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''Reckoa you better lick me-if ye
kim" says jack as he defantly faces
the pedagogue.
This places the school and teacher on
war footing, The ultimatum having
been delivered the teacher either goes
in and fights a winning fight or loses
all control Of the school. 1t admits of
no alternative, For the honor of the
profession. be 1t known, in most cases
war medicine Of a fierce and eager va
riety Is speedily mixed. In the early
clash bone and sinew on the side of the
big boy tells and the scholars dance
about. hoping for victory. In the end
', In most cases skill. endurance and high
er nervous energy turn the scales and
in almost record time Simpson is
licked commodity. He may not actual
~ ascend TO the roof to correct his er-
ror Of Judgment. but the thing is done
and the smoke out" is a dismal fail
ure
In Kansas after the close of the war
set of boys from New York arrived
in little village to find homes. The
f@A-86N DNAOOA VIZ taught OJ IL 1Ol
trooper who still wore his blue uniform
vest. One Of the New Workers was
the soul Of mischief. He signalized the
coming of winter when ice was good
and skating fine by putting some aw-
full things on the big cannon stove.
The smell sent the school to the tall
grass outside. Wilson was charged
xxrfth kut1f A.xk I'll a.
Then the school reassembied and the
usually mild eyes of that teacher blaz-
ed. Wilson was as big as he and fun
was sure to come.
The boys commenced to whistle In
concert with the shrill piping of the
wind One small boy was detected in
the act and received a hot ruler on
his crupper when Wilson interposed
and said he alone was to blame. The
pedagogue then allowed he would haze
to whip Wilson. so the action commenc-
ed without time wasted in prelinina-
ries. Wilson sent the teacher in under
form in the first clash. The teacher
rose and staggered to a clinch. Then
he got busy over Wilson and pounded
that young fellow right merrily. Half
dozen of the bigger boys yelled foul
and went to the rescue.
AS lovely a bicker as ever came of
in school house followed. The boys
had the teacher in under the desk.
which was upset, the forms were
marked by punches of hair as some
head went against an iron standard,
the dust of battle covered the strug
Cling heroes, but the teacher would not
yield. The small boys and all the girls
were bowling in concert, scared into
fits. for all thought murder would be
done, But this kind of thing must end
and it did very suddenly.
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He Liked the Place.

He had sided into cheap restaurant
not beyond earshot of the Herald
Square clock, and hung his high hat on
low peg. AS became one Of those up-
placed individuals who lolter in swell
Hobbies and eat at uncertain intervals,
he tried TO ignore the casual acquaint-
ance who sat opposite. but with per-
sistency peculiar to casual acquaint-
anees that person wouldn't stand fo-
ii. He butted in. so to speak, and the
tenant by courtesy of hotel rotundas
felt that it was up to aim to say some
thing.
do you know" he began. Il like this
place. The cooking is so homelike, the
griddIe cakes so delicious: they are just
like my mother-er mother-er 10th
er's servant used TO serve. New York
Telegram.
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TEACHING A SCHOOL.
POSITION OF ScHooLMAsTER is
NO SINECuRE.
Sometimes He Has to Fight to Main
tain Discip1ine-One Pedagogue Who
Whipped Entire C1ass--Muscle as Inn
portant Requisite as Is Scholarship.

Who hath bleeding at the nose: He
who teacheth country school. Where
fore l say unto you. go not gaily forth
10 teach them that dwell in the land
FOUND about lest ye have wounds and
sores, for verify it booteth more TO
compass We boxe than to read the stars.
%. K, HIS Maxims.
II is truth the poet sings that he who
essays to handle the unruly in a c0un-
try school has educational work cut
cut for him not laid down III any repu-
table text book.
No person on earth Is subjected to
rs many petty prosecutions born of
sheer deyiltry as the country school
teacher. For a week, maybe, after he
takes in" the school he has a fairly
easy road to travel; the boys have not
Anished sizing him up. But woe to
him If he becomes unduiy confident,
for things will happen not set forth in
the simple rules he has pasted up
above the blackboard. The second
Monday is generally the time set for
the opening of hostilities The big
leader, likely as not bigger than the
teacher, has used Saturday and Sun
day mapping out his program.
Subdued smokers, inattention to the
business in hand. poorly prepared les
sons or lessons absolutely unlearned
mark the days proceedings The teach
er reprimands and orders the school to
stick to those tasks until they are
learned. Nobody is kept in at recess or
noon rest for as yet no open defiance
has marked the demeanor of the put
pills. They go slowly, for the temper
Of the master is not a revealed thing
Jet just before school 'lets out" the
teacher rises, taps his bell and, having
secured attention. delivers & curt lee
lure concerning what has been done
ar. rather, not been done-and his anx-
lcus desire to see immediate improve
ment. Then the bell taps In dismissal
and the boys rush unanimously out,
tring back bucoiic shouts of scorn and
defiance as they scuttle away.
Then the teacher, IL he Is wary,
knows he is in the position of the man
who has bet his sole remaining dollar
on losing horse-he is up against it
good and plenty. He arrives at the
scene Of his labors on Tuesday with
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Is A REPULSIVE CITY.
FILTH, WRETcHEDNESs, FANAT-
lCISM AND AvARICE.
These Make Jerusalem One of the Most
Disgusting Places on Earth-Danger
of Death from Mohammedan Fanat-
ics-Mosque of Omar.

The city OF Jerusalem Is q place of
bvef whelming interest to all Christians
and Is almost as sacred to the follow
ers Of Mohammed as to the followers
Of Christ. but everybody who comes
here in reverential spirit is sure to be
disappointed and wish that he had
stayed away, SO many illusions are dis
PEELED. so many ideals shattered, so
many cherished memories viol.sad, so
much confidence shaken. writes VII
liam e. Curtis in the Chicago Record
Herald. Every holy and historical
place is disputed-every spot In the
entire city of any public interest. the
line of every wall. the position of every
palace. temple and synagogue. the To-
cation of every gate. the site of every
scene connected with the life Of the
Savior, the name of every pool; sew
eral of the most important places are
duplicated. and in one instance tripli-
Gated.
Avarice and Fanaticism.
The mercenary spirit pervades every
part of the community. which makes
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father moved to Kansas with bis fam
lily. The friend of the black man made
several visits to his birthplace and was
pleased to find growing anti-slavery
movement. In 1897 the lines between
the opposing parties were closely
drawn, and several fights occurred at
W0lcottyille when the anti-slavery adj
herents tried to hold meetings there.
Brown paid Torrington ar. extended
visit about this time, and was so out
spoken against slavery that an old
friend of the family undertook to warn
him. IF you keep up this fight against
slavery. you'll be hanged some day"
said the friend. Brown is said TO have
replied that he did not fear anything of
that sort. and went on fighting slavery
until he was hanged at Charleston, Va,
in 1889.
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HEROES IN HOMESPUN
WERE AS CHIvALRiC AS MAILED
KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS.
Henry Watierson Pays an Eloquent
Tribute to Harrison's Men in Hunt
ing Shirts Who yanquished the In
dams ON the Tippecanoe.

The eloquence of Henry Watterson
was employed recently in an address
on the Tippecanoe battlefield near La
fayette. Ind. 1t was q memorable
gathering. Hundreds drove many miles
to hear the great Kentnckian and were
well rewarded. He saids
Travelling from out the twilight of
the past into the radiance of the pres
ent, and tracing as we go the history
of the country along the glorious but
rugged route of battlefelds by the
glare of faggot fame and rifle flash, it
seems ages since Tippecanoe; since
Harrison and his hunting shirts met
and vanquished the hordes of the two
Tecumsehs; yet, are there men still
living, and here to-day, who. II they
were not contemporary with the event
and its yaliants, can distinctly recall
the spirit of those times; the aspects.
the very familiar features of those
valiants; the atmosphere, the form and
body Of an epoch, when, from Faneuil
Hall, in Boston, from Raleigh Tavern,
In Virginia, to Fort Wayne and old
Vincennes upon the confines of this
borderland, the redskin and the red
coat alike stirred to its depths the
heart of the young republic.
There were giants in those days, and
there was need that there should be.
No vestibuled trains, nor nsiace coach
es waited to fetch them hither; no
noisy procession, with banners waving
and brass bands playing, marched
forth to honor their arrival. They jour
neyed for the most part afoot. They
picked their way through trackIess
canebrake and wooded waste. across
swift-running, bridgeless streams. their
fiintlocks their commisSariat.
Liberty in Their Hearts.
They had quilted what they regard
ed as the over-crowded centers of the
populous east to seek the lonely but
roomier wilds of the far West, keenly
alive to the idea of lettering their con-
dition, having a fine sense of pure air
and arabic land; 1t may be for town
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THROUGH THe TELESCOPE.
Humble Tragedy of the Siege of Lady
smith.

smith.
When the Beers besieged Ladysmi n
they permitted camp Of refuge" and
a field hospital TO be established at In
tomb, few miles distant. Here the
non-combatants were gathered. And to
the hospital, writes George Lynch in
the London Daily Express. came every
morning the train from Ladysmith,
bearing its burden of sick and wound
ed.
To the jewellers at Intombi that train
brought the history of the siege, the
daily bulletin written in blood and dis
ease. Women who had husbands and
brothers and sons in Ladysmith crowd
ed around always to see what news it
brought, and went away with sigh Of
respite and relief when it carried moth
ing for them.
And yet, after fas,hion, these WON
en- at Intombi were Pore fortunate than
the men in Ladysmith, since they could
learn from the new arrivals how their
loved ones Jared. But men were not
allowed to go backward and forward
to Intombi; those who went had to re-
main, and somehow or other little or no
news seemed to reach the garrison.
In the dearth of news one man in
Ladysmith had arranged that twice a
week, when he could get off duty, his
wife at Intombi should go at II o'clock
and stand in front Of big marquee
where he could see her through the
ships telescope at the Al battery.
She went there regularly with her
child, and straining her eyes toward
that sandbagged point above Converts
Hill, sometimes fondly imagined that
she could see him. And as the months
passed her child. like the others in the
camp, grew more sickly, thin and pale,
till it seemed as if the Erl King spirit
of the miasmic fog had wrapped it
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tense muscles and hard face, for there
Will be some kind OF row before the
shades of night fall. 1t is very seldom
that coward can be induced to take
a country school, for his dominion will
not lest five days. The boys can tell 4
-mlrAer OF a glance and they lose no
time with ,>ach, but get busy at once.
The little boys begin the racket, for
they have been inS..sed thereto by their
elders. who wish to take a few notes.
The big boys have said they are behind
the little ones and they are. so far be-
hind that no help comes in the long
aching day. Some small boy fails TO
learn his lesson. When asked why, he
says with a wildly beating heart, but
bold front, II don't have to- This
causes a smoker to run all over the
room, wherein the bold youth joins,
closing with a gasp as the ruler drops
on some soft spot in his anatomy. He
knows he cannot whip the teacher and
looks in vain for the promised help.
So he takes his licking and snutflingly
promises TO be good. Rage Is In his
heart against the teacher and the big
boys both.
Possibly three or four such happen
ings reduces that school TO a condition
of somber thought; the teacher is not
10 easy after all. Morning recess calls
for a conference. Usually the teacher
stays inside the school house In deep
thought. He sees his work and plans
a. ant as IA yANScliNtsa far
delays are dangerous. He sits at his
desk. fingers his ruler and once in a
while glances out of the window. He
marvels that the children do not seem
10 be playing. but he has things TO
chain his thoughts and fails TO hear the
stealthy football on the roof. Then as
the children Tile in. bobbing in awk-
ward courtesy as they enter. he be-
comes aware Of large amount OF
smoke in the room. He is being
smoked out"
Jack simpson" he says to the big
fellow he has picked out as the ring
leader; 'see what is the matter with
that stove"
Jack obeys-it is part Of the play
and a huge volume Of white smoke
rushes out into the room. He closes
the door. coughs exploslyely--it is ali
put ou-and backs away. shes full O.
sampin'." be gasps.
why Is the pipe chokedr-
'.Swallers must a built their nests
n the chimley."
This sally is greeted With a roar.
"Silencer' cries the teacher. his
words cutting like knives. Il will 80
the laughing for this school That chin
nsy was not choked when school as,
sembled this morning, why is IL IL
this condition now9"
Reckon they built them nests vile
we WIS at recess
What were you doing en- the roof
while agoT"
''Wuxn't ap on no roof tall"
open these windows Nobody IS e
seave the room until bid" says the an
cry teacher. seiKlng the ruler IN 3 firn
grasp. You stuffed something In that
chimney. Simpson. and you're going uE
there and take 1t out right now"
think so7T Is the impudent retorr
You VIII either do Il or I win have
% punish you severely"
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iDStoH learned somewhat to her sur
prise. She had been listening to the
conversation of the Baroness, which is
said 20 be ansually vivacious and in
tecesting.
But what remarkably good English
you speak," the woman said, leaning
forward. How remarkable for for
eigner."
But it is not remarkable for me"
Nine. Hengelmuller answered, 'in
view of the fact that am Milwaukee
girl"
The wife of the Spanish ambassador
Is also an American.
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Simply "Rotten. i"

A friend Of Kellerd, knowing his need
OF an actor for a small part in The
Cipher Code" his most recent play,
sent a young man to him who proved
unsuitable for the part Some time
later KelIerd met his friend. who ask
ed:
well, Jack. how did that chap dor
DO! why be didn't do at all" ex-
claimed the actor.
~WeIl, that's too bad" said the
friend. didn't he know anythIng7"
know anythlngT' exclaimed KelIerd
in fine scorn- ~No. be didn't even SUE
pect anything. New York Clipper.
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lati0nS with cur
people. His business qualifications are so
extensive that Ae is styled the Pierpont
Morgan Of japan and he likes the spiel
iation He controls the principal banks
OF Japan, line o. railroads, several coal
mines and half dozen steamship lines.
He is a big holder ia insurance, gas, cleo
tricity, silk, cotton, wooden, printing
hemp, hat. beer, sugar refining, cars and
other stocks. He is president OF seventy
.wo companies engaged in business exploit
tation, every one Of which is very sue
cessfuL His possessions amount 70 $500
100000 and he controls properties besides
amounting to S700, 100000, the aggregate
rising to one billion dollars.
RE is also a beuefactor. lie has cs-
tabHshed schools, reformatcries. orphan
ages. hospitals. asylums and similar in
situations intended for public benefit. He
Is the busiest man in Japan, which now
contains 5000 900 people.
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The non-combatants were gazing Gag
erly at the place where the row went
in behind the dust clouds. Shouts,
blows and bowls broke the veil. but
nothing could be seen but an occasion
al protruding head. arm or leg which
was promptly smitten. The assailants
being over eager end lacking the cool
skill OF four years battle with the
"Johnnles," were buffeting each other
in high vigor while the teacher lodged
in and out, missing punch here and
giving one there At last Wilson sud-
denly shot out of The cloud and strik-
ing his shock head against a foot of
the stove upset that and lay out.
In time too short for record the big
boys were fleeing while the teacher
camped on their trail. laying about
with a thick cane. He was something
careless concerning the part OF the
anatomy. but he larded. He drove the
mob to a corner of the room and con-
tinued to haste those boys even after
they had all made submission. He In
tended to settle the bossism Of that
school right there. and he did. Then
as the smoke from the stove filled the
room he marshaled his enemies and
standing over them forced them to
right the steve and pour cold water
on Wilson.
The teachers head had a series OF
bumps much resembling map OF the
Big Horns. But others also displayed
mountainous regions where naught but
hair had previously existed. Black
eyes once blue were frequent. In fact,
the teacher was the only one in the
bicker TO ignore his bruises. The 9TH
ers lay on hands and emitted short,
poorly suppressed groans at intervals.
Wilson craved and obtained permission
to speak and made a manly apology be.
fore the whole school, This ended the
war and Ii was never resumed.
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the early days OF the snti-slaye-y move
ment. was born In q quaint old farm
house short distance from the place.
The house is row liz years old and by
a singular turn of fate is occupied By
& negro family. for whose race Brown
died. 1t ia one OF the show places OF
the nesghborh0od and visitors TO Tor
rington generally visit It.
John Brown lived In the old house
until be was 5 years old Then his
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July corn was forced 10 90 cents
bushel in Chicago Tuesday. the highest
price IL has reached in ten years. John
w. Gates, the steel magnate. who has
headed the New York bull clique, is said
to be the cause Of the cereals recent
skyward tendencies. According to Chi
cago reports the impression prevails in
market circles that Gates and his crowd
practically control the July option and
are able to raise or lower the price at
will
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A Phenomenon Explained.

why is it." said Mrs Miggs, that
a single man is so anxious TO take q
girl to the theater. and seems to care
so little about plays after he is mar
riedss
That's very easily explained an
swered her husband 1T is due to
certain deplorable but inevitable mas
culine vanity When he takes the girl
to whom he Is engaged to the theater
he knows she is comparing him with
the handsome hero OF the play. and to
the disadvantage OF the hero. After
marriage she doesn't hesitate to tell
him fiatIy that he looks Ike the low
comedian Washington Star.
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MIS-. Ogden GOeleC
and Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt.
The wife of the
British ambassador
is n OF the only
y ,rican w o N a n
now so conspicuous
ly placed in diplo-
matte life at Wash
ington. The Baron
ess Hengelmuller is
a n American b Y
birth, as ole of the
guests at a dinner
last winter ilWaSh-
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Alta cab,rot meeting held at the Ely
see saIace, President Loubet signed
decree closing he religious institutions
whie,s have no. complied with the pro-
visions x me Law OF associations. One
HUNDRED and thirty establishments are
involved. Instructions on the subject
were sent 70 the various prefectures.
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was made second secretary and in 1888
was transferred to Washington, where
for two years he remained secretary Of
legation. He also was stationed at
Washington during 1928, later going
to The Hague, Constantinople, Rome
and Paris. For distinguished services
rendered the crown he was created
Knight Commander of the Bath.
Mr.. Herbert was married in 1888 to
Miss Leila Wilson. daughter of r. 7.
Wilson, of New York, and a sister of
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lily and friends and
a retinue of ser
wants, for he tray
els in great style.
The party has 272
trunks in which 10
store their belong-
ings. The purse
of the baron's visit
is three fold-te Sc
cure a rest, to look
into our business
methods and to eul
tiYate friendly re-
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Il U L u HduuCelOLe,
gives much salts
faction in Washing
ton, where Mr.. Her
bert has an extend
e d acquaintance.
The new ambassa-
dor is regarded as
one of the ablest in
the British diplo-
service, which
he entered in 1877 as
a legation attache
in Paris In 1882 hp
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MAJOR wAILtR'S HOMECOMING.

After three years in the Philippines,
Mai. Iyttleton w 7. Waller who was
acquitted By court martial Of the charge
Of numbering insurgents. is again with
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G. II. Vessels and T.. @. W. GroebIeF.
who have been in the continent Of Europe
for some time past 10 the interest of the
Beers. have gone 20 England, with the
view. IL is said, OF taking the steps nee
exsary 10 pedmit Of their return TO South
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JOHN BROWNS BIRTHPLACE.

Stiu Stands Near TorrinSton, Conn.,,
and Is Lived in by Negroes.
One OF the claims OF Torrington.
Conn, TO distinction IS the fact that
John Brown. who was so prominent in
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Iwnorance in Rus~ia-

OmcIal statistics show that there are
1900. 900 children In Russia between
the ages Of 6 and II years receiving
absolutely no education
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Michael Henry Herbert, Who Has an
American Wife.
The appointment of Hon. Michael
Henrv Herbert as British ambassador
to this country, to succeed the late
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JApAN's GREATEST PROMOTER.

He Is Here, IL Worth $500, ,oOoand
Controls 500, 100000.
Baron Eiiche Shibusawa Of Toxic the
richest and most aggressive business man
oil Japan, is in this country with his fam
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Fortunate is the girl who loses bar
temper and never finds It again
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round and entered it, and made it a

round and entered it, and made it a
changeling of his own.
But delicate as the child was, the
mother was the first to fall sick, and
the news of her illness reached her hus-
band by his seeing one tiny figure
standing alone at the appointed place,
waving handkerchief. And there came
day when it, too, was no longer to
be seen. He could not go to them, but
had to stay and fight ON with bitterness
in his heart
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II you want to be entertaining. cut
out ali talk about your future, and dis
I'D your past
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his wife and children IN his Virginia
home. near Norfolk. Maj. Waller does
Dot care TO diecuss his acts which led Up
to the court martial
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Scandal continues 10 be the fashion
able society game.
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stained glass. The dome is richly gid
ed and is supported by pillars. with
arches resting on columns of porphyry.
SUCCEEDS LORD PAUNcEFoTE.