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DELAGoA BAY.
A German Runor That England Viii
Obtain It.

Obtain It.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2s.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Berlin, says:
"The Lokal Anzeiger publishes the
contents of the n-English-Por-
tuguese secret treaty. This double
treaty will have executive force as soon
as the Swiss jurists, Messrs. Blaesi,
Hensler and GOldau, have given a de-
cision in the Delagoa arbitration.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-A dispatch to
the Tribune from London, says:
The announcement of the Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger that under the secret
stipulations of the treaty Germany will
take Portugal's Asiatic colonies and
the territory north of the Zambesi and
England Delagoa Bay is the most start
ling news of the day.
The authority is not official and the
statement of concerted action by the
powers against French and Russian oc-
.cupation must be accepted with reserve
until the Foreign Office confirms it.
The alleged paymen. of 25,000. 900
marks for Germany's share in this ter
ritorial trade also seems doubtful.
France Would Protest.
NEW YORK, December GA cable
to the World from Paris says: The
newspapers here are discussing serious
ly the contemplated seizure of Delagoa
bay by England in order to put a stop
TO the Importation of men, arms and
ammunition now going on.
The World correspondent has 1t on
safe authority that the same question
was discussed at yesterdays Cabinet
meeting, the Ministers unanimously
deciding that such an attempt on the
part of England should be Immediately
met with the most positive objections.
Another official. who stands very close
to VI. Delcasse, the French Minister of
Foreign Affairs, informs the correspon-
dent that diplomatic agent was spe-
cially dispatched to Portugal four days
ago to confer with the Lisbon Govern
ment as to its intentions.
Methuen May Retire.
NEW YORK, Dec. ga cable to
the Sun from London says: The lat
est advices show that the Beers are
continuing to Increase their trenches
and are drawing their lines around
north Of the British camp from the
Modder river to the Riet river, with
the inevitable result that II Methuen
WISHES " turn MS position ne must
move to the south bank Of the river
and again force his passage elsewhere
TO the north bank.
Danger From Cape Dutch.
LONDON, Dec. 22.-The Cape Town
correspondent of the Times, under late
of December 18th. says: "The Boer
fighting line is very thin and a single
British success might crumple il COM
pletely. The real danger, however, is
not the military situation, but the
likelihood of a Dutch rebellion, which
would make the area Of war so vast
that an additional $4,000 men would
be easily swallowed up in maintaining
the enormous length of British COM
Referring to the tardy acceptance Of
assistance from the local forces, tine
says: General Butler
displayed a certain self
suficiency and unwillingness to accept
local advice or assistance, which eveats
quickly modified"
LONDON, Dec. Dispatches from
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II. X. MEEMANO e CO.-Contractors
and Builders, Painters, Paperhaugers
and Decorators; all work neatly
done; Office Fort St, back of High
School, Honolulu.
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VIM. T. PATY.-Contractor and Build
er. Store and Office fitting; brick
wood or stone building; shop Palace
Walk; residence Wilder Ave-, neal
Kewalo.
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CONTRACTORS.

]. A. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and
Builder. Store and Office fit,lngs.
shop and repair work; Bell Tower
Bldg, Union ST.; Tel. 702.
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STENOGPAPHERS.

MISS a. a. Administrations and
Typist, McInerny Block, Fort St;
Tel. 146.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

hrs. ARLEIGH-FOrme art en-
broideress for Sharpless Bros, Phil
adolphia. will give lessons in all
kinds of Art Embroidery, Marie An
toniette Flemish, and Point Lace at
b. F. Ehlers & Co., second floor. Or
ders taken.
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JAMES T. TAYLOR, NJ. Am. Soc. c. e.
Consulting hydraulic Engineer;
3O6 Judd Blk, Honolulu.
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]. w. CHAPMAN.-Cate for Dinner
and Garden Parties, Weddings, Balls,
Socials, Picnics, Etc. Orders left with
Burnette & Co., Cor. Bethel and King
Sts., Honolulu, II. /. Telephone 500
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OPTICIANS.

r. z. LUCAS. Love Bldg, Fort St,
upstairs. 2. o. boz 351 carry q full
line Of ALL KINDS OF GLASSES
from the CHEAPEST to the BEST
Free Examination OF the Eyes
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DRAuGHISMAN.

T. d. BEASLEY.-Plantation and To-
biographical Maps a Speciality; room
SOC Judd 3idR.: Tel 633.
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o G. TRAPHAGEN.-223 Merchant
St. between fort and Alakea; Tel.
734. Honolulu
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LONDON, Dec. 21.-The Queen has
been greatly annoyed by the unfound-
ed statements that she is in Ill health
and perpetually weeping. a para
graph cOntradicting these stories ap-
pears in the papers, which add that
II has never been Her MaJesty's habit
to display grief like a hysterical
school girl"
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
ENGINEERS.

CATION, NELL &c CO., LTD, ENGI.
neers, Electricians and Boiler.
makers, Honolulu.
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ANNIS MONTAGUE TURNER-Vocal
Studio, "Mignon," 720 Beretania St.
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
EXTREME HEAT PROSTRATES.
Several Gases Reported Among Men
Who Worked in Difficulty.

Several heat prostrations were re-
ported this week and in some places
farm work was at standstill. Robert
Carrow. superintendent Of the Murphy
basket factory, became i'll from the ef-
fects Of the heat and was taken to the
office of DR.. l. o. Clements, where he
was resuscitated. James Price, we'll
rknown farmer of Willow Grove, was
overcome and brought here for treat
ment. Mark 4. Jones, a machinist of
Harrington. was overcome in his shop
in that town, and is still i'll. Another
case reported was that Of George R.
Kilson, a colored thresher, who became
i'll at Leipsic, and whose condition is
critical.
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
REHOBOTH HAS
BALLOT BATTLE.
Cottagers Opposed to the Present
nunicipal Administration.
AN "AATI-D0-N0THlhG" TICKET.
People Who Think The Delaware
Resort Should be Doomed Have
Planned to Win To-day's
Election.
special to the Delawarean.


Rehoboth, Del, July 20-Rehoboth
will have a sensation Of ballots to-mor-
row The popular Delaware resort has
not only become a Mecca for politicians
and political campaigning, but it will
tomorrow finish an internal political
struggle that has been puzzling all it's
residents and has engaged the atten-
tion of even ministers who are among
its summer residents.
The struggle will be over the election
of commissioners and municipal au-
thorities, and the issue is a ''do-noth-
ing" policy charged to the present ad-
ministration. The annual election will
take place tomorrow afternoon, and
all freeholders above the age of II
years, who are males, can vote or be
many of those who own cottages at the
resort and yet who do not live here ex-
cept during the summer months.
The terms of Commissioners James
E. Hooper Baltimore, Md, William
Drein Wilmington, Del) and Elihu J.
Norris (Lewes, Del) will expire and
while they are candidates for re-elec-
tion there are indications that they
will be superseded by the new candi-
dates, who are opposed to the alleged
"do-nothing" program and propose to
plan for and boom the resort to a
finish These new candidates are ].
Dallas Marvel Gaurel, Del), Rev.
Vaughan S. Collins (Dover, DELI and
Joseph D. Thompson (RehoBoth.)
The fight does not end here, for the
anti-administration people propose to-
make clean sweep if possible. The
present auditors, who will run for re-
election, are DR.. Hiram r. Burton
(Lewes), William NJ. Bell (Smyrna)
and Clarence Beebe (Lewes.) The new
candidates of the "antis" are w. J
Thoroughgood (Georgetown). Landreth
T.. Layton (Georgetown) and DR.. H. R.
Burton (Lewes) The position of tax
collector now held by Fred Kunsman
(Rehoboth)' will be contested for BY
Charles 5. Horn (Wilmington.) The
importance of the election is over
shadowing the coming Presidential
contest in the minds of the Rehoboth
settlers.
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
Some interpretations This Week.

The Delaware Button Company was
incorporated here Thursday with a
capital stock of 100000. 1t has Will
mington incorporators and is registered
as a Wilmington concern and will en-
gage in the manufacture of buttons of
every description.
A certificate of Incorporation was
also granted The San Rafael Mining
Company, which filed articles here
early in the week. 1t has capital
stock of $5OO.OOO, and is a Washington
concern.
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
COURT HOUSE BUILDING
is SAFE AND SOUND.
Entertainments Not Barred Because
1t is Unsafe, But Because They
Used Explosives.

The statement sent out from Will
mington 10 the effect that the county
Court House building in Dover, which
has the auditorium in the third floor
wherein all State and county conven-
Itions are held, has become unsafe is
stoutly resented by the county and
State officials here.
The statement was made that for
this reason the Regular Republicans
called their convention to meet in Will
mington, whereas the Regulars had an
entirely different motive in calling
their convention in Wilmington. The
Court House building is said by local
builders and officials to be absolutely
safe and one of the strongest three
story buildings in the State. 1t was
erected in 1872 of brick, stone and iron,
and the third floor, intended for an
auditorium, has peculiarly strong CON
struction.
The Levy Court recently closed the
building against evening entertain
ments because the insurance companies
offered an exceptionally low rate of in
surance if they would do away with
the use of the third floor ait night, when
gas and oil heaters were used to heat
the place, and were very carelessly used
by some of the performers. Beside
this, the shafts at either end of the
building opened perilous draughts,
making the fire risk still greater. But
for day assemblages, it is as good as
ever. The Delaware Summer Institute
is being held there now.
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
THE EFFECT OF Low SALARIES

TO speak of teaching as business
indicates a wrong conception OF what
teaching ought to be, yet, the meaning
conveyed by that word is exactly the
idea that some people have of this high
calling. 1t is to this class of people
that this article is particularly ad-
dressed.
Let it then be distinctly understood
that this article is not intended even
70 be read by those who look upon the
public school teacher as a character
moulder for the future generation, nor
by those who look upon the public
school as lone of the most important in
stitutions of our republic.
We have. reference to the financial
phase of the teachers calling. Taking
into consideration all district schools
receiving State dividends, it is safe to
place the average salary of teachers at
$S5 for s months. This would make
yearly salary of $3.50, total yearly
income of the teacher.
BOARD costs about $50; Summer
school fee, including board, about $40;
for Teachers Institute about So or So;
FOR books, educational papers and other
incidentals necessary to keep up with
the progressive movements in edu-
cational affairs, about $40. This makes
a total of about $3.50 yearly expenses,
leaving the majority of teachers the
sum of about $3.50 for a whole years
work, saying nothing about the many
incidental expenses that come to the
teacher from various sources In his
social life, there is a position which
the teacher, by virtue of his relations
to the community, is bound to MAIN
tain at some little expense, and when
you make final deduction you have
left an idle teacher for 8 months in
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
The Eggs We're Smashed.

Mrs. J. E. Vaughn of near Cowglll's
came to Dover Tuesday morning with
a fractions horse and when she was
near the corner of Bradford and Divis-
ion streets the animal commenced to
kick and a basket containing nine
dozen of eggs seemed to be his target.
Mrs. Vaughn pluckily kept cool and
held on to the reins until assistance ar
rived Mrs. Vaughn and the carriage
were almost covered with broken eggs
but after being loaned dress she re-
turned home alone with the team.
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
SAM JONES, SOUTHERN
EVANGELIST, DIDN'T COME.
offered $500 For Three
Sermons, the Preacher-Lawyer
Wired an Excuse to MiltoA.

Nearly 1000 persons We're sorely dis
appointed at Lavinia's campmeeting
the new camp Of Methodist Protestants
near Milton, by the non-arrival Of Rev,
sam Jones. the celebrated Georgia
lawyer and evangelsl, who had been
engaged to preach three sermons for
$500, and had been extensively adyer-
tised throughout the county Rev.
Jones was engaged through a Baltimore
and Washington bureau, and tele-
gram received late Wednesday night
explained that he was compelled to
return home because Of serious illness
in his family. Some Of the disappoint-
ed ones had driven fifty miles Through
heat and dust.
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
Mckinley Is Still Hoping.

President Mckinley left Washington
Thursday night ignorant of the fate OF
the foreign Ministers in Pekin. AT the
same time he has not, in view of the
later reports and the cheerful optimism
of Secretary Long, given up hope that
he will be informed in Canton of the
safety of the American representative
and his colleagues.
This hopefulness on the part Of the
Administration would seem to be with
out much foundation in view of the
details of letter sent by Barsa Nssi
the Japanese Minister in Pexin. which
have been cabled by the Minister for
Foreign Affairs to Mr.. Kiejiro Mabes-
hima Charge d'Affaires Of the Japanese
Legation. They were sent forth in a
dispatch received by the Foreign Office
from the Japanese Consul in Tien Tsin,
to whom Baron Nisbi's Communication
was addressed. This is the dispatch:
Il received, 10 a. m, July 12, dis
patch from Baron Nissi, dated Pekin,
June 80. The letter was brought by a
special Chinese messenger, who left
Pekin July /. and who managed to
reach this country under the greatest
difficulties. The subtance of the letter
is as Follows:
Situation in Pekin is extremely
critical Foreign legations surrounded
and bombarded on all sides by Chinese
day and night.
Members, guards and other rest
dents are resisting with the utmost
energy but overwhelming numbers of
the enemy makes our position hopeless,
our munitions are being exhausted and
our lives are in such danger that we
may be massacred at any moment We
earnestly request immediate dispatch
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
FINE CROP OF DELICIOUS
PLuMS NOW BEING SHIPPED.
Dry and Hot Weather Was Particu-
lairy Favorable to Their Full
Develanmanf

Splendid Japanese and American
plums are being gathered from Or
ehards throughout the c5unty this
week, and whole carloads have been
shipped to date The upper portion OF
the county, alone, viii yield 100000
baskets, the plums having profted
considerably by the dry and warm
wsasher, which is peculiarly wholesome
70 this fruit, Leaving Smyrna the
steamer Brady had about 1000 baskets,
and twice that many are expected on
the steamboats, at every trip for the
next fortnight. Joseph E. Carter OF
Smyrna, president iof the Peninsula
Horticultural Society, is a large grower
OF plums, and several Kent farmers
have entire orchards Of them.
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
Senator Kenney's Success.

Senator Kenney is being congratu-
lated in the success which has attended
his efforts to secure an appropriation
for dredging and deepening the mouth
of the st. Jones' River. The credit
accorded the Senator is all the more
deserving because the appropriation
was only won after hard fight, and
was in the end obtained by personal
effort, as it comes direct from the fund
placed at the disposal of the Secretary
of War, and the Senator'S success in
securing it is looked upon as a shrewd
piece OF diplomacy. The amount Sc
cured Is $500.
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
PROGRESSIVE
EDUCATORS.
Summer Institute Now in Ses,
sion Best Yet Held.
SALARIES OF GOOD TEACHERS.
Pa1try Compensation for Their Lives
of Sacrifices for Others--Only
$3.50 Year in Very
Many Cases.

Written for The Delawarean Teachers Column 4
The Summer Institute now in session
in Dover is the best that has yet been
held in this State. The lectures have
all been prepared with great care and
they are full of helpful suggestions to
the teachers. Moreover, the class OF
teachers in attendance represent the
very best educated and best trained
teachers in the State.
The idea has prevailed in some sec
tions of the State that the Summer
Institute is place TO which the in
differently educated teacher might go
and be coached up for a teachers cer-
titicate. OF course it will help this
class. In many cases it gives them new
aspirations, new ambition, and very
often leads to the making OF good
Heachers of those who would otherwise
have been dropped from the rolls.
The great majority of those in at
tendance are, however, among he best
teachers of the State already, and are
in attendance at the Institute because
they are progressive, are enterprising,
and are not content with present at
tainmentS when such rich opportunities
for greater things are so near at hand.
Again, it has been suggested that
the small yearly salary of many teach
ers rendered it difficult for them 10
seek further self-improyement in the
Summer Institute. The fact that this
class of teachers are unable TO com
mand good positions and fair salaries
is the most potent argument in favor
of their making such sacrifices as are
necessary to take advantage of the in
struction given at the Summer Insti-
tute because there is a demand for good
teachers, and this demand is increasing
each year.
The writer has already been appealed
to by school clerks for several ap-
plicants of successful teaching ex-
perience for next school year Further
more, the salaries offered in these in
stances are above the average
This Summer school has been of
inestimable value to many a teacher
lit has raised many an Indifferent
teacher to such a degree of excellence
that any school might be proud of her
services.
The cost to attend the Institute is
scarcely more than twenty dollars a
year, and almost any enterprising
teacher can more than offset this
sacrifice by securing a better position
and an increase in salary.
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
ENTERPRISE OVER AT GOLDSB0R0
New Freight and Passenger Station
and Rich Harvest of Small Fruits.

Goldsboro, the Maryland town few
miles west Of Dover on the Delaware
and Chesapeake line become a most
important shipping point and may be
a peach center this year. A freight
depot has just been completed there
and the material is being delivered for
the construction of fine little pas
senger station. The surrounding
country is especially adapted for the
growth of small fruits, and blackberries
and raspberries are being gathered
there now in large quantities. Three
carloads of berries are shipped a day to
New York city
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
Most Stupendous War.

Omaha, Neb., July 19-Bishop Nc
Cabe, Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, who is intimately associated
with the Foreign Mission Board. spb-
stantiates the reports that the Chinese
are massing an army approximately
one million for the further prosecution
Of the war.
u have not the slightest doubt that
the Chinese are gathering together an
army of 950,0 men," declared Bisbon
McCabe. I'm fact, those reports coin
cided exactly with information that I
have been receiving from the foreign
board and through the different avail
able sources.
his means that we are to have the
most stupendous war Of the age. When
inflamed by passion the Chinese are the
most cruel and vengefu1 savages in the
world Add to this their fanaticisnr
and their numbers. and you can readily
understand the gigantic task that all
workers realize the powers
HaNe VI manu- ~ restore oFuer IN tn9
Chinese Empire.
Il am also ready to profess belief in
the reports that the missionary build
ings in Pekin have been destroyed. If
they have not been razed already they
will be in a short time. unless the pow
ers can force their way to the beleag-
uered city"
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21


the year with salary hardly as high
as the average day laborer.
Now let us consider the capital in
vested
The majority of teachers have quail
fled at some school at cost of from
5000 to $500. Yet the ordinary day
laborer, who has invested nothing,
receives as large salary as the teach
er. This does not give the teacher
much of an incentive to higher qualiti-
cation Right here lies the reason for
so many young teachers qualifying as
they do. They get just barely enough
qualification to carry them inside the
examination limit. And who can blame
them at such salary? Be it remem-
bered that a young person, starting out
with the intention of teaching, is not
imbued with the Importance of the
calling. He sees only the Cuisines"
side of teaching, not the professional
side.
Every one knows that fully one-half
Of the teachers in your public schools,
use the position only as a stepping
stone, or to defray the expenses of a
previous education. What is the con-
sequence? The young teachers are not
interested heartily in their work They
see only the meagre salary ahead of
them. Many of them are glad when
their two or three years of teaching
life are over 1t resolves itself to this:
You are mot interested enough in your
public schools to pay your teachers
higher salary, then why should they
labor SO hard without remuneration?
Unfortunately this is the view the
majority of young teachers take
Now let us reverse conditions: Pay
your teachers higher salaries-salarie
that do justice to your school and to
your teacher. Then your teachers do
not need to make stepping stones to-
something higher than that position.
Then it will be what it is not nova
self-supporting high calling in itself.
Then instead of rushing through
your schools for several years, your
teachers will virtually say, Il can af-
ford TO make special qualification for
the work" Then your teachers will
be whole teachers instead Of part
farmers or part something else
Superintendent Tindal said some
time ago in circular letter that the
teacher who was obliged to work on the
farm Ior elsewhere during his two orI
three idle months, was just that much
less good teacher. He spoke whereof
he knew. The consequence of just
salary is that the teacher will take a
closer interest in his work. will make
special preparation, and will NOT shift
to some other employment but will
stay at teaching. Then those teachers
that work continually for self-improve-
ment will hold their schools for more
than a year. They will be in demand,
and unqualified or disinterested teach
ers will have difficulty in securing
schools, for the good teachers. being
now able to do so. will hold their
schools from year to year. One great
trouble is that schools are continually
changing teachers-all due to the dis
interested shifting class of teachers.
I say shifting because they shift on to
something higher
Raise your salaries. and the quality
of your teachers will rise of itself.
Continued on FIFTH Page
The Delawarean., 1900-07-21
At the M. p. Church.

Rev. \. 0. Gibson of the Dover VI. P.
Church. is one Of the assistants at
Lavini@s campmesting near Milton
Rev. R. F. Hassinger will preach at
his Dover church the Sunday morning
sermon.