The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-06-10

State by the king of the Helginns was
directly due to his discoveries. lie was
the first governor of the new state.
Search for Emin Pasha.
Later it will be remembered how
Stanley Went out to find Emin Pasha,
the German doctor whom Gordon APP
pointed TO rule the equatorial provinces
of Egypt. No more terrible journey
was even undertaken by amy human
being.
The march through the forest lasted
100 days but the object was attained.
There is no more charming personal
ity In English society than Lady Stan
ley. who married the great explorer in
1890. and who is ranked in her own
right as q first rate artist.
Not long after his marriage Stanley
stood as liberal unionist, and it was
found ut this election that his wife was
a far better speaker than her gallant
husband. Her pithy speech on the bust
ingS Will never be forgotten by those
who heard 1t.
Il voted for Henry Stanley two years
aso In Westminster Able, and | call
on you TO vote for him. - is a great
and a good man. and wie,i you and l
have passed way and ara forgotten.
he will be remembered. You cannot
make a greater man that he is by put
ting NJ. Y. after his name,"
There is, perhaps. nothing In stan
ley's career more touching than the
love and devotion that he showed to
his old mother who lived, to the d1g
of her death. in u little cottage among
the Welsh hills.
She kept II plnseunl of relics of her
famous SON. An African war club, a
small American flag and the hats he
had Worn in the search for Livingstone
We're among this proud mothers treas
ured possessions. And he has gone.
and hts work Is done and doubtless
Stanley n Livingstone have met
again.
Miss Eesant in India.
Only his Week Mrs. Annie Besant.
the world famed tii%eosophist. has been
giving an account i'll london of her In
dian labors. The best that can be said
of her work has been sale by "a gov
Inspector: You are doing
what the government schools were
meant to do, but cannot."
The schools under her management
number 500 boys. $50 students, so girls.
mother girls college is being built at
Beaales, and she hopes in time to have
200 schools throughout lndia. They
are taught the learning of the west.
undivorced from the Indian religions.
They discourage child marriages, and
the work of the t~heosophists may prove
a N;tluable aid in preparing the oriental
mind for more definite Christian teach
ing.
Shii iiiNti ~ iisHt VI tIlE itii2ID'tS
of India has lately been taken.
OF the population 10 per cent. have
been returned as Hindoo, u per cent.
as Mohammedan. 3 per cent. as Sud
dhists, and the same proportion as AMI
mistic, l per cent. as Christian and IL
balance of a little more than / per
cent. is made up of Sheks, Parsces and
Jews.
The Study of Anirnism.
The oldest OF the religions uneoubt-
eddy is Animism, best known to the
European mind as l'etistisln. Mir. Ris-
ley. who has given to the religions of
india many years OF study. has defined
this strange religion as follows;
What the Animist worships and seeks
by all means to influence and uoncil!ate
Ia the shifting and shadowy company
OF powers or Influences max
ing for evil rather than good, Which
reside in the primeval forests, in the
crumblfng hills, in the rushing river,
IN the spreading tree, which gives its
spring to the tiger, its venom to the
snake which generates jungle fever and
walks abroad In terrible guise of CHOLERA,
smallpox n murrain. Closer than
this he does not seek to define the
object to which he offers his victim, or
whose symbol he daubs with the YER
million at the appointed season. Some
sort of power is there and that Is
enough for him.
Mr.. Risley used to dispense justice in
a small sub-divisional court, where be-
TWEEN the seat of the magistrate and the
multitude there was tied a gme
of a tigers kin
When members of certain tribes came
into court to give evidence they took a
peculiar. but most impressive oath.
Holding the tiger skin in one hand,
the witness began by invoking the
asseverating his intention to tell the
truth. he ended by devoting himself
to be devoured by the powerful tiger
in case he should tell a lie.
The Modern Boarding House.
What a paradise a modern English
boarding school would nave seemed to
poor little Oliver Twist and Jane Eyre
had their lines been cast In such
pleasant places. In a fash of COM
parison we realize what real progress
modern educators have made, despite
much hostile criticism-not always UNI
deserved.
IN enterprising Birmingham news
paper describes how the poorest chill
dren of that city are bathed regularly
before being taught. The schools are
fitted with shower baths of the most
approver pattern, so that the dirty
water runs away While the bath is con-
%tinually full.
School clothes are provided while the
owners dirty garments are o%verhauled.
or, perhaps, for sanitary purposes, de-
stroyed.
Then, too, the children are fed, not
only In the cold weather, for as one,
educationalist aptly remarks, hunger Isl
a daily malady and must be reckoned
With the year round.
Such conditions are fast approaching
the Arcadia of Mr.. II. G. Wells when
the state will take over the burden OF
rearing the children whose parents
either cannot or will not undertake thea
responsibility.
Some of the most humanitarian of
the teachers, however. see great OBJ
lection to wholesale adoption by the
state of these Door children.
Their contention. of course. Is that
such liberality obviates entirely par
entail responsibility. and the primary
evil-the reproduction of the wrong
class-is not only not removed, but is
positively encouraged.
Nursing in Paris.
Nursing in Paris Is not a profession.
adopted by women of education and
culture; it has never attained the status
that 1t has enjoyed in England since
the days of Florence Nightingale.
So much does a noble example count,
for, with women at least. 1t is always
a difficult thing to make refornations'
from the outside, and the Assistance