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The Advocate and news., 1897-12-08
,GE AND HIGH SCHOOL
PARTMENT.
HIGH SCHOOL SESSION.

Wednesday, December 20, at o'clock
p. m., in Assembly Hall, High School
Building.-E. T. Barber, Great Bend,
chairman. 2 p M, Mature and Science
Study continued in the High School," by
B. F. Eyer, Topeka. Discussion by w. G.
Riste, Colby; Harold Barnes, Beloit.
General discussion. 1920 p. m, paper,
more Optional Studies in the High
School," by d. M. Bowen, Fort Scott
Discussion by B. d. Van Ostrand, Ma
rion; VIM. Sinclair, Ottawa; Ira e.
Swain, Caldwell. General discussion.
Thursday, December 30, at o'clock
p. M, in Assembly Hall, High School
Building.-E. T. Barber, Great Bend,
chairman. p. M, paper, Law and
Freedom in the School," by L. H. Muir
lin, Baldwin. Discussion by F. w. Black
mar, Lawrence; Chas. Swisher, Salina;
+. NJ Spencer, Sterling. General discus
sion. 3:20 p. M, paper, "The Demand
for the Practical in Education" by Thos.
z. viii, Manhattan. Discussion by e. N.
Hopkins, Lawrence; Luther D. White
more, Topeka; J. D. Hewitt, Emporia
General Discussion.
DISTRICT AND GRADED SCHOOL DE-
PARTMENT
Wednesday, December 20, at 2 o'clock
p. m., in Representative Hail.. V. Col
vile, Wichita, chairman. p. m, "Se-
lection and Use of Literature" by
MLouise Jones, Emporia. Discussion
by Mrs. E. Richardson, Hutchinson;
Elizabeth Frazier, Erie; Lizzie Boyle,
Paola. General discussion. 1920 p. m,
''The Study of United States History
Neglected" by Eli G. Foster, Topeka.
Discussion by l.. l.. Dayhoff, Hutchin-
son; c. C. Garfield, Belleville; A. B. Car
ney, Concordia. General discussion.
Thursday, December 80, at o'clock
p. m, in Representative HAIL. p. M,
Elementary Science as a Basis for
Other Work" by E. H. s. Bailey, Law
renee. Discussion by G. s. Parmenter,
Baldwin; A. S. Hull, Great Bend; w. A..
Evans, Leavenworth. 2:40 p. M, paper,
Common School Course Of Study,
Merits and Defects" by e. Stanley, Law
renee. Discussion by Milton Todd, Sen
eca; l.. l.. l.. Hanks, Kansas City; ]. w.
Stout, Topeka; S. NJ Cook, Chapman.
DEPARTMENT OF COUNTY SUPER
INTENDENCE.
Wednesday, December 20, at 2 o'clock
p. M, in State Superintendent Office
VIM. Stryker, superintendent of public
instruction, chairman. p. M, Simpler
Examination Questions, but More Rigid
Grading" by o. l.. Lennen, Ness City.
Discussion by r, d. Emery, Norton;
Grant Billbe. lola: Mrs. Sadie p.
Grisham, Cottonwood Falls. General
discussion. 8 p. m, How May the Com
mon School Course of Study be Uti-
llzed?" by NJ. d. Weltner, Westmore-
land Discussion by j. J. Caldwell,
Lyons w. S. Robb, st. John; NJ T.
Headington, Lyndon. General discus
sion. 4 p M, Round Table-(4 "The
New TaYt Rnnlr au " (hl "Raslllfs nf
The Advocate and news., 1897-12-08

Reference to the penitentiary records
show that the convicts produced on the
prison farm $6,336,37 worth of products
this year compared with $2,630.55 worth
of productions in 1896 under Republi-
can management. These products are
of a good quality and with the excep-
ton of apples can be used to feed the
prisoners. Why can this farm not be
worked more extensively and surplus
products be furnished to other State
institutions?
The Advocate and news., 1897-12-08

The first of the proposed Salvation
Army colonies will be located near
Holley, Col. This is on the main line
of the Santa Fe, four miles west of the
Kansas line.
The Advocate and news., 1897-12-08

A number of Republican Congressman
announce their intention Of wiping out
the Civil Service Commission by refus-
ing to make an appropriation for it.
Republicans, most of whom are hungry
for a job, will do anything to get rid
of the civil service regulations.
The Jewish South. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1893-1899, 1897-01-15
The Hero of Waldeck.


Il
IL day stands upon the corner of Grand and
Canal streets, offering toothpicks and shoeaces to
the passers-by? If not you have not missed
great sight for he is not pleasant to look upon and
vet he is be the hero of this sketch Ahero he is in
the true sense of the word You would not suspect
it if you saw him. His torn and tattered clothing
and general air of dilapdation give indication OF
it. His wrinked old face, SCARED and weather BEATEN
his long nose which curves like parrots beak; his
scant and grsly beard; his wandering blinking eyes,
his whole bearing, in fact repel you. When he opens
his mouth and emits from between his broken, scat
tered teeth volley of unintegibe jargon in thin
estimate voice. you turn away in sorrow; and
when in search of trade, he grasps his crutch and
mps after you his right leg dragging behind, and
three inches shorter than the left, you wonder why
the police permit such character to ply his vocation
the streets.
Hebrew Mose,' the street urchins call him
They are not afraid Of him of his epithets in
broken English. They do not even fear his crutch
for they occasionally pet him with stones pull his
beard and long before he raise his crutch to
punish their ternerity they have around the
corner and are safe from his anger.
Hebrew Nose has hard time it Wind and
weather, custom and language, boy and all
to conspire against him. Luxures strangers
to him. barest necessities are hardly speaking terms
with him. When he has returned to his lonely home
in his little court and has, with the aid of his crutch
and the banisters, painfully mounted four flights of
stairs, he throws aside his stock of merchandise and
proceeds to count his gains If the day has been
profitable he often back penniless. If the day
has been good he may have taken in sixty seventy
five cents half of which is clear gain. On such day,
he washes his hands, says his prayers descends the
four flights of stairs, and going to dealers by
who displays the word Kosher in big letters in his
window he invests dime in a smoked sausage and
a roll, and eats his frugal meal in silence On bad
day he goes to bed hungry
No. you would never suspect that Hebrew Nose
had ever done anything heroic, and yet if you read
patiently to the end you will find your admiration
for the grow into something akin to love-
His right name is Moses Pulver and he born
in a villagen Waldeck, Germany. That was seventy
five years ago, at time when Germany divided
into little principaties and Kingdoms each ndepen-
The Jewish South. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1893-1899, 1897-01-15
The JEWISH SOUTH.

quarters, kept apart from the Gentle population,
deprived of all liberties and privileges forced to con-
fine themselves to the meanest occupations, their
existence was by no means pleasant Can American
children with their Unborn ideas of right and liberty
conceive of such state of things? Think of it!
Thousands of people, usually the most intelligent in
the community, shut within four walls, degraded,
denied an education, forced to wear distinguishing
garments, compelled to bear all manner of insult and
all because they chung to what dearer to them
than their lives-ther religion It is not long since
the Ghettos were abolished in Europe. When Moses
Pulver was born the institution fourished in every
land.
In spite of their degradation the Jews saved
money, and occasionally became rich. Then it was
that the princes swooped down upon them, like the
vulture upon the unoffending lamb, and robbed the
thrifty Hebrews of their carefully boarded gains.
Stimulated by the example of their rulers, the
mon people looked upon the Jews their legitimate
prey, and plundered them UNPUBLISHED.
Amid such surroundings and conditions Moses
reached his eighth year. He was puny boy, but
spirited and quick of intellect. His days were spent
at Cheder the religious in fact the only school of the
Jews. When Cheder was out he would play in the
Ghetto sometimes in the Gentle streets with boys
of his age. One day he playing " Hide and
Seek which | suppose resembled the game
played by the youth of the present day He wan
dered quite distance in order to find secure hiding
place He found it in the angle of house belonging
to Schulze, the beer brewer, and which served
inn. There he stood in suppressed excitement wait
ing for the hunter to come and find him. Suddenly
he became aware Of two men sitting at the open
window right above him, and their conversation
reached his ears He could not help listening, and
the words had fearful import for him
eve must have money! said one whom he
recognized as the village Burgomaster, and unless
get it promptly will find ourselves in trouble"
8 In very serious trouble echoed the second, who
proved to be Baron Otto, captain of the kings
troop stationed in the place.
There pause
81 know of but one way" said the Baron. Eve
must get it out of the Jews!'
They won't lend me any them
quite sum already
81 have PLAN began the captain
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-10
FUR SEAL QUESTION.
Ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury Explains His Position.

WASHINGTON, April 9-Charles H.
Hamlin, eX-AsSistant Secretary of the
Treasury, who has been retained by the
Government as counsel to assist in the
conduct of the negotiations with Great
Britain looking to a permanent settle
ment of the Behring Sea sealing queS-
ton, said to-day that his position would
be simply advisory to ex-Secretary John
w. Foster, who will have general direc-
ton of the negotiations.
Mr.. Hamlin will return to Boston to-
morrow to resume his law practice, but
will come to Washington from time to
time for consultation with Mr.. Foster.
The sealing regulations under the
Paris award were put into operation in
1894, and were to run five years, or two
seasons longer. The apparent decrease
in the number of female seals during the
last two or three seasons has reached
such proportions that it is feared two
more seasons of indiscriminate slaugh-
ter by pelagic sealers will have practic-
ally destroyed the industry. The Brit
ish as we'll as the American inveStiga-
tors have reached this conclusion and
it is the purpose of the United States
to bring about a new agreement by
which both countries shall take active
measures to preserve the seal herds for
all time to come. 1t is expected that Mr..
Foster will give his entire time to the
question until a final settlement is
reached
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-10
SIMPSON Is FIRM.
Declares He Will Carry Into Effect
His Threat Made in the House.

WASHINGTON, April 9-Represen-
tative Simpson of Kansas declares that
he will carry into effect his threat to
block any business which the House
may attempt to do by unanimous con-
sent before the Speaker has appointed
committees. He says he will also call
for quorum to approve the journal
each time the House meets There is
no legislation for the House in pros
pect until the tariff or appropriation
bills are returned to it by the Senate,
except the small matters of routine
business which are likely TO arise, and
which have been considered recently by
unanimous consent. Should additional
measures for the relief of the sufferers
by the Mississippi floods be brought
forward, Simpson proposes to compel
the presence of a quorum, and the act
ion of committee on them or the
adoption OF a special rule for their con-
sheraton
The Democrats do not intend to abet
Simpson in his obstructive tactics.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-10
NO SENATOR YET.
Hunter Comes Within One Vote. But
That One Fails to rlaterialize.

LOUISVILLE Ky), April 9.-Inter-
est IN the Senatorial struggle revived
to-day when the Blackburn people
again attempted to break a quorum.
Ihey We're unsuccessful The vote was
Hunter o., Blackburn 45. Boyle I. Mar
TIN IL, Stone L. Present II: necessary
to a choice %.
ON a motion to adjourn the vote
stood 64 to 81, and Speaker Worthine-
ton cast the deciding vote in favor of
another ballot.
ON the second ballot Representative
BALDWIN, one of the Republican bolt
ers, made an impassioned speech. and
cast his vote for Hunter This caused
the Assembly to go wild, and for a. time
IL looked as if Hunter would be elected
The ballot resulted: Hunter 63. Black
burn 10. Martin Is, Boyle 6, Stone 1.
The general assembly refused to adj
Journ by vote of "A to 81. and q. third
ballot was ordered. Senator Siege
who bolted Hunter several DAVIS ago
stated that if Hunter got another vote
ne would also vote for him. thus elect
ing him. The Republicans received the
announcement with cheers, and Hunter
was within one vote of the United
States Senatorshp.
Alter the continuous balloting the
JOINT session adjourned at 200 D. m.
without result. Hunter never gained
put the one Republican vote. and was
never closer than two votes to an e1ac-
ton
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-10

excepting the Chinese Empire, Korea
and the Orange Free State. These lat
ter countries are expected to join the
union during this congress, and will be
represented by delegates. Each ma
ton can send as many delegates as it
desires, but will have but one vote.
The convention will be held with
closed doors, and the proceedings will
be in French, according to the usual
custom. The first topic of Importance
to be considered will be that of transit
rates by intermediary countries on mails
received from other countries. 1t is
likely that the result will be a general
reduction of these rates, a circumstance
which would be disadvantageous to the
United States.
President Mckinley will entertain the
congress at the White House, and a
number of excursion trips viii be made,
not only to places of historical interest,
but for the purpose of studying the
various features of the postal system of
this country and the various methods,
devices, etc.
The appropriation for the congress has
not yet been made, but the pending
sundry civil bill contains for this pur
pose $4,000 The usual cost of these
conferences is said to be about $780,
600.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-10
TRANSVAAL RAID.
DR.. Jameson Again Appears Before
the Investigating Committee.

LONDON, April 9.-The parliament
tary committee which is investigating
the Transvaal raid held it's sixteenth
sitting to-day. DR.. Jameson arrived with
Sir John Willoughby, the military COM
mander of the raid, and the former was
again placed in the witness box.
DR.. Jameson, in the course Of the
proceedings, Indignantly denied having
told the officers that he had the Queen s
Government at his back, remarking that
it would have been idiotic in him and alb
solutely untrue to say so.
Sir John Willoughby in telling his
story, said he gathered from his talks
with Dr. Jameson that if he succeeded
in entering johannesburg Lord Rose
mead (the Governor of Cape Colony and
High Commissioner for South Africa
would do the rest.
Major Heany, the American, was next
examined. He denied that the message
he took from the Reform Committee to
DR.. Jameson, asking for a postponement
of the latter's action, was submitted to
or seen by Cecil Rhodes, as he expected
Dr. Jameson would refuse to postpone
taking action.
DIR. Wolf Of the Reform Committee,
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-10
ALABAMA SWEPT BY A
HEAVY WINDSTORM.
A Terrific Cyclone Passes Over a Portion
Of Dale County,
Leaving Wreck and Disaster All Along
Its Path.
For rlany TILES the Farmers Suffer,
Everything They Had Being
Swept Away by the Wind or
Only One Fatality Reported.

MONTGOMERY (Ala), April GA
special to the advertiser from Osark,
Ala, says:
terrible cyclone passed over a por-
ton of Dale County last night, leaving
wreck and disaster all along its path.
Many houses were demolished. Mrs.
Powers was caught by the falling tim
bers of her home and died before she
could be rescued. The rest of the family
were rescued This is the only fatality
reported.
For many miles the farmers are suf-
fering, everything they had being swept
away by the wind or ruined by the tor
rents of rain. The citizens of Osark
have sent several wagon loads of sup
plies to those in need.
REACHES GEORGIA.
ATLANTA, April 9.-Telegrams from
Osark, Ala, Valdosta Crossing and the
Inflated town Of Arlington, Ga, show
that this section was visited to-day by
another gulf cyclone, ascending the APP
palachicola River and sweeping north
ward with terrific force to the confluence
of the Chattahoochie and Flint Rivers
where it divided. In one direction to-
ward Osark, where timbers were up
rooted and houses blown to pieces, sew
eral lives were lost, among them Mrs
Powers, who was caught beneath the
falling timbers of her house and
crushed. The rest of the family were
rescued, among them baby three
weeks old, whom the mother protected
at the loss of her own life.
The second section of the cyclone was
DETECTED upon Flint Valley breaking
across south Georgia and passing
through Arlington, where but a few
weeks ago nine children were killed in
the ruins of their school house. Reach
ing Valdosta, the storm became inten-
sified in fury, and trees were blown
down in every part of the city. A church
in the southern part of the city was
wrenched from it's foundations and
twisted into fragments. The box cars
on. the Plant system were blown off the
tracks.
From many other towns in the vicin-
ity reports of an equally alarming ma
ture are coming in.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-10
Resulted More DiSaStrOuSly Than Was at
First Reported.
Perhaps Will Never Be Known How
Many Lives Were Lost
of Fifty.Two Guests Sleeping in the
Burned Hotel Only Thirty-Five
Have as Yet Been Accounted For
The Monetary Loss Over a Million
and a Half.

KNOXVILLE (Tenn.), April 9.-Of
the hfty-two guests who were sleeping
IN the Hotel Knoxville yesterday morn
ing When the fire broke out, only thirty
HVe nave been accounted for The hotel
register was destroyed, and it will per
maps never be known how many lives
were lost.
Ihose known to have persisted in the
flames are: G.. w. Roberts of Pulaski
Ienn., lightning rod agent A. E. VIII
lams, Springfield, Mass, retired mer-
chant
kilograms have been pouring in all
day from different cities fnouirinp
about people supposed to have been in
knoxville. The work of searching for
the remains in the ruins was begun late
TINS afternoon, and the DEVELOPMENTS
already Indicate that the list of dead
VIII be much larger than at first
thought Charred remains were found
IN different localities of the ruins.
a. T.. Williams of Springfield. who
was beyond doubt burned was 63
years OF age, and was travelling south
for his health.
Large rewards have been offered for
the bodies and a large force of men 10
at WORK to-nlght clearing away the de-
bris
OF those injured perhaps only one win
cue. }. c. NJ. Boyle of Tennessee, a civ
IL engineer, lies in very critical con-
oition at the City Hospital He inhal-
ed flames and his limbs are burned
badly
Messrs. kephardt, McMillin, Hogan.
hreck, Hudson and Hicks, all of Knox
Vlile' VINO are the most painfully hurt.
are recovering.
Inc total property loss sustained will
foot up S1,611,000; total insurance
Sol4'2o9. Many of the firms burned out
nave secured temporary quarters. and
the wholesale houses especially have
never stopped filing or7or-
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-10
RENOUNCBS WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
PHOEBE COUSINS REPUDIATES
ITS LEADERS.
Says Women in Public Life Will
Never Prove Salts
factory.

ST. LOUIS, (Mo). April 9.-Miss
Phoebe Cousins has renowned woman
suffrage and repudiated it's leaders.
The veteran erstwhile suffragist lies
on a bed of pain at sanitarium at 2S2t
Washington avenue, less than two
blocks from her old home, hers no
longer, at 2641 Washington avenue.
She has not walked for more than a
year. For much longer period than
that she has been pursued by her arch
enemy, articulate rheumatism. 1t has
fettered her to her bed at last, and it
is doubtful if she will ever again be
able to leave it, except with help.
To-day in her comfortable room, re-
Ginning among pillows, the former fiery
advocate of the ballot for women talked
of her radical change of conviction and
the reason therefor.
Three times / have seen women I'M
der fire." she said slowly and emphat-
ically, land as many times / have seen
them fall. and that ANONYMOUSLY. Wo-
men in public life will never prove sat
isfactory There are limitations that
prescribe her success. She is natur-
ally a home keeper. I would advise
all young women to marry and become
home keepers.
Il said had seen women under fire
three times. The first was at the
Worlds Fair, when women failed to
rise to that altitude of public esteem
and confidence which every one hoped
cor when Congress appointed the
Board of Lady Managers. A few of
it's members in a high-handed manner
accomplished the extinction of the
board as organized by Congress.
THE leader of these was Mrs. Potter
Palmer. 1 shall refer to her in I'M
mistakable terms when I finish my his
tory of the Board of Lady Managers.
Mrs John A Logan will also be ham
died without gloves as she deserves.
l am in a position to do so, for 1, with
several otker women. drafted the bill
for the creation Of such a board, which
Congress passed.
"The second time women went down
under fire was in the Colorado cam
paign of 1894. The year before the Pop
ulists had enfranchised women. 1 had
expected the women would at least
show their gratitude to the party that
freed them, but not so. But when
senator Woicotl appeared III DenVef
with $2,00O,OOO of Doodle gotten from
London syndicates interested in bond
and railre ad schemes in the State it
was deemed judicious to expend this
slush fund mainly among women, and
this was done.
THE third time was on the Pacific
Coast, when l had an opportunity to
study the ring of suffragists which had
usurped power there. 1t is not i'm
properly known as the Anthony Shaw
ring. Susan b. Anthony and Anna
Shaw, VINO run about talking of hold
ing Aunt Susan's bonnet; Rachel Fos-
ter Avery and Carrie Chapman Gait
comprise the officers year in and year
out, and they run the organization to
the exclusion of every one else"
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-10
TARIFF BILL.
The Senate Not Yet Ready to Report
the r1eaSure.

WASHINGTON, April 9.-The Re-
publican Senators who are acting as q
subcommittee of the Senate Commit
tee on Finance in the preparation of the
tariff bill are inclined to postpone the
date of the presentation of the bill to
the Senate little beyond the limit ORR
ginally fixed by them. They express
the opinion that it may be two weeks
from the present time before it will be
in shape to be reported Some of them
postpone the time until two weeks from
next Monday.
The committee is making very salts
factory progress with the bill, and
many of the schedules have received
final attention, among them being
cherfcals and cottons. None of the
more puzzling questions, however, have
been disposed of. The committee has
deemed it wisest to leave the rates
on wool, sugar, hides, coal, lead ore,
lumber and all the other important
subjects until the simpler matters can
be determined. They take the position
that they can settle the disputed points
more satisfactorily after the other feat
ures Of the bill are thoroughly digested
and the probable revenue determined
Many of the smaller items accordingly
have been decided upon. While no de-
tailed information can be secured, it
is understood that many reductions in
duties have been made. The DISPOSE
ton of the committee is to make a
quite general reduction, but this is
found to be task not easy of accom-
plishment, because of the insistence of
Senators upon having the strongest
protection in which they are particular
ly interested.
There are, indeed, many demands for
increase and some of these are so press
ing that the members Of the committee
are finding themselves considerably
embarrassed between their desire to
satisfy Senators whose votes will be
essential to the success of the bill. and
their conviction that the interests of
the party demand reduction rather
than increase.