The Minneapolis journal., 1901-04-19
NO MORE CHURCH AID
ALI Indian Contract Schools Will Be
Discontinued July I.
TEACHERS FOR THE PHILIPPINES
Consul General Bray Reports ON
American Trade In
Australia.

Australia.
S-~~'aI to The Journal
On, April 1s.-The government
+ tering upon its last three
laon relations with the ordinary
ercra- ,chools for Indian children.
)priation act, which becomes
on July 1. contains no pro-
contracts with any school
ee~- mpton institute, which has
ined because of its exceptional
/ 1886 and 1900 the government
90S,79S on contract schools Of
largest share. $3,959,643, went
oman Catholics. The Presbytern-
sived 1852, ,470, and were cut off
"a. The Congregational church
on at the same time, having
S219,641. The Friends came next
lO,57I and stopped after 1895. The
ant Episcopal church stopped the
ar, having taken $123, 346. The Lu-
received $SS, 700; the Unitari-
1850 and the Methodists $3S, 945.
aptists conducted their schools with
own money and refused any gov
Mt aid. The Indian Office recently
letter to the Catholic educational
asking it to designate the children
the care OF the church who would
1T without school privileges, and re-
d the answer that it knew none
church would henceforth take care
S own.
sanwhile. the government has been
easing its educational plant steadily
as to absorb the children left out by
extinction OF one contract after an
er. The average attendance is now
wing at the rate of about a thousand
year.
The task OF selecting teachers for the
hools in the Philippines will be rather
ne OF elimination than seeking for good
Material. Applications are coming in at
he rate Of twenty to twenty-five a day.
The number of teachers to be appointed
limited to 1000. short time ago
more than 1900 were transmitted to the.
war department by the civil service com
mission. The qualifications are:
Applicants must be either normal college
graduates.
They must have several years successful
experience in school work and be now en-
gagged in teaching.
They must be physically sound and able to
withstand q tropical climate, and willing
to accept whatever location is assigned them
by the general superintendent of education.
The pay will be from SIS to $125 a
month. fixed by the superintendent, ac
cording to the proficiency of the teacher
and the Importance of the position.
1t is understood that more than 100
applications have been received from
teachers in Minnesota. The larger num-
Der is from the twin cities and Duluth
The consular reports from Shanghai say
that there is a splendid opening there for
a sash and door factory and wood working
establishment. 1t is said there is not
planer, molding machine or saw mill in
all China. Logs are sawed into lumber
by the whipsaw process. and the work is
all done by hand. Moldings are made by
hand and lumber is dressed in the same
way. There is not lumber dry kiln in
China.
Thirteen years ago Charles A. Allen,
farmer living near Ogden. Iowa, drove
into town, and while getting dinner, tied
his horses to hay rack wagon. The ami
mails upset the wagon. throwing down a
vest which the farmer had left hanging
on the rack. Mr.. Allen. hearing the
noise, rushed out of the hotel and, pick
ing up his vest, found that six $5 bills
that had been left in one OF the pockets
had disappeared An innocent-looking
goat stood near by dreamily licking its
jaws.
A passer-by, suspected of the theft ac
cused the goat and offered to pay for the
in its stomach. The goat was killed and
the currency was found where the sus-
pected man said it would be.
This was the last heard of the matter
until this week, when William F. Gardiner
of the war department received pack
age from his ather-in-law. who is JUS
tice Of the peace at Ogden, containing the
mutilated currency The lump of dried,
hard pulp was taken to the treasury de-
partment, and the experts patiently
pasted enough of the bills on separate
sheets to show that six S. bills had been
destroyed. Under the rules. these have
been returned to the owner for an ati-
davit that the fragments are all that re-
main and the facts as to the goats din
ner, and upon its receipt new bills will
be issued MIR. Allen will lose only thir-
teen years interest on his money.
Land Commissioner Hermann has sug-
gested a lottery scheme for the opening
Of the Kiowa and Comanche Indian res
ervation, which, however, has not been
approved by the secretary. His idea is
to have a wheel of fortune set up near
the reservation, into which would be put
slips bearing the names of prospective
settlers After whirl of the wheel an
agent of the department would pick out
a card. The man named on the card
would be given the quarter section num-
bered 81" and so the drawing would pro-
ceed until all the sections were given
out This would substitute luck for the
usual helter skelter rush. !.
Mrs. Davis is having some difficulty in
finding a publisher for her distinguished
husbands literary remains. The first vol
ume, containing his lectures and addresses
on international law, was ready for the
printer long before congress adjourned,
but none Of the eastern publishers thus
far has been willing to take hold of it.
This volume has an interesting introduce
tion by Henry Cabot Lodge, and is said
to contain probably the best things that
Senator Davis has left. But it contains
nothing of popular interest" the pub
fishers say, and they are afraid of it.
The manuscript has been sent to several
of the leading publishing houses of the
country, and each has returned it with
the same words. They fear that the book
would not sell, and that any money ad-
vanced for putting it on the market
would be wasted. Mrs. Davis has not
been discouraged by these failures, and
is sending the manuscript to other firms
If necessary it is her intention, so l hear,
to publish it herself so confident is she
that it will have a ready sale.
In certain way, the criticisms which
have been offered by the publishers are
we'll taken The lectures and addroSSac