The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-18
ENGLAND TO STUDY
OUR MODERN SCHOOLS
The Buildings as Well as the
Methods to Be investigated
by Committee.
Lore KITCHENER is ILL
Bad General Health and the Shock Of
His Recent Accident Cause Him
to Put Aside All Business
for the Present.

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America, but that also in other re-
Spects we can do nothing better tina
. look into the methods and ways of our
American cousins.
The president of the London board OF
education Las been reported as being
IN favor of sending a special committee
to New York to study the American
d public school.
The building, he says, as we'll as the
methods of teaching used in America
should be carefully studied by the com
mittee, which should number among
Its members pedagogues and practical
architects and physicians.
The new American idea of teaching
public school children to play the
games of the country boy and thereby
develop them physically as we'll as
mentally has especially appealed to
London teachers and physicians and is
being watched with great interest.
Should the committee be sent over
IN the spring this particular branch of
public school work viii be closely In
yesttgated.
i No Christmas Turkeys.
With Christmas only q few days off
London Is threatened with a famine in
Turkeys.
h seriousness Of the situation is
easily realized by those who have wit
messed the Christmas holidays in this
country.
A Christmas in England without
turkeys Would be like a Wedding with
gu a groom.
English and Irish young birds were
starved to death in hundreds through
the wet weather, and the hens refused
TO sit on their eggs.
British poultry farmers cannot COM
pete with continental breeders, who
send thousands of poorer birds annual
~ into the. London markets., selling
them, in some instances, at 90 per cent.
less thar the British farmer can pos
sibly do.
According to a wcll-known Strand
dealer. enormous quantities of turkeys
from Italy. Austria. France, Russia and
Canada will be on sale before Christ
mas: but English aha Irish birds will
be scarce and will command as much
as 40 cents a pound. Imported tur-
keys will sell at % cents a pound, ex-
cept Italian, which viii command q
slightly higher price.
Fiscal reform would help the home
turkey breeder.
Faith in Lord Curzon.
King Edward, and in fact the whole
nation. is expecting great results from
Lord Curzon's trip to the Persian
gulf.
There is probably no Englishman bet
ter acquainted with this part of Asia
than the viceroy of India, who as a
young man Travelled extensively
through all Persia.
At the present moment the gulf is
crowded with British ships. and every
thing apparently breathes only peace
n order: but there is little Doubt
that were the British men of war to
leave. were it made known that the
strong hand of Britain was no more
70 be feared by eVildoers between the
Straits of Ormu. and the mouth OF
the Tigris. the country would be a hell
on earth.
Russian agents are always present,
working under a hundred DISCUSSES,
and the task given the viceroy, to
strengthen the hold Of Great Britain
on he country surrounding the gulf
and put an end to the intrigues of Rus
STA, Is as important as any conided to
any British general in time of war.
The king has full faith in Lord Cur
zon, and by suggesting that he accom-
pany the prince of Wales to st. Louis
has in a way rewarded him before
hand.
Kitchener Is Ill.
The accident which happened to Lord
Kitchener seems to a V been of a
much more serious nature than at first
reported.
OF course, his life is in no danger
but, due to overwork, his general
health was poor previous to his acct
dent, and the fracture of his leg Is of a
very serious nature and is not said to
be healing as fast as had been expect
ed.
Altogether the sirdar seems to have
met with a streak of bad luck, as the
present is the second mishap which he
has encountered this year.
The earlier one was of not nearly so
serious a character. 1t looked to pos
sess ugly enough possibilities, however,
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road between Ismail Khan and Tonk
ran away with him and whirled his
conveyance over a small raVine,
Fortunately he was able to jump
clear Of the tonga as it was swung off
the road.
These two accidents coming so close
together, have served to recall the fact
that Lord Kitchener Is a bachelor, and
may have suggested to some the ques-
ton of succession to his viscounty.
Should he not marry, then the title
would pass to whichever Of his two
brothers survive him or to the heirs
male Of the one entitled to succeed.
Earl Roberts, with whose illness, Gu
riously enough, the accident to his dis
tinguished subordinate synchronizes
has no male HEN, and his title will de-
volve pom his elder daughter.
So. too, will that of Lord Wolseley
upon his daughter,
@ Is MOT a woman 7ateT.
Though Lord Kitchener has never
married, and for this reason has gained
b reputation Of being a woman hater,
this accusation Is very unjust.
One Of his best friends, who knows
him very intimately. recently said OF
him that though. the Iago, he does not
wear his heart upon his sleeve" he
has a heart, n a warn one. too.
1.-THE man who follows through life
the woman who nursed him as a child,
who never misses an opportunity OF
seeing that old nurse, is not heartless:
and II he has hesitated at the lottery OF
marriage. he is not the only brave mar
who has shrunk from the edge of that
precarious cliff.
mo; it is a contradiction Of all the
avs Of human nature to suppose that
from a being SO gifted there has beer
eft out that supreme gift OF feeling
and of love-"
When Queen Victoria. the greatest OF
English monaTchs. spoke OF his frs,
visit to her at Balmoral. she said:
r"They say he hates women; I can only
say he was very nice to me-"
Like New York, London IL threatened
NTH . strike Of the cabmen, but while