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Arizona republican., 1903-07-05
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY {.

The Yale University corporation at the May meeting approved the recom- mendations of the academical profes- sors to extend the elective system into the freshman year by allowing each freshman to choose five out of eight courses of study, and to allow the sub stitution of advanced work in mathe- matics or modern languages in place of Greek for admission to college. The new reouirements for admission which will go into effect in 1904, leave Eng fish, ancient history and Latin un- changed, but will allow Greek to be wholly or in part superseded by an ad- ditional amount of mathematics or by a thorough knowledge of either French or German. In the freshman year the eight courses open to the class, five or which must be elected, are Greek, Lat in. French, German, English, mathemat- ics, chemistry and history. It is requir- ed that three of the five courses elect ed must be in continuation of the five studies-Greek, Latin, English, mathe- matics. or a modern anguage-already pursued in the preparatory school.
 An exhibition will be held in Dinant, Belgium, in August and September with the object of reviving an interest in the ancient copper industry, for which it was formerly celebrated
 cen
 Telegraph poles, the lower ends of which have been soaked in creosote, last more than thirty years; in Ireland there are some erected in 1858, and still in good condition.
 
 To tal. n IAa dx-iya the famous tree in the gardens of cis Bacon. has revived, and is in full bud.
 In one of the streets of Vienna work men have dug up part of the stone flooring of a Roman house dating from the third century.
 On January l. 1903, there were 16,65S insane persons in Scotland. The alarm ing growth in the number of cases is largely attributable to alcoholic ex- cesses.
 Parisian children are to be instructed in the appreciation of works of art in the schools by means of reproductions of well-known masterpieces.
 
 On June 30, 1902. out of total mile age of 22.5SS miles of street railways in this country, about 21,92O miles were operated by electricity.
 
 The catching of snakes and the col lecting of their venom, which fetches S1 per grain, is new industry in Aus tralia.
 During the decade 1S93-190S, the bud get of the Russian empire increased from 1000. 900 to 100000 rubles.
Arizona republican., 1903-07-05
FR0n B0OTBLAcK TO B. A.
Record of C. W. Wood, the Negro,
 lust Graduated From Columbia.

From a Chicago bootblack to a Co., lumbia university bachelor of arts is the record of Charles Winter Wood, the negro who received his degree last week.
 Mir Wood had already won oratorical honors in the West. He will go to Tuskegee Institute this fall to continue his work at the head of the English de- pertinent.
 Fifteen years ago, while blacl<ing boots and selling newspapers on Chi- cago street corner. he attracted the at tention of Judge Jarvis Blume by quot ing Shakespeare while he polished in- dustriously on the lawyers shoes. Judge Blume became interested and sair:
 say Charlie, I'll give you a dollar if you'll learn the ghost scene from Ham let ."
 The colored boy quickly consented. and on going to the lawyers office to earn his dollar he found roomful of Judge Blume's friends, who were pre- pared for amusement. He recited the scene in a way that astonished his aud itor, and induced Judge Blume to un- dertake his education.
 Dr. D. K. Pearson. who has aided many SIfuRBnnS colleges III lIllS COuil- try, and the Rev. pr. Frank w. Gum saulus, the Chicago preacher. later be- came interested in Wood and he was sent to Beloit College, Wisconsin, to be educated.
 During his course there his dramatic and oratorical ability became so mark ed that he was chosen as the Wiscon-. sin representative in the interstate ora torical contest at Galesburg in 1895, winning second place. William J. Bryan. who was one of the judges, marked him 100 per cent.
 Eight years after he forsook his boot blacking outfit and newspapers for books he appeared as Oedipus in Soph- ocles' tragedy when it was presented in Central Music Hall, Chicago. by the Greek department of Beloit College.
 MT. Wood was graduated from Beloit College in 1895 and from the Chicago Theological Seminary in 1898, and the same year was engaged by Booker T. Washington as head of the English de- partment at Tuskegee. In 1901 MT. Washington selected him for the John Crosby Brown scholarship at Columbia. from which institution he has just been graduated.-New York Sun.
Arizona republican., 1903-07-05
THE NEW MAN CARRIER.
A Conner" in Its Line the New Motor
 Cycle Is Believed to Be.

Signs multiply that there is stealing
 into peoples habits a machine for.
 transportation useful beyond compari- son with the automobile or that won der of mechanical success, the ordinary
 bicycle. We refer to the moter cycle. or power bicycle. concerning which we observe a most instructive and conf dent article in the Worlds Work for July. by a member of the British Par liament, Henry Norman. noted in jour nalism and for interest in automobiles.
 According to MT. Norman there is much to be improved in the motor cycle now obtainable, but as it stands 1t is a machine quite near enough to perfection to be both practicable and agreeable. Its already proven useful ness may be expected to broaden inn mensely with the development that is sure to come. The price of this ma chine is now about S2O0. and MT. Nor man thinks that this ought to be much reduced The total yearly cost, credit ing $40 to a sinking fund. is $119. and on the basis of a performance of POO miles week all the year round. this repre- sants a cost of about 90 cents a day. or about a cent a mile. 'incomparably the cheapest method of independent rapid locomotion since the world was created. At the same time this ma chine. which may be relied upon to average POO miles a week. is capa ble of going fifty miles an hour.
 Only dwellers in the country F-o-- the enormous use that is today made Of the bicycle. particularly by working men going to and from their work. To- day. says Mir. Norman, a man can live at most five miles from his employ ment. With the motor bicycle, his home may be fifteen miles away, and these extra miles will make great diff ference in rent and the health of his family.
 Who has suggested a better solution of the alarming urban" question, or the concentration of population in tn. great cities? We don't wonder that Mr. Norman, whose judgment on the subject is entitled to high respect. be lieves that within a few years motor bicycles and tricycles will be sold by hundreds of thousands" and that many of the social and industrial con ditions of our time will be greatly and beneficially affected by them- New York Sun.
Arizona republican., 1903-07-05
THE OLD SUBURBAN FACES.

I have had seatmates, have had com
 panions, In the crowded smoker. in the tardy
 milk trains; All, all are gone, the old suburban
 faces. I have been hustling, I have been hur-
 rying, Bolting my breakfast food, gulping
 down my coffee; Rushing to meet the old suburban
 faces. I have stood. have sat down on the
 coal box, Reading my paper, grumbling like the
 others; Watching them scowl, the old subur-
 ban faces. Ghostlike wander through the crowded coaches. Peering at the strangers that are all about me; Seeking to find the old suburban faces. Friends and fellow sufferers, where are ye all? Is this some other planet? Or am l dreaming? Where have they gone, the old subur-
 ban faces? An, yes, l see it all. I've missed the dummy, And caught a through train, filled with rank outsiders They're on ahead, the old suburban
 faces.
 Chicago Tribune.
Arizona republican., 1903-07-05
DANGER FROM ELECTRIC SHOCK

Cases of fatal electric shock are. for tunately, of rare occurrence, and are mostly confined to those employed in the generation and distribution of cleo tricity. It is difficult to ascertain the minimum strength of current which is dangerous to life as there is so much variation in the effect according to the circumstances attending the shock. Currents of thirty to forty milli-am- peres are probably as much as can be borne without great discomfort, al- though we find it stated that for medi- cal purposes, and, of course, with due precautions, as many as 200 milli-am- peres can be safely passed through the human body. The effect is, however, modified so much by the state of health of the individual. by the length of time during which shock has been inflicted and by the path which the current has taken through the body, that no definite
Arizona republican., 1903-07-05
KANSAS AND THE FARM HANDS.

| Kansas is pathetically calling Cor harvest hands. Unless help is secured | soon hundreds of thousands of bushels of precious grain must go to waste. This seems to be an annual complaint | in Kansas. The state free employment
 agency is half buried under appeals
 from farmers who want men to help 1 gather the crops. The superintendent
 of the bureau announces that in Els worth alone 1000 men are wanted at
 wages rom $2.25 to $3 a day and their l board.
 At 8 a day the Kansas farm hand
 can make SIS a week. or about S70 a
 month-and save it. He has no meals | to pay for, no room to rent, no car fare | to reduce his surplus. Also he may dispense with laundry bills, or at the most provide for about one clean col ! lar a week
 Why are the cities overcrowded with
 men who are complaining at the hard conditions of life while Kansas is call l ing for farm hands and offering to make them rich? Why is It necessary for scciologists to keep on writing and featuring about the awful state of the people in the crowded slums when
 Kansas has space to give away ac-
 
 fresh air that the houses have to be chained down?
 Surely it seems as if a combination might be effected between Kansas and the great centers of civilization that would be beneficial all around. But there Is one great trouble. Kansas has made the mistake of being far. far away from Halstead street and the pleasures of city life that are so dear to the hearts of the people who are eking out bare existence in the great metropo- lis. Kansas might be able to get hands if they could when the days work is done hurry back to their cheerful homes in the gay, bewildering slums. It is the lonliness of the Kansas night that makes the man who is supporting a family of six on $9 a week in a great city rather bear the ills he has than fly to riches and the necessity of tray cling six miles to get his tobacco.
 Another unfortunate thing about the Kansas situa tion is that the harvesting doesn't go on all the year round. How is the man who can make $3 a day
Arizona republican., 1903-07-05

during five or six weeks in the sum- mer going to secure a princely income the rest of the year
 It looks as if the Kansas farmers only relief will be through the cultiva-' ton of less territory.-Chicago Record Herald.
Arizona republican., 1903-07-05
CONSTANCY.

Tom Jynn-Can't you give me just one more chance? I've stopped drink ing for good this time.
 Mabel Syruppe-Stopped drinking :? Nonsense, You couldn't stick to any thing if you tried.
 Tom Jynn--Why, Mabel! How can you say such a thing Think of the way I've stuck to drinking
Arizona republican., 1903-07-05

Neighbor Kikdins - Well. we're now and cries most all the time. Hope it doesn't disturb you much.
 Neighbor Kikdins- Well, we're thankful, of course. that it isn't a baby elephant tusking.
Arizona republican., 1903-07-05
CARRYING THE COMPARISON TOO
 

Darling" cried the Product of the Effete East. "I love your wld, free life You are the star of my existence; you"
 Say" drawled Texas Tessie, as sha carelessly covered him, ''I don't like your looks. So kindly canter. or you'll see shooting star.''-Yale Record
Arizona republican., 1903-07-05

Some people are SO conscientious about loving their enemies that if they haven't any they are perfectly willing to make a few.-Philadelphia Record.
Arizona republican., 1903-07-05

Trade Mark kellett's Irade-MaTk
 Oil of Eden Sweet Spirits of Eden
 Rheumatism, Kidney, Stomach, and Nervous Diseases are positively cured with Oil and Sweet Spirits of Eden. Druggists will get it for you. Manufactured by California Cooperative Medi- cal Company. Capital Stock, q 500 900, of soooc shares at $50 each. No one can own more than one share. As income increases, shares increase in value. Write for list of members and rules, to C. C. M. Co.,, Eureka, or Oakland, Cal.
Arizona republican., 1903-07-05
IS A METROPOLIS NOW.

The "open Sunday" appears to be one of the permanent institutions of Cleve- land.-Indianapolis Sentinel.
Arizona republican., 1903-07-05
WHAT THE GRADUATES WILL DO.

The list of occupations which Har- yard seniors will take up after leaving
Arizona republican., 1903-07-05

During the decade 1S93-1sOS, the bud get of the Russian empire increased from 1000, 900 to 100000 rubles.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-18

often with some jealousy and conflict Of in.
terest
The university and the Agricultural and
Mechanical college now have each their par
tisans In the legislature, their graduates and
special friends, who are prone to promote
one at the expense Of the other. Al each
session the officers OF the institutions are
compelled to go into the lobby In support
OF their needs, and this invites political arti.
fees and Influences from which educational
institutions should be wholly divorced.
In this connection should be considered
also the governors suggestion for a defni-
tive program Of curriculum to the end that
the two institutions may not infringe upon
each others sphere and duplicate instruc-
ton. There is already brewing a spirited
controversy on this subject which, II 1t is
not amicably settled very soon, will lead to
unhappy and harmful animosites. It may
be necessary to harmonic and correlate the
work of the two institutions by a commits.
sion OF educators.
When once that is done 1t can stand for
all time, and then with a constitutional tax
yielding q minimum income for maintenance
and Improvement the fortunes of these insti-
tutions will be entirely removed from po-
litical or legislative hazard and a fruitful
cause Of unseemly politics will be forever
destroyed,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-18
Houston, Texas, Sunday, January 10, 1908.
40 PAGES TO-DAY.
THE TARIFF NOT ALL.

Many good people who want the trusts
controlled imagine that the protective tariff
IS the sole cause of the evil and when that
IS reduced the unho!y monopolies will dis.
appear. Some others who ought to know
better make the contention with such in
glstence as to lead to the suspicion that they
really seek to conserve the interests OF the
trusts by the inadequate remedy OF tariff
-eform.
As TO some OF the trusts the tariff, Of
course. is a great protection, but as to others
Il Is a matter of Indifference. For example,
The tarin on coal has just been removed. but
we were told in advance that it would not
reduce the price or lead 10 the importation
Of 2 single pound OF coal. The act there
fore, will have little or no direct effect on
the coal trust which is secure il the fact
that II dominates the American supply and
the American supply Is the main dependence
OF American consumers. Removing the
tariff in this case was wise because, as The
Post has already observed. 1t Is a warning
10 trusts that are really protected by the
Tariff and ii is evidence OF the influence of
popular demand even upon an arrogant re.
puDllCHH IHdJOIlLY' beSiuSS, IL 10 sOOu luSh
to reduce the tariff at any point upon any
pretcxt. But let no one be disappointed II
his particular measure falls of direct relief
The trust problem Is to be treated upon
another theory altogether, A monopoly II
contrary to the general welfare, and the
government must attack It directly upon the
principle of its existence which is contrary
to common law and to numerous Federal ant
State statutes. 1t were a lame government
that could not protect its people from
gandage. The power inheres in sovereignty
and sovereignty resides In organized govern
ment OF whatever form except as to its eX
press limitations. The only question worth
considering in this country is the precise
power of the Federal government under the
reservation to the States, but surely it Ii
an unsound doctrine, contrary to all com
mon sense, to hold that congress lacks The
power to regulate interstate commerce. The
convenient fiction which certain trusts have
invented to the effect that. because they dc
not directly traffic between States they d(
not fall under this classification, is palp
able subtertuge which can not avail agaius
statute framed with special view o
reaching that condition,
1t is in the air that trusts are to be con
troned and If the people do not allow them
selves to be deluded or betrayed continued
agitation and vehement demand VIII soon b,
rewarded.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-18
THE FITTINGS OF MAMHoN


What meanetb the coming of Mamnca
With fittings Of corn and OF oil
To dover the temple and collegs,,
And comfort the children OF ton
For, long hath ne stood in the marry
And long in the valley made bold
With never a thought but OF riehe'
And never a fetch but gold
And 10, where he eometh IS nono'
BY men of the cap and the gown
And men of the cult and the pump a,qs
With suirks and obeisanee oena
For, Mammon is free with aoun'''
And Charity vaunteth Itself ., piruls
While knowledge is wanton wan p.E
And Righteousness walketh WITH
The laws we had made for me No.
To premium genius and toll
Hath Mammon converted 70 mems
To gather the fittings OF sp0N'
And Privilege waxeth TO Not e.,se,
Condoned in the chambers o. .s.,,r.8
For Mammon hath eaddled ana ~,
His own in the seats OF the s''@
And now when the Shorn bsafel IVA
That Labor hath less than nsI ~t.
And Thrift payeth burdensonle u's
To fatten the Commune OF S'essi ia
Doth Mammon make long pi'
And, tithing his corn and NJ 80
Processing a trust sanetimohyN8
Lay heavier fittings OF spoh
o men of the State OF the Feo Il issi
Make bold with the weapon, ne
And you OF the temple and eonss
Deliver right Judgments u 'h htsstaul
Lest Patience be taxed 70 -. a,spol
And Vengeance be ve%ea - .ss,tlsd
And Having and Have-noI el s5 81 toS
Make wreckage of wealth an asscs or
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-18
Is the Monroe pootrIne RIaht

To the Editor Of The Post
While lifelong democrat and a sincere be-
lever in democratic principles, ! never could ap-
preciate the justice of the Monroe doctrine
except as matter OF policy on principle or
right, 1t seems to me, There is none, an inch be-
You'd Our own territory.
Imagine this government, in the year of its
first official PRONUNCIATION by President Monroe
to have been insignificant power like Vcnc-
zuela or Spain, and not removed from Europe
by 5000 miles OF water. With what
derision the pTouounccmcnt would have been re-
ceived by formidable naval powers like En-
gland, France and Russia
MIR. Editor, where would be the harm or
menace this government by a foreign power
acquiring through purchase or conquest foot
hold anywhere the South American CONT
nent? England has already had it north and
south OF us for years, and what have we suf-
tercd by 1t? Look at the present condition OF
these socalled republics ON and below the
equator. Constantly in revolution and dominated
by religion that always dscourages intellectual
progress Colonies or dependencies OF En-
gland at least, on the South American continent
it seems to me, would more Of the Prot
eStaut religion, and that would BE a guarantee
OF a marked impetus in science and civil and
religious liberty. Crowded Europe especially
needs and will have dumping ground for its
surplus population. Between two evils hadn' n
we better let them send it to the millions OF
acres OF vacant lands south OF the equator than
into our own States2
Again, the capture end purchase OF the Philip
pines makes maintenance Of the Monroe doe
triue very inconsistent, has been vigorously
shown by senators in congress the past tive
years. 1t is Jeiwoodism pure and simple for
the United States to say now Gentlemen
hands of those South American republics bu{
we claim the right of conquest and purchase on
territory in European and Asiauc waters"
! Certainly a matter Of policy il may be all
we'll enough If our government can maintain this
self assumed suzerainty over our neighbors, buS
| 1t is a very questionable right and fear viii
involve us in serious trouble in the course Of
time. Even the doughty Cleveland thinks it will
have to be surrendered in part after awhile
JAMES A. STEVENS
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-18
MAINTENANCE OF COLLEGES.

do not believe that wiser step, or one that
will insure better and more substantial results,
can he taken as to the university and the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college by the legislature
and the people than to make permanent pro-
vision, through q sell-e%ecuung constitutional
amendment levying a small annual tax, for their
maintenance and development. The effect will
be TO eliminate these institutions from the BIZ
ennial appropriation bills and TO insure them GER
tain and increasing incomes. Until this shall be
done, they will 50 limping along at half starved
speed.--Copern0r Savers Message.
With an amendment. which the governor
would doubtless accept, The Post heartily
lndorses this recommendation and urges its
adoption by the present legislature. That
amendment is to include with the university
and the Agricultural and Mechanical college
the Girls Industrial college. which was de.
signed and Is destined to rank with the two
other high grade institutions. Indeed, it is
to the girls of Texas what the Agricultural
and Mechanical college is to the boys and
the two should occupy the same relation to
the State university.
With regular tax set apart for this pur-
pose the future OF the institutions would be
assured and their regents and directors could
plan intelligently for long period of de-
velopment The effect would be the same
to taxpayers. because the money for main
tenance must come from their pockets
through the general revenue. II not other
wise. and it wiz doubtless BE supplied by
the legislature from time TO time, but al
Ways with more or less uncertainty, and
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-18
9ampering 10itk 9rifles
PRETENDIN,.
by J. ~ LeRie)

PRETENDIN'.
When the ice is in the rain-bar'i an yeh have ter
chop a hole
Fore yeh kin git out the water fer ter wash
yerself at all,
An they's drifts along the fences an the wins a.
cuttin' col,
An the trees looks CANT an lonesome an they
motion you an call
With the wind at rustles thro EN-; then wanter
set do,
18th an apple on shovel, an 1 wanter bake it
BY the wide oil open fireplace, Jest toast it thoo
an thoo,
Till the skin busts with the goodness an the
juice is drippn down.
daddy tell
OF the battle that he fit In when he got his
wooden leg;
How he rushed agin' the ramparts, 'mongst the
screamin' shot an she'll,
An ter hear the way he tells 1t men lost my
sta'board peg
Men he sets awhile an listens whilst the apple
stews an sings,
An he stops a-tellin' stories an know he's
fur away,
Where the smoke clouds hangs above him, an a
hghtn column swings,
An he's fghtiu' battles over an a-wearin of the
gray,
When the ice is in the rain-bar1 an the HOSES
bedded down,
An they amt thing a-doin' 'cept the nalIkin' O.
the COWS,
Then | wanter take the musket it'll its dented
stock an brown,
An l wanter take the powderhorn an go an
sorter browze
Crost the medders after rabbits where their tracks
are in the Snow,
Jest pertend;n' they are Yankees - II
wes-a O. the gray
Il, march right up agin EN- ea' sight 'e.,
fore they know,
An ups o.! Betsy at en- a. ! yell an' blaze
away.