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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

ture History before the days OF
schools were also taught by card play
ing, and the Famous One Hundred
Poems of the classics, known as tho
Hiyaki.nin, which Is tho household Bl,
bic Of Japan, was learnt by games of
proverbs. The courage of children, es'
pecially boys, was tested by the telling
Of thrilling ghost stories in eerie
places or in the haif-light round the
hibaChi on winter nights. Little girls
had famous examples recorded to them
of fllal piety and obedience by the
story Of some virtuous daughter, who
sold herself to a life Of misery to save
her parents from starvation, But tho
most important part Of a child's edu'
cation was It's lesson In etiquette, Fiji.
quette was so f~ar-reaChinR that a little
child had TO begin It's education before
it could walk; very early did girls
have to learn the special teachings for
women, called Wash0ka.MebeI Bunltn.
which by their nature were qualified
to rob a mother Of her cbild'8 heart.
~ 'F'
Teachers Of the various etiquettes viz
tied the houses Of the middle classes,
the etiquette Of the Solemn Tea-Cere-
mony, Of flower arranging, Of domestic
and social life, were som Of the most
important. Only girls Of the humber
classes learned music, singing and
dancing. The kOt0 was the only In
strument permitted in the houses OF
the upper classes
In Japan there is a very hard and
fast line drawn between the moral
training and the education Of boys
and girls. You seldom ser BOYS and
| girls playing in the streets together,
II you do, YOU win notice that when a
boy loses In a game his face receives
a dab Of paint. when a little girl
loses she sticks a straw in her hair.
At the different festivals for boys
and girls the mark OF sex Is easily dis
tingulshable. On the days Of the boys
festival the whole city Hes under a
heaven Of floating carps made Of hol'
low gaily painted paper, Every street
IL lined with bamboo poles, from which
carp fly out into the breeze like iags
to testify the fact that the Japanese
manchnd is capable Of fighting ITS way
upstream against all the adverse cur
rents of life. On the day Of the girls
festival every stall and shop sroana
under the burden Of s~olemn,faced dolls.
II you asked a little boy in japan
what his highest ambition in life was
he would tell you 10 die for his en-
peror. a little girl would say; To OBJ
serve the teachings Of the seven sages,
so that she might be a submissive
daughter to her father, a submissive
wife to her husband, a Submissive
daughter.In-Iaw to her husbands par
ents, and, last Of all. a submissive
mother to her eldest son II she was
left a widow DOUGLAS sLApEN
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31
TEACHING BLIND BY EAR.
Jewish Director of Vienna Institute
Suggests Way to Arouse
Imagination.

I'VE must descend to the depths where
slumber In the night Of blindness won
dcrful forces which, when awakened
and developed. will ralsc the slghtless
into light and happiness"
Thus, h0pefuuy, writes DR., Heller,
director of the Jewish institute for
Blind Chndren, In Vienna, In describ-
Ing some highly interesting and Inn
portant observations which he has
made In recent years, DR.. Heller In
sists that educators are wrong In as
Buming from the first that the mind OF
the blind Is awakened and instructed
by the sense Of touch. He says that
the progressive phenomena Of q blind
child's development are 80 minute rs
to be microscopical
Closest study has revealed 10 him
that, excepting those who are also deaf,
the blind are developed mentally by
hearing, not by touching, This OK"
plans why so many Of the blind, led by
fancy and imagination, exist in A
dfeam-Iife which, while It makes poet
teal beings Of them, also renders them
q prey to distress and misery.
DR.. Heller lays down the law that
schools for the blind Of the future must
teach them to recognize by the ear
what they have learned to conceive by
touching material. dimensions, form,
numbers, and 10 on. He says, too, that
In teaching them great attention must
be devoted to changing the passive
imagination Of the blind into active
IMAGINATION; a process slow, because
the blind are nearly enthraIled by pas
siye Imagination.
But II Is this change Of active
Imagination which awakens the crea-
tive power In them. The change can
be effected slowly by giving blind chill
dren freedom in their play, by letting
them represent in their own way what
they grasp of nature and Of life, and
by placing at their disposal material
and tools and leaving to them what
they will make with them and how
they will set about It,
Or. Heller says with emphasis that
their teachers should never forget that
the hand Of the blind Is the organ that
at once understands and executes, and
that If they are rightly taught to per"
cnive their manual capacity must be
the most perfect Of all.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

commissary of prisoners! I'VE a.
length doubled this point and came ID
view Of the Wallab0ut, where laid be.
fore us the black hulk of the Old Jer.
sey, with her satellites, the three 90
pitaL ships, to which SprI u pOinttG IN
an eXulting manner, and Said: There
rebels, there is the cage for you. AS
he spoke, my eyes turned to the hulk,
A multitude Of persons was moving
on her upper deck. Some of them
seeing lis approach, waved us away as
if in warning. 1t was nearly sunset.
and before w were alongside every
nan except the sentinels had disap-
peared. AS we went up the gang
plank the Croaking voice Of a wretched
prisoner called TO us from the iron
barred holes: 1t is a lamentable thing
to see so many young men in full
strength, in the flush Of health about
to enter this Internal abode, Death
has no relish for such skeleton car,
casses as we, but now he will feed fat
on you rosy newcomers >.
Light was not permitted at night,
and the ship was so crowded that men
could not move without stumbling
over each other. Sleep was impossible
amid the groans of the sick and the
cries of those who went crazy, cursing
their keepers. Often dying men fell
over their sick companions, there to
lay until morning came with the death
patrol searching for those who had
passed away in the night. Turn out
your dead was the familiar greeting
from the sunlight into the reeking at
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

being driven in a gO-cart. They sleep
with their little heads webbing about
on their mothers or older sisters
backs, and learn to sit on their feet
with their bent knees under them be-
fore they can stand, and / soon began
to distinguish the real toy shops,
which are more numerous than In any
other country in the world, from the
shops which sold the toy-like furniture
and miniature household utensils used
for the grown-up dolls houses,
| have never seen a little girl nurs-
ing or playing with her doll in Japan
az one sees dolls played with in Amerj-
ca. Dolls are kept az household treas
Tres in iron safes, and are taken out
on special festivals. They represent
historical and NEUROLOGICAL charac-
tiers, and are certainly not things TO be
Rugged and loved, The eason for
this may be that a tiny girl never has
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

mOsphere between decks, In obeying
this order it was often necessary to
waken some of the sIeepers to ask If
they were dead, SO %pitifully deceptive
was their appearance.
This inhuman treatment was called
to the attention of Gen. Washington,
who addressed a protest and threat OF
retaliation to Lord Howe under date
Of January IL, 1777, and while it re-
ceived no attention, it is to the credit
of Washington and his men that they
did not retaliate in kind,
For several years after the revolu-
ton the bones OF those who died on
board the prison ships we're to be seen
on the banks Of the Wallabout
bleaching beneath the winters storms
and summers sun. A number Of ap'
peals to remedy this neglect were
made to congress, but no formal &C.
ton ensued until the citizens OF
Brooklyn in 1892 resolved that they
should be removed 10 the graveyard Of
the Reformed Dutch church and q
monument erected over them. This
plan was altered and the Tammany So
ciety of New York made sepulcher d
all the remains that could be collect
ed--filling 13 bogsheads. and inferred
them in a vault close to the navy
ward wall in Brooklyn, May rs, 1908
The burial was witnessed by over 3d.
600 persons, and was a matter OF civic
importance.
In 1855 an influential meeting Of
citizens resolved that the time hat
arrived when the cities Of New Yort
and Brooklyn cannot, without crimi
nality, longer delay the necessary Ell
forts for rearing the monument TO tht
martyrs of the prison ships and al
organization vas formed called tn
Martyrs Monument Association OF th'
United States. They set to active work
selected a fitting site on the SUNNI
of Fort Greene and agitated the sub
iect of funds. Enough was secure.
by state and private contributions t
buy the property, remove the remain
TO Fort Greene on June II, 1873, ant
then wait for more help, which hal
come through the concerted action O
the Monument association, Daughter
Of the American Revolution, private
subscriptions and the appropriation
voted by the state and city Of NeV
york and congress. OF this the gov
eminent has given 100000; New
york state, $4,000; city OF New Yorh
$40. 900. and the private successful u
~scription, 5000, making in all $2oo'
| OoO which will be devoted TO the ere
tiop of such a monument that OH
cbiTdren's children win not need 7
ask. "What mean We by these stones.
To the personal efforts of Mrs. ). '
white, of Brooklyn. and her husband
tba Hon, S. v. White, much credlt y
Given for the satisfactory condition
Oh tno NICHOLAS ]. QuIRK.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31
BIG PROFIT IN B~ATHHOUSE
Average New York Seashore Resort
Receives Nearly $4,000 a Day
for Rooms Alone.

II you doubt that the nickel and guar
ter business doesn't pay, consider the
money-making ~propensities Of the aver
age seashore b%athhOuse around New
York, and make over your opinion. A
representative bathing pavilion has
1900 bath compartments. II costs 20
cents to rent n On a medium hot
summers day some $500 are derived
from renting these rooms. for the COM
partments are used In the course OF the
day by about 1000 persons. Bathing
suits rent for rs cents each. There
would be 5000 OF them for such a pavil-
ion. which means $1,000 a day II half Of
them are rented once; and ii is fair to
assume that three-fourths Of the 1000
bathers pay five cents for the use Of 0
comb and brush $50. A total Of near
Nv $1,000, to say nothing Of the proceeds
from restaurant. bar. barber shop and
indoor baths.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

bird lieutenants were the hotel keepers
Of the island, II got a had name and
kept it when McKane and others went
TO jail Only recently business men woke
to the fact that a beach resort ten miles
from the center Of a population OF
10000 00 people. with 1000, 600 more
near, and withal served by 20 lines of
trolley and steam cars and by 80 huge
excursion boats, was worth ~Cultiyating,
The Pike at St Louis may be hner,
than the medley which was the re-
suit OF that discovery but in
size Coney Island beats the Pike
ten times over, 1t draws a Sunday
crowd bigger than the whole exposition
has yet seen, and quite as orderly
Coney Island has reformed The busi-
ness men will not have sinful games OF
chance, they will not tolerate any dis
order. 1t does not pay If it did pay
but-well, it doesn't. And that is
enough for the carnival crowds who
throng the busy streets Of a summer
city as populous, on pleasant days, as
Turin or Edinburg,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

becoming a FACTOR III EnSllsh puplIt
life.
Their ambition to become figures in
notifies has soured both these men,
Astor ran for congress in a close New
York district against Roswell P. Flower,
Money flowed like water; the heelers
still talk of it lovingly. Astor had the
most money. but the democrats had the
most votes, and Flower won Astor was
placated. as supposed. by the gift Of the
Italian ministry, and in Rome distin-
guished himself by throwing coins to
beggars and by prodigal entertainments.
That was as far as he got In states"
manship. Disappointed, he went to Eng
land and became a subject of the queen,
but neither title nor office nor public
honor has come his way. In Rome even
the beggars remember him less well
than the eccentric Judge Stallo, who
blew his nose on a red bandana and lived
in furnished lodgings, but whose deep
learning brought him as ambassador the
friendship as well as the respect Of the
king,
Van Allen Is Astor's cousin by mar
riage. He was never much Of a figure
in society until his marriage with Emily
Astor, daughter Of William, uncle Of the
present W. w. Astor, Since then his
p"alatial house in Newport and his Eng
ltsh homes have been much talked Of,
while his old saying that America is no
| place for a gentleman to live and rear
q family" is revived as often as he re-
visits the country. In the end the para
graphers will drive him away.
Mr.. Van Allen was once anxious to
serve the country he now cares SO little
to inhabit. But to the intimation that
he might become an ambassador the
administration turned a cold shoulder.
The Aston experiment was fresh In mind.
| Besides, Mr.. Astor really had some abil-
ity. In England MIR, Van Allen became
somewhat discussed when he offered to
equip and command a hospital corps for
the Boer war, The government was
willing to accept his financial assistance,
but il preferred to manage its own hos
pital service.
Mr.. Astor's daughter Is about TO marry
an Englishman. Mr.. Van Aliens son and
one daughter married Americans and
are apparently cOntented members Of
exclusive society, His remaining
daughter shows no sign Of unusual An
glomania,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31
All There.

II dreamp las night dat satan
sewed away with me, en- tuck me tef
whar he live at"
my, myi"
aBut II all looked mighty familiar,
u Il saw: walk right in: You Is y
de house er 70 frienas' A
Constitution.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

Kane. who was a Sunday school super.
infendent Of correct personal habits.
ruled the place with a rod Of iron. Its
vote was padded to Illegal proportions
ar cast by him as by one mar. His
mower once decided the election Of q
president Of the United States. His jail
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

are ai0at, but it isn't the size or the
four i2-inch guns or the 1000 tons OF
aruor of the Connecticut that interest
New York. The metropolis is more
concerned with the sporty" feature OF
the launching.
The Connecticut is built by employees
working directly for the government,
a sister ship in Newport News Is being
built upOD contract, and every man il
the government employ, as well as a
large section of the union labor forces,
Is anxious that the Connecticut shall
turn out not only quickly built, hut well.
The Brooklyn yard was hampered by the
necessity Of putting in a special plant
before beginning. But the men have
jumped the work and apparently have
won out,
A political battle cry in Brooklyn used
to be. "One more cash and the navy
yard is Oursl" In the days when We
had no navy and didn't know 1t, or care
a cent, a job in the yard was a permit to
loaf. That has not been the case for ten
years, And now-any man seen loafhG
on the Connecticut would be kicked out
BY his own matesl It's enough to make
a man who used to visit the yard and see
the wooden tubs. begun and never fin
ished. rOtting away in innocuouS desue-
tude-it's enough to make him open his
y c to see the red-hOt riVcts flying on
the Connecticut's mighty hull,
For a ship of such size it is a record TO
be proud of to have the craft ready for
launching one year after her keel was
laid. There is still work TO do in equip
ment, but 1t will go forward with a
will.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

ySAEN @14I oShla II navy L"ib "hNh
SaS@ the engineers were prepar-
cSS4 ing the foundation tor the
~ great battleship, Connect
cut. While driving spiles
to support the new ship, the workmen
located the sunben hulk of the old
prison ship, Jersey" of unhappy rev.
dictionary memory,
After the struggle for American in
dependence, this marine charnel house
was abandoned where she lay in Walla-
bout bay (the present Brooklyn navy
Yard, and slowly settling to the bot
tom, beyond the sight of men, contin-
ued to sink deep in the mud until all
trace of her was gone, even in the
memory of the last generation.
The local public had evinced inter
est frtam time to time in commemorate
ing the patriotism of more than II 900
prisoners whose su%fferings were only
ended in death, by gathering the bones
of these unfortlnates hastily buried
ashore and giving them proper burial
with such honorable o%bsequies as
could be paid the unknown martyrs
who sacrificed life and liberty rather
than accept the terms offered by Bri-
fish captOrs-service under the Eng
lish flag, Historical societies and the
United States government had
searched in vain for the remains of
the Jersey, and 1t seems like a fulfill
ment of a prophecy that upon her
wooden skeleton a steel fighter is
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

HE regeneration Of
Coney Island re-
minds one of the
rescue of Saratoga
from the dumps.
The new prosper
ity of the place is
being celebrated by
a closing carnival
such as would have
opened peoples
eyes 20 years ago.
McKane and the
politicians nearly
killed Coney. Nc
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31
Would Make Him Good.

"Mother thinks you1l make me q
good wife" said the girls intended.
Indeed" replied the girl with the
determined Jaw. You tell your moth
er III make you a good husband
Philadelphia Ledger,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

DR. the h~undTedth
time it is reported
that Mr.. Jimmy
Van Allen is to be-
come an English
man by naturaliza-
ton. 1t is likely
to be true, though
Mr., Van Allen has
before his eyes the
dread example ol
Mr.. William Wal.
dOrf Aston, who be.
came an Englisl
subject withoui
JtIaL ,hlI.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31
GOSSIP Of NEW YORK
PEOPLE AND EVENTS IN THE
EASTERN METROPOLIS.
A RACE ON BATTLESHlPS
1t Will End with the Launching of the
Connecticut-The Case of W. W.
Astor and Van Allen
Coney Island.

EW YORK The
end OF a curious
race will h a @
come when the
battleship Connec
ticut slides intothe
water, an acrobat
ic feat for which
she is now ready at
the Brooklyn navy
yard.
A lG 0O0-ton ship
OF war Is pretty big,
though merchant
ships of $1,000 tons
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

LII New York has
been laughing
about the legal en-
t~anglements of tn
Seeing New York"
coaches.
The rival com
panies that run
huge automobiles
for out-of-toWD
people to ride upon
past the principal
sights of the city
have been coming
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31
Sure Sign.

II know she IS a young wife" Wills
pered the matron with the prune jar.
why so?" asked her friend,
"she actually thinks she can bake :
pudding like the illustration on the
package Chicago Record-Herald,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31
The Swell Hues.

Citizen-Show me some tan shoes,
please.
Facetious Clerk-Omelet, mustard or
sunburst? -- Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

One soon finds that inexpensive
things or persons are bad, incompc-
tent, and In the long run ruinous at
any price.-John Oliver Hobbies, in Lon.
don Mall.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

The Russian state seepter is OF solid
gold. three feet long, and contains
among It's ornaments $50 ruhies and 10
emeralds.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

HE announcement
that Clara Ward
once Princess de-
Chtmay ct Cara
man, is to star in
vaudeville thi s
winter S
doubts. Much Is
said in blame Of
the caEerness OF
the public to see
any celebrity who
owes her stage
place TO notoriety.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31
How It Works.

Knicker-some say that alcohol il q
food.
Bocker-Then instead Of a square
meal you get a zig-zag one.--Puck.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31
A Daily Thought.

He hath a poor spirit who is not
planted above petty wrongs.-Feltham,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

."'N' F"i no Sl"""'"P "'"'"" "a
apo e'el uoes nave d s"'" ,'',g u"'i'
0Ne 10 700 olu 10 'nJoS II" t"'Nn -
Nas on ""'he'io'" N',"'N WIZ" "'9'
n'@oe the Ienna'N lnal Japan was t'''
p0iao'Se o' o""lyS' Al" l'o" 'no u"'
70" set ioo' on ,"' "F'Eina' Oh Tue IA
'"o"' ""''" P"'''i" P'"'' ~ 'n' "''
W" H'bn Soo' 9a5oh"'" 1" S"''e" 49,
as ~" ''''t 'uN"n"'l" oa3' S"" ''"
''@v ,"' "u'p VI Nus 'r'""'"
"nen ! INST u'u'e 'n'""h" " N""''
wy III / tNo"sD' 'n', e''''
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

no child in Japan
ever wished TO be grown
up, and no little girl in a
moment Of discomfort ever
heard from her mothers
lips the catch phrase, Your
good times ComiuE, nay
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-12-31

historic
discovery was made at the
Brooklyn navy yard when
the engineers were prepar-
ing the foundation tor the
great battleship, Connect
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-01-14
tuesday, Jan. IL.

The Bennington, Preble and Paul
Jones have left Acapulco for Panama.
The senate in executive session rati-
fed an extension Of the extradition
treaty between the United States and
The Netherlands.
The directors of the Northern Sc
curities company have declared the
regular rs per cent quarterly dlvl-
dend. PAYABLE Feb. 20.
The president has ordered the state
department to make thorough inves-
tigation of United States consulates
at Shanghai, Canton and Annoy, China.
The United States supreme court
has rendered an opinion sustaining
the validity of the New York statute
relating to the adulteration of food
products.
Twenty prominent citizens of New
Haven, Conn, have signed and for
warded to Senator Hoar petition ask
ing that the senate defer formal ratl-
fication of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla
treaty and that this governments &C.
ton in Panama be subjected to careful
and deliberate Investigation.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-01-14
WORK OF CONGRESS.
Wednesday, Jan. 6.

Senate = Alleged Irregularities in
postoffice department sole topic of dis
cussion. The question came up on mo-
ton of Mr.. Lodge to refer the Car
mack resolution looking to a sena-
torial investigation Of postofiice de-
partment to committee ON postoffices
ard postroads. Democ attic senators
resisted the motion.
House-Bill to ratify an act of Ha-
walian legislature authorizing the
manufacture and distribution of cleo
trio light and power on the island of
oahu. territory of Hawaii. discussed.
owing to objections the bill was re-
committed to the committee on terri
tories
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-01-14
RUTH CLEVELAND DEAD.
Eldest Child Of Ex-President Victim o
Diphtheria.

Princeton. N. j.. Jan. S.-Ruth
Cleveland. the eldest child of former
President Cleveland, died at the Cleve-
land home here during the day very
unexpectedly, the immediate cause of
death being weakening of the heart
action during a mild attack of diph-
iberia. DR.. Wickoff, the attending
physician, said that Miss Cleveland
had been i'll with mild form of diph.
liberia for four days and that the heart
affection was not anticipated. She
was fifteen years old.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-01-14
sAwMlLL BOILER ExPLoDEs.

Six Men Killed and Four Others In.
jured.
Tustin. Mich. Jan. 12.-The boiler
in the sawmill owned by H. w.
Marsh of Manistee, located at Hicks
Lake, IN Osceola county, exploded
Monday, killing six men and injuring
four Others, perhaps fatally.
The explosion occurred just as the
men were preparing to start up for
the afternoon and the force of the eX-
ploding boiler tore the mill to pieces,
hurting the men in all directions.