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PATEUT ATTORNEYS.
TO PATENT ATTORNEYS
The constant and rapid Increase of the In
dustrial and mercantile relations betwwn
the United State and Mexb-o make It
not only advisable but Imperative for In
ventors of all classes, who have patented
their Invention or registered trademark
In this country, to have same reentered at
once In the Republic of Mexico, as their
businesses are now being seriously Injured
by the use In that country of many United
Htates Inventions, whereas In the rest of
the world such Inventions are cheerfully
adopted. Therefore, we will be pleased to
correspond with patent solicitors In the
United States nnd to undertake the regis
tration In Mexico of patents and trade
marks of American Inventors.
Owing to the special organisation of our
law office, having at all times employes
who talk the English and Spanish lan
guages and a notary's office attached
thereto, we are In position to offer our
, correspondents the rates mentioned below,
which are beyond competition, as we save
10 per cent of unavoidable expenses In
curred by others In order to secure pat
ents and trademarks In Mexico.
Total charges for patent attorneys cor
responding with us, covering all expenses,
taxes and fees, for patents, $7.t; for
trademarks. Hu.fX); payable In each case
when the patent or trademark duly reen
tered In Mexico reaches the Interested
party.
FMTCTKRIO TK LA GARZA. JR..
ERNESTO CHAVERO.
AURELIO D. CAN ALE,
Atorneys and Counselors at Law.
Address: Medlnas Street, Nos. 12 and 13,
City of Mexico, D. F.. Mexico.
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urcy Sis. Telephone
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JAPAN'S SMILING RIKSI1AMEN
Quids, Philssesb.tr and Fritid to Visitor
in Saw Yuksedsra.
NGENI0US LIAR UNDER POLICE PRESSURE
Horseman Cam Ride A Vsrarlesi
Eater aad Very Short
LlTed. fCopyrlght, li2, by Douglas BlaVen.)
The Japanese cabman Is his own cab
horse. Id this be differs from the Ameri
can rlkshatcan, nor could the latter be
called smiling.
The rlkshaboy has a smile that outchrli
tians Christianity. Like the sun, he smiles
on the Just and the unjust. Including those
who put justice before generosity.
I have read In a Japanese book that
"there are Jlnrlksha men who have fallen
so low In their calling that they seem to
have lost all feeling of loyalty to their em
ployer and only care selfishly for the pit
tance they gain. Such men are often found
In the treaty ports, eagerly seeking for
the rich foreigner from whom they ran get
an extra fee." The writer la horrlfled. But
as the rlkshaboy la only entitled to 16 sen,
1. e., fifteen cents per hour if he Is moving
and only 6 cents If he Is waiting and may
havs to do anything up to thirty miles In
any kind of weather, there is some excuse
for his selfishness; even that pittance may
be reduced to a lump sum of 60 sen per
half day and 70 sen. per day.
The rlksbaboys are the sons of peasants,
who come into the cities to better them
selves and see life. They are, therefore, ac
cused of all the drinking and gambling and
dissipation that their means allow and, of
course, cannot have any manners.
The Rlshaboy's Ingenuity.
This Is not the rlkshaboy foreigners
know. He is more than your guide, phi
losopher and friend, if there is no police
man by. If any boy bustles or Insults you
he charges Into him with his rlksha or
drops the shafts and goes for htm, and no
Jap but a policeman or a wrestler is a
match for the rlkshaboy, who must be In
training and have strength and endurance.
I don't know whether the Mikado made
much use of these unmounted cavalry in
the Chinese war, but they can run as far
In a day as Boers ride and would be ready
to do it again the next morning.
If you want to enjoy Japan win the ap
preciation of some rlkshaboy. He is not
exacting In the choice of his employer and
he takes you in and does for you as you
have never been done for before. He is
your horse, your valet, your Interpreter
and will turn cook or waiter. If you tear
your clothes he will drop the shafts. You
havo to get off before he can get his ward
robe, the place where he puts his needle
and tea strings, his lacquer box of boiled
rice and his lantern during the daytime
and his clothing down to his drawers, if he
is hot and beyond the eagle eye of the city
policeman.
I had such a rlkshaboy at Kyoto. Ho
could even read. We took him for our ex
pedition to Nara, where they kept the
treasure collected by the Mikados in a
thousand years, and have a goggle-eyed
Buddha'seventy feet high and old parks full
of great stone lanterns which cannot be
lighted and deer that walk up to be fed
and wild scarlet azaleas by the acre as
thick as heather In the north. Rikshaboys
draw the line at luggage. You have to
squeeze your belongings into a telescope
basket. I pleaded for my bag, but O-Snn
was Inexorable.
We race off in great style; each rlksha
with a human tandem. The front horse Is
taken off to push behind, when you go
uphill. The God of Rice's temple, with
its stone foxes, the Phoenix temple at
Blodoln, with its wooden walla Ave cen
turies older than the discovery of Amer
ica; the Gardens of UJ1, where they grow
the tea which fetches a guinea a pound,
flew behind us, and we congratulated our
selves on the prospect of a long and happy
afternoon at Nara. But it was the rainy
season, and the deluge began. The rlksha
hoods were drawn over our backs, and
their aprons up to our noees. The human
horses steamed like meat taken out of the
oven. The hotel a native one had only
one room between three men and one
woman, who was not their slater, and a
Japanese policeman made his appearance
to demand our passport. We were the
only food for his notebook the day had
brought. Our passports were In that re
jected bag. He aald we roust go to the
police station not for lodgings, but to see
the head. Japanese always talk about "the
head." When we got there the rlkshaboy
went in with us. His enemies, the police.
ordered him out.
"Can you speak English?" he asked,
haughtily.
Silence means dissent In Japan.
"Then I must interpret for you."
He didn't really know much English ex
cept the numerals, but he and I patched
up a pigeon language of shreds of English
and Japanese. The head was appalled by
his learning, but ordered us back to Kyoto.
Might not we stay a single day?" I
asked.
The Lies He Told.
We could atay as long as we liked at
the police station.
The rlkshaboy had the last word. He
requested permission to bring in the notice
board. On it was a resplendent new no
tice stamped with the government crysan-
thetnum.
Would the head observe that everyone.
high or low, was cautioned against doing
anything to annoy the English prince and
his party? I, he aald, was one of the
prince's party; he had himself driven me
at a picnic with the prince yesterday. I
must be a very great personage, because
I had sat next to the prince's wife at tiffin.
Was the honorable head able to calculate
the consequences of what he was doing?
The honorable head was very badly dla
turbed. He asked me with profound salaams
If what the miserable rlkshaboy bad said
i true. I said it was true. I allowed
the question to refer to the picnic. The
duke of Connaught was staying In our
hotel, and very good-naturedly Invited me
to accompany his party down the rapids.
and the duchess had placed me, as the
only stranger, next to her at tiffin. It
was marvelous, the change In that head.
It was too late to send us back to Kyoto
that night: it would do if we went back
the next day, and "the bead" gave the
genius of the rlksha to understand that the
police would not notice what time ws went
back, which allowed us to atay as long as
w ever meUnt to.
A Ufktalsg thnnge ArtUI.
The hotel accommodation did not encour
age a longer stay. J as nuu 007
achievements did not stop there. Would I
excuse him for sn hour? When he time
back he had boiled himself, and had en
tered a brand new suit. He was now our
waiter. My bag had been left behind be
cause tablecloth, china, cutlery, bread and
all the civilised portions of the meal had
come from the Kyoto hotel. He had caught
and killed towla for us and commandeered
chairs from somewhere. Ha taught us what
to do in a Japanese hotel. He had brought
soap from Kyoto and took us In turns out
Into the yard ta wash. He waited oa us
at dinner angelically and after dinner
wanted to know how many bedrooms we
would have the dining room turned Into
ahowiag us the grooves la the floor aad
celling made to take the paper shutters.
We decided lbs one room would do between
the three gentlemen, so only one lot of
tissue psper shutters were run across the
room.
Then he brought In the kind of beds thst
were used In the miracle of "Tsk up thy
bed snd wslk," quilted mattresses an Inch
or two thick. They are not much good to
lie upon, but excellent to He under. A pile
of thera are spread on the floor and you get
under whichever layer you please. I got
under all except one. I did not And the
shape of the floor concealed by any number
of them and It was cold sleeping In that
paper room on such a wet night. '
Io the morning he walked Into both bed
rooms before we were up. Tbe worst of a
bed dining room Is that you cannot be
late for breakfast. We told him to lay tbe
table on one side of the paper wall, and
took turns to go out Into the yard and
wash In a brass basin scsrrely large enough
for gruel. He hsd brought Chinese tea
and sugar with him. Japanese tea without
milk or sugar does not pull you together
much after a bad night and your first night
in a Japanese hotel is always a bad one;
it's too much like going to the theater aa
an actor. The proprietor and servants are
the audience. Everything you do Is a per
formance. Paper walls have eyes as well
as ears. That blessed boy (I mean It) gave
us our breakfast, and packed tor us, and
paid the bills, and fee'd tbe servants, and
showed us the sights of Nara, and took us
back to Kyoto unmolested by further po
lice. Japan's Best Gnlde.
The rlkshaboy makes the best guide in
Japan. So long as be has Interesting
things to show you, you go on hiring his
rlksha. He Is not paid as such. He Is
competing with his overnumerous brothers
of the craft I mean shaft. He adapts
himself to his patient, though his diagnosis
is not Infallible. There was. tor Instance,
an old missionary who arrived from Amer
ica In a top hat. The rlkshaboy, to whose
guidance he entrusted himself, took him
straight to the Yoshiwara. Finding the
old gentleman scandalized, he thought he
might have been too precipitate, and asked
where he should take him. He was told to
go to a tailor, after taking his measure
for clothes, fancied that he had taken
his measure In another way, and wished
to take his order for a Japanese wife. In
every order that unfortunate man gave his
rlkshaboy read a double entendre.
Outside every hotel is a rlksha stand,
where the little men, in white basin hats,
let their rlkshas rest on their shafts and
stand smoking tiny brass pipes hardly big
enough to bold a cigarette. They only take
about three whiffs, the constantly re-fllllng
prolongs tbe agony, and makes smoking in
Jspan very economical. Nothing Is spent
on matches the matches they make in
Japan are for America there Is always
live charcoal handy. The moment a pipe
Is smoked through the ashes are knocked
out against the wheel the tap-Up of the
klseru (pipelet) and the clop-clop of the
clogs make up for the absence of boefs.
Kamors of Rlksha Rldlnsr.
When you begin your first rlksha ride
you say it is the very poetry of motion,
but at the end of a thirty-mile rldo the
poetry Is blank verse . verse. It
takes you In the back, till you wonder If
the sake-baku (rice-beer) befuddled Japa
nese who rides In a rlksha with his head
over the back and his tongue standing up
like a flagstaff may not be a bona-flde
traveler who has taken an opiate to deaden
the horrors of rlksha Jogging.
One could make an album of the humors
of rlksha riding. Foreigners seem to In
balo a kind of laughing gas as they step
up inf the little "man-power vehicle,"
which Is what Jlnrlksha means. Old and
fat, young and slender, if they are not
residents with appearances to maintain,
grin as If they were going to have their
photographs taken, and shout as If they
were bathing. They persist in regarding
the performance like going on a switch
back Instead of going In a cab. This is
quite wrong, for rlkshas in Japan are a
stern reality a very stern reality if you
have to go far. There is the fat old man
who frightens the rlkshaboy, and the fat
old woman who Is frightened of him, the
practical joking young man who finds it
hard to keep from whipping his horse, the
girl who giggles, the pretty girl who has
found a fine fresh way of making a picture
of herself and the child who Is old enough
to be allowed in a rlksha by himself. He is
the hopplest of all, for the rlksha is the
apotheosis of the perambulator, "big
babies In running prams" was a witty
Frenchman's definition of rlksha riding,
and he might have called It trying to acco
mmodate yourself to the proportions of tbe
country.
The Rlkshaboy'a Holiday.
Amusing as It la to stand in the club win
dows at Yokohama and watch the types of
foreigners as they rlklsh along the Bund to
the allk handkerchief shop. It is much better
fun to watch Japanese rlksha riders going
to Shiba on a holiday. A foreigner is ex
pected to take two rikshaboys. A rlkshaboy
is expected to take, two Japanese some
times an old Darby and Joan In ssd-colored
silk kimonos; sometimes a black-toothed
duenna escorting a geisha with whitened
face and butterfly robes; sometimes two gay
little mousmees, though they cannot often
afford It.
To see a brilliant geisha, or two sweet
little mousmees, bowling along under the
cherry blossom avenues la as pretty a sight
aa it Is revolting to see the sake-baku with
his head tumbling off. You don't aee many
drunken people, considering that Japanese
see no harm In it. A rlkshaboy would think
It is tar more Indecent to see sober foreign
ers walking than a drunken Japanese rlk-
shlng. Like gondoliers and Paris cabmen,
they think that a foreigner has no right to
be In the streets without paying for It,
There Is on comfort about Jlnrlksha-
boys they have no connection with heaven.
The first rlkshaboy was not a nephew of
the sun; you have not got to learn anything
about tbem from art books. The Jlnrlksha
Is of low origin. It Is doubtful It there
was such a thing la the old Japan, which
dated from the Flood to 1668. They were
Invented by an American cobbler who was
also a missionary, and started as a modi
fled perambulator for a paralytic old gen
tleman of Kyoto who found his ksgo un
comfortable. The first license to manufac
ture them dates from 1870. The Ostend
bath chair and the perambulator might
claim to be the grandparents of this busy
little gocart; it looks like a perambulator.
and Is drawn like a bath chair a donkey
bath chair.
The Rlkshahoy Always Hnry.
The rlkshaboy, like the Italian cabby,
likes anything better than driving. Shop
ping for which he will have his commis
sion, comes first; If you don't shop or take
kodaks or stop before a temple or a new
Buddha made out of old mirrors at decently
short intervals he asks with engaging
politeness If he may stop for a smoke, or
uulls up at a rlksbiboys teahouse.
A rikshaboys' teahouss is like the
thatched stable with the front off. In which
the holy family receive' congratulations of
tbe three magi In mediaeval pictures. Look
lng like a Jackdaw, with tbe aid of two
chopsticks, be shovels a slop basin full
ef rice or macaroni down his throat la less
time than a healthy American could swal
low a cup of hot tea. Hs makes a beak of
his lips while he la putting himself outside
tbe macaroni. The chopsticks are worked
with a bird's beak movement, and the food
Is wsshed 4on with douches ot tinsy
looking Japanese lea. He gives a few
belches tbe Japanese way of returning
thaaka, flita bU pipe, empties it la three
whiffs, tips the ashes r-ut. mops himself,
uses the bsck of his hands as his pocket
handkerchief, and la ready to go on.
They Die .
The rlksha boy Is said to be short-lived,
which Is put down to long runs, foreigners'
fst and all weathers. They do die of heart
disease who wouldn't If he took his meals
like thst and ran ten miles directly after
ward with a bath chair behind blm?
Apart from behavior, be Is a sore trial to
bethrothed foreigner. Two foreigners can
not go In one rlksha and two rikhboys
cannot go side by side. Which has other
disadvantages besides unsociability If this
Indian file Is brought to a sudden halt. But
they hsve calls for going round corners
and stopping like Venetian gondoliers. It
Is not the nstlve they upset, but the for
eigner who won't give tbem their heads.
As we were going from Kyoto to Lake Blwl
I spied a Daimio lantern for ssle, a thing
I had been chsslng for months. I stopped
my man so suddenly that the rest of my
party were shot out of their rlkshsa back
ward like the contents of a dust csrt.
PRATTLE OF" THE YOIKGSTKRS.
"Where do we get our most valuable
furs?" asked the teacher.
"From the flr tree," replied the boy at
tbe pedal extremity of the class.
"Why, Harold. I'm surprised! You should
wait until the blessing Is asked."
"I did ask mine."
"You did?"
"Yes. and God said. 'Go ahead!' "
Dentist Well, little girl, what can I do
for you?
Little Girl (aged 4) I want to get some
teeth for our baby. He Just csme yester
day and he ain't got any, so I want to get
some like mamma got here, only smaller.
"Mamma," said a little 3-year-old whose
father was not a prize beauty, "was papa
as ugly when you married him as he Is
now?"
"I suppose so, dear." was the reply.
"Well," ssid the little miss, "you must
have been pretty hard up for a husband."
William Sllmson, Jr.--Do you believe In
being kind to the sick, mamma?
Mrs. W. Sllmson Certainly, Willie, and
I hope you always will. Why do you ask?
William Because, mamma, I heard the
little boy on the next block had the
measles and I've been visiting him all the
afternoon.
Mamma You mast be . awfully careful,
darling. The doctor says your system Is
all upset.
Little Dot Yes, I guess It is, mamma,
'cause my foot's asleep, and people must
be terribly upset when they go to sleep
at the wrng end.
"Mamma," said little Elsie, "w.ien peonle
are ashamed they always get red in the face,
don't they?"
"I believe so, dear," was the reply.
"Then," continued the little observer, "I
wonder why Uncle George only geis
ashamed in his nose?"
"Do you dye your hair, Mr. Jones?" asked
the irrepressible little brother.
"Certainly not. Tommy," was the reply.
'But why did you ask?
"Cause," answered the youthful terror.
your hair Is black and slater said she
guessed you were born light headed."
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
The revolutionary work of the Ferris
wheel Is finished In Chicago and It Is being
taken apart ror shipment to the at. Louis
exposition grounas.
Elwell Hovt of Eau Claire. Mich., has
the most complete collection of nloneer
relics In the central states, and keeps them
in a tog caDin Duut at nis nome lor that
purpose.
Dr. J. Colling Warren of Boston has In
his museum the most perfect example in
the world of the osneous formation of the
extinct mastodon. It only lacks a couple
of toes or so of being absolutely complete.
A school boy of Gloucester. Mam., who
had lust listened to a beautiful talk on the
Importance of "Aiming High," went out.
tnrew a stone at a sparrow in tne street
and smashed a huge French elate glass
show window.
Five generations of one family are living
in tne town or r mow. uaupnin county, fa.
They are Mrs. Henry Feagley, aged 91; her
daughter, Mrs. Jacob Leuker. aged 69; Mrs.
Leuker s daughter. Mrs. Frank Snyder.
aged 44; the latter'a daughter, Mrs. A. R.
Delbier, and ner son, Russell, aged 3
months.
Mrs. Jane Wesley of Charleston. W. Vs..
la suing for divorce. 8 he charges that for
a long time she bore with ner husband's
linguistic abuse of her mother, but decided
on revolt when he brought home a brlndle
Dun pup and ' sicked It on tne old lady.
Not only that, he beat tbe animal when It
refused to obey hlm.
The number of twins and trlnlets born
in rserun nas steaauy risen since ib. out
of nearly l.OuO.Ouo children born within that
period twins were born 22,441 times, triplets
229 and quadruplets I times. During the
same period In London twins were born
14,000 times, triplets 16 times and quadrup
lets twice. The Paris figures sre: Twins.
7,600; triplets, 25; no quadruplets.
Justice Grantbam is called the par ex
cellence murder Judge of England. In one
day at Leeds recently he tried three mur
der cases two before luncheon and one
after. The justice is an inveterate smoker,
and In the course of the day leaves the
bench four or five times to snatch a few
whiffs from a stumpy little pipe which he
has used for years.
When the gun club of Carlisle. Pa..
turned out one day recently for at match at
clay pigeons some of the younger members
looxed on with good-natured amusement a
William Caufman, 78 years old. lined ud to
take part. The old gentleman calmly pro
ceeded to shoot ail around the 01 hers, "kill-
Inn twenty-five out of a possible twenty-
five and winning the medal.
The coal famine has caused the brewing
companies of Milwaukee w take extra pre
cautions against the loss of beer kegs.
Drivers have been given Instructions to
keep a watchful eye for empty kegs and
every case of unlawful appropriation of
kegs will be prosecuted. Beer kegs make
good fuel. They are built of oak and are
coated Inside .with pitch. Many kegs al
ready have been broken up for fuel.
John Mulr. the famous naturalist and ex
plorer of the Pacific slope, has discovered
a tree In the General.Grant National park.
Fresno county. Cailrbrnln, that surpasses
In measurements any of its gigantic rivals
of the sequoia group. It is luu teet in cir
cumference. It is Just within the line of
the United States forest reserve, and reigns
over a grove of other magnincent examples
ot Its Kina, almost unanown 10 lame ma
far. It Is a finer specimen In every way
than the great trees which- have so far
carried off the honors of hugeness.
The Dlan to erect eight granite monoliths
In the chancel of the cathedral of St. John
the Divine In Manhattan has Been given
up at last, ine contractor 11 a iur years
been trying to turn out these columns en
tire, sixty feet long, but no machinery ex
ists by which they could be turned without
breaking oy tneir own weigm. ou um
contract has been modified to allow the
columns to be made In two sections, thirty
six and eighteen feet long, respectively;
the bases, plinths and capitals to be added.
Three of these will soon be erected, each
one will cost 16.HJ. will be the gift of
some individual ana nsmea alter eminent
t the church. General John L. Ilx
and Bishop John Henry Hobart are two
names mentioned as wormy 01 ins nnnor.
A civil war record of tbe height of In
in soldiers shows that out of 118.264
there were 16.047 6 feet 10 inches tall, s.7o
i feet U Incnea. s.'3 iee iau. 1.111 leei
1 i-rh 1 S67 feet 1 Inches. 40 t feet 8 inchos
and 830 over t feet 8 inches. Commenting
on these statistics Dr. Gould, actuary of
the United States sanitary commuwun,
writes: "It is evident from our statistics
that the Indiana men are the tallest of the
natives of the United States, and these
lalter the tallest of all civilised countries."
Bailors have a very simple, snd what Is
ui.l to be a very effective way of deter
mining the edible or nonedlbla qualities
of any new varieties of fish they may hap-n-
tn run serosa. In the water In which
the fish Is boiled Is plsced s bright silver
coin. If tbe coin retains its natural color
during the boiling process, the nsh Is good
to cat But If It turns dark, the food is
rejected. Why ahould not this be an equally
.m...Mnui method of determining the pois
onous or nonpolaonous quality of vegetables
mushrooms, for Instance? Any acid poison
will tarnlh silver, and must poisous are
of aa add nature.
CENTRAL TOWNSHIP SCHOOL
AdvantsrM tbat How from Ototolldttica
f Osnntrj District.
STATES WHERE PLAN IS WORKING WELL
State aser!ateadent Mnrrett f jlowa
Writes t the Progress Made la
the llawkeye Plate aad
Objects Attained.
In the last number of The Twentieth
Century Farmer appeared the following ar
ticle on tbe centralization ot country
schools, from the pen of Hon. Richard Q.
Barrett, state superintendent ot publlo In
struction for Iowa:
Msssschusetts In 1869 passed a law per
mitting school districts ts convey children
at public expense (o and from school. This
was the beginning of the centralizing of
rural schools. The exsmple set by Massa
chusetts has been followed In seventeen
other states: Maine, .New Hampshire, Ver
mont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota,
Booth DakoU, Kansas, Florida and Ne
braska. Tbe centralization of schools has
been evolutionary.
Ohio was the first of ths western states
to Inaugurate the system. In 1834 the gen
eral assembly of that state passed a special
law applicable alone to Klngsvllle town
ship, Ashtabula county, which authorized
the board ot directors to transport to a
central point at public expense the chil
dren of the township. Two years later, so
successful had the plan proven, that tbe
general assembly passed a law making
transportation possible In two other coun
ties and In 1898 a general law was passed.
In Ohle twenty-three townships now
havo their schools completely centralised
and there are hundreds of others where
there is partial centralization. Hon. Jamea
Wilson, secretary of agriculture, in the
year book for 1901 report tbat In Indiana
transportation of pupils Is practiced mors
or less In forty-four counties.
Progress la Iowa.
In Iowa consolidation has been tried in
twenty-eight counties, transportstlon in
thirty-five and both In nineteen. Sixty-three
districts have adopted consolidation, and
eighty have transported pupil at the ex
pense of tbe districts. In nine counties
districts have consolidated without provid
ing transportation at the expense of the
district, while pupils have been trans
ported In sixteen counties where there wss
no consolidation. 8imtlar reports are given
in other states.
The purpose In centralizing schools Is,
first, to provide the best schools possible
for the children of the farmers, and, sec
ond, to reduce the average annual expendi
tures of school corporations. The experi
mental period Is past and rural communi
ties In many counties and states have
found tbe relief they have anxiously sought.
The popularity ot the plan is shown by
the annual expenditure ot 1142.000 paid In
one of the states for the conveyance of
children. Amounts nearly as large have
been expended In other states.
So general and important has the whole
question become that the State Department
of Agriculture of Pennsylvania recently
made extensive investigations of the sub
ject of the consolidation of country schools
and the transportation of pupils by the
use of hacks, and the results, which were
found to be entirely satisfactory, were pub
lished in bulletin No. 71 of tbe Pennsyl
vania Department of Agriculture, and may
be had upon application.
Data for Two Iowa Schools.
The illustrations on the front page show
teams, vans, grounds and buildings In one
of the counties In northern Iowa. The cut
shows the building at Buffalo Center, in
Winnebago county. At this place the
schools have been centralized and pupils
transported since 1896, and at Terril, in
Dickinson county, dnring the last year
only. Tbe secretaries and principals in the
above named districts have supplied the
following data regarding their schools for
the year 1901-1902:
BUFFALO CENTER.
Total number of pupils in attendance, 847.
Number of pupils transported, 115.
Number of teams used, C.
Amount paid for team and driver, per
month, $34.
Average distance children are conveyed,
i miles.
Number of teachers employed, 9.
Number of pupils per teacher, 38.
Average cost of tuition per month tor
pupils transported. $1.71.
Average cost of tuition per month for
whole school, $1.41.
TERRIL.
Total number of pupils In attendance, 168.
Number of pupils transported, 137.
Number of teams used, 7.
Amount paid tor team and driver, per
month, $34.
Average distance children are conveyed.
about 3 miles.
Number of teachers employed, 4.
Number of pupils per teacher, 41.
Aver.ige cost of tuition per month for
whole schoo., $1.63.
In the case of Terril tt will be observed
that of the entire enrollment more than
83 per cent are transported, indicating a
rural community almost entirely.
Object la Ceatrallslaa- Raral Hehools.
As stated above, one ot the chief objects
in centralizing rural schools is to provide
for the children in rural communities the
best possible educational advantages. The
effort of the leaders in educational work
has too long been to Inspire the residents
In country districts to erect a school house
on every hilltop. What is now needed Is
not mora schools, but better schools. The
intelligent tanner prefers one good school
within four or Ave miles of his home than
tour or Ave poor schools within halt a mile.
The American farmer believes In educa
tion. Our cities, towns and villages are
populated with a large class of retired
farmers who have moved from their farms
In order to give their children better edu
cational advantages. Tbey have left the
farm, often at great sacrifice, and many
times It must be admitted with results not
the best foi the children. Not every boy
nor every girl who comes from the coun
try with good health and pure morals Is
able to retain these blessings under changed
conditions In town. Tbey have not been
prepared for it, but have grown up under
different surrourdlngs and tbe new life
may not be ths best for them. No good
reason has ever been given why the sons
aud daughters of farmers are not entitled
to and should not have equal educational
advantages with tbe sons and daughters of
those engaged In the professions. It is
ths hope of those who advocate ths cen
tralization of schools, tbat this may be made
possible and that country life may be made
so inviting that boys and girls aeelng ths
great possibilities of farm life will learn to
lov it.
AlTSstsiM Claimed far System.
Briefly summarised, the advantsges
claimed for ths system are In part aa fol
lows: 1. It will secure betier teachers.
2. It will reduce the per capita cost of
educstlon in ths dlstrlris affected In nearly
every ease aad without exception after ths
first cost of buildings, whers buildings are
required, has been paid.
8. It will Insure better classification of
pupils, to that both teacher and pupils may
spend their time te bttf advantage.
4. Larger classes will stlmulste rompetl
tlon and better effort and greater Interest
snd enthuslssm among the pupils.
5. Supervision will be more thorough ana
more esslly sccompllshed by cofu"''
superintendent and by the principal or ths
township or central school where It Is large
enough to require a principal and assistant
teachers
6 The attendance will be larger, at
perlence hss shown.
7 Greater punctusllty would be secured,
as the children would sll be brought t
school before o'clock In the morning.
8. ConsolldstloB would provide better
buildings and more apparatus and libraries
without additional expense.
9. Longer and more regular terms or
school would be the result of uniting the
forces of .several small districts Into one
strong centrsl school, which could be kept
running eight or nine months in a yemt.
10. The health of the children would be
better guarded where they are eonveyed
from their homes to the school la comfort
able vehicles, than where they havs to
travel through mud or snow for a mile or
so to the school, ss they often do under
the present system.
11. The cider thlldren would be kept at
home ana in achool longer than they can,
be at present, oecause the central school
could provide sdvanced courses of study
under s capable teacher. 80 the necessity
of going to town to school would be put
off for several yesrs. The course of study
would be so arranged aa to accommodate
these older pupils at such time as they
can be spared to attend school. This
would tend to keep the boys and girls
on the farm instead of encouraging tbem te
leave it and go to the towns. This IS one
of the main purposes of the system.
12. It will Improve the farm surround
lngs and add attractions to country life
by stimulating a desire to know more
about the works of nature.
13. In ths central school there would be
opportunity for the study of special
branches which cannot be offered in the
district school becauee the teacher lacks
either tho time or the ability to teach,
them.
14. In short, the opinion Is almost unani
mous to the effect tbat the consolidation
of small schools snd the transportation ot
the pupils to a central school at the exj
pense of the district would result in better
schools at less or no greater expense.
QIAIXT FKATIRKS OF LIFE.
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After forty years' experience as a gam
bler Peter F. Delaoy, the noted New York
sport, advises everybody to leave games
of chance alone. Delacy Is still in the
same old business, but he says he can count
on the fingers of one hand the men he has
known to make money by gambling and
keep it. "It comes too easy and men don't
put the proper value on money made In
that way. It comes to nothing In the long
run, and that's why I advise everybody to
keep away from gambling."
Congressman Foerderer of Philadelphia
was in a hotel there the other evening
when his brother, Edward, entered with
two wealthy eastern meat packers. The
three were intoxicated and the manager
refused to serve them with wine. Young
Foerderer became abusive and was heap
lng maledictions on the manager's head,
when the congressman, who Is large and
muscular, came In. He seized the bibulous
youth by the collar, yanked him out by a
side door and aent him home in a cab,'
afterOwhich he returned and finished hie
dinner.
The Paris letter In the Philadelphia Post
tells of the two blessings of western civ
ilization it Is tbe ambition of an American
educated Japanese girl to take home to her
land. It was at one ot M. Delcasse's re
ceptlons in the ministry for foreign affairs.
She came with the Japanese ambassador's .
party, and she was winsome as a flower,
this delicate Japanese girl oh, an amber
girl! dressed in the silken splendor ot
her race. Therefore was it almost uncanny
to hear her talk with a downeaat accent
When you gasped she said:
"Why, I'm a Wellesley girl, you know."
"And you are going home?"
"Yea, back to Japan."
The small face grew very serious.
"I want to teach my people two things
when I get back," she said "ice cream and
the gospel."
"The spectacle ot Miss Susan B. Anthony
appearing as the bridesmaid or maid ot
honor at the wedding ot her secretary. Miss
Dann," says the Chicago Post, " is a beau
tiful example of the sublime selt-sacrlflca
of this noble woman. While Miss Anthony
would much rather go to the dentist's
chair than to the altar ot Hymen, she
sinks her own feelings and prejudices in
the happiness of her friend' and becomes a
self-contained but regretful party to the
daughter. We have not heard how Miss
8usan will be gowned on this lamentable
and melancholy occasion, but wo dare say
she will put on her very best black silk
with a black hat and veil and other trap
pings of woe. But in spite of all this ad
mirable self-forgetfulness. If there is any
idle talk of 'obeying' during the degrading
ceremony tbe good people of Rochester will
be treated to the sight of a maid of honor
doing calisthenics of a violent nature In
the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault.
There is a limit to human endurance."
Mrs. Dora Sutton of Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
has -promised to continue to reside with
her husband if he will vow to live accord
ing to the following eet of rules:
1. Get up at 5 without my calling you.
2. Provide material for one cake a week.
8. Provide material for plea each week.
4. Twenty-five cents' worth ot beef Tues
days and Saturdays.
6. Clothes for you that will make you
look attractive and 'clean.
6. You will not use vulgar or profane
language at all.
7. You will go to church and Sunday
achool at Wyoming, and not make my life
a burden to get you there in time.
8. Remove all mother's things and her
cow, aa I cannot tend tbe latter.
9. Buy us one quart of milk a day.
10. Ruth must sot peddle, buy or carry
things.
11. Wipe your feet clean when you come
into the house.
"When Father Jones, president of the
Augustinian college at Havana, was re
cently in Philadelphia in attendance on the
conference of members of bis order, he
told a story of a reformed burglar who,
after much persuasion, induced bis long
time pal also to reform," says the Philadel
phia Ledger. "A Pauliat friend of Father
Jones, then stationed in New York City,
had been the recipient of the first bur
glar's confession, and was picked to listen
to tbe second's. The priest was Interested
in the two fellows because of tbe sincerity
of ths first, and when the pair called he
took the eecond Into his own room and left
tbe evangelist In the hallway. After listen
ing half an hour to the new penitent's
story of a vicious life the Psullsl remem
bered something left undone with regard
to a marriage to be celebrated that even
ing, and, Interrupting ths burglar, hastened
from tbe room. After sitlog ten minutes
the fellow put bis head through the door
and calltd: '1)111!' 'What ts itr responded
the first convert. 'Where did he go?
'Don't know,' answered Bill. 'Whet differ
ence dors it msker 'Well.' replied tbe
half confessed wretch. 'I wss afraid he
might have stepped out to call a police
ma a.'
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