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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-30
Knew What He Was Saying.

In an Edinburg school an inspector,
wishing to test the knowledge of class
in fractions, asked one boy whether he
would rather take a sixth or seventh
part of an orange, if he had his choice.
The boy promptly replied that he would
take the seventh. At this the inspector
explained at length to the class that
the boy who would choose the smaller
part, as this boy had done, because it
looked the largest fraction, was very
foolish. Then there was laugh. But
presently the laugh was on the other
side, when another boy got up and said,
boldly: Hes my brother, and he don't
like oranges!"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-30

failed TO see that was laboring for its
own good However, persisted in my
efforts, and at last succeeded. To be
sure, it took every particle of Veronese
green; but then, what a beautiful hen
had turned out!
1.-TWO or three hours afterward 1 was
reused out of sleep by an unusual noise
of shouting and grooming. What could
it be? A number of men and women
had gathered in crowd in front of the
house. Some of them had their arms
uplifted toward the sky; others were
weeping; Others again by their frantic
gestures manifested the widest despair
and terror; and in the midst of them
stood the fowl, to which they were
pointing with their fingers, and when
it went toward them they drew back
in alright. Then / understood it all.
L remembered a legend of the country
in which green fowl plays "A terrible
part Whenever it appears all kinds
of woes threaten the villagc-failure of
crops, plague among the cattle, disease
in the home. That accounted for the
village being in arms. Under my very
eyes a woman fell to the ground in
mysteries. Then / hesitated no longer.
/ ran to the master of the house, and
told him everything. 1t took longer
than an hour and half to convince the
superstitious folk at Tosserand that the
Nerdant creature had not been sent by
their evil genius, and that it was my
first effort in painting
AT last their fears gradually subsid-
ed, and ventured to show myself. An
old woman, still laboring under the ex-
element she had just gone through,
said to me, in prophetic tones: You
have made our people shed bitter tears;
you, too, will weep before you have
done with your painting!'" Chicago
Inter Ocean.
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DORE'S GREEN CHICKEN.
A Story of the Great French Artists Firs>
Box of Paint.


Box of Paint.
The following little story was told
by the famous painter. Gustave Dore,
whose illustrious Dante, Milton, Rabe-
lais and Don Quixote will probably
never be surpassed. At an early age
Dore showed wonderful talent for
drawing, and in all his life he never cop
led from models, but painted from
memory and the fullness of his mind.
This describes his experience with
his first box of metal tubes: "One
day." he says, "when l was to spend a
week with friend of my fathers, therS
was brought to me the well-known
oaken box, with brass handle and tube
and brushes complete. l was wild with
delight. I had never thought half as
much of any present. l wanted to I'M
cork all the paints there and then and
cover my palette with pretty daubs of
color, but they would not let me. The
carriage was waiting. Ihad to jump in.
OF course, / took my box with me under
my arm, or rather next to my heart,
firmly resolved to set to work as soon
as we had reached the journeys end.
1.-THE was was longer than had ex-
pected; we did not arrive. was strict
ly forbidden to touch the paints and
was ordered off to bed. Fires and lights
were put out, but 1 could not sleep a
wink. As soon as the first gray streak
of daylight appeared jumped out of
bed and went downstairs and out into
the yard. But alas! There was no can
vas, no cardboard, no panel. All had
been taken from me the night before.
/ felt mad, irresistible desire to paint.
Wondering on what l should make my
first attempt. set about uncorking my
bottles and spreading patches of color
all over my palette. The brilliancy,
freshness and cheerfulness of those
colors made me quite drunk with de-
light. Nothing goes to the head so
much as your first palette. There was
a green shade especially that could not
take my eyes off. What a lovely greenl
Veronese green in all its glory.
But what was l to paint, and on
what? AS l was still asking myself
this question, my eyes fell on poor
little hen, rather prettily shaped, but
with feathers of dirty white, that
was picking up crumbs two PAGES from
whore stood. The fowl was rrIgnt-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-30
A SUCCESSFUL MISSION.
DR.. Furber, Jr, Secures Conoes-
sions for American Students.
Difficulties Which Have Heretofore Prac-
ticaily Shut Out Our Students from
Leading French institutions of
Learning at Last Removed.

DIR. Harry ]. Furber, Jr., o. Chicago.
a man to whom all students owe a deep
debt of gratitude for the efforts he has
recently brought to a successful issue
by opening to them the doors of the coll
leges, universities, institutes and
schools of France on even more advan-
tageous terms than are those of Ger
many, has just returned home.
DIR. Furber has practically devoted a
whole year to the gaining of his object,
in which he has been assisted by some of
the greatest students of this country
Among those forming an American
committee, are President Seth Low, of
Columbia; President Dwight, of Yale;
President G. w. Elliott, of Harvard;
President Schurman, of Cornell; Presi-
dent Gilman, of Johns Hopkins; Presi-
dent Angel, of Michigan; President
Stanley Hall, of Clark; Prof. Simon
Newcomb, q. S. N, superintendent Of
the Nautical Almanac, and w. T. Har-
ris, United States commissioner of ed
ucation.
about year ago." said DR.. Furber,
"the movement began. With the ad-
vance of education in the United States,
the number of Americans attending Eu-
ropean institutions of learning has
largely increased, but the vast ma
jcrity study in Germany in preference
to. France. The main reason for this
has been the facilities offered by the
German institutions for the admission
of foreign students. In Germany an
American student is allowed to matricu.
late and qualify for a degree, on the
basis of graduation from some reputable
college in the United States.
'In France, however, until this move
ment was brought practically to sue
cessful issue on January % last, the
student was throughout his university
career subjected to regulations which
excluded many Americans.
There is no established equivalent
for the diploma of the French Lycee
with which to seek admission into GER
tain faculties, The course of study is
prescribed, compulsory examinations
are held at frequent intervals, and thus
aspecies of surveillance is exercised over
the student which deprives him of the
character of free investigator"
The result ofthe labors of DR.. Furber
and his associates was that on January
% ministerial decree from the conseil
superior de INSTRUCTION publique was
issued which introduced changes into
the faculties of science throughout
France, which enable student from
the United States bearing proper creden-
tials to take any course or any part of a
course at any one of the French institu-
lions. He can, moreover, pass an exam
nation in any one subject and obtain a
certificate, and when he has passed on
all the subjects necessary, he can, by
sending in a thesis and undergoing a
final examination, obtain his full d.
ploma-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-30

The skeleton in
many a household is
tn e peculiar weak
ness of the wife and
mother, or of the
wife who ought to be
a mother and is not.
Happiness SIS is de-
stroyed by the pres
ence of the secret
sickness that m ay
lurk like a grinning
d e ath among the
most luxurious
homes. The most
terrible thing about
this condition of af-
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fairs is that it is entirely needless. There is
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Westminster Hall.

Westminster hall has been closed to
the public, except when under surveil-
lance, since the dynamite explosions
IL years ago. The st. James Gazette
suggests that it is time to take away
the policemen, and to let visitors enter
the hall freely.
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Of one. They are going of rapidly.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-03-04
Education Versus Religion.
(From the Home Missionary. J

In certain seaport town in Maine,
some fifteen years ago, there were two
churches, each fairly we'll sup ported.
The town seemed prosperous. The
schools were oldfashioned, short as to
terms" and limited i'll the training,
not going much beyond the ''the three
RS" For some unexplained reason
there came a reaction against the church
es and strong movement in favor of the
schools. Well-to-do sea captains used not
seldom to say, 81 am embarrassed many
times for lack Of sob olin, and il I SUBJ
scribe money to any object it will be to
have better and longer schools" So the
schools were improved. and the year was
divided into three terms of some twelve
weeks each. The churches were left to
struggle on as best they could.
After some ten years the conditions had
greatly changed. The schools were fine
The old fashioned school teacher was
banished and there was a fourishing
high school. But the churches were vir-
tually closed, one absolutely. In he
other there was preaching only about a
sad monuments of Indifference and neg
lect, and the houses Of this town had
grown shabby: yards were full of debris
| fences were Imprinted and broken. Tine
public roads were miserable. The moral
| tone of the community had degenerated
| Social vice had increased alarmingly.
| Then, again, for an unacoountable rea-
| son, when religion seemed virtually dead,
| men who in former times had withheld
from the church and given to the schools
now began to give to the chufch. But
when they looked around there was no
church to receive their gifts. The two
old churches had lost heart. One had
abandoned the field, and the other was
too poor to rally. Correspondence was had
with the Maine Missionary Society, with
the result that under promise of $500
from that source. these men ssisted by
the few Christians left, invited gradu-
ate of Bangor Seminary to settle with
them In the spring.
| A visit to this town last summer
| showed a surprising change for the bet
ter Three nice meeting houses kept in
| good repair were each well filed on Sun
day. There was more enterprising ex-
preston on the whole appearance Of the
place. The houses were we'll painted,
the fences up. the lawns trimmed, and
the roads in fine condition, and the
ethical en- vlronment had improved equal
| ly with the material.
This fact impressed the visitor, who
had studied the town for about fifteen
years, and known the facts stated above
that, with increasing wealth and in
creasing secular educational facilities the
moral tone and culture of the town had
steadily declined until there was almost
an entire lack of pride or feeling of
thrift; but with the advent Of strong
Christian man, supported at first by the
Maine Missionary Society. while the
schools continued to gain, the vicious
moral tendency WAS suddenly checked,
and now the town is fair to look upon.
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foroe to the resolution of the House
because that was the more serious and de-
manded more careful dellber alton. The
recognition of belligerenoy is not OF
course in itself casus belli but in this
case it is very liable to lead to one.
Doubtless strong feeling will be aroused
on the part of the Spaniards by it, and
the close proximity of our coast to that
of Cuba and the many American vessels
that frequent Cuban waters may furnish
the opportunity for the feeling to mani
fest itself in some overt act which our
government will be bound to take notice
of and demand reparation or apology for.
If such case arise it is very likely to
load to collision, because Spanish
pride will be sure to oppose any
reparation and apology and we
shall be compelled TO enforce
our demand or back down, and
that will almost inevitably precipitate
a conflict. Of course the cool heads of the
Spanish government will endeavor to
avoid conflict with us, for that would
in the end lead undoubtedly to the loss
of Cuba to Spain, but the great majority
of the Spanish people are not cool and
they might compel the government to
rush in to conflict with us when it was
anxious to avoid one. We cannot but be-
1ieve that the recognition of Cuban
belligerency involves considerable danger
of a conflict ultimately between the
United States and Spain, and for this
reason 1t seems to us that there should
have been more careful investigation of
the facts ard consequences by both
bodies before any definite action was
taken. Both houses have been in
fiuenoed greatly undoubtedly by the
feeling that popular sentiment demand
ed some such action as has been taken,
but it must be remembered that it is
very easy to be mistaken about public
sentiment. At any rate it could have
done no harm to make closer inquiry
about the feeling of the people than ap-
pears to hav been made. Such resolu-
tions as have been adopted would have
done Cuba much more good had they
been preceded by thorough and del iber-
ate discussion of the whole subject, mas
much as they then would have command
ed more respect from other nations and
been taken more seriously.
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The Hostage We Hold from spain.

There have naturally been some excited
and bitter expressions of public senti-
ment in Madrid over the resolutions
passed by the Senate at Washington in
relation to Cuba. There is even some
vague limiting at possible war with the
United States in the comments of the
Liberal and the impartial. But there
will be no war on account of any resolu-
tion that Congress may pass.
The moment Spain should declare war
against the United States, for this or any
other cause, she would lose Cuba 1t
looks very much as if she might lose the
island any way; but with so mad step
as that of provoking hostilities with
the United States it's fate would be sealed
forthwith.
In prosecuting such war, apart from
the fact that we are stronger on the seas
than Spain and have incomparably
greater resources for land forces, the de-
oisive element would be our advantage
in position. We should not need to go
within thousand miles of the Spanish
coast, ana Spain would have to operate
with the whole Atlantic between her
base and her objective points before she
could do us any serious injury at all.
We have cruisers to protect our COM
merce and TO attack any commerce de-
stroyers she might send out. Our scene
of operations would be but q short run
from Key West, and if even now Spain
cannot keep the insurgents from raiding
in the very suburbs of Havana, what
possible chance would she have of hold
ing the island with the Cubans re-en-
forced by the whole power of Uncle Sam
Spain knows this as we'll as we do,
and she will not declare war on us on
account of any action of Congress. The
case of CUBA is still stronger than that
of Canada. 1t is perfectly plain what
would become of Canada should England
undertake to make war with the United
States; and Cuba is in actual revolt.
A nation involved in one war thinks
twice before engaging in another which
it can possibly postpone or avoid We
did not declare war on the various Eur
opean powers taat one after another
acknowledged the Confederates as bell
ligerents. And even il we had been able
to 90 to war with them or any of them,
we should have had no just cause of war.
since that acknowledgment, however un-
friendly any nation had the right to
make. in it's own interest and for its own
protection. Spain herself, by the way,
far more promptly recognized the bel
iigerency of the Confederates than our
Senate has that of the Cubans; and this
is still another ground for saying that
there will be no war over the resolution
just passed.
But wholly apart from the right of
our government to judge for itself of
Cuban belligerency, there is the practical
consideration for Spain that she will lose
the island in q trice if she goes to war
with us.--N. Y. Sun.
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Our esteemed con temporary. the Argu

Our esteemed con temporary, the Argus,
thinks the city election has put the
Democrats in excellent shape for the fall
car aign. Before election the Argus
claimed that the contest was a purely
local affair and could possibly have no
effect upon the general elections to come
later in the year. 1t appears now the
Democrats were getting into position for
the state and national campaigns.
Luckily they have not got into very
good position.