r V YxL l OK -d GRUMBLING AT DINGLEYISM The Dingley tariff tax bill has been jammed through the House of Rep resentatives but that was the least of its trials and tribulations The scru tiny of the Senate has yet to come and he weather will be pretty warm at Washington before the debates in the upper Louse are likely to terminate In the meantime the New York Chamber of Commerce in which the importing interest is strong and keen sighted has opened a fire in the rear upon President McKiulcys favorite measure and incidentally upon the policy of the MeKinley administration This is important as the Chamber of Commerce has now a quasi repre sentative in the Presidential Cabinet in the person of Secretary Bliss It in dicates serious trouble in the Repub lican ranks The men who have met in the Chamber of Commerce and re solved against the Diugley bill are those who always furnish the sinews -of war to the Republican managers Jisjid whose contributions turned the scale last November for the Ohio can didate They have not acted without i purpose and their purpose will have weight in embarrassing the administra tion and perpetuating the schism in the party in that State The following are the resolutions adopted by the Cham ber of Commerce and aimed at Presi dent MeKinley Halved Tlisit the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York express its earnest conviction that the tariff bill now before the House of Represntatives in many of its pro visions is excessive ami likely to invite re aetion harmful to business and to the best interests of the country and that it should be earefullv revised In the direction of a re duction of the rates of duty proposed to the end that a svstem of tariff taxation may be adopted that shall be reasonably permanent and that shall insure to the business inter ests of the country a certain measure of im munity from early change Kesolvcd That a copy of the foregoing re port and resolution be transmitted to each member of Congress KeMJlvod That the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York Invite the co-operation of the commercial and trade organiza tions of other cities and throughout the country gresss in urging tuese views upon vi- Barjraina in High Places Associate ludge Stephen J Field of the United States Supreme Court an nounces his purpose to soon place his resignation of his high office in the hands of President MeKinley and to retire from official duties which the infirmities of age have rendered irk some The Judge is the senior member of the court having been appointed to it as a war Democrat in partisan desig nation by President Lincoln He is a brother of the late Cyrus W Field and was a member of the rather prominent Endand family of the Fields who fc rii - fr oirn WOVi nil 11101f i iitiiviuiiiju vl nv i -- or less active in public life It is under stood that Judge Field will be succeed ed in office as judge by Mr McKenna at present Attorney General of the United States by President McKinleys selection so that there will still be one Pacific Coast judge on that high bench out of nine members and the under standing and compact by which the present Cabinet was made up will not be broken It was the purpose of Mr MeKinley to gratify the sugar trust which had so largely contributed to Boss Hannas campaign fund by the appointment of Mr John J McCook -as Attorney General but the clamor which was raised against it deterred him from hasty action It was then proposed to take McKenna from his life office as District Judge and put him into the Cabinet till Judge Field should as he soon must resign Then McKenna can have Fields place and McCook perhaps have McKeunas 11111 Bliss may come back to New York iigain and all will be satisfactory and iiappy Judge Field decided to leave the bench years ago but waited for Presi dent Cleveland to precede him in g office New York Aews Vigorous Republican Protest The Boston Transcript is a Repub lican paper but it is plain spoken in denouncing the proposed tariff on lum ber It is simply a measure to pick the pockets and crush the industry of a large useful and influential class of American citizens It is uneconomic unscientific suicidal The statements upon which this schedule was made up are shown to have been insidious and misleading The result will be to strip the country not of an annually recur ring income but of its white pine prin cipal which at present rates is with in ten years of exhaustion and also to ruin a large class of business men in the country who deserve better things It does not seem possible that men claiming to represent the people Avill permit such a measure to have the force of law If they do it will cease to be folly and became iniquity Bos Ton Transcript The Barbarians in Washington The proposed duty on books almost justifies the declaration of a contem porary that the legislative branch cf the national government is in the hands of barbarians Civilized people regard knowledge as of importance and do everything in their power to promote it They found institutions of learning They levy taxes to support them They pass laws to compel chil dren to go to school But the Republi cans in Congress take a different view Rochester Herald Dinjrleyism Inde Eidicnloui Even stanch protection journals are finding independent voice sufficient to make an audible whimper over Ding leys tax on art and learning They looked with approval on schedules that will send gloom into every humble household in the land thelirst Satur day night after the Dingle bill is a law But they are quite upset by the fact that Dingley has been completely logical and has laid his brutal raxes on the things of the mind as well as on the things of the body Tho other schedules are melancholy This anti education schedule is ridiculous New York World Showing Unusually Indecent Ilnsi The retroactive clause in the Dingley tariff bill as passed by the House is simply another defiance of fate by ex tremists who are intoxicated with a wholly foruitous grasp of power v If it were possible to believe that the Sen ate would adopt this monstrous pro vision the effect upon trade and upon customs receipts would be simply para lyzing The adoption of such an unheard-of provision simply betrays the eagerness of the tariff framers to give the trusts and monopolies an immediate control of our markets They cannot wait even to pass the new schedules of extortion in the usual way New York World The Retroactive Tariff Xaw The retroactive clause of the Dingiey bill may or may not be unconstitution al It is certainly absurd unjust and destructive If enacted it -would be about the most troublesome statute that officials were ever called upon to administer It proposes to put a law into effect before it is enacted and even before it is at all certain that it ever will be enacted It proposes to nullify existing law in advance of its repeal It proposes to subject business to bur dens that existing law does not impose and to collect taxes again upon goods that have once paid all the taxes inv posed by law New York World Housewives Will Again Be Heard History will certainly repeat itself in the matter of tariff stimulated prices What came to pass in 1S90 was the pre cursor of the events of 1S97 There was no more potent factor in enforcing the sound and wholesome doctrine of the tariff reformer seven years ago than the marking up of prices announced by tradesmen in their newspaper tisements and the unwelcome discov ery which the housewives made when they went to trade that their dollar would not go as far as formerly De troit Free Tress Laws Needed to Keep Senators Honest The people of the country will not be very enthusiastic over the resolution introduced in the Senate by one of the Senators from Nebraska which is de signed to forbid Congressmen to spec ulate in stocks and other properties whose market value is susceptible to the influence of legislation The idea of asking the Senate to enact a law compelling itself to be honest would be a good deal more grotesque if the his tory of the past thirty years had not been made Sioux City Tribune The Insane Republican Policy The political insanity of the Repuo lican leaders in proceeding at once to impose additional tariff burdens upon the people and subordinating every other governmental concern to this sin gle line of policy is becoming more and more apparent The best men in the Republican party realize the danger that lies in the Dingley policy but their warnings are unheeded Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad Manchester N H Union Not Imperious in His Demands The political ambition of Henry C Payne of Wisconsin is of the sliding scale sort First he wanted to be a member of the Cabinet but there were others and he was satisfied Then he wanted a foreign embassy but conclud ed that he couldnt afford to spend 30000 of his own money every year simply for the honor of living in Ger many And now he wants to be a plain every day Senator from Wisconsin Springfield Mass Republican A Dingley Monstrosity Under the Dingley bill the President is authorized to impose duties on arti cles that we not only do not produce at all but which are now and long have been on the free list These include coffee tea and hides In putting a re taliatory duty on these things the Pres ident says that something shall pay a duty which the bill itself declares is free of duty Here is evidently an ob vious and ridiculous contradiction Boston Globe The House Out of a Job We are told that the House of Rep resentatives at Washington expects to have nothing practically to do while the Senate is considering the tariff and that its intention is to adjourn over three days regularly during that time It has begun in this way and if the policy is continued the members will have ample leisure to engage in their errand boy duties for their con stituents Boston Herald Canada Ready to Kick Back Two bills have been introduced in the Dominion Parliament to bar Amer ican laborers from entering Canada in search of work Thus the work of re taliation has begun and the prescrip tive statesmen who run the Congress of the United States are reminded that there are others who can play at the same game Kansas City Star ELECTRIC RAILWAYS Reported Discovery Which Makes Long Distance Roads Possible The last obstacle to the gradual sub stitution of electricity for steam as the motive power for railway travel seems to have been removed Engineers who have been working for years in the development of electric motors have at last reported the success of what is known as the alternating current sys tem as distinguished from the direct current system now in universal use on trolley lines in cities Experiments with the alternating current system have demonstrated that it can be used on long distance electric lines at a cost much below the installation and opera tion of steam motors for like distances The first commercial demonstration of the feasibility of the new system is to be made on a line between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Mich early in the present season and contracts have also been let for a long distance line between Detroit and Port Huron Mich to be equipped with the alternat ing current system The great saving as between the present and the new system is in the cost of copper wire for installation The system now used on trolley lines everywhere is a low volt age and direct current requiring an immense amount of wire that increas es in amount proportionate to the length of the line The expense of this installation has hitherto prevented active competition with the steam roads The alternating current system carries a high voltage on the main feed wire and at intervals along the line the current is deflected into transform ers which reduce the voltage to a uni form power which is taken up by the car motors The alternating system can be installed the engineers say at a cost which will render it impossible for steam roads to successfully com pete The advantage to the public in a general substitution of electricity for steam will be in improved and cheap er service Smaller trains and more of them will be the rule as it is cheap er to run at frequent intervals with out waiting for heavy loads as the steam roads do rJie lessened cost of operation will undoubtedly reduce fares especially where as in all like lihood there will be active rivalry be tween competing roads The engin eering departments of the steam roads which maintain special suburban ser vices are said to be ready to forestall this competition by equipping their suburban lines with electricity Some of the roads running out of Chicago are expected to make this change dur ing the present year It will doubtless be but a question of time when the trip from Chicago to New York can be made by daylight in from eight to ten hours The electrical engineers say they are now ready to furnish motors that will develop abs tained speed of from 100 to 150 miles an hour The resources of railroad en- 4 gineering must now be concentrated on lije development of roadbeds and run niLjr gear that will meet the speed ca pacity of the electric motors Chicago Chronicle Boys and Wildcat A dispatch from Inez Ky to the New York Sun relates a stirring adven ture that lately befell John and Will iam Anderson fifteen and seventeen years old who went out with dogs af ter opossums They had been out only a short time when the dogs treed what was suppos ed to be an opossum By the dim light of the lantern the boys could see the animal in the tree and William at once proceeded to climb it to shake the game down to the dogs When he came near the creature it made a savage spring toward him and he lost his hold and fell with the beast to the ground The animal proved to be a large wildcat and it quickly kill ed both dogs and then jumped on Will iam who was lying on the ground with a broken arm and a wrenched leg The younger of the boys drew a knife his only weapon and tackled the cat which left his brother and came at him After a hard fight the boy came off victor but he was badly scratched and his clothes were almost entirely gone The boys will be laid up for some time The wildcat meas ured over three feet and is the first one seen in that country for some time The Vice of Overeating How much harm is done to health by our one sided and excessive diet no one can say Physicians tell us that it is very great Of the vice of overeat ing as practiced by the well-to-do class es in England especially Sir Henry Thompson a noted English- physician and authority on this subject says I have come to the conclusion that more than half the disease which em bitters the middle and latter part of life is due to avoidable errors in diet and that more mischief in the form of actual disease of impaired vigor and shortened life accrues to civilized man in England and throughout Central Eu rope from erroneous habits of eating than from the habitual use of alcoholic drink considerable as I know that evil to be Sanitarium Lightning Made to Order Many scientists have doubted the ex istence in fact of globular lightning attributing the statements of its exist ence to some kind of optical delusion Prof Rigi of Bologna however an nounces that he has produced it artifi cially and that not only has he suc ceeded in making its motion slow enough to be followed by the eye but lias been able in certain cases to ob tain luminous masses which actually remained stationary for sufficient time to be photographed No one likes to be told that he is looking in perfect health for the rea son that it is a condition which admits absolutely of no sympathy ftOTES ON EDUCATION MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PU PIL AND TEACHER Child 9tudy a Mcants Rather than an End Advantages of the Kinder gartenHints to Young Teachers How to Rest Educational Notes Child Study Tim Teachers Institute in the follow ing sensible paragraph emphasizes the fact that child study is a means rath en than an end It says The gravest danger of the present widespread Inter est in scientific child study is that teachers are apt to regard the school as a laboratory for enriching their knowledge of children and of child na ture instead of attending to the enrich ment of the minds of their pupils It is all very well to say that the child can not be well taught until his mental moral and physical make up is well un derstood But this trying to get better acquainted must not consume too much time First it ought to be presupposed that a person who is appointed as teach er is already acquainted with the char acteristics of child nature in a general way and is capable of readily diagnos ing individualities of children just as a licensed phjsician is supposed to be able to give a diagnosis of the physical condition Secondly every teacher ought to have a plan of incidentally gathering the additional observations necessary to form a correct judgment of the peculiarities noticeable in some pupils After school hours these inci dentally collected data may be entered in a special book kept for purposes of gradually obtaining a record of the educationalprogress and peculiar needs of the various pupils Child study must not be made an end in itself so far as the teacher is concerned It is only one means of learning how best to educate a child How can I best pro mote the educational growth of the children This is the question The scientists who wish to work out a new psychology of childhood grand as their bbject is must not be permitted to substitute their object for that for which the schools are founded and maintained the education of our fu ture citizens Educational Record Kindergarten Training I favor with all my heart child train ing but I believe the kindergarten the place par excellence for the practice of it says a writer in the Housekeeper I can give all my carefully considered reasons and I am prepared to speak from experience No such thing was known when I fitted my oldest children for school This I could and did do at home but the one thing I could not do was to give them the habit of sitting still for short periods at a time and this to an active child is the one great hardship of the first weeks of school The active little body that has had five or ten years of freedom suffers intense ly when compelled to sit upright and keep quiet as a scholar must do in an ordinary school This is one of the great benefits the child receives from a kindergarten training He is taught to sit erect in his cute baby chair with folded arms for an instant at a time and it is a pleasure for him to do so Then prob ably he is called into line and march ed promptly around to brisk music just about as long as it is good for him and then likely as not he is set weav ing bright strips of paper Not when he is so restless that every little mus cle in him aches to move but when he is so good and tired that he enjoys sit ting still to weave In this way does the child uncon sciously form the habit of sitting quite still at times forms the habit of repose in hands and feet as well as body This once acquired adds more to the childs comfort than the knowledge of the multiplication table I was one of the active little ones kept at home from the contaminating influences until I was 8 years old and I shall never for get the terras of misery I suffered trying to keep still during my first school years Rest To understand how to rest is of more importance than to know how to work The latter can be learned easily the former it takes years to learn and some people never learn the art of rest ing It is simply a change of scenes and activities Loafing may not be resting Sleeping is not always rest ing Sitting down for days with noth ing to do is not restful A change is needed to bring into play a different set of faculties and to turn the life into a new channel The man who works hard finds his best rest in playing hard The man who is burdened with care finds relief in something that is active yet free from responsibility Above all keep good natured and dont abuse your best friend the stomach Written Work Written work will call out qualities which could not be revealed by viva voce questions The oral examina tion is good for intellectual stimulus for bracing up the student to rapid and prompt action for deftness and bright ness But oral answers are necessarily discontinuous and fragmentary The pupil receives help and suggestion at every moment from the play of the teachers countenance from the an swers given by his fellows Whatever of unity and sequence there is in the treatment of the work is the teachers work not the pupils and until you subject him to the test of writing you have no security that he has grasped the subject as a whole or that he is master of the links that bind one part of that subject to another Fitchs lectures Breakin r Dcwn People break down not so much from hard work as from -their mental atti tude toward their occupation or from some other unwholesome state induced by environment If you love your work and understand the higher law of being so as to draw a constant sup ply of strength you can labor untiring ly If you are engaged In work dis tasteful to you either change your bus iness or change your attitude toward it If you cannot realize your ideal 3ou can idealize your real says a preacher who is also a philosopher Hints to Teachers Do not assume prerogatives which do not belong to you Do not take a position for which you are not competent Receive their direction as from those who have the right Assume that in fact they conform to the will of the people Do not try to be a radical reformer unless you are very young If you must turn things upside down resign and take to lecturing Remember that the school boards officially represent the people Do not forget that you are hired to serve the people not to reform them Recognize that school boards have rights which you are bound to respect As long as you remain in- their em ploy perform the duties they require of you Do not try to enforce opinions in which you are not seconded by the board Show yourself able and willing to do what you want done and they Avill rarely fail to do what you want done Elevate public sentiment by long continued quiet effective work but do not attempt it by loud talk or flashy measures If you really know how to direct the affairs of the school better than they do they will recognize the fact if you give them time If the directors will not sustain you in those measures which are absolutely essential to your success shake the dust of their vicinity from your feet as soon as possible Minnehaha Teacher Notes York Pa is to have a new high school wrhich is to cost 100000 Of the 303 students enrolled at La fayette College fifty are preparing to become teachers In Greece teachers are superannua ted after twenty one years of service regardless of age The University of Paris has 2S0 law students and 8175 medical students of the latter 154 are women In Spain there are 22980 eleinentary schools The salary of the teacher ranges from 25 to 100 per annum Cornell University has 1703 students enrolled The faculty numbers 175 ten new instructors having been ap pointed Several editions of Virgil valued at 50000 have been presented to the Princeton Library Association by Jun ius S Morgan of New York In the Southern States there are thirty-two colleges and 162 schools of a high grade devoted to the advanced education of the negro race Out of 900 students at Armour in stitute Chicago more than 450 are women eager to learn housework as an art and do away with drudgery Here are taught different branches of the domestic arts as a profession milli nery dressmaking plain sewing pro fessional nursing home nursing etc Graduates have been known to cook their own wedding breakfasts and many have made their own wedding trousseaux Remedy for Freckles Surgeon Major Wrafter in a letter to the Calcutta Medical Reporter says a question has lately been asked there of a wash or remedy to remove freckles from a childs face something simple and harmless it being for a tender skin As the term implies ephelis or freckles are pigmentary spots seated in the retemucosum usually met with on the face and backs of the hands in children having red hair and a deli cate skin and are without question produced from prolonged exposure to the rays of the sun in hot weather as common experience declares but it is evident that the solar influence must act upon a susceptible skin They vary in size from a pins head to a lentil and are of a brown color they become darker during the summer but do not usually disappear entirely in the win ter months They are of no pathologi cal importance and can scarcely be mistaken for any other cutaneous affec tion The following is a perfectly harmless preparation for removing freckles of the skin Take two ounces of lemon juice half a drachm of powdered borax and one drachm of white sugarr Mix them and let them stand a few days in a glass stoppered bottle till the liquor is fit for use then rub it on the hands and face occasionally How Plants Breathe One of the prettiest microscopical studies is the examination of the lungs of a plant Most people do not know that a plant has lungs and its lungs are in its leaves Examined through a high power microscope every leaf will show thousands upon thousands of openings infinitely small of course but each provided with lips which in many species are continually opening and closing These openings lead to tiny cavities in the body of the leaf and by the opening and closing of the cavity air is constantly passing in and out so that the act of respnation is con tinually going on and the sap of the plant in this waj becomes purified Profitable Betting The election winnings of a Madison Ky man a hat and a butcher knife were exchanged for a horse and ine horse he sold later for 150 V The Wonderful Kava Kava Shrub A New Botanical Discovery Ol Special Interest to Sufferers from Diseases of the Kidneys or Blad der Rheumatism etc A Blessingr to Humanity A Free Gift of Great Value to You Oar readers -will be glad to know that the new botanical discovery Alkavis from the wonderful Kava Kava shrub has proved an assured cure for all dis eases caused by unc acid in the blood or by disordered action of the Kidneys or urinaryorgans The Kava Kava Shrub or as botanists call it Piper Methys iicum grows on the banks of the Ganges yy l river uast inoia STheKjlva Kava Shrub and probably was Piper Xcthysticum used for centuries by the natives before its extraordinary properties became known to civilization through Christian missionaries In this respect it resembles the discovery of quinine from the peruvian bark made known by the Indians to the early Jesuit missionaries in South America and by them brought to civilized man It is a wonderful discovery with a- rec ord of I2CO hospital cures in 30 days It acts directly upon the blood and kid neys and is a true specific just as qui nine is in malaria We have the strong est testimony of many ministers of tho gospel well known doctors and business men cured by Alkavis when all other remedies had failed In the New York Weekly World of Sept 10th the testimony of Rev W B aioore D D ol Washington D C was given describing hia years of suffering from Kidney disease and Rheumatism and bis rapid cure by Alkavis Rev Thomas Smith the Methodist minister at Cobden Illinois passed nearly one hundred gravel stones after two weeks use of Alkavis Rev John HWatson of SunsetTexas a minister of thego3pel of thirty years service was struck down at his post of duty by Kidney disease After hovering between life and death for two months and all his doctors having failed ha took Alkavis and wa3 completely restored tcr liealth and strength and is fulfill inghis duties a J ministerof the gospel Mr R C Wood a prom inent attorney of Lowell Indiana was cured of Rheumatism Kidney and Bladder disease often years standing by Alkavis Mr Wood describe himself as being in constant misery often com pelled to rise ten times during the night on account of weakness of the bladder Me war treated by aU BU home -physicians without tha least benefit and finally completely cured in s few weeks by Alkavis The testimony is un doubted and really wonderful Mrs Tames young of Kent Ohio writes that she had tried six doctors in vain that she was about to giv up in despair when she found Alkavis and wa promptly cured of kidney disease and restored to health Many other ladies also testify to the wonderful curative powers of Alkavis in th various disorders peculiar to womanhood So far the Church Kidney Cure Com pany No 410 Fourth Avenue New York are the only importers of thia new remedy and they are so anxious to prove its value that for the sake of intro duction they will send a free treatment of Alkavis prepaid by mail to every reader of this paper who is a Sufferer from aay form of Kidney or Bladder disorder Brights Disease Rheuma tism Dropsy Gravel Pain in Back Female Complaints or other affliction due to improper action of the Kidneys or Urinary Organs We advise all Suf arers to send their names and address to the company and receive the Alkavis free It is sent to you entirely free to Drove its wonderful curative power Empress Dislikes tho Wheel Princess Frederick Leopold of Prus sia who began bicycling secretly has been forbidden to continue so doing by the German Empress on the ground that it is not ladylike Her majesty has conceived a violent dislike for bi cycling and has prevailed upon tho Emperor to discontinue the practice Tor Fifty Cents Over 400000 cured Why not let No-To-Baa regulate or remove your desire for tobacco Saved money makes health and manhood Cure guaranteed 50c and 1 all druggist- Won the Cup What are these cups for asked a well dressed man of a jeweler point ing to some elegant silver cups on thfr ounter These are race cups to be given as prizes If thats so suppose you and I race for one And the stranger 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erly be called Spring Humors and just as there is one cause a cure ia found in just one remedy and that is Hoods Sarsaparilla Hoods Sarsaparilla purifies the impure blood enriches blood which is weak and thin vitalizes blood which lacks vitality Thus it reaches every part of the human system For your Spring Medicine to prevent or cure Spring Humors take Sarsaparilla lt One True Blood Purifiar Gat enly Hooua Hnnd Pi11 are the opiy pills to Mm iiuuu jj r ius wiUi Hoods SarsaDaillla