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PHOTOGRAPHS OF SECRETARIES.
Mr.. Porter Secures the Pictures of
His Predecessors.

The Secretary to the President has. at
great pains. secured a series of photo
graphs of all of his predecessors, and will
add them 10 the souvenirs which are
accumulating in the Office rooms at the
White House. For many months he has
beeen collecting the original portraits in
oil, crayon, and other styles of portraiture,
and has had the series made by a photo
grapher of this city.
The set begins with the Private Secre-
tary of President Buchanan, and ends with
Mr.. Porter. Prior to the administration
of Mr.. Buchanan the law did not author
ize a Private Secretary for the President,
but one was usually employed and re-
munerated out of private funds. President
Mckinley secured the enactment of a law
by which his Secretary was given a GER
tain dignity of rank and position, and the
title Secretary to the President.
The portraits are said to be excellent
likenesses, and several of the White House
staff who have been employed there since
the administration of President Lincoln,
and who have known all the secretaries.
vouch for their trueness to life. II is the
intention of Mr.. Porter to leave them as
a nucleus for permanent collection, upon
his retirement from the office.
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man has, inasmuch as 1t is killed after the
experiment is over in any case-if it is not
left TO die a lingering death of agony, as
sometimes happens through the careless
ness and inhumanity of the vivisector
The fact is that this whole vivisection
business is barbarous. 1t is so offensive to
the moral sense of the community that it
tistics are almost unobtainable. IT, as
has been pretended. the good done to hu-
manity overbalances the suffering of the
tortured animals, then it should proceed
openly. and convince the people of that
fact. In that way those who hold extreme
views on either side would be checked
and there could be open and fair minded
argument. Moreover. the people. who have
direct interest in this subject, would be
able to judge nationally what the effect of
the practice is likely to be. There is al
ready more than suspicion among in
telligent people that this greed for expert
ment upon living tissue. no matter what
misery it may cause, leads unscrupulous
scientists to use patients in public hos
pitfalls for their purposes. The man who
is hard-hearted enough to cause perfectly
useless suffering to lot of little, helpless
rabbits is not likely to be over-scrupulous
when he gets safe chance to prove his
theory on a poor ignorant woman. a iunatic,
or a nameless and friendless child. For
the honor of the medical profession, ply
sicians should see that this matter is in
vestigated, ventilated, and thoroughly dis
cussed
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poor who can have few home advantages.
should be given as good an equipment as
possible fore the battle Of existence. 1t IS
certainly not reasonable to argue that II
they leave the grammar school half-edu-
Gated. uncultured. and perhaps ill-manner-
ed, further education. or a more thorough
one. would only intensity these faults.
This matter is not only important 10 the
individual. but TO the state. OF course it
would be absurd to argue that mere educa-
tion prevents a man from being criminal
or a pauper, but it certainly does lessen
his chances of being one, other things be-
ing equal. This is especially true of the
work done in the lower grade schools. The
children OF the poor are apt to be In the
street when not in school. Does anyone
suppose that infants or four or five years.
whose par n reside in a disma Hey of ba
atmosphere, morally and physically, would
not have a better chance to grow up decent
citizens if they were in a kindergarten in
stead of under foot in the alley all day:
Suppose one child Of the slums is given
six hours thorough training in the school
room every day until he is fourteen years
old. and is then thrown upon the world
with knowledge of the three RS, and an
ability to use his hands at some trade;
suppose another 10 have had only three
hours schooling a day no instruction
in any trade and a childhood spent on the
sidewalk and in the doorways of saloons;
which of those boys will probably make
the more useful man? Is the first as likely
to turn out a pauper or criminal as the
other? Which has been under influences
calculated to bring out all the bad that is
in him? Which costs the state most
money, TO train the youngster properly or
TO keep the police after him when he is
grown? And if this is true OF boys, much
more should it be true of the girls-the=
mothers of the next generation. Educa-
ticn for the masses-and the proper kind
of training at that's not a matter OF
charity or philanthropy; it is simply hard
common sense.
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Washington school buildings.

The Superintendent of Public Schools
makes the statement that there is need
for twelve or fifteen new school buildings
in addition to the eight already called for
in the bill before the sub committee OF the
House OF Representatives. At present the
halliday system prevails in the lower
school grades. 1t is also recommended
that night schools be established in vari-
Gus localities, and that kindergarten
privileges be extended.
It ought to be plain to any person
capable of thought that these demands are
reasonable. 1t is a disgrace to the nation
that in this city. with its comparatively
small population. and its very considerable
measure OF wealth and culture, there
should be hundreds of children who can
not find accommodation in any school
building. or must content themselves with
half day in place of the full session. Re-
feet on this state of things for moment.
Consider the amount Of education which
the children of the poorer classes gener-
ally get They leave school at twelve or
fourteen years of age, they have only eight
months schooling a year. and their home
influences are frequently directly opposed
TO all that could be called culture. Yet
there are intelligent though thoughtless
people who will say that education does
these people no good" and never stop to
think that the amount administered is
hardly large enough to do any one much
good. Such a remark reminds one of the
apocryphal story of the Indian and the
feather pillow. He saw one of these in
yentions, and tried an experiment He
placed handful of feathers on a rock and
laid his head upon them. Next morning he
remarked that the white man must have
great endurance, since he could bear TO
sleep upon whole bag of feathers instead
of a handful.
or course no Indian was ever so devoid
of common sense as that, but there are
great many civilized people whose reason
ing on abstract subjects is not much more
logical. Even the children of intelligent
and cultivated people usually need rather
more than three or four hours a day OF
school work TO prepare them for the duties
OF after life. especially il they must leave
school altogether at fourteen. 1t is doubIy
important, then, that the children Of the
The evening times., 1900-03-03
An Argument for Niyisectiou

| The Boston Herald" presents an argu-
ment in favor of vivisection which is pc
culiarly circuitous. The fact that animals
are daily slaughtered for purposes of food
is pointed out, and then this astounding
statement is made:
''It IL the extinction OF suffering. much more
than few hours Of uncertain physical suffering,
which constitutes the great loss to living ami
mall
The query naturally suggested by such a
remark is, How does the writer know this
Has he ever been rabbit, or a dog or a
monkey, that he is so sure that the lower
animals dread death more than anything
! else? 1t is true that they are extremely
tenacious and determined in their fight for
life. but that is probably due to the fact
that they wish to be free from pain. and
neutrality-suspicious. transmitted through
countless generations go to make them
feel that death is accompanied by great
pain. as. indeed, it generally is in the case
of a wild animal Ernest Seton -Thomp-
son has said that "the life of a wild orea-
ture always ends in a tragedy is,
in being killed by some beast of another
species. or in a fight with its own kind
But if an animal could reason about the
thing at all, he would doubtless prefer a
quick death to the torture of vivisection
followed by death, and no one can be abb
solutely certain that he does not reason on
the subject after his fashion. There have
been a few cases of animal suicide, or
what looked very much like it.
The Herald says that a man will
always, or, nearly always, choose to un-
dergo a painful surgical operation rather
than lose his life. and seems to think that
the lower animals will reason in the same
way. This logic limps badly. In the first
place there is no parallel between the two
cases. The man submits to the operation
because he knows or supposes that he will
be free from suffering after it, and proba-
bly, able to resume his work in the world.
But any surgeon who served through the
civil war can remember many cases In
which men took the chances of death rath-
er than submit to an amputation and
many others in which wounded men on
the battlefield begged some one to kill them
and put them out of their misery. If the
animal on the operating table could do
this IL probably would. The animal has
not even the incentive to live. that the
The evening times., 1900-03-03
CLASSIFIED AS RECTIFIERS.
Commissioner Wilson's Decision aS
to cider Manufactured.

The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
has received many complaints that manu-
factureTs Of sO-Called elders are placing
upon the market a compound aduItsration
under the name of cider. containing wine
or spirits in such quantities as 10 render
the manufacturer liable 70 special tax as
a rectifier. These compounds are COM
posed of sugar tartaric acid or vinegar
wine sulphate of lime. water. etc. and
cherry. orange peach. or other fruit eX-
tracts to flavor the mixture so as TO pro-
duce the various kinds Of so-called cider.
1t is claimed that one OF the results Os
this practice on the part of these manu-
facturers is TO mislead persons who deal
in said compounds and incur liability 10
special tax with respect to the same. in
most instances the persons who deal in
these authorizations say that they purchase
the goods believing them 10 be as repre-
sented
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
has called the attention of the Internal
Revenue collectors and agents 10 these
facts and instructed them to see that
manufacturers CT this class of adultera-
tiOns qualify as rectfers. and place their
product in merchantable packages. marked
stamped. and branded as rectihed spirits
The evening times., 1900-03-03

Dan Rice is dead, and that fact will re-
call quaint memories to many grey-headed
men who were country boys forty or fifty
years ago. The circus of today has three
rings and many attractions, but the clown
has retired into the middle distance His
jokes cannot be heard by the vast assem-
blage, even if he had any new ones. But
in Rices time the clown was the all-im-
portant figure Of the show, and if the small
boy was asked what performer he would
like to be, there was not much doubt about
his choice-and it was not the athlete, or
the trick rider, or the man who showed off
the trained bears.
The evening times., 1900-03-03
Longevity i'm Georgia.

From the Atlanta CoustitUtion.)
How long do people live in southwest Georgia {?
The 'sWhitsett Courier has these interesting
items:
'IrncIe Biliy wilkins. one hundred and FIVE
wears old was in our midst Wednesday, looking
for birthday present tor his youngest daughter
aged sixty-seven-
Eve are pained to chronicle the serious illness
OF Colonel SpTiggs, aged ninety-fouT, who spTained
his left leg in a wrestling match recently.
.Aunt sally Fancer viii celebrate her eighty
fourth year with a quilting bee. next Tuesday
''MaiO: Mart Scott has Just taken unto himself a
wife at the age Of ninety eight. We wisa the
happy couple many years sf welded b!iss.''
The evening times., 1900-03-03
OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE.
The Report by the state Department
sent to Congress.

A message was received by the House
yesterday afternoon from President Ne
Kinley accompanying the report OF the
State Department on the commercial re-
lations Of the United States with foreign
countries during 1899. The report OF con-
sular and diplomatic officers are of a COM
prehensive character and deal especially
with the opportunities for or hindrance to
the increased sale OF products of the
United States. The Presidents message
says in part:
1T is gratifying TO be able to state that
these reports show a marked increase in
the practical utility of our exporters and
manufacturers of the services Of our Off
cial representatives. both diplomatic and
consular in promoting trade. and present
a mass OF evidence az to the steady growth
in popularity in foreign markets Of our
manufactured goods. as well as of our
food supplies. our raw material and the
products of our mines
The evening times., 1900-03-03
when a VAN speaks First.

From the Chicago Times HcTaldD
q s,sppcse we ought to have tie hou=a painted
this spring" sLid NJ. Grceuough.
Have YOU enough money put by 70 have it
dOne! his wife asked.
''Yes," he said. pleased at the interest she took
in the matter I've been laying away 4 lttlc
every month for it. and when | counted up the
other night, I found that the fund amounted 20
something like $40
ooh. George" she exclaimed. ''that will be
Just enough 10 buy lovely diamond | was look
ing IT Yesterday. Diamonds are going I'D on ac-
count OF the war in South Africa Paint sn'ti''
Then he began wondering why ever
blessed with speech anyway.
The evening times., 1900-03-03
Unreasonable CongrntuIntion.

(From the Detroit Free Press.)
The amateur elocutionist was tossed and torn
by conflicting emotions.
The performance of the night before. when he
had appeared the sole entertainer at a charity
function. the management Of which had paid him
$40 for his services, wac the cause Of it all
But why mourn?
friend burst in upon him 10 offer congratrl-
lations. The friend had not attended the recital.
"How did it 60 off ~ he asked cheerily graspirg
the young mans hand in both Of his as he spoke.
''Was the audience carried aUay?'
'N-n-no,' the doubtful reply. 'They left
of their own accord
Under such circumstances a person never knows
whether TO smile or assume Il sdddened cast of
countenance,
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Evidence accumulates to show that the
Administration is determined to secure
consent from the Senate to surrender the
Monroe Doctrine, and to pledge this coun-
except in the interests of Great Britain.
Senator Hanna and the alert Mr.. Dick are
cracking the whip daily over Republican
Senator's; but it is not at all likely that
they will be able to secure two thirds
majority of political suicides.
The evening times., 1900-03-03
Advances in Higher Education.
Trom the Indiananolis News1


The advanced stages Of education are becoming
more thiokly crowded Twenty-Five years ago only
005 per cent of the population was enrolled in
the public high schools; the percentage is
o.6l-the number of such pupils having increased
from 22,e00 in 1876 tot 1890 in 1s9s. The num-
ber in private high schools has increased in the
same time from TS,740 to los, ,225-there having
been a decrease relative in the population. This
indicates large measure OF advance in the public
high schools preparatory schools for colleges
what was the years ago.
The evening times., 1900-03-03
Something has happened in the Idah

bull pen investigation. The committee
yesterday could not get quorum. Wicked
persons say the break is occasOned by evil
dence that the President authorized the
horror. If he did not. the. Adjutant Cen
eral of the Army must have taken his
name in vain. The Republicans in Con-
gress may dodge the scandal. but if they
do, they will have all the labor organiza-
tions in America to count with in No
Vemher
The evening times., 1900-03-03
Novels Based on History.
(From the Kansas City Starr

The historic romancer is in the apostolic sue.
cession Of the story telers. lie is the lineal
descendant of him who in The light OF the desert
moon, or by the fire of driftwooa sat him down 70
tell, not alone Of genii and magcians and un-
earthly creatures, but Of real men and real women
who, in past times, had lived and wrought for
good ard i'll, but told the story with such added
scenery ana properties as the theatre people
would say, and such exaggerations and decorations
as time and his Imagination had added Sc
that all around listened breathless TO the moving
tale and sighed when it was done.
The evening times., 1900-03-03
Pies of n Single Day,

(Fr0In the chicago IEfL nlCIe.)
The amount of pie which the people of one Of
the great pie markets OF the world manage to
consume in single day is almost impossible to
estimate. A single large bakery in Chicago de-
voted exclusively to the making of pics, cooks
between 800 and 600 pies every night in its huge
rotary ovens, all Of which easily disposed OF
to retail bakeries and lunchrooms the follow ing
day. Multiply this sum of daily consumption by
the number of other bakery establishments inter
ested in the manufacture OF pie. and the sum
will not fail far short of the 10 600 figure.
The evening times., 1900-03-03
A Wise Farmer,
,fFrom the Topeka CAPITAL

Marshall county farmer who lived a mile
off the line OF the recently established rural
free delivery route running out of Marysyije
got around thel difficulty by putting up a mail
box on the line, This box is visited by his chill.
dren as they come from school, and thus he
manages to enieg daily mail.
The evening times., 1900-03-03
Before the Altar

(From the Atlanta Constitution.)
evil you have this here woman to be yer law
full welded wife,
That's what lowed wOuldt''
''Will you love, homer, and obey herr
'Ant you got that switched 'rouH parsOn?'
said the groom.
"Johni" said the bride-elect ''don't You reckon
the parson knows his business? Answer the
question:
Eyes, SIR said the groom, IL reckon III have
The evening times., 1900-03-03
A Warning to Our Little sisters.

From the Philadelphia Reeord)
The treatment of Porto Rico by the United
States Congress will probably operate to pro.
duce change of opinion among those residents
of Central American States who have from
time to time favored annexation to the Union.
The evening times., 1900-03-03
CURRENT nUMoR.
IL Has Her Approval.

(From the Chicago Times -Her1ld}
''Tm glad" said the Chicego girl. .'tEat agr
university has taken uP this spelling reform bu-i-
ness Now | can write those Boston gals m5t
during our trip abroad last season without a.
WAYS keeping he dictionary ~ my elbow II
| don't happen to spell right YOU see. they will
think / am helping along TIE reform movement.
Ii's GREAT stuff -
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IN THE HOTEL CORRIDORS.

/. W. Durham. State Insurance Commits
sioner OF Pennsylvania, is at the Norman
die from Philadelphia attending to some
matters affecting the Quay case.
Hon. ]. W. Martin. Evan Morris. II. S.
Cav. c. S. Maun, and r. B. Williams, a
party of prominent PhiIadelphians. are at
the Arlington on a short business trip.
1.-THE little town Of Delaware in my
State, will be an ideal winter resort in
future said Walter S. Brooks. civil
engineer today, who is at the Raleigh.
from Columbus, Ohio.
The City Council has given a franchise
to Edward Gwynn to put in a hot water
plant which will heat the whole town, and
the scheme is being watched with inter-
est. Gwynn is certain that the idea is
| practicable, and has begun work on his
plant which he holds will revolutiOnize
the present method of heating. The plant
! will contain large number of enormous
furnaces and heaters which will supply
the hot water. This will be piped through
mains and sub mains, just as gas and
drinking water are. BY the payment Of a
comparatively small sum. the service will
be piped into any residence or place OF
business, and by means Of registers. will
heat the buildings. The cost is so much
less than that Of coal that over one-half
OF the owners of the 10000 residences in
town have already subscribed 1t is pro-
posed to keep the heat on day and night.
and no heat no pay. II the plan is sue
cess it will prove big economy. and will
spread all over the country
r. S. Kayler. Railroad Commissioner OF
Ohio. is at the ShoTeham from Canton. He
has carried his fight for confirmation by
the Ohio State Senate to Washington and
expects to meet with success Mr.. Kayler
was appointed by former Governor Bush
nell and his appointment has never been
confirmed, as the matter was referred to a
Senate committee which has never made
a report. He has had conferences with the
President, Senator Hanna. and Secretary
Dick. and expects TO be allowed to remain
in Office as he is prominent Republican
and has some power in his county.
Capt. Benjamin Millard. a shipowner
Of San Francisco. is at Wiilards on visit
He is very well acquainted with cOndi-
tions in the Philippines having traded for
years in the archipelago. The islands are
the key to the open door of the East 80
said he this morning "and the benefits TO
be derived by this country can hardly be
calculated. BY all means we should re-
tain them as from a commercial stand
point We have a tremendous bargain"
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The Republican Prospect.

IUSt.T
The Anticipated Republicans are shouting that
they will have walkover this year. The sensi-
BILE Republicans doing some hard. serious.
sober thinking and endeavoring to convince them
selves that the queer feeling Of alarm that at
times comes over them is from torpidity of the
liver,
The evening times., 1900-03-03

Mr.. Mckinley's visit to New York has
not the slightest L connection with story
recently told by the Rev. MIR. Bookbanger,
Gospel Herald" Mr.. Bookbanger was for
many years stationed in China. near Cam
ton, and his work was fruitful. Among his
converts were two small bright boys
whose Chinese names he does not give
but whom he cnristened William and Alb
ner. William. he says, was a veritab.e
little Moody and Sankey. who would go
into farmers house and invite the family
to religious exercises, and. while the
household was thus engaged. Abner would
climb the tree and fill the bag.
The evening times., 1900-03-03
New Discoveries of Amber
/. (Frem the Pittsbmg Leader.

Great quantities OF amber have been found
on the north side of the -Momef on Russian
ings have been taking place quietly for several
weeks
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Mercantile Prnsnerit,

The attention of the public has already
been called to the fact that during the
year 1899 the increase in the earnings of
leading American railways was greater
than during any year in the history of the
country. Whatever of pessimism or de-
preston may have dampened the buoy
ancy of the people must have been effec-
tually dispelled by the convincing statis-
tics which showed for last year net gain
of thirteen per cent over the previous
twelve months. In explanation of this
prosperity il was pointed out that the
growth in manufactured and imported ar
ticles which had TO be distributed through
out the United States was an important
factor
Further details are now at hand which
show that mercantile houses have ample
reason TO be gratified with the profits ac-
cruing during the same period One OF
the leading bankers in New York makes
an interesting statement based on re-
turns showing the business of sixty lead
ing houses in fifteen trades and in four
teen different States embraced in the area
extending from Georgia to Minnesota and
from New York to Colorado. The
aggregate capital of these firms is S122.-
432 Geo, an average of s2.lj6,0 900 for each
firm. The net profits of all the mercan-
tile houses included in the calculation
amounted to $35. .225 600. or more than
twenty-eight per cent. r..-r
The acknowledged excess of last years
trade over any corresponding period in our
commercial annals has hitherto beeR quail
ifed by the contention that the increase in
volume was accompanied by small mar
gin. Not only is this claim disproven. but
if the remainder of 1900 shows the same
healthy expansion in the sale of merchan-
disc as the year thus far has indicated,
the twelve months with which the cen
tury closes will have to its credit un
precedented prosperity along the lines in
dicated.