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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
PUSHING COOP Rods.

Like most other great public reforms
the movement in favor of good roads
is experiencing many difficulties. and it's
promoters many discoura gements Like
all other such movements, too, it is to
some extent being utilized for private
gain, and for the advertisement of com.
mercial commodities in one direction Or
other. All this and more, however, is
of the great and enduring good which is
involved.
This great movement should continue to
receive the active cooperation and ap-
prevail of all progressive minds 1t has
within it the elements of the greatest
possible social gains to the people of
the entire country. When even meas
urable degree of the possibilities Of the
movement are realized, it will advance
with giant strides in every section of
the country until we have effaced this
stigma of barbarism which attaches to
US on account of the condition of our
public roads
The convention of the National Good
Roads society which will be held in Buff
falo on the 18th of the present month
will result in directing national atten-
ton to the movement 1t will enlist the
concerted efforts of the most thoughtful
of it's advocates, and will go a long way
toward securing the final intervention Of
state and local governments in the effect
uation Of the movement.
In settled communities in the East it
and there to see long stretches of pub
lie roads In the distinctively agricultural
regions, removed many miles from cen
tiers of city population, in as good eondi-
ton as our city streets. And it invarf-
ably happens that In such localities as
are thus favored the superior degree OF
comfort and prosperity. which prevails
among the people makes itself palpably
clear
IHere can De Ilo uoupL tnaI, the spread
of free rural postal delivery will have an
encouraging effect upon the good roads
movement. Congress should enact such
laws as would operate to withhold from
localities whose roads are neglected the
privileges OF free rural delivery A pre-
MUM might thus easily be set by the fed
eraI government upon the Improvement
of local roads. If the advantages and
Disadvantages involved In the adrninistra-
ton of local roads could In some such
way be brought home to the people OF
the several localities which are well
enough populated to entitle them to free
postal delivery. It would not be long
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
BsEN Is WELL AGAIN.

New York Sum
Henrik Ibsen has practically recovered
from tine illness which was serious
enough at one time this spring to cause
Inc gravest fear to the family anu
country people for the dramatist Inc
doctors were never quite certain az to
the exact nature OF his, trouble 1t was
thougnt TO have been a severe attack of
lnnuenz4 which the Northern winter.
made more serious. Now the great dram
atist Is at all events well again with
no trace of the Illness noticeable In his
appearance. He had scarcely ever known
a sickness before and 1t was his won
derful constitution that sawed him when
ne seemed last winter so near death
det mas passed most of his time since
he recovered enough to leave, the house
In the fun glare Of sunlight that fails
ON his balcony He began to recover as
soon as the warm weather came and he
mas gained strength steadily during the
SUMMER He appears on his balcony in
the early morning and spends most OF
the day there. He has not yet been al
lowed by his physician to work His
last work was on when We Dead
Awaken" u He has started on nothing
since that, time and has made no plans
ito write another drama.
He positively refuses to- leave Christi
aniaf in spite of the advice of his pay-
stefan and the requests of his family.
HE VIII not even listen to the sugges-
it1on that he go to Munich and says that
because he is not strong, he will for that
reason remain in the north although the
physicians have told him that the winter
will be too extreme for him after his
illness. Although he Is now all but per.
Efectiy well another attack of the same
kind may have more serious results
fbSenss way CT life Is very strnpfe He
rises at s o'clock and after a cup of
coffee, makes a very careful toilet, usual
ly wearing a black coat and a wife linen
tie. He then answers his letters and
iafterWard goes to his balcony and reads
the newspapers and receives the visits OF
an old friend who regularly comes In to
see lhfnl
L Sharp at r. he starts on a drive to a
beautiful elevated part OF the city He
ldismounts from his carriage and walks
for "A while, returning home In the car
r1age to eat a. very simple midday meal
In the afternoon he rests for a while and
then begins again his reading of the
newspapers that come to him from all
over, the world.
i 1t is a pecuiiarfty of the poet that he
reads only newspapers and rarely opens
!! a book. When ihe Is too tired to read
himself, he has one of his family read to
him. Every afternoon in accordance
with an old custom. Sfgurd Ebsen with
his wife and children call to see the
father of the family. He delights espe,
cially in the society of the children.
From to g. he sits again on the balcony
!anw at 10 at night. he is in bed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
AN EDUc4r1oN.a1 WRoNG.

1t has doubtless occurred to the
thollghtful.s obseFvant parent that his
children who are attending the public
schools devote. entirely TOO much of their
time to side issues; that, in fact, too
many side issues are being lugged into
a common school education The logical
curriculum of the public schools is
reading. writing, photography, arithme-
tic, geography, history ard English
grammar. Proficiency in these studies
Will prepare a. man or woman for the
ordinary battle of life, ard that and no
more is what a public school is supposed
/ to do Chattanooga News.
This is "a plain proposition plainly
stated. Yet it is one the expression. Of
which is a cause of mortal offense to
quite large class of superpatriotic per-
sons. The Chattanooga News might have
added that the establishment of an edu-
ever even the shadow of al opportunity
presents itself is responsible for the
unnecessarily high cost Of public e1uca-
ton throughout the United States Mu-
sic and drawing and botany and as
tronomy and foreign languages and spe-
efal instruction in one or other direction,
outside the great requirements of COM
mon school education, result in leaving
the boy or girl who quits school the
mere zposseSsors of a lot of educational
frippery, which he or she forgets before
might not be regarded as especially
harmful; but the time and effort requir-
ed for the consideration of this undigest-
ed mass from an overloaded curriculum
are expended at the cost of the. recognize
ed essentials.
How many men, and especially, how
many women, in mature life, who have
been through the public schools, even
to the extent of attending the high
schools are able in after life to
write letter faultless in grammatical
construction? Every educated person in
business life knows what the answer Is
to this inquiry What proportion of the
letters coming from business houses is
defective In this respect? Here, too.
educated men and women can give an
answer which is In itself serious re-
Fiction on the public school system.
Any system Of education which leaves
a boy or girl OF reasonable mental
brightness, who has attended school with
regularity up to twelve or thirteen years
of age, without sound, and even an
exhaustive, knowledge Of the rules Of
English grammar and composition IS a
failure. 1t Is all very well for boys and
girls. proportionately few In number.
whose parents are In position to keep
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

them at school to the end, to be given
the refining touches which may be in
voived in what the Chattanooga News
calls side issues. But such policy ex-
tended to, the boy or girl whose situation
will inevitably dictate his or her WITH
drawal from school at an early age in
wolves a grieveus public and Individual
wrong.
We have left behind the theory which
our Tennessee contemporary gives ex-
preston to. viz: That the public school
is designed to fit a man. or woman for the
ordinary battle of life and for no other
purpose. We have suffered a great pub
lie loss in doing so. We have done sd
mostly because professional pedagogism
has taken hold in tho public schools and
led them away from the original concep-
lions of the founders Of the American
system of public education.
School officials bestow infinitely more
concern on the books to be used in the
'SAioo4o liitH tHey 90 on the perfection
of the curriculum. Indeed, so far as the
system of studies to be pursued in the;
schools is concerned that matter seems
to be left entirely to the teaching staffs.a
and the executive officials have very little
If anything to say publicly on the ques-
ton,
This is all wrong. Parents and school
commissioners and trustees are to blame
that such a criticism should be possible.I
If we are to maintain the higher, branches
OF education at the public expense-and
there is no disposition whatever evineed
to question the rightfulness of such a
policy-it is time enough to engage in
teaching many Of the branches which
now c1mber the so-called grammar
schools we'll toward the end of the high
school term or throughout the university
course. To impose them on the younger
pupils is a wrong to all classes of at
1tendants on the public schools as we'll
as on those who are taken from school
early as on those whose parents are in
position to keep them at school until
the university term is reached and
passed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
WIT TO DO n1rH THEN.

The practical mind of this ,peopIe
naturally turns at this time to the in
quiry how those who are capable of such
deeds as that which has shocked the
moral sense Of the world and now threat
en- to deprive the United States of its
leading citizen can be prevented. only
moral monstrosity could conceive or
execute so vile and cowardly deed.
Only men who are mental and moral de-
generates can look on such an event
without deep and abiding sense of hor
ror. Yet within the past forty-eig6t
hours there have been revealed those
who, enjoying all the protection of the
laws of the country make the ATTEMPT
ed assassination of Mr.. Mckinley an
occasion of public rejoicirg
Two ways viii naturally suggest them
selves to Americans to meet this con-
spiracy of assassination which has
robbed different nations of the earth. Of
their rulers within the past few years
One is to surround the person of the
president with such precautions, as will
make such a crime difficult of commits
sion, dispensing. If necessary, with all
such public receptions as that at which
the president was shot. Another is tor
public authority, local, state and ma
tional, to inaugurate crusade of ann
hilation against the authors and abet-
tors Of such crimes
Can either or both of those measures
be made sufficient to secure the person Of
the president and other high officials
against such savagery? The average
thoughtful man everywhere will at once
reply that the law should be made SUI
fciently drastic to deal Immediately and
effectively with such madmen. The adj
herent of free institutions is however. at
once reminded that there is nothing I'm
American law or constitutional govern
ment which makes criminal the enter.
tainment of such opinions as those muir
derous doctrines whose influence on tho
weak and unbalanced mind and distorted
moral nature of this wretched creature
led to the attempted murder of one Of
the highest individual products of Amer
can civil freedom.
The free expression of mons op:n-
Ions, no matter how hostile they may
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
ARSENIC FACTORIES.

Science Gossip.
White arsenic Is the form in which
arsenic is taken by the peasants Of Syria
and the TyroL Prof. Schallgruer of
GratZ, was the first to call attention to
this practice, IN a report which he made
in 1922 to the Austrian government on
the cause of the numerous deaths from
arsenic poisoning in those districts. He
found that arsenic was kept in most of
the houses in Upper Syria under the
name of "hydrach," evidently a cerEup-
ton of '<huttenrauch,' or furnace smoke
His. statements made were subsequently
confirmed from personal observation by
a DR.. Michigan, Of Edinburgh, but for
many years afterward the arsenic eaters
were generally disbelieved In. and It was
not till 1860 that c.. Heise published con-
Vincing evidence.
Arsenic is principally eaten by hunters
and woodcutteTs. with the object Of
warding off fatigue and improving their
staying powers. Owing to the fact that
the sale of arsenic is Illegal In AustriI
without doctors certificate, it Is diff:
cult to obtain definite information of
habit which is kept sc ret as possible
According to DR.. Lorenzo, in that dis
trict the arsenic is taken fasting, usually
in cup of coffee, the first dose being
minute, but increased day by day until it
sometimes amounts to the enormous dose
of twelve or fifteen grains. He found
lived, though liable to sudden death.
They have very fresh. youthful appear
anee, and are seldom attacked by fnfec-
tiouS diseases.
After the first dose the usual symptoms
OF slight arsenic poisoning are evident.
but these soon disappear on continuing
the treatment.
In the arsenic factories at Salzburg, it
IS stated that workmen who are not
arsenic eaters soon succumb to the fumes.
The manager of one of these works In
formed Mr. Heise that he had been medi-
caily advised to eat arsenic before tax
ing up his position He considered that
no one should begin the practice before
twelve years old nor after thirty. and
that in any case after fifty years OF
age, the daily dose should be gradually
reduced, since otherwise sudden death
would ensue. II confirmed arsenic
eater suddenly attempts to do altoghether
without the drug, he Immediately sue
curnbs to the effects of arsenic poisonins.
The only way to obviste this Is grad
TALLY to acciimatize the system by reduc-
ing the dose from day to day. AS an
other evidence of the cumulative. proper
ties of arsenic, II is interesting 90 note
that when the graveyards In Upper Styria
are opened, the bodies of the arsenic
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

an order barring civilians from this
courtesy Now, instead of s35 it VIII take
board; AS their salaries do not much
exceed s$75 per month. the, margin for pin
money is rather small If we are allow
ed a suggestion we will say that the
order of Secretary Root barring civilians
from the privilege of buying from the
eommissary stores should be vacated at
once as to teachers. Will someone Sec
ond the motion?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
A PERSIAN IDYL.
Bu1buI.
{ By Hubert M SIKH


By Hubert M. Skinner.)
Once on a languorous summer day,
How long, indeed, I scar cely,5 know,
But surely it was long ago.
A bird flew by my bower of rest, and
sang his tuneful lay.
Strange. was it not? A single note
From that sweet song was all heard
: looked in vain to see the bird;
But, all. how pdedntlve was the tone from
out its throbb.ng throat!
Oh! could he but, have fingered there:
Twas but a moment-he was gone,
And / was left to muse alone!
But soon again the note | heard upon
the fragrant air.
He turned and soua hit his leafy home,
Far distant from my lonely bowers;
And restless there amid the flowers
waited day by day, and watched and
hoped that he would come.
Impatient was I, for the song
That seemed to me no song of BIRDS,
But rapturous thrill of tender words
"Sweet heart, o sweet heart was the
note that echoed far and long.
Rewarded was my trysting true:
One drowsy day. when all was still,
My heart was quickened by a thrill,
When soft as whispers came the notes,
- ''I'rn singing, Love, to you"
They fingered in my raptured heart
They fingered still through darkened
days,
: Which. dull ana cherries, went their
ways;
They fingered In my sadness, and they
80 never would depart
Again the charmer thrilled my breast.
He folded me within his wings:
He bound me, as with silken strings;
He warbled In his whisper song, Dear
Love, you know the rest
He held me to his beating heart;
I felt the rapture of his kiss;
The moments sped with heavenly bliss
When. 10, he softly said THE Fates de-
cree that we must. part.
but rest content, my love, for yet,
Where hearts are true, no cruel fate
Can rule for ayes ana soon or late
In rapture we Shall meet again, and all
our woe forget"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

1.-THE Duluth News Tribune has the
distinction of being the only daily jour-
mai nal IN nj nbT ina fhat bd tn1nR Ks
OF course, it is entitled to it's opinions,
though it stands solitary and alone
among its Northwestern contempora-
ries.''-The Irish Standard.
The Standard is little off. The Times
(Minneapolis) used to think that Samp-
son was the whole show and as yet it
has not recanted. 1t might be well TO
observe as an extenuating circumstance
in favor of the News Tribune, that the
Times was present when Schley did the
business and the News Tribune has had
to depend entirely on hearsay evidence.
Then, besides-out what's the USE
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

The teachers who with such light hearts
and bright prospects went to Manila TO
instruct the little brown girls and boys
and incidentally to get married and make
money on the side, are sorely disap-
pointed. They We're led to believe that
they would be allowed to buy from the
United States comnissary without pay
ing duty on their provender. But alas.
the stern secretary of war tnterposed
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
He Knew.


What puzzling questions some of orr
readers ask?' growled the able editor of
an agricultural paner Here IS n city
man. lately removed to the country. who
wants to know how long COWS should
be milkedr'
Jaw. that's easYi' returned the, office
boy. Tell him, just the same as short
cows
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
A Grent Artist.

N. Y Weekly Sun-Tin1es.
Miss Shoddie-Why. nav. hist coI1a r.
this side of the room and look at that
portrait of paw that Dauber painted.
Mrs. Shoddie-I see the face looks sort
Q. greasy. That shows what a great ar
ttst MIR. Dauber Is. Your paw sot for
that picture IN August.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
Yachting.

BROOKLYN Eagle
Constance hear YOU have been cruis-
ing with your husband on his Yacht. this
summer. Isn't yachting very dangerous?
Mrs. Chattertcn fconfidentfaIlyl-Oh
we didn't do much sailing. We were t"-
ing hauled out on marine railways get
ting repaired most of the time.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
WiIIie,s idea.

Philadelphia Press.
isn't it awful how thin Mr.. Henpeck
is now" remarked Mrs Gabbie to her
husband land he used to BE- 81 stout"
Perhaps" ehimed In little Willie, re-
membering: his trouble with his bicvcle
tires. perhaps his wife forgets to blow
him up regular like you said she uster."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

The Boston Herald remarks that Sena-
tor Spooner is the only really promfs-
ing candidate for president In the West.
Boston is a good ways from Wisconsin
and this break may be excused. Spoon
er is one of those stage fixtures which
looks much better from the back seats,
and upon which it is dangerous to use
an opera glass. In the society Of spoons
Spooner would pass as a teaspooner. He
isanot very big.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
Hereditary Weakness.

Life.
How ignorant Miss swamper is of his
tory"
"She inhe,ifs it, Her father is q his
toricaI novelist
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
No Legal Redress.

Philadelphia Bulletin
More than half the pickpoelets are
women"
''Oh. come now; that's pretty severe
''But It's true. The only reason thew
escape arrest Is because they don't pick
anybody's pockets but their husbands. .
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

4 There must be a hen on in Minnesota
politics. Else why is the Republican press
trying to boom Cyrus Northrop? What IS
the gentleman being groomed for? Such
eulegistic' comments on an ordinary lit
tie speech must mean something
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

( There are times when the administra-
ton OF Judge Lynch would meet the APP
probation of the entire world We have
a case of that kind in mind just now. .
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
Not That Far Alone.

Philadelphia Record
Ibid YOU celebrate the Fourth2" asked
the Philadelphia woman.
1.-THE Fourth? Why. no, I'm stifi living
with my third" replied the Chicago
woman.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

John Wilkes Booth was hero. COM
pared with the wretch who attempted
the life Of William Mckinley.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

Within the shadow. of great, events
party lines are ebliterated and the Amer
lean people stand shoulder to shoulder,
brothers.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

ed England. What will happen to- that
unluely little island next?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

Should fate decree that the speech of
President Mckinley at Buffalo Thurs
day should be his last, the world with
one voice will proclaim it his greatest
1t is to these conditions and this time,
what the Gettysburg speech of President
lincoln was to those conditions and. that
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
Proper Place for Il.

PHILADELPHIA Record.
,CustomerLSee here waiter! found
button In this salad.
Waiter-Yea sir: that's part, Of tina
dressing. :-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

The Pan-American exposition at Buff
falo has been immortalized
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

eaters can be, distinguished by their al
lbs perfect state of preservation due to
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-01-05
KINGS DAUGHTERS
Statement Of the Great Work Done Dur.
Nag the Past Year.

ThgS nnual meeting Of Kings
DaYSiers and Sons, Circle No. Q,
walheld at the residence Of Mrs
JSC. Greenley, on January Srd,
1901.
The following we're the officers
elected Tor the ensuing year; Mrs,
h. st. L. Coppee, Leader; Mrs.
Alfred Stone, viee-Leader; Mrs.
y J. HARRY, Treasurer; Mrs. h ].
7. Stewart, Secretary
The following report Of the work
done by the Circle for the year
1900. was submitted b The retiring
officers:
To the Members Of the Kings
Daughters and Sons, No. 2:
The yearly statement is q iol-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-01-05

If you want TO eat hne Louisi-
ana open-kettle, old-fashion molas-
ses ask your grocer about ssP. e
F. brand.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-01-05

Prof Meiia, of the Mexican or
chestea, viii tune your piano for
only - during the holidays. Ad-
dress 1O7 North Poplar street.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-01-05

You want your boy to wait and pet
one OF those up-to-date boys suits at
The Leader. If
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-01-05

"Hanan, The Leader in shoe STYLES
for men, win be here soon.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-01-05

Prof. Meiia, at ihe Mexican 81.
chestra, viii tune your piano III
only IS during tke holidays AiIz
dress 1O7 North Poplar street
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Mrs. J. 8. JOHNSON,
ITO Kinds street.
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Dressmaking.

| have opened rooms at ITO
Kinds street, and am prepdSed to
do Dressmaking in all styles. A
share OF your patronage solicited.
| guarantee to please. Respect
fully,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-01-05

Franc made 70 order at BelI's.