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The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28
A LEAGUE WITH IT'S TROUBLES

Brockton, Mass, December 27.-At a
meeting of the southeastern Massachu-
sets polo league, held here tonight, it
was voted to admit Hudson to take the
place of the defunct Salems.
The league tonight voted to expel
Charlie Farrell of the Salem Team for
two weeks on account of his rough play
ing against Plymouth, when he broke
Tobin's nose in a recent game.
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28
THE STANDING.
HOW no CURE GROUP.

MIR. X, Gray, who lives near Armenia
Duchess county, N. Y, says: "Chambsr-
Iain's Cough Remedy Is tneibess fnedi-
cine / have ever used. 1t is tine chill
dren 6 remedy for Group and neve fails
to cure When given as soon as the
child becomes hoafse, or even aItsr one
vent the attack. This should be borne In
mind, and a hottie OF the Cough Remedy
Fept at hand ready for instant use as
soon as these symptoms appear. For sale
BY Heseitine, 8S7 Congress St., stevens
I07 Portland 50; 6oold Congress Square )
Raymond, Cumberland, Mills.
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FROM KITCHENER.
Disposition ON Part of Beers To Sur
render.

London, December s7.-The following
cefp atoh has been received from lord
Kitchener:
Pretoria, December s6.-Knax, with
barker, Pitcher and White, Ia engaged
With De wet-s force, holding a position
Wet ht PISS to break through and go south
again. The Beers eastern column in
p, Colony, Is apparently headed by our
iroo ps about Reithort Sprnit. The Beers
wes tern column Is reported to have gone
north in two pJrtions one towards
Prieska and the other through Stryden-
burg. They are being followed up"
Colonel Grenfeii continues in touch
with Kruitzinger's command of 70 men
who are carrying of the British prison
ers. Kruitzinger has abandoned his
Mlxims and carts.
An attempt OF the Ninth Lanoers to
turn krnitz,naer's flank at Plaster
heuvel, December "a, resulted in eight
casualties among the Lsnoers, including
Lord Frederick Biaokwood, who was
wounded.
A small party OF Beers attacked Bur-
ghersdorp on December "a. They were
repulsed after heavy fighting. The Beers
are active and skirmishes in several
places have been reported.
The following despatch from General
Kitchener was received from Pretoria,
under today's date:
Yesterday 300 Beers attacked smsfi
police post near Boksburg. The police
calamity drove them on before reinforce
ments from Johannesburg arrived. The
Beers damaged the mine machinery in
the neiehborhood. The Beers attacked
Utrecht at two O'Clock this morning and
ware driven pif. The Beers held up q
train three miles west OF Pan and wsre
driven OIL. The eastern forcs OF Beers
In Cape Colony were headed of yesterday
and driven in the direction OF Venterstad.
The western force is still being driven
north through Strydsnburg.
RuMoRS OF SURRENDER.
BIoemfontein, Orange Colony, Deem.
bar s6.-There are renewed, but uncon'
firmed, rumors here that General De Wet
President Steyn and General HaasbrecE
have had conference and decided t.
offer to surrender, provided the Colonial
rebels are not punished and the leaders,
Including themselves, are not departed.
YEOMANRY RELEASED,
London, December a7.-Ths Evening
Standard today says 1t understands that
the squadron of Yeomanry which wa
captured by the Beers was released after
the men had been relieved of their horses
and other equipments
WARM CHRISTMAS FOR BRITISH
Newcastle, Natal. December s7.-Ths
Beers celebrated Christmas In the dis
trict between Standerton and InoRgo by
more or less determined attack upor
every British garrison along the lines OF
communication. These, however, weri
in all cases successfully repulsed. Al
Utrecht, the Boer commandment sent In 4
demand for whiskey, cigars and Christ
mas Injuries, and on pain of refusa
threatened to attack the town. His de
mand was ignored and the Beers attacked
Utrecht in strong force Christmas morn
ing. Thsy were repuised with loss. tn
British casualties being slight.
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.rhe Tender Embrace.

A new terror Of courtship has. accord
ing to one Of the English medical papers,
been developed. In London a young We,
man for some days had been suffering
from a supposed attack of pleurisy.
When the doctor was called in, he found
that one OF her ribs was fractured.
After much questioning the girl blush
ingly admitted that her fance had infict-
ed the injury while giving her the usual
tender parting on his last visit.
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His Sincerity.

Mrs. Mulholland lin a soft Whisper
Do yez love me fer meself alone, Pat?
Patriek-Do 1? Wull, now, I'd love
yez fer yerself, darlin, If We hadn't a rich
relative in the worruld. or Ave hundred
barriers in the bank, or a mortgage on
9iihooly's barn, OF the goold watch aV
yer foorst husband.-Judge.
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The officers elsct OF Ivanhoe lodge, No.
25, K. of p. will be installed by ID. G.
o.. John ". Este. at their meeting next
Tuesday evening. AS this win be the
first meeting of the lodge for the new
year and tho new century, 1t Is expect
cd that there win be something Of special
interest for the members beside the in
stalIation ceremonies.
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MURDER AND SUICIDE.

Los Angeles, Call, December 27.-John
W. Linslsy shot and killed his wife, Anna
p. Linsley, on the street today and then
fired a bullet into his own head, Dying
instantly. The couple were married at
Van buren,, Ark. January =, this year.
Linsley represented himself. as possessed
OF property in Helena, Mont to the val
ne OF 5000 o, which he afterwards admit
ted he did not have.
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AN IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE.

10 make 1t apparent to thousands, who
think themselves i'll, that they are not
afflicted with any disease. but that the
system simply needs cleansing, Is to
bring comfort home TO their hearts, as a
costive condition 10 easily cured by using
Syrup OF Figs, Manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co., only, and sold
by all druggists.
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Not Going to the walled-oR HASH
tOrin.

Beggar-Could youse spare a poor fell
Ter on'y SO fer a meal?
Citizen-Ten dollars?
Beggar-'Scuse me, boss. meant 10
cents. I've jest escaped from Nome City
an bain't got used ter New York ways
yet.-Leslie's Weekly.
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stops the Cough
and works on the Cold.

Laxative Bromo-Qninine Tablets cure y cold
in one dag. No Cure. No Pay. Price % csnis
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Score-Portland, z; Bath, 2. Foul
Mallory. Rushes-Campbeil, 2; VIVA
mough, ,; Mercer, 8 Stops-Mallory, "
Burgess, % Reieree-lane Iimer-M
Dyer. Scorer-Mr Hickey.
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BANGOR, s; LEWISTON. 8.

Bangor, DeOsmbsr s1.-The home team
defeated Lewiston tonight in the fastest
and most exciting game of the season by
a score OF to 8. The play was very rough
at all times, the visitors starting the
rough work and the home team respond
ing in kind. The features for the visit
ors were the work OF Higgins and
Menard; for Bangor the playing OF the
entire team was perfect. Line up and
score:
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Lewiston.

Score, Bangor, 6; Lewiston, 8. Rush-
40. blpson, I2; Garrant, 3. stops. Janelle,
37: White, 43 Fouls, Walton. Timer.
Gresnier. Referee, Connolly. Attendance,
TuE STANDING
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is to insist less than the English do on sheer
mental discipline for its own sake. whether in
classics or mathematics and to enable students
by allowing them a wider latitude Of choice, TO
specialize at an earlier point in their curriculum
upon the studies which they most affect, or
which are most likely to be directly useful 70
them in practical life. I consider this a sound
and Just conclusion, and have no disposition to
take exception to anything which Mr. Archer
has to say about education in America. He is
a thoughtful and friendly critic. whose rehec-
lions upon America are not warped by prejudice
and intolerance.
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS COMPARED.
There is one consideration, however, which
Mr.. Archer leaves out of account In his estimate
of the American system of university education.
This is the high standards set for entrance. The
requirements have been raised during the last
thirty years In American colleges of high rank
whereas there has been appreciable change
in the conditions for entering English universe
ties Much of the work which was formerly
done during the academic courses is now re-
quired Of American students in the preparatory
schools. They have less Latin and Greek to
read at the colleges, and are enabled to devote
the last two years of their course to optional
studies in line with the professions or occupa-
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school in London, where he was we'll grounded
in Latin. French and mathematics and had
begun the study of Greek. Being convinced
that he had outgrown the school and that
younger boys were holding him back she de-
cded to place him in a large public school which
had a great reputation for fitting young men
for Oxford and Cambridge. Making appoint
ment with the headmaster she paid a visit to
the school with her boy of thirteen. The follow
ing version of the interview has been written
out for me by this American
Head Master-Have you done Latin and Greek
verse?
Boy-I have translated various authors. but
have had practice in versemaking-
Head Observation-Disclosures! Latin and Greek
versemaking is essential at this school.
The Mother-DO the boys here study English?
Head Master-English, They can read and
write when they come here.
The Mother meant literature.
Head Master-Oh as to that, the older boys go
through play OF Shakespeare each half. and
venture 10 say that any one Of them could recite
Shelley's lode 10 the SkyIark" and other quota
tons from English writer's. The boys translate
Latin into the best English they command.
and that's English enough!
The Mother-Do you not care 10 have them
study history?
Head Master-If you mean American history.
don't teach It. They do a little English his
tory. You would better send your boy some
where else. He will be a nuisance here His
training has not fitted him for our school
The Mother-We supposed this to be the best
among public schools and therefore wished to
place him here.
Head Enthusiastically we are not at the top,
but for pure learning (that Is to say. Latin and
Creek, undoubtedly pre-eminent.
The MOther-How long would IT take TO pre-
pare this boy TO enter your school?
Head Master-I can't say! He knows a good
deal OF Latin, but his having done no verse UNI
fits him. We 90 not care for anything outside
the classics. You would better send your boy
somewhere else.
a SEMINARY OF PURE LEARNING
The head master had his hobby and was rid
ing it hard. This boy Of thirteen had not been
trained in writing Latin and Greek verse. and
consequently would be "a nuisance" in this
seminary Of pure learning" English studies
were of no account; knowledge of French
not worthy of consideration; even good work In
reading the classics did not redeem the boy
from the reprOach of being untitled for this
great public school," where young men were
prepared for the English universities. Latin
and Greek verse making of fundamental
Importance as an equipment for useful career
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ELECTION IN THE liberal CLUB.

The thirty-fIrst annual meeting % the LIBERAL
Club took place Friday evening az the German Ma.
sonic Temple The officers elected were a. foilo~si
President Henry Nichols. vicc-prcsidentH DR. Nd
ward r. Foote. ir.. Edward W. Chamberlain ana
Joseph r Rim, secretary and treasurer Dr. j.
Terwilger. The Liberal club for more than thirty
years has maintained "a course % lectures. Horace
Greeley the FIRST president OF the club and
others among tts officers have been such wei
known men Ra james Parton, William Z. Ornsbv
Simon StVrne Wilson Macdonald Van Buren,
pens!Ow. pr Edward b. Foote. Cortandt Palmer
Thaddeus a. Waterman. Charles -. Rra gd0n Henry
Nj Tabor and Or. Robert \ Gum The Lectures
for MAY include the fol9wins Nav A. Controller
Eocr The city of NeW-Nor Nav IL Walter =
Logan. eX-prcsdent New -York state Bar Assocts-
ton The Limitation % Wealth" MAY "a Mrs
Gertrude Andrews. The Drama-Its Growth (ous
or Mans Religion May =. Colonel Aiexarder =
Bacon. The South African Problem =
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and for serious work among men at the end Of
the nineteenth century! There could hardly
have been a more absurd vagary Of pedantry
than this afrectation for poor verse making In
dead languages as a useful and elegant accom-
plishment for English gentlemen in this year OF
grace: yet here was grim old head master OF
one of the largest public schools in England per-
slstlng with self complacent perversity that
scholarship in modern England implies facility
in measuring the quantities OF Greek and Latin
into prize poems equally devoid Of original
power and lyrical movement.
The head master represented, probably uneon-
sciously, the affectatons and senteel notions of
an educated caste The time has passed when
men can quote Latin and Greek In order 20
prove that they In possession Of culture
which is denied 10 those OF inferior social stand
ing and education. This kind OF pedantry
satirized by Burns in the lines:
a set O dull couceited hashes
Confuse their brains in college classes!
They gang in stirks and come out asses.
Plain truth 10 speak;
An syne they think 10 climb Parnassus
BY dint O. Greek
Classical scholarship has ceased TO be the
weapon Of an exclusive class in the defence of
its privileges The practice OF writing Latin
and Greek verse is almost the only survival OF
the caste feeling of superiority in accomplish
ments Of education. Ii may not be talent OF
any practical utility but II is evidence that
a man OF high birth has been trained al a public
school 70 do something that Is genteel and Ia
mode, and that helps TO differentiate him from
other educated men and TO lay claim TO some de-
gree OF intellectual superiority. An equal share
OF mental discipline could be secured from prac-
tice in writing English verse. but that would
be vulgar recreation Practice in writing
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tions which they have in view In this way
higher education in America has been widened
without sacrifice of scholarship and culture. and
men have a superior equipment for their work
in life. The English universities meanwhile
and have altered neither the requirements for
entrance nor the courses % study.
1 do not believe that the truth is generally
known in America that the requirements for ad-
mission into colleges like Harvard. Yale or
Princeton are far in advance Of the conditions
for entrance into Oxford or Cambridge. Amer
lean fathers residing in England and desiring
TO have their sons educated in American colleges
are not in any doubt on this subject. leading
American in London has made a comparative
test which may be described In his own words:
'One of my boys was prepared for Cambridge
University very easily and was ena bled 70 enter
Glare College without difficulty. Another of my
boys am sending to Princeton, and the prep
aration has involved at least two years of adj
ditional work, as the requirements We're much
more severe | could multiply instances but
prefer to cite English testimony. have shown
the list of requirements and entrance eXamina-
ton papers for Yale College to the principal OF
ford and Cambridge. He has expressed aston
ishment over the conditions for entrance into
Yale and has frankly admitted that the require
mentS are lower in the great English universe
ties. Every Oxford Cambridge man who is
employed as a coach for boys preparing TO enter
Harvard Yale, Princeton other colleges OF
the highest rank is impressed with the range
of study and with the amount of work required
before entrance into American universities.
THE LATIN VERSE MAKING FETCH.
am tempted to relate in detail the experience
of an American woman whose is destined
for Yale College. She had kept the boy for two
years in an excellent but expensive private
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Madison Avenue Baptist Church. The service will
be elaborated by the singing of several selections
by the vested male choir II Trinity Church. this
city. Victor Baier, organist and choirmaster Of
Trinity Church, is to have charge of the music
The bride will be unattended. save by page Law
renee. son of Stanwood White.
THE USHERs.
The best will be Charles F. McKim, of Nc
Kim. Meade & White. The ushers will be W.
Harris Roome, Robert H. Russell Herbert Satter-
lee. Henry Barley. Arden Robbins William B. Cos
ter, Charles Dana Gibson, Frank s. Hastings a
brother of the bridegroom; Mr.. Barrie, the Hon.
Cecil Barring, Percy Turnure and Stanford White
of McKirn Mead & White.
Following Immediately upon the service will be
2. reception ar Indian Harbor.
The bridal trip Will be a tour in Europe. Mr..
Hastings and his bride will sail on Thursday by the
North German Lloyd Line. They will be gone
eral months. In the of their trip they will
visit the Paris Exposition Upon their return they
will live In this city.
Thomas Hastings. the bridegroom is q member
of the firm Of architects Carrere & Hastings which
s designing the building to be erected in Bryant
Park for the New-York Public Library and the
building for the National Academy of Design. He
was born in this city in 1850 He studied two years
with different architects in this country and then
went to Paris, where he spent four years in the
Ecole des Beaux Arts. While in Paris he met John
NJ. Carrere, his partner. Upon returning to this
country he with Mr.. Carrere, entered the offices of
McKin. Mead & White, where they remained until
1885, when they severed their connection with that
firm in order to undertake the designing of several
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the southern end of Saint Lucia, was shown

the southern end of Saint Lucia I was shown
those wonderful sea-surrounded pnnacles called
the "Pitons." 1000 or 1900 feet in height which
shoot up like spires from the oceans depths They
We're particularly pointed out to me as the
scene of fight between some English sailors
aio the serpentS that swarmed there. in the
latter part of the last century
An English admiral had concluded to send
some guns to the top of of the peaks, and
ordered a boatload of men ashore for the pur-
pose The poor Jackies had to obey, of course
but as they reached well up the height one
after another was stricken by the hidden foe IN
waiting, and fell from the frghtful sleeps into
the sea- Not one survived. and another boat
load sent TO take their place shared the same
rate. Then the obstinate officer, seeing that to
persist In his wild scheme would be but use
less waste of life, dessted, and ever since those
isolated Pitons have been left alone with the
terrible tenants Of their Verdure-clad SUBMITS
When everybody cries "Wolf,'' either be-
comes afraid and abandons the field or he gets
used to the cry and does not mind It. The, latter
was my condition, notwithstanding the numer-
Gus specimens of the serpent that were shown
me as having been recently shot near and within
the town, and the visible trepidation of the lit
tie black boys who acted as my guides in the
woods and fields. To be sure. they were nearly
naked and altogether barefoot while | was not
boots. which covered my legs nearly to the
knees. l felt almost invulnerable in those boots
and when my guides retreated in confusion be-
fore some den of SerpentS, real or imaginary l
was in the habit of striding ahead, crushing
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buildings TO be erected at st. Augustine. Fla, by
H NJ. Flagler. These buildings included the hotels
Ponce de Leon and AlCazar two or three churches
sion for Henry T. Sloane in East Seventy second
st, the City Hail at Paterson. \. j., and E. c.
Benedicts summer house at Indian Harbor, Green
Wfch
Miss Benedict is the second daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Benedict
AN HISTORIC SPOT
The church In which the wedding is to take place
is building Of rough stone. occupying ground
made famous by a foray conducted by Governor
TTyon in the Revolutionary War On the angle ~
land in front of the church a handful Of American
militia tronted the approaching forces Of Tryon
hTlng TWO or three cannon shots before retreating
From this point General Israel Putnam after Civ
ing the order to fall back set out on his ride TO
stamford for achievements which has since been
SO graphically described in history as ''Putnam's
ride down the a Horseneck" The church
Is landmark. Standing upon the crest of the
slope rising from Long Island Sound its stone
spre bisects the horizon of every point OF view
Tor many miles around. 1t is about a mile and
quarter distant from Mr. Benedict's house at
Indian Harbor Mr.. Benedcts summer home is
one Of the most prominent buildings to be seen
along the north shore of Long Island Sound Its
creamy stucco walls and red tiled roof and its site
on an irregular rock jutting into the wafer e
old Americas Club. built by Boss Tweed II
was built in 1896 at expense Of several hundred
th1nSaiia dollars IT Is modelled after Italian
OF me house is dock for Mr.. Benedict's steam
ggi me the oneida Stone steps lead down this
house, notably the bedroom and dining room are
extremely large The five hundred guests invited
TO the reception Will be easily accommodated
The dining room alone Will 40 persons at table
For several months workmen have been busy
nttIs up, one or the rooms as a library. The work
Is being hurried on this room, in order 10 have IT
ready for the wedding The house is 10 be deco
rated with plants and flowers from Mr. Bene-
ulct S own greenhouses.
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A NOTABLE WEDDING.
MISS HELEN BENEDICT TO BE MARRIED
TO THOMAS HASTINGS TOMORROW.

The wedding of Miss Helen Ripley Benedict.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elias c. Benedict. to
Thomas Hastings. which Will take place at Green
witch, Conn, at $3.50 o'clock tomorrow afternoon,
will be notable. It Is expected that ex-President
and Mrs Grover Cleveland and many other well
known persons Will attend 1t. Two thousand invi-
tatons to witness the ceremony at the church
have been issued and provision is being made TO
entertain five hundred guests at the reception at
Mr. Benedicts summer home at Indian Harbor.
The New-York guests will be conveyed to Green
witch on two special trains leaving the Grand Cen
trail Station shortly after o'clock.
Owing to the small size of the Presbyterian
Church at Greenwich, which Miss Benedict at
tends. the ceremony will be performed in the Sec
ond Congregational Church, the largest church
building in the town. The interior arrangements
of the building to be altered in order to adapt
it for the Episcopalian form of service, which is
to be used. Preparations being made for
elaborate display OF flowers and plants.
The marriage will be performed by the Rev. Dr.
Thomas S. Hastings ex-president of Union Theo-
logical Seminary. the father of the bridegroom as
sisted by the Rev. Henry NJ. Sanders, pastor of
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TWO BOYS BITTEN BY A MAD DOG.
ONE CHILD BADLY INJURED-PoLICEMAN
SHOOTS THE ANIMAL.

After being followed by crowd of men and boys
down Eleventh-ave., from Sixty-second-st. yester-
day q small yellow dog, which had gone mad, at
tackled James Brady eleven years old. at F1ftteth-
ST. and Eleventh-ave., and bit hi mon the nose and
cheek The boy lives at No. 63S West Forty ninth
st. He removed to Roosevelt Hospital.
Before the dog attacked Brady. it had bitten an
other boy whose name could not be learned, while
passing down Eleventh-ave.. opposite Fifty-third-
st The police say this boy went to Roosevelt
Eosptal for treatment. The hospital authorities
asserted they knew nothing of 1t. however.
After having bitten the Brady boy, the dog ran
River 1t ran out pier and attacked small
white dog. The mad dog was driven into corner
bv a la borer working there, and then Policeman
Mccormick Of the West Forty-seventh-st station
killed il.