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The Washington times., 1906-08-26
BOY RUN OVER AND BRUISED.

While attempting to get into a wagon
driven by Samuel Chesivoir yesterday
at Sixteenth and K streets northwest,
Alexander Simpson. colored. eleven
years Old fell and was run over He
was painfully bruised about the body.
and was taken 70 his home. 1914 I
street northwest, IN chesivoir's wagon.
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Legal Debating Society.

There being no undergraduate depart
ment OF the university, the law school
is not represented in athletics. but an
interesting and efficient legal debating
society is maintained by the student or
ganization, and several series of prize
public debates are usual each year The
social activities OF the school also find
an outlet In the Joseph Choate Chapter
OF the Sigma Nu Phi, a Greek letter
fraternity which originated years agl
In the National University and whiC a
now has important chapters in a nun.-
Der of outside universities. The local
chapter has a frat house at 1915 Thir-
teenth street, three blocks from the
National University Law School builC -
ing, S1S-S2O Thirteneth street.
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Students Fully Qualified.

Those taking shorthand only frequent
" accept a position after an outlay OF
SIS or so at this school The student.
on finishing the course, has at command
a yocabuiary Of stepographic word signs
sufficient for reporting. and there is no
English word the phonetic outline OF
hich he may not write.
Those TO whom time is of not so much
Importance. a ten months course, en-
bracing all branches. AT a special rate.
is provided. This is one Cf the most
attractive courses for an aIl-round
shorthand and tOuChutypeWTiting educa'
ton. The school lays claim to a very
thorough business course, each student
receiving separate and independent IN
struCtiOn- In preparing candidates for
Government service. the school employs
specialists in the different departments
0f study
All things considered, the rates for
course at this school il is believed, are
much below other schools. and il claims
that il can supply every graduate, male
or female, with good paying position
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matters have been thoroughly seIrled a
prize Of a $1OCO gold bar viii bs
given TO the person writing -he best sr-
ticIe descriptive Of Colorado.
The following delegates from Wash
ington viii attend the convention. Lydia
Adams Williams. Josephine Arnold
Rich. Clara y. Short, and Belva A.
Lockwood.
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Progress Of First Student.

The first student enrolled-then "A com
mon labOrer. now mine superintendent
lis expected 70 be present, as are also
representative students in architecture,
civil. electrical. mechanical and steam
engineering, drafting, chemistry, com
merre. etc Few OF these have ever
seen their teachers or the magnificent
buildings and system Of the schools at
Scranton. The event viii not only be
notable one as a testimonial to the
founder. but viii also be OF great inter
est TO visiting students.
The day VIII be taken up with appro-
pirate exercises and an interesting ex-
hIbit Of the schools at york preparing
and printing hOme-study textbooks and
correcting the recltations Of students
sent in from every part Of the civilized
world. A banquet 10 the guests VIII
be given by the schools In the evening
The Washington times., 1906-08-26
Worlds Greatest Teacher.

Nazarcnc. taught on the mountains. in
the fields. on the sea, by the road side.
IN the home everywhere. The ages
have never produced His equal Having
thus prepared, by personal contact dur
ms three years course of trimming in
the secrets and principles OF His new
kingdom. a group of humble pupils, he
sent them forth under the great COM
missiOn-"Go teach all nations"
TIe who had neither pillow for His
own head nor a building for His pupils
graduated the most remarkable class
thar ever held commencement What
marvellous results followed that com
mcnccmeutt
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Richards First School.

I'm 1870 with $50 and a rich scholastic
experience as an endowment Prof. J.
Fraiso Richard founded I'm Renubllc
Ohio. the Northwestern Normal School.
thirteen pupils being present at the
opening session. The school had. in
Guiding himself two teachers. with no
Hnn7ratUs. no hoard of directors. no
modern buildings. no catalogue. no in
hUential supporters. II developed these.
10 had no Rockefelar. or Vanderbilt, or
stanford 20 contribute millions for the
erection of massive marble structures
or 20 eudow professorships for men too
.ndolent TO hustle and make a record
for themselves. II had. however. the en-
dowment of work-earnest. iucessant
work
The le8ven Of enthusiastic. intelligent.
W"n-directed effort began 20 work. With
a beginning of thirteen pupils the school
enrolled 157 the first year, $50 the second,
sos the third. when, owing TO insufficient
buildings and the poverty Of the com
munity to supply more the school was
consolidated with a similar institution
I'm an adjoining town. which was well
supplied with buildings. The Ieaven
was transferred 10 the neighb0riug plant
with the result that IL has become the
largest educational institution in the
State OF Ohio.
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vention city. u is estimated that FULLY
800 members viii be in attendance.
The train set aside for the journalists
will leave the Windy City early this
morning and land the scribes IN Den
yer sometime tomorrow afternoon. Mat
ters OF Importance viii be discussed at
the convention and after all business
The Washington times., 1906-08-26
BRICK AND STONE
AGAINST BRAINS
Normal and BuSi-
ness College Puts Its Faith
in Men.

General Garfield once uttered before
the National Teachers Association an
important truth. when he declared that
the educational problem Of the day Is
brick and mortar VS.. brains
In the development or this thought he
said: If choice We're offered me to sit
as student on one end of "A log in the
forest. with Mark Hopkins at the other
end as instructor. or be placed in a
massive structure called a university,
with inferior teachers. 1 would choose
the log and Mark Hopkins" II pays
TO take in the inspiration OF live
teachers.
Students are not snails. that carry
their buildings with them. They bear
away from school only the power the
ideals. the inspirations, and aspirations
begCtten in them. Socrates, Aristotle,
Plato. Pestalozzi. and Agassiz perpet-
uated themselves and their work In their
disciples. and their teaching The groves,
the fields. the sea shore the glaciers
nature itself was their school room.
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School in Washington.

With greatly enlarged experience. but
with the vivacity that characterized his
former efforts in the West. Prof Rich
ard Is now engaged in building up IN
the city Of Washington an institution
Of learning on a thorough. practical.
modern basis. 20 meet the demands of
this progressive age. tt IS called the
Modern Normal and Business College.
II has live, efficient faculty Of men
and women who are adopts in their
various departments. The school is nom
partisan and non-sectarian. Teachers
are chosen not as a matter OF favorit-
ism. but because they are competent
for their work. The training includes
the fundamental subjects In language.
mathematics, science, and history-the
essentials of a practical education
Prof Richards Office is a. COZ Fifth
street northwest and his address is Sta
tiOu G..
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Mother Of Colleges.

Nor was this all Tn the school al
Republic were trained the teachers who
have since built mp. on the same plan.
the largest school in America. From
that school, with modest beginning. IN
tae midst Of great rivalry sprang direct
lv a number Of mammoth schools. and
Indirectly "a larger number of smaller
ones. which are today doing much 10
mold the educational sentiment OF the
Mississippi valley. In every field OF
legitimate activity, as teachers. physi-
clans, editors, authors. preachers. pun
fishers. farmers. and business men and
women. its students are conspicuous. a
fun truthful presentation OF this deveI-
opment would read Ike a fairy tale and
would impress the significant fact that
the schools Of today need not so much
the endowment Of mere wealth as thev
DO that greater endowment oT inteHl-
gence. and tact. and pluck. and vim.
and ConseCTated labor on broad, modern,
linerl! humanitarian principles.
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As Compared to Harvard.

The foregoing figures are all the more
wonderful when It is remembered that
the largest number OF students grad
uated by any one American resident
school Is $500. and this is the record
OF Harvard University. an institution
more than 200 years old The Interna-
tionaI Correspondence Schools are filling
a great need that before was not met by
any educational system.
The many thousands that have been
enabled 10 change 20 congenial or more
remunerative occupations or that have
been otherwise benefited by this won
derful system OF education naturally
feel q deep sense Of gratitude 20 the
man whose genius created and develop
ed the International Correspondence
Schools and who is still the active head
of the work As "a fitting tribute, a
great celebration has been planned for
the 10th Of October, 1906, the day on
which fifteen years ago the first stu
dent was enrolled Hundreds of J. G. 3.
students and many persons Of national
prominence in educational work VIII be
in Scranton on that day
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Two Hundred Courses.

The International Correspondence
Schools now have more than 200 courses
Of instruction. covering almost every
branch of nearly all OF the weIl-known
trades and professions. Up 20 the pres
ent time. 5000 students have either com
pleted the courses for which they en-
rolled OF substantial portions thereof.
22J, 90 other students have completed the
study Of mathematical, physical. and
drawing subjects. One hundred and
hfty-three railroads, including some Of
the largest systems IN the world. have
made contracts with the schools for the
instruction OF their engineers. fremens
maChinists. inspectors and ether en-
plOves.
The widespread practical results Of
the work Of this great "home-study''
university IS demonstrated by the fact
that during the last twelve monhs up
ward Of 1000 reports OF increased salary
or advancement in position have been
received from students.
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STUDENTS To Join
IN CELEBRATION
Anniversary of the Found
ing of International Core
SPondence Schools.
EVENT OCCURS OCTOBER 16
Institution Founded IN Scranton, Pa,
Has an Enyiable
Reputation.

Students of the International Core.
Gponaence Schools in and lround Wash
ington are much interested IN the cele-
bratlon of the fifteenth anniversary of
The schools. which Is 10 be held In Scran.
ton, Pa, on October l6, and which fl
is likely some local students will attend.
II has been nearly fifteen years since
Thomas J. Foster, then editor OK q news
paper In Shenandoah. Pa. introduced q
method Of teaching through she mails
by means of special home-study text
books and a system Of direction and
correction Of students work, the object
Of which was 20 enable the coal miners
OF Pennsylvania 70 pass The required
examination for mine foreman. Al
though the enterprise was IF great In"
terest in the mining communities, not
even the founder then dreamed that his
plan was the creation Of new educa"
iional system that was u turn the world
into a vast class room and afford The
means by which practical, monsy-earn-
Ing knowledge ia almost every line could
be carried 10 the thousands that could
not give up work or leave home 10 Sc
cure education.
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Thoroughness in All Courses.

The school has a standing guaranteed
To qualify students ror skilfuu office
stenography and typewriung within four
months. This guarantee is limited TO
the above studies, but the elements OF
speed and thorOughness characterize all
the course.
The desire of the school IS to send
students into position in the shortest
possible time The school employs no
agents 10 obtain patronage. but depends
entirely upon its claims OF the most rap
id and economical cOurses-Jhe aim ever
being 20 give the student the highest
grade Of instruction at the minimum
cost
The school agrees to save The student
more than half II costs AT other places.
and on that statement It's reputation Of
over twelve years in reporting and
teaching Is pledged. If the student takes
from four 10 ten months longer than
necessary. the sum this loss represents
In tuition and salary, amounts to from
$50 to $3.50.
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SCHOOL TERN
Growth of This Institution
of Shorthand Has Been
Continual.

with the present term the Congress
sional School enters upon anOtEeT year
under more favorable promise than ever
The school. So is said. has steadily
grown and hroadened I'm its scope even
In the face OF the most lively competi-
IAN. and this growth has been the
growth. that sooner OF later, comes TO
every institution whose methods and
principles gre approved by its works
and whose performance IS In strict oc-
cord with its promises.
The schools reputation for thorough
and finished instruction is established
and sanctioned by every student who
has attended IT, The work Of this in
stitution Is better described by the word
training" as it is not a school in the
common acc,ptation of that term. IL
teaches the standard reporting system
the Pitnan adjusted 90 the Congress
sionaI and court reporting methodist
system. II is said. that has no equal ia
speed, clearness. OF logical construction
.ftT l5azfC Z rfuciules.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-01-24

and the latter Won their votes. Mr.. Mo
ran fought his campaign single banded,
paid his own expenses, hired the halls
for his meetings and mortgaged a life
Insurance policy to get the money for
campaign bills. 1t is said he was en-
joying Il practice worth $4,000 a year.
and as district attorney his salary will
be only 5000.
The district attorney elect is a native
Of the old Bay. State and was born in
Wakefield in 1850. He is a graduate Of
Phillips Exeter academy and of the
Boston University Law school, Is un-
married. belongs to numerous clubs
and has Il reputation as a boxer.
There is a story that when Moran
started the practice of law he slept in
q blanket on the floor of his Office until
be could afford q lounge and lived on
bread and water until he got his first
retainer of SIS.
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" the latter plan be
adopted, then the question of how high
above sea level it shall be remains to
be decided. Then there is the plan of
NJ. Runau-v arilla, who advocates a
'strait Of Panama to divide the west.
ern continent like another Bosporus
and which, he declares. would be the
best and eventually the cheapest water
way through the isthmus. His idea is
that the canal should first be construct
ell with Il summit level 100 feet above
he thinks. could be done in about four
years, and the canal could be opened to
commerce. 1t would then be making
money. and while ships went on their
way the process of lowering the level
to the sea could 20 on until there was
q ship canal from the Atlantic to the
Pacific forty-tive feet deep and 800
feet wide.
1t is conceded by the advocates of Il
sea level canal that it will require
much more time and money for its con
strUction than Il lock canal would. The
estimated cost of such a waterway is
$o5O.OOO,0 OO. and the time III which it
could be constructed is put at fifteen
years. The advisory board of engineers
has reported in favor Of this plan. and
its decision was reached by Il vote in
which eight stood for the sen level plan
and five for the lock canal. The five
engineers who voted for Il lock canal
will submit Il minority report. and the
president will lay the two reports be-
fore the canal commission and the
chief engineer of the canal fer consid-
Grafton. The foreign members of the
advisory board We're all for Il sea level
canal. but in the minds OF five out of
the eight American engineers the adj
vantages of such Il canal We're not suf-
icient to outweigh the delay involved.
The appropriation Of S6O.r0o.oCo
which congress made at the time it
was decided to 60 ahead and build Il
canal at Panama has now been en-
pended. OF this S4O.OOO.OOO went to
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the bars I o greet his visitors and ~
claimed: I'm always glad to meet the
newspaper boys. Sorry ! can't invite
| you in"
HumMel was born in Boston in 1850.
| was taken by his parents to New York
as IL child and attended the public
schools. studied law. was admitted to
the bar in 1870 and built up a large
practice as Il lawyer in criminal eases.
The Indictment upon which he was
tried charged him with conspiracy to
invalidate the marriage of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles w. Morse. He was also
indicted for s~ubornatiOn of perjury.
but has not been tried on that charge.
Mr.. Morse is a New York millionaire
and eX-president Of the American Ice
company. Mrs. Morse was formerly
Miss Clemence Cowles, a society belle
Of st. Louis. In 1892 she married
Charles +. Dodge. who at that time
seemed to have n promising future,
and all went we'll until he began lead.
ing a fast life. She obtained n divorce
from him In the state OF New York in
1903 and In 1901 married Mr.. Morse.
An uncle Of Mr.. Morse, who did not
like the second wife. set out to see II
the two could not be separated and
retained Mr.. Hummel. The latter, ac-
cording to the charge upon which lie
was indicted. induced the former hus.
band Of Mrs. Morse to perjure himself
and sign an affidavit stating that he
had not been properly served in the
divorce obtained by her and that It
was therefore illegal. On the suppc-
sition that his testimony was true the
marriage Of Mr.. and Mrs. Morse was
annnlled. Subsequently Dodge turned
states evidence and confessed that he
had been bribed to commit perjury and
that the divorce his former wife OBJ
tanned from him was valid. 1t Is held
that the outcome Of the ease has estab-
lisled the validity of her second mar
riage. Hummcl Is seeking Il new trial.
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AGAINST GRAFTERS.
John b. Moran Of Boston and His
Election ~ District Attorney.

John d. Moran Of Boston and Ras
Election ~ District Attorney.
One of the surprises of the Novem-
Der elections was the choice Of John
B. Moran as district attorney of Suf-
folk county, Mass. the county in which
the city of Boston is located. His elec-
ton was even more remarkable than
that of William Travers Jerome in
New York. for Moran not only ran as
an independent. but was opposed by
Michael ]. Sughrue. a candidate who
had been nominated by both the Re-
publicans and the Democrats. Nobody
had any idea that Moran was going to
be elected. The bar was against him.
and the newspapers not only gave him
no support, but paid only slight atten-
ton to his nvas Hardly any one
treated it seriously. yet Mr. Moran de-
feated Mr.. Sughrue by v 1000 votes.
He was counsel for Thomas w. Law.
son in the recent gas investigation in
Boston. and. like Lawson, he adopted
the plan of buying advertising space
in the newspapers for his appeals to
the public. The people read his ads.
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New York. The pair have had seven
offspring. ANA the Ave that are still
alive are said to be the only hippo
potami born in captivity which have
reached years OF age and discretion.
The first baby hippopotamus lived only
eleven days. but Fatima. the second
river horse born in Central park. was
sold for $4,000 in cash. ana Il lion, lion
ess and an elephant were thrown In,
for Il hippopotamus is Il ri e curiosity.
The third hippopotamus born in cap
uvity died in Il few hours. and then
came Cyrus and Iris. which were ex-
changed for $4,000 in cash. a hyena, Il
leopard, two lions. Il tiger and a num-
Der Of rare deer. In 1900 little Miss
Croker was born and was later sold
to the Chicago zoo. About two years
ngo Pete. the seventh child Of Caliph
and Miss Murphy. was brought to the
Zoo by an unusually powerful stork.
and he bears a $4,000 price mark. Ca
iiph weighs four tons. and his wife
tips the scales ut a ton less. When
Caliph opens his mouth for a bunch of
lay Lis c~ountenance expands a dis
lance " over three feet from, lip to liz
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IN. :hUMMEl.
Wh< Aavvyer Convicted Of Conspiracy
In DOLgc-MOrse Case.

Whe lawyer Convicted Of Conspiracy
In D0dgc-MOrse Case.
1t il not very often that a prominent
lawyer is sellt behind the bars, and the
conviction Ui Abraham H. Hummel,
who has prac,iced for twenty-five years
before the lar OF New York, of a Grim
inal offense has attracted national at
tention. After the jury had found him
guilty as charged in the indictment II
the court had pronounced sentence,
cOnsigning him to Il years imprisOn-
ment and imposing in addition a fine
Of $500. some Of Hummels acQuaint-
followed him from the courtroom
to his cell in the Tombs. His nerve
did not desert him, and with his silk
hat on his head he tried to preserve q
spruce and dapper appearance even In
a cell. With an affectation Of his Gus
tomary humor he put his hand through
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pay the French claims. The sum of
$1O,OOO,OOO went to the republic of
Panama. and much Of the remaining
$1O.OOO.O 900 has been spent in surveys
in the purchase Of supplies, in work in
Culebra cut and in sanitation. Secre-
tary Taft and a party of congressman
made a trip to the isthmus to inspect
the progress of the enterprise last
spring. Theodore Y. Shonts has be.
come chairman of the commission, and
John +. Stevens has succeeded John
H. Wallace as chief engineer. Consid-
cradle work has been done in the Guile
bra cut, where the French started work
under DE Lesseps. This has to be done
whether IL sea level or Il lock canal is
dug. for the way must be cut through
a mountain range, and. though the ca
nal crosses this range at its lowest
point. the hills in the neighborhood are
Over 800 feet above sea level.
Large and perplexing as are the engi-
neering problems In connection with
the enterprise they are hardly so dis
couraging as the problem Of labor. IN
timately connected with this subject is
that Of sanitation, for it is evident that
II the death rate Of those working on
the project Is high its cost will be pro-
portionately great. The native work
men are very lazy. 1t is suggested that
the best results could be accomplished
with negroes from the southern states
II they could b., persuaded to emiErate
In sufficient numbers. but just there
lies the difficulty. Although the EN-
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the matter Mark Twain. or Samuel l..
Clemens. as he is in private life, has
published ut his own expense king
Leopold's %Soliloluy." in which the al
legged. otfenses Of the ruler are satir-
lcally set forth. Mr.. Clemens in char
acterizing the man responsible for the
wholesale brutalities said to have been
committed in the Kongo says:
"Reside Leopold. Nero. Caligula, At
tia. Toruuemada. Genghis Khan and
such killers of men are amateurs"
Henry Clews, the New York banker
and financial writer, is Of the opinion
That too large salaries have been paid
by some insurance companies and 9TH
er corporations in the past. "For in
stance" he said. 1.-The head of Il trust
company OF of n bank who is receiving
$4,000 or 100000 reads that the presi-
dent Of an insurance company gets
$4,000, and he Immediately becomes
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died the widow was inconsolable.
Shortly after the funeral n friend who
had dropped In to see how Mrs. MILL
gan was getting ON CHANGED to remark:
"Well, there's one blessing, Maggie,
for they do say that poor Mike died
happy"
'Indade he did," responded the wild
ow. 1.-The dear lad! The lasht thing
he done was to crack me over the head
with q medicine bottle..'
Attention has again been directed to
the character Of Leopold, king of the
Belgians. by Mark Twain's arraign-
ment Of him. According to this IA
nous American writer. King Leopold
IL more barbarous and cruel than the
Africans Of the Kongo Free State over
whom he rules. 1t is expected that the