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In his address at Skipton, at the recent
jubilee show Of the Craven Agricultural
Society, the Duke Of DRvoNsgIRE said that
he attributed much OF the migration OF
country born boys and girls to the larger
towns, and the consequent shortage Of labor
in farming districts, to improper methods
OF education, which fit the English youth
Of both sexes for clerical and similar oocu-
pations, rather than for farm laborers and
useful housewives" As the direction OF
some Of the elementary schools will here
after be in the hands OF local authorities,
the Duke believes that the educational
system may be altered in such manner as to
lessen this migration.
In this country the nature studies and
school gardens, which are constantly re-
ceiving. moro attention in the schools Of
cities, are designed to send some Of the
pupils back to the soil. The effect Of the ex-
tension Of such studies to the sohools Of
rural communities would be interesting to
watch, and might check the rush OF rural
bred boys and girls toward the cities.
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AS each Of the persons who paid the
internal revenue tax may be assumed to
employ at least one helper, it is evident
that the liquor dealers votes are many
more than those polled in the national
election by the Prohibitionists. This
is demonstrated also by the fact that
\ the representation Of the Prohibition
party in State Legislatures, even in dry
States, is insignificant, and shows no
signs Of increasing.
The present objects of the managers
of the Prohibition party are to poll mil
lion votes at a national election and to
extend, by local campaigns, the area of
territory in which liquor selling is not
licensed. 1t is believed that if a million
voters should desert the older parties
and signify their belief in the para
mountcy Of the liquor question as a
political issue either the Democratic or
Republican party would feel itself forced
to come out for prohibition. The v66e
for WooLLEY, the Prohibition candidate
for President in 1900 was 2O9, 400, or a
little less than half of the popular plu-
rality for MCKINLEY. This vote was
in excess Of the combined popular vote
cast for the candidates of all the other
minor parties which had tickets in the
field, but there is little indication that
it will soon grow to the million mark,
on which the party leaders have set their
ambition.
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Maine.

Before the Vermont election the Hof-
man House mathematician were so in.
discreet as to commit themselves to Ger.
tain figures. If the Republican plurality
in Vermont did not exceed that estimate
a Democratic victory would be won oil
claimed with due jubilation and hurrah
The Republican plurality did greatly
exceed the Democratic specifications
Whereupon the mathematicians had tc
issue a new set of figures, pooh-poot
Vermont and explain to a grinning
country that the Democrats hadn't made
or tried to make a brisk campaign in
Vermont.
The disappearance of their Green
Mountain mirage was warning to the
calculating heads at the Parker head
quarters. No more such mistakes. AS
TO Maine, they would be safe and sane.
II the Maine Republican plurality was
one vote short of the "a, 1872 of the Septem-
Der election of 1900, Democratic victory
would be claimed Finally, the Demo-
cratic sages and images wanted every
body to understand that there was no
effective Democratic organization in
Maine.
AS to the latter point, we have only to
call as a witness our good old contempo-
rary the Eastern Argus of Portland, a
Democrat more hardshelled than the
everlasting rocks
The Democratic candidate for Governor has
sd harJ md n1h
This gentleman, the Hon. CYRUS Wa
TERvILLE DAVIS, @loosened up freely at
the call of duty. Not for many years
have the Maine Democrats made 80 hot
a canvass. They were greatly helped in
the cities by the feeling against liquor
prohibition. In spite Of losses for this
cause in the cities, the Republican plural
ity is put at somewhere between $4,000
and 10000.
To those queer heads at headquarters,
this is a victory On the Wednesday
after the Tuesday after the first Monday
in November these mighty minds will
be ohuokling joyously: PARKER wasn't
beaten as badly as BRYAN" Should such
be the result, should Fate and the returns
be kinder to the Judge than they were
to the Peerless, it will be q Democratic
victory Not to beat ROOSEVELT, but
to beat BRYAN seems to be the summit
of Democratic hope.
Vermont and Maine are sufficient proof
that there is no water for Democratic
tidal wave
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CONES TO TEACH WITH A PH. ID.
Vivacious and Distinguished Fraulein
Wonders Mt Our Wax efulness.

One of the most interesting Of the foreign
arrivals In this city in the last few days
Ia young woman from Germany. She is
Miss Lily l.. Stroebe and she IL the first
German woman holding the degree of
doctor OF philosophy granted In her native
country to come here to settle.
Miss Stroebe was graduated from the
University Of Heidelberg last March with
her degree, which she preflxes to her name
in this style: "Dr. phil She Is about "a
years old, bright and Drumming over with
vivacity. She comes here to teach. and
she expects the distinction that her degree
will give her over other teachers to help
in putting her in the front rank. She Is a
clergyman's daughter from Illenau, a little
town in the southern part of Germany.
sun reporter saw her last evening at
the Invermere Hotel, where she is staying
with friends, She speaks,excellent English,
with a slight German accent.
New York is wonderful said Miss
Stroebe. But how do people thrive here
on so little sleep?'
The living and dead languages she Is able
~ use make a formidable list.
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Tho p. G. G. and the "Trend.

After a brisk but brief preliminary
cackle, the Parker Constitution Club
has been resting. We don't understand
how any patriot head can rest upon a
pillow or any patriot lips be mute while
the Constitution Is being torn into tat
tiers by Republican hands. Is there a
colorado excuse for the very learned
and distinguished Democrats and Mug
w,Inps Of the p. G. c.? Some Of them are
abroad, shooting, or drinking healing
waters, or meditating upon the Const-
tuition and the Fathers from their ter
races ard castled sleeps. Some are at
the mountains. Some rest by the shore Of
the wine-dn'k sea. Some are at Leno1;
some at Bar Harbor, and so on. They
deserve all tie splendor and tranquility
which they enjoy; but how can they
enjoy anything without the Constitu-
ton;
Would even NERO have played golf
while Rome was burning? II NERO
fiddled, let us remember that fiddling
Ia a Jeffersonian pastime, and there
fore Constitutional, laudable and OF the
right simplicity.
Fortunately, one Parker Constitution
@clubman" has mot dawdled away his
vacation and let the Constitution 90
hang. The eminent fitness Of the Hon.
JOHN r. Dos PAssos to defend the Con-
stitution and to oppose all infringements
and trespasses thereon will be admitted
by lawyers and laymen alike. Last Sat-
urday Mr.. Dos PAssos opened the
campaign at Kinsale, Westmoreland
county, Va. The Gazetteer says that
steamers from Baltimore touch at Kin
sale weekly. Evidently, Kinsale is
great emporium Of commerce and en-
titled to have campaign opening Of its
own; worthy, indeed, to have, as it was
privileged to have, the first invoice of
Parker Constitutionalism.
Mr.. Dos PAssos spoke OF "The Trend
Of the Republican Party" The word
trend prepares the reader for the
worst. 1t is All obsessing word Any
body who shoulders in speech or print at
the Generalization of things, the loss OF
the "old landmarks Of the Constitution
and the danger OF our institutions, has
to use trend 1t is magical and mys-
tical, shorter abracadabra.
The trend Of the Republican party
is to the bad and the abyss. So much
we know from Mr.. Dos PAssos's speech,
which has lengthy trend, 30 to speak.
He mentions five specific cases in which
the Republican party has assaulted and
battered the Constitution. These are
"the reconstruction acts, the impeach-
ment OF President JOHNSON, the legal
tender decisions, the theft Of the Presi-
dency from SAMUEL j. TILDEN and the
theft Of Panama from the Republic Of
Colombia.
The Panama case is the only one Of
these which has more than an aroheo-
logical interest at present. It will be
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The Democratic Platform.

To THE EDITOR OF The SuH-.Sfr: shall con
dense for you the Democratic national platform
into six words and an explanation:
WE'RE HUNGRY: GIVE Us SHOW. Explanation:
We admit that the Republicans were right. We
think VIC have become sane. We wouldn't change
thing so that you could see h-wouldnr II we
could. conidnt II we would-though we'd rather
like 90 tear down. the nag In the Philippines.
So because stand for nothing distinctive
think 1t would be safe 10 let come In and warm
our toes. We don't think It's square to keep us out
for another four ears now that we've crawnshed
and promised to give the country as good an mita-
ton as car OF the same kind of government Il
has been getting
Democrat myself. Il gives me- no pleasure TO
write this. wish could modify II, but can't.
BROOKLYN. Sept 10. W. Matches
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VETERINARY SOCIETY MEETS.
DR.. George r. Berns Elected President
Clinics 70 he Held Tonight.

The New York State Veterinary Medical
Society began its fourteenth annual meet =
ing in the Assembly, Fulton and Pierreponr
streets, Brooklyn, yesterday. 1t was
largely attended. Owing to the absence Of
Senator Patrick Henry McCarren, who
is in Baltimore. and who was down on the
programme to deliver the address Of well
come, that duty was performed by Borough
President Litteton.
These officers were elected for the ensu-
ing year: President, DIR. George H. Berns
OF BROOKLYN. vice-president, DR.. Charles
Gorvie Of Ogdnnsburg; secretary-treasurer,
DR.. William Henry Kelly OF Albany.
Routine business was taken UP, after
which a number OF papers We're read bear
ing upon the profession. Tonight the
at "a Adams street, where surgical clinics
for major operations will be conducted.
This Will be continued tomorrow morn
ing, and In the afternoon, after dinner
the party will take trolley trip to Coney
Island.
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From TIC baltimore American.
once again Port Arthur's fallen,
Says ChefoO.
kuropatkin's had maulln,
Says Chefoo;
Stakelberg has been surrounded,
Renncnkampf has been impounded-
AIS confusion worse oonfoundcd.
Says Chcfoo.
Japs besieelng are defeated,
Says Chefoo;
Nodzu nurrtedly reiterated.
Says Chcfoo:
Ruropatkin's won the day.
Old Oyama he will slay-
Russians never run away,
Says Chcfoo.
+ Prince Oukhtomsky's been suspended,
Says Chefoo;
War is practically ended.
Says Chefoo;
Fighting's only Just begun,
Both sides madly on the rum
Telling whoppers Is such fun.
Says Chcfoo.
Poor Kurokl's quite prostrate,L
Says Chcfoo:
No, he's not: he's quite elated,
Says Chefoo:
Eighting's over and It's not,
WeatheT's freezing cold, but hot
Amt II fun 70 send out rot,
Says Chefoo.
II dwelt with Uncle Sammy,
says Chefoo:
With election dope I'd cram me.
Says Chefoo.
] would say that. sure as fate,
Parker'd win, November eight
Some poor fool would take he bait,
Says Chefoo.
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1t looks as if, by sending the cruiser
Lena to San Francisco, the Grand Duke
who presides over the Russian Ministry
of Commerce had made mistake similar
to that which he committed when he
ordered the volunteer vessels st, Peters,
burg and Smolensk to modest neutral
commerce in the Red Sea. He apparently
takes for granted that the United States
will exhibit even more complaisance to
Russia than either Germany or France
has yet ventured to evince, and will per-
nit the Lena to obtain coal and the
needed repairs in San Francisco, SO that
at her leisure she may capture the Jap
anese and American steamers engaged
in the carrying trade between our Pacific
coast and Japan. We believe that the
Captain of the Russian cruiser and the
Grand Duke, whose orders he presum-
ably is obeying, will learn quickly from
our State Department that this country
viii not brook such cavalier treatment
as has been administered to China, and
that if the Lena really needs considerable
repairs she can secure them only on
condition that she be forthwith dis
mantled and laid up in San Francisco
until the end of the war.
We learn with satisfaction that both
the Collector of the Port and Rear Ad-
miral GOODRICH, commanding the squad
ron now in the harbor of San Francisco,
have been directed to inspect the Lena
and to ascertain precisely what repairs
are required. On the face Of things, the
Japanese Consul seems to have been
justified in protesting against the accept
ance of the assertion made by the Cap
tain Of the Russian warship that extern
sive repairs were needed for the boilers
and engines of the vessel, inasmuch as
the Lena has traversed the distance of
some four thousand miles at an average
speed Of 10 knots an hour. 1t is scarcely
credible that, such speed could have
been maintained by steamer whose
machinery or hull was badly damaged.
That is question, however, about which
trustworthy information will be promptly
received.
As to coaling, the rule of international
law is plain. The Lena cannot be per-
mitted to obtain more than sufficient
fuel to carry her TO the nearest Russian
port, which Is Vladivostok. Port Arthur
is blockaded, but vladivostok, accord
ing to the latest advioes, is open. To
allow the Lena to fill her bunkers on the
pretext that the harbor Of Vladivostok
is closed and that she means to sail for
the Baltic would be to qualify her to prey
on Japanese and American commerce in
the Pacific for an indefinite period.
All that Japan's representatives in San
Francisco and Washington will ask In the
case Of the Lena is that our Government
shall conform strictly to the course pre-
scribed for neutrals by international law.
They may be sure that the American
people approve Of the State Departments
intention to comply with the request.
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Some Dry acts.

The degree to which the residents of
the Southern and border States have
taken advantage of local option laws
to yepress the public saloon is shown in
this table, compiled from the American
Prohibition Year Book for 1904" the sta
tistics being the latest available at the
time OF ;ts publication:
Alabama. 20 prohibition counties, II dispensary,
IS license.
divided.
Delaware, half the State prohibition.
Florida. 50 prohibition counties Is partial pro-
hibition
Georgia, 1o4 prohibition counties. IS license and
dispensary.
kentucky, n prohibition counties. IS with 1
license. 10 with licenses, 10 counties license.
Louisiana. 20 prohibition counties. 80 license.
Maryland Is prohibition counties. o license.
Mississippi. e5 prohibition counties, 10 Iioense,
Missouri. IL prohibition counties out of u.s.
No license In many small towns.
Tennessee. State prohibition, except 8 cities Of
over 5000 inhabitants.
Texas. IN prohibition counties. 81 partial pro-
hibition. - license
Virginia. Richmond the only important license
city.
West Urglnia,so prohibition counties. "a license.
South Carolina has the State dispen-
sary system, and North Carolina has a
local option law enacted only last year.
The fact that in these States such prog
ress has been made against the licensed
sale Of liquors does not indicate that the
Prohibition party, as political organi-
cation, is likely to come into control of
the Government, for the question has
been settled as local one in the COM
munities affected without regard to the
political affiliations Of the voters.
1t Is instructive to compare the number
of licensed liquor dealers in these States,
according to the internal revenue re-
turns for 1902, with the vote cast in 1900
for the Prohibition candidates for Presi-
Dental electors. This comparison is
made in the following table:
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Independent passes into the status Of
wardship. We have seen the process
recently exemplified in Tonquin, in An
nam. in Madagascar, in the Tunisian
Regency. in Zanzibar and in Egypt.
What about the treaties made by Corea,
while still independent, with several
European Powers and with the United
States? That is the very question which
arose in the just cited examples Of the
assumption Of protectorate, and there
is no reason to assume that the answer
will be more difficult than 1t proved to
be in the instances named.
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So-called Prophecies.


ANY man OF a lively fancy. who knows enough Of
human nature W realize Its abiding needs. can
enumerate future discoveries by the dozen with a
fair chance thai perhaps one In thousand may be
realized within century. To the class belong
the curious anticipations by native tribes, which
generally take the form OF news known when by
no conceivable means could Information have
reached them by Ordinary channels The present
writer believes that this phenomenon. which some
have explained. by telepathy, is simply a form OF
anticipation. The native Is en- invcterate gueAser
and since his tongue never ceases and his nven lion
10 active, he makes enough attempts TO DO fairly
certain OF stumbling now and then on the truth
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Japan and Corea.

Two facts indicate that the Toxic Gov
ernment, without awaiting the termina-
ton OF the war with Russia, has decided
forthwith to inaugurate practical pro-
tectorate over Corea. Mr.. MEaATA, an
official Of the Toxic Department Of
Finance, has been made the virtual
Comptroller Of the Corean Finance De-
partment, and Mr.. d. w. STEVENS, who
has been long connected with the JAP
anese Legation in Washington, has been
appointed Permanent Adviser to the
Corean Foreign Office. The political
asoendancy thus asserted is likely to be
quickly followed by an Industrial and
commercial renovation Of the Coreen
peninsula, unless, what now seems i'm
probable, the Japanese should be worsted
in their contest with the Russian Empire.
There Ia an obvious propriety In the
assumption by Japan Of the role OF rcn-
ovator toward Corea. 1t is probable
that the fount Of Japanese civilization
was China, but the stream Of civilizing
influence did not flow directly from the
Middle Kingdom. It was primarily and
directly from the Corean peninsula that
the islands now comprised in the Mikado's
Empire derived the elements of culture,
and it was from the same source that,
about the seventh century of our era,
they borrowed the Chinese mode Of writ
ing. In every branch Of literature and
science, and in every fine art and mechan-
ical art, the Coreans, themselves the pu-
pills Of China, were the teachers of Japan
That Is the sentimental ground OF the
passionate desire for the annexation Of
Corea which has been more than once
evinced by the Japanese. There has been
Of late years a powerful economical
motive for expansion in the same direc-
ton. We refer, Of course, to the growing
pressure of population on the means OF
subsistence in the relatively crowded
territory of the insular State. To these
reasons for seeking control Of the Corean
peninsula should be added the recogni-
ton OF the strategic importance of its
southeastern angle. A Russian fortress
placed at that point, would be, as the
Japanese have said an arrow aimed at
their country's heart.
There can be but little doubt that in
Japans invigorating hands Corea will
regain within half century at least as
much prosperity as she has at any time
enjoyed. There is foundation for the
belief that the Corean is less preponder-
antly Monaghan than are his neighbors
on the east or on the west, and that in
him there is a strain of Indo-C Caucasian
blood that neither the Chinese nor jap
anese possess. How he got the strain is
q matter Of pure conjecture, but many
ethnologists concur in asserting that it
exists. II Is a fair inference that under
favorable conditions the civilization of
the West should find in Corea congenial
coil.
There is always, of course, a good deal
Of frictoa when a country previously
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When the school year OF 1904 closed In
June the number Of teachers employed In
the day schools OF New York was I3, Oee
but to care for the increased number Of
pupils who presented themselves for in
struction this week, 200 more women and
more still as the term progresses. The
addition of $4,000 pupils to the roll means
that within the year the city has been called
upon to accommodate in it's schools new
population greater than that Of many q
large and prosperous city. Elizabeth, Nj.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Kansas City, Kan. Harris
burg. Pa. and Portland. Me-, important 40
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Not west New York, but the pa,,,ad.,

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUs-Sir: notice the
suggestion Is made that the several places on the
west shore Of the Hudson opposite New York city,
from Bergen POin, TO Fort Lee." be Joined In a
single city, TO be called West New York
In this day of swift movement and large areas of
territory II would be well. II seems 70 me- TO In.
clude the whole territory from Jersey City 10 Enge-
wood. or at least to the State boundary on the
north.
Then. for a name (whio the several villages and
cities continued 70 be known locally by their pres
ent ones, the common designation might well be
the Palisades J. II. ID.
plHAM MANOR, Sent. II.
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kissing the Blarney Stone.

Last year. while In the south OF Ireland. paid .
visit to Barney Castle and while thcre>had the
queer experience OF kissing the Barney Stone,
famous In song and story.
One of our party, having gone through the ordeal
before voiunteeredto kiss the stone hrst and show
us how II Is done. When Il Is understood that you
are attempting 30 kiss stone set In tho outside
wall. and you on the inside one can guess that Il Is
no easy task. I, Is best to take OF your coat and
watch and chain and empty your pockets. There
is an opening as were, In the Moor You sit on the
edge of this. catch hold OF two bars In the wall and
lower yourself backward down the opening TIL you
are able TO stretch out and reach the stone. AS
you do this the rest of the party hang on to your
legs.
The procautlon Of taking on the watch and chain
and removing money from your pockets Is a very
wise one. you have TO hang head downward 70
get al the atone.
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As the British Cousin Spell. Us.

From correspondent Of hs London Speaker.
Fortunately, as you say, there exists always In
the people q certain, large reserve power Of
honesty. common sense, and well directed enthu :
siasni, which is not amenable TO management -"
and IL Il just this reserve power which Is going 70
assert itself now It did In 1884 and in 1892 and
elect Parker rather than Roosevelt, though perhaps
Tammany and Tilman may be more objectionable
than Quay and Addi1. Yours, DC,
QUoSpAM Barton.
Moon'a HOLE. Mas. Aug. 10. 1904
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these communities are, each had In 1900
population no greater in number than the
new pupils in New Yorks schools. 1t Is
evident that the problem Of housing this
number OF pupils Is not an easy oneto solve.
or one that can be disposed Of by make
shift. OF course, the annual addition to
the army OF pupils will 60 on increasing
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Sister Jones's CondoI ence.

From NE NdfI0nn Md0d-Fnf.
When I'm down In my mouth. an my spertts run
:, low,
There's a place In this town where ! never 20
For word to encourage smile thatll cheer
No: tell you In trouble steer pretty clear
OF old Sister Jones and her daughter,
For. why didn't you do as you'd oughierl"
"Id never done this or done that In your placel"
Sister Jones she would say an she'd argy The case,
Then Mehitabei Jane she'd put In her oar;
An I'd leave feelin' angry an tired an sore
Miss Jones she'd then say 20 her daughter:
sShe sureip hain't done a. she'd oughter-