy
drink.
“We kept him going, among usi, for
almost three years. We knew he was
‘working’ us, but we thought we would
be able to change him iato another
man. Finally the case appeared al
most hopeless. I was in despair, and
after an especially flagrant breach of
good faith on his part I told God that
if He ever gave me another soul I
wanted that man. Soon after he be
gan to change. To-day he is honest,
respected, occupies a high place in the
business world, and is one of the most
earnest and capable Christian workers
in the entire pity of Chicago.”
“Is the devil more at home In Chi
cago than in any other city with
which .you are familiar?” Dr. Torrey
was asked.
Without hesitation he answered:
“No.”
"What do you consider the most
wicked city in the world?”
“San Francisco was)” he replied
without reservation. “It may be im
proved now. But there was so much
rooni for improvement. The cities of
the orient, where cosmopolitan crowds
mingle with the natives, are ordi
narily the worst. Some of the cities
of Japan and India, where Americans,
Englishmen and others of the Anglo
Saxon races are located in colonies,
are without question the wickedest
places of which I have knowledge."
SOME WEAK POINTS
COMMERCIAL CLUBS SOMETIMES
MAKE BLUNDERS.
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STARTING NEW ENTERPRISES
Bonuses Often Given and Little Bene
fits Gained by the Towns That
Give—Protecting Established
Industries.
Within the past few years a com
mercial club organization fever has
taken hold of many towns in the west
ern country. It is a kind of good fever
to have, but quite often, like other of
the less harmless fevers that afflict
physically, passes away and doesn’t
make much difference with the our
general health.
Town-building is much like erecting
a good bridge. It is essential that a
good foundation be laid. Natural con
ditions have much to do with it. Cities
and towns spring up where there is a
good cause for their existence. Arti
ficial means may be employed for
‘booming" purposes, but unless there
3« something substantial and lasting,
ill the booming that can \>s done will
not result in the accomplishment of
permanent good. The average rural
tewn receives its principal support
front the business given it by the con
tiguous territory. The trade et a lim
ited section of country will sustain a
comparative number of business es
tablishments. If a town possesses
natural advantages, location, etc., for
certain lines of manufacturing, so
much the better. It would be foolish,
as have been demonstrated in a num
ber of western towns, to commence
the manufacture of cottons, or silks,
or furniture, when the raw material
must be transported from a great dis
tance, and also the fuel for power.
Still, if a town assume an£. great
proportions, there must be industries
to give the people occupation. The
judicious investment of capital in
canning factories, in paper mills, in
glucose works and a few other enter
prises, if these enterprises are rightly
conducted, might prove a valuable
factor in some of the western towns.
When a commercial club is orga
nized, generally efforts are made to
secure some industry for the town
that will give its people employment
and which will bring new residents to
the town. Quite often bonuses are of
fered concerns, which are located in
other places to relocate. It has been
the genera] experience of towns which
have made efforts along these lines
that a concern that asks very much
encouragement in the way of ready
cash, is hardly worth bothering with
and is likely to prove a failure.
Another thing that the average com
mercial club does not take in consid
eration is that it is better to build
up institutions already located than
to encourage new ones of doubtful
success. A manufacturing concern is
only valuable to the town as a means
of placing a greater amount of money
in circulation. The greater the pay
roll, the better for the town. But it
matters not how big the amount is
that is distributed among workers on
a Saturday night, it results in little
good to the town if it is sent to some
other town for needed supplies.
Commercial club members should
keep in mind that it is far better to
devise means of keeping money
earned by farmers and laborers from
being sent to large cities for goods,
than it Is to have new concerns start
ed. If there be a few hundred dollars
a day sent from the place to mail-or
der houses, it would be far better to
prevent this by devising means for
having it spent In the town, than to
encourage the location of a factory
with a pay roll of a like amount. It
should be the first duty of a com
mercial organization to protect its
home industries, and when strangers
see that this is successful they will be
more likely to seek the place as suit
able for the establishment of some
business enterprise.
D. M. CARR.
Home Trade Idea Not New.
Day after day the people are awak
ening to the fact that the only way
the evils of trusts can be combatted
is by an adherence to the home trade
doctrine. It is nothing new. It was
the sentiment that prompted the
founders of our government to sound
the clarion of Liberty from the sum
mit of Bunker Hill. Then, it was the
forcing of a people dependent on an
other government to pay an unjust
tribute for necessaries of life. To
day it is one class of people of a na
tion, and the greatest nation on earth,
to compel the other classes to pay un
just tribute in a commercial way. The
wrong was righted by blood In the
first case; the wrong can be righted
in the present case by the people with
out resorting to serious trouble, by
merely exercising their prerogatives
and the means that lie in their power
to prevent the concentration of great
wealth in the big financial centers by
keeping their surplus earnings at
home. It is the draining the dollars
from the country to the large cities
that assist in building up the great
combines, the great trusts, which arc
manipulated to the deteriment of the
people of the country at large. It
does not require special legislation for
the farmer to buy flour made in his
home mill; to use other products made
in his county or state, or to patronize
the merchants of his home town.
Education.
Intelligence is the distinguishing
mark between the savage and civ
ilized man. Education Is one of the
greatest of. God’s blessings, and ig
norance a curse. In America there ex
ists ne valid reason why every man,
weman and child of normal brain
should not have an education. There
Is ne phase of life where knowledge
is net necessary. In the most progres
sive communities is vhoro the supe
rior schools are found. Holp along
i your town and help along education
Moral. By affording your chil
a ohaaoo Car a good education,
you offar Vtttv dahsa »*■«* cannot ha
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TO THE FARMER-BOY.
Hie Chances Are Best in His Home
Town Rather Than in the Big City.
My boy, the farm is all right. Some
times you may feel that its environs
are too narrow for you, its life too
much of a humdrum, and that you
would prefer to be one of the residents
of the big city or town. There have
been hundreds and thousands of oth
ers just like you, and with just such
ideas. They have started from the
farm buoyant with hope, and after
years have regretted their youthful
resolutions. Others have succeeded;
have won laurels in the professional
field, in business, in statesmanship;
but the few who have succeeded thus
are so small in number compared to
the army of failures that there is lit
tle encouragement for the careful
thinker to leave that which promises
security from want and independence
for a life time. The farmer is surely
the most independent of all workers.
He is sure to receive a greater re
ward for his labors, is his own man
ager, and if he will strive diligently
can aspire to a place in the public es
timate that few can attain in the large
towns.
Of course there are times when you
think there is almost an unbearable
dullness about existence on the farm.
Were you a resident of the city, there
would be times when you would long
for the quietness and the pleasure that
the farm affords. Hours of work may
be long riding the plow, er harvesting
the grain, but far superior is the work
than that the great majority of the
city youths are compelled to follow,
and how much greater the compensa
tion? How would you like to stand
behind the dry goods or grocery coun
ter from morning to night for the
small wages that the city clerk re
ceives? Year after year the laborer
lives in cheap boarding houses and
rarely save sufficient to engage in
business. His is a mere subsistence,
and a constant struggle. The best
years of life are wasted in making
money for others, while the indus
trious farmer is working for himself,
saving money year after year, and
when the time for rest comes it en
ables him to take it.
Cities are overcrowded with clerk
help. An advertisement inserted in
any daily paper for a clerk to fill any
position will bring hundreds of re
sponses. The array of unemployed
and those seeking to better their con
ditions is always large. Of late years
a large element of workers from cit
ies are looking toward the farms for
employment. They realize that the
farm offers more permanency of occu
pation and greater independence than
like efforts in the city can possibly
afford. Before you concentrate jour
attention on employment in city or
town, weigh every matter well, and
then act according to what reason dic
tates. You will be very likely to con
clude that the farm is a good enough
place for you, and that your own lit
tle home town is preferable to the
over-crowded city. Remember that
your greatest interests center in
what you call your “home town.” Do
all you can to assist in its improve
ment, and make it a better business
place. D. M. CARR.
OPPOSED TO LOCAL PROGRESS.
Journals That Help to Concentrate
Business in Large Cities.
There are thousands of so-called ag
ricultural papers published in the
United States, all of more or less
merit. Yet few are all that they should
be. There is an inconsistency about
them that invites careful study. While
they are supposed to represent the
best interests of the great class of
workers whom they gain support from
in the way of subscriptions, the ma
jority of them apparently work against
the progress of farming communities
by becoming the mediums, a part of
the machinery, which draws from
country towns the support which they
should have.
It is to be regretted that many of
these so-called agricultural papers are
merely published for the purpose of
circulating the advertisements of con
cerns which seek to secure trade from
residents of farming districts to the
detriment of-the home towns. These
establishments take money from the
rural communities to the large finan
cial centers. The thoughtful man or
woman can see how injurious it
is to the interests of the farmers to
take away the surplus earnings which
represent the wealth of the commu
nity. It requires but little observa
tion and study to understand that to
a great extent farm values are de
pendent upon the importance of the
near-by town, and that any system
that takes away its business, will re
sult in a decrease of farm values.
Such papers as advise the farmers to
patronize other than home institutions
and which advocate systems that are
opposed to the up-building of indus
tries in agricultural districts are not
worthy of support.
Duty of Good Citizens.
Home and its protection is tho safe
guard of all government. That citi
zen who has the love of home and
fealty to home interests, is a worthy
representative of a commonwealth. It
is the mass of such men that are the
backbone of any community, and,
figuratively, the mainstay and the
rock upon which the nations are
founded. Whoever lives in a com
munity and fails td support the pub
lic institutions and does not assist in
the building up of industries that add
to the greatness of that community, is
like an alien. While he lives one
place, his heart is in another. He is
not the idfeal citizen, for he is not in
harmony with those who are his
neighbors. It is the duty of every
resident of a town or community to do
his utmost to advance Its interest
By thus doing he not alone assists
himself, but his neighbors, his town,
his county, his state and his nation.
Value ef Good Roads. :<
Good roads leading to a town Indi
cate the pregresaiveaeas of the citi
sons of the community. Invariably
poor muds moan Indifference and lack
of Matinee la the stability of the
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table 'Showing the pepcln/Aoe
OF ENTIRE ENROLLMENT IN
PUBLIC HIGH 'dCHOOL'S OF PUP!L6
COMPLETING THE YEARLY C0UF4E&
One of the greatest educators of the
age Is your Uncle Sam. School mas
ter, indeed, he is with nearly 20,000,
000 pupils receiving instruction in the
Echools and colleges of the country.
And the fact that fully nine-tenths of
this vast army of students are en
rolled in the public institutions of
learning indicates how democratic a
country we have. So strongly had
Uncle Sam developed his pedagogical
propensities, in fact, that no sooner
had he taken Porto Rico and the Phil
ippines under his fatherly watchcare
than he set about establishing schools
in those islands, so that to-day excel
lent public school systems are doing
effective work with the native child
ren of these outlying possessions.
When one stops to think of what a
vast and complicated educational sys
tem has grown up, he is able to ap.
preciate somewhat the tremendous
task involved in collecting the educa
tional statistics of the country, and he
is not surprised that these statistics
when all gathered together make a
most voluminous report. So great, in
fact, is the work involved that the
commissioner of education has but
just completed the work for the school
year ending in June, 1805.
The enrollment in the schools at
that time was almost 19,000,000 of
whom 17,000,000 attended public insti
tutions, while the balance attended
private institutions.
The enrollment In the schools and
colleges was distributed as follows:
Elementary schools, 17,019,259; sec
ondary schools, (high schools and
academies) 876,050; universities and
colleges, 138,544; professional schools,
61,322, and normal schools, 65,300. To
these figures should be added 727,371
pupils in special schools. During the
last 15 years the increase In enroll
ment in schools and colleges, leaving
the special schools out of considera
tion, has been one of 3,647,697—that
is, of ' 25 per cent.—while the
gain in population—almost 32,000,000
—amounts to 32 per cent. On the oth
er hand, the percentage of the school
population (persons between five and
18 years of age) enrolled in the
schools has increased from 57 per
cent, to 70 per cent, during the last 35
years.
The total expenditure for education
during the year under review amount
ed to $376,996,472, a sum equal to
more than one-half of the cost of the
national government.
The aggregate of school property in
creased almost $50,000,000 in value
during the year, reaching a total of
$733,446,805, while the average ex
penditure for school purposes grew
from 16.5 to 16.8 cents per day for
the instruction of each pupil.
The average length of the school
year has been steadily increasing,
namely, from 132 days in 1870 to 151
days in 1905, while the percentage of
male teachers in the entire teaching
body has been declining gradually for
a number of years—in fact, during the
past five years there has been a loss
in the total number of male teachers
employed.
By reason of the recent activity of
the government in the direction of for
est preservation, considerable interest
attaches to the opportunities! fur
nished for instruction in forestry. We
learn from the report that of the 44
institutions in which Instruction in
forestry was given 37 were agricul
tural and mechanical colleges estab
lished under the land grant act of
1862. Only six institutions, five state
universities and one agricultural col
lege, had full four-year undergraduate
courses in forestry, while two, Yale
and Michigan, maintained graduate
courses.
In the report devoted to the statis
tics of state school systems, we are
told that several states expend an
nually for schools $25 per capita of
school population, and several less
than three dollars per capita; that oae
state maintains its schools 194 dare
in the year, and another only 88; that
one state pays Its teachers $65 per
month, and another only $28; that one
state enrolls over 90 per cent of its
school population, and another less
than 45 per cent.
In the year under consideration 483
are classed as colleges of liberal arts.
44 as schools of technology, and 122
as institutions admitting women only.
Of the 543 so-called B. A. colleges, 322
are open to both men and women and
131 to men only, while exactly half of
the 44 so-called B. S. colleges are open
to men and women. All in ail 22,613
instructors were employed, of whom
18,221 were men and 4,39? women.
Of the students in 1904-5, 92,161
were men, an increase of 6,155 over
the previous year, and 34,243 were
women, a gain of 2,220; 77,250 men
and 26,739 women were enrolled In
universities and colleges for men anc!
for both sexes; 6,305 students attend
ed the 15 colleges for women men
tioned above, and 14,911 men and 1,199
women were registered in schools of
technology; 6,935 resident .graduate
students were reported by 229 differ
I ent institutions, 2,004 being women.
The total value of property poa
: sessed by the institutions far higher
j education amounts to $514,840,412, a
gain of almost $50,000,000 over the
amount for the preceding year. The
endowment funds have increased to
$234,791,239, and the remainder repre
sents the value of the material equip
ment used for instruction purposes.
There are 41 institutions that have
endowment funds of over $1,000,000
each, of which number 24 are in the
north Atlantic division, ten in the
north central division, three in the
south central division, and two each
in the south Atlantic and western di
visions.
The institutions had an aggregate
income of $41,775,101, an increase of
almost $1,500,000 over that for the
year previous, 36.9 per cent, being de
rived from tuition and other fees, 23.6
per cent, from state appropriations,
6.9 per cent, from federal appropria
tions, and nine per cent, from mis
cellaneous sources. The benefactions
for the year amounted to $16,678,952,
divided among 330 institutions. The
institutions reporting gifts of over $1.
000,000 are Harvard, Yale and Colum
bia, Harvard leading with $2,330,428.
When the civil government replaced
the military in 1900 in Porto Rico
there had been an attendance of 20,
103 pupils out of an enrollment of 28.
969, the number of children of school
age being in 1899 over 322,000. By
1903-4 the school population had in
creased to 393,786, the total enroll
ment to 61,168, and the average daily
attendance to 41.798.
There were 1,073 schools and 1,204
teachers, of whom 139 were Ameri
cans. The report further says that the
language of instruction remains Span
ish, although English is taught in
every graded school.
The account of education in the
Philippines is mainly confined to the
American school system, since no re
ports of the Spanish schools or of
the ancient university of Santo Tomas,
at Manila, have been received. Tables
show that the annual expenditure of
the insular government for the bu
reau of education increased from
$233,411 in 1901 to $1,244,096 in 1904.
In July, 1904, 263,974 pupils were en
rolled, the total number of children
between six and 14 years of age being
reckoned at 1,200,000.
During the period under review,
there were 700 American teachers for
the 629 municipalities and over*3,000
Filipino teachers, the latter being en
gaged and paid by the municipalities.
These Filipino teachers have been in
dustriously trained, at first by the
American teachers* individually, and
afterward in normal institutes.
Found Treasure in a Tree.
A singular case of treasure trove
la reported from the Belgian village
of Saint Omer-Capelle, where some
boys climbing an old willow tree
to rob a bird’s nest found in a hole
high up. In the trunk of an old leather
bag.
On opening this they found It to
contain what seemed to be bright
yellow counters and pieces of paper,
bearing writing which they did not
understand. So they made play
things of the lot, and gave some
away, without, however, anything
being damaged.
As soon as the find reached the
ears of the parents they naturally
guessed the truth. Some among
them, being honestly disposed, gave
Information to the Mairie, which
after some trouble, resulted In the
whole contents of the bag being got
together again. They were old
notes sad gold representing 20,000
frsncs.—London Globe. *
Tbs True Above the Fslee.
v navy is destroyed by true t friend
ship sod coquetry by true love.—
I |
Liquors Fed to Children.
According to recent French writers,
infants in arms are fed with alco
holic liquors in Normandy, with the
most disastrous effects. Dr. Brunon,
whose efforts against the spread of
alcoholism- in that part of France have
made him well known, writes: “In
Normandy it is not unusual to qee
women mix coffee and cognac: in
nursing bottles. These women are
employed outside their homes, there
fore some means must be devised to
keep their babies quiet in the cradles
during their absence. The ingenuity
takes this form: A bottle containing
the mixture is placed under the pillow
to keep it warm, and attached thereto
is a long rubber tube which the child,
ouce the nipple is placed betireen
its lips, reluctantly gives up. Auto
matically it ‘gets drunk’ and, thanks
to its heavy slumbers, the neighbors
are not disturbed.”
Against Sunday Baseball.
The Methodist conference at Mil
waukee has adopted a resolution ask
ing President Roosevelt to stop United
States army men from playing, bug*
bill on Sunday.
