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W this wanf inmfi nnf in ererv locality to know about our School, and as pupils make our best adTcrtisemenc we maxe a1 Special Trial Offer. For $1.00, your only ex ponao (and this will not cover our coat of material, wrapping and postage), we will send a lO-wtekY course (one lesson weekly) for Piano, Organ, Violin, Banjo, Guitar or Mando lin, for oithor a beginner or advanced pupil. For Harmony and Com position four trial lessons will bo sent for 91.00. State your present knowl edge of music, if any, a. "tTT 4. .I wuuu writing, vvo teaug you Jby mail, and accom plish as much as the best private tutor would. IT C QnUnnt Mucin I nwB.it. Prices. I MJ tJ, jJUI1UUIu1 ITlUolv Cash Or Credit 19C, Union Square, New York Fgfer? The Boers An Appreciation. I have lived with the Boer in peace and have taken up my rifle against him in war. I have laughed with him. I have fought with him; have hunted wim him and hunted after him; our rifles have pointed to the same buck far on the peaceful veldt, and our rifles have pointed to each other in the dark er days of war. And yet in all these widely different circumstances I have always found the Boer what he is manly, and a "foeman worthy of our steel." Perhaps the Boer -was seen at his best and at his worst during the last days of the war, but to speak of him otherwise than a "first-class fight ing man" would be sheer nonsense. I had the honor and privilege to belong to a regiment of Colonial Horse who kept the field since we first "let slip the dogs of war" till we called them In after the conference of Vereeniging, and for a time we hovered round the grim fastnesses of the mighty Draken- well as percentage of product, is due entirely to scientific treatment. The production of dry colors, chemicals and .dyes in Germany shows a corre sponding increase in production and dividend-paying capacity, which is due to the constant maintenance of la boratories of trained scientists, 'whose only purpose is to improve and cheap en processes. Will Not Repay. "While in Lincoln recently Miss El len M. Stone said that she would not undertake to repay those who sub scribed to the fund raised to ransom her from the brigands. Miss Stone deems it impossible for her to do it, the reasons being numerous. The chief reason is that she cannot hope to earn the necessary amount; and an other that she does not know all of the donors. She expressed regret that it was announced that she intended re paying the subscriptions, the an nouncement being misleading. "What T Airl snv " vonllorl TWIaa Rtrvna ir r-a gZLP, JSP "!!"? Uponae to', direct question, "vms that I would endeavor to repay those who boundaries of Basutoland and Natal. It was here that doughty guerrilla chieftain and "flying Dutchman," Christian De "Wet, loved to make, a stake or take a rest Hero, too "on 1 his native heath" he gave us his last fight as a pitched encounter. Here, too, his son surrendered to our arms. I have met him here as I have met him elsewhere on the open veldt, and the Boer is brave magnificently brave. If he ran away he came baclc, as Lord Kitchener said recently at Johannesburg. Discretion is said to be the better part of valor, and the Boer is pre-eminently discreet. If ho fools cover, so did wo. This much wo learned from him. "A British Sol dier," in Tit Bits. PROGRESS OF THE SOUTH. , It is hard for the southern peoplo themselves to realize how rapidly their section of the country is growing. Especially is this true of Texas. An intelligent writer in a recent number of the Bankers' Magazine, re ferring to the south's progress in an educational and industrial way, says that "it is well within the truth to say that education is nowhere receiving a larger share of public attention than is boing bestowed upon this subject to day throughout the south. Technical education is being fostered by states and municipalities, and there are a number of institutions of the highest rank annually giving practical train ing to a largo and increasing body of students." " Another competent authority on this subject, Abram S. Hewitt, of New York, says "there is no corresponding region on this habitable globe which has so many advantages as the south, all available by natural or artificial communications and capable of more economical operation than in any other part of the country." The figures given in the Bankers' Magazine aro thus summarized by the Macon Telegraph: "It is shown, for example, that be tween 1880 and 1890 the population of the south increased from 16,369,960 to 23,584,404, or 44 per cent, but in the same period southern agricultural products increased in value from $1, 134,586,229 to $2,844,646,440, or 157 per cent. Farm values grew from $2, 290,364,321 to $3,951,631,632. Farming is improving,., as is shown by the fact that, while the acreage in wheat in creased in the two decades but 12 per cent, the crop increased 82 per cent. The average per acre is nearly two bushels higher than the average for the whole country. The corn, hay and oats crops about doubled, and the cot ton output increased over 99 per cent The value of the crop of cotton is 1900, seed included, was $550,000,000. The rice' and sugar crops much more than doubled, and the product of south ern tobacco Is 70 per cent of that of the entire union. The rural popula tion Is accordingly fairly prosperous, and its gain in numbers between ISIj and 1900 was much larger than that of all the rest of the United States. "Extraordinary has been the devel opment of the manufacturing in the south during the last two decades such development being favored by abund ant water power, coal, railway facili ties and labor. New towns and In dustrie are springing up by the hun 'dred. In 1880 there were, for ex ample, 161 cotton factories; in 1900 there were 400. Between 1890 and 1900 the south gained 2,747,839 cotton spindles, against a gain of but 2, 172,410 in the north. In the same par ted the capital in cotton manufactur ing increased from $53,000,000 to $124, 000,000. But oil mills, furnaces, roll ing mills, furniture and other wood working mills have also sprung up as if by magic. An epitome of the manu facturing establishments in 1890, with a capital of $1,111,688,852, against 43, 725 establishments in 1880, with a cap ital of $251,692,038. The value of prod uct has grown from $445,572,461 to $1 -419,001,873. The mining output in 1900 was $115,352,763, against $17,807,646 in 1882. The lumber industry has also increased phenomenally. "This industrial progress has re sulted largely from the expansion of the railway systems and the improve ment of harbor facilities. Southern ports have increased their exports since 1880 by 95.5 per cent, this being a sequel of the increase of southern railway mileage from 2L612 miles to 52,594 miles, a growth of 143 per cent, against a growth of but 98 per cent in the rest of the union. In banking also, 'the south compares most fav orably,' says the Bankers' Magazine, 'with other parts of the union.' Be tween 1898 and" 1902 the capital of southern' banks increased from $63, 000,000 to $77,000,000; deposits from $165,000,000 to $269,000,000; total re sources from $318,000,000 to $506,000, 000. Clearings indicate volume of bus iness. The clearings of southern cities in the week ended August 20, 1892, were $47,000,000, while in the week ended August 16, 1902, tney.were $90. 000,000. The rate of gain was much greater than In any other part of the 'country." Houston Post, . General Corbln sententiously ob serves that "in Germany there is no legislative Interference with the army." But in Germany also an ad jutant general is kept In his place and not permitted to run the whole show. Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch. Practical Science. . In a recent issue of the Journal of the British- Society of Arts some strik ing examples of the effect of the use of science in German factories aro giv en. Jn 1840 fully 154,000 tons of beet root were crushed, from which 8,000 tons of raw sugar were produced about 6 per cent In 1860 1,500,000 tons were treated, and produced 128, 000 tons of sugar 8 per cent Last year 12,000,000 tons were crushed and yielded 1,500,000 tons of raw sugar 13 per cent This increase of quantity, as Were embarrassed by the giving or those who have since been visited by sickness or trouble." In Miss Stone's opinion the sultan of Turkey should bo compelled to make good the amount secured by the bandits. Mr. Shaw's Scheme. - Mr. Shaw's scheme of loaning the banks government money without in terest to loan to the people at heavy rates of interest in order that the peo ple may obtain money wherewith to pay their taxes and thus make it pos sible for Mr. Shaw to have a surplus that may be loaned to the bankers Mr. Shaw's scheme, as before men tioned, somehow or other recalls the story of the little boy. "I hate to take medicine," said the little boy, "but I take it without a murmur because mamma gives me a, niciue every time." "What do you do with your money?" asked the visitor. "I put it In my little iron bank." "What aro you going to do when the bank is full?" "O, mamma attends to that When the bank is about full I've used up all the medicine, then mamma empties the bank and takes the money to pay for some more medi.cine." "The Commoner, Condensed" This book is, as its title indicates, a condensed copy of Thb Commoner for the first year of its existence. The volume reproduces the editorials which discuss questions of a permanent nature, together with selected paragraphs. A few chap ters are to be devoted to Mr. Maupin's page, to the Home Department and to the Weekly Press Forum, while the last chaptor contains the best poems which have appeared in the paper during tho year. The editor had a two-fold object in issuing this abridgement of the year'fl work. 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