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A Tragedy Of the Sands.

An excuse tor considering the
" hite Sands as a portent of evil is
tie memory. fresh in the minds of
New Mexicans, though dating some
years back. of the strange disappear
ance Of Colonel Jack" Fountain and
his son in the vicinity of the White
Sands. Colonel Fountain and his lit
lie child We're though to have been
murdered and thor bodies hidden in
1he White Sands If this be true, the
white sepulchre guards its secret
With SphinX-like gravity. The buck
board driven by Colonel Fountain was
found on the edge of the sands. and
from that day to this no trace of the
Eian Or child has been discovered. The
times We're strenuous in New Mexico
and Colonel Fountain had enemies:
his fate remains a secret. This ia
tali1y credited to the vicinity and the
countless tragedies enacted in the
shade of this white, velvety pile have
added the touch of mystery to a scene
ideally beautiful and inexplicable.
The sands are like white blot on the
painted desert. yet changefnl as an
opal The milky whiteness. the fire
Of irridescent cOlors on the tiny slo-
tnles Of sand. the change and renew
a of tin's. and the unholv beauty
within the folds of soft white sand
q surerstitions significance as we'll
a an artistic value.
Recently commercial aspect has
Threatened the White Sands. II is pro
,osed to manufacture various articles
from the gypsum. Experiments have
shown that the sand may be used to
Efoduce a plaster cement equal "
strength 10 the best made and weigh.
ire % per cent. less. Bricks made Ct
this so-caled sand are equal in ap-
pea.arce 10 Philadelphia preset
trick. weigh about half as much. and
are able to withstand a pressure o1
nearly ! eco pounds to the square
IL ch. A line quality Of chalk has beer
e. gcduced IN the tentative effort to dis
cover the various commercial uses
to which The sand may be pat. Rot
these yarjous rlans for the CONNER
cial desecratior OF one Of the wonders
Ct The world nave been for the most
part verbally undertaken. and the
Whit Sands still Vie untouched;
white silence under the Fright New
Mexican moon and a hlaze oi glory
t2pped h2 the fire Ct the setting sun.
-Kaosas city Star.
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HAVE YOU HEARD TIE LATEST

THE FIDELITY YELL
OF Fidelity boys" on their big eXcnr.
sion to the St. Louis exposition.
One Two, Three
VINO are we7
We are the boys of the Fi-del.i-tee!
Rip Rip Write,
HOofay for BRIGHT
FlnELlTY,..
Five! Ten Twenty
What We're doinss a plenty,
We're fixing for the widder
A good ole Donble- Header.
Hoorav for BRIGHT:
We're all right,
Fidel-l-teet
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a man never realizes how high a
tenee he can jump until he Is badly
scared
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COTTON.

Reported for the Graphic by g. G.
Baylor aud Company
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-26

A nan may be master OF . dozer
'rol his Wife's tongue
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-26

II fnay not be easier 70 coaa d wo-
man than it is to drive her, bot it is
saier.
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~ Boyce devotes mis- time to rents.
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Too much knowledge has ss.sn
known to strang1e happiness,
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The charity of some people is t,og,.
hn9d TO heartfelt sympathy
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"hen man gets too forward mo srs
APT &c BE given setback.
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CARD playing should be confnsa r,
either the drawing room or Tie s,ass-
focrc.
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-26

According q the second theory, the
sands at n.e time are supposed to
have been oclitic limestone. During a
volc?afo oraa-icn. the sulphuric acid
cqa Of the yc.oaoo has driven CT the
ca1heaic aoid gas. here by PRODUCING
the aheTo'cYl constituents cf the sands,
in which 80 found phosphate Ct lime,
rct2eh ~oaeoesia, soda, alunina. sii.
tea and t.aces Of bcrax and nittates-
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30

"HE American woman! The sub
ject is so comprehensive that it
Il would be impossible to do it JUS
tice in the space accorded You ask
me to tell you what I think has made
her what she is? Then reply to you:
The opening of colleges to women and
the spread of women's clubs
1 doubt if women ever had true
emancipation and equality until the
latter half of the nineteenth century.
There has often been a parity of ma
terial conditions, but never the same
opportunities for intellectual develop
ment. The whole question is narrowed
to opening the colleges and universities
to both sexes or giving equal advant-
ages for higher education in separate
institutions Of learning
The place where there is the best
demonstration of the democratic spirit
is in the colleges. There, with the same
standard imperative with every stu
dent, neither wealth nor family counts.
ALL whether the rich or those who are
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systems, and rarely pressed the points
of divergence. wherefore it has come
to pass that there is religious amity
in San Francisco. and we have rarely
been harassed by those unfortunate
religious controversies which bring
church and religion into disrepute and
cast dishonor upon the name and the
glory of the living God.
All churches should strive to main
tain this religious amity. Controversy
is perversive of social peace. and no
preiudices are so dangerous as those
generated by churchly wars. Creeds
striving for supremacy by other means
than the force of conviction have ig-
noble ambitions behind them. and
while these in the end must defeat
themselves, the warfare. they have
caused lacerates the hearts of the
pious and we'll intentioned and opens
the door not merely for sectarian
hatred, but for the ridicule of the i'm
pious. the scorn of the scoffers and
the skepticism of the thinkers. When
religions are at war God weeps and
the devil grins his broadest Mephis-
topheles is never SO happy as when
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HES M s5 ssE sEM M MR. DOOLEY %S HSoS5x HSs sde 9R5
x x y
1870 &C

England mixin' it up with tn Llama iv
Thibet, or our own invincible champeen
takin' on tn Imp'ror iv Germany If they
didn't like tn weapins they'd have me per-
mission to use axes. I'd go further.
wudden't bar anybody firm hghtin' who
wanted to fight If anybody felt tn mar
tial spirit in time. he wud have place to
use it up. I'd have armies composed on'y
iv officers. 1t wud be great Dye s'pose
they'd iver get near enough to each other
to hurt? They'd complain that tn throuble
with tn long distance guns was that they
cudden't be made distant enough. Sup
posin' Gin'ral Kurypotkin had to do all tn
fighting fr himsilf. II wud be betther fr
him, because thin he cud ordher an adj
vance without bein' so crowded comm
back. Supposin', to crafty his heeryoic
spirit, he had to ordher himsilf to carry q
thrunk, cook stove, shovel, 4 pickAx, an
ikon an wurrud iv good cheer frm tn
Gar two thousand miles over clay road,
an if he did it successfully an didn't spill
anything he might hope to be punctured be
bayonet. An suppose Gin'ral Oyama had
to walk bare-footed acrost Manchuria an
subsist four months be whettin' his beak
on a cuttlehsh bone. How soon dye think
there wud be battle9 War wud be wan
CONTINUOUS manoover. with wan iv thin
manooverin' west an tn other manooverin'
east. They'd niver meet till years afther tn
gloryous struggle.
They'll niver do IT." said Mr.. Hennessy.
There have always been wars"
"An' fools" said Mr.. Dooley-
"But wudden't ye de6nd yer own FIRE
side?"
81 don't need to-" said Mr.. Dooley. "If
1 keep on coal enough me freside will make
it too hot FIR amy wan that invades IT.
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ficer has visited 15e houses, finding 173
children from to IA years not attend
ing. A large humber of these were
induced to enter school. Forty-three
of the absentees were caring for
younger children while parents were
working away from home. For such
cases the plan has been successfully
tried elsewhere of establishing a day
nursery at nominal expense, under the
charge of a few women in connection
with the works in which many mar
ried women are employed.
Reports from a number of sections
in California indicate a marked scar
city of teachers and many districts are
without instructors.
The opening of the San Jose Nor
NAL School was signalized by an en-
rollment of unusual proportions, in
cluding many teachers from the East
and several from the Hawaiian ISL
ands.
In Ell Paso. Tex, the high school
4idS eSldDlhoiicu q pOoe - d0ONtc Oouh SC
for the benefit of those who are un-
able to leave home to carry on the
work OF higher education Some spe-
cial studies viii be offered in addition
to advanced work of the curriculum OF
the school.
Everett, WASH, has had recent inn
pcrtant conference attended by most
of the physicians, the Board of Edu-
cation, the school superintendent and
the principals. It's special purpose
was to secure uniformity of action in
giving physicians certificates of dis
ability to school children and in pre-
venting the spread of contagious dis
eases. A resolution was adopted pro-
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sends their brightness to distant fields.
Through the new and important meth
cd of correspondence schools the educa-
tional influence of Chicago is extending
over the globe. The University of Chi
cago has from the start made a special
feature of offering instruction by cor
respondence in subjects of university
grade. Last year 1744 students availed
themselves of the opportunity. The
Northwestern University. at Evanston.
has within the year adopted the plan
and has large correspondence school
in connection with it. Probably the
American School of Correspondence of
the Armour Institute of Technology has
the largest number of students receiv-
ing special instruction by mail. The
names on their list exceed $4,000. They
are located all over the world, over 1000
being in New Zealand alone One re-
markable thing in connection with this
correspondence work is the age Of the
applicants. The average age is between
80 and 40 years. The oldest student in
the Armour School of Correspondence
is "a years. Few OF these students
could fulfill the requirements for ad-
mission to college. but many of them
do excellent work in their chosen sub
jects. Many of them wish to better
their condition by change of occupa-
ton. but more frequently by acquiring
greater proficiency in their special line
of work.
Among current items of interest on
the Pacific Coast may be noted the
fact that Fresno is vigorously enforc-
ing the compulsory education law. A
recent report of the citys parental
teacher shows that the attendance Of
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istry students have the use of the
chemical laboratory for general chem
istry, qualitative and quantitative an
alysis and physical chemistry Latin
instruction is furnished In an element
ary course. The algebra work supplies
a brief review of algebra through quad
ratics and the study Of advanced sub
jects. English literature hours pro-
vide for survey Of it's development by
sketches OF the origin and growth of
English literature and the influences
that have nodded 1t as illustrated by
the works of eminent authors. All Of
these courses are given Saturday fore
moons and generally with the heads of
the departments in charge.
The teachers of Chicago are now en-
joying superior advantages for profess
sional training while carrying on their
regular work. A second gift of Mrs.
Emmons Blaine led to the establish
ment Of what was at first called the
College for Teachers, but is now called
University College. This is down.
town branch of Chicago University
where classes are given in the after
noon and evening and on Saturday for
the benefit Of teachers and others who
are unable to attend classes in the
daytime. About half of the students
registered there are regular graduates
or undergraduate students. but the
work is open also to special students.
Another Chicago innovation may be
noted in the establishment by the City
Board of Education of free classes in
sciences. languages. mathematics. his
tory and philosophy for the benefit of
the public school teachers. A prize in
the shane of a substantial innrsasA in
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much hindered by the social evils
that, like rank weeds, spring up in the
richest soils, as by its own agencies.
If the methods pursued to save So
ciety breathe passion and contention;
if the emblems and symbols of faith
bristle with daggers of hatred that
stab sentiment to death and make the
Christian attributes a laughing stock
among those who since the beginning
have proclaimed God to be a fiction;
if revealed religion prescribes and
persecutes man is justified in saying
that God is the offspring of disordered
brains; if religion saves and helps,
brings peace among men, teaches the
true, good and the beautiful, becomes
the pre-eminent factor in the creation
of every reasonable condition of indi-
vidual happiness, then atheism may do
its worst, for the world will be Gods
world and every kingdom will be his
kingdom.
Whatever we believe religiously can
only be enhanced in spiritual value by
our respectful and reverent attitude
toward other beliefs, and to that ex
tent that we refuse to recognize the in
tegrity and divine call of other faiths,
to that same extent do we cast rehec-
ton and suspicion upon the integrity
of our own
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salary is offered to every teacher who
will pass certain examinations at the
end of the year.
1t is unquestionable that the educa-
tional impulses received by Chicago
from the Columbian Exposition of 1893
were beyond estimate in extent and
value. The ublic schools are now
conducted by the people and for the
people, to teach the things the people
want. Pull has been divorced from
the appointment of the teaching force
and the teachers are appointed solely
on account of their fitness for their
particular positions The Board of Edu
cation is becoming a strictly business
corporation with the sole object of
spending its s1O.OOO,0oo of annual ap-
preparations for the best interests Of
the 100000 children under their charge
The school buildings built within the
last five years are practically fireproof
and Of the advanced type of school
architecture. One of the finest speci-
ueus YET Dulit IL the wendell Philips
High School In addition to its several
laboratories, completely equipped, the
building has a gymnasium, swimming
pool and lunchroom. Open Fairgrounds
are feature Of Chicagos advancing
school life. They surround all the new
school houses and the Board Of Edu-
cation is arranging to expend $4,000 900
in adding to existing Fairgrounds and
in furnishing new ones in localities now
destitute Of these Indispensable appen-
dages for the health, development and
morality Of city children.
In manual training the Chicago peo-
pie have an intense belief. Over 1000
youn1 man @-- attending the Richard
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mischief bears ripe fruit.
Religious amity should and must be
maintained. We must honor and re-
spect each other. no matter by what
name we invoke God; no matter how
we are trained to think of him. We
must recognize the capacity of each
church and denomination to promote
the happiness of society," to raise it to
moral and intellectual heights, where
divinity is easily accessible-not the
far distant, incomprehensible being
whose abode is on the summit of un-
scalable mountains or in the infinite
distances, too far even to be bridged
by human thought Human love
brings divinity straight to the homes
of mankind; human prejudices and
hatred would prove that God is far
away, even from the most gorgeous1y
adorned affairs. The love of man for
man is the strongest evidence of the
existence of Deity; the hatred of man
for man is the rankest atheism with
which society can be afflicted The
man who boasts of his infdelity is
harmless in comparison with church
that seals its sweetest faith with per-
secution and fanatical insistence upon
its exclusive selection. The spread of
religion and pure morals is not so
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I. Crane Manual Training High School.
While receiving the best instruction in
literature. science and history, they are
also working in wood and metal and
are laying the foundation of a good
technical education. The worth of this
merchants and manufacturers of the
city that the graduates of this school
are eagerly sought to fill positions of
responsibility. Manual training. cook
ing and sewing will soon be introduced
into all of the high schools of Chicago
In the upper grades of the grammar
schools $4,000 boys were last year work.
ing with the saw, plane and hammer,
while an equal number of girls were
learning to cook and to sew.
The ardent commercial energy of Chi
cago, which is thus finding vent in the
preparation for life" idea, will soon be
represented in the great commercial
high school the board is planning to
build in the central part of the city.
Il hc SAuo udtcS VI SuoA SShOol VIII
thus be grounded in the elementary
commercial knowledge which is so
needful for modern mercantile pursuits
and which requires years for acquisi-
ton when obtained incidentally in busi-
ness.
OF the kindergartens now established
in about half of the city schools it may
be briefly said that they are regarded
as the greatest regenerating force in
the public school system. They are To-
Gated chiefly in the sections which are
inhabited by those of foreign birth
Not alone within it's limits does Chi
cago hold aloft the torch whose flames
are illumining its own world. but 1t
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MEAGER SALARIES.

1t may be some comfort to laboring
mex to know that the salary of the
poet laureate Of England is $3.50
year and a hogshead of wine thrown
in OF course. this represents only
fractional part OF what Alfred Austin
really earns; still it is all that he gets
for being poet laureate to the English
speaking race. This salary is without
any prospect OF - raise. although it
was increased to its present munificent
proportions when Lord Tennyson died
Some time before his death it was de-
cided to increase his salary to that
anmount, but the Government did not
decide till after his death. Thus the
present poet laureate came in for the
raise intended for Lord Tennyson-
Even this small sum is more than
the official salary of the Bishop Of
Winchester. in his capacity OF minister
to the chapel royal He receives $35
per annum. 1t is an Office which re-
Quires his presence at Windsor several
times each year and the total railway
fares from Winchester amount to
about five times the amount Of his
salary The Vice Consuls OF the sec
ond class towns in Russia are also
badly paid. Their salaries vary from
s25 to $3.50. but two-thirds Of them
get $2k,
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30
NTER UNCONVENTIONAL

l.
peace is an essential condition in
the progress of civilized society
All interpretations of religion
tend to the uplifting of the
masses and the introduction of
moral agencies whereby the value of
life is enhanced. and to that extent
the seal of divinity rests upon every
manifestation that exhibits the un-
doubted relationship of God to man.
Interdenominational peace has rarely
been disturbed in San Francisco.
The churches and synagogues have
not been passively tolerant of each
other; nor have they labored under
the restraint imposed by the absence
of state recognition of either church
or creed. but, under the guidance of
large hearted, generous and pro-
gressive leaders. they have recognized
the universal mission of religion and
the absolute necessity of translating
that mission according to the tradi-
tions, the genius and theological
foundations of each of them. We
have always sought to emphasize the
points of agreement in our religious
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30
THE AMERICAN WOMAN.
BY Chauncey M. Depew.

working their way. are judged by their
merits and attachments alone. The
class goes out into the world and it's
members have varying and widely di-
verging measures Of success. When.
however, the alumni gather at COM
mencement on the old campus before
the genius and embodied spirit Of the
university they are one in common
brotherhood of the college and the
common motherhood of Alma Mater.
When girls as well as boys and women
as well as men can claim this kinship
and heredity OF liberal learning at
least, and for the first time in cent
uries, there is equality.
A bright woman wrote recently that
women as yet do not find repose In a
club. They gather in groups and talk
in couples, and when one is alone for
a moment she franticalIy plunges for
the first group, whether she is wanted
there or not. She has not got over the
sensation that a woman who stands
alone Is a wallnower and one who sits
alone Is ostracized.
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UP on tf' roof an encourage th' scrap. Go
in there, Olafl 'Banzai, Hip Lung, ye're
doin we'll fr mel There goes wan iv me
brave fellows. I'd almost send something
to his widow if | cud larn her namep And
so it goes. Bill Ivanovitch is settin' at
home with his wife an forty small childher.
He has just done a good days wurruk an
his salary iv nine cints is jinglin' in his
pocket. He sets at TIL head iv TIL table,
carvin' TIL candle. an just as he has dis
thributed tn portions among TIL family an
kept TIL wick fir himsilf, there's knock at
TIL dure, an man in a fur cap calls him
away to thravel eight thousand versts Ga
verst bein' Schwartzmeister's way iv de-
scribin' mile) on Rooshyan railrood) an
fight f'r Gawd an his Gar. It's tn OF
firm Whiniver I'm called on to fight fr
Gawd an me country I'd like to be sure
that TIL senyor partner had been consulted.
But Bill Ivanovitch puts on his coat, kisses
TIL family good-by, an tn mex his wife
sees iv him is a pitcher iv' tn OF man an
a Jap he niver met before locked in an en-
durin' embrace. and both iv thin as dead
as amy Mikado or Gar cud wish their most
lille subjiok. TIL Jap don't know what it's
all about In Japan he was horse. There
ar're no rale horses in Japan. Ihthey were
TIL people wud have more to eat So tn
citizens iv tn counthry harness thimsilves
up an haul the wagons. All ye have to say
to Jap is. Git ap.' an he moves. So tn
Mikado says, Git ap,' an tn little fellow
laves his fireside an his wives an families
an niver comes home no more. Tn best
he gets whin he is kilt is a remark in tn
news firm Tokyo that Gin'ral Odzoo's plans
is wurrukin' fav'r'bly That ought to make
him feel good.
Now. if l had me way. Hinnessy.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30
Copyright, 1904, By Mcclure, Phillips & Co.

wudden't let tn common people fight at all
That's tn way it used to be. Whin wan iv
tn OF Kings in Brian Borus day had
spat with neighbor both iv' thin ordhered
hats at tn hardware store an wint out an
pounded thin till their head ached. That's
TIL way it ought to be. Supposin' tn Gar
iv Rooshya an tn Mikado iy Japan fell
out. What wud be dacinter FIR thin thin
to have gintemanly mix-up? Nick Ro-
manoff tn Russhyan champeen, an Mike
Adoo, tn cillybrated Jap'nese Jiu Jitsu BAN
tam, come togither las night before
crowd iv representative sports in barn on
th' outskirts iv tn city. Th' Rooshyan was
seconded be Faure. tn Frinch lightweight
an Bill Honezollern, tn Prooshyan whirl-
wind. In tn Jap's corner was Al Guelph,
who bate tn Llama iv Thibet last week. an
Rosenfelt TIL American champeen, who has
issued a def to tn wurruld. Before til
gong sounded tn Jap rushed over an
sthruck tn Rooshyan a heavy blow be-
meath tn belt A claim iv foul was en-
thered but not allowed, an at TIL tap iv tn
gong both boys wint at it hammer an
tongs. but it was soon apparent that tn
Rooshyan, though heavier. was not in as
good condition as his opponent. 1t was
Walcott an Choynski all over. on'y tn
Rooshyan hung on with gr-reat courage. AT
tn ind iv tn twintieth round, whin both
boys were on th' ropes, tn ref'ree, tn we'll
known fight promoter, Misther Rotschild,
declared TIL bout a dhraw. Considerable
bad blood was aroused be claim be tn
fighters that durin' tn battle they were
robbed iv their clothes be their seconds. AS
a financial enterprise TIL fight was a frost
Th' box Office receipts did not akel tn rent
iv tn barn an thrainin' expinses, an tn
refree decided that as tn fight was