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restrictions as to registration as may be
prescribed by the executive council.
' 'No person is to bo eligible to member
ship iu the house of delegates who is
not twenty-five years of age and able to
read and write either the Spanish or the
English language , or who is not possessed
in his own right of taxable property ,
real or personal , situated in Porto Rico. "
The judicial power will be vested in a
supreme court , local district courts , and
a United States
The Jiullclary. , . , . , , . . .
district court like
that of other territories. The chief
justice and associate justices of the
supreme court and the judge and officers
of the United States court will be ap
pointed by the president. The judges
and officers of the local district courts
will be appointed by the governor. In
November , at the regular election and
every two years thereafter , Porto Rico
will elect a commissioner to represent
the island at Washington , at a salary of
$5,000 per year. The salaries of the
officials appointed by the president are :
Governor , $8,000 ; secretary , attorney
general , auditor , commissioner of the
interior , $4,000 each ; treasurer , $5,000 ;
commissioner of education , $3,000 ; chief
justice supreme court and United States
district judge , $5,000 each ; two mar
shals , each $4,000 ; district attorney
$4,000 ; associate justices , $4,500 each.
The act will go into effect May 5 ,
inoo.
The South African
THE BOER WAR.
can war has shat
tered a number of brilliant military
reputations. Methueu and Bnller wore
among the first to be humiliated by the
strategic Boer. Now , Gatacre has been
ordered home in disgrace by Lord
Roberts because of his responsibility for
the capture , by the Boers , of 600 of his
men. Kitchener , the Hero of Soudan ,
about whom such great things were
predicted and who was even mentioned ,
in terms of extravagant laudation , as a
future commander-in-chief of the British
army , is proving a dismal disappoint
ment. Since the affair at Paardeberg
he has not been mentioned in the dis
patches by Lord Roberts. Even the
latter gentleman has not achieved any
particularly brilliant victories of late.
His most notable success was the capture
of Oronje. The taking of 6,000 men
with an army of 40,000 , and only after
a prolonged and desperate resistance , is
not , after all , such a flattering achieve
ment. The kidnapping , almost without
resistance , of a considerable number of
his command has somewhat detracted
from his reputation for military
prowess.
It has been over a month since he
entered Bloemfontein. It was thought
that his triumphant entrance meant the
complete pacification of the Free State
and was the beginning of the end of
Boer resistance to British occupation iu
South Africa. It now develops that the
Free State is yet to bo wrested from the
Boers. Bloomfontein is a long way
from. Pretoria and it means much hard
fighting before the Transvaal capital is
taken. The Boers have been especially
active of late. The command of General
Brabant , at Wepener , consisting of about
1500 men , was attacked last Monday ,
April 11 , by the Boers. The firing has
kept up intermittently ever since.
Wednesday the British camp at Eland-
slaagte was fired upon by the Boers who
have not yet withdrawn , but continue
the firing in a rather desultory way.
Interest is centered in these two places.
Wopeuer is thought to be in consider
able danger and is not in a position to
endure a prolonged siege.
THE PHILIPPINE
INSURRECTION.fr ° m fche
pines are some
what conflicting. General Otis has
resigned and it is reported that he is
coming home because "the rebellion is
at an end. " At the same time Generals
Young and Bell have both represented
that their forces are wholly inadequate
and have requested additional troops to
assist in restoring order. There is every
indication of renewed activity on the
part of the insurgents. The natives ,
appointed to administer the governments
of presumably friendly municipalities ,
are now known to be in sympathy with
the insurgents. From present indica
tions , the war is no nearer an end than
it was a year ago. Unless something
more substantial is accomplished in the
way of terminating hostilities than mere
assurances of an early peace on the part
of the commanding general , the war is
apt to have considerable influence upon
the fall elections.
HAYPAUNCETheHayPaunce -
HAY-PAUNCE-
FOTE TREATY. fete treaty , to per
mit the construc
tion of the Nicaragua canal , will not be
acted upon at this session of congress.
The administration is unwilling to risk
a vote upon the treaty prior to the elec
tion. It is opposed principally because
of the neutrality of the canal and the
agreement on the part of the United
States not to fortify it. The friends of
the treaty insist that this is one of its
strongest provisions ; in the first place ,
because of the impracticability of effec
tively fortifying the canal ; secondly ,
because a neutral canal would be a means
of promoting international goodfeoling.
Politics will compel its postponement
until the next session and thus delay the
construction of the canal.
ART IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The introduction of picture study in
the public schools is a most commend
able innovation. The study of the
world's best pictures enourages a love of
the beautiful and develops higher and
nobler ideals. Superintendent A. 0.
Fling , of the Nebraska City schools ,
who has been one of the leaders -among
public school men in the west , in the
picture study movement , contributes a
well written article to the School
Weekly , of Chicago , in which he says :
"A demand is made today for practical
studies in the schools. One writer has
well said : 'Art is practical for two un
answerable reasons : The first is that it
makes for manhood , and the second that
it nourishes the most conservative and
practical idea man ever cherished ,
namely , the love of immortality. It
makes for manhood by stimulating our
ideas of patriotism and liberty. Art ,
then , is grandly , democratically prac
tical , because it makes great and true
men. '
Course in Nebraska City School.
"The artists to be studied in the
Nebraska Oity schools this second
semester are Lucca Delia Robbia ( second
grade ) , J. F. Millet ( third grade ) , Dupre
( fourth grade ) , Landseer ( fifth grade ) ,
Bonhour ( sixth grade ) , Raphael ( seventh
grade ) , Mnrillo ( eighth grade ) . Each
month or oftener a masterpiece is taken
up by each grade. Each child brings a
penny for his picture ( some children
have brought a nickel or a dime for poor
children who would otherwise be with
out ) . A short sketch of the artist is
given by the teacher ; then oral study is
followed by a written exercise. The
picture is fastened to their papers and
tied with a dainty colored ribbon for
them to take home. It is a pleasant
sight on the afternoon of a 'picture
day' to see the little people trudging
home , each the proud possessor of a
masterpiece and his 'own story. " Who
can tell the joy and comfort that even a
penny picture may bring to some of
these homes ?
Choose Only the Best.
"Just what pictures to study and in
what grades are perplexing questions.
The world is full of artists of varying
degree of merit ; choose only the best
and then you will be safe.
"There can be no out-and-dried ques-
tion-and-answer method of studying the
masterpieces ; the age and capacity of
your pupils must determine largely the
method. You appreciate a picture ac
cording to your own experiences , and as
your actual experience differs widely
from that of your pupils , so too your
interpretation will bo different from
theirs. Study with your pupils , but do
not overreach them.
" 'One of the greatest pleasures in life
is the delight in art , the creations of
minds that enjoy and know how to make
the world beautiful for others. To know
and to love these things so well worth
knowing and loving is quite as worthy
of achievement as the mastery of equa
tions or the demonstration of a theorem.
Such study has a legitimate place in the
school curriculum.1 "