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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1897)
llOUEKT GOOD Kilitor and Prop VALENTINE NEBRASKA Even a successful plunger cannot af ford lo plunge indiscriminately See Barnato Mark Twain says there are only fifty jokes in the world Perhaps that la one of them The plan to free China would he more commendable if it was to freo China from the Chinese A change of typewriters in a bank sometimes might render unnecessary a change of venue later on One of the largest electric light plants in the world is being made in 3STew York for Southern Brazil 15000 lights Pensacola is advertising a corn fair to be held in the near future What is this A State convention of chiropo dists Will some one kindly explain why a weather bureau which costs 900000 a year turns out predictions worth only 9 cents a dozen Every day is a little life and our -whole life is but a day repeated Those therefore that dare lose a day are dan gerously prodigal Why on earth should any one want to pursue the little King of Spain with dynamite Are there no laths or trunk straps in all Castile There are in round numbers lG00u 000 horses in the country nominally valued at 1000000000 but now not -worth over 770000000 The English laws are very rigorous 4ut it is much easier even in London for a rich kleptomaniac to get out of pris on than for a poor thief to do so One of the agencies which could be directed against this country in case of a war is the 15000000 recently ac quired by his Grace the Duke of Marl borough A New York paper raises a question as to whether a kiss has any value or Dot That depends a New York kiss lias no commercial value in Chicago for instance A railroad exchange says it costs 117 to stop a train going at full speed If it is stopped by another train going in the opposite direction it sometimes costs more A Nebraska man was shown about town by two affable Chicago strangers and it cost him 1100 Personally conducted tours of that sort como pret ty high usually An Alabama conductor has just had to pay 245 for kissing a pretty girl jiassenger No man Avith such a blast ing destructive kiss as that ought to he allowed at large The St Paul Theosophical Society is billed to discuss Dreams and Their Causes Makers of mince pies prob ably will be interested in the outcome of this investigation The total length of common roads in this country mostly bad is 1300000 miles Much is said concerning plans for their improvement but not too much for the size of the lield England owns a little island made entirely of chalk It doesnt amount to much in a- commercial point of view Tut the power that attempts to wipe it off the map will get into trouble A New Jersey youngster who was rejected by a girl the other day hasnt tried yet to shoot her nor has he com mitted suicide It is now thought that the unfortunate young man is hope lessly sane Although America claims to be ahead of the world in all kinds of mechanical devices it is noted that underground trolleys have been operated for some time in Budapest but cannot be made to work in this country The estate of the late Mr Have Tneyer the sugar king remarks a New York paper is less than 4000000 We never realized before what a close resemblance there was between Mr Havemeyer and ourselves in money matters James Johnson who is described by a St Louis paper as the toughest con Tict in the Missouri penitentiary has petitioned the Governor for a pardon on the ground that he wants to go to the Klondike gold fields Wouldnt he prefer some good seaside resort As long as promises are flippantly and plentifully made without care or thought or judgment so long will they Te lightly and frequently broken If they are to be kept with strictness and fidelity they must be made with intel ligence and circumspection A contemporary in Yazoo City Miss Bays Miss Flora Bowney of Valley View is seeking health and pleasure ix our midst and many of our young zir x are suffering the sweet torture of her presence0 Jamacia ginger is said to 2e good lor that sort of thing Japans Diet voted 45000000 for the construction of railroads telegraphs cables at its last session and 000000 for the construction and pur chase of Avar materials and ships Since January 1S95 000000000 has been Invested by Japanese in banks rail roads and other companies But there is a fatality a feeling so ir resistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom Avhich almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt the spot Avhere some great and marked event has given color to their life time and still more irresist ibly the darker the tinge that sad dens it We must have a weak spot or two in a character before Ave can l0Areit much People that do not laugh or cry or take more of anything than is good for them r use anything but dictionary words are admirable subjects for biographies But Ave dont ahvays care most for those flat pattern flowers that press best in the herbarium A New York man avIio has the Klon dike fever is not disposed to be satis fied Avith a grub stake merely He in one of the papers of that city Gentleman 39 desires to meet lady Avith money to go to Alaska mat rimony Shooting the rapids in Alas ka on a raft built for two avouUI not L an unromantic Avedding journey A NeAV York laborer accumulated a stock of horse shoes to the number of 200 as luck breeders and he did this in thirteen years All but one shoe missed fire and the exception was Avhen he Avas detained at home Avith a toothache and his Avife could not join a theater party that night The theater burned doAvn and there is Avhere the shoe counted When a NeAV York laAvyer locks horns with the English language Websters dictionary has no chance at all to Avin even a place The other day the cigar ette trust Avas indicted for having hnv fully Avickedly unjustly oppressively and maliciously conspired combined confederated and agreed to control and monopolize the making and ATending of cigarettes And yet they claim lan guage Avas invented to conceal thought A girl who is blind and deaf and avho is without the senses of smell and taste has passed the Harvard examination and Avill enter the annex to the univer sity Radcliffe at a younger age than most freshmen She is Miss Helen Kel lar singularly alliicted Avith burdens conspicuously endOAved Avith genius What matchless perseverance and pa tience must this maid possess thus to surmount obstacles that seem lo toAvei miles above the possibilities of human endeavor It is suggested that Avhat some people vant is sleep holidays They do not aeed to go to Avatering places and sum mer hotels and to be entertained by a cound of gayety Avith a band always playing There may be something in he contention that a greater amount of sleep is required by people noAA adays especially brain Avorkers than Avas for merly the case Nicola Tesla the elec trician is credited Avith saying that he believes a man might live two hun dred years if he would sleep most of the time That is Avhy negroes often live to advanced old age because they sleep so much lie also alluded to the current report that Mr Gladstone now sleeps seventeen hours every day A pathetic appeal for aid comes to the GoA ernment from Chamberlain S D Chasing Crane who is described asaLoAverBrule Sioux has sacrificed his health for Uncle Sam and he asks a pension Chasings case seems to de mand prompt attention The aged Sioux is battle scarred and the hero of many a light but for these he asks no reAA ards P - nas served for a year as a soldier in the regular army and has been stationed during this time in Fort Omaha but this he passes by Avithout demur EndoAAed Avith a strong consti tution he endured the rigors of fort life Avith fortitude until confronted by the Government rations It appears he struggled bravely Avith the insidious foe Thrice daily he met the enemy and seldom failed to doAvn it But his vigor was being sapped by the unequal battle and after these many days of struggle he stands confessed a con quered and broken Sioux It is a sad story this of Chasing Crane If he proves he ate these rations daily throughout all this year it is difficult to see hoAV a pension can be withheld and the papers can be expected soon duly indorsed Wounded by a Nations ra tions Influence of the imagination Fear lias killed many a man before to day There is an old story of a king AA hose favorite was condemned to die for a crime Before his execution Iioav ever it Avas discovered that he Avas in nocent and the king in order to give his iaAorite and agreeable surprise took the place of the executioner using a toAvei instead of an axe But the man was killed as instantly as if his head had been cut off In modern times some French men ot science obtained permission to perform similar experiment on a man con demned to be guillotined They bound him to a table and told him that arte ries Avould be opened in A arious parts of his body and that he would be bled to death He could not expect to live more than half an hour He Avas then blindfolded He Avas pricked in various parts of the body and at the end of half an hour Avas dead although he had lost very little blood TIic Common Goal Hurry Whats theigreat aim of mod ern life Scurry To be rich enough to get ev erything one doesnt want Brooklyn Life VIEWS OF ALTGELD EX GOVENOR TALKS TO PHILA DELPHIA WORKINGMEN Federal Judiciary Aldinjj Corpora tions to Destroy the Republic Gov ernment Ownership and Control of Monopolies Desired Address to Labor Ex Go v John P Altgeld of Illinois ad dressed an audience of several thousand people at Washington Park Philadelphia Monday afternoon His subject Avas Municipal and Government Ownership and Government by Injunction The event which brought the ex Governor to Philadelphia was the Labor Day celebra tion by the United Labor League Pres ident Ernest Kreft occupied the chair and made the opening address Ex Gov Alt geld spoke in part as follows The most serious problem that confronts the people of America to day is that of res cuing their cities their States and the Fed eral Government including the Federal judi ciary from absolute control of corporate monopoly How to restore the voice of the citizen in the government of his country and how to put an end to those proceedings in some of the higher courts which are farce and mockery on one side and a criminal usur pation and oppression on the other Corporations that were to be servants and begged the privilege of supplying cities with conveniences or of serving the country at large have become masters AVe have had thirtv vears of colorless poli tics in which both of the political parties were simply conveniences for organized greed There was nothing to arouse the deep slumbering patriotism of the masses and a race of politicians came to the front many of whom had no convictions but strad dled every proposition and then waited to be seduced They were men who made every promise to the laborer and then betrayed him Then men became instruments through Avhich the corporations worked Having learned that vast sums can be ex torted from the American people the mo nopolies used a part of the wealth they got from this source to corrupt the peoples rep resentatives and thus obtained unlimited privileges of plunder until almost every great city in this country is tied and gagged and cannot even enter a protest while being robbed All of this falls with crushing force on the laborer for his hands must earn the taxes the landlord pays he is forced to depend on the public conveniences and always suffers under bad government An individual rarely has Interest enough or money enough to bribe a city council or buy a legislature Uut the corporations have both and as the money all comes off the public they offer temptations that are too strong for the average man to resist Inasmuch as no government can endure in which corrupt greed not only makes the law but decides who shall construe them many of our best citizens are beginning to despair of the republic Every one of the great reforms carried out in England and on the continent met with tierce opposition from the same classes that oppose them here but the business sense and patriotic impulse of the people prevailed and I believe will prevail here Even if private corporations were to serve us cheaper and better than we could serve ourselves we will be forced to take the cor porations in order to prevent free institu tions from being overthrown by corruption This reason did not exist in Great Britain yet the people took the corporations People Too Corrupt It is objected that the cities dare not take the corporations because of this rottenness but we lind that in so far as this condition relates to legislatures city councils etc as well as to the higher officials the most of it is due to the temptations offered by the cor porations and it will continue just as long as the corporations exist while the rotten ness in denartments is mostly due to the ab sence of a proper civil service system With the gradual introduction of an improved civil service system most of tne little peculations will end But let us suppose that municipal governments will not improve As things are now the people have to bear the burden of corruption among officials have to fatten a lot of politicians and have to till the coffers of insatiable corporations besides while if these corporations were wiped out the sums which they now get could go into the public treasury and the people themselves would again get control of their government and they would no longer be sold by their own representatives nor de feated in their purpose by a horde of rotten lobbyists hired by corporations with money which lias been extorted from the people themselves So long as there was competition our peo ple preferred to let it regulate everything but competition is being entirely wiped out by pools and trusts and our people will be devoured by vultures unless the government conies to their rescue In Great Britain and in many of the con tinental countries the governments maintain postal savings banks in which the poor can deposit their little savings from time to time and get a low rate of interest on them In England tins postal savings department run In connection with the postoilice performs a variety of service that is of the greatest ben ell t to the people In our country the poor people are left at the mercy of private individuals and private companies The history of both In banking as well as insurance has been tainted with failures bankruptcy and even frauds and owing to the high charges our poor people are deprived of the benefit of life insurance The total amount which any individual can deposit in a savings bank Is not large and consequently it does not interfere with the general business of the country and instead of paying interest on bonds held by the rich of foreign countries the government pays interest to its own people Nearly every government in the world ex cept ours owns and operates its own tele graph and telephone lines to the great ad vantage of its people But we still give all the benefit to corporations An examination shows that the total cost of the construction and equipment of the Western Union telegraph line has been onlv between 25000000 and 30000000 yet it has Issued stocks and bonds amounting to over 7 000000 and it Is paying interest on this sum If the government were to take the tele graph at fair price and make it part of the postal system and issue 3 per cent bonds for it and were to maintain the present charges the net earnings after paying interest on the bonds would pay for the entire system In about five years On the other hand if it should decide to do as Great Britain has done that is reduce the charges so as to bring the service within the reach of all the people the charges could be cut in two and the system still be self sustaining Great Conl Strike In the spring of 1S94 there was a strike on the part of the coal miners which extended nearly all over the United States and which was so protracted that a coal famine ensued and many of the largest Industrial establish ments were obliged to shut down and labor ing men who had no connection with that Industry were thrown out of employment and there was much derangement of the business of the country Since that time the conditions have been gettlngsteadily worse and finally in a spirit of desperation only three years after the last destructive strike the miners of this country struck again struck against hunger and struck against nakedness and they have again made an honorable and heroic struggle to improve their condition But these things are now matter of history The only question of interest to day is how long shall this go on and where will it end Hyenas are sometimes satiated and lie down to rest leaving the world to others but re cent years have demonstrated that the hun ger of corporations grows fiercer with the feeding and that if left to have their wav the contest must become fiercer and the pub- lie win at an times ue in uanger ot a fuel famine and a general disturbance of its in dustries On the other hand if the miners are to be reduced to such a state of helplessness and degradation that they will not have the spirit to strike If hunger and nakedness are to be come natural conditions among the adults and ignorance and crime are to be the en vironment of the children then we will soon have in our country a large population that will be a constant menace to free govern ment and republican institutions Mr Altgeld advocated Government OAvnership of the mines and also of all the railroads Government by Injunction The corporations discovered years ago that to control the construction of the law was - T - V even more Important than to control the making of It as the Federal judges hold of fice for life are independent of the people and surrounded bv moneyed influence the corporations have constantly labored to se cure the appointment to the Federal bench of men who thev believed would be their friends that Is men who by nature educa tion and environment would be in sympathy with them and they now fly to these courts like the ancient murderers fled to cities of refuge They do not buy the courts because it is not necessary Some years ago Congress passed the Inter state commerce law for the purpose of pro tecting the public against overcharge and un just discriminations The corporations op posed this law and have succeeded in getting the Federal courts to destroy it by construc tion Again Congress passed an Income tax law to compel the concentrated wealth of the land to bear Its share of the burdens of gov ernment For a hundred years such laws had been held to be constitutional by the Supreme Court but this time the great cor porations objected and the Supreme Court at once came to their rescue and held the law to be unconstitutional The favor of the opposition of the corporations has come to be almost the sole test of the constitution ality of a law Congress has passed some anti trust laws for the protection of the public but they arc simply sneered at by the Federal courts and to day the formation of trusts is almost the only Industry that prospers in this country Nearly all efforts to curb corporations or to bring great offenders to justice have been failures In many cases the law and the courts seem to assume an apologetic attitude when facing men whose forms have been made rotund by ill gotten millions while in many other cases both the law and the courts become terrible in their majesty when deal ing with men whose forms are bent whose clothes are poor and whose stomachs are empty The fact that the bony and industri ous hands of these men helped to create the capital that Is now setting its heel on their necks and crushing their families does not help them Not content with the law as they found It he Federal courts In their eagerness to serve the corporations have usurped the functions belonging to the legislative and ex ecutive branches of the government and have invented a new form of tyranny called gov ernment by injunction During the entire century In which this continent was developed when our railroads our factories and our cities were built no government by injunction was heard of nor is it heard f in any other country to day The law of the land was ample for all pur poses Life and property were protected order was maintained law was enforced and our nation became the wonder of the earth And the law of the land as It existed for over a century is ample for every purpose to day Age of Plunder But when the great leaders of industry be gan to pass away then there came to the front a class of manipulators who knew nothing about the art of building but who had learned the art of legalized robbery and these manipulators and plunderers demanded a new form of government Tne former leaders allowed the laborer a little of tn bread he toiled for but the new manipulators wanted it all The laborers were entirely at the mercy of these men They first got hungry and then restive a whip was needed to restore contentment and the Federal courts prompt ly furnished it Government by Injunction operates this way When a judge wants to do something not authorized by law he simply makes a law to suit himself That is he sits down in his chambers and issues a kind of ukase which he calls an injunction against the people of an entire community or of a whole State forbidding whatever he sees lit to for bid and which the law does not forbid and commanding whatever he sees lit to com mand and which the law does not command for when the law forbids or commands a thing no injunction is necessary Having thus issued his ukase the same judge has men arrested and sometimes drag ged fifty or a hundred miles from their homes to his court on a charge of violating the in junctionthat is contempt of court And the men after lying in prisons a while are tried not by a jury as is required by the consti tution when a man is charged with a crime but they are tried by the same judge whose dignity they are charged with having offend ed and they are sentenced to prison at the mere pleasure of this judge who is at once legislator judge and executioner When the czar of Russia issues a ukase he leaves it to other men to enforce but not so with these ujdges Recently a judge in West Virginia issued an injunction forbidding the exercise of free speech and actually forbidding men from marching on the highway no matter how peaceable they might be There are a few noble men on the Federal bench who have refused to prostitute their courts at the bid ding of corrupt greed but they will in time have to follow precedents set by the others It will be noticed that these injunctions are simply a whip with which to lash the back of labor It is also apparent that if they suc ceed they must ultimately destroy the inter ests in whose behalf they are now issued and that they are therefore short sight i d For if the laborers of this country are ever reduced to the helpless condition of the la boring classes in some European countries a condition in which tiny will have no pur chasing power then the great American market must disappear and our great rail roads and industrial properties will not be worth r0 cents on the SI Glancing at this proceeding we lind that it entirely supersedes government by law and according to the forms of law as guaranteed by the constitution and it substitutes gov ernment according to the whims caprice or prejudice of an individual and is therefore a clear usurpation of power and a crime Shall the corporations of this land bo nor- mitted not only to devour our substance but also to destroy our liberties My friends let us save our institutions government by injunction must be crushed If the government takes some of the great corporations then there will not be so many corporation men appointed to the bench But the constitution has pointed out a wav to end these usurpations without having the gov ernment take the corporations and that way is by impeachment Every one of these judges whether of high or low degree who has been trampling on the constitution and usurping power not given him is subject to impeachment Consigned to Infaniv The American people can remove everv one of them and consign them to that in Yam v which is now embalming the niemorv of Jeffries But this cannot be done so long as Con gress is made up largely of men who are mere corporation conveniences It will be necessary to send men to Congress who will be true to the people This may not happen at the next election nor yet at the next but it must come and must come soon Providence has ordained that nothing shall go on forever Our fathers said that everv lane had a turn We have been traveling in a lane that has run in the same direction for thirty years and are approaching a turn Yea my friends do not despair A turn in the road is already in sight and if the Amer ican people are but true to their nobler in stincts they will soon be restored to their inheritance while justice and libertv equal rights and equal privileges will cover our land with a halo of glory and give our peo ple a new century of prosperity and happi ness But if they do not rise in their manhood and stand for the principles of eternal jus tice then all is lost This is Labor day throughout the United States and many beautiful things will be said about the dignity of labor but I want to sav to you that if our government is not rescued from corruption and if the snakv form of government by injunction is not crushed then it would have been better for your chil dren if they had never been born BRYAN AT ST LOUIS Eloquent Nebmskan Talks on Eco nomic Problems to a Large Crowd The feature of Labor Day celebration in St Louis was an address by XV Bryan at Concordia Park The biggest crowd ever seen in the park greeted the speaker His speech throughout was en thusiastically applauded Previous to the meeting Mr Bryan reviewed a parade of 15000 laboring men Mr Bryan spoke in part as folloAvs While I find pleasure in participating In the exercises of this day I am also actuated by a sense of duty because the observance of Labor day rtffonls me an opportunity for the discussion of those questions which espe cially concern the producers cf wealth A form of government like ours makes it pos sible for the people to have such legislation as they desire but even then it Is possible for a few persons to overreach the people as a whoir hf welfare of the people must be sought not In tiie securing of special priv ileges to themselves but In the denying of special privileges to anyone The labor organizations have been ono ot the most rxrtent Influences In improving the condition of the wage earners Labor or ganizations are almost entirely responsible for the fact that skilled labor wages have not fallen as much as prices although they have not always succeeded in keeping employ ment up to full time While giving to these organizations credit for what they have done it is only fair to suggest that neither labor organizations nor any other form of protection can secure to the labor permanent Immunity If the general level of prices continues to fall The Idle man Is the menace to the man who has em ployment and the number of Idle men must necessarily Increase if we have a monetary system which constantly raises the alue of the dollar and constantly lower the market value of the products of labor Arbitration of differences between large corporate employers and their employes Is one of the political reforms most needed by wage earners Until arbitration Is secured the strike is the only weapon within the reach of labor Society at large Is interested In the application of the principle of arbitra tion to the differences which arise from time to time between corporations and their em ployes Laboring people have a special Interest just now In securing relief from what Is aptlv de scribed as government by injunction The extent to which the writ of injunction has been abused within recent years has aroused a hostility which is almost universal It Is only a question of time when government by injunction will be cured by legislation The main purpose of the writ of injunction is to avoid trial by jury Trial bv jurv is more Important to the American people to day than It ever was before in American his tory It was originally Intended as protec tion against the royalty and it is to day the main protection of the people against plu tocracy which is to the countrv what royalty is Under a monarchlal form of government Eel Blood for Snake Bite Some years ago the naturalist Mose found that the blood of eels particu larly that of sea eels contained a poison Avhich acted Avhen transferred into the human system similar to the venom of vipers although Aveaker inasmuch as the eel poison brought about a similar reduction of the temperature of the blood as the snake poison Based upon this fact Prof C Fhisa lix made very interesting researches Avhich he presented recently to the Academy of Sciences at Paris lie con cluded that the blood of eels possessed immunifying agencies upon snake poi- ed tor immunitying human beings against snake bites and if not too far progressed it Avill even insure a more rapid recovery from snake bite of vic tims Avho had not previously been im munified Avith the serum Philadelphia Record Said Poke and Beans Joe Cavan avIio has had a Avhirhvind experience in the South and West said to the croAvd in the same old place the uptOAvn hotel My advice to you all is be natural Do not try to deceive people Avith your affected talk or in your clothes You AA ill be certain to sIioav the cloven foot someAvhere I AA as at a dinner once in Sr Louis It AA as given by Mar maduke Before Ave had given our or ders for at a Western dinner every man has the privilege of saying Avhat he AA auts the Governor asked each one of his guests Avhere he hailed from One Avas from Tennessee one from Illinois one from California The East Avas not represented so I handed in my card from Vermont Just then the Avaitei passed the bill of fare and my ruling passion asserting itself Poke and beans said I in my natural voice CiA nn said the Governor of Mis souri vehemently youre from Georgy Xo man from Vermont ever said puke and beans and your scheme of passing for a Yankee sub is reprehensible and Avill cost you the Avine I have sailed under my oavu colors ever since Xcmv York Sun Searchlight at Niagara Falls Visitors to the falls later on in the season may enjoy Avhat is uoav a rare spectacle of seeing the falls illuminated at night It is proposed to add novelty to the illumination by using acetylene gas searchlights instead of the elec tricity which one Avould expeot to be used at this great electrical center This Avill be the first public demonstration of the illuminating poAvers of acetylene gas ou a large scale ever given in this country It is proposed to erect tAvelve or more searchlights on Goat and Luna Islands and the light from these Avill be throAvn across tiie American falls and the rapids above the falls Some before the Stat 4 took years ago posses sion of the lauds about the falls for free park purposes the falls Avere il luminated from Prospect Park and at that time proA ed a delightful summer evening attraction Chicago Tribune Peculiarly Organized Among personal peculiarities of or ganization there may be mentioned the curious case of a man in XeAV York of Avhoni it is said that he can only sleep Avhile standing Lying doAvn causes him great pain and he appears to haAe become quite habituated to erect posture Of like curious nature is the case of a Spanish baron who can sleep only in the cabin of a steamer or in a railAA ay car Avhen in full motion For four years he has never ceased travel ing by night in order to obtain sleep It has just been discovered that each of the tAA o Testaments in use in the city of London court is kissed 30000 times a day Both books are very ancient They are falling to pieces beiug liter ally kissed away The island of Malta has a language of its OAvn derived from the Carthagin ian and Arabian tongues The nobility of the island speak Italian The average expense of an ocean steamshi from XeAV York to Liverpool and return la 7i0CO DOWN TO THE FOOT The boys stood up in the reading class A dozen orso and each one said That those at the foot should never pass Or nnd it easy to get up head t Harry was studious so were Jake Jim and Robert and Tom and lack For men of business they meant to make And it Avouldnt do to be dull or slack Thercwasnt another boy on the line More anxious than Jimmy to keep his place or to be at the head was very line But to go down foot was a sad disgrace Cut Jim delighted in games of ball Polo tennis or tame croquet And his mind was not on his books at alM When he took his place in the class thatr day Twas his turn to road and he started utC With an air attentive a ain pretense For the hoys around him begm to cnugh And nudge and chuckle at Jims ex pense Youve skipped a line whispered Ben Who had often helped in this way he fore Youve skipped a line shouted Jiintainft then Of course tiie school room Avas in n roar As down to the foot Jim went that day He learned a lesson that any dunce Might well have known for were- sura to stray If we try to he in two places at ouce port when you sport in an earnest wajV With h merry heart and a cheerful face i lint when at your books think not of your play Or else youll certainly lose your place- t Detroit Free Press Secondary School I hfdiovn llin in in oir tiubifir son He succeeded by heating a 1iirh sth0ols is that they give an in tion of eel poison to 5S degrees centi grade to destroy its virulence so that it Avas possible to inoculate a guinea pig Avith the fluid the only effect being the raising of the temperature by a few degrees This reaction of the organism Avas followed by a perfect capability to resist the poison of the vipers Avhich A as administered in n deadly dose fif teen to tAventy hours after the inocula tion with eel blood but it absolutely failed to kill the animal Even a very small quantity of the heated eel serum AA as sufliclent to produce immunity from snake poison This discovery is most important since it can be employ ferior course of instruction to those- children Avhose education is to be the shortest But accepting the state ment that there should be nothing taught in the secondary schools whicln is not placed there in their oavii inter ests I must protest against the propo sition that it is more important for the secondary school to connect itself with the elementary school than Avith the higher institutions I believe that to be an absolutely fatal error just ex actly as I think it is a fatal error in the individual if he does not look up and not down if he does not seek his in spiration above himself Can any proposition be plainer than that in a school avo must always look upward Shall avo not follow Emersons advice and hitch our Avagon to a star and not to a bowlder by the roadside that has not moved for millions of years Practically Avhat has been the source of improvements in education here iu the United States for the last two gen erations It is fifty years sine Agas siz landed here Where did labora tory teaching begin Who brought into this country the method of studying zoology by observation and experi ment Louis Agassiz Who did the same service for botany Asa Gray j AAiiose honorable name has been al- X o ready mentioned here this morning From Avhat institutions have come the superior methods of teaching Latin and Greek Avithin the last Those languages have beeis taught in American secondary schools ever since the Boston Latin School anil the Roxbury Latin School were found ed in the seventeenth century but Avhere did the improved methods come from From the colleges and the col leges only Who started the method of reading at sight Who produced books designed to encourage it The classical department of Harvard College Charles W Eliot in Educational Re view Newspapers jS i ext Books There is one point that I wish to emphasize particularly and that is the value of newspapers as text books lit the STiuly of geography It is only through them that one can iceep uj with the geography of the world and teachers and pupils should consult them study their maps and thus be continually abreast of the times par ticularly in the case of neAV explora tions Teachers will emphasize the value of reading the daily neAvspapcrs to their pupils hereafter Text books are often liAe to ten years behind the times but a good newspaper is up to date A nota ble example of the of this prac tice is afforded by the recent gold dis coveries in Alaska Text books do not tell about it but the newspapers have printed maps and descriptions of the regions Avhich present the facts forci bly When school opens next montL teachers will lind out how much th children have read about current events They Avill talk the oubjectif over in the class rooms and Aviil con tinue to keep up the interest in what is going on in the Avorld By these methods boys and girls wiL receive a fundamental education which Avill be of value A astly greater to then in the battle of life than the mere rnem orizing of figures and dates and the rep etition of facts Avhich they do aOt un derstand and in which they take rcr interest Supt Green Avood Kansas City Bostons New Fcho ti Boston is to haA e a neAV public school named after Paul Revere which will costv including the site about 5000 00Q The building Avill be constructed of Ujht pink granite gray red and Avhite brick and terra cotta It Avill contain public bathing facilities for the children The Bank of France has a camera so arranged that the picture of any sus picious visitor may be secured Avith out the suspected individual knowing that lie has been caught Of 11 thieA es fools are the worst they tob you of time and temper s J