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The age-herald., 1900-12-30
COLONIZATION FOR
 THE IDLE MILLIONS

By Commander Booth-Tucker.
 The very expression Idle Millions" sends
 shudder through the heart of any think ing man. Is 1t possible that with all the
 marvellous advances made by science in every realm of thought and enterprise we have net yet solved the initial problem of socioculture-the employment of the unem- ployed in humane and remuneratiYe man ner? The fact is there, staring us in the face-idle millions standing in the worlds market places, where the throb of trade and hum of commerce constitute one cease less Mhrl of activity and continuous pro- gross.
 See how door after door of opportunity has closed against the idle millions,
 through no fault of their own. The avenues Of remunerative work are choked with
 busy swarm of toilers, who,- like herd of stampeded cattle, gore and trample each
 other to death in the wild rush for the wa ters-not of wealth, but Of existence even of very life itself.
 There is a remedy-so simple, natural, SC feasible that the amazing point is that society has taken so long about it's consid- eration and adoption. Let these idle mil lions be planted upon the vast tracts of idle land by means of the enormous aggre- gation of idle capital, which can in these
 days be so easily commanded for any given purpose which a nation may set its heart, and the problem has been solved. The fallacieS that they will not go, that they will not stay, that they will not work, that they will not pay, have been exploded
 by the land colonies which we have already established in this country We have un-
 occasionally demonstrated that under prop CT management and suitable conditions
 there is no more attractive and feasible
 form of philanthropy, and none that will
 more surely repay the capital as well as
 toll expended on it. Those who have vit-
 ited the Salvation Army colonies have been
 unanimous in their testimony as to the
 practicability of the plan of placing the
 lardless man on the manless land, as it
 has been been epigrammatically expressed
 by one of our great writers.
 If we stretch out to the idle millions the
 warm, loving hands, not of charity but of
 remunerative employment, in the establish
 n.ent of homes of which they shall be the
 happy owners. we shall provide a market
 for our commence, new avenues of indus
 try for our city population, an ornament to
 our nation, and an object-lesson to the
 world, by converting our idle millions into
 our best and most trusted citizens.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30
A CONSERVATIVE VIEW OF
 UNIFORM DIVORCE LAWS
By Frederlck R. Coudert

Several weighty arguments might be pre- sented in favor of congressional legislation upensthe subject of uniform divorce law in all States It certainly is unfortunate that a divorce regularly obtained in one State from a competent court should fall of its effect in another, and that man or woman should be husband or a wife in New York and a single man or woman in Dakota or Nebraska. This, at least, is one of the troubles that might be removed by national legislation.
 But is there not much to be said on the other side? l may frankly say, at the risk of impairlng any regard that your readers may have for my opinion, that the way to deal with divorce laws would be to abro- gate them in toto. The interests of society at large are paramount. Our sympathies are not always judicious advisers; the re- lief given to individuals is often a curse upon society.
 While the national law would thus rem edy one great inconvenience at least, we should inquire in advancec of acting what kind of law we are likely to secure from Congress. The State of New York has up- on this subject been very conservative. and has only granted divorces in extreme cases. Most of our citizens of New York would be of opinion that if the national law which many desire is still farther to relax the marriage tie, it were best to all low things to remain as they are rather than to fly into the arms of unknown evils. Surely 1t would not be an advantage to citizens of New York to have the legisla- ton of these States made the law here. It would save expense in individual cases, no doubt as 1t would be easier to employ an attorney in this city, and less expen- sive. than to resort to professional service thousand or two thousand miles away. Possibly many are only deterred from breaking up their present home by the ex- pense Why reduce the cost of matrimonial separation far below the present tariff of disbursements? On the whole. in the igno rance of what law we might get from Con- gross, assuming that it would be inferior to our own, I am inclined to think that, unsatisfactory as the condition of things now is, it is safer to keep 1t out of national legisla ton.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30
THE EDUCATION OF
 THE DEAF AND DUMB


 By President E. M. Gallaudet. of Gallaudet College.
 The present condition of affairs in the education of deaf-mutes is peculiar, inter- esting and full of promise for the coming century. When the first permanent schools for the deaf were established in Germany and France, two methods were made use of In Germany, it was contended that all deaf-mutes of good mental capacity could be taught to speak, and the oral method. to the exclusion of all others, has been em- ployed up to the present time. In France it was held that but small proportion of the deaf were capable of acquiring a really successful command of speech, and that the greatest good for the greatest number could be secured by making considerable use of the language of signs and of finger spelling, called the dumb language.
 In 1880 an International congress of in- structorsA of the deaf was held at Milan, the result of which was that the French government ordered the adoption of the oral method in the schools of France and the discontinuance of the manual method. Tn the United States the first school for deaf-mutes, established in 1877, adopted the manual method as 1t had been developed in the French republic. and this method prevailed in our country for fifty years. In 1867 various causes led to the introduction of. the teaching of speech into American schools for the deaf. and since that date a good many persons, instructors and oth- CTS, have urged the adoption of the oral method of Germany to the exclusion of the French manual method. A spirited and earnest controversy in the schools has grown ont of this. those formerly pract.c-
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NEW AND MUCH BETTER
 METHODS OF TEACHING

By Matthew H. Buckingham, President of
 University of Vermont.
 I would name as the reforms in popular education most to be desired:
 First The handling of pupils in smaller groups and with more attention to indivie ual needs. The multiplication of pupils without a corresponding increase in teach ing force has resulted in massing children into large classes in which they are taught en bloc. The consequence is that the dull, who need special encouragement, become discouraged and drop out, and the bright, not kept fully occupied. lose interest and accomplish less than their best. The Acad- emy at West Point gets splendid results by dividing classes into groups of ten, ac- cording to ability. This system is, of course costly, but the benefits of 1t would repay the cost wherever practicable.
 Second The coming age will insist on a stricter method in the selection of teach-
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A HIGHER GRADE OF
scHooL.TEAcHERs

By President John Henry Barrows, D. D.,
 of Oberlin College.
 I doubt if the new century is to be as notable as the last along educational lines. The reforms which are needed in education have already been given a start. I expect to see what is, after all, the greatest need a much better equipped class of teachers in our common schools. There is little pos sibility of improving the education of the people except through the improvement Of teachers of all grades.
 It is plain that the best minds are not too good for the work of teaching and training the young. Some of the most promising material in the nation is found in the country school houses. There ought to be far more general requirement that teachers have special training in normal methods. The words better teachers ought to be engraven on the hearts of all school directors. To accomplish this result there must be a more general spirit of lib- erality, rather, of wisdom in making ap- propriate provision for the support of those who are to guide young souls in the most critical years of life. Give us teach CTS properly trained. with high ideals, and
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CTS, method as effective as that which in business affairs compels the incapable man to fail and retire, and retains and rewards the competent.
 Apain, methods of teaching need to be better systematiDed. There are two kinds of teachers-those who teach mainly by in- spring, by awakening interest and enthu- siasm, and those who teach by faithful, painstaking drill And there may be said to be two philosophies or methods of ed- ucation-the inspirational method and the pedagogic method. Teachers of the first class are rare; if great university has one or two of them, if city or community has one of them, let them be thankful and make the most of their services.
 Lastly, and most important reform of all, misunderstanding will become the definite aim and object of all educational efforts. The school shall be a means of ennobling the industries, elevating the callings, puri- fyig the citizenship. of all who come under its benign influence.
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cement friendship between himself and the white people in his community, that he will appreciate more and more that the inter- ests of the two races are of equal impor- tance.
 On the other hand, I pray that the white people in every part of this country will bear in mind that they cannot oppress or take opportunities from them-the negro without the white race becoming degraded. Every race that expresses another race in- jures itself and in the end must pay the price for its sin. In connection with thor. ough education. industrial development and friendship between the races there must go that high moral and religious conduct which will make a black skin respected
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ing the manual method. while wiling to attempt the teaching of speech with all deaf children, being generally in favor of giving it up in the case of those whose ability tC speak and to read the lips of others proved to be very limited. It has thus come about that a large majority of American schools for the deaf are today working under a combined system, in which all methods are made use of, their application being varied according to the capability and the adaptability of the pu- pil.
 From all which it is not difficult to con- clude that the deaf-mutes of the twentieth century ought not to be educated under the pure oral method. which the educated deaf of the nineteenth century condemn, but under the American combined system, which they approve.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30
CHURCH HOMES NEAR
 THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

By Webster Merrifield, President Univer-
 sity of North Dakota.
 Before the close of the next century our religious denominations will have discoy- cred the economy, religious as we'll as financial. of erecting church homes about our great public schools, thus availing themselves of the instruction and the sci entific collections of the latter, while giv- ing through these church homes such spe- ,cial moral and religious instruction to their youth as each denomination desires.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30
THE LANGUAGE OF
 THE UNITED STATES
Ry Will Carletton.

We are to have a United States lan- guage; in fact, have it now in process of building With English for basis, we draw from the different Iyernaculars that come to this country, and add and inter weave many of their most virile words and picturesque idioms; in ways more or less similar all the best languages have been made As new phenomena arise, new words have to be coined; and nowhere is this ne- cessity more in evidence than in America. Our nation of seventy-five millions of peo- ple is constantly weaving a new language, which will probably surpass all those that have heretofore existed. and will go around
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Mozle,'s Lemon Elixir.

sia for about fifteen years, my trouble be- ing my liver, stomach and bowels, with ter rible headaches. Lemon Elixir cured me- My appetite is good, and I am well. had taken a barrel of other medicine, that done me no good. CHARLES GIBHARD,
 No. 1515 Jefferson St. Louisville, Ky.
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words which overstate. And, as popular education. advances, the more general will be the demand for higher standard of linguistic strength and purity; for the more clearly will 1t be seen that overstatement is really dilution.
 Slang, American or Anglican, is doomed to ultimate extinction. It is in language what the criminal class is among men, and criminals are notoriously short-lived, the soonest forgotten.
The age-herald., 1900-12-30
EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS
 IN THE COMING CENTURY

Among these agencies may be mentioned constant travel to and fro, long g-distance telephones, phonographs, etc, which give people opportunities of hearing and imi tating each other, such as they never had before
The age-herald., 1900-12-30
SLANG IS DOOMED TO
 ULTIMATE EXTINCTION
By Edward Payson Jackson.

By EuWHTu ray sUII JdcKsUI.
 The elite among writers and speakers. more than ever in the past, are cultivating simplicity, conciseness, and especially ex- actitude, in their diction The young wri- ter of today who yearns for admission to the best publications, and the orator who demands a hearing before the most cul- tured audiences, must be sparing of their superlatives. Given grammatical integrity and freedom from vulgarlty, nothing will be more fatal to them than the use of
The age-herald., 1900-12-30
THE PARAMOUNT HOPE
 OF THE NEGRO RACE
By Booker T. Washington.

My hope and belief is that the negro in this. country will make himself so valuable in all the industries at his door that he will become an indispensable voter-that he wilt-learn to do things so well that he will make common labor uncommon. My further hope is that in every straightfor- gard honorable way that he will seek to
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they will under careful supervision, intro- duce the reforms most needed.
 A system of instruction based on ration al principles will discard some of the lum- Der which is now used Many things are taught which are a waste of time and strength But we shall not get good teach CTS until successful teachers are continued in office during good behavior and efh- cheney.
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Mczley's Lemon Elixir.

Cured me of enlarged liver, nervous indi- gestion and heart disease. I was unable to walk upstairs or to do any kind of work I was treated by many physicians, but got no better until I used Lemon Elixir I am now healthy and vigorous.
 c. H. BALDWIN No. 9S Alexander st., Atlanta, Ga.
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Mozley,s Lemon Hot Drons.

Cures all Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness. Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Hemorrhage, and all throat and lung diseases. Elegant, relia- ble.
 25c at druggists. Prepared only by Dr. H. MoZley, Atlanta, Ga.
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PLANT SYSTEM.

Effective February IS. 1900 Pullman sleep- Ing car service was inaugurated between Savannah. Ga., and Montgomery Ala. pn 5 D. m; arrive Montgomery, S:l0 m. , leave Montgomery 7:45 p. m. arrive s4 .an- nah l0:30 a. m-
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Save a Day.

By using the popular Queen and Crescent Route (Alabama Great Southern Railroad) when going to Texas and the Southwest
 Quickest time by twelve Q2) hours. Par t.culars at No. 2019 First avenue. 12-4-tf
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MOz1ey's Lemon Elixir,
A Pleasant Lemon ionic

Cures indigestion, headache, malaria, kid ney disease, fever, chills loss of appetite, debility, nervous prostra ton, heart failure and appendicitis by regulating the Liver, Stomach, Bowels and Kidneys.
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Mozley's Lemon Elixir,

Cured me of indigestion. had suffered for ten years. had tried almost every medi- cine, but all failed. Since taking Lemon Elixir I can eat anything I like.
 Reevesyille, s. c. w. A. GRIFFITH
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Mozley,s Lemon Elixir.

Cured me of indigestion and heart disease after years of suffering when all other rem edies and doctors had failed.
 Beulah, s. c. N. D. COLEMAN
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-26
AMERICAN COMMERCIAL ASCEND

There have been many evidences of late
OF the extension of American trade in
British domipions and of the undertaking
of British manufacturers by those of the
United States on British soil. The latest
is contained in a cablegram which says
Sir Alfred Hickman. Conservative
brought up in the House of Commons to-
day the subject Of the contract for the
insinuating that favoritism has been shown
the American firms. Lord Cranborne, par
liamentary secretary for the Foreign Office
repudiateo the suggestion. He said ten
ders were invited in the United Kingdom
exactly the same conditions they
were invited from the United States, but
the American tender was accepted because
il was considerably the lowest. While the
government was anxious to employ British
firms, IL could only give contracts when
consistent with public interests.
One cannot but admire the British
shrewdness and sense of justice which
awards government contracts TO the lowest
bidder. regardless of location or nationality.
1t is doubtful If the United States gov
eminent would show equal courage. 1t
certainly could not do so without evoking
a protest from organized labor and prob
ably from the party not in power against
the injustice and unpatriotism of taking
money out of the pockets of American man
ufacturers and workmen TO give II TO for
eigners. The British idea is broader. viz.
that business sense requires government
contracts to be placed where the work can
be done best. cheapest and quickest
This extension of American trade on
British soil is, perhaps, the most striking
of all the evidences of American CONNER
cial expansion. When Sydney Smith asked
who reads an American book2" 1t might
have been asked with even more pointed
ness. ''Who buys an American manufac-
tured product Now American books are
read wherever the English language is
spoken, and American manufactures are
| I'm growing demand all over the world 1t
is certainly remarkable that the matter
| should have become the subject of COM
ment in the House of Commons. 1t is also
a subject of comment in the British press.
| A few weeks ago the London Times printed
| a series of articles on American engineer
ing which astonished and alarmed the coun-
tFy. Inc dftcies were odSeu on the eX-
| animation by an expert correspondent of
the chief engineering establishments of the
| United States. His letters were careful.
| eNhaustive ard luminous. They came as a
revelation to British engineers and led
many of them to come 10 this country
to see and learn for themselves. They
came. saw and were convinced. One OF
them, Richard W. Allen. head of Queen
engineering works. of Bedford. writes to the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-26

When we think of the unutterably mice
man who has just been chosen TO preside
over the destinies of the United States for
four years more, who is the pct of the
moral and religious element, and who is
held accountable for no sin, real or fancied,
If Ii can be thrown on the shoulders of
some subordinate. When on Christmas
day William Mckinley thinks of the boys
in the Philippines-some sick. some dying,
and all yearning for home-will his turkey
and cranberry sauce choke him?
The election being over there is no ex-
cuse for the foregoing mawkish drivel in
the Cincinnati Enquirer. The President is
not responsible because soldiers in the
Philippines are i'll. He is no more re-
sponsible that soldiers are there than the
Congress which almost unanimously in
creased the army to send soldiers TO the
far-away islands. There is now but one
way to have no soldiers there, and that is
to quit. The quitting policy has no strength
in tho country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-26

indianapolis has made substantial prog
ress during the year about to close. In the
way of building some huge and substantial
business blocks have been erected, as also
many apartment houses. or flats, and a
large number of residences. The city still
maintains its reputation as city of homes,
of which an unusually large proportion arc
owned by their occupants. Our merchants,
wholesale and retail. have had a prosper
Gus year, and our manufacturing estab-
lishments have never had better Munic-
ipal improvements have continued at rate
that keeps the city in the front rank of
beautiful and progressive cities, and the
population has increased as rapidly as IN
any previous year. Few cities in the cour-
try can show as real, substantial gains, and
the prospects for 1901 are exceedingly
Lright.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-26

The odd contention of the London Times
that the ownership of Canada makes Eng
land great North American power recalls
whether she would retain Canada. At the
beginning of the revolutionary war il was
fully expected by the Americans that Cam
ada would join in the revolt if the British
troops which occupied that country were
driven out. Efforts TO accomplish this re-
suited in some hard fighting, but did not
succeed. When it came TO making the
treaty of peace Benjamin Franklin one
Of the American peace commissioners pro-
posed and insisted on the cession of Can
ada to the United States as one of the
conditions. If he had been backed up by
his colleague on the commission and by
France he might have carried his point
but he failed. The other two commissions
took interest in the proposition In
fact, France at that time wanted to con-
Alleghenies and forever prevent their ex-
pansion westward. She wished to see the
country between the Alleghenies and the
Mississippi divided between England and
Spain; England to have the region north
OF the Ohio river, and the region south of
* TO remain an Indian territory under the
protection of Spain. BY an act of the
British Parliament passed I'm IVA the
boundaries of the province of Quebec had
been extended southwark to the Ohio river
and west. TO the Mississippi, and bit for
the breaking out of the revolution this
boundary would probably have become
fixed. France at that time did not wish
the United States to become a great power.
She wanted to divide up the continent. If
Franklin had been strongly backed We
might have got the whole of Canada, and
the London Times would not now be claim
ing that England is great North Ameri-
can power.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-26

public school system. Three-fourths Of
those who attend the public schools will
never have cause to apply any considerable
part of what they can learn in many
branches of the schools. but the rudiments
of a trade will be useful to the larger part
OF them, sooner or later. The popularity
OF the Indianapolis Manual Training School
shows that 1t fills an important part in
popular education. Such school cannot
be duplicated in many counties in Indiana,
but something in that line will soon be
imperatively demanded. 1t certainly is a
timely topic for teachers TO consider.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-26

an ardent supporter of manhood suffrage.
the town was olacarded with bills which
bore the legend. ''One man. one vote"
What does that ere saying mean, Bill?'
said one workman 10 another. Seems 20
me it's bloomin nonsense" Why don't
you known? said Bill; its like this
ere striking a horny fist into a horny
palm in order 10 emphasize each point
''One bloomin' man, one bloomin' vote"
''Oh that's it. is it?" replied his companion:
well, wy the doose couldn't they say 50
at once 3.,F