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EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES
The returns now almost complete
of the exports of manufactures for the
last iiscal year give further evidence
of the process winch has been going
on for some time and under which
the yaiuejof this class of exports has
been stcaclily increasing As recently
as 1SS0 the proportion of the exports
of manufactured goods to the total
amount was only 12 per cent this
year it promises to be at least 2o per
cent It is true that the value of these
exports in 1SS0 was below the average
of the quinquennial period of which
it marked the close and that the to
tal exports of the last fiscal year show
a gain in value of 25 per cent over the
average of that period But except in
1S77 the value of domestic manufact
ures exported never exceeded 125000
000 while for the year ending with last
June they will probably turn out to be
224000000 Taking the increase for
the last ten years only the figures are
sufQciently striking In that time there
has been a gain of SS000000 in annu
al value and an advance from 19 to
25 per cent in the proportion which
this class of exports bears to the whole
While 14000000 of the gain of last
year over the year preceding is due to
a considerable increase in the value of
mineral oil the value of the exports
cnder that head for last year is barely
4000000 in excess of that of ten years
ago The items that go to make up the
increase of SS000000 are drawn from
articles into which industrial processes
enter more largely For example leath
er and its manufactures which ac
counted in 1SSG for some 8750000 of
our exports stand now for 19750
000 machinery which in 1S86 account
ed for 3GSO000 has risen to 14500
000 and agricultural implements which
were 2300000 ten years ago are now
about 5000000 Cotton goods show
little or no increase because of the
heavy fall in price a characteristic
which our exports of this class share
with those of Great Britain which
were less in value last year than they
the chief commercial nations has shown
a decrease The value of the ten chief
articles of British exports declined from
725000000 in 18S4 to 705000000 in
1S94 The value of the foreign trade
of France was 9 per cent and that of
Germany 27 per cent less in 1894 than
in 1884 and it is mainly due to the in
creased value of domestic manufac
tures sold abroad that our exports of all
classes of merchandise have in spite
of the dcreased value of the products
SfiSI Gump
HOW CAN THEY EXPECT TO WIN WITH SUCH A MACHINE
he find any other way in which he
can do his party greater service taan
by convincing the public that his own
connection with trusts pools and mo
nopolies has not rendered him unfit foe
the Vice Presidency
And when he does take the stump
Mr Hobart ought to tell as soon as pos
sible to what extent he thinks the Anti
Trust law should be enforced against
all who violate it more especiallj
against those who out of the proceeds
of the violation contribute to his cam
paign fund New York World
Traveling Under False Colors
On behalf of the friends of MoKlnley
and those who wish to return to the
workings of the iniquitous McKinley
law it is claimed that what the country
needs is more revenue It may be of in
terest to this class of politicians to re
member that the McKinley law was
ON ST HELENAS ROCK BOUND COAST
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THE SILVERY WAVES ARE CROWDING THE CANTON- NAPOLEON IN
TO CLOSE QUARTERS
of agriculture so well held their own
It is significant of the place that the
United States is destined to take in the
worlds supply of mechanical equip
ment that the total exports of the
manufactures of iron and steel have in
creased from 31500000 in the fiscal
year 1S95 to over 40000000 in the
fiscal year 1S96 Boston Herald
Mr Hobart and His Friends
According to the news columns of Mr
entitled An act to reduce the reven
ues and equalize the duties on imports
and for other purposes Grand Rapt
ids Democrat
Decide on a Wise Policy
The wisest thing that the Republican
candidates have so far agreed to is that
they will make no speaking campaign
Hobart cannot make a speech and it
would be impossible for McKinley to
answer some of the questions that
THE NEW PAUL REVERE ROUSING THE COUNTRY
m pi i ij i
J were ten years ago Of copper in in
gots bars sheets etc there has been
an increase from 2GOO000 to 17600
000 and in scientific and electrical ap
paratus from 480000 to 2500000 The
export of locomotive engines ten years
ago kept well within 400000 while
for last year the value will reach 2
000000 Of locks hinges and other
builders hardware the export has risen
from 12S0000 to nearly 5500000
This increase in the value of the ex
ports of our domestic manufactures is
the more remarkable that it has
curred during a period in -which the
value of the same class of exports by
Hobarts leading local organ the coal
syndicate has started out on a regular
system of advances and we are to have
another 25 cent increase in September
with another of the same amount by
January making an advance of 1 a
ton within six months
As pool arbitrator for roads engaged
in the coal syndicate Mr Hobart has
had full opportunities to inform him
self intimately concerning the opera
tion of the regular system through
which these unnatural profits are ex
torted When he takes the field he
will not be able to find a topic in which
the public is more interested nor will
THE RACERS
would be thrust at him without hurt
ing Peoria Herald
Small Shot
True to his name Garret A Hobart
wants to preside over the upper house
A man who stampedes a national con
vention may also stampede the people
next November
It was from California to Maine
this time Burke of the California
delegation is the man who placed Sew
alls name before the convention
Candidate Hobart rises to remark
that protection and not finance is the
leading political issue tins year Hanna
must have told him
McKinleys pastor preached Sunday
from the Bible text make your elec
tion sure He failed however to
give the Republican nominee pointers
on how to cinch the game
It is probably unnecessary to call the
attention of the Republican party in
dividually and collectively to the fact
that four of ks United States Senators
have everlastingly drifted from their
moorings
If every man votes for McKinley
whose wages were raised during the
existence of the McKinley act and ev
eryone votes against him whose wages
were lowered he will not cany a singie
one of the manufacturing States
McKinley says he has not promised
a place to any applicant for office nor
wil he do so until after the election
By that time perhaps somebody else
may have in charge the dispensation
of alms at the administration pie coun
ter
There is a significant contrast be
tween the action of Senator Teller
who has severed his relation with his
party because he could not agree with
its position on the silver question and
with that of Mr McKinley who ac
cepted the nomination v for the Presi
dency on a platform which he sought
to defeat
EDTJCATIONALCOLTJMN
MOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND
THEIR MANAGEMENT
tfalue of Music in the Public Schools
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California Girl Sells Papers to Pay
Her Tuition Education and Learn
ing Differ A Childs Comprehension
Music as an Educator
Education is a familiarity between
the mind and things Familiarity be
tween the mind and things which pro
duce the best competency or easiest ex
istence is the education desired by the
masses Grammar and geography de
velop memory arithmetic and algebra
develop discipline music art etc de
velop sensibility and refinement There
was a time when the three Its educa
tion insured a fair competency but that
time is past To prepare the boys and
girls for the greatest usefulness and
happiness and to enable them to act
well their part in the great drama of
life is the great educational problem of
to day
That vocal music is one of the agen
cies to be employed to secure this end
has ceased to be a debatable question
It pays to learn reading writing and
arithmetic merely because we are bet
ter prepared to battle for a bare exist
ence It pays to study geography and
astronomy because we learn facts that
put us in touch with the races and the
universe It pays to study algebra and
geometry for the mental discipline at
tained and a score of reasons can be
given as proofs that it will pay to leam
both vocal and instrumental music It
pays many teachers of music who re
ceive from three to six dollars per hour
for private lessons It pays many
othei s who earn a competency as teach
ers and performers It pays many me
chanics and merchants who make and
sell thousands of musical instruments
It pays in the public schools to begin
and end the day with song It pays in
the family and social circle where we
are entertained with divine melody or
where brother and sister or the whole
family can join in the home concert It
will pay any community large or small
to spend some time and money in learn
ing this heavenly language the only
one not invented by man and probably
the only one he will be permitted to
take with him to the spirit world
Music will make your boy a gentle
man your girl a lady It will keep
your boy home evenings if it will keep
him from the saloon and degrading
streets will It not pay Save the boys
by giving them something to do that is
pleasant and beautiful Save the young
boys and the young men will take care
of themselves
We believe every teacher should study
music and try to teach it You will
probably say I cant sing Can you
read Every teacher studies reading
and tries to teach it By trying to teach
the rudiments of music giving black
board exercises and singing lively
cheerful childrens songs you will not
only increase 3our own knowledge in
this heavenly science but will in
crease the interest in your school Mu
sic cultivates discipline and refines Its
power soothes the unruly pupil and
commands his respect for you We
believe the annual teachers institute
is the place to talk and teach this sub
ject The county institute officers can
do more than any one else If they
would engage a competent music teach
er as one of their normal faculty the
teachers would receive instruction that
would qualify them to teach this sub
ject If as much time were put on
music as any other branch in our
schools it would not be in the back
ground but would be considered as
important as any other branch We
cannot teach that which we have not
been aught Let us begin at the begin
ning to teach it We have boon teach
ing music in the public schools for four
ten years and have long been convinced
that music as an educator excels
G W Fields in Voice and Melody
Education and Learning
It is a very common error of the pop
lar mind to confound the education
with learning The phrase a well
educated man or a highly educated
man is not unfrequently applied to
one who has gone through a college or
university course with success In the
sense in which the word education is
more properly used a man may be
very learned and at the same time a
very illy educated person A man is
not necessarily a well educated man be
cause he commands the whole range of
mathematics biology sociology rind all
other allied sciences or is versed in
Greek dialects Latin prose or the
verse of Horace He may know fill
these and yet be very pooriy fitted ro
discharge the functions and duties of
life D M Delmas
Room at the Top
Never you mind the crowd lad
Or fancy your life wont tell
The work is a work for a that
To him that doeth it well
Fancy the world n hill lad
Look where the millions stop
Youll find the crowd at the base lad
Theres always room at the top
Courage and faith and patience
Theres space in the old world yet
The better the chance you- stand lad
The farther along you get 1 x
Keep your eye on the goal lad
Never despair nor drop
Be sure that your path leads upward
Theres always room at the top
Three TerseThoughts
No one who is at all familiar with
child life has failed to note how much
more a child can comprehend than it
can express The value of any process
in teaching is determined very largely
by the teacher who applies it We
must have order and quietness in rhe
schoolroom But we should ever re
Kteniber that order is not mechanical
neither is it thoughtless rig
idity It is a happy combination of
thought and action working toward the
one common purpose for which schools
exist at all F B Dresslar
Works for Her Tuition
Miss Clara Howard is working her
way through the University of Califor
nia Miss Howard refuses to be called
a new woman She does not believe in
woman suffrage nor bloomers nor
stump speaking for women but she
does believe in a woman getting an ed
ucation and a thorough one even if she
has to work for it Miss Howard is
delivering newspapers in order to pay
her way through the university She
has made several attempts to complete
her education and perfect herself in a
very ambitious line of work philoso
phy She originally entered college with
the class of 87 coming from Iowa Dur
ing her freshman year at the Berkeley
University the East Oregon govern-
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MISS CLAIiA HOWABD
ment land craze broke out She with
an only brother caught the fever and
left college for Oregon where she filed
upon a timber claim proved up on it
and homesteaded the property living
upon it with her brother while she com
plied with the legal requirements
When she had perfected the title she
returned to Berkeley and entered the
class of 9S as a special student in
philosophy She secured the Berkeley
agency for a San Francisco paper The
route was small and not very remuner
ative when she firsttook possession and
she filled the office of owner carrier and
solicitor She got the papers when they
arrived from San Francisco and deliv
ered them at the houses of her custo
mers She collected the bills for the
paper herself and in the time that was
left between collecting delivering pa-
pers and studying Kant she made a
house-to-house canvass of the entire
town of Berkeley for subscribers The
canvass was very successful for in a
short time she had secured enough ad
ditional subscribers to be able to em
ploy a number of small boys who now
deliver the papers while Miss Howard
does the collecting and soliciting to
keep the route up
Smiles
Father Why dont you sit down
Son This morning I asked you how
many made a million an you said
Darned few I told the teacher that
in the arithmetic class to day an thats
why I cant sit down School Board
Journal
Correction to be effective should be
prompt but not too prompt
I is began Tommy when his-
teacher - interrupted him That is
wrong you should say I am Tom
my accepted the rebuke with becoming
docility and continued I am the ninth
letter of the alphabet Harpers Ba
zar
A class of boys had this sentence
given them for correction We saw
a marble bust of Sir Walter Scott en
tering the vestibule One of the boys
handed in the following version which
bears evidence of having been made in
the springtime Entering the vesti
bule we saw Sir Walter Scott bust a
marble
The following composition was writ
ten by a ten-year-old nephew of Josh
Billings when the teacher gave him
Dogs and Cats for a subject Dogs
and kats always flte ech uther when
tha git a chance but a dog aint no
match for a kat because a kat Kin
make her tail biggern a ball club and
run up a tree whjl a dogs gittin riddy
School Board Journal
CAUGHT BY A CABLE
The Strange Accident that Befell a
Whale in the Oceans Depths
Submarine cables are usually imbed
ded in the slimy bottom of the ocean
but at certain points they hang like
wire bridges over deep submarine val
leys so that whales and other large in
habitants of the deep may become dan
generous to the cable Once in a while it
is the cable that becomes dangerous to
the whales as recently shown in an ac
cident to the western Brazilian line
There was some difficulty with the
wire and after many futile efforts the
seat of the trouble was discovered 7G
miles north of Santa Catharina The
cable ship Viking was sent to repair the
damage aad began to take up the wire
After the cable proper had been grap
pled and was -wound to the surface on
the large drums provided for the pur
pose it was found that it floatedtvery
much easier and was more buoyant
than is usually the case
The reason was discovered when in
a loop of the cable the carcass of a
whale of more than sixty feet in length
came into view It appears that the
whale had become caught under the
cable and not being able to lift it nor
to go forward nor back it became suffo
cated By its last spasms or attempts
to free itself the vhale had damaged
the cable so that the insulation was
rubbed off and the wire became useless
Colored emigrants starting from
Washington to Monrovia in Liberia
would have before them a voyage of
3G45 miles
THE BLACK CASTLE
A Stronghold and Palace Erected by
King Herod in Judca
Eastward from the dull and almost
waveless waters of the Dead Sea there
is a wild and gloomy land of moun
tainous heights and dark precipitous
ravines On ohe of the highest points
of rock overlooking the surrounding
country Herod had constructed over
the ruins of a former fort the strong
hold and palace of Machaerus orThe
Black Castle A town had grown up
near by with heathen temples a the
ater and places of trades and
facture The palace had been made
so splendid that Herod preferredifca3
a residence especially as It was close
to the frontier of Judea and as from
it he could readily go toiny other part
of his dominions unwatched and -unimpeded
Here at least he ccujd rdoi
whatever he pleased and all prisoners
were at his
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It was by no means safe for a
to draw near to the frowning gates
of the citadel of Machaerus but the
disciples of John did come again and
again only to be refused admission
For a long time therefore the Bap
tizer was in comparative ignorance of
what might be going on in the great
world beyond the castle walls Its
kings might come or go its kingdoms
might rise or fall its cities might pros
per or perish and no news of all could -penetrate
the solid stone that walledt
him in
A deep dark rock hewn room was
that dungeon under the citadel of
Machaerus High up near the outer
level was a cell with one small win
dow and a heavy barred and grated
door
Its occupant was a gaunt tall un
couth man in a coarse tunic of camels
hair girded with a broad belt of leath
er He had preached to multitudes
and he and his disciples had baptized
vast numbers He had actually brought
about aa important reformation in
public morals but more than all he
had proclaimed himself one sent to de
clare the speedy coming of another
mightier than I concerning whom
the people who heard John obtained
only a vague idea But Johns hearers
were encouraged to expect the King
who was to restore the throne and
crown of David
Whatever John had understood or
expected his work seemed ended for
there was no possible escape from
Herods dungeon St Nicholas
Cleanest in the World
The cleanest town in the world is said
to be in Broek in Holland It is only a
few miles from the capital and has
been famous for its cleanliness from
time immemorial It is also notable
on account of the fanciful style of its
houses and yards and gardens and
streets
The people though only peasants are
all well-to-do and it is evident that
they feel a just prifle in their town It
seems to be the first business of their
lives to keep their houses freshly paint
ed their gardens in perfect order and
their yards and streets as clean as a
parlor
Though the raising of stock and the
making of butter arid cheese aretheir
occupations a stranger would never
imagine that there were any cattle in
the region unless he went to the beau
tiful green meadows at the back of the
houses or the stables out therewhere
cows are kept in stalls scrubbed and
washed like a kitchen
No cattle are allowed in the streets
which are too fine -and neat for the feet
of the animals to step on while the
roadways are paved with a bright kind
of stone intermingled with bricks of
different colors and are kept scrupu
lously clean
The Desire to LeaveaName
We have an involuntary reverence
for all witnesses of history be they
animate or inanimate men animals
or stones The desire to leave a- work
behind is In every man and man child
from the strong leader who plants hus
fame in a nations glory and teaches
unborn generations to knbw him to
the boy who carves his initials upon
his desk at school Few women have
it Perhaps the wish to be remembered
is what fills that one ounce or so of
matter by which modern statisticians
assert that the average mans brain is
heavier than the average womans
The wish in ourselves makes us re
spect the satisfaction of it which the
few obtain Probably few men have
not secretly longed to see their names
set up for ages like the Paulus V
Borghesius over the middle of the
portico of St Peters high above the
entrance to the most vast monument
of human hands in existence fModesty
commands the respect of many but
it is open success that appeals to al
most all mankind But Pasquin laugh
ed
The corner is Peters but the whole front
Pauls t
What then
Not being Peters the house is built for
Paul
-Century
What Rings Cost j
Have you any idea of the price of
the most costly ring ever made askedv
Mrs Watts looking up from her paper
from which she had been reading about-
jewels
Dunno answered Mr Watts I
know the one I put on your finger has
been costing me from 2000 to 2500
a year ever since Indianapolis Jour
nal
A Mystery of Vision
The ancient naturalists anatomists
and opticians had a great deal of trou
ble in explaining why it was that only
a single image resulted from double
vision In fact it was not until the
stereoscope was invented that the- phe
nomenon was generally understood
Even Spurzheim attempted to explain
it by declaring that only one eye waa
actlve at a time