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    THE OMAHA DAILY BEE , , MONDAY , SEPTEMBER 14 , 1891.
A CHAT WITH MICHAEL DAVITT
The Noted Irish Patriot Recuperating nt
Oakland , Oal ,
GIRDING HIS LOINS FOR BATTLE ,
Homo Hulo n Matter ol'a Few Years
I'nrticH'H SiicocsHor-Ilalfonr na
nn Opportunist Intcrcst-
Item In Isocnuo.s.
Mlchncl navltthiw boon living in Oakland
Cnl. , with hl wlfo's rwoplo for a few months
nml ! now B ° " 'K W return to IIH llfo work ,
lie KOOI to no dinners , nor doei lie uccopt the
Invitations which have bean showered upon
him to speak in nubile , ilo wont their for
rest and ho want * all the rc ho can got , be
cause next year Is troltiK to bo a year of poli
tical battle * In titiKlanJ. Like David of old
hiding In tnocavoof Adultman. ho Is girdling -
ling his loins for the combat and the enforced ,
conllnomcnt chafes him.
Conversing with a reporter of the San
Francisco Examiner , ho said :
"I must abide by the doctors orders and
Sir Andrew Glarko bade mo live the rest of
my llfo by rulo. You ask why I It's an old
tale , iind It goes back to the tlmo when I was
u young man and tnought that a spark of lire
would start a conllagratlon. "
"When did you begin to work for Ireland 1"
was the question.
"As a lad In Lancashire. It was during
the Fenian rebellion of 1WJ3. I thought with
nil the others that Ireland was to bo won by
force of arms. I'ho Irish are among the
bravest men In the world , but they do not
estimate their foo. Only the later years have
taught thorn to consider ttie odds.
"Why , 1 was arranging to send arms to
Ireland after many arms that I had sent al-
roadv , when suddenly I was sol/ed In Lon
don"in 18TO , and hustled off to prison on n
charge of treason and felony.
Tin : OIIMVIOX OF JAir , .
"Perhaps you don't roallro that that meant
oblivion for years , but certainly It did. I
was thrust Into Clorltenwell , and afterward
into Dartmoor. For seven years and two
months I was never allowed to receive any
visit from my friends. I know my sentence
must last fifteen years , and that there was
no help for mo without. You ask mo to do-
scrlbo my feelings in such a situation. How
cnn 11 They were as manifold as the shad
ows of a dark day. To reall/o It all you must
feel that you are lighting against com
plete despair. Prisoners In England
nro treated as if they had lost
their manhood when they entered the
gates. It means leaving hope behind forever
there. Hut In the United States the prisoner
is treated as if ho might bo a man alter ttio
term of His punishment. With us the food
was wiotchcd , and Indeed in the four im
prisonments that I have endured I have not
found that it improved. Its bolter In the
Irish prisons than in the English , strange to
say , althouL'h Ireland Is so much the poorer
and although there Is so much less mercy
there.
"Well , ono day a keeper came to my cell
and told mo I was froo.
"You can't understand what the word
moans until you have lived the llfo I I had
kept count ot the days of mv ooudago and
I know It was seven years and fifty-six days.
The government of Great Britain had Issued
nn amnesty to the Irish prisoners , it seems.
Fancy the turmoil and rebellion that had
crown within mo during the seven years !
Thinlc of the ] oy to pass from prison into
the free nlr and Into the light of the sun.
"I didn't care where I was or what I old
for hours. The Intoxication ofdavandsky
and air was supremo. In three or four hours
my eyes were used to the blink of the sun
shine , and I found ray way to London. Taoro
I communicated with my old friends and
waited to hoar from the living and the
dead. I had learned to endure anything in
my prison life , and I listened to the news ,
good or bad , with Indifference , ly only
thought was for the cause in which I hud
llrst engaged. Henceforth , I said , I would
devote my life to the plans whleh I had con
ceived In my cell in Dartmoor.
NCAIII.Y TEN YRUtS I.V JAIL.
"I've boon imprisoned three times since
then , and altoeothor I'vo spent nearly ton
years In jail , but the last three terms were
lighter than the first , and I had with mo the
hope and courage whleh had grown with the
cause of Ireland's freedom. "
"What of Ireland , Mr. Davitti" How does
ihostniuli"
"She is on the brink of her freedom , " said
Mr. Davitt , his face lighting with a smile.
"Homo rule Is only u matter of a few years.
Parliament may run by isntrllsli law till
IS'J.'I , but there is so much dissension and dif
ference in the political factions that Salis
bury must call the general elections for April
next , or at the worst for the following
autumn.
"Tho people who surround him know that ,
and they know , too , that it is the knoll of the
tory party for many a year. "
lui.roun.
"What do you think of Balfour's policy in
Ireland during the past live years } "
"Calfour Is ono of the greatest opportu
nists of the tory party. Ho has caught nil
the plans of his opponents and used them to
suit the convenience of his snares. Ills Idea
of county government Is justsuch an adaption
ns Disruolf would have made from ono of
Gladstone's ' programmes.
"Hut clover as Balfour Is , his game Is
plain. Believe mo , the tory party never will
pass the county government bill. Balfour
made his greatest play when ho manage 1 the
passage of the bill for purchasing estates for
the benefit of Irish tenants. It was an Idea
stolen from his enemies , and ho succeeded
for a tlmo In the subterfuge. But wo can
never bollovo ho Is In earnest In the county
government bill because ho knows that Its
passage simply will precipitate home rule.
"Isol I frankly believe that Salisbury will
the adopt a programme this year by which
conservatives will potter over the county
government bill , adding and subtracting
clauses until the end of the session , but with
out over passing it. Then Salisbury will
appeal to the country , leavipg his enemies ,
oven , under the Impression that ho Is eager
to settle the Irish question once and forever
by nu excellent county government system.
But ho forgets that the Irish party have become -
como wise through much tribulation , "
Tin : NBXT HUSH ir. uun. :
"Who will bo the next loader of the Irish
party 1"
" 1'robablv John Dillon. Justin McCarthy
is ono of the most charming men lu the
world , but ho does not care to bo a loader.
For my part I would prefer Sexton , who has
been one of the great mainstays of the Irish
party In nil of Its vicissitudes. Parnoll's day
Is over , and ho can never bopo to load again.
A general election would deprive him of his
last adherent. IIo stands alone today
through his own fault. Ho was spelled by
the Irish party as a mother spoils a child
The Irish members from IbSO on feared to
quarrel. They were eighty-six strong and
they had resolved to band together under ono
name. Parnoll deserves all the credit I c.in
give him for the work that ho did then , but
as years wont by uls head was turned. Ho
iloccive'd his friends as adroitly as ho had de
ceived his enemies. Certainly ho sought to
deceive Gladstone , and ns for myself , I will
oay that 1 wrote \otters \ to the United States
and to Australia in which 1 assorted that
Parnoll would coma from the O'Shca trial
pure and unspotted. I wrote these things because -
cause I had Purnoll's assurance and solemn
word that ho was Innocent. "
01ADSTONE.
"Who will load the liberal party If it comes
into power ) "
"Gladstone , of course , and his courage and
wisdom are undlmmod by his years. Glad
stone 1s a man who moves with the times.
His foresight Is his great mainstay. Ho re
alizes the drift of public opinion and ho molds
his words and actions accordingly. "
THE HOMB 11U1.B 1'IAN ,
"What will bo the homo-rulo planet the
liberal government ! "
"O , a simple government , such as is in
vogue In some of the British colonies , I hopo.
I tulnk it is generally agreed that there shall
bo only ono chamber In the Irish parliament ,
nd I think also that there will bo no prop
erty qualltlotuloua needed for the members ,
There was a plan lu ISM ) , you know , by which
there should bo two classes of members , with
and without real property ; but that was ab
surd , and has boon forgotten. "
"Is Glad&tono In harmony with thts idea of
a single house of parliament In Ireland I"
' Yes , I thluk , without doubt , that his pro
gramme includes that scheme. "
BUI cium.r.3 UVSSBI.U
Hero Mr , Davitt spoke ot Sir Cuarloa Hus-
neil , whom ho roprards as the greatest of the
London lawyer * .
"He'll bo hero soon. Ho Is coming tnis
month to visit his sister , who U the mother
superior of a convent In San Francisco.
"Kussoll was the attorney general In Glad
stone's lost cabinet and ho will bo lord chan
cellor xvhon Gladstone conies to power again.
Hols a Uoman Catholic , and ho was the llrst
of our religion to bo attorney general sliico
the days of Henry VIII.
nct'AHTixo ron IHRIAXD.
"I am leaving for Ireland In a fortnight ,
and I am glad to go tack. The climate and
the people of California nro delightful. I
enjoy every moment of my stay and yet I
wish I were In Ireland. I regrnt the exodus
of my countrymen from the place of ttielr
birth' . Thov would stay there if they wcro
allowed to live. The soil is rich , Iho oppor
tunities are great , under a homo government ,
and 1 hope wo shall have that next year. "
AVJirs or TIII : xoitTiiirisr.
Xcbrasku.
Stnnton's schools have opened with an at
tendance of 170 pupils.
There are almost 70i ! pupils in attendance
unon the Ashland public schools.
Harry White , mavorof Seattle , Wash. , has
been visiting at his old homo lu Hamilton
county.
Miss Lou Armol of Aurora and A. A. Hay
of Fern , la. , met at a notol in Holdrego the
other day and were married.
The Grand Army reunion of northwest
Nebraska will bo held at Hay Springs Sep
tember DO and October I and .
The Chadron water works system will bo
changed from the pumping to the gravity
system. Under the latter system the city
will derive a not annual revenue of 52,000. A
Fremont engineer will make the change In
.system.
A special from Bassott reports that the
marshal of Alnsworth was badly beaten by
County Treasurer Likens , whom ho had
Insulted. The combat caino oft during a ball
game nt Long Pine and the umplro acted ns
referee.
William Ford , living near Callaway , had
wheat this season that averaged forty-six
bushels to the acre , and for which ho has
boon offered 7.T cents per bushel says the
Broken Bow Republican.
S. H. Lewis of Holdrego had a team ,
wagon and harness stolen lost week. Lewis
and his hired man had been breaking prairie
land near Atlanta. Lewis came to Holdrogo ,
leaving his man at work. When ho returned
his man hud skipped with tno outtlt.
llarry Bower of McFaddon township , York
county , was Injured by a revolving hay rako.
Ho got caught In the rake and before ho
could extricate himself was picked up and
Hung hlfh In the air. Ho lit on his head and
shoulder and was badly bruised , though not
fatally.
ElnsolBros. of Holdrego have failed , but
the extent of their liabilities is not yet
known. E. D. Einsel was president of the
Unltod States National bank and the South
Platte Loan and Trust company , and J. II.
Elnscl was treasurer of the latter institution.
It is said that the bank and trust company
are fully secured against loss.
A 1 l-year-old boy living near Ansolmo
saved the llfo of the llttlo child ot Ira Foster ,
deputy sheriff of Custor county. Whllo the
child's parents were away from homo the
llttlo ono was bitten on tno log by a snake.
The boy discovered the child's condition , and
after tving a rope tightly around the limb
above the wound and applying turnontino , ho
hurried for help. The neighbors arrived in
time to administer antidotes and counteract
the effects of the poison.
From his eighty aero Hold of spring wheat
within the corporate limits of Madrid , Per
kins county , David McBee has ] ust threshed
2-lGO bushels , for which ho received in cash
at the elevator the sum of $1,820.10. For UTS
bushels of winter wheat ho received & 8U25.
Besides this ho has llfty acres of good corn
worth ? G'ij. This makes a total , exclusive of
a larco amount of garden truclr , of $2,720.05.
When it is farther stated that , with the ex
ception of harvesting and threshing , Mr.
MoBoo with the aid of his lo-year-old boy
performed all the work upon this quarter
section , it spoalts well for him and for the
wonderful productiveness of the soil of Ne
braska.
Says the Cobleskill , N. Y. , Herald : Letts ,
Hess and Clunc of Coblosklll own a line farm
of 500 acres adjoining the booming city of
Kearney , Nob. , upon which there nro two
full sots of complete farm buildings. The
Union P.icifio passed through , \\itha depot
on the farm. This year 400 acres have boon
cultivated to wheat , corn and oats. Mr. Hess
Is now superintending the harvest , which
'consists of 190 acres ot wheat , 100 acres in
oats and ' 200 of corn. The yield is , of wheat.
4,000 bushels ; of oats , 9,000 bushels , and of
shelled corn , at least , 11,000. At present
prices , wheat at SO cents , oats at 23 cents and
corn at 110 cents , the crops will moro than
poy half the cost of the ontlro property.
lown.
Three hundred and twenty-throe arrests
were made in Dos Molnos during August.
The sixth biennial reunion of the Thirty-
second Iowa infantry will bo hold at Mar-
shalltown on Wednesday and Thursday , Oc
tober 7 and 8.
Kov. J. O. Kaso of Emmet county was nom
inated by acclamation as the republican can
didate for representative from the Eighty-
third district.
Harvey \V. Schotz , aged 71 , living nt Altoona -
toona , was tnrown from n bugpy some four
wocki ago and received serious injuries , from
the effects of which ho died Tuesday morning.
A young Dos Moines law student named
Dunn , while out driving with a young lady ,
was hold up oy a highwayman and nt the
point of a gun compelled to deliver over his
loose change.
A Wnvorly shoo dealer offered a $2.50 pair
of shoes as a premium for the tallest stalk of
corn brought to his store. Thomas Aurner
won the prize. Ills cornstalk was fourteen
foot eight Inches high.
Cresco Is not a healthy place for sharpers
to ply their vocations. A few weeks ago a
lightning rod shark was brought to grief
there , and now a picture sharper , who pro-
touds to represent a St. Paul lirm , and with
his assistants canvassed from house to house
collecting pictures and 50 cent pieces , agree
ing to return to his dupes flno enlarged pic
tures , was found , upon Investigation , to be a
fraud , and ho now languishes in the jail of
Howard county.
The damage suit begun by F. E. IJo Witt ,
of Marahalltown , against Colson it Ouslov ,
proprietors of the Kin Van Wlnltlo troup'o ,
has been dismissed. Do Witt s horse
dropped dead whllo passing the Odcon
when the band was playing , and it was
alleged that the animal was scared to death ,
hence the suit , The band had a permit from
the mayor to parade the street and DoWltt
was guilty of contributory negligence by
driving past thorn whllo playing.
The flfth biennial reunion of the Twenty-
fourth regiment , Iowa volunteers , will beheld
hold at Marlon September 17 and IS. Hoturn
railroad tickets to all points in Iowa for one-
third faro on certificate showing payment of
full faro going and endorsed by the secretary.
TnUosuch "certificate" for
receipt or naeh
ticket purchased in going. Thursday , Sop-
tonibor 17 , will bo devoted to enrollment and
general sociability , response and camp flro In
the ovonlng. Friday forenoon n business
session ot the association , with very Inter
esting programmes ID the afternoon and
ovonlng. Numerous ofllcors and members of
the regiment will attend this reunion for the
llrst tlmo , and the attendance of several very
welcome puoits is expected , including ox-
Governor Klrkwood , General George F , Mo-
Ginuis. Chaplain Sawyer of the Forty-
seventh Indiana and Simmons of the Twenty-
eighth Iowa. Every former monitor of the
regiment Is especially and urgently Invited
to attend.
Llilldrou Cry Tor It.
The pleasant flavor , gentle action and ,
soothing effects ot Syrup of Figs , when In
lu need of a laxative and If the father or
mother bo costive or billions the most grati
fying results follow Its use , so that It is the
best family remedy known and every family
should have a bottle.
Homo-Visitors' K\uurnlim Over the
I'cMinsylvnnln Lines to Indiana
and Ohio Via Chlongo.
On Tuosdny , September 22 , 1801 , the
Pounsylvnnirt company will soil tickets
from Ohiuiigo to all points on the Penn
sylvania Hues in Indiana ( exeunt to In-
illiuuipolls ] , and to all points In Ohio ( ox-
cup t Cincinnati ) , ut ono faro for the
round trip , good to return for thirty
days.
Apply nt Pennsylvania station , or nt
now tlekot olllco o ( the Pennsylvania
lines , Ulb Clark btroot , Chicago.
J. II. Lucn ,
Assistant General Passenger Agent
TALKED IN PLAIN ENGLISH ,
Judge Davis Gives tlio Board of Public
Works a Scoring.
ITS ACTION WAS WHOLLY UNWARRANTED ,
Another Act lit the Curbing Mmlillo
In Which tlio Hoard of 1'ubllo
Works Coincf ) Out
Second licst.
For a long tlmo tbo mombora of the Board
of Public Works Imvo had an idea ttmt they
were the lords of creation.
A few days npo , In open court , Judge Davla
told Chairman fiirkhnusor u few tiling * that
caused that pontloman to have some doubt *
about ttio matter. But now things havscomo
to pass calculated to convince the three gen
tlemen that they are the smallest potatoes In
the basltot.
I'Jiirly last spring the members of the board ,
well luiowhip that then ) was no money in the
paving anil curbing fund , started In and ad
vertised for bids for laying mlles of pavement
and curbing.
Bidders responded and offered to do the
work , but when the day for opening the bids
rolled around the board , under ono pretense
or another , would reject all bids and aavcr-
tlso for more.
This thing continued right along , and July
2 the board advertised for bids for curbing
ten districts. Bids wcro invited on Colorado ,
Boroa and Ilylaud stono. July 17 the bids
were opened. P. II , Mahoney and J.V. .
Pumas & Sons wcro the lowest bidders
on all of the districts , they having biu on
Borca sandstone. They were awarded tuo
contract , but the next day another meeting
was held at whleh the action taken on the
preceding day was reconsidered , their bid
rejected.
July 21 the hoard sent n letter to the coun
cil informing that body of the nation taken
and again advertising for bids on the sumo
districts.
In tno meantime Mahoney & Pumas had
been before Judge Wakeloy and secured an
injunction restraining the board from award
ing the contracts to the other bidders.
The injunction was argued and sustained.
Later on Mahoroy & Pumas applied to
.luik'e D.wis for n writ of mandamus , com
pelling the board to transmit their contract
and bond to the city council for approval or
rejection. Iho mandamus was argued , and
it was at that tlmo that , Judge Duvls denom
inated the board as a body that held back
alloy sessions and talked upon the streets
Instead of holding regular board meetings.
Saturday Judge Davis handed down a de
cision In the mandamus case. It Is a lenghty
ono , but it teaches the members of the board
several lessons.
After citing the ordinances and sections of
the city charter under which the Board of
Public Works nets , the Judge said : "It is
further provided that the board shall after
duly advertising for bids for any public work
that may bo ordered by the mayor and city
council , and after opening the bids causa a
contract together with an abstract of ttio bids
to bo made and submitted to the mayor and
council \vltu Its recommendations touching
the samo.
"This is the duty which rolutors seek to
have enforced. It is objected to on the part
of the defendants , thai the writ seeks to con
trol the discretionary powers of the board. I
do not think tbo objection applies to the case
as made by the proofs. Take the statutes
and city ordinances together , It Is apparent ,
that when a district is ordered Improved , It
becomes the duty of the Board of Public
Works to not and its duties aio sufllciently
proscribed by the statute and ordinances ,
although , perhaps , not as specifically as
might be desired. The board has actedih this
case. It has caused an advertisement
to be published and it lias received and
opened bid' . It was its duty to determine
who was the lowest bidder. Under the
specifications which it prepared It has de
termined who was the lowest responsible
bidder , and it has formerly executed a con
tract with the relators. It is true that the
answer filed by the relaters says that this
contract was awarded conditionally. That
is , that other contracts were also to bo exe
cuted and nU of tnem sent to the city coun
cil for Its approval of the ono that it might
select. By the ordinance cltod , it was the
duty of the board to have kept a record in
detail of its proceedings and acts , and it will
not bo permitted to provo Its acts in auy
other way than by Us record. Moreover , the
method of procedure which ttio board ,
by its answer , says it adopted , is
unheard of and unwarranted and seeks
to throw upon the city council the perform
ance of the duty which the law enjoins upon
the Board of Public Works.
"It was the duty of the Board of Public
Works to determine who was the lowest bidder -
dor and to prepare and sign a contract and to
transmit It to the council with the recom
mendation of tbo Board of Public Works at
tached to the samo. The ordinances contem
plate that the council shall act after the Board
of Public Works has performed Its duty. It
does not Intend that the city council shall bonn
'
nn advisory body to tho'Board of Puullu
Works In matters loft to the boird , or In any
other manner that is proscribed by ordinance.
' The communicationtherefore , of the board
was not a performance of its duties. It did
not place before tbo city council all of the
proceedings taken by the board. It did not
inform the council that the board had ex
ecuted n contract or that the relaters had
performed on their part all that was re
quired , nnd-it did not contain any rccommon-
datlon of the board touching the matter. All
of those things it was the duty of the board
to do , and the city council , before it was
called upon to act , nad the right to know not
only what had been done by thn board , but
what Its recommendation was. When the
contract was awarded , nil discretionary
power of the board ceased and It had nothing
to do but a ministerial duty of forwarding
the contract , and bond to the city council
with Its recommendation , as provided by
ordinance.
"Tho telators had a right to the performance
of this duty. The action of the city council
In rejecting all bids Is therefore not conclu
sive of Its right to net upon the contract
when It shall bo regularly transmitted.
"I am In n measure controlled by the in
junction proceedings In the consideration of
this application , ns the effect of the order
made in that proceeding must enter into the
consideration of this application. Counsel
hnvo differed ns to what were the views of
Judge Wakoloy expressed on the hearing ,
and 1 can only consider the effect of the
restraining order , and as it appears to mo
that the granting of the restraining order
must ho based uuon the grounds that all dis
cretionary power of the board , so far as
awarding the contract to Mr. Woodworth
and others than the rolntora had ceased ;
that the action of the board In reconsidering
the awards was n roelsloii of the awards
to nil bidders except the relaters
and that the award to the relaters
ended the discretionary powers of the board
so far as concerned the members. If this
were not so the relaters would have no Inter
est sufficient to onublo thorn to maintain the
action upon the hearing for a temporary In
junction ,
"I conclude , therefore , that my views of
the right of the relaters are In harmony with
the views which must have boon entertained
by Judge Wakoloy on the hearing of the in
junction suit.
"A writ will bo Issued commanding the defendants -
fondants to transmit to the city council the
contract and bond entered Into 'by the defen
dants with the relaters , together with the
abstract ot the bids and the recommendation
of the dofend.iiitn attached to the same , In
order that the pity council may act upon the
contracts. Of course , it Is not to bo under
stood that the action in any way U to con
trol or Inlluoncatthn notion of the city coun
cil , which will lioiat liberty to approve or re
ject the contract Its freedom ot action Is
not lu any manner to bo controlled , "
The writ and I tbo order of the court wcro
served upon the members yesterday after
noon ,
TJH3 KINDKKGAHTKX.
An Admirer > of Frocbol llcpltcs to
I'roU Fltzpntrluk.
OMAHA , Aug. 28. To the Editor of TUB
BEI : : Tun Ir.r. ) of Iho 10th inst. contained
nn article headed "Hardly Pavers Thorn1 nn
interview with Mr. Kitzpatrlck , the newly
appointed superintendent of schools In
Omaha. Speaking about the kindergartens
ho tolls us that the sluggish mind of German
children needs such a preparation , whllo the
American children don't need It because they
are nioro wideawake and ready to
take hold of mental tasks ,
oven before their physical development
Is prepared to su'tnln severe mental effort ;
thereJore the kindergarten had been founded
In Germany and had mot thcro with Its great
est success.
Such talk makes mo believe that Mr. Pltz-
patrlck don't nt all know the history of the
kindergarten and a good deal less can ho
justify his expression about the sluggishness
of the Intellectual powers In Gorman ctilldrcn.
Let us look Into It. Mr. Pitzpatrick main
tains that the klndcrgaitcn Is u German In
stitution adapted only to the education of
German children. In now far Is HI It is In
so fur only as Its founder , Frederick Proobel ,
was n German , who organized the tlrst kin
dergarten In Blunkunburg , Thudngin , lu
IbilT. Proobel , llrmly convinced that this In
stitution would bo of great importance
for the whole human race , doscrlbed
bis system Is a weekly paper. IIo also loc-
tuied In the lariro towns and gave n regular
course of instructions to young teachers at
Blnnkenburg. How mueli oven In those
early days was thouirht of his work , can best
bo seen in Iho work of that illustrious wo
man , Baroness Murenholt/-Birlow ; " "Kec-
ollcctions of Fricdorlch Proobel. '
But prophets lire not recognized in their
own country. This was stiown in 1851 , wncn
no less a person than the Prussian minister
for education and religion prohibited the
kindergartens on the plea , tliat they wcro
calculated to spread atheism , but the true
fact was , that the king of Prussia feared
that a too liberally educated people might
soon repeat the events of MS , and send him
and the other moro or less God-crowned-
princes of Germany In a life-long retirement
without pension. For this rea ion oven up to
this date , the kindergartens have not made
such progress in the Fatherland us they
should have doue , not to speak at all of have
ing met In Germany with their greatest
success. "
What was Proeblo's idea of a kinder-
Kartell < Prpubel maintained that the child
belonged both to tils family and to society ,
and ho would therefore have children spend
some hours of the day in a common llfo and
in well organised common employment. Those
assemblies of children he would not call
schools , for ttio children In them ought not
to bo old enough for schooling. ( Mr. P. , this
don't sound as If'tho kindergarten had ooen
founded on account of the sluggishness of
the German intellect ) . So ho in
vented the name kindergarten , and
culled the superintendents cblldrens'-
gardners. "Ho laid gteat stress on
every child cultivating its own plotof ground ,
but this was not the reason for the choice of
the name. It was rather that ho thought of
institutions ns enclosures In which young
plants are nurtured. In the kindergarten the
children's employment should bo play. But
any occupation in which children delight is
play to them , and Procbel invented a series
of employments , whichwhile they nroin this
sense play to the children , have nevertheless ,
ns seen from the adult point of view , a dis
tinct educational object. This object , us
Froobel himself describes it , Is "to glvo the
children employment In agreement with their
whole nature , to strengthen their bodies , to
exercise their senses , to ongueo tneir awak
ening mind , and through their senses to make
them aquniuiod with nature end their
follow creatures ; it is especially
to gutdo aright the heart and
the affections ; and to load them to the or
iginal ground of all life , to unity with them
selves. "
Prom the above it can bo easily seen that
while the kindergarten was born in Ger
many ; it was founded and planned for the
boneiit of trie children of the wholu human
race. Suppressed and frowned upon In Its
own fatherland the work ot tbo poor dead
schoolmaster has today found its home with
all ihe civilized world. Henry Barnard calls
it , "by far the most original , attractive and
philosophical lorm of inlant development
( report , to tno governor of Connecticut. IS34) ) ,
and Michelet , the Fr uuhm.in , declared In
1S55 that Procbel hid "solved ttio problem of
numan education. " It is found" today in
Italy , Austria , Belgium , Franco , and , more
than In any other country , In tno Unltod
States. The imnrovoment in Infant schools
in Belgium is attributed to it.
Verily this don't ' look as if this great work
had originated only to help along the sluggish
ness of the mind of German children.
Search where I may , 1 cannot lind where
the German child Is slower in its intellectual
development than the American. Leaving
the kindergarten entirely out of the play , lot
us look to the public school and some facts
concerning its attendance. In the United
States n child shall bo six years old before it
can attend public school , but in many states
of ttio union childicn don't need to visit
school when they don't wish to do so. The
German child , everywhere within the bound
aries of the fatherland , Is compelled by law *
to attend school as soon as It Is six years old
and to visit it regularly until its fourteenth ,
year. There are no provisions made
that I am aware of , for the
case that the German child
mignt not bo fit for proper schooling nt the
sumo nge ns the American. Do the results of
the training of children in Germany show any
slower development computed with other- na
tions 1
I have only statistics of 1S72 at hand which
make the following showing :
The nrmlos of Europe boinc the fair repre
sentatives of the different nations , wo take
from them our information. In 187.3 the
number of illiterates in the German army
wcro1.0 per cout , In the navy ' „ ' . < ! per cent ,
the corresponding members In Franco being
i.3 and 11 per cent , lu England Sii per cent of
the marines could neither rend nor write in
1S05 , 1 per cent only could lead and ! I7 pur
cent could write but imperfectly. Those uro
the most advanced nations of Europe and
makes n pretty favorable showing for the
slow German Intellect. It mav bo slow , Mr.
P. , but It gets thoio suio. Vouis truly.
M\x '
Constipation poisons the blood ; DoWitt'a
Little Early Kbers euro constipation. The
cause removed , tbo disease Is gone.
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,
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Tut'tli without platun , removable brlilKQ
woik. "Dr. Tliroilumniirii'H intent. " No
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llko. tooth ruiniilii Hi in .lust tnn lhin ton
mlnmurs , luwvers mid | iillli | < Njiunkors , I'rlci )
a littlu inure than rnliiHT pliitos , within roaoll
of all Ir ) Iliillny. DoiitlNt , him tlio uiilu rlKht
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Hour I'cjxtim block , Omaha.
tinIA N HOOD RESTORED.
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< 'oiiilur'ul bpanUh ,
Id'incdy , U told H'lth Jn
Wrlttc'iHluarunfoa
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cati-0 , tucli a § Weak
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