The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-05-08
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to write the third IN the series OF articles
which he had been contributing to the
National under the title, William Nc
Kinley as | Knew Him" This paper
in which the senator discusses Nc
Kinley's first days in the White House,
will appear in the June National. The
same number will contain an article on
the shipping bill by Senator Frye of
Maine, president pro TEN, of the Senate.
Senator Frye is the author of the bill
and it's most ardent champion.
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In the May Forum the first place is
taken by timely article on The Pol
ish Problem in Prussia" It's author, Mr..
Wolf Won Schierbrand, explains how it
is that the national spirit of the Poles
has succeeded in resisting the German
izing policy of the Prussian Govern
ment Prof. g. T. Ladd's paper on
The degradation of the Professional
Office" brings to an end a remarkable
series of criticisms oftly D.tI,t,L3L
oemic situation, which is also discuss
I'd in Pres. G. f. Thwing's article on
Collegiate Conditions in the United
States. Other educational topics dealt
with in this number are THE Example
of French Industrial Art Schools, by
Jacob Schoenhof, and THE Negro and
Higher Learning, by Prof w. S. Scar
borough. An important statistical ar
ticle is contributed by Henry Gannett,
who shows Our Industrial Position in
the World by comparison of our ex-
ports with those of other nations. A
less gratifying contrast is that pointed
by Prof A, d. f. Hanllin in protest
against "Our Public Untidiness". A
valuable light is thrown upon Italian
social and industrial conditions in an
article by DR.. Wolcott Calkins on Tax
alton and Business in Italy Hon. w.
G. Mains warmly recommends the Tor
rens system for '"The Registration of
Title to. Real Property. The list of
contents also includes Wage Earning
School Children in England, by Thorn
as Burke; THE Problem of Pure Milk
Supply, by DR.. Henry Dwight Chaplin
Comparative Pension Systems" by
Frederick Fenning; American Forest
ry: New Career" by j. Russell Smith
and 'Reclaiming the Arid Southwest,
by Robert NJ Barker.
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w 7. Stead was ;tn intimate friend
and confident of Cecil Rhodes, and for
years was intrusted with the great
South Africans imperial secrets. Only
+ a part of Mr.. Stead's disclosures made
since the death of Rhodes has been Civ
en- to the daily press, but the whole
story is told for the first time in the
May number of the American Monthly
Review of Reviews There will be
found the full text of the remarkable
notes on world politics written by Mr..
Rhodes in 1890, commenting with the
greatest freedom on current American
affairs, and giving some suggestion of
the ideas which underlay the Oxford
scholarship scheme Nowhere else has
been published so complete and author
itative an estimate of this modern Co.
lossus of the English-speaking world.
Pictures Of 'Groote Schuur". Mr..
Rhodes home at Cape Town, with ex-
cellent portraits of Mr.. Rhodes himself
accompany the article.
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Almost everybody identified with lake
shipping awaits more or less anxiously,
the annual appearance of the Little
Red Book" the 1902 edition of which
has just come from the press of the Ma
rine Review Pub CO., Cleveland 1t is
purposely made small-vest pocket
size-but it contains a list of about
1000 vessels Of the Great Lakes togeth-
er with the name of master, engineer
and owner of each
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A series which should have been
named THE Entertainments of our Mod.
ern Aladdins" If considered solely from
the point Of view of romance, is begun
in the May Cosmopolitan. But these
sketches possess as well business in
terest equally for clerk and capitalist
for manufacturer, farmer and mer-
chant The man who would under
tand the drift of our news in finances
and business must read these lives, so
full of incident of chance, of hard labor
and marvellous success. AS it is, the
series receives only the common place
name OF Captains of Industry. Each
character is treated by noted writer
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