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The evening times., 1897-11-17
Neral Influence of n Masterpiece.
From the Detroit Free Press.l


From the Detroit Free Press.>
"Ycr never know where the boys are 60
ing to prf up wrong ideas" declared u
prominent business man the other day,
moving ginger!y on his chair as IL in pai:,.
''Nirc Hen out OF ten would 81 y that lie
story of Uncle Toms Cabin as told hy
the dutho, Is all right, and its whole moral
tone elevating- But that same book came
mighty near being the death of me. Yes.
sir. there's manv an old soldier that never
had as tight squeak.
.'ls vas like this: l haven't. read tie
thing fsr a good many years, hut some
wheru il there IL tells bout putting bcrs
under a saddle and gives a funny description
of what followed to horse and rider 1t
ticklcd my two boys Till they laughed in
their s:ecp. You know that l take lille
every morning as consti, utional. What
do these boys 90 but forage until they get
some burs and then follow out the line OF
action toe in the story. My horse is a
three QuartcI bred and spirited, but intel
ligent. well trained and tractable
thought that he hat gone crazy that MOTH
Ing. He first squattec and trembled as
though iii fright. Then his hot blood tell
His first spring would ha We ia ken him from
under me. if ] had not teen on the alert.
He reared. plunged, kicked, bUcked arr;
sno!ted. I'm not 4 tfmid man on Gors.
hack. but there was something terrific III
hi, :,Egcr. ! was all over him, clin;,iag
to n.lhc. neck and saddle. 1t must Ia:
beer I, ;rnny sight, for the boys rDllei on
the grass. ye.ied AMI held their st,es.
AT last The horse got the bit in his teeth
anc shot ava. Ikea rocket. People trrnes.
to look and policemen shouted, tn. IL
was way out in Greenfield that fe'l off.
YoI car. bet tina, the boys are a bout as sore
as l am"
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November.


Now autumn draws her snoods If gray
a round her face aud turns away
F-um where, but late, her treasures lay.
A montl. ago in woodland ways
We saw her, fair as our lost days,
And flnshe1 with B;,cchus' o'er boli praise.
As She her Indian lover met,
7 Mid tdsseied spear and ba yoneb,
/; In soide,. fields with wigwams set.
But, nunlike, with novitiate DER,
She waits now at ca tliedrai door,
The Yrars's TIE beumto impiore.
4
While clouds like gray gowned moass go by
And ropes ofmist. spl9 9twiste'l, p'y
To swing ne joy bells through the sky
Chicago Journal.
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Whv the Parrot Died.

from the Detroit Free PreSs.i
.'You rc ally don't mean it," said tie kind
ly old woinan with ;tn incredulous smile rs
She dropped her knitting into her lap. Never
heard why Miss Eden killed the parrot ;,uI
is nov very old maid? Why, 1t is one of
our best LEGAL stories.
Miss El,hnn's father, you know. had been
a scafaring man. He was Di. man, hada
hot temper that he never curbed, and a
voice like fog horn. He was not choice
of his language and seemed to care litti.
for anything in existence except his laugii-
ter and parrot with a temper like lis own,
which he mad brought with hiu from Tie
cast. That bird seemed to have human in
tciligencc. 1t not only picked up sentences
with the cas-. of most children, but uttered
them in the tones OF those from whorn
tney had been learned. 1t could initiate
them al.
As young girl Miss Ellen was very
pretty, though a little seIf-willed and
naughty. Because Of these qualities and
because the captain thought no one was
gc."icnouch for her, nom of the young men
found things very comfortable for them Ut
her hone. The captain thought nothing
of making them get out and stay out AT
length she rcbelled against this way Of
treating heI beaus, for her chances OF marry
ing We're Gwin;.ling. In the city she had
net very desirable gentleman and they
we're SO cynganial that he came out here to
spend a few days SO as 10 be near her He
vent to the house with some fear, for the
captain, had a reputation. They We're
scarcely seated on the veranda when that
bird roared: Get out of here, you scoun-
drcl. or I'll break every bone in your body
The youth never waited for his hat ami
before morning was out Of town. She
promptly wrung the BIRDS neck, but that
was rer last beau"
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The other fiTSt-class boss is not IS hap
PLY circumst anced. He is 1own sure
enough; on his back. swapping and snarl
ing and 'IasEing of his tail" His late
party adherents are orPanizin. foT gen
cral State inquest on his remains, with a
funerj' imm diately after the next ele ction
There is strong sentiment in favor Of eN-
tending the Citizens Union organization
throug!iCu; the State, and running Seth
Low for governor as an anti Platt candi-
date. with Joseph II. Choaue as postulant
for the Scnatorsiip. The CITIZENS Union
comn'ittee on organization Will meet to-
night and discuss the matter II large. The
general deuuncialion of everything and
everybod, INDUCED in by Mr.. Platt has ere
ated painful impression among his closest
friends, wio cannot help feeling that such
no other effect than to injure rlatt's
chances of future le adership, wreck all hope
Federal Administrat and other influ-
ences, to unkind criticism. 1t would be
well, indeed, Tor ilatu and his party IL ie
were TO re.ire from politics; but as long as
we are 10 have Hanna in the Senate, he
ouph, to he allo we'd several associates ,f
his own Kind at least.
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EDUC.i TICNAI..
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA,

Fall public lecture course in McMa hon
Hall, Thursdays, at 4:3O D. IN.
Hon. HannIs Taylor, late U. S. minister
to Madrid, will lecture on November 1
and Is, on u. s. Constitution, '"Parlia-
mentary Government
Gen. RELY, ciilel of U. s. Signal Service
Bureau, will give three lectureson "A laska, -
on December 2, and Is.
The lectures are fr ee TO the public.
mol O-1 -2f en-
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And the Clnwing Began.
Frm the Buffalo Express }

Fran the Buffalo Expressly
Il See he said, looking up from the
paper, that u couple are to be riarricd
In d wild beasts cage. What fGiIy.'
II don't know she r-torted. when
one has to live with an old bear, SHE might
as well get used tn IL from the start
Aud the cnrtain dropped.
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within the past day or two the Cuban
fully enough 10 show its complete charac
ter and purpose, which may be summed up
Ia two words: Suppression aud Deiar,''
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A Gorgeous Idea.

tFrom the Philadelphia Inquirer.)
There is a tribe in central Africa an.ong
whom speakers 10 public debates are
required tc stand Oh one leg while speak
ing, an to speak only as long as they can
Al, stand
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Mr.. TayIo,'s Specially.

tFrom the Chicago RecorGl
For truly regal display of the great
art of putting ones foot in it observers
are directed to look at Hannis Taylor.
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Cnnistakable species.

From the Chicago Tribune,
Name two animals noted especially for
their ferocity.''
''Tw, eats tied acrost a cIo'es line.
ma aIn.''
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\ Martyr TO Idiocr.

GFrcm the Chicago TiInes-Heraid.)
A cheerful imbecile In Oshkosh tried to
drink three pints Of whisky at one sitting
to win a bet an d died within few min
utes. Loss, - cents. no ins urance
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Readers Of The Times ,cho may al dny
tine be unable to procure copies OF il at any
nelos stand, railroad station or on railroad
rains riH confer a TarCr upon the mdnoge-
nent By sending to this office Information OF
the fact.
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WASHINGTON
Kindergarten Normal Institute
FOR
I he Training of Teachers
With

Model kindergarten and Graded School
No extras for French or German.
Miss Susan Plessner Pollock, PRINCIPAL
Mrs. Louise Pollock Associate Principal.
Inquire for particulars at the FEOEBEL
INSTITUTE, 1926 Q st.nw. selI-3mo
WANTED-By young man some one to
give him private lessons on crayon.
\ Gtiress G., this office. 1t
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MrtamuI.nlinsis.

(From the Atchison Globe.)
Some men who are really lions have
been abused so much that they act like
rabbits.
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wEDNESDA NOVEMBER II, 1897.
Notes of the Day.

The latest reports from Ohio fully justify
the opinion ihat, alI along. We have enter
tanned and EXPRESSED, that they who would
do up and throw down Boss Marcus Aure-
hus, must lse Up ietiIn.s IN the morning,
if not the morning before. Buckeye die
patches are more mendacious Than usual
If llama has not already succeeded in
rounding Cn his enemies, an6 is comfort
ally sure of election to the Senate. Owing
10 the reported decision of a humber OF
fusion ncIn bprs wtu rad i.en counted IN
the Democratic column, 10 act with the
Republicans the latter now are said t.
haVe Il ma .urity Of fifteen on -Gint ballet,
and control Of both Houses. Leading Demo
Gratis assert that their side would not
enter into any coalition t. elect Repub
lican in place OF Hama. They declare
that since they cannot elect Democrat.
every pOlitica! consideration urges them
10 let Hanna secure the seat, a. his pres
ence i'll tie hational Senate Is calculated
Ia harm the Republican and help the Demo
cratic party more than almost anything
else tha couIG happen. So the pr1sI ects
are that Mr.. Hanna will achieve he object
of his ambition. with the comfortable sense
that he is allowed to reach it CnIy' because
he is regarded as a horrible exa lIple. =
and the worst possible man FOR he place
However, small thing like that is not
likely TO renotrate the cuticle or wCbblc
b.. fa nf IN I'm.
ness manager" So he is allowed To do
business al the old stand ard handle the
contributions To the missionary box, it
matters not "a ICnny to him " f.th.r he
rides there on th. finger of sotrn or On a
rainbow stecd of popular fame and glory.
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Should be read daily, as changes may
occur at any time.
fOREiGN MAILS are forwarded to the
ports OF sailing daily, and the schedule OF
ciosinSs is arranged on the presumption OF
tneir uninterrupted overland transit. For
the Week ending November 20 they close
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will go down into history as one of the
most successful sessions and one of the
most fruitful of good results that has
taken place since the idea OF holding these
conferences was evolved.
Fresh flowers, and in even greater
abundance than before, rendered the stage
OF Golden Gate Hall most attractive and
inviting bower yesterday morning when
Mrs. Swift raped for order. The attend
ance at this time was scarcely what it
should have been, probably due to the
late ses sion of the previous evening. But
this del inquency was well made up for in
the afternoon, when the seating accommo-
dations of the spacious hall were quickly
exhausted and the aisles were gladly &C.
copied by the late arrivals.
The morning sessions programme was
inaugurated by Miss Sarah NJ. Severance,
who was billed TO speak on the subject of
The Ethical in Educstion." She said in
part:
We are q congress OF our ancestors, who pre-
side over our various functions and so demean
themselves that we never know which we are.
One does our laughing, another our spelling,
and they jun BILE US INFO al SORTS OF inconsisi-
encies. Education means TO lead out con-
ii means not to lead out. We may
bring out whichever ancestor we please. We
may repress the unworthy by Withholding
largess. We are lords OF our own lives, not
creatures of fact, and the ethical in education
puts into our hands the key by which we may
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Every dollar spent on schools, colleges
and Libraries saves much larger amount
in the administration OF criminal iuris-
prudence and reformatory institutions.
Yet, there etimes arises the doubt
whether this increase of popular educa-
ton brings with it corresponding I'M
provement in the public morality. The
greatest and most dangerous rogues now
adays are the well-educated rogues.
The American idea Of public instruc-
ton is simply this, that all young per-
sons-pros pective citizens-shall have pro-
vided for them by public tax instruction
in the common branches of reading, writ
ing and arithmetic" SAID DR.. Wendte.
They are meanwhile not to be with
drawn from the care OF their own families,
their religious teachers or any other clip
ful influences which may aid in putting
other important elements Of education
within their reach. All extensions of this
elementary instruction, all ornamental,
historical, scientific or philosophical
studies taught in our public schools are
only so many expressions OF public be-
nevolence toward the children in the
comm unity"
Prof essor A G. Newcomer of Stanford
University opened up a new subject, he
being assigned to the next place on the
programme. His theme was Books and
Words" He said in part:
It is the duty of the scholar to play
the part of the conservative after playing
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lock away ancestral faults and open up ances-

lock away ancestral faults and open up ances-
trail virtues.
tells us what we ought to do Attachments
without ethical guidance may make sclen-
tific savage of an accomplished rascal, but
they will not make q worthy human being, Tor
ethics is to education what the guiding brain
is to blind foIce-the applying power without
which force becomes demon OF destruction.
Professor Stillman followed Miss Sever
ance with paper on Personal Hyg ;ene."
This, he said, was department OF knowl-
edge that relates to the improvement of
the health of the individual. In his
opinion, health is the condition of hui
man body which is sound and able to re-
alze the best and fullest life possible.
Life, said he, is more than mere animal
existence, and personal hygiene is con-
cerned with the physical basis of life, be-
cause the integrity and health OF mind
and morals and ethics depends upon the
body is the most delicate mechanism ever
created and it has the capacity for the
storage and expression of energy, which
in its highest form we see in thought and
action. 1t is the duty of every person to
understand the nature and laws OF the
human body, so that health may be at
tanned and conserved and the power OF
life used to greatest advantage"
This conc! uded the morning programme,
but by special request paper written py
Miss Jane NJ. Slocum of the Niesor Acad-
envy, Idaho on the place of Social
Economics in Education" was read by
Mrs. j. H. Dickinson. In substance 1t
was as follows:
In considering the place of social econ omics
in education, terms must be used IN tnelr
broadcast sense Strictly speaking we under
stand by education the drawing out or develop
ing of the mental powers; and in our primary
and secondary schools studies are selected
oiely with this end in view while the college
curriculum is determined much In the same
way. The famous old university OF Bologn ma
still delights to honor the memory OF large
and eminent class of women professors who
ranked with the scholars of the seventeenth
century, and lectured not only on art, litera-
ture and philosophy but also on anatomy and
Jurisprudence, when all the world sought
this ancient seat of learning for its pre-emi-
nence in law and medicine.
Rev. c. W. Wendte opened the after
noon session with most instructive adj
dress on Education and Morality; or, Do
people grow better as they Know more?"
Mr. Wendte said it was commonly as
sumed by liberal minded persons that to
make men intelligent YVES to make them
better and happier. Therefore, to make a
community moral you must educate If.
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that of the radical. By virtue of the trans
mission of knowledge through books we
are spared the costly road of exper .ence.
Therefore the selection of that knowledge.
that is, the books which are the means OF that
transmission-is of param cunt Importance
In the words of Tennyson, LET knowledge
grow from more to more" 1t cannot grow
begin with. We begin with the knowledge OF
the world beneath our feet, and must absorb
1t. 1t is not the knowledge of one generation
but the generations of the world ever since
we have known it. In books We live for
higher and higher efforts.
Nine. Mountford of Jerusalem was next
introduced. She said she would speak to
the congress as an Oriental, and as such
would boldly say that no nation can ever
rise above the level of its women and live.
Woman has not had her proper place in
the world, and that, she said, was why
many nations fail.
and Greece fighting now? Why are they
butchering each otherP I can tell you:
1t is because our Oriental men cannot
rise above the level of their women. The
Turkish mother when she is nursing her
child calls Its attention to the passing
Christian, and tells it-she instills into
it-that it must hate that Christian. 1t
must hate him because he believes in
three gods-hate him as q common enemy.
Then the so-called Chris tan mother OF
the East is even worse in this regard than
the Turkish mother. She whispers to her
child-forgetting the vital teachings of
her own creed-that he must hate that
Turk because he believes in a false
prophet"
Nine. Mountford's remarks made deep
impression, and the applause that fol-
lowed her closing sentence continued for
several minutes.
Rev. Charles l.. Mel of Sacramento
read paper on Ethical Teaching in the
Public Schools" The reverend gentle
man said society was made up of three
important component parts-family, ma
ton and church.
Education and religion. he said, could
not be divorced any more than this trim
ity could be divided. Education's hymn
is Nearer, My God, to Thee The
Christian church is the founder of the
public schools of the United States
Moral training is the GROWING effort to
be achieved in education. There is not
enough OF this in the public schools of
to-day. A study of geometry will not
raphy teach him where to go with safety
through this life. The speaker put HIM
self on record as being emphatically op-
posed to the exclusion of religious train
ing in the public schools. 1t was one of
the greatest blunders, he said, the state
could have made.
The separation OF church and state, he
said. does not mean the separation of
state ano God. The present system in
the schools was practically the teaching
OF atheism, he declared. The little tinct-
ure of religion and ideas of God-lovin g
that the child received at the Sunday
schools, which could be attended but once
week. was proposition to be compared
only 10 the pouring of a thimblefu OF
whisky into Lake Superior and then in
viting the whole world to come and drink
and be merry.
lady in the gallery aroused great en-.
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purities existing IN milk and other foou
products, deleterious ingredients that
tend to kill infants and shorten the lives
of adults.
In the afternoon DR.. William Simpson
read valuable paper on the milk cues
ton. Among other things be said:
submit that in view of this appalling death
record from consumption we are justified in
using the most stringent measures to prevent
the sale and use OF tuberculous milk or tuber-
culous meat What are we doing? Let me
speak for Santa Clara County. In March,
1896, our most efficient veterinary inspec tor
DR.. H. A. Spencer. began this work testing
thirty-fve cows, of when six were condemned.
Since that time he has tested 4O9s, cond emneo
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JOYS Vegetable Sarsaparilla

Will prevent this condition. It will so regulate
the system that all the various organs OF the BODY
will act with life and energy.
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in those schools as well as the one that
the Bible was excluded from our text
books. Mr.. Richer then took up his own
theme.
In the bringing up of child, he said,
the parent should not resort to violence
and passion when the young one has
erred. The power of good over evil, he
said, WAS most potent. The human bein e
is drawn to virtue, not driven. His adj
vice was to plant beside every bad habit a
correspondingly good habit and victory
was certain.
The congress proper will come to close
this afternoon, thers being no morning
session. AspIendid programme has been
prepared and there will doubtless be an
immense attendance.
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PURE FOOD
THE THEME
OF THE DAY
Sturdy Citizens Denounce
the Frauds of Trades
men.
A CRUSADE FOR HONOR
LIN 0OOx N Edo.
Reports Show That Commerce
Is Honey combed With
Fraud and Deceit.
STRINGENT LAWS DEMANDED
BY ALL.
The Good Name of the State Is TraiIed
in the Dust by Deleterious
Authorizations of Food.
STRINGENT LAWS DEMANDED
BY ALL.
The Good Name of the State Is Trailed
in the Dust by Deleterious
Authorizations of Food.

The Pure Food Congress at Pioneer
Hall yesterday was largely attended and
many able papers were read on various
phases of the subject.
There was much vim and determination
among the country delegates, who were
unit in favor of stringent measures against
dealers who adulterated and sell adulter-
ated foods.
President J. w. Kerr of the Manufac-
turers' and Producers Association made
a stirring opening address. He urged
united action between producers for the
common object of securing pure food and
suggested that it would require thorough
organization to overcome the stubborn
opposition of shopkeepers who are not
honest.
Among other things the speaker said:
California can meet honest competition
but we cannot fight the producers of spurious
goods, of conyct-made wares and OF danger
Gus adulterations. But when our enemies
without, aided by traitors within, pour within
our borders goods which never paid the price
OF honest tol-prison products which they
dare not market in the States in which they
are made: when our food producers and food
growers are asked to compete with jellies in
which the juice OF the fruit forms no part
honeys which contain but per cent of the
pure article; when mer chants, honorable and
above reproach, complain that to such an ex-
tent have these curious and in many in
stances poisonous products been forced upon
an unsuspicious people that they have been
compelled to carry them in stock or 60 out of
business then we feel justified in invoking
the strong arm of the law-then we felt II was
our duty to call you from the quiet of your
comfortable homes that you might aid us in
this battle against species OF commercial
piracy which was driving out our people from
factory and from farm, which was threatening
with a blight those homes which you nave
people and encouraging the survival OF the
most interruptions.
Professor John SWEET made an ex-
temporaneous address that pleased the
audience. He said he had found great i'm
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Addresses the Woman Congress on Mora and Education

thusiasm by announcing that in her opin-
ion the place for lthe religious education
of the child was at home.
c. II. Richer. the next programme
speaker, had for his subject, The Place
of Punishment in Moral Education" But
before going into that matter Mr.. Rleber
could not resist the temptation to take a
shy at Rev. Mr.. Mel. He said he stood as
a representative product of the public
schools of California. He began in the
primary and finished in the university.
He was therefore in position, he said, to
denounce as false the stateme nt that re-
ligious and moral training was stranger