New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-19
OUEER ISN'T IT?

QUEER, ISN'T IT?
AT breaking all the rules Of speech
Fair woman is majestic
She hires an imported girl
philadelphia Press.
There is testimony that education in the Philip
mines under American auspices is going more
swfmminely and successfully than recent adverse
reports would imply. The thousand American
teachers there assisted by 8 400 native auxiliaries
carry on $3.50 day, evening and high schools, with
an enrolment in round numbers of quarter OF a
million scholars, practically all of them eager to
learn the English language as the basis or their
school training and educational and social outfit.
The report that there was opposition to this and
clinging to the Spanish speech on the part of
pupils and parents the only one needful turns
out to be merely moonshine F. W. Nash. writing
from Manila in The Educational Review, says
that perhaps the best illustration of the advance
,nent made in English education within the last
Two or three years is the fact that thousands of
Filipino students who had never heard q word OF
that tongue three years ago are to-day able TO re-
ceive III it instruction in the common school
branches and to employ it freely in their con-
versation Two years ago there were less than
200 native teachers who could give any instruction
in English; to-day there are more IMAM IN"
actually teaching in this language and daily put
ting in practice methods and ideas learned in the
American taught normal schools and from Amer
lean teachers.
fIenpeck-He's joined the great silent army
Henpeck@He didn't die; he got marrled.-(Detroit
Free Press.
The increase in Methodist membership since 1854
is greater than the entire membership of any
Protestant denomination. according to the test-
1nony of Bishop McCabe. given at the Troy Con-
ference held at Saratoga early in the present
month. WesIey's bicentenniai finds his sect in a
healthy. prosperous condition. with apparently two
more prosperous centuries before it, not TO venture
a wider range of prophecy for its work of
righteousness and good will to man the world over
Europe leads America in the introduction of the
trackless trolley though the process had its origin
here In a recent number of Cosmos NJ. Emile
Gauvini gives description of some Of the systems
employed there. the Schliemann, Siemens-Halske
and Lombard Guerin. all OF which are in practical
operation. with results which are, ON the whole
satisfactory and promise a great future for the
type Of vehicle thus impeed and guided. They
traverse narrow and tortuOus streets and serve
regions where the traffic is not large enough TO
warrant the installation of regular electric rail-
road" Experiments in this line have been going on
in Europe since 1882 and have now reached point
of success which promises speedily to make the
business practicable and profitable. thus causing
it's general adoption wherever local conditions call
for it,
Not. Too f-confdent- -. 9g Pr Fledgng
doesn't seem very certain OF OF himself:
sultation every time he has to make diagnosis
lBfOOklyD Lie.
Schools for instruction in Western learning are
being established In all the provinces of China but
without occasional squirt of conservative OPP
position. The Shanghai Mercury prints a trans
lation from an article in a leading Chinese
daily which says that before China gathers any
sood from these schools she is likely to reap a
liberal crop OF harm. What the writer fears
most from them is that they will lead to
neglect OF the Chinese classics, which the empire
has always leaned the rod and staff OF its
support and welded the weapon of it's defence
Western learning is we'll enough instruct pupils
in "a knowledge of chemistry. sound light cleo
tricity. etc. but without study OF the classics q
Chinaman cannot be expected 10 treat his parents
and superors with due respect" Moreover the
new culture introduced. while it enlightens the
people also fills their brains with all sorts OF
new ideas which, if not properly regulated and
bounded by the rules of propriety. viii eventually
lead TO violent rebeons against the government
PREFERENCE.
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OF the latest French fashions was Well
For outside she'd agree
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