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The sun., 1903-12-13
LIBERIA A FINE COUNTRY.
NO NEED TO DIE If YOU GO
THERE, SAYS DIR. SPURGEON.
Experience OF COlOred Graduate Of Yale,
VINO Is to Become Chief OF the Depart.
ment Of EducatiOn-Once an Afro
American, Now . Thorough Liberian

James Robert Spurgeon. DID,, LID,
late Secretary Of Legation for the United
States and Charge dAfiaires at Mon
royia, Liberia, Africa, has been spending
several days in Brooklyn. prior to his return
to Liberia, where he is to hold Cabinet
post lon under President Barkey. who
will assume Office on Jan. /.
DR.. Spurgeon Ia a colored graduate OF
Yale. He said yesterday:
when went to Liberia FIVE years ago
, l was a thorough Afro-American. Now
am Liberian through and through. be.
ieve that the hope of the negro race lies
In hat country and am going back there
to spend the remainder of my days in work.
ing in. the interest Of posterity. 1t may
be century before the plans of he Ameri-
can Colonization Society, formed in this
country in 1911 for the purpose Of colon
zing the black race In Liberia, are brought
to a successful elimination, but they will
be eventually fulfilled and then Liberia
will be one Of the most prosperous and
productive countries on the face Of the
earth.
1The black man must work out his own
salvat ion and he cannot do so in this count ry
where the Anglo-Saxon predominates. If
he is OF the right sort he will be received
with open arms and have the opportun y
of being among those who rule. If he is
idle, shiftless Or lazy, Liberia and the Lii
berians have no use for him. Liberia
wants men Of brains and brawn--men who
can do things.
"The Liberian Government gives to each
man ten acres OF land, tho same amount
to his wife and two and a half acres to each
OF his children. An effort Ia being made
to cultivate cotton in Liberia and believe
1t will be successful, The exports of last
year amounted TO 81 900 600 and the i'm
ports TO about 81 500 600.
When inquiry was made Of DR.. Spurgeon
as to why 80 many Americans die In Liberia
II it was such an Eldorado, and why but o
few days ago. there returned to America,
only through tho llberality of a white
Georgian, some OF those who recently
formed body OF colonists, Dr. Spurgeon
became indignant and said:
There were iftyy.siS persons Or 8 IN nth the raary.
came from Darien, Ga, and arrived at
Morovia on Feb 2, 1903. When they arrived
the women and three babies OF the party
were sick, and several died shortly after
ward. They came in the steerage OF a
steamer, and we're in worse condition than
any immigrants ever landed at Castle
Garden. The Liberian Government took
two well built brick houses, one of which
was formerly the American Legation. They
were provided with food clothing and medi-
cine and told to remain in Monrovia, until
they became acckmated
Against the protestations Of the Mon
rovians, the men, who had become restless
insisted upon settling upon their farms.
The Government gave them transportation.
/ Elm unacolimated and having only cot
tages to live in until they could build their
own houses. some of them we're stricken
with the fever, others died and many Of them
The sun., 1903-12-13
OUR TEACHING ALL VRONG.
woodrow Wilson Says the Recitation
Method Won't DO In College.

The present methods of college instruc-
ton were boldly criticised yesterday by
President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton
University at the monthly meeting Of the
ychoolma sters' Association in the New York
University Building, Washington Square
East. The recitation system, said Pres-
dent Wilson, is practically useless in develop
ing any initiative in the student, and the
lecture system is not great deal better
The topic Of the morning was "The College
Course and Methods Of Instruction." and
DR.. Wilson was the only speaker. .The
real man in the field OF Affairs he said,
sis the man OF ready adapta ton, the man
OF initia tive. You can't teach initiative.
Everybody gets his sense oI it in spite OF
some one else, not froln some one else.
The etudent must be put on his own re-
sources and the trouble with so many col
lepe students is that they have no intel
lentual muscle.
college teachers everywhere are stick
ing to the recitation system, but the OBJ
lection to the system is that it males no
difference between school and college.
The school method ought not TO run on
In college The recitation is receptive
method of finding out whether the student
has swallowed certain piece of knowledge
whole. Some teachers have genius enough
to set the student thinking in his own way,
but have never attended such recitation.
President Wilson said that when he
went to school and failed to solve problem
he was. helped and sympathized with and
his failure ascribed to heredity. They
eaid my brain cells weren't built right
he continued. 4but there was school near
mine where the cells were successfully
stimulated by the vigorous application OF
a rod to the cuticle OF the right hand"
DR.. Wilson declared that there was no
place for the lecturer who merely tried to
impart information The lecture was USE
full for giving the students an outline Of
subject and for stimulating their interest
in it.
As to what the proper method of in
struotion should be DR.. Wilson had this
to offer
Say to the student that we merely give
him certain material to work with, and
that he must get the results himself. Here
are the libraries, the laborat ories and n
number OF teachers whom it wllIbe worth
your while to know. Consult with them
and they will help you. At examination
time We will hold you responsible. Now,
learn the subject or get out
But you say that have dissolved all
methods Is it not the best of methods to
teach a student to learn the subject him
students require the same sort OF method.
] have found that tho students who have
cone TO me and thanked me for help had
always been helped outside Of recitation
and lectures.
Such method might make my predc-
ceesors remark more often true. To a
fond mother who put her boy under his
especial care he said: We guarantee salts
faction or return the bow
The sun., 1903-12-13
struck BY brighton Beach Train.

Benedict Sauble, 50 years old, Of Sal Grove
street, Brooklyn. who was driving brewery
truck scross the tracks OF the Brighton
Beach Railroad at Beverley road, WAS
thrown to tho ground and received fract-
ure Of tho left leg and probably a fracture
drawing a train 1 Dat esrs ~ At se noon YES.
terday, One OF the horses attached to the
wagon was severely injured. The truck
was demolished and the forward part
Of the locomotive was stove In. Sauble
was removed to the Kjngs County Hos
pital. The gates ~ the crossing were not
down, the hagnsia being unaware that q
train was approa ching.
The sun., 1903-12-13

1t is not premeditated, has no other motive
than the characteristic one of the present
Pope to take the poor to his heart, and for
this very reason is having a wonderful
influence on the people Of Rome he said.
this, but there is no remedy for them. The
Pope has a right to preach to his people in
his own house,
DR.. Wall does not think another repre-
sentative in the Sacred College will be given
America at an early date, although he says
the new Pope is more inclined to this than
any of his predecessors.
DR.. Wall has a special blessing for the
people of his parish from Plus X. This
he will give publicly at the solemn high
mass next Sunday.
The sun., 1903-12-13
BEATTY AFLOAT INJURED
Lest the Winds Of the Winter Seas Should
Visit Her Face Too Roughly

interpreters we're in great demand
yesterday when the steamer Montserrat,
which arrived from Cadiz on Friday night
docked. There were 500 persons aboard
and not one could speak English. The
interpreters heard that there was a grea,
Spanish beauty aboard. They couldn't
find out her name or whether she was
single OF married because, it was explained
she had not left her cabin the whole voyage
her complexion. She Is going to Havana
where the Montserrat touches. as well as
Mexican ports. Besides the beauty, the
Montserrat carries two big red bulls for
bull fights. They have been brought from
Spain and will do stunts in Mexico.
The sun., 1903-12-13
watson wouldn't Take the Job.

Supreme Court Justice Dickey of Brooklyn
got surprise few days ago by receiving
a communication from ex-Judge William
Watson declining his appoint meht TO q
street opening commissionership and it's
$40 a session emoluments. Mr.. Watson
rendered as an explanation of his action
Senator Harry Marshall, who has also
been named on the commission, he would
have to decline the job. Justice Dickey
had no difficulty in filing the vacancy.
The trouble between the Senator and ex-
Judge occurred about three years ago
over piece of legislation in which the
lat er was interested
The sun., 1903-12-13
CHICAGO TRACTION SUIT.
Judge Gr0sscup to Ask . Supreme Court
judge to Help Him in the Case.

Judge to Help Him in the Case.
CHICAGO. Dec. l2.-Judge Grosscup will
ask some Federal Judge, probably Associ-
ate Justice William r. Day Of the United
States Supreme Court, to sit with him in
hearing the arguments in the Union Trac-
tion Company franchise case when 1t is
called next month.
So many millions Of dollars are involved
in the questions which are to be decided,
and OF so vital importance to the city is
the Interpretation Of the ninety-nine year
franchise act, that Judge Grosscup does
not desire to take alone the responsibility
of determining the rights in the case.
He ma de announcement OF his intention
to the counsel for the city and for the COM
pany yesterday afternoon at the close Of
the hearing OF the Union Traction Com
pany's petition for permits to put trolley
wires in certain parts Of the north and west
said he would not consider the ninety-nine
wear act at present.
The sun., 1903-12-13
AGED JUDGE GOES INSANE.
John II. Livingston. 81 tears oil the Bench
Sent to Sanltartum.

LANCASTER. Pa, Dec i2.-John B, Living
ston, President Judgs of the courts Of
Lancaster county, has been committed TO a
private sanitarium rear Philadelphia. a
hopeless mental wreck, resulting from
illness He is IN his eighty-third year and
serving his thirty-trst year on he bench.
being the Oldest Judge AZ to years of service
in Pennsylvania. A widower. he labors
under the hatiucinaton that he is about to
marry society belle. Steps will now be
taken TO retire him from the bench.
The sun., 1903-12-13
opposc Brooklyn Heights Park

Much opposition is said TO exist among
the older residents Of the Heights in Brook
lyn over the scheme to make park Of the
brow Of the hill overlooking the river from
Remsen TO Joralemon street. Tie pro-
ters Of the plan have arranged a meet
ing to be held in the Office Of Borough Presi-
dent Swanstrom on Monday, Dec. 81. The
opposing faction will be out in force. The
plan TO build park includes the opening
Of new street beginning at Remsen and
running to JoIalemon street, to be known
as Columbia place.
The sun., 1903-12-13

are now there, having become acclimated
Six of the men returned to America
hold is thas ei cSe sf the
Education. He says that in many sections
OF Liberia the public school system is equal
in effectiveness to that Of many sections Of
the United States. 1t Is now proposed to
open a school in every large native settle
ment near the cities.
The sun., 1903-12-13
NO DEGRADING THE COLLEGE,
Van Amringe Does Not Want to See
Made Hestibule 10 Professional School.

Dean Van Amringe Of Columbia College
in his annual report, to President Butler
expresses great dissatisfaction a, the recent
discussio MS in regard to the shortening Of
The college course 10 two years. He says that
might lie sh, rtened ,ne year he had In
MIND no ml difc alivn which would destroy
the American college as II is to-day
1t would be a melancholy outcome II,
In Efforts TO minimize the lime required
FOR the A. b. degree, Columbia College should
be subverted Or degraded into mere YES
ubul' 10 a professional school"
The sun., 1903-12-13
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The sun., 1903-12-13
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The sun., 1903-12-13

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known.
The sun., 1903-12-13

DIR. Wall Says He Is Drawing the Eternal
City Close to the Yatican-Erect
OF His Democratic Policy on the
Goyernment-Blessing for New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-01
COST OF TIE COMMISSION

The coal strike commission was con-
siderably less expensive than 1t was ex-
pected to be. Congress, upon the rec
ommendation Of the president, appropri-
ated $4,000, but the cost to the country
of the investigation, extending yer a
period of five months, is approximately
$4,000, a large part Of this being for
salaries. 1t is said that no such import
ant results have ever been attained at
such small expense, nor has anything of
the kind ever been conducted along
more buslness-like and economic lines.
The commission was composed of men
who had no desire for display or extrav-
agance, but devoted themselves sedu.
lousy and conscientiously to the task
committed to them.
What an enormous saving It would
have been to the parties to the anthra-
cite strike IL they had at the outset sub.
mitted the controversy to such a com
mission. and what a great benefit also to
the public. The estimated cost Of the
strike to the operators and miners is
close to 800, 100000. The suffering ex.
perienced by many thousands Of people
from the scarcity Of fuel cannot be com,
puted in dollars and cents. The prece
dent established by the anthracite strike
commission is of itself worth all thai
vas expended. 1t has so strongly i'm
pressed public opinion In favor Of this
e~xpedient for adjusting controversies
between capital and labor where the in
terests of the public are largely involved
that undoubtedly In future there will bC
a strong popular demand for submitting
such disputes to an impartial commits
sion. 1t would not be easy to exagger
ate the value of the work Of the strike
commission and it is certainly far in ex
cess of the cost.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-01
A WARM
NewpOrt's Monkey Function Out
cIassed by a HOFsey AFFAIR.
Chicago Record Herald.

Chicago Record-Herald.
The monkey dinner" at Newport, which
amazed society swelldom and set the
tongues Of the swagger set wagging with
a fervor that is not yet abated, has been
completely and stunningly eclipsed.
The "horsey" Inner given by c. X. G..
Billings in the ball room at Sherry's. New
York, makes the Newport monkey function
look like a country church ice cream and
strawberry festival.
Served by pink-coated grooms in a bower
Of trees and painted brooks in
green meadows, thirty-one guests Of Mr..
Billings ate from tables while seated
astride thirty-one horses. A small table,
we are told, was attached to the pommel
Of each saddle, and the horses we're ar
ranged in a circle around a centerpiece.
The walters were in white buckskin, with
scarlet coats and yellow-topped boots, and
the horses ate shredded oats out Of enamel
troughs.
Who says society in the east Is enete
and empty Of ideas? What could be more
original or clever than this horsey con-
ceit evolved from the prolific brain OF Mr.,
Billings? The acme Of polite endeavor was
not reached in the monkey dinner, how
ever swagger and stunning its appoint
meats, The horsey fete in gastronomy was
certainly a ~pacemaker, but even this is
bound 10 be outdone In time by the busy
g~eniuses Of the smart set.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-01
NOTES.

Charles NJ. Schawb's health was SO far
improved by his trip abroad that he was
strong enough to swear off his taxes in
New York.
John T. Trowbridge, the author, at the
age of rs, in the delightful quietude Of his
home at Arlington, is engrossed in the
preparation Of his autobiography, or, as he
felicitously puts it, my Own Story"
Thomas F. Folger, for forty years driver
Of the prison van at Boston, died the other
day, leaving a handsome fortune. He was
a great reader, but never in the course Of
his life was he known to buy a Jews
paper.
Those persons who said the creation and
procedure Of the strike commission were
irregular are ~triumphantly indicated by
one fact, anyway. The commission spent
only $685. 00 of the $50, 900 appropriated for
its expenses.
The earl Of Yarmouth and his American
bride will endeavor to get along on an in
come of 800, 900 a year. This will enable
them to keep a girl, hire a man to care for
the furnace and maintain an entente cor
dale with the iceman.
General George B. Davis, Judge advocate
general Of the army, has been designated
to represent the army at a conference to
meet in Geneva, Switzerland, on September
IA for the purpose of considering proposed
changes in the Red Cross convention Of
August %, 1864.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon of Topeka, Kan,
says that after he had married a couple
not long ago the bridegroom fumbled In
his pockets nervously without producing
anything and finally admitted that he had
neglected to provide for the clergyman's
fee. But" he added, Frightening up, Il
can show you how to fix your gas meter
so that it won't register"
William c. Whitney, Pierpont Morgan,
Ashbel p. Fitch, William Rockefeller and
other wealthy New Workers owning large
estates in the Adirondack have Joined In
making war on a bill now before the New
York state legislature. The measure, II
passed, would give wood pulp and water
power SPECTATORS privileges which are
worth millions. The result would be the
devastation of large tracts in the Adiron-
dacks,, and this the millionaires are try
ing to prevent.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-01

that arbitration is a good thing. There
should be confidential relations between
labor and capital. There must be q feeling
OF trust between each other. The side that
asks too much or gives not enough will
lose public support. and the time is rap
idly coming when the side that loses public
support loses its cause.
Labor can easily ask too much and
adopt an attitude that will wreck the
object for which we are striving. It can
ask more than Its share. When II does
and insists on it, then labor loses, and its
interests go backward.
when these labor leaders come to me l
say to them. DO not ask too much. Wages
are high now. Don't forget that. They
are higher than they ever we're in this
country before. It may be true that prices
are higher, too, but the higher you rise
wages by arbitrary demands the further
you cut into the profits Of the msnufact-
urers, without whose invested capital you
could not expect to live. 1t may hasten
Industrial depression, which Is bound TO
come sooner or later, and the higher you
get the greater is going to be the drop
when that comes"
What do you think OF tho law passed
by congress providing for compulsory ar
bitration OF labor disputes, which are
likely to affect interstate or the
citizens Of more than one slater"
1T do not favor It. Capital does not
favor 1t. The most intelligent leaders Of
labor do not favor it, and, more than that,
It would probably not be constitutional. l
think the coal strike commission acted
wisely when It declared that II did not
think such a system would meet with APP
proyal or success"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-01
THE PHILIPPiYE CTRRENCY

Active preparations are being made to
provide the currency for the Philippines
authorized by congress and from which
great benefit TO the islands is expected.
A leading financial journal remarks that
In respect to their relations to the United
States the benefit will be twofold. II
will be possible to conduct trade with
out allowance for the present abnormal
fluctuations in exchange and II will be
possible to make investments Of Ameri-
car capital with the assurance that their
gold and the gold value of their divi-
dends will not decline. 1.-The latter ben
eft may prove more important in some
respects than the former. The crying
need of the islands is the development
of means of communication, Of. manu-
facture and of improved methods Of ag-
riculture. These al only come by the
confidence on the part of the investors
that the value Of their money will not
shrink to the vanishing point when it is
sent to the Philippines"
1t is further pointed out that the ac-
tion Of our government in this matter is
likely to set an example for other coun-
tries Of the Orient and If a similar sys,
TEN Fan be introduced into China, sup
ported by the western powers, that vast
empire will be thrown open to trade in
a manner more effective than any other
| single economic step which could be