Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1910)
THE BEE; OMAHA, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1910. 15 CITY CHIEF NEWS Bdt Root rrlmt lv r. (-woboU Certified iewutai'. Z,lf htliiff rixtarea, Barreee-Orandea Co, Binehart, Fbotofrapher, llth A Farnara. i Ktyn. photo, removed to llth Howard. 1C8C national Ufa Inaartnoe Co 1SXS Uai!e K. Ady, General Asent. Omaha. "Zty Us firs for Fuel.- Nebraska Fuel Co.. 1411 Farnam 81 Both 'Phonea. Xqultable Life Policies sight drafts at maturity. .11. V. Neely, manager,-Omaha. loci Ownership la tho nope of every family. Nebraska Havings and Loan Ana'n. will show you the way. 10S Hoard of Trade l;ldg., 16th and Farnam. Keep Yoar Money an Talnablea In the American Safe teposit Vaulta In the Bea building;, tl rents a box. Xayden Broa. will have a rare treat for inualc buyers all this week. Mr. Bam Fox, the popular violinist and composer, will play every day and will especially Illustrate the beautiful new flower sons;, "Dream of the Flowers," besides many others. ' " Eight Takes In Bald An alleged gamb ling resort at 41 Houth Fifteenth street was rahlod last night by Sergeants Pls wart, KaniuelRon- and Madsen and Detec tives Maloney and Van Dusen. night al lowed participants In games, all white, were locked up. A quantity of cards, chips, money, etc., was secured as evidence. Mr. John W. Sward and Mr. O. O. Ed wards of San FrancUro, Cal., are regis tered at the Hotel Loyal. Messrs Sward and Edws.rds are exploiting the eucalyp tus hard 'wood Industry In California and are the gentlemen wftoso display of hard wood at the National Corn exposi tion a few weeka ago, waa a feature of th show. '" t Oeneral Btandarson's Biography Oeneral Charles F. Manderson Is writing a series of autobiographical sketches for the Omaha Excelsior, In which paper they are being published weekly. Oenerat Manderson has so far furnished two articles, dealing with hlk army experiences, which are very In teresting. The series will extend over a period of several months. ' Bealty Bought for Investment Con siderable vacant Omaha property is being bought at present for an investment with no idea of the buyer to improve the proimi ly. . LeoaarJ Everett cf Council Bluffs seems to be making a specialty of buying vacant property on Farnam street. lie has closed a deal for the southwest corner of Twenty-seventh and Farnam, 132x134 feet, for $13,200, a price of )100 a front foot. He haa also bought 115 feet adjoining the Kountxa Memorial church on ithe west for 313,000. He haa bought from A. P. Tukey & Son 200 feet . ut Thirty-first and Farnam street for ?i 3,000. Simple ReaieAr tor Lasjrlppe. LsgHppe roughs are dangerous, as they frequently develop Into pneumonia. Foley's Honey and Tar not only stops the cough, but h-ala and strengthens the lungs so that no serious results need be feared. Tha genuine Foley's Honey and Tar contains no harmful drugs and is in a yellow pack age. Sold by all druggists. MAYOn SPURNS FREE RIDE AND WALKS FOR APPETITE flr'timr tu Accept Pass from City Ilnllrr Inspector to Oct Trip Oralis. City Boiler Inspector "Bob" Wolfe is, or was, the owner of a horse that he consid ered a regular Bucephalus, close ' kin to Rarus, .an4 j)J (the .same strain as famed Abdallnh. ' - i . Among other city hall attaches, however, a different opinion was held. Assistant Gas CommlKsloner'Butler asserted once that it took Wolfe and his horse from early yesterday to the day after tomorrow to travel from his home to a boiler plant out north. Tom Flyhn Is credited with saying that If a fly didn't move any faster than Wolfe's horse It would starve to death. Recently Mayor Pahlman was starting from the city hall to lunch at the Hensnuw. Wolfe Was Just unhitching his horse at the front door. "Jump in, mayor, erhd 1 11 take you down In my buggy," said Mr. Wolfe, with impres sive generosity. "Is this the pony I hear so much about?" inquired tha mayor, with that caution all real horsemen acquire sooner or later. "The same animal," replied Wolfe, inno cently, smiling even more comfortably. "Well, Bob, I'll walk down and ret my lunch, .and meet you when you get to tha Henshaw,"' said the mayor, and passed on. Wolfe either sold or Shot tha horse, aa tha story goes. A medicine need not be disagreeable to be effective. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Is plvatant to take and always cures. By Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Black Duck, Minn. "About a year ro l wrote you that 1 was sick and could not do any of my housework. M , sickness was called Retroflexion. When 1 would sit down I felt as if I could not Jet up. I took iTdia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Com pound and did just as you told me and now I am perfectly cured, and have a big babr hnv." JUTS. ANNA ANDERSON, VOX 19, JiULClC Duck, Minn. Consider This Advice, No woman should submit to a surgi. cal operation, which may moan death, until she has Riven Lydia K. l'inkham's Vegetable Compound, made exclusive ly from roots and herbs, a fair trial. This famous medicine for women has for thirty years proved to be the most valuable tonic and invifroratorof the female organism. Women resid ing in almost every city and town in the Uniutd States bear willing testi . roony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia 35. l'inkham's Vegetable Compound. It cures female ills, and creates radi ant, buoyant female health. If you are ill, for your own sake as veil as those you love, give it a trial. Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass invites all tick women to write lier for ad vice. Her advise ia free, smuI aiwuys lieJitui, A . A J . 'MOTHER u WMAN CUBED Some Things You Want to Know i Turbulent Central America Rivalry of Leon and Granada. In order to understand what haa nap pened of late In Nicaragua the reader must remember that almost from the day they were founded there haa existed a bitter rivalry between tha cities of Leon and Oranada. These ara tha two most Impor tant cities in the republic and from lime Immemorial have been competitors in bua Inesa. But their opposition has not halted there. In opinion, in Intellectual activi ties, and, above all. In politics, they have been arrayed agalnat each other. In fact tha early history of Nicaragua la merely a chronicle of revolutions fomented first by one and then by the other of these cities. Leon haa been a stronghold of the liberal party slnoa 1821. Oranada has been Just as consistently conservative. The various contests for tha presidency have been, gen erally speaking, struggles betwrn ilie candidates of tha two cities. Leon, 't Is true, has had tha advantage of popula tion, but Oranada has always been the richer and more cultured, and so in politi cal Influence they have been nearly equal. But for a good many years Oranada was in tha ascendency. After the dissolution of tha union of the Central American re publics in 1838 the control of tha conserva tive party that la to Bay. of Oranada fell Into the hands of a half doien families tha Chamorros, the Zavalas, the Carde nasea, the Cuadraa, and the Macasaa more especially. Among the liberals there were no auch dynasties. Their leaders stood quit alone. Wben at rare intervals hjy forged their way to office it waa through Individual prowesa rather than with me help of influential family connections, and when they fell, as they usually did after a brief tenure of power, to be dis placed by conservative candidates, Ui?y left no heirs. B-it the conservatives had trouble among themselvea. Sometimes they did queer things. It was a Chamorro, for instance, who brought Walker into Nica ragua, and who was afterward shot by the. great American adventurer. In time the presidential succession be came practically restricted to the families of Chamorro, Zavala and Cardenas. The liberals .In Leon looked around for a leader. They found him In Trinidad Ca banas, of Honduras. One of the curious things about Central America is that if you are a cltlsen of one of the little re publics you are a cltlsen of all the rest, and can dabble in their politics aa freely aa you can in your own country's. So Trinidad waa warmly welcomed in Leon, and made himself an important place in Nicaraguan politics that la, until Don Fruto Chamorro went in search of his scalp. Don Fruto, having disposed of Ca banas, made himself supreme dictator, and the liberals found themselves once more out In the cold. Supreme dictator was the style affected by the rulers of Nicaragua down to the time of President Zavala. Zavala promul gated a constitution and assumed the pres idential title. His predecessors had been Irresponsible despots, holding themselves accountable to Ood, and not very much accountable even In that direction. But Zavala Raw the signs of the times. He It was who tried to smooth out the animos ities of Leon and Granada. He brought to gether thQ representatives of the two cities, and induced them to locate tho capital of the republic at Managua This town was acceptable to the rival cities, possibly for the fact that it waa a small, insignificant and unhealthy place. Managua haa con tinued to be the capital, though It hasn't Improved very much over what it was In Zavala's time, and la still Inferior Iih prac tically every point to Leon and Oranada. But this well-intentioned plan did not al lay the Jealousies of tha two cities, and down to the present day their quarrels have been a frequent cause of bloodshed and revolution. Joso Santos Zelaya, late president of Nicaragua, is one of the boldest, most skillful and most unscrupulous politicians that haa ever flourished in Central America or elsewhere. For sixteen years he maintained himself in power by playing upon the inherited hatreda of these two cities. If hla growing unpopularity led to a revolutionary outbreak in Leon, he in cited Oranada to suppress it; and Oranada, anxious to feed fat the ancient grudge, hurried to do hla bidding. And when Oranada rebelled, as it did once in awhile, Leon was only too willing to even up tha score. By, deftly . balancing the factions, Zelaya made himself tha master of Nic aragua, and one of the most formidable figures in Central America. On assuming the presidency, one of Zelay's first acta waa to Institute his now famous policy f concessions. Of course, there is a good deal of reticence about the way In which these oon "sessions were par ECHOES OF THE ANTE-ROOM Royal Areasim Banqjaet Oae of Bia; Features of Fraternal Life Darin Week. Ona of tha most ImDortant and enjoyable gatherings of the Arcanlans held in Omaha f . . i. .. I . . ill rruem ywil wb uiv vwMtwt, v. Koyal Arcanum banquet given at the Mil lard hotel Wednesday evening. The af fair was attended by nearly 100 members of the order, representing the three Omaha councils and many of the members of the Orand council, including Grand Regent Paul B. Harm. The spread was for the honor members of the order who had se cured new members during th Isst two months and to outline plans for further work during the winter and spring months. So successful was the affair that it was voted to repeat it in April before the meet ing of the Orand council, when a Orand K mint's clasa will be initiated into the order. , Kdward 8. Thompson of Union Pacific council acted as toastmaster during tha evening. Responses were as follows: "Pioneer Council 118," Kdward L. Brad ley, regent. "ITnion Pacific Council IOCS," Stanley P. Boxtwlck. regent. "Overland Council 2123," Charles C. Sund blad. past regent. "Early Days," James W. Maynard, past regent. "Nineteen Hundred Ten," Hiram Lan caster, deputy grand regfnt. "Our Order," Paul B. Harm, grand regent. , "Toe Spirit of Altruism," Rjv. Frank La Fa yet to Loveland. Omaha lodge No. I. Odd Fellows, will have two candidates for the first degree next Friday evening. Beacon lodge No. 20, will confer tha first degree Tuesday evening. Next Saturday evening Heuperlan En campment No. 2. will install Its officers for the nil term. Triangle encampment and South Omaha encampment have b'fn invited to be present. Refreshments will be served at the cioM of the ceremonies. At the meeting? of tha various lodges h.-ld during the last week these officers vr installed: Omaha No. t, Frank W. Allwlne, noble grand; F. W. Whitney, vice grand; S. K. Uret-nlfaf, secretary and F. B. Bryant, treasurer. Slate lodge No. 10, Hans Khlora, noble firand; L. S. Shlr.rock. vice grand; C. M. Coffin, sucretary, and C. A. Wagner, treasurer. I Beacon lodge No. 20. R H. Oash, noble , Brand: Frank W. Vlck. vice grand; Robert , Lmberg. stcrctary and H. Friedman, J In-asurtr. Wasa lodge No. IKS, John A. Wsasman. noble grand; John F. Ekwell, vice grand; I Richard Johmion, secretary and John Lar j son, treasurer. A surprise party was iilven (he Mlrln. offlctrs of George Crook corps. No. sit, last wek by the members of Crook o. Nfc. As the ourp was about t eli s t.V meeting the comrades of the i':.st mado a celled out Thra wtre features connected With them from the atart that nobody waa anxloua to make public. But briefly stated, the system was something Ilka this: If Zelaya or some of his henchman saw any body making money In any line of business, one of the latter applied to the government for a grant of a monopoly In that line, The franchise would then be aold. either to tha hapless merchants, whose success was responsible for the fuheme, or to some body else w ho would set aside a consider able share, say 26 per cent of the profits, for Zelaya. Not all of the concessions were out-and-out monopolies, but practically all had monopolistic! features, Eventually there came to bs franchises for the exclusive use of certain klnda of vessels on Lake Nicaragua, on tha an Juan river and on the Escondldo river. When Zelaya came into power tha concession on the San Juan was held by a Frenchman, who nd mar ried the daughter of President Zavala. As It then stood the concession was not a monopoly. Keiaya took it away from tha Frenchman, niade It a monoply, and granted It to a new concessionaire with tha usual stipulations for the benefit of tha presidential pocket-book. There were mono polistic concession on nails, kerosene, cattle, dynamite tobacco, whiskey, gro ceries and shoes. Sometimes the conces sion would- apply only to a certain district, beyond the limits of which similar con cessions would be made to other persons. This waa done with regard to shoes, tha sale of which was conducted exclusively by one firm on the Atlantic coast, and was equally the exclusive function of another company ou the Paulfls coast. One of the most important of the con censlons granted by Zelaya was made about five years ago to .an. American named Keltrick. Mr. Deltrtck Is said to represent a group of Pittsburg capitalists. He en joyed the exclusive right to exploit every kind of mineral deposit, whether new mines or abandoned ones, in a region comprising some 10.000 square miles, excepting, of oourae, mines actually being operated by nthar person. Along w'th this rl'ht went othera almost equally valuable, in return Deltrtck undertook to pay the Nicaraguan government a fixed sum per aiyhum, Im prove the navigation of tha Wanks river and create a town at Cape Oracias. This franchise, in spits of 'the temporary sot back sustained by the company as a re sult of the adjostment of tha boundary be tween Nicaragua and Honduras, by which its operations were restricted to tha south bank of the Wanks river, I still a "going concern." It is worth noting that the whisky concession in tha Blueflelda district was originally granted to Juan Kstrada, the leader of the rebel forces.. -. An incident- which explains Zclaya's methods may be appropriately related here. It Is the comic-opera, story of the wharf concession at Blueflelds. A wharf was un questionably heeded, but not the kind of two-by-four affair that was erected. For his , trouble tha promoter, waa to receive a large sum, and to get it by collecting a small fee on every package landed at the wharf. Of course this arrangement was by no means satisfactory to the Bluefields merchants, and they protested ao vigorously that Zelaya waa at length compelled to cancel the concession. But as the promoter had done the work, and was legally entitled to his pay, something had to be found for him. So Zelaya issued a decree raising the already heavy customs duties at Bluefields and. assigned a part, of the proceeds to the builder of the wharf. Tha result was to put the price of living in Nicaragua up to an altitudlnoua level, especially in . Blue fields. Before Estrada took up arms against Zelaya, butter sold In Bluefields for SI. 40 a pound and tobacco A for 83. Estrada abolished the concessions on both articles.' The price of butter has dropped to 40 cer.ta per pound and tobacco has cheapened proportionately. The concessions weighed heavily upon all the people of Nicaragua upon Leon as upon Granada but Zelaya was nqt content there with. Arbitrary arrest of his enemies still further tended to unite the mass of the people against him. For tha first time in Nicaraguan history the two rival cftles found ' themselves driven into alliance agalnat the common enemy. At laal evtn Zclaya's cleverness was unavailing to keep liberal and conservative apart. Here ia the fact which insured the success of Estrada's campaign. But that neither city has per manently burled tha hatchet is a aafe as sertion. What they will do in the future, once tha present emergency has passed, it is difficult to foretell. Br TtTUtDXXlO 3. OASXXH. Tomorrow TTTKaTJXEm . OXSTTBAXi AMEJaiCA Politics In jrioaragua. descent on the hall, laden with-basketa of refreshments. Two large tables were quickly arranged for the banquet and all Joined in disposing of the suhstantlals, and pronounced the affair one of the happiest In the history of the post and corps. A public Installation of tha new officers of Benson camp No. 28, Woodmn of the World, Will take place at tha Eagle audi torium Wednesday evening, Januury 19, the installation ceremonies being presided over by State Manager Edward. Walsh. A musi cal and literary program will be rendered, followed by cards and clears, after the In stallation ceremonies. This meeting will be open to members and prospective mem bers, and any man between the age of 18 and bi years will be cordially welcome. The Omaha Zion society will hold Its bi monthly meeting Sunday afternoon at 8:30 o'clock In Modern Woodmen hall. Continen tal block, Fifteenth and Douglas streets Nomination and election of officers for the ensuing term will be held, also tho election of delegates to the Thirteenth annual con vention of the order of Knight of Zion to be held in Chicago, January 28-Sl. An In teresting program will be carried out. Mr. Mosrr of Lincoln, a noted Zion worker, will be present and address the meeting. Pansy camp No. 10, Royal Neighbors of America, will hold a public installation of its nw officers in Modern Woodmen hall, Fifteenth and Douglas streets, Tuesday evening, January 18. Clan Gordon, No. 81, met Tuesday night. One new candidate waa balloted on and ona new name proDosed. The new nfftnera rn. 1910 were formally Installed, following wh'ch came a program of music. All preparations are completed for the Burns' concert tnd ball at Chamber's academy. Twenty-fifth and Farnam streets, the evening of Janu ary 25. Plasterers' union. No. 4, elected the fol lowing nffinnra f . Ih. n ...... i . .. last meeting: president. James Stribllng; " iiiusm. v. i-. onieias: nnanclai sec retary, W. A. Soott; treasurer. Charles Hafkett: reonrrilnv imiiai-v a u ry trustees, G. Dohle, Tyler A. Carlson and George Hardy. The plasterers will re ceive 16 a day after February 1 OMAHA CLUB WILL BALLOT Aaaaal Mee-tla Be Held Satar. day far Elacttoa at Director. The annual meeting of tha Omih. i..w will be held at tha club Saturday for ela tion of dlrectora and other business as may coma before tha meeting. Three direc tors ara to be chosen to succeed v u Caldwell, M. L. Learned and Geqcga N. reea, whose terma have expired. Dinner will be served at ( to o'clock and the hu.i. nesa meeting hold Immediately thereafter. Big Rerults from Little Bee Want Ada SCHOOL AND COLLEGE WORl Matters of General Interest in the Educational jfield. TIPS THAT MAKE FOR PS0GRESS lalrersltr Esteaaiow Wark and Nia Seaaal la Jaaraalleia Assorted Defees In Pablle School ' Methods. Chancellor Avery of the University of Nebraska hss just returned from a meet ing at Madison, Wis., of tha presidents of the state universities. He reports a very interesting session. Severs! presidents of state universities In tha west ware sur prised to learn of the Increase of over X atudenta at Nebraska this year over the previous year, while other Institutions showed a decrease In attendance. Prof. A. A. Reed Inspected tha Osceola High school last Friday. Assistant In spector Voes has Just returned from a long trip of high school Inspection visiting Mil ford. Utlca, Central City, St. Paul Busi ness college, Oreeley, North Loup and Ord. He reports good work In all of these schools.- Ord has Just moved Into their high school building which la one of the best school buildings In the state. Tha following lecture Itinerary Is an nounced for Chancellor Avery for tha last week In January and the first week in February; Sunday afternoon, January 33, Young Men's Christian association, Fre mont; Monday forenoon, January 24, high school, Oakdale; that night, farmers' in stitute, Elgin; Tuesday forenoon, January 26, high school, Petersburg; that nlghf at tha farmer' Institute, Albion; Wednesday forenoon, January 28, high school, Albion; that night at the farmers' Institute, New man Grove; Thursday afternoon, January 27, farmers' Institute,. Humphrey; that night, high school, Leigh; Friday - night, January 28, woman's club, Crelghton; Sat urday, Jan 29. Knox County Teachers' as sociation; Sunday night, January 30, lay sermon. Congregational church, Norfolk; Monday morning, January 81, Norfolk High school; Monday night. January 31, high school, Emerson; Tuesday afternoon, February t farmers' Institute, Pender; that night, high school, Bancrofty, Wednes day afternoon, Februfiry 1, high school. Craig; Wednesday night, February S, Pres byterian church. Lyons; TRursday after noon, February .1. high school, Tekamah; Thursday night, February 3, Dana college, Blair; Friday afternoon, February 4, high school, Columbus; Friday night, February 4. First Baptist church, Grand Island; Sat urday, February 5, Hamilton County Teachers' association; . Saturday night, February 6, Epworth league, Phillips; Sun day forenoon, February , lay sermon, Methodist church, Aurora; Sunday after noon, February . Young Men's Christian association, York; Monday morning, Febru ary 7, high school, York. The subject of the chancellor's lay. sermon is "Old Faith and New Knowledge." His subject for farmers' institutes is ."Agriculture aa Re lated to Human Progress." His high school addresses are, (a) "A Comparison of Ger man and American schools;" (b) "Higher Education and Higher Ideals." This is the most strenuous speaking program ever planned by a Nebraska -educator. There are still over seventy-five towns that have ap plied for a lecture by Chancellor Avery. PIBI.IC SCHOOL. DEFICIENCIES. Some of tha Defects Pointed Oat by i Critic, . . The first of a series of! papers on "What Is Wrong with Our Public Schools," by Jo seph M. Rogers, appears in the current number of LIppInootrr'Magarlne. The interrogation point Is omitted from the title. Implying that It not a question, but a state of facts the writer is dealing with. A general idea of the conditions found to exist may be had from these ex tracts: '... "Th.ere is something wrong with the pub lic schools. More than that, there ia some thing fundamentally wrong with our the orlea of education. We teach, but we do not educate. We spend ' a good deal of money and energy to tittle purpose. It Is not necessary to prove these statements. They are admitted by educators, from uni versity presidents to primary teachers; by school administrators, from stata and fed eral officials down to those in the smallest country districts; by parents the country over; while children . themselves are, of course, dissatisfied. Fundamentally, the trouble with our sys tem of public education Is that children learn a little about a great many things, without gaining much really definite knowl edge of anything which is likely to stand them In good stead In later life; and, what Is equally bad, they do not acquire methods of accurate thinking.' . This criticism ap plies to education In every branch, and has been true from the beginning because our theories have been wrong. But Just now it is peculiarly true that our public school sys tem has defects which are so palpable, and for which remedies are so easily found, that wa should no longer permit things to remain aa they are. . Our public school system is decidedly be hind those of several Of the enlightened na tions of Europe, notably Germany and Scan dinavia, and wa ought to realise it. This is a blow to our national pride, but unless we frankly admit our faults, there la little prospect either of repentance or of bringing torth works meet for repentance. It cannot be too atrongly impressed upon the American people that the so-called "three R's" are not grounded in the youth ful minds of this generation as they should be. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic are tha tools of tha human mind. Without them, almost nothing of an Intellectual sort can be accomplished. We ought to put the very best tools in the hands of our chil dren, and they should be kept in the best pceslble condition. Prof. Barrett Wendell of Harvard university recently told In a lecture how one of hla . brightest students did not know the letters of the alphabet In their otder, and in consequence was much hampered in the use of a dictionary. When It comes to writing, we have retrograded. At various tlmea much stress has been laid on various systems of penmanship, which have been in turn adopted and discarded. with the result that few children write so well as -they should, or so well as did their forbears at the same aga. As to composi tion, most children ara befogged at the simplest test. Forty years ago iral spelling was one of th principal features of aohool work. It was an Intellectual discipline of tha highest order, and had many more virtues than that of teaching to spell correctly. Is tiers a gr&y-halred man or woman who reads this and who does not remember tha Intellectual, moral and spiritual uplift that came from "spelling down" twtea a day? To fall In 1 publlo was grievous misfortune, and there was no greater mental and moral stimulus afforded than this axerclce. But nowadays! children write their spelling almost exclu- sively, and get their marked papers back long after they have forgotten them. Writ ten spelling baa ita advantages, but it la by no means a proper substitute for tha older fashion. Also, wa used to .study etymology, so that with a knowledge of roots, suffixes and prefixes tha dictionary waa less needed than now when It Isn't used at all. Why was this useful study abandoned T Recently I was shown soma papara of high school boy a vf tha fresh man year. They a era discreditable. The writing Was atrocious and the spading waa even worse. Tha pupils seamed to have had a fair tdna of the subjects In which they were ex amined, but they presented them In ; a fashion that waa execrable. Tt these boys had been trained In tha new methods of writing and spelling. Tha wonderful growth and popularity of tha kindergarten In this country la based on fundamental ronsider atione. It makes what Is real education In Ita highest a Jr to children and parents silks. Tha little minds tr Inter ested, and tha little hands learn to do things with an expertnesa which is amas ing to tha gray-heads who never knew such a thing In their experience. There la no valid reason why the whole course of education should not maintain tha same In terest that Is found In the kindergarten. Manual training has made a feeble be ginning to the schools of tha target cities, and Its popularity la a sufficient endorse ment of Its value, but even her only the smallest possible amount of time ts da voted to It, while boys and girls still flounder along In books, and ara made to perform tasks of whose value they have no notion and which often possess none. The boy la not different from the man. When you find a man working with an at titude of defiance toward hla task, 'a con stant deflire to do aa little as poaxlble and then eseapel you have a mnn who Is not likely to succeed. It is the same With the boy and girl. Tha attitude toward any task la of tha first Importance. It Is true that all of us ara compelled to perform disagreeable tasks In this world, and the discipline Is good for us. but When ' we understand that It Is good for us we find the drudgery lees. . , UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. . . Beopc aad Working Division of t'nl verally Exteaaloa. . "ITnlveralty extension In Wisconsin works under four mala departments e-r-respondenoe study, Instrnctton by lectures, debating and publlo discussion, and general information and welfare," tld Director Louis E. Raber of the University of Wis consin extension division In addressing' the convention of the Association of American Universities, which includes twenty-two universities pf the country, which opened its session hers thia morning. "The. correspond fneev study department, though scarcely paat Ita third year, ahowa a registration of over J.JOO," continued Frof. Raber. "Of these about aw . are working for university credit. Nearly 2,000 are engatfed In special Studies with vocational bearings. The remaiuder arc entered for general or preparatory courses! "For industrial employes In correspond ence study classes nothing less than dis trict Organisation will avail, The plan of Its final fulfillment embraces classes of correspondence students under local di rection In manufacturing districts studying shop mathematics, machine construction, and other subjects fundamental to mechan ical processes; in mining districts, engaged in courses of study designed to Improve their proficiency In mining engineering; In commercial centers, taking business courses; in fact, university extension, ef fectively administered,' offers vocational training directly applicable to prevalent Industrial conditions in every part of the stale. "Wisconsin's organisation at present In cludes but two districts, and covers about one-fifth of the state In area. One dis trict has its headquarters at Milwaukee, the second at Oshkosh. In the Milwaukee district In less than two years, over 1,000 students have been enrolled for vocational study. . Tha courses taken Include shop mathematics, mechanical drawing, . steam engines, electricity, business management, accounting, commercial law, and others of a ilka practical bearing. It 'Is toot unusual for the employers to co-operate with the university liy supplying- a suitably fur nished clasa room and permitting classes to be held during working hours, an evi dence of interest which should bear fruit is Improved relations between employer and employe. Frequently rooms In schools and libraries are used for instructional purposes, or accommodation Is supplied by the university. "In the Oahkosh district, also, where the work la of reoent inauguration, keen inter est has been manifested- by employers of labor. In one instance the owner of large business Interests has offered to pay the fees of all employes who osmplete courses of study. He haa supplied well furnished class rooms and has equipped them with books recommended for the students' use. . "Tha department of instruction by lec tures depends at present upon recruits from ail departments oftthe university, and. al though limited by Insufficient funds, IS of Use in spreading, educational Influence In tho cities and towns of the state. With an adequate appropriation for Its further de velopment and the assistance of an effec tive, field organization, It can be made a powerful Instrument for betterment. ' Tha department of debating and publlo discus sion la securing good, results also. Bulletins proposing topics for debate and giving ref erences for both sides of the question are published by this department and sent, wtthout cost, upon application. In the last year, through this Instrumentality, assist ance haa been given n the Study of current topics to 128 high schools and academics, to thirty-two Women's clubs end men's organ isations, and to a number of others. Some 18,00 bulletins have been' distributed and B.iiO classified articles hawe ' been lent, Thousands of people hove been helped to learn the tatip relating to such aubjects Sa tho immigration problem, good roads, tha commission form of government, etc., and to think and talk Intelligently upon them. It Is impossible to estimate the value of widespread training of this character, especially for the rising generation, to whom many of the problems now under discussion will come for solution. "- UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. Largest Rhetoric Drpartmrat and Coarse u Jonraallsra. At a recent meeting of the faculty of tha Htorary department of the University of Michigan a committee was raised to con sider the question of establishing a course In preparation for newspaper work. Such courses are now offered at tha universities of Kansas, Missouri. Washington, Minne sota.. Wisconsin, Illinois and New York. The University of Michigan was, however, the pioneer In this field, since a course tor newspaper men. entitled rapid writing, waa given by Prof. Scott as early as 1&0. In recent years courses In newspaper theory tend practice In book reviews, and In technical Journalism have been regu larly given and many successful news paper men have been thus started on their careers. r .. .. The new course, when It ta established, will probably be. In the main, a grouping of coursea, already offered, Including tha coursea in romposlng in the rhetoric4 de-1 psrtment and a variety of subjects esseh- j tial to tha equipment of a newspoper I worker, aueh as history, economies, so- j clnlogy, English literature, philosophy and law. . ... i Ibe department of rhetorie at tha Unl-1 verslty of Michigan Is probably the largest department of tha kind in the world. In oludLng tha rhetoric classes In tha. engi neering and law schools, which ara under tha aame direction, the enrollment of the present semester Is about 1600. To give inatructlon to thla army of students, which ia almost equal to tha entire nnderrraduii. enrollment of tha literary department. there la a staff of nineteen, consisting of tha head of tha department, an assistant professor, twelve Instructors and five as slstants. Over one-third of the students are In advanced classes. Ona peculiar featur of tha department which has been followed at other unlver- nltles Is the providing of special Sections for first-year atudenta Whose composition work Is markedly better or worsa than their fellows. Students who through Some defect of preparation cannot keep up with the rest are put In a class by themsalves where they go mora slowly; students who ara better prepared or who hsve greater native talent are Invited to Join one of the special sections where the, work Is mr.ro advanced and proceeds as mpldly as the olata Is able to pursue It. Inasmuch as there Is prejudice against the term rhetoric In ome minds, It should be said that tho aim of the Work In this department Is to leach the us of clear, simple and correct Krutllsh. Thla Is done mainly by practical excl In writing. The total number of essav written during tha semester Is not far from SOOfO. BREAD AND BUTTER. Educator Thinks Children Mioald Be , Taaaht ta Earn a Livelihood. Prof. C. S. Webb, piino'pal pf the Frank lin (Pa.) Iflgh school, ha written hlm'ftf down as one without fear. He n?tully has had the courage to make a nole like S man with common sense. He wants the bread-' and butter teat applied to every , study suggested for the pitb'lc Schools. The professor haa harked back to the Ideals of the fathers. He seems to bel'eve that tha common schools are for1 tha plain pei ple and that It ta essential for the plain people to poseas the qualification for earning a, living. Therefore, whllo not dis counting the advantages of higher editea-1 tlon. ha urges that children be so schooled and trained that they may become "Indus-1 frlous, self-supRortlnjr men and women." Mary there are, however, In thca dava of specialisation, fads and frals who will take issue with Mr. Webh, comments the Pittsburg Gaxette.( The race will degener ate, thev tell us, and our publlo school will fall short of Ita mission unless we grt above the bread and butter standard. There must he linguistic attainments, per,, fcctlon In the higher mathematics and scientific culture at all hasard. If there be small ability to read, to spell, to write, to Indite a letter, to solve the everyday piut-leins uf buying and 6-!!inpT. to stub in the ordinary field of making a livelihood an almost total lack of marly qualifies tlons and womanly accomplishment of the homely and .useable kind what matter It compared with possession of a diploma ob tained by proficiency In certain branches of knowledge most of Which will never he applied? To ask such a crude question, of course, I heretical, 'and one may run the risk of the stake along with Prof Webb, but It Is worth while to suffer contumely In the cause of the common schools. There are so many of them and so many, too, that Kmclpa rim fa rww's Spic, Tmlkt' SAfuON CINNAMON CRYSTAL . CREAM TARTAR PENAN9 , CLOVES ' ' AFRICAN DINGER. SHOT . EPPF.lt MUSTARD ALLSPICE NUTMEB ETC., ITO. for, the soon as aroma, Sold by WitfcAl TZZn n, r Bkruhn o FREE ART EXHIBIT e ..(Conquest & Prairie" Latest masterpiece in oil by Irving R Bacon, which won high honors for him at Munich last year. IE ourt of the Bee Bldg. ALL LOVERS OF ART ARE INVITED TO INSPECT THIS MAGNIFICENT PICTURM. KEARNEY MILITARY- ACADEMY MAKING MANLY BOYS Tislslsff tha bod t of tha roco(folid HMtulsl of modern education. Is htcimd rsars of sncccMial work tola acadsmr bas dereloned lbs mlrd and bodies ol many boys who have betm manly men. We offer capaola InMructlon, wlinlnwime nvlronment. thoronirli nili- male, mode rats nricM. no entrant's taaaiinatluna. catafof BABBY M. RUSSELL. Kt:4 ROW WELL ESTABLISHED 13S3 -mm Episcopal school for .Iris, Certificate, admit to Wellley, VaCir. Smith, etr. Homa Ufa usdar tha supervision of eXDartenced humu.n.nii,... m. Iat, mo. Fty Illustrate year book GRAND ISLAND COLLEGE Rsgular eollega preparatory courses. Music, Art. and Commercial courses of fered.' Healthful location. Uxpensea mod erate. Catalogue eent ea re.iiet. Ann us about the school Address, Ir Quotf gatharUud, Vraaldast GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA ara not common enough. It ought to bi feasible to arrange their studies with soma relation to the probable future of pupils, soma regard for their alatlon In life, and certainly, first of all. with respect to tha likelihood that. In tha larger sense, (hay will have to fight their own battles. Tha Idea that public sehool pupils should be' polished off as highly aa may be because most of them ara aura ta be denied a col lege or vnlverslty education really lay them a sacrifice to Inconsiderate prnsr.'ss by depriving them of tha equipment for self-dependence. Edaeatlonal Note". Harlan F. Stone was elected by tha truHees of Columbia university to till tne pines of dean of the law school, made vacant a Utile mora than a month tu by the resignation of Hairy Alonxo C mill ing. One of the public arhools at Oakdale, Penn., had to ha closed because some biy dlssatlRfled with the decision as to thi duration of the holiday vacation, look ic vonge by placing Limburgar cheese in IhJ radiators. ( Arthur Oilman of Cambridge, Ma., who died at Atlantic City, waa 71 years old, the foun)-r of tha Harvard Annex, now known aa Radcllffe college, and the author of numerous historical works, lie was b.irn at Alton. III., in IWi and was the ton of Wlnthrop Sargent Oilman. A few week ajro Principal A. C. Fay of the Brldgewater (Ms.) High school In ro- Uucd a new oourae In the Inch ichool (or some of the boys who were i uhb lim over with exuberance. He got a saw Add a eawhorse snd a cord of hard oak. nn.l put these into tha basement. When tlu boy oecan to transgress tne rulea Mr. F.iy sent them downstairs to saw wood. Tne boys thought it was a big Joke at fir n. but the punishment kept on, and they were kept sawing wood until their back ciacked. They broke a numbsr of siw-i and sawed the sawhorsa through, but Sew ones took their places, and It was soon roiinii tnst the wood sawing industry had become a rac.ognlr.ed department In the curriculum In the Brldgewater High edtuol. The course in wood sawing did not prove popular at all, and of lata there has been ilttle wood sawed there. There is stilt plenty of hardwood on hand In cass Of emergency. Taka Warslag, Don't iet stomach, liver nor kidney trouble down you, when you can oulckl Cown them with ElectHa Btttra. Wc. For sale by Beaton Drug. Co. HOYT FINDSoI'arMY PASS D1e Up Paper Pa Ming- Ilia rather from New Orleans to Now York la ISO 4. United Statoa District Clerk R. C. Hoyt has recently dlsccvSi-cd amor.s some c'.d papers of hla father, the late Captain W. E. Hoyt, an old army pass Issued to Cap tain Hoyt In August, ' 18A4. Captain Hoyt was at the time connected Vlth tha pay. master'a department or the United States army at-New Orleans. The pass grants him permission to proceed from New Or leans to New York, vta steamship, and Is signed by J. W. . Porter., captain and as sistant provost mitrshs! at New Orleans, and bears date of August t. 1804. In thosa days the only way to reach New York from New Orleans was bv tha ! .. j Atlantic ocean route, . Tested for ? Strength and Flavor PrfaQrinASia 4hsa4 I.a It- i ' At . a. eiii.to Z " cngin are me nrst es sentials of qua ity spices. You never get these qualities in bulk spices, but you do when you purchase Tone Spices. Better spices were never milled. Our stocks are JJ10'"! Brown-selected by axperte inlhagin and k?gain to insure quality, strength, flavor. No air, moisture, odor or foreign impurity can confeminate ara seatoH In : :u ground and come to you with flavor body and strength at their best!'' grocers 10c. . - "'??J"'rraai7poeaa- TferDLk'nAs.?'?Wccs moines), lows. tht ctibmttd OLD GOLDWCOPFEB. tnv. ii t.- .it i ACADEMIC and BUS1KESS COURSE? lattiuita. hend wr ur Ucauuiul new sc. litsltr, tEARKEY, KEER. L P1ALL Li OMAHA - '"" as, SalVVMi SWJm B JBXmI JsT cd.Jrcsb Mi,, Marsrtcn, principal, OanHa, Meb. Tho Bee is the enly paper ad- rnlttad to thousands of hows. Womn are tha buyers, which ac counts, In part, for the remark able returns to our advertisers.