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them study law and medicine, but they
do not know how to spell the technical
terms used in their professions. One of
them, now practicing physician, re-
Gently gave receipt to a patient, for
"fourty-nin dolls" Another, a young
lawyer, wrote to a client: "Pleas cal
son as possible"
Young men so educated cannot rise.
Scholarly men know exactly where to
place half-educated men. But the men
of limited or slovenly education never
can understand the completely educat-
ed men about them. Hence the high
school graduates of this city seldom
know how to choose a profession, or
how to succeed in one. It is an uncon-
troverted truth that no man ever made
an ill figure who understood his own
talents, nor a good one who mistook
them.
The highways and byways of history
are strewn with the wrecks of the lives
of men who mistook their callings, or
who were not we'll equipped educa-
tionally for any calling. Many a youth
who would have been a first-rate me-
chanic is forced into learned profess
sion, and with all his blushing hon.
ors thick upon his vacant head" set
ties down to kill people scientifically,
pouring drugs, of which he knows little,
into bodies of which he knows less.
"Tompkins forsakes his last and awl
For literary squabbles;
Styles himself poet: but his trade
Remains the same-he cobbles."
Thus it appears that scores, if not
hundreds, of men and women become
teachers in the public schools, who
might better be in trade of some kind.
Thus it appears that there are superin-
tendents or members of school boards
who know little about teaching, but
have power to employ teachers who
know less. Consequently our public
schools are in need of competent SUI
pervision, which will result in COM
plete reformation of method and of
means for giving practical education to
our young people.
Upon whom to fix the responsibility
for the deplorable condition of our pub
lie schools the writer does not know. 1t
is enough for the present to state the
facts. The congress is the lawmaking
body of this city, and the facts herein
| presented will be laid before the con-
gress by body of leading citizens,
and legislation will be asked requir-
ing the public schools of the District
of Columbia to teach reading, spelling,
writing and arithmetic in the first, Sec
and third grades. After that, if chill
dren require higher education, they
may be taught something of the sci
ences, and maybe of the dead Ian
guages. But reform must be wrought
in our public school system.
SMITH d FRY
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in the Ohio, Mississippi or Missouri val
leys, or in the lake region, where the
first principles of practical education
are so neglected. There is probably
not teacher on the prairies who would
not be ashamed to graduate pupils in
such ignorance of spelling and gram
mar.
Elocution is something of which the
pupils in our schools know nothing.
The teachers are graduates of our high
schools. They were never taught SPELL
ing, grammar or elocution, and hence
they cannot teach what they do not
know. Therefore it is that our boys
and girls do not know how to read well.
If asked to read column or para
graph from a newspaper they stammer
and stumble over it like children in the
infant classes.
Instead of teaching arithmetic as it
should be taught, the children are given
lessons which they may learn or not,
according to their home influences,
and when they have been graduated
they are unfit for any business requir-
lug CO1uPuldl1OAs 41uuu1CuS VI tuCM
do not know the multiplication tables,
and yet they have diplomas setting
forth that they have completed their
educations.
1t is all right for such young men as
Henry Clay. Abraham Lincoln or James
A. Garfield to carve out educations for
themselves and attain the highest
scholastic excellence by their own ex-
ertions, and it is equally all right for
the sons of wealthy men to be carried
through the schools and colleges. But
the sons of rich men seldom amount tc
much, and the Clays, Lincolns and Gar
fields are but few and far between. The
common schools and high schools
should be conducted for the purpose of
giving practical education to the mil
liens who will soon be men and wom-
en-, bearing upon their shoulders, minds
aud hearts the burdens of the repub-
lie, and they should be we'll grounded
in the first principles of education.
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GREAT SEASON FOR DEER.
Some Sections of the Country Are
Reported to Be SwarminE with
the Game.

From the far north and far south Of
our country come reports that show
that the present deer season is a good
one. Few think of the south as deer
shooting country, and yet we learn that
this year the wild swamp forest belt
between Savannah and the high lands
of Georgia is swarming with game.
Deer have been protected there for
some years now, but as a fact, the ma
ture of the country is their best pro-
lection.
Imagine leaving the city of Savannah
at ten o'clock in the morning and at II
o'clock calmly surveying a splendid
buck just fallen from your bullet. That
was the experience a week or two ago
of DR.. Corbin, of Georgia's chief sea-
port. A few days after that Albert
Wylly left Savannah at $3.50 in the aft
ernoon for Bourquin's plantation, a
few miles out in the woods, and within
~ minutes after his. arrival started up
four deer. He did not get any of them,
but the next day, being better pre-
pared, had better luck.
AAA~SN wv AASAo1ANS SlO" "4dC ID
going on in Georgia in a deer hunting
way. From the other end of the coun-
try the reports are quite as lively.
Maine has so many deer this fall that
they are appearing on the outskirts of
many large towns. The Portland Press
reports that deer dashed across coun-
try, into the city limits of Portland the
other day, and escaped before any of
the astonished citizens could get their
guns.
Even the moose are wandering out of
their Businesses. These great animals
seeem to belong exclusively to the big
woods. For one to venture on to rail-
road track in long settled region like
the town of Bridgton was very surpris-
ing, but it is not an isolated case.
In the town of Winslow one recent
Sunday large moose was seen, and
pursued for some distance. Winslow
is the next town to the busy city of Wa
terville, and it's settlement dates back
more than a century and a quarter. 1t
is many miles from the game regions,
and the presence of a moose there indi-
Gates that the great animals are wan
dering far and WIDEN. Y. Herald.
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GRASS MADE INTO TWINE.
New Industry Which IL Proving
Profitable in the Western
States.

The United States produces and ex-
ports more grain than any other coun-
try. The economical and timely har-
vesting of the enormous American crop
depends largely upon very ingenious
device, the automatic binder. But
Irvine is as essential as the binder, and
as the materials of which it is made
have had to be imported, both it's price
and supply have hitherto been uncer-
tain and governed by conditions beyond
the control of our farmers.
About ten years ago, when Irvine was
very dear, and subject to the control of
spectators, the attention of those in
terested was turned toward other fibers
and materials. Jute, New Zealand and
domestic hemp and flax, paper, straw
and, finally, grass, were tried with more
or less success, and especial attention
was given to the production of binder
Irvine from a peculiarly strong wire
grass growing abundantly upon the
marsh and slough lands Of Wisconsin,
Minnesota and other western states. A
process for this utilization of the grass
was invented, and it's manufacture has
now developed into an extensive indus
try. The grass, brought to the ware
house in boats or in car loads, is carried
by tramway to the combing rooms,
where the short or refuse fiber or grass
is separated, to be made afterward into
bottle covers. The long and cleaned
material passes to the spinning rooms,
where long rows of machines evenly
distribute the fibers, spin the Irvine and
cast around it a protecting thread, all
of which is done in continuous opera
ton. From the spinners the Irvine
passes to the winders and is balled for
binders, or for the looms in the weav-
ing department, where it is made up
into mating, rugs, etc.
A strong tension is put on the Irvine
in winding, and if any length of it
should break under the strain, it is re-
jected for binding, and sent on to the
weaving room. The Irvine runs $50 feet
to the pound, and is about three-six-
teenths of an inch in diameter. In the
weaving department the rugs, mats,
Innings, bagging, etc., turned out by
the looms are made in all sizes, and in a
great variety of attractive patterns and
shades.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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house. What do you suppose we'd have
done when mother was here if we
hadn't had it?'
"That's so, I didn't think of that.
Well, We'll say you made wise play
when you got the bed, but what want
to know is what you want with pi-
ano?"
ITO play, of course"
II think you are just politely string
ing me. You've got piano in the house
now. How often do you play it, tell me
that? Once day? Twice a week?
Once month? Say, have you touched
that piano half dozen times in the last
year except when you've busted it?"
1.-THE last time played it you got
mad and kicked over the music rack
and don't blame you."
"Well, I'm glad you do me justice. OF
course, I know that I'm not properly
accountable for the deficiencies of your
musical education; at the same time
what I'm properly accountable for
doesn't always cut ice."
"You know perfectly we'll what I
mean. Nobody could play that old
thing and get any music out of it.
There was time when you thought I
could play, James. You didn't talk
about the deficiencies of my musical
education then!"
swell, [ guess I didn't. What DO you
take me for? Did think you were in
viting criticism in those days? Not lit
tie Elizabeth! She wanted me to tell
her how sweet she was and how"
II wish you'd talk sense. Now, look
here, James, this isn't going to cost us
so very much, and the agent says he
will allow us 500 on the old one. I'm
sure we couldn't get that for it if we
wanted to sell it,
'Will he throw in an electric blue
plush cover and an imperial expansion
stool?"
II don't know whether he will or not.
I'll do without them if you get the
piano"
II was going to propose getting you
the stool and the cover as compro-
mise. Suppose we struggle along five
or six years and get this instrument
about half paid for, and then lose my
Job? How about that? Do we acquire
any equity as we 60 along, or will they
send round a van and tear it out of our
happy home the first time we fall down
ON an installment? If could get nom
contestable policy on good piano and
arrange my own terms of surrender I
might take day off and think it over.
AS it is, and taking into consideration
the vanity of earthly hopes and the mu-
liability of jobs, l must ask you if you
will kindly hunt up my gloves. I'm pref
ty sure I laid them down with the pack
ages 1 brought in last night. Hurry,
please, my dear!''
" I'm not to have that piano, them"
III hardly see how we can manage it
fof a few years!"
sand you've been talking for the last
heur as if you meant to buy it, leading
nh ON to believe we were going to have
something decent at last-something
that Il wouldn't be mortified to death
all the time to have our friends see
jixt; t.: disappoint me at last! think
you are just:as 11-m.mean as you can
t"es,' & Fad if eu really want the thing,
of course yot. can have it. Sure t;,ing!
well, YOU justlbet you can have it: Let's
look 'over tie catalogue '-Chicago
Daily Record{ = /. !, 49,
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An Exploding Meteor.

It is reported that a meteor which
fell recently in British Central Africa.
on the east side of Mount Momba. ex-
ploded with a noise that was heard
for at least 70 miles to the north and
south. The fragments were scattered
over an area of nine miles by three,
and some of them weighed over
five pounds.-N. Y. Sun.
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THE MASTER.

"There Is an artist greater far
Than any child of earth;
His touch made bright the Christmas star,
And glorifies each mortars birth.
"He draws the deep and vital lines
On childhood's careless face:
On brow and lips he sets his signs.
The hard-won battles lasting trace.
HE holds the throbbing heart of man
In strong and tender hands;
He molds it as no other can,
Until at last it understands.
"And all who win on earth below,
And all who losing, gain.
Must. dying, all His beauty know,
And bless the loving master Pain"
John Curtis Underwood, in Ainslee's
MAGAZINE
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How About the Othery:

Lasslorn-Wen, Maud Sailby has
broken our engagement.
Lovelton-Too bad, old man. I don't
believe you're destined to be husband.
This was about the dozenth time you've
been engaged, wasn't it?
Lasslorn-The thirteenth exactly. BY
Jove, come to think about it, believe
that is an unlucky number.-N. y.
World.
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Uncle Allen.

II see another couple has been get
ting married by telegraph" philoso-
phized Uncle Allen Sparks. II sup
pose the reason why nobody thinks it
worth while to get divorced by tele-
graph is that it wouldn't be any i'm
provement, in point of speed, on the
methods already in use."-Chicago
Tribune.
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Mineral Development Of south Africa.
An idea of the development of South
Africa is given by the fact that the
Chemical and Metallurgical society of
South Africa has 534 members, of
whom 449 are residents in that part
Of the globe.-N. Y. Herald.
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Where They Grow Big Sharks.

Sharks are by no means uncommon
in Maine waters, but Washington
county fisherman reports sighting one
the other day which breaks the sea-
sons record for. size. The shark was
apparently playing and jumped en-
itirely out of the water several times,
falling back on his belly with splash.
The fish is said to have been at least
Is feet long. and stout in proper
tions.-Mains Statesman
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An Appreciative Comment.

An Appreciative Comment.
''That little boy of BinX's is Won.
derfully bright chap"
'''rhe one who recited?'
Eyes"
Zone of the brightest children ever
met. I'll bet that when he gets to be as
old as his father he'll be too smart to
make his children. get up and speak
pieces. "-Washington Sta;:.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-14
COMING TO WHEELING.
Webster Davis stops Over at Chics
go En- ..oute tn This CITY

Webster Davis stops Over at Chica-
go En- -.Oute to This City.
CHICAGO, August 13.-Webster Da-
Wis, Oh his way to Wheeling, was a
caller at Democratic headquarters to-
day. He speaks at Wheeling to-mor-
row night, Parkersburg Wednesday
night, Charleston Thursday night, Sc
dalia, Mo-, August 21st and Topeka,
Kan, August 23d Mr.. Davis stated to
the Associated Press that within the
past three weeks he had declined six
hundred and twenty-three invitations.
Ex-Governor Stone, OF Missouri. vice
chairman of the national committee,
was at headquarters to-day for the
first time in several weeks, and was In
consultation with Chairman Jones for
an hour or more.
w. A. De Ford, chief of the bureau
OF organization. has returned from
Ohio, and was of the opinion that Ohio
will cast its electoral vote for BRYAN
and Stevenson in November.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-14
PHILIPPINE SOLDIERS
Meeting at Denver to Form n Ma
tionaI Society

Meeting at Denver to Form Ma
tionaI Society.
DENVER, Colo, August 13.-Nebras-
ka- Kansas. Iowa, the Dakotas Color
ado, Wyoming, Utah, Oregon and 9TH
er western States were represented al
the reunion of veterans of the Phil
ippine campaign which opened in this
city to-day and will continue for three
days. Two years ago to-day these sol
diers were wading the Rio Cingalon
river in Luzon and facing a storm OF
lead from ten miles OF Spanish en-
trenchments before Manila. The re-
union was called for the purpose OF
keeping comrades shoulder to shoulder
and affecting an organization whereby
their deeds may be preserved in his
tory. The idea originated with Gen.
Irving Hale
Steps vii be taken for the organiza-
ton of the Society OF the Army of the
Philippines.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-14
POLITE CONFESSES CRIME.
TELLS HOW HE KILLED HIS PART
NER, PETER STANTON, DUR
ING A QUARREL.
Says Stanton Threw n Shoe and a
Glass at Him, When He Retaliated
by Hurting Heavy Bottle at
Stanton-Aim More Accurate and
Force Greater Than He Intended.
Stanton Was Killed May IL.

Special to the Register.
HUNTINGTON, W. Va, August 13.-
George Politz, arrested one week ago
for the murder of Peter Station, his
partner in candy factory, tonight
confessed his guilt Politz says:
"On the night of May eleventh, we
quarrelled in our room in the rear Of
the store just as we were retiring. 1t
was midnight He hurled shoe al
me, and then glass. I threw heavy
bottle at him, crushing his skull. He
lived three hours. l tried to bring
him to consciousness, but he never
spoke after being struck. 1t was so
near daylight / could not dispose of
his remains then, so l placed the body
beneath the mattress on the bed, where
it remained all day, and until next
midnight, when I dragged it to the
cellar and buried it. | am sorry l
killed him, but l struck him harder
than l intended"
The body was not discovered until
last week. 1t was so badly decomposed
that Identification was impossible.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-14
ZIONIST CONGRESS
Opened in London Yesterday-Perse-
cutiOns in Roumania-Amer icans

Openeu IN LonuOn 1esterduy-FerSe-
cutions in Roumania-America
Present.
LONDON, August 13.-The fourth
Zionist congress was opened to-day
with 500 delegates present. After or
ganizing. Prof. Max Nordau, reviewing
the situation, gave an appalling account
OF persecution in Roumania, and paid
a tribute TO Emperor William of Ger
many for his attitude toward the Jews
of Pomerania and East Prussia.
Among the Americans present were
Professor and Mrs. Gottheil D. Blan-
stein, and A. Fannerbaum, of New
York; Jacob Maniloff. of Brooklyn; Is
rael Stein, of Baltimore, and VIM.
Schur, of Chicago.
The American delegates are well rep
resented on the committees.
Dr.. Dertz. formerly of Syracuse. but
now of johannesburg, is conspicu-
Gus member of the congress.
An open air meeting of Jews was
held in front Of the Established
church near Queens hall where the
Zionist congress is assembled, and
some of the Zionist delegates and Jews
who were not members of the con-
gress gathered about the church and
hooted and threw pennies in derision
at the speakers. Zionist delegates,
wearing the badges ran out from
Queens hall and urged the Jews not TO
interfere and be tolerant to others as
they wished liberation themselves.
Eventually the crowd, numbering about
1000 persons dispersed, partially
through the efforts Of the police.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-14
AUTHORITATIVE DENIAL

OF the British stories Concerning
Boer Contributions to the Cam
paign Fund.
NEW YORK, August 13.-Touching
a despatch from Pretoria and printed
in LondcA under date of August 10,
in which 1t was stated that President
Kruger is contributing between $500
600 and $2,750,o00 TO the election of
William J. Bryan, and also that Web
ster Davis had received $125.000 from
the same source as a contribution for
the Democratic campaign fund.
Charles D. Pierce consul general and
treasurer of the BOer relief fund, and
p. Lauter Vessels, special commits
sioner of the South African republic,
of this city. to-day gave out a denial
Of both statements. adding to the de-
NAL the following:
The Beers have other and better
use for their funds. England is in
desperate straits for the 'sinews Of war
when she will resort to such despicable
means to influence the American peo-
pie against the Boer cause when fully
95 per cent OF the citizens are in our
favor "
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-14
AGAINST HARRISON.
VIII Not Get Difference Between SAL
AIRY of Colonel and Major.

VIII Not Get Difference Between Sail
AIRY of Colonel and Major.
WASHINGTON, August 13.-The
comptroller of the treasury has decid-
ed adversely the claim of Major Russell
B. Harrison for the difference between
his pay as major and colonel under
section of the Act of April rs, 1898,
while serving as provost marshal from
August 8, 1898 to April Z, 1899, amount
ing to ss77.
The comptroller says that it is not
necessary TO consider the question
whether the troops assigned to Major
Harrison to assist him in preserving
order, were sufficient in number to form
a regiment, as it does not appear that
they were organized and operated as a
regiment. To authorize the increased
pay for exercising a higher command
under the provisions of the act of April
26, 1898, the command must be exer-
cised under assignment in orders is
sued by competent authority and must
he a command above that pertaining
to his grade. The fact that an officer
may have under his direction" the
comptroller says, twelve or more COM
panies, does not constitutes such num-
Der of troops a regiment so as to en-
title such officer to the pay of a colo
mel"
The decision of the auditor, adverse
to the claim, is sustained.
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P1TTSBURG. Pa, August 13.-AfteI
several conferences with the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad officials the Order Of
Railway Telegraphers have secured
recognition OF the order. and a read
justment Of wages and conditions.
which VIII mean an advance and bet
terment 70 the majority OF the 1000
or more operators employed on the
Baltimore & Chic system The re-
adjustment VIII reduce a few men but
because OF the reduction in hours or
work. II some instances the advance
viii be between s. ana $40 month.
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INGENIOUS ATTEMPT
To Poison the Chinese Minister at
Paris-A Present of Deadly Dried
Flowers.

GECSCAt VI 0SA0Ay DEtCu
Flowers.
NEW YORK, August ia special
cable despatch from Paris to the
Evening Telegram to-day says:
An artful attempt az poisoning by
the use of perfume, which recalls
memories of Lucrecia Borgia. is excit-
ing all the gossips of Paris.
Thursday the Chinese minister, Yu
Keng, received letter. 1t was signed
"Julie Czerwinska,' and contained
some dried flowers, which the writer
asked the minister to accept
The secretary of the legation,
Armani di Parma, opened the letter
and was Immediately overcome by the
deadly odor emaniting from the flow-
ers. He fell in a faint.
His recovery was accompanied by
violent sickness and vomiting. In
fact, his condition presented many
characteristics of poisoning and only
by prompt treatment was he relieved.
Mile Czerwinska has been arrested.
She appears 10 be mentally de-
ranged. Before the examining magis-
trate she claimed to be the victim of
2 Polish princess who vowed to ,akc
hideous vengeance for some nysteri-
Gus wrong done her, presumably by
he flower sending Julie, who is now
being carefully watched by alienists,
The flowers are being chemically
analysed.
The secretary is slowly recovering.
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THE LIST INCREASED.

Thirteen Are Now Dead as the Re-
salt of Grade Crossing Accident.
ALLENTOWN, Pa, August ID
Thirteen are dead and sixteen injured
as a result OF the grade crossing acct
dent at Benningers. on the Lehigh &
New England railroad last night. Be-
sides those reported last night, Miss
Maggie Jones. aged 20. and Miss Susan
Baehman, aged SO, are dead.
Those most seriously injured are:
Mrs. VIM. Rest. Alice Magic and
Hattie Nagle. Coroner Keim began an
inquest to-day.