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troops. y renewal OF the contest was
expected this morning.
Two regiments of Magru ler's di-
vision, the 7th and 9Th Georgia suffer
ed severely yesterday in attempting to
take battery near the Seven Pines,
defended by at least two brisades Of
Yankees.
Col. Lamar of the 8th Georgia was
wounded and taken prisoner. Lieut..
Col. White of the 9Th Georgia, was
wounded in the neck. The casualties
OF the two regiments were about 200.
There seems to be no doubt but that
Mcclellan 8 communications with his
sources of supplies is effectual)y cut
off.
The remnant of Mcclellan army is
now on this side of the Chickahominy.
The bridges are all destroyed to pre-
vent the pursuit of the Confederates
on the north.
1t is reported that Mcclellan is re-.
treating towards James River, where
his troops may embark in trans
ports under the protection of his gun
boats.
The latest report from the lines give
this information, and state that our
army is pursuing the enemy and hope
to capture many of them before night.
Richmond, June 29.-The follow
ing are the casualties in the Palmetto
Rifiemcn
Wounded: Z. A. Keyes, in the
foot; S d Lewis, flesh wound, in leg;
W Lewis, in the side, severely.
The field officers are safe.
". W. Humphreys, Company G.
Richmond, June 28.-In two days
fighting our army have driven the enc
my before them ten miles, and are
pursuing them to day. Gen. Gregg 8
brigade opened the main action yes
tcrday afternoon and encountered q
destructive fire from vast body Of
the enemy's troops. Our loss is very
heavy. Col. McGowan, Lieut.. Col
onels Smith and Barnes, Majors Liv-
ington and Carter are wounded. None
seriously. Col. MoGowan, Lieut..
Coils. Smith and Barnes are still on
duty. Among the killed is Lieut..
Grinke Rhett, an officer of the highest
promise. Lieut.. Robert Rhett is se-
riously wounded. (In this dispatch
the hope is modestly expressed that
the conduct of the troops was such as
will be satisfactory to the State.)
Richmond, June 28.-Our army has
achieved wonders at heavy sacrifice
OF men and officers. Everything de-
pends on the fight Of to-day, with the
advantages all in our favor. We are
in front and rear, having driven the
enemy entirely down to right and GEN.
tre. We have taken over 5000 pris-
oners. The fight last night was the
most sublime spectacle ever beheld.
Richmond, June 29.-Gen. Lee
claims complete victory. We are
drawing our lines around the enemy
closely. There is no escape for No
Clellan unless he goes into the river.
Richmond, June 28.-McC Clellan has
concentrated all his forces this side Of
the Chickahominy. We attacked and
took their batteries on the Nine Mile
Road this morning. Mcclellan is in
full>retreat for James River. If God
prosper us he cannot escape. They
destroyed immense stores to day. God
be praised.
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Yates j 5 Kay, seriously, W White,
do, \ \, Shelly, slightly, a johnson
DO, saml & Williams, do. j NJ Wat
son, do, + T Chamber, seriously,
Jas Gentry, do, II + Browne, do, j o
liammett, slightly, a 6 Hammett,
DO, j 5 Eandiver, do, VT Summers,
DO, > 5 Nandiver, do, Israel Nelson,
do, " l. Shiver, do, Ira Bell, Go, NIB
lrby, do, G W Vaudiver, do, DC
Stutt, seriously, j NJ Foster, slightly,
} W Ferrily do, H f Milford do-to.
tai, %.
Field and Staff Killed: Sergeant
Major A H Magee; Wounded: Maj j
\ Livingston, slightly, Adjt j Berry
Sloan, seriously-total, 2.
j. Foster Marshall,
Col. Comd'g G Regt.
Caouaities in Company E, 18th Regi.
Richmond, June 29.-The follow.
ing comprise the casualties in Compa.
ny f., l4th Regiment:
Killed: John Simpson. Wounded
Lieut. Dorrah, Sergeants F: .,nks and
Means; Privates Albert Boyce, JF
Cox, Henry Daniels, Jno Pearson, Ben
Martin, Harrison Tumolin, S H Paul,
Ihos Waddel, and also myself.
ALI are doing we'll except the gallant
Boyce, whose injuries may terminate
fatally. Jos. N. Brown, Captain.
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The Battle OF Richmond.

Columbia Guardian, June 81, 1862.
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The San Francisco call., 1904-06-19

Chicago. where the most effectual work
has been accomplished. This school
was opened in 1902. 1t Is located In
one OF the suburbs, on a fifty-acre tract
OF land. of which thirty acres are cul-
tiyated as a garden and twenty acres
are used as building sites and play
grounds. A large reservoir for water
supply has been built, which serves
as a skating pond in winter for the
boys and from which hundreos OF TONS
of ice are cut. The school Is organ
ized on the cottage plan, which, when
completed, will consist Of eleven cot
tages.
The number of employees last year
was %. The number of boys received
during the year was 19l. The inmates
arc given. as nearly as possible, the
course of study OF the Chicago schools,
besides manual training. domestic SCI
ence, gardening. laundry work. gym
nastics and military exercises. The re-
ceipts in 1902 were:
First appropriation, $4,000; cash
from garden. $512; sale OF clothing
to boys. 1856: milk from cows. $500;
yegeta bles used in kitchen, $3.50;
provender fed to stock. $50; vegetables
stored for winter use, 1892; second ap-
nropriation. S12953 Total, $55, 5,254. The
expenditure was $53.549.
The average daily attendance being
81. made the per capita cost OF main
taining the school IS "a per week. This
was considered a high rate, but the
school was equipped for the main
tenance of 200 boys. and under SINH
lar circumstances the cost OF maintain
ing each boy would be but s. 30.
No walls, bars or bolts or any
other prison features are on the prem
ises. The boys know that 1t is useless
to attempt to escape, for the truant
officers would Immediately bring them
back to the school. Most encouraging
reports are received from paroled pu-
pills, and no account is given of where
II has been necessary to commit one
of the inmates to a reform school.
The parental school of Boston Ia
managed almost entirely by the Board
of Trustees for Children, the School
Board having Jurisdiction only over the
instruction given therein. There are
twenty-one truant officers. Boston was
six years in securing money for q pa
rental school after asking for the ap-
preparation. The site consists Of some
twenty-seven acres In West Roxbury
and fronts on the Charles River. The
buildings consist Of a laundry. Kitchen
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California Club Civic Day Programme
May IT.

and boiler house, an Ice house, two cot
tages. farm house, hospital and super
intendent's home. The course Of study
is similar to that of Boston, besides
sloyd and clay modelling.
About half OF the boys are employed
in the boiler house. barn and laundry.
Others are engaged in gardening, rak-
Ing and clearing up. moving the lawn
in summer and shoveling paths in win
ter.
The average daily attendance In 1898
was III. The average time OF deten-
ton Of each pupil was about twelve
months.
The expenses In the same year were
$29.293. the average expense per week
per child being 50 25.
The experiments IN the city OF New
York do not seem to have been at
tended with the same degree OF sue
cess as In other cities. In 1900 the
thirty-one attendance officers OF New
York returned to school 1000 children,
$500 being picked up on the street
New York has two boarding schools,
one in a four-story brick building and
the other is on a plat Of fifteen acres
in a suburban district. These schools
are found inadequate to the care OF the
number committed and a desire has
been expressed for accommodations
for three hundred boys. In the New
York school special attention IS paid
to military drill and music Superin-
tendent Maxwell, In his report. says:
Improvement IN reading. writing and
arithmetic invariably follows profcisn-
cy in military drill. nanusl exercise
and music. The very idea that he is
acquiring a knowledge and . power
which most boys do not possess raises
him In his own respect and makes him
desire the other accomplishments that
usually belong to q worthy member OF
society"
This training Is certainly Of greatest
value, for out OF thirty-seven boys who
were sent back to the public school
from the truant school twenty-nine
kept the grade OF excellent for ten
weeks and only two were returned to
the school for a second term.
Great care Is made In the commit
ment Of boys. Out Of $50 cases brought
up, only 30 commitments were made.
In Indiana the State Truancy Board
states that 25.025 children, in 1s00-1901,
were brought into the school, at cost
Of $27,SS5.
San Francisco. too. has tried its ex-
pertinent IN the establishment OF a
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on a tree. She just slips 1t on and
comes down, and then my stars! All
the other women in the room may
just as we'll go to bed and get good
nights rest for all the chance they've
got 1t isn't that she's beautiful. From
what they tell you about her, you
might fancy her a freak. Looks don't
appear TO matter 10 her; she gets there
anyhow. ! tell you, she just makes me
boil" Allowing for the difference be-
tween the masculine and the feminine
outlook, this is precisely how used to
feel when reading of the hero.
He was not always good; sometimes
he hit the villain harder than he had
intended, and then he was sorry-when
1t was too late-blamed himself severe
ly. and subscribed toward the wreath.
Like the rest of US he made mistakes;
occasionally married the wrong girl
But how well he did everything
still for the matter Of that, l believe.
Take II that he cOndescends TO play
cricket He never scores less than a
hundred-does not know how to score
less than a hundred, wonders how it
could be done, supposing, for example,
you had an appointment and wanted 10
catch an early train. 1 used to play
cricket myself, but could always stop
at ten or twenty. There have been
times when / have stopped at even
less. 1t is the same with everything
he puts his hand to. Either he does
not care for boating at all, or, as a
matter OF course, he pulls stroke in the
university boat race; and then takes
the train on to Henley and wins the
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Parental Schools

est days work upon every working
day. In life almost every one has
calling or occupation, something to do
and until the school for the masses
has for its chief aim the cultivation of
the instincts of construction and pro-
duction. the education of the children
Of the tollers, who comprise the
greater part OF our population, will
be a failure.
The university should stand as an
open door to all who have the ambi-
ton and capacity for higher learning,
but we must not leave those who are
not prepared to receive this higher
education in idleness, to be a menace
TO the state In after life.
Experience has shown that the
establishment of free schools is not
been inevitable.
Truancy and idleness have always
been problems which all educators
have had to face. and ever since tho
establishment in New York in 1905
OF the first public schools authorities
have had before them the problem Of
truancy. The first truant law in the
United States was passed in Massa-
chusetts in 1850 and the people of
California have the experience of
other States for over fifty years from
which to draw conclusions. Children
who have been guilty of no greater
sin than disliking the usual curriculum
Of the school have been confined In
prisoners, almshouses, reform schools
and asylums. and II is fortunate for
the San Francisco truant that no such
experiments Will have to be tried on
him since Eastern cities have demon
strated TO the present generation the
possibilities OF the modern parental
school.
There are two types OF truant or
parental schools throughout the United
States. One Is the ungraded day
school and the other is the parental
boarding school. by far the most sue
cessful being the latter. These institu-
tions are conducted on the cottage
plan, where boys are grouped together
In families. The plan has been to de-
veiop an institution that will surround
the inmates with an atmosphere that
will wean them away from baser ten
dencies. to place them In an ideal
home where they may learn by social
converse more than from books. In
these families of boys statements are
made, Inquiries arise, topics are dis
cussed, individuals are unconsciously
led TO state experiences and miscon-
ceptions are corrected. Each one par
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indeterminate, and pupils should be
transferred to their former classrooms
only when the teacher feels assured
that no further offenses will be COM
mitted.
The New Haven school was organized
in 1871 and now has five classes; one
for truants and incorrigibles. three for
children who do not speak English
and one for all these classes. In 1899,
5S5 cases OF truancy were reported and
II boys from these classes were sent to
the reform school. there being no par
entail boarding school.
The cost of maintaining the truant
classrooms at Bay City is but $500 a
year, this being the salary OF the prin-
clpal OF the building, who acts as
teacher. The City Superintendent re-
ports that this class has had a strong
deterrent effect on truancy. The un-
graded school at Detroit has done val
liable work in its time, but now the
wisdom of its very existence as an un-
graded school has been called into
question. A building was especially
erected for 1t and first occupied In 1890,
but this was abandoned, as there was
but one school to serve an area Of
thirty square miles and it was too re-
mote to return truants to school the
same day they were reported. One
more central room is now maintained.
Nine policemen act as truant officers.
The truant school Of Grand Rapids Is
in a fifteen-roomed grammar school
and is decidedly observation-disclosures
and incorrigibles are in classes together
and, there is no way OF separating them
from the regular pupils. Teachers are
paid $500 q year and the average num-
Der OF pupils In the school is SO.
Philadelphia has the largest day tr7u-
ant schools in America. The city has
been divided into thirty districts and
has twenty-eight attendance officers.
In 1902 1452 truants were returned to
school There are five ungraded
schools, the principals receiving $500 a
year and assistants each $500.
An appropriation Of s37.5oo was made
in 1903 for the support of these special
schools. The management is in the
hands of the Bureau Of Compulsory
Education, whose chief Is urgent In his
appeals for boarding school.
For the most marked success OF the
boarding school type we must look to
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IN view OF the fact that our new
compulsory education law IS In ef-
feet and that action has been
taken by the school authorities to
establish IN San Francisco a spe-
cial classroom for defective children.
which shall include truants, II Is op-
perfume that we should inform our
selves upon what has been accom-
plished In other cities for the care OF
the habitual truant and that we
should perfectly understand the situa-
tion In our own city and the great
principle for which the parental
school should stand.
II Is a well recognized fact that ig-
nOrance IS one Of the chief causes OF
crime-ignOrance OF books and fgno-
rance OF q trade.
The four great cardinal institutions
0f education are the family, the voca-
lion, the state and the church.
The ideal parental school should
give 10 every boy that training IN
cleanliness. care OF the person and
clothing. respectful treatment OF
elders and superiors. obedience to au-
thority. respect for truth and honesty.
which he should receive IN the family.
II should give him a vocation by fur
and pave the way for professions. It
should teach patriotism, supply MILL
tary training and the study Of mu-
niclpal and self government to 1T the
child TO become a member Of the
state. and Il should supplement the
work OF the church by laying the
foundations Of his moral character
and a sense OF human duty.
II is safe 10 say that our one great
cause OF truancy is our plan OF edu-
cation. II fails 10 interest. hold and
develop the child as Il should, with
IT'S mechanical massing OF children,
uniformity OF curriculum and method.
our social life has undergone a thor
ough and radical change and our edu-
cation must pass through an equally
complete Transformation.
our system in the past has tended
too much toward the making OF
clerks, when what the world needs Is
Young men who have a practical
knowledge Of arts and crafts. one who
has been taught in a workshop to
work out his constructive instincts.
srhe school must give TO the rising
generation a knowledge that will at
him for citizenship. II a school is to
make moral, law-abiding citizens of
boys Il must teach them TO do an hon.
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school for the reformation OF refrac-
tory boys. In 1872. through the efforts
OF Mr.. Denman. two classes were form
ed in the basement OF a church on
Washington street and nearly ESQ pu-
pills were transferred to them during
the year Mr.. Denman's term OF Of
flee expired and on account Of imper-
feet organization and supervision these
classes were failure. Since then the
law has been revised aud San Francis
co must in the near future wake up TO
a realization OF what her duty u TO the
youth within her territory.
A campaign TO awaken pubic inter-
est Is the first thing necessary and a
sentiment in favor Of the movement
viii surely be created when the peo-
pie are made aware OF the facth
The one question OF finance u at the
bottom Of most educational problems,
but this problem has been solved else
where, and viii be here, as soon as the
solution is demanded by the people.
California should have state tru-
ancy board Our city Board OF Educa-
ton should be supplemented by bu-
reau OF compulsory education, whose
executive officer should be the super
intendent Of compulsory education
Then We might hope 70 have our city
properly districted and a sufficient
number Of attendance officers appoint
ed
When this much can be accomplished
then an ideal parental school, such as
Is the pride OF Chicago to-day, viii be
an assured fact for San Francisco. Su-
perintendent Langdon has this year In
cluded IN his estimate for school ex-
penses an appropriation for a special
class IN San Francisco and this IS a
step In the right direction, but we have
seen that the experience OF other cities
has shown that truants should be
placed IN classes by themselves. and
that the only satisfactory solution OF
the truant problem has been in the
ideal parental boarding school and San
Francisco should be satisfied with moth
ing less than the best IL the law as
il now reads Is enforced it win be a
powerful child saving influence In our
community.
The number OF cases brought before
the Juvenile court would be lessened
and no doubt the number committed
to the reform schools would greatly
diminish. This IS a step toward the
formation OF character and habit.
which Is much more economical and
desirable than to delay and make nee
essary the work OF reformation.
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ticipates in household duties. Thus
habits of industry and order are
formed. regard for the rights of others
is insisted upon and an opportunity is
given in many indirect ways for the
child TO gain knowledge. In many
cases the truant who has had the good
fortune, it may be called, to be COM
mitted to one of these schools has
much more interesting and instructive
training than the average public
school pupil. and 1t has been proven
without doubt that a radical transfor-
nation has resulted in the lives OF
hundreds of city boys who took their
first step in moral and physical de-
struction when they became truants
1t has been demonstrated that 1t is
easier to furnish an occasional farm
plat than to maintain reformatories
and prisons, and statistics show that
life in workshop, garden, field and
forest Is the life that appeals to the
average truant and that almost with
out exception he becomes an honered
member of society.
been done in the Eastern cities.
The cities having only the ungraded
classes are New Haven, which main
talns five, Bay City, Detroit and Grand
Rapids, in Michigan. each maintaining
one; Albany and Binghamton, N. Y.
eacn one; Cleveland, two; Allegheny,
one; Philadelphia two. and Providence,
Rhode Island, seven.
Parental boarding schools have been
established in Chicago. Boston, Goshen,
Lawrence, North Chelmsford, SPRING
field, Walpole, Worcester, Mass, and
in Buffalo, N. Y, New York CITY.
Rochester and Syracuse.
Some cities like Chicago and New
York City. including Brooklyn, main.
tain both types Of truant schools. Soma
OF these cities have had an experience
OF nine years In which many mistakes
as well as failures have been made.
We will first consider the day truant
schools. In most places q policeman
acts as truant officer. which is a great
mistake, as II is most important that
only men Of education and training
and rare tact and Judgment should fill
so important q position.
In many places the sentence is for q
certain term of weeks, when II Is far
better to have the period Of detention
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Der, or Polish photographer. I would
not envy him These sort OF people do
not have to learn a language. My
idea is that they boil down a die
tonary and take two tablespoonfuls
each night before going TO bed. BY
the time the bottle is finished they have
the language well into their system.
But he is not He is Just an ordinary
Anglo Saxon, and I don't believe in
him. 1 walk about for years with die
tionartes in my pocket Weird-looking
ladies and gentlemen gesticulate and
rave at me for months. I hide myself
in lonely places. repeating idioms TO
myself out loud. in the hope that by
this means they win come readily to
me If ever want them. which never
do. After all this, don't seem TO know
very much. This irritating ass. who
has never left his native suburb, sud
denly makes up his mind to travel IN
the Continent I find him In the next
chapter engaged IN complicated psy-
Geological argument with French or
German savants- 1t appears-the au-
thor had forgot to mention 1t before
that one summer a French, or Ger
men, or italian refugee, as the case
may happen to be. came 70 live In ths
hero's street; thus II Is that the hero
Is able to talk huently IN the native
language OF that unhappy refugee. I
remember a melodrama visiting a
country town where I was staying.
The heroine and the child were
sleeping peacefully in the cuatomarv
attic. For some reason not quite clear
70 me the villain had set dre TO tha
house. He had been couplafninp
through the three preceding acts OF
the heroine's coldness; maybe A was
with some idea OF warning her. Escape
NJ he 81 fr-ro
BILE Each time the poor girl opened the
door flame came in and nearly burned
her hair off. 1t seemed to have been
waiting for her. Thank Godl" said
the lady hastily. wrapping the child IN
a sheet, that I was brought I'D a wire
walker" without a moments hesita-
ton she opened the attic window and
took the nearest telegraph wire to the
opposite side OF the street. In the same
way, apparently. the hero OF the popu-
lar novel, finding himself stranded IN a
foreign land, suddenly recollecfs that
once upon a time he met a refugee.
and at once begins to talk have met
refugees myself; the only thing that
they have ever taught me - not to
leave my brandy flask about I don't
believe in these heroes and heroines
that cannot keep quiet IN q foreign
language they taught themselves IN an
oldworld library. My fixed idea IS that
they muddle along like the rest OF US
surprised Ihat so 1eW people under
stand them, and begging every one
they meet not TO talk 50 quickly These
brilliant conversations with foreign
philosophers! These passionate inter-
views with foreign counteases; they
fancy they have had them crossed
once with an English Lady from
Boulogne to FoIkstone. At FoIkstone
a little French girl-anxtous about her
train-asked US a simple question. My
companion replied to 1t with an ease
that astonished herself The little
French girl vanished; my companion
sighed IT'S so odd" said my COM
panion, but I seem to know quite a
lot OF French the monsnt get back
to England"