Kansas City journal., 1898-02-20

Mr.. PEARS was promoted from the position
of principal of the schooroom to that of in
spector of Indian schools and after year
or two of this experience is advanced to
that of superintendent of the largest In
dian school in the country. He is not an old
man. but is prudent and conservative. and
is very decidedly persona grata with his
future pupils and his colleagues. We may
lock for good work at Haskell institute
for the next four years. and much longer.
as we hope.
Atlanta, Ga, is about to establish a high
grade chronological school. This is one of
many indexes of a new life in the South
which is giving New England occasion
for hard headaches. When Georgia adds
to the cotton in her fields factories for
working it up into finished products, and
then by such schools provides for the train
ing Of first-class operatives. what Is there
left to Offset the cost OF freight from
Georgia to New England? Only. so far as
we can see. the fact that the New Eng
land climate will permit and encourage
longer and more energetic labor. And in
the midst of these conditions labor asi-
tators and many other good people are ad-
vocating eight-hour laws! 1t looks more
as If New England would have to pass
twelve-hour laws or go out Of the cotton
business in time.
Go away from home to learn the news.
And what queer ideas of us New England
that the attorney general and the state
superintendent of instruction In Kansas
will soon sell at public auction 200 school
houses in Western Kansas. Probably the
Boston editor did not stop to figure out
the process through which the attorney
general was to be enabled to sell the prop
erty of school district. But even il he
could legally do it. he wouldn't. For he
knows that no man can tell how many
of those depopulated school districts will
be repopulated by next year. and school
boards might have to go about hunting up
their old school houses and ejectinS the
bovine or equine occupants to make room
for the barefoot boy again. No. kind friend.
the attorney general will not sell Kansas
school houses at auction in a job lot or
singly.
1t is certainly cause for wonder, II
true. that snufftaking is coming into popu-
larity again in London, that old snuffboxes
are being polished up. and that mills for
the manufacture of new ones can scarcely
keep up with their orders. OF all the forms
| of tobacco and its uses the taking of snuff
is in many respects the most objectionable.
1t is possible for even a chewer to be neat
and unoffensive to others. But snuff
However, let us not get hysterical over the
matter yet. We remember that we were
told last year that Paris had decreed the
return of the wasp waist. Has anybody
seen 1t on the plains of the civilized West?
| We think not. Can 1t be that the people of
America, or at least OF that great saving
major fraction which lives west Of the
Alleghenies. have arrived at such a degree
of independence that they dress and live
as they please?
Rev. Mr.. James Eells, the Presbyterian
minister at Englewood. N. j.. has with
drawn from the Presbyterian church "be
cause he could no longer subscribe to the
statements of doctrine laid down in the
Westminster Confession of Faith" Though
the honesty Of his action is greatly to Mr.,
Eells' credit. this Is not tho remarkable
part of the proceeding. The presbytery
accepted Mr.. Eells' withdrawal and passed
series of resolutions expressive of its
admiration for his character and its ap.
probation of the value of his ministry. II
is difficult to say which side deserves the
more credit. Here is a manifestation of the
real meaning and spirit of religious tolera
tion. 1t is not 300 years since men were
burning others at the stake for doing what
Mr.. Eells has done. And it is good dea
less than that since they ceased to wan
to burn them at the stake. This actor
warrants us in speaking proudly O
Christian civilization.