Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-01-04

natives of his province to submit to
the new regulation. He had inoculated
cattle for the rinderpest three years be-
fore, as the Damaras saw, with good
results. He, therefore, announced that
he was read to vaccinate their rifles so
as to insure their shooting straight
and doing no hurt to their owners, and
the Damaras crowded to him to get
their guns stamped.
Two Christmas Days.
The Cook islands in the south seas
constitute federation under the Brit
ish flag, and have parliament of their
own, which for orderly conduct and
attention to public business affords an
example which the legislatures of
others and professedly civilized couu-
tries might advantageously emulate.
The whole of the members are natives
and regard it as a duty to uphold the
dignity of their office. Recently they
had under discussion the reetilication
of a mistake made by the early mis-
sionaries, who, forgetful of the long1-
tude in which the islands are located,
placed Sunday on the wrong day of the
week. The Roman Catholic missiona-
ries, who arrived later, avoided this
blunder, with the result that there
have been, for many years past, two
Sundays in each week. To end this
anomalous state of affairs, the Cook
islands parliament has passed an act
whereby December "a and December
% christmas day. will be kept as one
day, December rs being made Tuesday
instead of Wednesday, thus enabling
Sunday to be observed in common by
the various religious denominations
1t is said that the speeches made in
the native parliament on the occasion
were characterized by considerable in
telligence and common sense.
Railway VS.. Caste.
Many natives in India are now join
ing with Europeans in attacking the
system of child marriage, and social
reformer has come forward with
carefully prepared set of rules for the
education of girls, which, it is said,
If duly observed, will be found to be
of great advantage" For it is thought
that by educa.4on reform will come,
and the 10000 married girls not yet
in their teens have plenty of time, even
in the midst of their domestic duties.
to devote to their lessons. The social
reformer, according to the London
Globe advises their instructors to pro-
coed on these lines: Dout teach the
girl any language useless to her life
Don't teach her work which she will
have no occasion to do. Dont't waste
her precious time in imparting know
edge which she will have no occasion
whatever to use. Don't try to teach
her at school what she can better and
more naturally learn at home. These
and some others ofan equally homely
kind are the rules which the Indian
social reformcr lays down for the anne
Iteration of the native girl But ii is
open to doubt whether education, even
on sensible lines, is sufficiently power
full to break down caste prejudices,
which are, Of course, the real reason
of the native woman's undeveloped
state. The on.y European invention
which has done anything O far to de
stroy these prejudices is the railway,
and 1t is unlikely that education can
be really usefully employed until the
railway has made much further add
vance in it's pioneer work. Certainly
the government can never take any
steps to interfere in the thorny ques
ton of caste.
A Cure For Consumption.
The Neue Freie Presse of Vienna
states that lately Prof Nincense Ger
vello of Palmero Italy, succeeded in
finding an unfailing cure for consump-
tion and proved his invention before
that medical faculty. A distinguished
in Rome, the banker FIorla,
is erecting in the vicinity of Palmero
a hospital with $50 rooms for con-
at his own expense to give
to manking the benefit Of Professor
Cervellos discovery