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CUBAN SCHOOL CONDITIONS.
Lieutenant Hanna's Report on the
Islands Educational Situation.

HAVANA. June IS.--Lieut NJ. F. Han
| ha' acting commissioner of schools, has
lsSueu report in regard to the educa-
/ uohal facilities on the island. He says
/ the increase in the number of schools
from 5l2 in December, 1893. to 1913 in
! august 1890, necessitated the enactment
/ OF general school law which has proved
| 10 De great. success. 1t is modelled on
! the law of the State of Ohio, and can be
changed TO suit circumstances.
Linetenant Hanna speaks highly Of the
zeau displayed by the boards of education,
but says the superintendents and teach
etS' as body, are poorly fitted for their
work This is due to their lack of educa-
ton' Instead Of creating normal schools
IN Cuba, Lieutenant Hanna recommends
that teachers be selected to so to the
United States and pursue a course of
study. which he thinks would be cheaper
and better. At present all the teachers
are Cubans
lieutenant Hanna recommends that this
course be followed as a rule, but suggests
that 1t would be good idea to import a
iew good foreign teachers. The report
says that owing to the small population
IN some districts the cost of educating
children under the usual plan would be
about $40 a month for each child. In re-
gard to discipline the report says it is
only fair Teachers salaries are too high.
There are few countries where teachers
are so well paid as in Cuba some of them
receiving from $50 to SIS a month all the
year round or from 20 to 81 per cent more
than is paid in the United States.
The report does not recommend that
the control of expenditures shall be given
to the boards of education, which are in
clined to be extravagant. The State is
paying all the cost of maintaining the
schools, which now amounts to about
a.000,OO0 year and may soon reach Sc, 6,OO0,-
600. Lieutenant Hanna thinks that the
municipalities should begin to pay some
of this expense. 1t may be that the
boards are extravagant because they are
using State instead of local funds.
The report says there are 1867 school
rooms on the island with 1883 teachers.
The average attendance is 81 and the
average enrolment IS. There are 273
pupils enrolled and the average daily at
tendance is 1882. OF the teachers 456
are men and 2,127 women. The total paid
to teachers for salaries in the last four
months of 1900 was $3.50, ,1s5 and the total
cost of maintaining the schools in the
same period was s9O4.0l2.
The contract for the sewering and paw
ing of Havana will be readvertised and
bids will be opened on September %.
About ten of the recent municipal cleo
tiOns have been annulled
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About presidential Candidates.

! Some of our exchanges express the
! opinion that it is premature to talk
about the probable Republican Presi-
1 Dental candidate in 1904, but that dis
! cussion of who should be the Demo-
! cratic candidate is altogether timely.
/ These exchanges have simply got the
cart before the horse.
/ A discussion of the probable Demo-
cratic candidate at this time is not only
useless, but weIl-nigh impossible for
the basis of such discussion is lack
ing. Mr. Bryan, like President McKin-
ley, may be regarded as having practi-
cally eliminated himself from consider
alton, but beyond that so far as the
Democratic party is concerned, there is
at present nothing to be said. 1t is
certain that in 1904 the attitude of the
party will be materially changed upon
some of the questions that figured in
1896 and 19O0 but just how far the
notifications will extend it is impos-
sibIe at this time to foresee. Until it
is known definitely what the position
of the party will be, it is idle to talk of
candidates.
But with reference to the Republican
party, the situation is altogether diff
ferent. The party in power stands
boldly and dehantly upon the record it
has made. The Republican assumption
is that its policy has been a good one
even to the point of perfection. That
nothing in the way of change is desired
or contemplated. Immediately after
the election Mark Hanna declared that
the reelection of Mr.. Mckinley gave
assurance of the continuation of pros
perity; and now it is claimed that the
Presidents foreign policy has been up
held by the Supreme Court.
Hence the personnel of the Republi-
can candidate is at once suggested, and
so plainly that no discussion ought to
be necessary. But it is made so by the
presumption Of those. who, like Foraker
and Fairbanks, refuse to recognize the
eternal fitness of things, and insist upon
thrusting their own personalities into
view as Presidential possi bilities. They
ought to know that the crown" be-
longs to Mr.. Hanna as Of right, but it
seems that they do not, or If they do,
,
Mr.. Depew, after making himself su-
premely ridiculous by urging a third
term for Mr.. Mckinley, is reported as
intimating that Mr. Hanna viii not do
which shows either that Mr. Depew
does not know what he is talking about
or that he has the bee in his own bon
net. which is very likely, since it has
been there before.
These things make it imperative to
serve the Republicans with occasional
reminders both of what Mr.. Hanna has
done for the party and his pre-eminent
fitness for the Presidency-fro the
Republican standpoint. Beyond this no
discussion is necessary. although it
may occasionally be proper to rebuke
these smaI-bore politicians swho nave
the temerity to think Of competing with
a statesman Of Mr.. Hanna's calibre.
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a NAVAL coURT-MARTIAL.
Trial at Philadelphia of II Paymaster
CnreIeas nf Orders.

Secretary Long has appointed a court
martial to try the case of Paymaster John
r. Martin. who is accused Of scandalous
conduct tending to the destruction of good
morals. The case against Paymaster Mar
tin is largely one of technicallties. He is
accused of having advanced himself mon
ey in his hands for disbursement, and
charged the same to his own account
and deducted it from his salary, and of
having also loaned money. or advanced it,
on the salary of another officer.
While the charges do not involve moral
turpitude, his action is contrary to the
statutes and the regulations OF the navy.
His trial will take place at the League
Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, tomor-
row. The members Of the court are
Capts. James II. Sands, Charles e.
Clark, and Richard p Leary, Pay In
spector Lawrence G. Boggs. Commander
William p Potter Pay Inspector John
n. Speel. and Paymaster Arthur Peter
son, with First Lieut. Leof NJ. Harding
OF the Marine Corps. as Judgesadvocate.
There are six specifications to the
charge Four of them set forth that Pay
master Martin, who is attached to the re-
ceiving ship Richmond, at League Island.
advanced to himself public moneys en-
trusted to his charge in detail as follows:
On April /, sI40,29; on April Is. s9455; on
April q, S2.62, and on May 3. $44436
1t is alleged also that Paymaster Martin,
on April lS and May Il, advanced $14.03
and S22.73, respectively, TO Surgeon e H.
Marsteller. No allegation or suggestion
Of embeZZlement or attempt TO defraud
the Government is contained in the charge
and specifications. 1t IS charged merely
that Payma ster Martin paid public mon
eys IN advance In violation of law.
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stntesmeu aud BOSSES.

The report that the Hon. Thomas c.
Platt. Of New York, contemplates re-
signing the seat which ne now holds
in the Senate is receiving some atten-
ton at the hands Of the press. but there
is a singular absence Of expressions in
dicating a belief that either the Senate
or the State Of New York viii be any
thing the loser by the Senator's resig-
nation. In sober truth Mr Plat. who
holds the Republican party of New
York in the hollow Of his hand, has
made a most insignificant Senator
good double for Quay Of Pennsylvania
and probably no better than Richard
Croker would make. Neither as d de-
batter upon the floor nor as a worker in
committee has Mr.. Platt developed any
strength whatever, and the American
public IS prepared TO witness with per,
feet indifference his retirement from
the Senate al the expiration Of his term,
OF as raUch sooner as he pleases.
Mr. Platt was elected, not because Of
any peculiar fitness for the position Of
Senator. but merely because he was
the boss Of his party in the Empire
State, and could dictate his own cleo
ton. The failure OF Plat and Quay in
the Senate brings out into bold relief
the fact quite generally recognized that
there is a broad difference between the
qualities which make the successful
party boss and those which enable a
man to distinguish himself in such
body as the United States Senate.
So far as is known, neither Platt nor
Quay has ever exhibited marked su-
periority in any field Of purely intel
lectuaI endeavor. And yet they are
both unquestioned leaders of their party
I'm their respective States. The explana-
ton must, it would seem, lie in the
fact that the successful party boss
needs other qualities more than he does
Intellect He is usually a man Of
shrewdness and cunning rather than
depth or brilliancy Generally he be
gins in small way, by obtaining CON
troll of some local organization This
gives him nucleus Of strength, which
grows by sort Of natural accretion,
until it finally becomes a huge political
machine. A man with a township dele
cation at his back can often make com
binations in county convention which
result In giving him control of the coun-
ty organization. This becomes a machine
which may enable him finally to con-
troll she State organization. 1t is not
necessary for him TO be cultured. TO be
familiar with literature, art, or even
the great political problems of the day.
He needs only skill in making his COM
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TO SUPPRESS LYNCHING.
Judge Powell. of jackson. Miss, De-
Iivers a Strong Charge.

MYERS strong Charge.
NEW ORLEANS. June IS.-At the OPEN
ing of the circuit court at Jackson. Miss.
Judge Powell strongly charged the grand
jury to investigate the recent lynchings of
negro at Terry and TO return indictments
against the guilty persons. At the con-
clusion of his charge he emphasized the
fact that he was thoroughly in earnest
by handing to the foreman list of citi-
zens who are said either to have been
connected with the Iynching or to know
of those who were.
The lynching referred to took place
about four months ago. The judges
charge was a severe arraignment of
lynching and an appeal to the people of
Mississippi to assist in breaking it up He
pointed out that it was not only a great
crime, but frequently great bIunder as
has been shown in Mississippi lately when
the haste of mob in lynching prisoners
had prevented the real criminals from be
ing captured
The strong appeal of Judge Powell is
taken as evidence that the judiciary, CO.
operating with Governor Longino. has not
abandoned the attempt to suppress lynch
ing in Mississippi in spite of two failures.
Governor Longino announced in his in
augural speech his intention to break up
lynching in the State. All the power of
the State failed in two cases to secure
a single conviction of a lyncher. but the
last lynching campaign at Sciardin proved
the movement to be far stronger than at
first. and public sentiment had been well
aroused on the subject
The Terry case will show whether it is
sufficiently aroused to indict and punish
lvncfers
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LATE ARMY ORDERS.

Brig. Gen. John c. Bates has been
ordered. upon the expiration of his pres
ent leave of absence, to proceed to
| Omaha. Neb.. and assume command of
| the Department of Missouri vice Brig.
Gen. Henry c. Merriam
Brig Gen. James r. Smith. United
States Volunteers, has been hOnorably
discharged. to take effect June Il. 1901.
The Secretary of War has ordered the
honorable discharge on June 80 1851. OF
Capt James T. Ord. Porto Rican Regi-
ment. United States Volunteer Infantry.
on account of physical disability
Capt Reuben B. Turner, quartermaster,
United States Infantry, is to be relieved
Of duty at Columbus Barracks and pro-
ceed to Des Moines. Iowa, TO assume
charge, under the direction of the Quar-
termaster General, of the construction of
the public buildings in connection with
the military post to be erected there.
The following officers have been de-
tailed as members of the faculty of the
Army Medical School. in addition to the
wood, Assistant Surgeon General. L. 5.
A. as president of the faculty, vice Col
Charles Fl. Alden. L. 5. A. retired; Col.
Calvin Dewitt Assistant Surgeon Cen
eral. I. 5. A, as professor of military
medicine; Major John Van r Hof. Sur
geon, L. s A. as lecturer on the duties
OF meulcdl OIDCerS IN war and peace.
Major William G. Borden, Surgeon. T. s
a, as professor Of military surgery. vice
Colonel FOrwoOd. designated as president
Of the faculty; Major Frederick p Rev
noids. Surgeon. United States Volunteers
captain assistant surgeon. L. s. Al as
instructor in Hospital Corps drill and
first aid to wounded, vice Can't George
D. DeShon, relieved
Capt. MGrris X. BarrOH Artillery Corns
has been transferred from the Twenty
seventh Company. Coast Artillery. to the
Fortieth Company.
Capt. Charles F. Parker is transferred
from the FOrtieth Company Coast ArtiI-
lery. and viii remain unassigned ana
available for staff duty or other duty AT
his station.
First Lieut. Tenney Ross Third In
fantry. has been detailed TO conduct n
detachment of recruits from Columbus
Barracks to Vancouver Barra cks. and is
relieved of duty at Fort Sheridan. and
ordered. upon the completion of that
duty TO join his regiment in the PhiIip-
pines
The department orders of June 8 reIat-
ing to Capt Edward Chenoweth. Seven
teenth Infantry. have been revoked and
he has been ordered. upon the expiration
of his sick leave. TO proceed to Madison
Wis. for duty with the National C;nard
of that State until September /. 1901
Recent orders relating to Cant Elon Il
WILCOX. Sixth Cavalry, have been amend
ed as to direct him to report at San
Francisco for assignment in the Denart
ment of California =
The times., 1901-06-19
COTTON TRUST OFFICERS.
The American Company increases
the Number of Directors

NEW YORK, June 1s.-The stockhoId-
ers Of the American Cotton Company, the
Round Bale Cotton Trust, at the annual
meeting today, adopted an amendment to
the bylaws increasing the number of di-
rectors from nine to thirteen, and elected
the following board Of directors:
William c Lowering, Cornelius n Bliss,
James X Jones.s David r. Francis. Albert
w. Smith, Maxwell Woodruff, James G.
Cannon Albert G. Case, Charles Hatha-
way. Hampden Il. Tener. jr., William II.
Porter, Thomas T. Wing, and Henry T.
Bailantyne.
The directors elected the following OFF,
GERS: James G. Cannon, Chairman board
Of directors; Albert c. Case, President;
w c. Lowering Vice President; II. E.
Tener. ir, Treasurer; Samuel S. Conover,
Secretary
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SCORED BY BISHOP POTTER.
Missionaries and Consular Agents
Bitterly Criticised in speech.

ROCHESTER,, n. Y, June 1S.-Bishop
/ Potter, of New York, devoted a portion
of his address before Iota Chapter of the
! Phi Beta Kappa Society this evening to a
| criticism of some misguided missionaries
I and of our consular service. The address
was delivered before a large audience.
this being one of the features of the Uni
versity of Rochester's commencement
| Bishop Potter said:
I'VE are hearing much of battering
down that ancient Kingdom in the East
and of rescuing the people from their
| ignorance. Well, suppose we begin by
emancipating ourselves from our own ig
norance. When we go to foreign coun-
tries. isn't it well to learn and conform
to the usages of the country where we
are? Also. is 1t too much to ask that
some further measure of knowledge be
required of those who are the official
agents of our country in foreign lands?
Il enquired some time ago while trav-
cling abroad regarding the accurate
knowledge, intelligence, broad-minded-
ness, and compliance with customs on the
part of our consular service and l found
that these qualities were as much to be
found there as are grace and elegance on
the part of bull in china shop"
Bishop Potter spoke forcibly of our
"discreditable representatives in foreign
lands" and quoted a conversation with
business friend on this subject. to show
that business agents have better man
ners than our consular officers.
The consular service is mostly made up
of men who are selected by Senators who
pay debts to political heelers by forcing
the hand of the Executive" said he. ut
is part of vast system of political sway,
and is degrading to this high legislative
body We hear of the bad conditions that
exist IN our city governments. but our
attention needs also to be diverted to the
poor quality of the representatives that
we send abroad
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MANY PATENTS JUST ISSUED.
4 Total of 52G Separate Idens Grant.
ed OmciaI Recognition.

eu INecOS
Patents have been issued to residents of
the District of Columbia, under date of
June IS. as follows:
Miles S. Cody. vending apparatus: Irwin
J. French, assignor of one-half to J. Ben
nett scaling device for faucets; John w.
Kline, ordnance; Melville Lindsay, con-
yeyer-belt
The issue of June IS includes 453 patents,
twenty-one designs. thirty-one trade
marks. rineteen labels and two prints
Patents have been issued to citizens of
the United States in the following appor-
tionment to each State and Territory, the
first number given denoting patents and
designs and the second trade marks
labels. and prints:
Alabama. /: Arkansas, 1; California, l3
2; Colorado 6, Connecticut, 13; Delaware.
/; District of Columbia !; Florida, 2;
Georgia, q /; Idaho. /; Illinois, 46. 4; In
diana, 15 2; Iowa, 10; Kansas, a. Ken
lucky. 3; Maryland, 13; Massachusetts, 25,
{; Michigan, I, 2; Minnesota. II; Missis-
sippi /, J.; Missouri, I, / Montana, /:
Nebraska. /; New Hampshire .; New Jer-
sey. 30; New York. SO. Is; North Carolina,
?. /; North Dakota, /; Ohio 81, 7; Okla
homa Territory, !, Oregon. ,: Penn
sylvania. AZ, 3; Rhode Island, 3: South
Carolina, 0, /; Tennessee. 3, !; Texas T.
?; Vermont, ,; Virginia. l; Washington
/, ]; West Virginia. 4: Wisconsin, Z. Total
to citizens of the United States. 424, 4S
The appOrtiOnment 10 the various coun-
tries Of patents and designs issued to for
eigners is follows:
Austria-Hungary. 3; Belgium, g Can
ada, 5. England, Il; France. 4; Germany.
1G; Italy. /; Russia, 2 Total to citizens of
foreign countries. 30.
Germany and India were each granted
two trade marks and prints.
No patent contest cases Will be placed
upon the docket before either the Com
missioner of Patents or the Assistant
Commissioner during July and August
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The Faith Cure for Bed Bugs.
From the Washington News Letter-Christia
Science)


Science.)
In the second half Of the summer Of 1900 /
was led to consider what our dominion in fact
is, and must say that | could not answer this
question satisfactorily, and thoughts came and
changed with others TO the worse until came
to the thought, 'ls all they believe errori''
''what is mans domain?'' Dominate means TO
govern. ''What do We govern?''
After a hard struggle the thought came 10 me,
'.You never tried 10 govern" 1 went ever the
whole field again. and found some proof of
dominion; they were before too little for me,
and proofs of the correctness OF the Word. the
Bible This drove me TO earnest trial We
we're bothered with bed bugs, whose activity
was hothering This plague chose Tor an
object to prove to myself whether / have do
mnon, or whether it is all error. The right
OF the bugs to trouble Gods children dis
puted, and demanded that they walk right off,
and in a short time my tormentors were all
gone. and have not seen any since.
This testimony is given in support OF the
teaching ON page 462 of the Washington News
Letter" and / wish that every ehjld of God
may know that We actually have dominion, and
profit by it. Great is God. Glory to his name.
l.. A. HILDEBRAND.
Chicago, May 5, 1901.
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WASHINGTON BOYS HoNoRED.
Prizes Awarded at the Bordentown
Military Institute.

BORDENTOWN. y. J.. June 1S-The
sixteenth annual graduating exercises of
the Bordentown Military Institute took
place here today The Rev. DR. A. G.
McCrea, Of Port Richmond. Staten ISL
and. delivered the address to the grad
yates.
A gold medal was awarded to William
Ralph Drexel, Of Washington. y. c., for
his excellent defamation Otto /. Vor-
hees also Of Washington. received gold
mccall for the best written article for the
"SIirmisher." the institute Journal.
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Not FORGOTTEN.
(From The Augusta New Age.)

(From the Augusta New Age.)
Did Mr. Blaine cease TO be the most popular
idol OF the Republican rank and file of the colin-
try when Benjamin Harrison, in lsss wrested
from him the bauble Of the Presidency wh.h
he had been yainiy chasing for twenty years? 10
He stil continued 10 represent thc people who
loved, respected, and honored him. Just as Mr.
Bryan represents the common people who
1000 eco strong, ''unawed by iniiuente and un-
bribed by gain" marched TO the ballot boxes
last November and voted for him lie is their
idol today. just as Mr. Blaine remained the
idol Of his followers in the days that are gone
The times., 1901-06-19
GENERAL MILES A GUEST.
He Passes Newport on Board the
Yacht Ladrock.

NEWPORT, r. L., June 1S.-The steam
yacht Iadrock, owned by Colgate Hoyt.
arrived here this afternoon flying the flag
of a general in the army II was later
learned that Mr.. Hoyt had as his guests
Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles. commanding
the army. and Col. II. O. S. Heistand.
The I-adrock stopped here long enough
for General Miles to make an informal
visit to Fort Adams and then continued
to Providence.
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The Pension List.
(From the PhiladeIpIia rimes.l


The fraudulent abuses of our very generous
pension roll have swollen its cost to such alarm-
ing excess as 10 endanger the whole system and
il is the duty OF the Administration 10 pro-
tect the veterans from themselves and allow no
advantage TO those who mislead them. II is not
a question merely Of substituting one man for
another Pension Commissioner but Of giving
sign of weakening in the honest stand that
Ar. Evans has maintained.
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BIDS for Government Supplies.

The committee for providing the va
rious Government departments with sup
plies. such as stationery, ice. coal,
sponges. wood, ink. etc, for the coming
fiscal year, met at the office of O. l..
Spaulding Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, yesterday and scheduled the
bids and proposals. The contracts Will be
awarded later.
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For a secretnryship of Legation.

Senate, Deboe will call on the Presi-
dent today and recommend James G. Bal
ley, of Magoffin County KY, for appoint
ment as Secretary of Legation at Guate-
mala 1t is believed Mr.. Bailey will be
aUDOinted
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House Cleaning in order.
Urom The Philadelphia Record)

The Democratic party OF Pennsylvania is con
fronted with a great duty and offered great
opportunity contingent upon the faithful per-
formance OF that duty. In the name OF out
ragged and plundered Commonwealth il is com
manded TO purge itself OF its traitors and
traders
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pcnns,Irnnia,s Infnmx.
lFrom the Boston Herald.l

NtFoin iie DoStuh hStAt'-l
II the criminals in all the iaiis were turned
loose they would not be 80 dangerous in their
influence to degrade the standards Of public life
as are the men whom the people of the Common
wealth have elevated to places of honor. They
are undermining the morality of the coming
generation.
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Not the Man.

(From the Philadelphia North American)
Much consideration may be due Mr. Conger be-
cause OF the part he played at the time of the
siege OF the legations but if he must be pro-
vided for let it be in some other part Of the
world than in China. He has proved himself too
narrow and vindietiye to be OF the greatest service
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broad as any that ever confronted the
American people. Upon that issue.
coupled with opposition to the trusts
there is no reason why the Democratic
party should not triumph, If 1t does not
break the force of the great constitu-
tional argument by at the same time
insisting upon the surrender of the
identical territory to which 1t is claimed
the Constitution should be extended.