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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-07-20
Ancient and Modern Educational
Thought.


Paper read before the Phillips County Teachers
Association by b. G. Mcneil, June II, 1893.
The education Of the human family
has hot been accomplished in one day
but has been rather like the education
of the individual man, series of steps
from that which was not difficult to
that which was intricate, from the
known to the unknown,
We are safe in assuming that civi.
lization had its beginning IN the val
ley of the Nile and that man first
made his Investigations into the great
field Of thought that was spread out
before him, for his use. We are apt
to judge Of the ancient Egyptian by
that country and people that we now
know by that same name and who in
habit that same country. While this
may to q certain extent be just. in
another and broader sense 1t is not
The Egyptian Of to-day is among the
most ignorant Of the worlds hosts
while the Egyptian Of the past is
among the most educated Of man.
kind.
If we will closely examine into the
environments Of people we can gen
orally find some reason for the fact
that they were what they were or are
what they are, and this was pre-emi
nently true Of the ancient Egyptian.
He was distlnctively a mathame
tician-nature compelled him to b.
such. He saw the mighty Nile eacl
spring conduct her floods to the Med
iterranean, and in so doing destroy
his crops. He beheld in these food
the destruction of his toll and wal
constrained to make some use of th,
annual food and at the same tim,
prevent 1t from destroying his crops
He constructed wall of earth along
the sides of the river to hold tn
floods. To do this he found it neces
sary to have a science of mathemat
les; he soon evolved the rudiments o
what we now call geometry. He thu
learned to calculate and to calculat
accurately, and from this he came t
reason. He had conquered the wa
ters that flooded his fields and nov
he would conquer something else, ye
he would unearth God himself, an
his mind like the poor Indians 30
held God in clouds" He had taste
the fruit and enjoyed the sample, b
resolved to have more. From mathe
MATES he soon began to investigat
philosophy, and soon had menta
science that was almost as intellectul
as his geometry.
The ancient was not satisfied wit
a few wise men but insisted that th
parent should educate his child. III
underlying evil was that class dil
tinction which permeated the whol
of their civilization. There wer
classes in everything from the slave
to the ruler. The one class could
taught only certain things while ar
other class could be taught somethin
more intricate The poorer classe
we're not only poor in wealth, bu
were poverty stricken Intellectually
The ignorant class increased taste
than the educated and hence 1t wa
that while the Egyptian intellectus
fire burns with undimmed glory
when we consider her individual lner
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-07-20
ale Begins NOW and Continues Until the Goods Are Sold

when we consider her as q nation, was
moral and mental bankrupt.
From the valley of the Nile let us
turn our attention to the valleys Of
the Euphrates and the Tigris, where
Assyria fourished more than two
thousand years before Greece had a
beginning. Here, too, we find a peo-
Pile that we're intellectual. Rawlln-
son says OF them: "Had it not been
for Babylonis the world might not
to-day have taken the first step into
that intellectual victory which is now
perched upon her banner. She might
to day be grovelling and cropping in
that intellectual darkness that sur
rounds Egypt, Mexico, China and Ja-
pan, These people educated all from
the child to the man. 1t was one
great school IN which all were taught
the things deemed most useful IN
that age. There hourished at Nine
veh, more than twenty-three hundred
years before Christ, great unlver-
sity whose records have been I'M
earthed but lately and whose contents
have been added to the educational
achievements Of the nineteenth cen
fury. There, more than twelve hun
bred years before the "Sons HELEN"
settled in the Pelleponesus, was an
educational institution of which
America might to-day be proud. AS
syria and Babylonia fell because they
forgot their morals IN their pursuit Of
knowledge, they forgot to obtain wis
dom with their knowledge. Such hai
been the lesson of all history.
A wandering band headed by one
HELEN sought new home and set
tied in Tacoma and there by the as
sistance Of Jove peopled the whole
country which we now call Greece
There are two distinctive civilizations
here. That of Laconia which was de-
voted to making a warrior and crush
ing out the man. She succeeded II
her ambition only to find in her sue
cess her national disaster. Spartl
has left behind her nothing of admir-
alton. Attica on the other han(
sought to develop that which SpartI
suppressed. She educated her som
to the best Of her ability and has lef
behind her Euripides, Plato, Aristotle
Herodotus, Xenephon and the stor!
of Socrates. Socrates taught til,
world how to teach and then laugh
it how to meet death.
Rome came like great pestilentia
plague devouring everything befor
! her and Athens seemed to meet tn
fate of her neighbors; but it was onl.
seeming fate, for she rose above he
conquerors and through her intelll
} gence, learning and refnemen
stamped out every vestige Of Roman
ism in Rome herself and PLANTED
there the purities Of Grecian civiliza
ton. Thus it was that Sparta wa
conquered and she was dead, Will,
Athens lived on another grand ant
glorious existence at Rome and is still
to-day the model of perfection in hel
learning to which man is striving Il
attain.
While we may admire the Atheniar
intellect there is one thing about he
that deserves condemnation; that If
she did not allow her women to be
come educated, save those who wer
intended for immoral purposes snC
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
CLOSE UP ALTOGETHER.
Mayor washburne's Suggestion Anent Chi
, cago City Fathers Action.

CHICAGO, March 22.-The ordinance clos
ing the city offices on ST. Patriek's day has
been followed by an ordinance making the
birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm municipal
holiday.
This action Of the city council has evoked
from Mayor Washburne the following very
remarkable executive order, which in eff
feet nullifies the ordinance, while perhaps
raising an international question:
March q, 1893
10 the Heads of Departments:
Gentlemen-By an order of the city council
passed last Monday the city hall is ordered
ilosed tomorrow, March o., for the transaction
pf public business in order TO properly COM
memorate the birth OF His Majesty Wilhelm
Of Germany. Pursuant to order of the honor
able city council you are hereby instructed TO
larefully observe the order in question by
closing your departments 10 the transaction
Of all business excepting the routine business
pertaining to your department. This will re-
uuire the retention during that day in your
department OF all such employees come in
contact with the public at large visiting your
department for the transaction of necessary
business, and IL will also include all those city
employees who transact city business outside
the hall.
i desire 10 here commend the spirit which
dictated the setting apart of the day and the
setting apart of March IL by the city council
as American holidays, and / trust that the
council in its wisdom having recognized the
cosmopolitan character of our population by
granting holidays TO the different nationali-
ties, whose blood here comingles in the pro-
duction of Americans citizens, will not de-
prive city employees of other nationalities an
opportunity 10 properly commemorate the
birth of all dead saints as well as the birth Of
all reigning monarchs.
If the catalogue of dead and living saints
and monarchs be not sufficient for all the
secular days of the year, would suggest that
the council, as a change, appropriate the few
remaining days by closing the city hall in or
der that we commemorate the birth OF Ameri-
can heroes. / have the honor TO remain
Yours very truly
HEMsTEAD WAsHBURNE, Mayor.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
FACTS ABOUT HAWAII.
Interesting Statistics of Their Commerce
With This Country.

WASHINGTON, March 2l-A mass of in.
teresting facts concerning the Hawaiian
islands and their commerce with this
country will be made public in few days
in publication from the treasury depart
ment.
The size of the largest of the eight ISL
ands is given as 42lo square miles, with an
elevation of 13, sos feet. The next largest
island, Mani, contains only go square
miles, Oahu 900 square miles, Kanai 500
square miles, Molckai 270 square miles,
and Niiban, the smallest of the group, only
63 square miles.
The population, by the census of 1891,
was S0,57s, which had advanced in 1890 10
0,l60 The pure Hawaiians, on the latter
date, were 5000, the mixed Hawaiians
$40, the Chinese 1860, the Japanese H..
7S0, the Portuguese $3.50, the Americans
1870 and the British 13i0 Beside a.few OF
other races there were 74l0 of foreign ori.
gin, but born in Hawaii.
The valuation of real estate in the island
is SIS, ,4s2,5l2, and of personal property
Sl7,514, los. The revenues for the two years
ending March 81, 1892, were SO, ,254, ,3l9, and
the expenditures for the same period
81 ,20i, ,306 from customs duties.
The sugar industry is the dominating in
terest in the islands, and is carried on by
40 corporations with a capital stock OF
SIS, ,400, 900, Of which S22, ,459 6l0 is owned by
Americans. There are also "a plantations
and mills, unincorporated, with an esti-
mated value of s., ,055, 600, of which S2,276,-
600 is of American ownership. The leading
sa1n IL hax~
always been sugar, rice and wool, and the
advance in the expectations of sugar has
been enormous since the reciprocity treaty
of 1876. These exports had reached -, 49,
5sS pounds to all countries in 1878, but
rapidly advanced to III, ,3l+ pounds in
1885 and 274, 1888, $50 pounds in 1891.
The total value of Hawaiian exports OF
domestic merchandise in 1891 was $40, ,lO7,-
3l6, and the United States, for the year
ending June 80, 1892, took SS,O15,SS2 of
these exports.
The admission to the United States of
sugar from all countries free of duty seems
TO have injured somewhat the market for
Hawaiian sugar, as our total imports from
the islands fell from Sl3 S9j 597 for the fiscal
year 1891 to ss,075,sS2 for the fiscal year
1892
The United States still has a complete
monopoly of the Hawaiian market as may
be judged from the fact that the total inn
ports inIo the islands during the calendar
year 1892 were 81 ,429 ls9, of which 1924
279 came from the United States.
The principal articles exported from the
United States to the islands were: Bread
stuffs, sos, ,7S7; iron and steel and their
manufactures, s4s3,616 manufactures of
wood, $3.50, JOB; manufactures of cotton,
$685. ,s13; provisions, $751;, ,652; manufactures
of tobacco, $3.50, ,354; distilled spirits, Sl43,-
145; leather and its manufactures, s136, 6,374;
fish, Sl25, 500; hay, slO67S2; wine, s93,s27;
malt liquors, ,793; drugs, chemicals,
etc, s76,557; animals, S64,5l7; paper and
stationery, $59,s50; mineral oils, Ss,996;
wool manufactures, $4s,32O; fruits, Sc, 5,9%3;
and refined sugar. S26 937.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22

my wife and l." says a travelling man
"were once in hotel where we COULDN'T
get any boiling water After we bad dis
cussed the situation my wife asked me If
had an envelope in my satchel. got one
out, when she told me TO ill it with water
and hold it over the gas jet ! hesitated
but finally did il and expected to see tn,
envelope blaze up every moment. But II
didn't blaze. The envelope took on LITTLE
SCOT, but that was all The water boiled In
time and the envelope was as good as evel
when the experiment was at an end.
don't know the chemistry Of the process
but try IL yourself and see If 1t will not
work. IN. Y. Tribune
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
THE LAST EFFORT.
Governor Flower Petitioned tn Interfere
In Behalf of Carlyle Harris.

NEW YORK. March Ex-Governor
Flower will be petitioned to grant execu-
tive clemency TO Carlyle W. Harris, the
convicted wife poisoner. The petition
which has been prepared and is given be-
low. was printed today and was at once
widely distributed for signatures. The
petition reads thus:
To the Hon. Roswell p. Flower, Governor of
the State of New York:
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents
of the state of New York, do hereby earnestly
appeal 10 your eXccllency 10 consider the petit
ton presented on behalf OF Carlyle w. Harris,
now under sentence of death.
We ask, as a matter OF Justice, that your
excellency will direct that measures will be
Immediately taken that the witnesses of
Carlyle w. Harris, upon whose testimony the
motion for a new trial was based. may be ex-
amined before your excellency, and we pray
your excelleney to grant the said Carlyle w.
Harris such lieniency as may be deemed Just,
after the testimony on Carlyle w. Harris be-
half shall have been heard by your excellency.
1t is the intention of the condemned
mans friends to secure, if possible. hear
ing before the governor, at which shall ap-
pear all of Harris new witnesses, who
shall themselves state to him what they
know, If anything, about Helen Potts
Harris.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
Public once a Family snap.

The following Democratic chairmen OF
senatorial committees at Washington are
said TO have named relatives as clerks: Ap-
preparations, Cockrell, finance, VOORHEES,;
judiciary, pugh; foreign affairs, Morgan;
privileges and elections, Vance; civil ser.
vice, PETER; library, Mills. rules, Black.
burn; District Of Columbia, Harris. The
private secretary 20 the vice president Is
Louis &. Stevenson. Speaker Crisp has
made his son clerk. and Secretary Car.
isle has made his hopeful" his private
secretary. Public Office Is family snap
under the Democratic regime New York
Press
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
NEWS CONDENSED.


Mrs. Patti will sail for America Oct. %.
Queen Victoria left England for trip to
Italy.
The Machias (Me) river Is open to
navigation.
The Atlantic and Pacific road is threat
ened with a tieup.
The Brazilian government forces are in
hot pursuit of the Rio Grande do Sui
Rebels.
A. B. Bird, supervising agent of the
Travellers Insurance company of Hartford
for the state Of New Jersey, was killed by
a train.
Harry G. Hooper wanted at Laconia, N.
H., for the embezzlement of $3.50, was ar
rested at Dover, n. ii.
The Big Four switchmen's strike came
TO an end by the switchmen declaring the
strike off unconditionally.
The University of Cambridge has con-
ferred the degree of doctor bf sciences" on
Professor Rudolph Virchow, the rector of
the Berlin university.
BY the bursting of a mould in Marshal's
foundry, Pittsburg, one man was fatally
burned, another was seriously injured, and
four others were badly burned.
The Gloucester Mass common council
appropriated Sl1l, ,s75 TO defray the OK
penses of the various departments Of the
city government for the fiscal year.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
AGNES RYAN'S DEATH.
Her Mother Suspects Foul Play and VIII
Institute an nvestigat tion.

BosToN, March 22.-The funeral Of
Agnes Ryan. who died in Albany, took
place yesterday from the home of her
parents, l59 Vernon street. Roxbury. As
the deceased is supposed 10 have commit
ted suicide, the rites of the Roman Catho-
lie church, of which Miss Ryan was a
member, were not performed There were
no services whatever, and only her father,
mother, brother and James Casey were
present at the burial.
The story of Miss Ryan's death is as fol-
lows: She left home and went to Albany,
where she died from poison shortly after
James Casey, who is supposed TO be the
husband of the dead woman, went to AL
bany and returned with the body. The af-
fair is shrouded in considerable mystery,
and last evening a reporter visited Mrs.
Ryan, the mother. She said that she
strongly suspected foul play in the death
of her daughter, and purposes having an
investigation Immediately instituted.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
is HE THE RIPPER?
GOTHAM THEsKS 1T HAS THE
WHITECHAPEL FIEND.
Police wnI Investigates, as They Think
They Have Case Against an Italian
Barber who Stabbed a Woman.

New YORK, March 22.-Some people be-
heve that "Jack the Ripper" has been at
last arrested, and that the police are his
captors. The man who stabbed Miss Liz
zis Legaire on the street the other night is
the fellow they suspect of being identical
with the famous Whitechapel fieEd. He
gives his name as Frank Castellano, and
claims TO be an Italian barber at TAB Colum-
bus avenue, but the police have looked up
his record and ascertained that until re-
Gently he was fireman aboard the trans
Atlantic steamers.
There are circumstances connected with
the case that incline the police to consider
the theory that Castellano is none other
than the mysterious Jack the Ripper"
who kept London in terror for years.
Another Suspicion.
II is also regarded as not improbable
that the prisoner may be the mys-
terious man who accompanied "Old
Shakespeare" to the East River hotel
on the night of her murder, for whose
death "Frenchy," the Greek, is now serv-
ing term i'm the state prison. Captain
Doherty of the Fifth street squad says he
proposes TO make every effort 20 secure q
complete account of Castellano's travels
and operations during the past few years
Judge Kech held him to await trial foI
felonious assault upon the Legaire woman.
The big knife that he is alleged to have cut
her with is strange and murderous look
ing weapon.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22

'cyclers that Boston. New York and Chi
cago racing teams can put forth. The pro-
posed plan is the combined enterprise Of
the Boston Post and New York Recorder.
The finish will be one of the features of
the opening of the Worlds Columbian ex-
position. II will demonstrate the utility OF
the bicycle, its strength and its..wonderful
speeding qualities.
The start will be made from the Office of
the Boston Post, as at present planned, at
8 p m. on Sunday evening, April 80.
The Boston Post will conduct the relay
TO New York and then MIR. Boardman
cycling editor of The Recorder, will take
it in charge. Otner prominent Cycling
papers will cooperate with The Recorder
and Post at different stages of the journey
Captain A. ID. Peck has accepted the po
sition rendered him by The Post as general
manager Of the first section of the race.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
Hotel worker" Arrested.

PITTsFIELD, Mass, March 22.-Julius A.
Wank, alias Joseph Mack, was arrested
here for stealing a diamond pin from
William Dayton, at the Wallingford
House, Wallingford, Conn. Wank rep
resents himself as Grand Army man, and
his scheme is to apply to Grand Army
men, get them TO send him to hotel, and
then work the rooms
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
New Library For wailinpford.

RUTLAND, VT, March 22-The town Of
Wallingford is promised public library
building, the gift of a former resident who
is not named. William G. Mason appears as
the giver's agent, and has bought from
Mrs. Hannah p. Rounds the lot at the COR
ner of Main and Depot streets as site for
the building.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
They Denounced Dawes.

TACOMA, March 22.-Puyallup Indians
had a war dance in their reservation and
denounced Senator Dawes for the bill
which he had congress pass providing for
the opening of the reservation. The terms
of the bill do not suit the Indians.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
wizard" May Have to Retire.

CHICAGO, March 22.-Jake Schaefer's
match with George Slosson has fallen
through by reason of a serious accident
which befel the Wizard" yesterday, by
which the bones of his right wrist were
fractured. His surgeon thinks that the
accident will probably destroy the delicacy
OF his touch with the cue.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
A Light Sentence.

BELFAST, March 22.-The trial of M.
DeCobian, ex-M. p. and well known poll
tician, took place yesterday. The indict
ment embraced 10 counts andiive boys and
young men appeared as witnesses against
him. He was sentenced to imprisonment
for 12 months at hard labor.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
a kentucky Stampede.

HAZELGREEN, KY, March 22-People
are leaving this country in droves for the
west. Probably 1000 families have gone
and farms are abandoned. Merchants are
suffering by the exodus and local papers
are making frantic appeals to the people
TO remain here.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
More Bombs In Rome.

ROME, March 22-Six bombs were found
on the premises of as many rich families
yesterday. No damage was done. 1t is
believed that unemployed laborers, who
are very numerous at the present time,
are responsible for the bombs.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
MIR. Harrison Won't Take IT,.

INDIANAPOLIS, March 22.-Concerning
the offer of the presidency of the Bloom
ineton university to General Harrison, X.
5. NNKee said: You can quote me IA
saying that he will not take the presidency
of any state university
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
Hypnotism

New YORK, March 22.-Society in Green
port, l.. l., is surprised TO learn that Mrs.
Rose Thompson, the young and vivaoious
wife of Frederick Thompson, hSS eloped
with John Williamson of Charlestown,
Mass. Thompson says his wife must have
been hYpnotized by Williamson.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
To Look After Immigrants.

WASHINGTON, March %. 1t is said that
Herman j. Schultz of Wisconsin is TO be
the superintendent of immigration. lie
has the Endorsement OF the Federation OF
the Labor and the Knights of Labor all
over the country.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-22
Political Strikers and Heelers
Netherlands Free From Cholera.

WASHINGTON, March 22.-The United
States consul at Rotterdam informs the
state department that there has not been
"A case Of cholera in Rotterdam since No
vember, L. 1892, or in the whole Neither
lands since Jan. To- 1893