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The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS.
Women as reachers--Ours Schools and
Those of European Countries.

InOSc VI
Bv the federal census of 1880 there
were returned in the United States
222,71O teachers. In 1870 the number
returned was 1872. .t60. In 1890 the num-
ber returned was 341, 1,S11, of whom 90
5S1 were male teachers and 245,230
were female teachers. During the ten
years intervening between 1880 and
1890, as during the ten years interyen-
ing between 1870 and 1880. the proper
ton of female teachers to The total
number steadily increased, and by emu
meration made in 1896 it appeared that
the number of female teachers in the
United States at that time had In
creased to 5000.
Twenty years ago England had 1916
male and 14,D01 female teachers. Last
year there were 66,310 female and only
26,270 male teachers. The same change
is to be found in other countries, partic-
harly in those in which rudimental
education is generally diffnsed.
In Spain, where the standard of pub
lie education Is low, there are few fe-
male and many male teachers, whereas
in Denmark, where for many years
the standard of education has been
high, the number of male teachers ls
low compared with the number of fe-
male teachers, the total number of both
being in excess of 5000. There are about
400, 900 teachers male and female in the
United States, 100000 in France-70, 900
N, oil onI Q0 O0O fap, O0O in Can
many, $4,000 in England, 100000 in
Italy, 100000 in Russia, $4,000 in the
Netherlands, 10000 in Spain, $500 in
Greece, and $4,000 in Canada. The
march of education in Europe has
been remarkable, for, while the popu-
lation has increased only 33 per cent.
since 1910, the average number of chill
| dren attending school has risen 145 per
cent, but this advance seems less inn
| portant when compared with the gain
made in the United States. In 1860 the
| total number of school children in the
United States was 5,700,000 of which
| 100000 were in New England, 100000
| in the middle states, 100000 in the
southern states and 2,2s0,0 900 in the
western states and territories. At pres
ent the number of school children en-
rolled is in excess of IA, 900, 900, of whom
| 100000 are in what was formerly the
south, 100000 in the middle states,
| 100000 in New England, and 6,000, 600
in the western states and territories.
There has been a decisive gain every
where in respect not only of the num-
Der of school teachers, but of their eff-
cheney.
Some official figures recently received
from Russia show n curious condition
Of affairs in the matter of education in
| that country. There were in the
schools of Russia more than twice as
many boys as girls, and though the dis
| parity is to some extent decreasing it
is still so large as to give 10 indica-
ton that an equality between the two
sexes, in the opportunities of rudiment-
| nj education, will be established for
many years to come. Twenty years ago
tAerc were five times as many boys as
girls in the schools of Russia-N. Y.
| Sun.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

1t is tolerably evident that financial
embarrassment did not drive the late
Barney Barnato TO suicide. His estate
figures up about $25 100000, after al
lowing for all shrinkage.
-Maseagni has sold his latest OPERA
Iris" to Ricordi, thus abandoning Son
zopno. who first brought him out. The
only one of the young men discovered
by Sonzoeno who still elings to him is
Leoncavallo.
There seems little doubt that Mic
olini, Nine. PATHS husband, is dying
lie is suffering from Bright's disease
and a complication of other disorders
lie Is terribly emaciated and SPENDS
most of his time IN bed.
Senator Hansbrough wore recently
the most remarkable suit ever seen in
the senate chamber. At first glance II
looked like the cheapest japanese silk
II is straw color, with a broad, dark
stripe running round and round the
material like the stripes of a zebra.
1t is said that Mrs. Langtry will
shortly marry Prince Esterhazy de
Galantha. The prince is about GO years
of age and has been twice married be-
fore, both his wives being dead. He is
n great sportsman and the purchaser
of horses for the Austrian government
Prince Esterhazy is related to the earls
of Jersey.
Miss Dumally is a French actress
who thinks she strongly resembles An
ma Held, and she is going to give imi-
tations of that young woman, She has
achieved notoriety by announcing that
inasmuch as Miss Held finds milk baths
beneficial. Langtry favors champagne
and Bernhardt tea. she has discovered
coffee is the only proper liquid for
brunette to use to keep her skin in tone.
Mr.. Tyson, the Australian multi
millionaire, made his first big haul
shortly after the great rush to the Ben
digo gold field. Thousands of gold
seekers were encamped on the golden
fiat and meat famine was at its height
when Tyson shrewdly arrived on the
scene with a herd of cattle and nu-
merous flock of sheep. He made a
profit of something like 10000 per cent.
or that little speculation.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
WIT AND WISDOM

Pop, what is humidityfn "Bop.,
air, my son."-Judge.
-"Borgess has untold wealth rau.
do you know?" 81 just saw the tax 'aW as
SCISSOR coming from his house. "--Clasa
land Leader.
Not to Be Expected -He-'T tbis,J
only of you! And do you think ONLY as
me?" She-"Why, George, I'm arrana
ing my trousseau!'-Pucl<.
Mrs. Howso-"Did the butcher seos
the lobsters?" Bridget-"He did mnm
but l sent thin back. They wugn't
ripe."-Brooklyn Life.
-Fuddy-"I heard a good poke,
story last evening, but declare have
forgotten it," Duddy@"That's all
right, my dear fellow; there never WAS
more than one poker story, although, Of
course, it is told in numberless ways u
boston Transcript.
IA man and a woman" remarked
the observer of men and things, sare
quite likely to look at a thing from
opposite points of view; man will see
nothing but the outlay, where woman
has no eyes for anything but the Law.
ut."-Detroit Journal.
II envy her her complexion" said
Maud. "But she freckles and tans so
easilyl" replied Mamie. That's Just
it. She can go to the seashore for a
few days at the end of the season and
look exactly as II she had been away
all summer. .'-Washington Star.
Point of Difference.-Affabe Gus.
tomer-"You shave differently in Ire.
land from what you do in America,
don't you?" Barber Mulligan (iust
over)-"An' in phwat way, sor?' Al.
fable Customer-"Here you mix lather;
there you lather mieks."-Judge.
The American-"Well. you must
agree that. individually and as nation
we are a strong people" The English.
man-"Yes, indeed; l see in youah pa.
pers quite frequently where some Chi
eago thief holds up street car, you
know Cincinnati Commercial Trib
une.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
Snnienf Sucker.

'My, my!" exclaimed the sucker to
the boy who had just yanked him out
of the water with n snare, my, nv,
how modern improvements are spread
ing, TO he sure"
Modern improvements? returned
the boy, 'nquiringly.
YES" answered the captive sucker,
us he tldpped himself over to n more
shady retreat on the grassy bank;
who'd ever thought, for instance. that
telegraphs would be utilized in fish
ing?"
"TelegrsFhy in fishing?" echoed the
boy, in a dased sort of way; "what are
you talking about, anyway? Your lift
into this climate must have ratified Won
a little. What's this sort of thing got
10 do with telegraphy in fishing, I'd
like to know?"
why" responded the finny logician.
as he lazily famed himself with his
gills, "how would / have known that
you wanted me if you hadn't wired p"
Richmond Dispatch.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
Among the kurds.

The Kurdish chief and his elder sons
stroked their boards and calculated
"Mashallah! !" whenever their European
guest put his fork in his mouth. MY
father, why does the Firengi eat with a
hookY little Kurd asked, at last, but
all the answer he got was a smack from
his father, at which he cried bitterly
TO console him | gave him a spoonful
of marmalade, which terrified him. but,
fearful of being punished again for bad
manners, he seized the spoon and
gulped it down like a pill, saying:
"Avolia Effendim." He must have liked
it, all the same, for soon afterward the
father came and asked me what the
"tatli' was. gave him the pot, which
he emptied. Murad then cleaned the
knife and fork and shut them with
a click into a patent claspknfe. This
put too great a strain on the chiefs cu-
riosity, and he asked to see it close,
After careful examination he re-
marked, oracularly; 'In truth. only in
FirengiStan can they make such things
OF beauty."-"A Ride Through Western
Asia"
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
The sKELN oF LOVE.

Fair Agnes on the window seat
As I came In, was sitting lightly;
skein and ball fell at her feet,
As greeting me her face shone brightly
Her need / readily OWNED
And held the skein for her to wind.
iiow subtly loves soft sillzen strands
Are lightly cast for mans enfolding
j simply reached my willing hands,
Her bright skein for a short space hold
ing
For as the shapely ball was wound.
My very heart was firmly bound!
Swift as the darting swallows flight,
Before my gaze her deft hand glancing,
Ny awkward fingers kept Alright.
With matehless skill. and grace entranc-
Ing;
Amid the twisting coils her glance,
Shot to my heart keen as lance.
When knots perplexing came to hand,
Which bending DER she separated,
Her light breath my rapt senses famed,
Like winds of May with blossoms freight
ed;
And ere the skein ball became,
My heart was hers beyond reclaim.
No manacles of well-wrought steel,
Have ever mind and body holden.
But by the strands that fair hands reel
Has man been held since ages olden.
Ne'er reach your hand to hold loves skein,
And hope to be heart-whole again!
Arthur Howard Hall. In Detroit Free
Press.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
How the MoIasses Worked.

But ! didn't make no bee line for the
bank. / didn't want TO meet up with
Bill till after dinner. lowed to myself
after he went home and put himself on
the outside of rale good dinner, and
heard the news from his wife in regards
to my visit and the various and sHndry
"eute things" | said about the baby, he
would be in better shape for business
With nothin in particlar to do, took d
little turn around town with the boys
and rounded up at the bank along IL
the shank of the eyenin. Bill he was
smilin all over his big fat self and look
in as ripe and mellow as a Maypop. He
had heard from me at home and was
lookin for me to drop in and swap lies
with him about the old settlement and
old times. Was there anything he could
do for me?
"Well, Bill" says l, my wife's hus
band is in a scandlous elost place fol-
the time of year. There is a mortgage
on one side and a double back aetion
Wayerly note on the other, and betwiXt
the two they have got me denglin
around from a night sweat to a buck
ager. Crops are turnin out sorry and
| can't meet both of them papers. With
a raise of two hundred dollars | can lift
the mortgage ON the home place, and
that would put me ahead of the hounds
oncst more, with no fences to climb"
"The money is yours, says Bill, land
all | want is your plain note-no wayer,
no lean-nothin of that sort, and you
can take your time about the settle.
ment"
Bless your sweet life, honey, I was
feelin as cozy like as any gray rat in the
fodder loft when | got home that night.
But after supper l moved my chair
around tolerable clost to the other cor.
ner, and takin her little hand in mine,
says to myself, but said it out loud SO
she could hear:
Rufus Sanders, you are mighty
small shakes, and only a very few at
BEST but you have got the sweetest
and most smartest wife in forty-seven
states and territories. Her head is
level, her hands are willin and her heart
is true. Henceforwards from now on
she is full partner in this business,
and by the IL epistles she shall have
her say The next time you go dead
agin her judgment to run in debt |
will hire a cheap niger for two bits to
kick you clean over the state line"
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
PresPntinE n Bold Front.

So when the large and lovely autumn
come | woke up and found myself in a
most tremendous tight place. How and
when | got there was not the question.
The deed had been did and the mainest
question was how to git out With a
mortgage on one side and a waverly
note on the other and the crop a dead
failure-dast if it didn't look to me
like the day and hour had come for the
man and the ceilin to meet
Now, white people, l am not one of
the sort to go nosin and pirootin
around huntn up trouble, but when it
comes my way l try to keep up bold
front and face the music like a little
man. 1t will pay man to pull his vest
down and hold his head up and look big,
no matter what sort of hand he holds.
In this present day and generation of
people game of bluff is better than no
game at all-particlar if it wins.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
On sIippery Grounds.

Hit was somewheres late along in the
sixties and times were monstrous hard.
Prices had run way up, money was hid
out, and man had to hump and hum
end hustle soon and late to make tongue
and buckle meet. But my doctrine is
that poor folks must have poor ways or
mean ones, and | was fightin it out on
that line tolerable clost, when 4 blame
fool notion worked through my hair
and consequentially landed me in II
tight place. All of student like took
up with the notion that | must have
more land. l had gracious plenty of
land right then to do my farmin on,
and with one more good crop | could
lift the mortgage higher than kite.
But l watched woods paster to head
of the stock law deestrict with, and SO
nothin would do but must pitch in and
buy another eighty down there on the
creek from John Henry Asheraft.
Mother was agin the move, and she put
her little foot down on ii so:
You are plantin your feet on slip
perry grounds, Rufus" says she. You
won't rest now till you wade up TO your
eyes in debt oncst more and then you
will bust loose and fret and fuss and
tume like as if somebody else way off
yonder was to blame for the contortion-
ment. Better let well enough alone.
Folks have got to crawl some and then
walk little before they go to flyin."
But in the mainline my head was
sot on the trade, and trade would.
bought the whole tract for $400-$1
spot cash and give John Henry wayer-
ly note for the balance. That was in
the summer, when the corn was in full
silk and tossel, and the cotton fields
were bloomin like nest of roses.
didn't know anything about the wash
cut ahead, but it was there. In less time
than a month after | made that trade
and signed up the papers the game was
runnin agin me like a shot. The drY
drouth and the rust and the boil
worms and the caterpillars all rounded
up and closed in and swooped down on
the farm. Crops fell way short and
| prices went off on a grand tumble down
to rock bottom. | took the blues all
over in spots as big as bed quilt.
But mother went OH singin and hummin
and bustlin around as busy as bee in
| tar bucket. She didn't talk about my
| big land trade, nor the sorry crops, nor
| the store account, but went on tendin
| to her own business as gentle and ten
der like and happy as ever. Somehow
l felt like she ought to set down and
come right out flat-footed and tell me
| what beautiful and bloomin old fool
| l was. That would of made the sur
| roundins more natural like and easy
| for me. But she wouldn't talk any to
speak of along that line. When would
try to lead her around to the subject
she would take the bit in her teeth and
| fly the track like three-year-old.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
Sing II Soft and Sweet.

Well, after thinkin and smokin and
dreamin over the general circumfer-
ence of the surroundins, l lowed it
mought be better to lift the mortgage
and then take my chances with John
Henry and the waverly note. If /
could onest more read my papers and
titiements clear to the old farm my
fight would be half whipped. l settled
up at the store and had S100 in the
clear, Two hundred more would lift
the mortgage. Bill Simpkins, one of
the settlements favorite boys, had took
and moved off to town and got rich
runnin of a bank, and, made up my
mind to go and hit him for the neces-
sary two hundred. The best way to
reach a mans heart and pocket is
through his good wife, and the best way
TO touch the wife is through the chill
dren, and the way to hit the whole
family at one lick is to shoot with
mo,asses. Sing your song soft and
Eveet.
So consequentially | hooked the old
bay horse to the spring wagon. loaded
her down with fresh butter and red
apples and plumgranates and other
far- producements. and throwed in a
Thanksgivin turkey for good measure.
Then put on my -go-to-meetin
clothes and my calf skin boots and n
Ktandiu collar-which stood so high
ti'l blamed If didn't have to clam up
on The fence to spii-and sailed out to
town. The trappins and fNments set
ruiher awkward and unpleasant with
me, but the stakes was worth the game.
reasoned with myself that Biz was al
The bank. so / driv 10y his house to un-
load the spring wagon on his good lady.
] up and told her how ] had come 10
town to see Bin in regards to a little
business matter. and ! thought whilst
! was comm I mought as well 10 fetch
along some Of the good things that
growed on a firsi-class farm. She
thanked nae ever and over 1t had been
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04

two months since they had any fruit
at their house and she was jest thinkin
about adyertisin in the paper for
Thanksgivin turkey. Then the children
come in-which | loaded them down
with red apples and pleasant words
and told them if they would only come
down to our house l would go hay
ridin and ehinkypin huntin with them,
and build flying Jennies, and grapevine
swings. and see-saws and sieh like till
they couldn't rest for the fun.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
Save the Trees,

Another warning against the destruc-
ton of forests has recently come from
the island of Trinidad. The officers OF
the Royal Botanic Gardens there reporo
that the rainfall has been steadily de-
creasing for 30 or more years, and that
If the present rate of decrease should
continue, that beautiful island would
within a measurable length Of time be-
come as barren as Sahara. Destruction
of forests is declared to be the cause Oh
the decrease of rain.-Youth's Com
panion
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
A Silver Cnmn.

The remains of the late celebrated
traveller and writer, Sir Richard Burton
were buried at Mortlake churchyard IN
a solid silver coffin made for the pur-
pose at Trieste. His tomb is also .
peculiar one, made of white stone. IN
the form of an Arab tent, the interior
being fitted up with altar and swinging
lamp. the latter having been brought
from the far east.-N. Y. Sun.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
In Texas.

New Pedagogue fresh from the east)
i know exactly what you want. gen
tlemcn. You do not wish a lot of in
consequential facts crammed into the
ehildren's heads. You want me 20
iench the young idea how to shoot.
President tof the school board. en-.
ihusianc 7slyJ-Thats it stranger
JudgN.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
: SANDERS
his TsuaI Pose.

Julia had her husbands photograph
taken with his head stuck in news
paper"
"Why did she DO that?'
"She said that was the way he always
looked to her when he was al home. -
CHICAGO Record.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04

grave W n o u |
landin in a tight
place n o va II d
then. Every thing
which g oes Il y
must come down,
The weather may
be fine, and the
horse fresh and
track lightZw when
the race is called,
but there most in
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
rhcir season Ended.

The Sunfsh-Where's that young
couple who have been fishing in 'hl'
pool for a month?
The Minnow-Oh. she said yes yes
lerday Brooklyn Life.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04

generally always comes time andplace
somewheres down the line when the
man and the eeilin must meet. 1t is a
blame lonesome road that never had q
washout nor a smashup.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04

The largest balloon in the world
was constructed at Holloway, near Lon
don, England. 1t is a sphere of 57.24
feet diameter. has capacity OF over iOO.-
900 cubic feet, weighs one and a
quarter tons, and will lift an additional
weight of a ton. 1t is TO be used for the
purpose of obtaining continuous
meteorological observations for a
period of six days without descending.
1t has been successfully tested.
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04

What is called Froude's law of in
crease in the speed of ships assumes. as
an example. that an increase Of one iu
hundred, or. as we may say, about
foug miles a day in the swiftest trans
Atlantic steamers. calls for two per
cent Of added length, six per cent. OF
displacement, seven per cent. Of horse
power and fuel
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04
THE "CLOST PLACES"
The Sage of Rocky Creek Eas
"Went the Cats"
The Mortgage and the "Waverly
Note"-A Plan That Worked as
smooth anu Slick rs
Mo1nsses.

But precious few men can make the
long hard drive from the cradle TO the
The Van Buren press., 1897-09-04

THE Chicago & st. Paul train was
moving out of suburban station
Abilene weekly reflector., 1897-04-01

.nere is no chance left for theatrical
displays, Stuart will 60 after the fight
with suitable purse, having already
selected place for pulling it off, and
this place may not be in Nevada
A LIBRARY OF BIBLES.
New YORK, March 29.-The American
Bible society's library is to be depos-
tied with the Lenox library, partly to
secure its safety and partly to enrich
the already large Lenox collection of
English editions Of the Bible. 1t in
cludes more than $500 volumes and
represents the general accumulation
of so years. The character of the IL
brary is biblical, the larger part of the
collection being made up of volumes of
the Holy Scriptures in various editions
gathered from many lands and under
conditions that cannot be repeated.
FIGHT AGAINST DEPARTMENT STORES.
CHICAGO, March 20. In the event of
the defeat of the anti-department store
bill in the house, the exclusive retail
merchants of this city will effect per-
manent organization and endeavor to
make it national in its scope. In the
present organization which is fighting
the big stores are 1900 persons. This
tremendous association is unwieldly,
and its work will necessarily be done
through committees.