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MISS LE4RY'S UNIVERSITY.
First Section OF AL Institution for Italians
TO He Opened on Wednesday.

to He Opened Oh Wednesday.
Two typical, old time Ninth ward brick
houses at 81 and SO Charlton street that
sheltered American families when the
neiehborhood was populated by natives
will be formally opened next Wednesday
by their owner, Miss Annie Leary, q Count
ess by papal decree, and will 10 blessed
by Archbishop Farley. These houses are
the nucleus of the Italian university pro-
jected by Miss Leary as u memorial to her
brother Arthur, who left her unreservedly
the bulk of his large fortune.
The house at SO is called the Plus X. Art
Institute and the adjoining house - the
Christopher Columbus Art Institute. Be
fore the building of the university itself,
1t Is said, other buildings devoted TO art
and industry will be purchased and re-
modelled by Miss Leary.
Greenwich Village, in which Miss Leary's
two institutes stand, long ago lost its dis
tinctive American aspect. 1t is being
~Italianized.
Miss Leary became convinced that the
Italians Of the Ninth ward particularly,
and Of the city generally, needed enlghten-
ment in the faith Of their fathers. She
went about winning their confidence by
doing things for them. She found that
they were going TO the non-sectarian settle
ments instead Of the parochial schools, 80
she decided TO enter settlement work.
Thirteen years ego she opened q house at
Bleecker and Downing streets, where
Italian mothers are taught to ew, keeping
for themselves all the garments they put
together, and where their children also re-
ceive instruction and creature comforts
combined.
The Plus X. Art Institute will be ready
on June /, as a day nursery, for the reception
OF Italian children. Mothers compelled to
work away from home for a living may
bring their little ones to the place and leave
them there until the end Of the work day.
The whole basement floors will be given
over TO the children, and they may enjoy
themselves on ~rainless days In the big yard
OF both houses, which Is sheltered from the
heat of the sun and breezy st the same
time. They will have sand riles, wheel
barrows, sbovels and toys that may give
them an impression Of life on the seaehore
without the see. In winter the yayd VIII
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be enclosed and used as a playground when
the air is not too cold.
The floors Of the two institutes will have
rooms devoted to all the domestic arte,
including cooking, dressmakirg, launder-
ing and embroidering. On the second
noors are music and art studios. The
skaters who will be in charge will assist in
teaching the little ones, who will attend
the institutes.
The scheme Of the protector of the Italian
university is eventually to bring out in
New York all the artistic forms Of eX-
pression characteristic of the Italian tenn
permanent for the development of their
t~railsplanted genius in the New World
Miss Leary looks upon the Charlton street
versity.
The idea Of the university came with the
ment: She already has received this
blessing for her work from the Pope:
To our beloved daughter. Countess Annie
Leary. for whom We implore from our Lord
the fulneSs of all happiness for her charity
And we lmpart IRON our soul the Apostolic
benediction.
Miss leary said In regard to her work
My Plus X. Art Institute will be kept ex-
clusively for all that Is beautiful In art and
music. My second institute / have Ga lied
Christopher Columbus, because, as a child,
the reason that | now more fully understand
The meaning OF his wonderful mission
was not only to disco YER a continent; 1t was
to phn the cross.
Il hope to live to see the Plus X. Art In.
stitute stand for the development Of the
higher better characteristics Of the
Italian race in America. will then feel
hal | was but. the humble instrument In
carrying out this work so dear to the Holy
Fathers heart, caring for his people
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Accepting the Hindu theory that the
soul passes from person to person, and
even from the human being to the animal
and back, he offered Nirvana as q final
release from this tiresome and endless
change-Nirvana a state OF unconscious
ness which follows the absorption OF the
individual soul in the soul Of the universe.
This was the end to be sought, and no WON
der it came as a relief to those whose phil
osophy taught perpetual transition Of the
soul through man and beast and bird and
reptile.
The means Of reaching Nirvana was
through the remuneration of self. Life
he conceived to be prolonged misery, in
tinitely drawn out, and love of self he de-
clared to be the root Of all evil.
50 long as one loves life, he argued, he
cannot escape from the bondage Of exist
ence. In the entire elimination Of self
arate existence here or hereafter-in this
alone could he find a path to Nirvana.
The next forty-five years Of his life he
spent in ~expounding and celebrating his
doctrines, in formulating rules and In per-
fecting the details Of his system. Many
Of his precepts are admirable. For in
stance, No ulViuoS pTokTee toWtdu tHo
blissful state into three stages.
BUppHIsM's AND RBB.
In the first he puts those who abstain
from evil through fear Of punishment;
these he oommends. though he considers
the motive comparatively low. In the
second stage are those who, passing from
negative harmlessness to h~elpfulness, do
good from hope of reward; these he praises
as acting from a higher motive than the
first.
In the third state the seeker after MIR
vana does good not for hope Of reward
but for the sake Of love alone. The last
gift love has to give Is to give up love Of
life itself and pass from further change
to changelessness,
At one time Buddhism spread over India
and promised the conquest Of Asia. Two
hundred years after the Buddhist's death
a great king, Asoka, sent out 81. 900 mis-
slonaries, and the doctrines Of Gautama
were accepted as far east as China and
Japan and as far south as Java.
But the wave reoeded; India returned to
Hindu SIN, China to Confucianiam and
Japan to Shintoism. and Mohammedanism
now ortnumbers Buddhism on the Ganges.
The Buddhists still hold Burma, Tibet and
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Here the faithful offer their devotions
during the day and evening and the vendors
Of candles, incense and flowers do a thriv-
ing business. Here, also, assemble the
lame, the halt and the blind, to gather their
penny tribute from the passerby.
~MANpALAY's PAGoDAs.
Mandalay is still more literally supplied
with pagodas. At the largest, the Aracan,
one sees repeated the scenes Of the Shwe
Dagon, only the beggars seem more nu-
merous,
AT this pasoda there is a filthy pool in
which live O number of sacred turtles, and
they must have charmed lives to live at
ali In 80 foul a place. They rise to the
surface when food Is thrown into the water
but they are 30 slow In their movements
that the kites which hover about the place
generally snatch up the morse!s before
the turtles reach them.
Far more beautiful than the Aracan
pagoda is the group known as the $50 pa
Rodas. This remarkable group which
actually numbers 728. stands at the foot
Of Mandalay hill and was built by an uncle
Of King Thebaw.
In the centre Of the group is the usual
pAGOuA, ado aIOuHQ IL La poTdiicii ToCehuBu~
lar rows, are small square pagodas. each
terminating in q graceful tower and com
tanning a slab inscribed on both sides.
These slabs together contain all the writ
ings Of Buddha, and the smaller pagodas;
viewed from the central one, present an
imposing spectacle.
These pagodas are we'll kept, and all the
buildings are snowy white. i emphasize
the fact that these are in good repair be-
cause 90 many Of the Buddhist pagodas
and monasteries are in a state Of decay.
Whether this is due TO decrease In the zeal
Of the followers Of Buddha OF to the fact
that the Burmese King, Thebaw, has for
more than twenty years been q political
prisoner on the west coast Of India, ! do
not know. A writer for one Of the Ran
COON newspapers naIvely describes the an
nexation Of Burma by the English as 'neoes-
sary,' and this necessity has deprived
the Buddhist buildings Of the Governmental
patronage which they formerly enjoyed.
BIGGEST PAooDA, BIooEsT BELL.
About six miles above Mandalay, near the
Irrawaddy, stands the foundation Of q
pagoda which its builder intended should
be the largest in thu world. 1t was begun
" King ~Bodoparatn i7so. after an unsuo-
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walked 10 Miles to Attend school.
From tho 81. Loxis Globe Democrat.

From tho 81. Loxis Globe Democrat.
At the commencement exercises OF the
Chamois High School. In osage county, IL
was announced by A. A.. Spear. representa-
tive OF that county In the General Assembly.
that the highest honors OF the graduating
class had been won by Everett E. Cordery,
aged Is years.
Young Cordery's parents at the opening
Of the school term resides on a farm about
-four miles from Cham oils. Later In the
year the Corderys moved to a farm eight
miles distant from the town. 1t wal sup
posed that young Cordery would give up
his school work. Not 90. He continued
10 wa TX to town and to return home after
school,. slxt cen miles each day. There was
no high echool nearer his home. and he was
bent on becoming educated. Nor Is II strange
that O YOUTH with such ambition and energy
ohouid lead his class.
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Herd OF Two Hundred Deer at Large.

Nashville correspondence Chattanooga T,res.
The famous Belle Meade herd Of deer is
now at liberty and the animals are running
wild over the western end of the county
When Belle Meade was acquired by Judge
j. NJ. Dickinson and others and plans were
perfected TO. cut. II w into small residence
was removed and the herd left to scatter.
In their wanderings the deer have paid no
attention to fences or farm boundaries, but
fields and have Investigated Juicy corn patches,
loud complaints from the, farmers resulting
1t is against the law to shoot a deer III this
have had is setting the dogs on the invaders
When chased by dogs the deer singly and in
their old haunts a. Belle Meade as fast al
their legs could oagfs tAeAn. The herd num-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-15
Their Visit Ended.

The Chinese commissioners sail from New
York today for Europe. They have taken
rather hurried look around, and maybe
are more confused than informed by the
great amount and the great variety Of what
they have seen. Still they cannot be in
doubt as 10 one thing, and that a very i'm
portant thing. There is every disposition
in this country to be hospitable to China
men who come to US for the purpose of
studying, or even glancng at our institu-
tlons and of applying whatever of merit
there may be in them TO their own institu-
lions. The fact that we bar the coolies Is
no warrant for fll-feeling between the two
governments. The Chinese government
has consented to that feature of our policy
toward that country, and there is not the
slightest chance that it will be changed
at the instance of anybody-certainly not
at the instance of men or associations seek
ing only trade, and willing to pay any price
for IT.
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Where Did He Get the aunp

It would be interesting and perhaps in
structive to learn where the young man
who yesterday killed himself In this city
after vainly trying TO kill his sweetheart
obtained the pistol which he used II 1t
should be ascertained, for instance, that he
had bought the weapon shortly before the
tragedy It might be fairly inferred that he
obtained 1t for the purpose, to which It
was finally put. The case would then
serve as q further illustration of the in
adequacy OF the present method of regu-
lating the sale and ownership of deadly
weapons In this District. II might. OF
course. transpire that the unfortunate
young man had. or believed he had. legiti-
mate need of pistol. and had obtained It
for purposes OF possible seif-defense or the
protection OF his property against burglars.
In that case he could. under the system OF
licensing and rightly restricted sales which
The Star has often urged for adoption here.
have bought the pistol after satisfying the
court OF the reasonableness OF his need.
There Is. OF course. nothing 70 prevent the
criminal use OF weapon thus secured.
But the interpretation Of q licensing check
would 1t least make Il dtltculk and proh-
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The Coal Conference.

Today in New York meeting Is being
held between representatives of the snthra-
cite coal workers and the owners Of the
coal mines. The purpose of the meeting is
to arrange, If possible, for a continuation
of the present pacific agreement between
the employers and the workers, which ex-
pires by limitation on the first of next
April. There is very general belief that
II the case were not complicated there
would be no difficulty in the extension of
the agreement, perhaps with amendments
But, unfortunately. these hard-coal repre-
sentatfves are tied hand and foot by reso-
luton adopted by the United Mine Workers
of America at their recent convention. for
bidding the acceptance of peace terms In
any of the districts unless agreements have
been reached in all of the districts There
happens to be a stubborn controversy in
Illinois between the workers and the opera
tors, the former demanding and the latter
refusing an agreement whereby the mine
owners shall pay the "shot-f1rers," who are
now paid by the contract miners Both sides
are obstinately contesting this issue. Until
1t is settled according to the policy at pres
ent in force with the United Mine Workers,
there can be no peace anywhere In the
United States between mine owners and
union miners.
1t will be in the last degree disastrous to
the best interests of the union miners, as in
diyiduals and as members of an organiza-
ton, If this -the-manger policy is per-
mftted to govern In the negotiations now
pending in New York. The country is well
advised of the situation at large. thanks to
the frankness of President Doian OF the
Pittsburg district, who has had the eour-
age to speak out in meeting and tell the
truth regarding the miners preparedness
for general strike and the proceedings of
the indianapolis convention. There will be
no wasting of sympathy upon the hard-coal
miners of Pennsylvania If they permit
themselves to be dragged into a strike
which they do not desire for the sake of
adherence to the principle of peace for all
or peace for none" The conditions which
obtain in Illinois In the soft-coal fields are
entirely different from those which obtain
in Pennsylvania in the hard-coa1 district.
The dispute of the shot-firers or the con-
tract miners of Illinois has no bearing
whatever upon the demands of the anthra-
cite workers. There would be a shadow of
reason for the maintenance of a sweeping
demand for an e!ght-hour day or 10 per
cent advance of wages for the entire area
covered by the United Mine Workers or
ganization. or for any other demand of a
broad, general nature affecting every In
dividual or every district in some degree.
But there can be no public tolerance for a
contention that the local quarrels of Illinois
or Michigan or Alabama, which have, no
relation to conditions in Pennsylvania, shall
operate to block a peace agreement where
by the consumers of hard coal may be as
sured of an uninterrupted supply of fuel
for another considerable period
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ably Impossible. for person quickly to OBJ
tain q weapon Ia the heat of passion or the
biackness OF despair or the blindness OF
jealousy for use upon himself or others.
The weakness Of the present condition re-
garding the pistol traffic Is that It Ii pos
sibie now for any one to buy gun at any
time for very small cost. The opportu-
nifty lies open to all. The law merely
threatens punishment In case the pistol
bearer Is detected with the weapon con-
cealed on his person. 1t does not hold the
dealer responsible for the sale. merely ask
ing that he record a name and an address
for each transaction, without assurance OF
their correctness. There might as we'll be
no law whatever. save for the slender
chance that the records of the pistol dealers
may possibly throw light upon an occa-
sional mystery or crime. There is little
satisfaction after a tragedy in ascertaining
how and when and where the murderer or
the suicide obtained the means of taking
life. and the question is asked In this con-
nection merely to emphasize the absurdity
and inadequacy Of the present statute
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-15

restrictive operations Of the regulation. The
numbering of the machines enabled the POI
lice to hale to court all speed vioaators who
came under observation. Those well dis
posed toward the law learned the lesson Of
obedience. Those who take pleasure In dis
regarding and disobeying the law fell into
the class Of habitual Offenders witaout suf-
fering the cumulative penalties which the
courts are usually empowered to admins.
ter to persistent misdemeanants.
The Star at the outset proposed that
the only reliable method OF checking the
speed excuses of motorists was by regard
ing the licenses issued to them as revocable
when the conditions under which they.
were granted were repeatedly violated
by them. 1t suggested that there should
be a first-offense fine, a second-of-
Tense fine somewhat larger, and a third-of-
Tense penalty in the form of cancellation
of license. Representative Sims proposes
to imprison persistent motorists. There may
be ground for objecting to SO harsh a PEN
atty. But in any case, the reasoning on
which he bases his demand for a more Sc
we're punishment for the motorists who defy
the regulations cannot logically be gain
said. Apart from the danger to life and
limb involved In the contemptuous attitude
of the scorchers toward the regulations. the
spectacle they present of utter Indifference
to the dignity of the regulations is de-
moralizing and calls for an effective remedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-15
The scorchers and the Law.

Representative Sims emphatic protest
against the conduct of motorists In the Dis
trict and his argument In favor of more
drastic law for their local restriction are
the logical results OF the inadequate regu-
lation adopted some years ago by the Com
mssloners after the demand for remedy
for the speeding evIl had become insistent
They fell back upon their general powers
granted by the statute authorizing them to
safeguard life and limb and public COM
fort and health by means OF municipal
rules. Their restrictions upon the use of
automobiles took the form OF the require.
ment that every manipulation OF motor car
should be licensed after passing an exam
ination as to his fitness. and should be SUBJ
Ject to fine upon conviction of exceeding
a certain speed limit There was no pro-
vision whatever for the proper punishment
of persistent offenders. although this point
was urged upon the consideration of the
Commissioners when the matter was under
Amusement. The result was that certain
habitual scorchers immediately became FREE
quent defendants in court or forfeited coli
lateral upon arrest time after time without
losing their rights as licensed chaaffeurs
They evidently regarded the fines imposed
upon them or she collateral forfeited by
them as the equivalent OF special license
fee for fast motoring proportIonate to the
watchfulness of the police. This system
was fundamentally unjust to both the pub
lie and those motorists who could not ar
Sorc 70 pay tor immunity from the actually.
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santo Domingo and South America.

The New York Evening Post, In an ed
itorial entitled Ignorance About South
America" says: -.
There Is clear evidence in the South
American press that President Roosevelt s
descent upon Santo Domingo has fntensi-
fed the sentiment against us in all Central
and South America. The question asked is,
Where next is the big stick to fall?'
If this is true 1t affords clear evidence"
that the ignorance complained of is not In
the United States about South America, but
in South America about the United States.
Mr. Roosevelt has made no descent upon
Santo Domingo" with the big stick" He
went there at the invitation of Santo Do
mingo. to assist her in Strengthening out
her finances. and for no other purpose.
Complaint in other quarters was that he
was again fourishing the big stick at
Europe and inviting trouble for us over
there; that lie was again giving an unwar-
rauted twist to the Monroe doctrine.
1t is true also that part of the fight on
tue Santo Domingo treaty is based on the
fear expressed that by responding favorably
TO Santo Domingo's appeal the President
has set an example which may carry us
into the acknowledging business generally
this side OF the water: that other coun-
tries may ask our assistance IN similar en-
barrassmeuts. and that we shall then be
obliged to respond favorably, as in this
case.
We see then the Presidents act inter-
preted in South America as menace to the
powers to the south of US. and by his oppo-
nents In this country of so much friend
illness to Santo Domingo as to invite others
Of our southern neighbors to come to us
with their troubles. Both of these views
cannot be correct. May we not with pro-
priety ask. is either correct?
Certainly there is no big stick hourished
over Santo Domingo. She is very happy TO
have US there and we are performing a
friendly service for her as against the dan
ger OF European interference. Under the
arrangement, as soon as our task is done
we are to withdraw. AS for other requests
of a similar character from other coun-
tries, we shall respond to them as the cir
cumstances in each case may warrant. The
Santo Domingo treaty commits us to no
precedent, nor to anything beyond It's ex-
press terms The treaty ought to be ratl-
fled.