The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-28

| 1" ORD MILNER, British high com H0 missioner in South Africa, has - declined to accept the colonial secretaryship in the English cabinet. and further efforts are being made to induce him to reconsider. However, if predic- tions of Lord Miners friends are to be relied upon, he will not accept. The present disruption of the English cabi- net has convinced English people that King Edward does not intend to be a. mere figurehead. It has been predicted ever since his accession to the throne that Edward VII would not hesitate to assert himself when the occasion de- manded. No better opportunity could be afforded than by the present diplomatic crisis and the king has acted with a de- cision totally unexpected by a majority of his subjects. Although royal inter- ference in modern times Is regarded as unprecedented there were occasions even in Queen Victoria's reign, noted for it's conservatism, when the queen dared show her preferences in an emphatic manner; notably in 1880, when Lord Beaconf1eld resigned as prime minister. The queen disliked MT. Gladstone so much that she offered the premiership first to Lord Harrington and then another lord. The refusal of these two statemen forced her to accept Gladstone.
 A certain little Indiana town, bearing the historic name of Princeton, and never before heard of by the great generality 4a-- line against a diminutive Philipino who came over to this country as the ward of a wealthy traveller The small people of this small town have decided that the dusky little stranger shall not be allow ed to attend school in company with their own progeny. because forsooth, his skin is dark. Perhaps they have never stopped to think that the Philipino be- longs to the same Caucasian race and is as far from being a negro as the high caste Indian, who considers there are very few people in this world good enough to enjoy his company. Although the skin of Philippines is dark-sometime very dark-their hair has no suspicion of kindness and there are no facial
 
 izens of Princeton. Ind, so much pertur- bation. Here is a pretty how do you do, if we have purchased another race prob- lem at the cost of millions of dollars and the lives of brave soldiers. If we are going to treat the Philippines as wards they will necessarily be compelled to come here for learning, and if many more towns follow the example of Prince ton, Ind, there will be disturbance In the land. The young stranger who caused ali the talk can at least have one con- solation. If the public schools of Prince ton, Ind, are closed to him there are many other communities more civilized where he will be able to get his educa- ton, and when he has arrived at the proper age he can matrfculate at any of our large universities with the assurance | that his dusky skin will be no disad- vantage in his search for knowledge. | A New York daily remarks: Put your boy In college and run before the sopho- mores catch you both, seems to be the safest rule at the matriculation season. |" Now Is the time when the great fresh- man army is marching upon academic halls and the gloating sophomore stands ready to receive them with appropriate ceremonies. For some reason college haz- Ing seems to be unusually severe this year. At all the larger universities re- ports leak out of hardships new men are undergoing. It would not be so bad if second year students would stop at the ri- diculous stage but their treatment has several times descended into mere brutal ity with the result that quite number of Freshmen have been seriously injured At Yale, Columbia, and Annapolis the so- phomores have gone to extremes. Woe to the unfortunate youth who has aspired to enter his name at these mighty institu- tions of learning. His name is Mud and