New-York tribune., 1901-08-18
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The magnificent organization OF trade and tech
nical schools Germany is three generations old
says The London Telegraph" Our competitors
are not content with what exists They are in
cessantly employed in perfectins their practical
equipment How we expect 10 compete with
a country where thousands OF apprenticed clerks.
the business directors and commercial travellers
OF the future attend their continuation schools Tor
two hours in the morning-from o'clock TO ~
Then they go to their Offices and long before at
tanning their majority they are proficient in at
least a couple OF living languages. have thorough
grasp OF the whole theory and practice OF foreign
trade and above ALL IN their own special line have
got quite TO the bottom OF their business. Be
tween fifteen and nineteen with US the state knows
next TO nothing OF It's youth. though that is the
very period in which permanent character and
faculty are shaped The thousand boys who might
have become technical experts or commercial trav-
elers as fluent and persuasive as their Contlnenta
rivals In many tongues would De worth
million OF the elementary instructed. who retain
little more on the average than strong taste FOR
cbean fiction our expenditure upon education is
largely a colossal waste. and our failure TO pro-
vide a secondary system such as can alone bring
the seed 10 harvest is a national disaster and
national disgrace
Il wonder why Noah couldn't convince his wick
ed neighbOrs OF the dangers OF hood ,,
Maybe" answered the Kansas farmer. discon-
tentedly lit was because they haa piantee corr
and weren't afraid OF rain IN any quantity. -
Washington Star.
4 writer In The Chicago Tribune says that
uourhton Hall which Is 10 the residence OF the
British heir apparent and of the Duchess Of Corn
wall on their return from a trip around the world.
euiovs the peculiar distinction of being haunted.
not merely by one but by two ghosts The one Is
s,nuosed TO be the ghost OF Dorothy Walpole, sis
ter of Sir Robert Wapole and wife OF Viscount
Townshend. a little brown figure who enjoys the
credit OF having disturbed the rest OF King George
~ al Houshton Hall. and of having scared him
F,.v h.N~ prfh in a
room which they knew to be haunted. The other
ghost is understood be that OF member of the
WaIpole family who shot by his brother on
the premises which is supposed TO haunt the bill
lard room after dark.
He's very liberal In his religious views"
believes one church is no better than another"
Not exactly HIS IDEA Is thaI one Snureh Is no
1t is said that the pawnshops OF Paris are filled
with bicy cles and that when the wheels are put
up at auction IL is hard TO get good bid for
them. What a change has come over the scene in
a few years" says a Paris paper And may not
a prophecy regarding automobiles be safely rsked7
II seems to be only a question OF time with most
fads and fancies."
1t was when Uncle Toms Cabin" in town.
Two girls stopped before window in which a
picture OF the Madonna and child was displayed
and one said TO the otner: ~,,,..-u.
That's Eliza making her escape-"-(E'fttsburs
Chronicle
Alfred Davies in the House of Commons recently
brought TO the atteEton OF the Secretary Tor
Foreign Affairs remarkable tale about the disap-
pearance of ex-President kruger's treasure He
asked whether the Secretary was aware that the
treasure had been a boat In the river near DeIs-
goa Bay and that Captain Grove. British Cohsai
at DeIagoa Bay had employed a man. known ior
his drunken qualities. TO effect its seizure with the
result that the was buried in the river oy
those on board the vessel. and finally, with the ara
of United States Consul Coils and an Aneri-
can captain was conveyed from Delasoa Bay 10
foreign port"
Lord Cranborne replied that Delagoa bay was
Portuguese territory. and that neither captain
Crowe nor any other British officer couid sei%e
gold there The government had no reason 10 De-
ueve that any gold had been transported from
Deagoa Bay through the instrumentahty OF any
ITnited States consul in any American SNIP
Mr. Davies Is known in New-York he was mere
several months ago. and attracted attention oy his
resemblance TO Mr.. Pickwick, as was told In The
Tribune at the time.
All Forms Dangerous.-"Say, Weary, see de
doctors is advisin' people against de dangers OF
moonlight bathing. .,,x.,
"But why do dey put In de word moonlight.
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