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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-17
AT HOUSTON.
A Great Dispiay-ShOps Closed-A
Holiday for all


Tho general arrangement committee
from the three divisions Of the Hibor-
nians, ihe Emmett council and ths
Emmett rifles, having In charge the
various details of the Forthcoming
have arranged for a magnificent cello
sration OF the great Irish day.
The principal features OF the day are
parade in the morning by the three
divisions of Hiberuians, who assem- bic
a. the Emmett hall al O'Clock and
headed hy Herbs band, 10 proceed St.
Patrir e church, in the fifth ward TO
attend grand high mass.
Az p. M. occurred the reception
and banquet at Turner Hall, rendered
by the local divisions to the visiting
Hibernisns and stheir friends aud
guests.
Father O'Callahan, an eloquen, Je-
suit priest of Galveston, delivers az
AT which Governor Culberson, Hon.
Dudley G. Wooten, Of Dallas, Mayor
Bryan Callahan OF San Antonio and
Other distinguished guests were pre-
sent.
At 2:30 p. ID. the big street parads
of civic and military organizations,
with a BICYCLE adjunct, starts from
Turner Hall. This parade will be
headed by Lewis band and usder the
direction OF Grand Marshal Tom
OLeary, and the following aides: T.
I l.. Conroy, John E. Patrick, George
| Ellis, S. l.. Hahn, and w. G. Sullivan
Of San Antonio, Charles ThnvonAt. J
S. Hudson, Ed. F. Dupree, B. Majoro
w:tz, j. sH Lillienthal, J. c. Ray
George w. Leredon, D. E. Helber9
General Richard Cooke. John B
! Williams, J. 7. Mahoney, Pat Owens
j. w. Kavapaugh, and A. N. Fi'zge
| raid.
Festivities will close with deer
water cele bration and concert at the
Auditorium, at which Governor Gull
berson will be present and upon which
occasion Hon. Dudley G.. Wooeen OF
Dallas will deliver an Grafton. Mr.
| Wooten is one of the most finished
orators in Texas and with two suof
themes combined, as ireland" ant
deep Water for Houston" he will
doubtless draw an inspiration that will
make his address very interesting.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-17

Typewriter paper 1T the Herr I'D Of
ace.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-17

Three lots corner OF Idaho and Vir-
Rtnia sts., $500 cash for all.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-17

That eminent Irish patriot and
ardent Feniau, President Rcckh oil
the McGinty club has flung the f1ae
of Erin Go Brarh from the flag stat
over his assay office; and now every
Irish miner in the country swears be
will send his ores to MIR. Reckhart e
be assayed,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-17
For over Fifty Years

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup ha.
been used for children teething L
soothes the child, softens tho gume
allays all pain, cures wind collie and /,
tho remedy best for diarrhoea
Twenty five cents a bottle.
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-22
AMONG THE TEACHERS.

1t is an open secret that an educational
expert from Chicago visited the Minneapolis
schools before their close and selected over
twenty of the best teachers of that town
to whom positions in Chicago have been Of
fered for next year. DR.. Jordan has exerted
himself to the utmost to find work for the
remainder Of the year for his teachers, in
order that his corps shall suffer as little loss
as possible. Many of them are now con-
Quoting tuition schools in the public school
buildings, which have been freely open to
their disposal for that purpose.
The Outlook. in its issue of May IA, gives
entire the story Of 1.-The Man Without
Country" by Edward Everett Hale with an
introduction by DR.. Hale showing the rele-
vancy Of his famous story to the present
situation. No child should be allowed to
leave any public school without having read
carefully with his teacher this story. For
the arousing and deepening of patriotic sonti-
ment, 1t is worth several terms Of ordinary
study Of history. 1t is to be hoped that every
school in st. Paul will avail itself OF this
rare opportunity to secure. at a moderate
outlay. enough numbers of this famous story
for class use.
Frank Damrosch advises that children
should ordinarily begin their education in
sight reading of music when about sew n
years of age, although he has known child
of four to read charmingly at sight. If a
child is taken at seven years, he ought to
make good sight reader by the time he
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-22
THE PAY OF TEACHERS.
"a Taxpayer Hits the Nail on the
Head.

The thanks of every ST. Paul teacher
are certainly due "a Taxpayer" who
lately addrt ssed a letter to one Of the
papers regarding salaries now paid
teachers and proposed plans for next
year.
The Consideration paid teachers in
this city for the last few years has
been of kind not calculated to raise
their spirits ard to increase the eff
cheney of their work. 1t has been in
marked contrast 10 the treatment Of
the teachers of Minneapolis, who. dur
ing the late unpleasantness received
from the entire press Of that city and
from its private citizens, many express
sions of sympathy and Of apprl lciat on
of their work.
1t is not long since the teachers Of
our city were informed editorially
urged for retren chment, were the cut
ting down of salaries and increasing
the number of pupils to a teacher That
although this had already been done
beyond the safety point, there is
strong opinion in influential circles, tn 1T
neither of these methods has been car
ried far enough, and that our public
schools could get along we'll enough
with fewer teachers at lower sa aries,''
1t has been a matter of surprise
among the teaching fraternity, that in
city supposedly friendly to good
schools, there have been no citizens
outside these Influential circles" who
have been moved to protest against a
policy which shifts the financial bur-
dens of their city to the shoulders Of
it's teachers.
The vigorous utterances of "A Tax
payer" are freshing.
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-22

as the plates of the Oregon are ex-
pected to resist the onslaught of the
enemy. A dull brown, it is not hard
to understand how the brute can dis
guise himself against the sandy side
OF an ant hill, and, as the army ap-
proaches, protrude his sticky tongue
and bring in his frugal lunch.
3 A more striking case, however, of the
m1m1cry In nature, the naturalists
have called special attention to in the
case of a crab which they found in one
of the coral reefs. In shape. generally
resembling the ordinary crustacean
of familiar view, this odd specimen is
mottled in hue and corruscated in sur
face until he looks almost as though
he had slept a Rip Van Wrinkle sleep
and been beset by the coral polypi
themselves.
The cases of coral alone that the
party brought back from the islands
are in themselves no mean reward for
all the labors of their trip, though
Inferior forms of animal life
The tropical birds, brilliant in plum
age, ranging from the ordinary barn
yard fowl, that pursued a rice-fed opu-
lence in the outskirts of Manila to the
argus-pheasant, pursuing a foraging
and presumably uncertain living under
the disguise of it's hundred-eyed wings,
brilliant plumage. Even the dullest
blacks and browns have a sheen that
Is not noticed in the birds of this zone
1t might almost be fancied that the
shell fish, shared in this brilliancy,
for their various hues challenge even
the manifold beauties of the birds, as
they nestle among the pictured rocks
of the tropical beach.
If the Philippine islands become a
permanent possession of the United
States, or If they do not, the Worces-
ter-Bourne collection, in the possession
of the Minnesota Academy of arts and
Sciences, at Minneapolis, cannot fail
curious, but of value to the student; OF
inestimable value to its happy possess
ors and the envy of its neighbors, for
there is not another like it in the cus-'
tody of any private organization in the
world, probably.
And, when the story of the princely
defaulter is written, there may, per-
haps, be set against his business mis-
haps, the credit of the opportunity he
gave two young men, of especial adap-
tation, an opportunity to do a valuable
work for science.
The academy of natural sciences is
endeavoring handicapped as it is by
lack of funds, to complete the mount
ing, classification and cataloguing of
the collections, and it hopes some time
to have the catalouge printed for the
benefit of its contemporaries, none of
which can afford to despise it.
The present interest in the Philip
pines may help this work along.
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-22

OF tin cans, ashes, waste paper and
all sorts of abominations.
1t Is difficult to train the children in
civic pride when they continually see
their elders SHINING in all sorts of ways
against cleanliness, order and beauty.
But have teachers any more right to
relax their efforts in this direction than
IN the direction of pure English. good
literature and patriotism, because so
many men and women maltreat their
mother tongues, read nothing but yell
low newspaper literature and are. at
pest, utterly Indifferent to the best in
terests of their neighborhood their city
or the state?
Ine FOrestville school in Chicago has
LOO OF its little people organized into
Tidy league" The pledge is simple
and effective. II promise Faithfully to
throw nothing into street or alley
which may be burned, and to allow
no one to do the same if it can be pre-
vented. l will try to improve my own
home by burning all waste papers and
rubbish, and, for my own pleasure, will
add something to make my front yard
TOOK better by placing flowers and tax
Ing good care of them
Each room has president, vice pres
1dent, secretary, treasurer and marshal
and three committees Every officer is
a monitor over his or her classmates.
they are under espionage, they all
know there is hanging over them a
possible bad report, reprimand, or
even suspension or expulsion from the
federation. This civic federation has
grown to its present perfection in three
years.
During the past week St. Paul schools
nave been visited by number of Min
neapolis teachers who have learned
with surprise that, in spite Of their.
woes, they are still better off than their
st. Paul sisters.
Every teacher in Minneapolis Is en-
ployed for ten months next year. and
is In possession of an inviolable con-
tract from that city. This is in large
measure due to the vigorous efforts of
DR.. Jordan, the superintendent, who.
besides his professional eminence, is q
notably good business man and sees
clearly the relation between good
schools and justice to teachers.
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-22

When the children arc
hungry, what do you give
themi Food.
When thirstyf Water.
Now use the same good
common sense, and what
would you give them when
they are too thin? The best
fat-forming food, of course.
Somehow you think of
Scott's Emulsion at once.
For a quarter of a century
it has been making thin
children, plump; weak child
ren, strong; sick children,
healthy.
SOC. and sr.oo, all druggists.
SCOTT BOVINE. Chemists. New York.
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-22
is fourteen with ten minutes instruction a
day. Music develops good qualities in chill

is fourteen with ten minutes instruction
day. Music develops good qualities in chill
dren's minds few other studies do. The
teaching Of tone. rhythm, ETC., tends to form
the power of concentration in a wonderful,
degree, and SO helps the child in all other
studies. If music be properly taught all
other studies will improve Mr.. Damrosch
says he can invariably pick out the best
teachers in school by watching them all
give music lessons. Those who teach music
well will be equally successful with gram
mar and arithmetic.
The arduous. nerve-wearing, sight-destroy-
Ing work of correcting compositions some-
times has its unexpected rewards to the teach
er who Is possessed Of a sense of humor-a
thing, by the way, that no teacher should be
without A small boy was compelled to
vs.te composition on salt. This was the re,
suit: "Salt is the stuff that makes things
taste bad if you do not put 1t In them
A set of papers on physiology and hygiene,
written by the average Let of school children
is most apt to yield richness to the humorist.
Here is another boys composition Breath
Is made Of air. We breathe always with our
lungs. and sometimes with our livers ex-
cept at night, when our breath keeps life
going through our noses while We are asleep
IT 1t wasn't for our breath we would die
whenever we slept Boys that stay in a room
all day should not breathe; they should wait
till they get out DOORS. For lot of boys
staying in room make carbonicide; and car
bonicide is more poisonous than mad dogs
though not just the same way. 1t does not
bite; but that's no matter, as long as 1t
kills you"
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-22
$4,000 FOR A COMMISSION

which VIII Handle Matters Coming
Before 1t In "a LeisureIy and
Scientific Way-VictOry of Grade
Teachers Of ChicaGO-A Sense of
Pride should Banish Unsightli-
ness In school SurrOundings--
The Salaries of Teachers--Hu-
NOR Among school Children.
The educational millennium bids fair
to dawn in Chicago. Many things point
that way, but most of all the appoint
ment by the council of the municipal
educational commission to consider all
matters pertaining to public schools in
that city. Chicago has got past the
stage when the ward politician, the dis
appointed real estate boomer and the
chronic opposer of progress can dictate
the educational policy of the city. Chi
cago is bound to have the best things
going, and has leaders wise enough to
know that as business interests are
best served by the employment Of busi-
ness experts to control them, so edu-
cational interests should be in the
hands of educational experts. We shall,
therefore, have the astounding spec
tacle presented of a board of educa-
tion and a city council sitting at the
feet of such men as DR.. Harris, United
States commissioner of education; DR..
G.. Stanley Hall, of Clark university,
and DIR. Harper, president of Chicago
university, to learn of them how to
conduct public education.
Incredible as it may seem, $1,000
has just been voted to carry on the
work of this commiss on. The expenses
will include the bringing of these eX-
perts to Chicago and the employment
of a secretary, who will have his desk
in the board of education rooms and
will give his entire time to the work.
The commission intimates that it may
not be able to report to the mayor for
a year or more, is it proposes to take
matters coming before 1t in a lelsurely
and scientific way.
The members of the commission say
1t is not their purpose to dig into the
past, but to shape the future of the
educational policy of the city. For this
end they will call before them special
istS-promoters of kindergartens, ex-
perts on drawing, language, manual
training, domestic economy, physical
culture, etc, etc.
In pursuance of the work of the COM
mission DR.. Harper, chairman of the
commission, addressed letter to every
Chicago principal, setting forth the
scope of the work and asking for sug-
gestions from them and from the teach
ers of Chicago relating to the business
and the educational side of the public
school system of that city.
The following are the questions men
toned by DR.. Harper to be considered:
l. The rules and organization of the board.
2. The question of fads in the curric ilum.
8. Is the high school work being conduct
ed to the disadvantage OF the lower
grades?
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-22
DANISH UNsIGHTLINESs.
Suggestions as to Neatness In School
Surroundings.

Suggestions as to Neatness In School
Surroundings.
The janitor of the Central high school
was observed the past week busily
watering the grass plat in front of that
school, while, all, around him in win
dows were pieces of newspapers, ex-
animation manuscripts and other un-
slightly rubbish.
A principal of district school-a
woman with a keen sense of neatness.
order and beauty. said with some spirit:
THAT state of things could not exist
at the --- school" Those who
heard her remark devoutly wished that
her spirit might spread through all
classes of our city, until "a sense of
pride should Danish unsightliness, not
only from school grounds, but from
vacant lots. back yards and alleys
which have been made the receptacles
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-22

Before Louis Francois Menage, Min
neapolis' whilom Napoleon of finance,
acquired his present active interest in
the Central American republics, he
conceived the idea of sending two
young men to the Philippine islands,
to secure specimens Of the flora and
fauna of those remote portions of the
earth.
Having successfully turned Bassett's
creek from It's natural channel into q
cement sewer and diverted other cur
rents from their natural courses so that
they all turned Meulage, it is possible
that Mr.. Menage's chief aim was to
secure a Typographical survey of the
suburbs of Manila with a view to lay
ing Cavite out in town lots and run
ming summer hotel on Corregidor
island.
But Mr.. Menage picked out for his
expedition, not real estate spectators.
but naturalists. He selected Frank
Worcester and w. r. Bourne, young
men who combined with the enthus-
iasm of an Agassiz the adventurous
nature Of Capt. Cook. They invaded the
not Of wealth.
bug that no one had classified was
worth more to them than countless
riches.
They spent a couple Of years in the
oddly shaped group Of islands at whose
gateway the guns of Dewey's fleet Of
fer a constant menace to the rulers Of
three centuries.
From the shells Of shoal water to the
pytilons of the jungle, these young men,
with their party of native hunters.
ravaged the island, and they brought
back innumerable, at least uncounted,
specimens of various forms of life,
two feet in length to sea shells scarce
ly the size of the nail on ones little
finger.
Several thousands of these souvenirs
Of a scientific exploration have been on
years In the public library at Mime
apolis, In the museum of the Mime
sofa Academy of Sciences.
A renewed interest attaches to them
since the morning when Admiral Dewey
took his ships under the guns Of Cavite.
Not all of them are catalogued, for
indeed, the printed catalogue Is not yet
finished; many of them are not even
labelled, but it requires little technical
knowledge to appreciate the task the
young scientists may have had in cap
turing the twenty-t two foot python,
which is stretched in the bottom Of one
Of the huge cases.
The family of ouranG outtangs. ap-
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-22
THREE STATES RIGHT IN IT


Timber-TOwing Business of the
Lakes Originated with the Lum-
her Trnde-MilIs Have Altered
Their Method of Doing Business
Correspondence The st. Paul Globe
WASHINGTON, May 2O.-No c,untry
In the world has been so lavish in the
use of wood as the United States It
has been as abounding AS air, and all
most as free. 1t has been the one con-
dition precedent, to our homes, our
farms, cur transr srortation and our m an
ufactures, which could always be pre-
dicated. We use, according to the best
estimates, about f5,000.009,0 900 cubic feet
of wood each year. One-sixth of this,
and the best one-siXth, is turned into
lumber, making some, hing less than
10000, 100000 feet board measure; rail-
road construction and fencing, each
take about SOC, ,000, 900 cubic feet: and
then comes the enormous consump ion
for fire wood. A servant of all work
is wood; efficient, faithful and long
enduring.
Wnale In matters of employment, C p-
ital and values, agriculture stands first;
wood, in all its ramifica,.ions, comes
easily second, for exceed ng the mining
and metal industries Th: :ough it's
means, more than 81 900, coo, 600 of capi-
tai is furnished with active investm mt.
and more than a mill on msn with
work. While the manufactures using
wood in their products more than
double the value of the crude ma er:al.
equal,ing in numbers employed, val
ues produced and wages paid the ag: re :
gate of cotton, woolen and leather man.
ufactures.
Tie lake region of the Nor; Invest has
long been one of the principal sources
of wood supply, it yielding nearly one
third of the total annual cut Of the
country, as the following table will
show:
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-22
AFTER PART OF THE ISLANDS

His Forces Went Only In Search of
Scientific Specimens and Kodak
Pictures Instead of n Spanish
Fleet, Naval Triumphs and Ma
tiOnal GlOry--The Result of the
Former Expeditions Are Now to
Be Seen in the Minneapolis Pub
lie Library-Many of the Spec1-
mems Are Still UnmOunted.
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-05-22
PRODUCT OF THREE STATES.

PRODUCT OF THREE STATES
This product is limited mainly to the
three states Of Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Michigan; 3s per cent in area of
the first, AZ per cent Of the second, and
30 per cent of the third being classed
as forest land. Much of this land
however, from abuse has lost it's value,
being denuded by man and rendered
sterile by fire. The two states of
North Dakota and South Dakota have
but an insignificant wood supply. the
proportion Of forest land being / per
cent in the former and per cent in
the latter.
This supply Of the Northwest con-
etsts largely OF white pine, which, on
account Of its general utility, has been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-02
SELECTIONS FROM THE MAIL.
FREE RURAL DELIVERY NOT WANTED

FREE RURAL DELIVERY NOT WANTED.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: have read with interest your article
cutting down the mail service n New-York and in
other large cities where the Government gets
large amount OF net income In this connection
hope The Tribune will raise its voice against the
proposed free delivery OF mail In rural disricts-a
scheme. I think fraught with large expense to
the Government and with small practical benefit to
any
Almost all farmers Who receive mail OF any
amount come into town FOR groceries. or TO have
horses shod or for repairs TO machinery. or for
any ~ hundred other purposes, at least once or
twice week They perfectly willing 10 get
their mail The pOstoiiice and take II home with
them In many cases going ior the mall so far
from being hardship. is real pleasure. II gives
the farmer an excuse TO 60 into town and meet his
neghbors there. Il causes welcome break In the
mOnotony of his lie. ! believe that nine farmers
ont Of ten would prefer TO get their mail at the
postofce rather than to have IL delivered AZ their
homes JOHN LYMAN.
Syracuse y V. Jan. %, 1895.