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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-22
Mrs. Kirkpatrick Talks
 On Manual Training.

The discussions on manual training in the city schools was led by Mrs. J. D. kirkpatrick who gave a delightful and comprehensive talk on "The Relation of Hand Movements to Human Intelli- gence," bringing out the important points that were intended to give a clearer con- ception of the manual training work as embodied in the committees report.
 After a day spent in reading series of addresses given before the National Educational association at Detroit, Mich, on the subject of Manual Training in the Public Schools l found that I had en- tirely misunderstood what manual train- ing meant said Mrs. Kirkpatrick
 If I had. up to that time, given any thought to the subject. 1t was to approve in general way of the idea of teaching our boys and girls to use their hands in- telligently.
 Tn my reading am confronted prompt ly with this statement: The day is past when manual training is thought of as a little work with tools in a room apart from and divorced from all other inter- ests in the school
 'The utilitarlan and practical phase of the question is the one, feel sure, which appeals to the majority of people, but there is another phase which is more in- teresting. The advocates of the new ed- ucation hold with Rousseau and Froebel that the aim of all our work and educa- ton should be the harmonious growth of the whole being They hold manual training up to the plane of pure educa- tion, contending that 1t maintains the true equilibrium of mental and physical forcess that it is of great value in the building of the brain; that it will de- velop the reason, the judgment, the im- agination and the creative power. I also learned, to my confusion, that manual training is not for external use, but for iternal development.
 Now, substitute for the idea of teach ing handiwork, teaching through handi- work-also conceive of the idea of using handiwork expression as the child would use speech and writing, and we begin to have some idea of what manual training stands for.
 Charles R. Richards of the manual training department of Columbia Uni
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tain about sixty guests at buffet lunch con. from 12 to l, in compliment to Mrs Flovd. and Mrs Barnes Morgan will en- certain at cards on the morning of the 2Sth. n,
 Saturday Mrs Mortimer Jordan will entertain fourteen guests in compliment to Mrs Quincy Ewing
 Miss Chisolm will entertain the Depu- tante club on Saturday. Monday after noon. November 3O Miss Nixon will en- certain at cards in hbhot of Miss Berry and Miss Jelks.f s'''gnsq
 December will be the gayest of months. Mrs. Solon Hara1d Jacobs will entertain at cards December in compli- ment to Mrs. May and Mrs Dozer, and on the evening of December Mrs. Jacobs will give a costume dance in honor of Miss Margaret Nixon.
 Mr and Mrs. c. c. IIeidt will introduce their daughter, Miss Ava Heidt, on the evening of December 1. On the afternoon of December ? Mrs B. M. Starks will give a Japanese card party
 Mrs Charles Van Hess Schoolar will entertain at cards on the jafternoon of December 8 in compliment to her mother, Mrs, Bell, and Miss Roden.
 On the afternoon and evening of Decem- Der Mrs Robert Jemison will receive in compliment to her daughter. Miss Bessie JemlSOn.
 Mrs. Edward Jefferson Bryan and Miss Bryan will give tea on December 9. Miss Roden will give a cotillon on the evening of December IA in compliment to Miss Canister and Miss Dimmick and on the evening of December IS Mir and Mrs. Frank Grider will entertain in com pliment to the Misses Caldwell, both of these entertainment to be given at the IIillman.
 There will be number of more infor- nal entertainments, while the week of the bazaar, beginning December z, win in- cude amateur theatricals, card parties, a charity ball and a musicale.
 The past week has been gay one in- cluding many entertainments of both. formal and informal nature.
 Among the visiting belles and beauties is Miss Carrie Berry of Eufaula. the guest of Mrs. Charles Oscar Locke. Miss Berry has been an admired figure at all the events of the week and at the cotillon at which MT and Mrs Locke entertained in her honor on Tuesday evening she was an unusually beautiful figure in her ball gown of white chiffon.
 The cotilon was one of the prettiest of
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versity. in replying to the question, How early may handiwork be- made apart of school work?' replies emphatlcally At the beginning" He thinks there is nc question as to it's beginning, but how long may 1t extend upward through the course.
 We know, of course, if we stop to think, what an enormously important influence handiwork plays in the mental development of the child. That conceded. the problem, then, is to make the life of the school more real; an epitome of the kind of thinking feeling and doing that obtains in real life; a reflection, in fact, of the actual life outside the school walls. To gain this, we must have all the na- tural elements of that life represented in the activities of the school. To at- tempt to reproduce real life Tor small boys and girls without the element of handiwork, would be the attempt to teach them to swim without letting them go into the water.
 ITO enable this handiwork to become life element in the school 1t must be used in a natural way. It is not enough that it should be used as a mere drill. Handiwork, whether drawing, painting, modelling or construction, as a natural feature in school work, can never be thing in itself. It is part of a whole. It's different forms are simply means of putting thought and feeling into form and action. More than that, if the handi- work Is to be wholly worth while, the thought and feeling back of it must be genuine and worth while
 '"Mr. Richards says As the expression of natural motive and real thinking on the part of the worker handiwork repre- sents with the pupils of the elementary schools, one of the most natural and in- tense forms of living. In this relation, it is one of the most effective agencies for developing both knowledge and ca- pacities.
 Elsewhere a writer dwells on the ne- cessity for accuracy and truth in the childs efforts to reproduce the model.
 He must be taught that four inches is four inches, and not sixteen inches more or less. The consciousness that only what Is right is right, and that something only approximately true is wrong will influence his work In every line of activity. Now comes another au- thor who claims that truth of express sion is the important thing and great accuracy of result is not truth of ex- pression.
 Accuracy and precision have common ly been referred to as essential qualities of all educative handiwork but accuracy is natural only when it's necessity Is ap-. preciated by the worker and this will be the case only to the degree that the need for accuracy is perceived to bean inner. ent condition of success In the task and not as a quality imposed from without
 After giving synopsis of the aims Of manual training, Mrs. Kirkpatrick said that great stress is laid upon the import ance of mere asking of a pupil what he can not do well. MT. Trybcur of the De troit schools looks upon violation of this principle as most unfortunate.
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we may expect when the schools are bet ter equipped'
 The money now used in providing these facilities for manual training comes from a private source" said Mrs. Going. Tt does not come out of the educational fund, at least this is what l understand to be the situation at present"
 Mrs. Going's talk was extremely in- teresting and her report was in the na- lure or an appeal for cooperation on the part of Birmingham women in this feat ure of our educational system.
 Mrs C. F. Orr concluded the report by an interesting talk on the work which she said should claim the attention of every person in Birmingham.
 T have always said that l was not in- terested in the education of the negro, but that all lmy interests were for the education of the poor white children of Alabama. l am now forced to see that something must be done to decrease our criminal statistics, and as the negro race furnishes the greatest number of crimi- nals, the negro as an individual must be taught to work, and by work I mean Skilled labor. Our prisons are filled with negro criminals, whose crimes may be traced to idleness and incapacity for work, and our only hope lies in giving them opportunities to become skilled arti- sais ihe responsibility lies With me white people.
 Millions of dollars" continued Mrs Orr, 'have been spent to educate the ne- gro Tn the last twenty years. but I can not see that his condition is improved All permanent progress that he will ever make depends upon what is taught him by the white race'
 Mrs. Orr showed specimens of needle work made by the pupils in the high school. Among the articles was a shirt made by hand, which she declared was a waste or time when the sewing machine would have saved time She told of the work in the sewing department, where various branches of needlework are be- ing taught
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the winter. Mir Yeatman leading with Miss Berry
 The figures were formed in the drawing room, the library and dining room, these opening into the octogonal hall, and the figures terminating here. The favor table was in the hall and the scene was very picturesque, the large fireplace with it's burning logs adding to its charms
 Miss Berry is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Clifford Locke of Eufaula Her mother was tha suest of Mrs. Charles Locke a few seasons ago. Miss Berry Is being entertained a great deal during her visit to Birmingham.
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The Anchor Alright saves coal, prevents colds. keeps fire all night. just open the draft and you have a fire. 5. Spiro.
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Double Sexfeffe
 Al Society Circus.

Never before has as much interest been taken in the annual society circus of the Athletic club as this year, in preparation for the fifth annual entertainment which takes place at the Jefferson on November 30. This is the first year the ladies' de- partment of the club has taken any part in the society circus, and consequently the interest has increased double fold.
 The principal feature of the show will ha the double sextette which will be put
 frou<ir..ad rn Tvuentteth Paoel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-22
"It's an III Wind"

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 That was terrible wreck on our road this morning.. said the commuter.
 "Yes." replied the other. good thing that"
 .WhatE
 "why, you see, our cook was going to leave today, but that wreck made her so nervous she's afraid to travel back to town"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-22

Mrs. Hurley has opened her millinery and training school at East Lake. An nouncement of permanent location in Birmingham, January 15. Ladies wishing to learn to make their own hats or con- vert those cast aside as no longer pre- sentable into beautiful new ones. may be accommodated by applying at once.
 College station, Bell phone 12S1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-22
The CreChe Fund.

The Greene fund continues to prove popular and the society department of The Age-Herald is happy to announce ad- ditional contributions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
RICH WIDOW is MURDERED
Her Daughter and Two SOns-in-Law Ar
rested Charged with Numbering
Their Relative.

Washington, ID. c. Dec. 14.-Mrs.
Rachel Ann Beall. an eccentric we'll to
do resident of this city. was shot to
death in the kitchen of her home. An
drew Weldon, Charles .. Oelrichs. SON
iT-law Of the murdered woman, and
Mrs. Jessie Oelrichs. her daughter. are
under arrest charged with the crime.
The three suspects deny their guilt.
but each accuses the other. For long
time the Oclrichs home has been sur
rounded in mystery. The front door
has been boarded up since the house
was built.
Weedon was elected from the house
in the morning about the time the muir
der is supposed to have occurred for
alleged nOnpayment of rent. Mrs. Beall
was the widow of a rich but miserly
property owner. On his death four
years ago considerable litigation en-
sued among the heirs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
DOCTOR LEFT HIS
TOOLS IN PATIENT
Subject of Operation Dies With Pair
of Forceps in His
Liver.

Hammond. Ind. Dec. III. B. Wash
burn. of Rensselaer,. Ind, died in a
nrivate hospital at Valparaiso, Ind, to
which place he had gone with Presi-
dent Iloring. of the Kankakee Valley
Medical association, after attending
the session of the association. Two
wears ago DR.. WaShbuTn was operated
upon in the Presbyterian hospital, Chi
cago. 1t is alleged that a pair of steel
forceps was used on the body near the
liver at that time. DIR. Washburn had
complained of his side ever since the
operation, but did not know the cause
of the trouble.
DIR. LOring operated upon DIR. Wash
burn. this last time. and was amazed
to discover in the patients side near
the liver forceps made of iron and
steel. about fiveand three-fOurths inches
in length. The fOrceps had become
rusty DR. WaslTbuTn died few hours
after the operation. His son, who also
is doctor. says the fOrcens caused the
death.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
Wore Mans Attire to Avoid
Attentions of Her Admirers

was removed to the female ward, and
was identified as the daughter of
Count Ogier d'Ivry. medical exam
ination disclosed that her skull was
fractured in three places, and she
died soon after. The countess was 20
years old and her blonde hair was cut
short. 1t is explained that she was in
the habit of assuming male attire to
avoid attracting the attention of men.
The d'Ivry family is highly connected.
The countess was fond of daring feats
of horsemanship and liked to drive
coaches, drags. and four-in-hands.
She found that male dress attracted
less attention while driving, and when
thus attired was one of the most dar-
ing drivers on the avenues.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
IN MEMORY OF BILL NYE
Movement Afoot to Erect a Monument
Over the HumOrist's
Grave

Asheville, y. G.. Dec. 1.-THE grave
OF / i'll Nye. the famous humOrist who
died nearly eight years ago and was
buried at Arden. near here. is un-
marked. ana movement iS afoOt to
have a granite monument erected
above his resting place. The North
Carolina division of the Sunshine so
ciety is raising the fund.
When Nyc passed away his devoted
widow placed a memorial window in
Calvary Episcopal church. nearby, but
her plans for Il more fitting memorial
were frustrated by the failure. soon
after Nye's death. of banks in which
practically all the fortune left her by
her husband had been deposited. At
present Il little tree is growing at the
head of the grave. and some one has
laid upon the mound Il rude piece of
stone picked up ON the highway. 9th
er marks there are none. Mrs J. NJ.
Ransier president of the Sunshine So
ciety. HenderSOnville. y. c.. is the ac-
tive head of the memorial enterprise,
and contributions are invited from the
friends of Nye throughout the country.
They should he addressed to Battery
Park bank. Asheville. y. G.. custodiaDs
of the fund.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14

Paris, Dec. 1.-THE Countess Diane
Ogier d'Ivry, the beautiful young
daughter of Count Ogier d'Ivry, died
in hospital here under remarkable
circumstances. \ pony cart driven by
a handsomely dressed young man, ac-
companied by a groom. collided with
heavy vehicle near the Avenue du
Bois de Boulogne. The occupants of
the pony cart were thrown out and
the groom was slightly and the young
man dangerously injured. The latter
was removed to a hospital.
There he was placed in the male
ward, and the doctors were preparing
for an operation when they found the
injured person to be woman. She
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
PITTSFIELD MAN
GETS ALONG TERM
Fred Mink, Confessed Murderer,
Condemned to Serve %
Years.

PittsfieId, Ill. Dec. 14.-Fred Mink
pleaded guilty in the Pike county cir
cult court to the double murder of New
ton Harris and his stepmother, Mrs.
Adam Mink. and was sentenced by
Judge Higbie TO ninety-nine years in
Chester penitentiary on each charge.
On Saturday. June 13 last Mink shot
and killed Newton Harris. Il wealthy
farmer near pittSfield. in the fields. and
the following evening. while his father.
Adam Mink. and stepmOther were at
supper he walked into the dining room
and shot his mother dead.
He defined Sheriff Main and his
posse to arrest him. and escaped. He
was found the next night in Il barn
near the scene of the murder gave him
selw up and brought TO PittSfield under
the guard of Il company of militia and
lodged in Jail. Mink killed his step
mother because. he said, she had inter
fered with his love affairs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
blair Onits St Louis

ST Louis. Dec. lit is learned
that Mr. and Mrs. james l.. Blair,
quietly left the Mullanphy hospital,
drove to the Union station ard de
parted for some point in Florida. pre-
sumably Eustis. Their plans had not
been made known and only few
friends knew of their departure. y
date had not been set for the trial of
the two indictments charging forgery
returned against Mr.. Blair by the
grand jury. as it is not known when
he will return to st. Louis. lie is now
under $4,000 bonds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELO WILL
KEEP QUO OF FILLINOIS POLICIES

Jones. pure food commissioners; State
Senator Putnam, Peoria; Sheriff
Burke, of Aurora. The members of
the party are supporters of Gov.
Yates and hope he may be renomina-
ted and reelected. The president, in
addition TO defending his own posi-
ton, does not expect federal Office
holders in the state will participate
actively in the contest, as his position
in respect to such activity is pretty
well understood.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14

Washington, Dec. 1.-THE brief of
the government in the case of the
Northern Securities company and 9th
ers VS.. the United States, on appeal
from the decision of the federal cir
cult court of the district of Minneso-
ta, was filed in the supreme court to-
day The document was prepared by
Attorney General Knox and Assistant
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14

Washington. Dec. 14.-President
Roosevelt declared to a party of Hi
nois officials and politicians who call
ed on him Saturday that he would
take no part, directly or indirectly, in
the political contest now being waged
in that state. In the party were Rep
resentative Snapp, Warden Murphy,
Joliet; F. III. Rowe. chairman republi-
can state committee; James Nevill,
commissioner of railroads; Handy
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
UNION is FINED
Organization of Press Feeders at
Chicago Found Guilty of
Contempt of Court.
JUDGE CREATES A PRECEDENT
First Time in History That a Court
Has Fined a Labor Union as
Corporation.

Chicago, Dec. 14.-One thousand dol
lars fine for illegal acts as Il corporate
body was imposed upon Franklin
Union No. 4, press feeders. by Judge
Jesse Holdom. The court found the
union as a corporation guilty OF con-
tempt of court. for violating an in
junction restraining it as an orSaniZa-
ton from interfering with the bust
ness or employees of ten printing firms,
members of the Chicago TypOthetae.
Creates Precedent.
Judge Holdom's action creates a
precendent, it being the first time in
the history of trades unionism in this
country that court has fined Il union
as a corporation. An immediate appeal
was taken from the action of Judge
Holdom. Franklin union is not attil-
lated with the Typographical union,
there being two pressmen's organiza-
tions in the city. In giving his de-
cision Judge HoldOm said: There is
no reported case that 1 have been able
to find of fine having been imposed
upon labor union. Probably this is
the reason that few of them are in
corporated."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
Violated AN Injunction.

Continuing. the judge said: 1t ap-
pearing that Franklin Union No. 4, a
corporation, is liable to a fine for vio-
lation CT the injunction in this case. it
but remains to determine what tie
amount of that fine shall be. Punish
ment is meted out in accordance with
the gravity of the offenSe committed.
The consequence of violation of the in
junction by the union have been many
assaults on innocent persons seeking
to work under contracts satisfactory to
themselves and their employers"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
.ir War Paint Is ON.

London, Dec. IA dispatch to The
Daily Telegraph from one of its cor
respondents in the far east asserts that
the warships of both Russia and Japan
now in Chinese waters have been
painted black, their war color
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
Securities Case
Before the Supreme Court

Attorney General Day and covers $50
printed pages.
The brief sets forth the following
specifications as to reasons for ac-
ton: THAT the lines of the railway
operated by the defendants. the Great
Northern Railway company and the
Northern Pacific Railway company.
are parallel and competing, and that
the combination is in restraint of in
terstate commerce and monopoly"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
SUPREME COURT
GETS IN ITS WORK
Work of Attorney Folk in Prosecnt-
ing BOodlers May be
UndOne.

St. Louis. Dec. 14.-Notification of a
decision of the Missouri supreme
court which brings into question the
legality of hundreds of arrests and
convictions recently made on infor-
nations in st. Louis. and which. ac-
cording to Circuit Attorney Folk.
opens the doors of the penitentiary
through habeas corpus to many 9th
ers. was received here today by that
official
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
FOX RIVER PLANTS
ARE CLOSED DOWN
Employees Refuse to Make an Agree
ment Not to go on
Strike.

Chicago, Dec. 14.-Three factories
in the For River manufacturing dis
trict in northern Illinois were shut
down today because their employees,
numbering nearly 1.500, refused to
promise individual agreements not to
strike. The firms are Appleton Manu-
featuring company. Challenge Wind q
Feed Mill company. Newton Wagon
company. The United States Wind
Engine & Pump company is also tied
up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
Lord Abinger Killed by a Fall.

Paris. Dec. 14-Lord Abinger died
IN a hospital here as the result of in
juries sustained in falling down the
stairs of restaurant. He was born
in 1871 ills mother is a daughter of
the late Commodore Masruder. L s.
n. Lord Abinger was unmarried and
usually lived with his mother in Lon
don
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
HOUSE AGREES TO
ADJOURN DEC. 19
Two Weeks for Holidays Senate
Names Boston Divine for
Chaplain.

Washington, Dee. 14.-The house to-
day adopted a concurrent resolution
providing for recess adjournment
from Dee. 10 to Jan. /. Consideration
of the pension appropriation bill was
resumed.
The republican senators in caucus
today decided upon Rev. Edward Ever
EFT Hale, of Boston, for chaplain of
the senate, beginning Jan. /. He is a
Congregationalist and SO years old.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
Mns Not Frank NJ. Currie.

Omaha. Dec 4-EXaminati tion of the
indictments returned last Thursday by
the federal grand jury against num-
ber of ranchmen for alleged Illegal
fencing shows that one was against
Frank Curie. of DaYhn county, Neb.
and not against eN-Sf Senator Frank
NJ Currie. of Custe' unity, as was
given cut at the tin1S.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
Death i'm scratch from Turkey.

Athens, o., Dec. 12-Spencer Young.
a butcher. is dead as Il result of blood
poisoning. The day before Thanks
giving. while unloading turkeys. he
was scratched slightly on the hand by
one of the fowls. Blood poisoning soon
Get in, and he died in terrible agony.