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The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
oxford Asleep.

1.-THE best education an American
could get" said an old southern gen
tleman, used to be a course In a
great English public school and after
ward course at Oxford. Now it is
everywhere admitted that the public
schools of England and the university
of Oxford are obsolete and worthless
institutions. The public schools are
nothing but breeding places for snobs.
Nothing but a little Latin and Greek
and mathematics is taught in them.
On the scientific side they are alto
gether ludicrous, and the head masters
are interested only in the boarding
houses which they conduct for the
boys and which bring them $4,000 or
$4,000 year.
"Oxford, like the schools, is asleep.
1t teaches now what it taught cen
fury ago. 1t forgets the world moves.
and the result is that the scientists
and the scholars of England laugh at
Oxford and at the public schools. They
go to Germany for a real education.
They regard Oxford and Elton and
Harrow merely ruins-picturesque
ruins, rich in legend and tradition, but
of no more practical utility today than
a suit of armor or moat. Chicago
Chronicle
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
Debauchtng In Dress.

1t has gone beyond extravaganza in
women's clothing. 1t has come to de-
bauchery. The dress habit is robbing
more New York homes now than the
drink habit Ten minutes in fash
ionable dressmaker's establishment to-
day costs husband more money than
ten nights in barroom did a decade
ago. There are hundreds of women in
New York who spend more than $10.-
900 year on dress. The woman of
fashion after wearing $500 gown
once of twice sells it for not to exceed
$50 TIE extravaganza in dress among
the rich women of New York while
not legal ground for divorce, is one
of the most fruitful causes that lead
to it. After having spent her allow
ance for clothes the fashionable wife
frequently runs bills and borrows cash
until her credit Is exhausted and then
quietly plays the horses and the stock
market. The enormous losses lead to
open scandal, which eliminates In 'di-
vorce.-New York Press,
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23

Putting aside all questions as to its
intrinsic value, the Yiddish drama is
one of the remarkable developments
of Jewish life in its ghetto environ
ment. The first performance Of Gold
faden's 'Shulanith" occurred in Rou-
mania only twenty-five years ago. To
day Goldfaden's operettas, simple in
structure and rudely initiative in form,
have turned out to be the crude begin
ming Of a dramatic repertory which in
cludes nowadays the classic dramas OF
German, English and Russian htera-
tnre and one dramatic writer Of SUI
perier talent, jacob Gordin- 1t will
soon be able to claim as its own the
talent of two of the foremost Yiddish
authors Of the day, Peretz and Sholom
Alckem. To cover the dramatic period
which consumed four centuries in the
life Of the English drama in such
surprisingly brief space Of time indi-
catas anew the phenomenal assimila-
tive and reeuperative power Of the
Jewish people. The rapid stride the
YiddiAh drama has made as an art
fully expressive Of the life Of the peo-
pie is one OF the most striking phe-
nomena in modern observation-disclosures
can Hebrew
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
TO RIVAL NIAGARA.
Long Distance Power VIII Be Wruna
From st. Louis River.

There is nearing completion on the
shores ce st. Louis bay, in E.anesots
what will be the second greatest cleo
trical power plant In the world. Like
I that of Niagara falls, it will supply en-.
1 ergy for The uses of commerce, manu-.
facture and social life by Harvesting
/ the hidden forces of slow running
! stream and carrying them several
miles overland to do mans work. But,
unlike the Niagara power plant, the
Great Northern plant. as it is called,
[ will enhance rather than detract from
the natural beauty of the place where
; il is located.
| Already regiment of men has been
engaged more than a year in building
the enormous service reservoir, the
canal the forebay and the pipe lines
which will be the means of bringing
to bear the might of the St, Louis riv-
ar's currents on the great engines and
dynamos of the power house. In build
ing the service reservoir at point
where the river broke through nat
ural barrier of slate rock it was nee
essary to construct fifteen concrete
Cams. one of which is 1.150 feet long
and forty feet high. The reservoir Is
an artificial lake with an area of 4S0
acres. The forebay at the end of the
canal, which is two miles long, spreads
over forty acres. From here the water
pours directly into the huge pipes
which Will discharge into the powerful
Al. - 10 al ~
ity for the whole western shore of
Lake Superior. These pipes are mile
long and for most of that distance are
composed of slaves of California red
wood made into great tubes seven feet
in interior diameter and bound round
and round with bands of steel.
The power house will have, to start
with, a capacity of 10000 horsepower.
sufficient to run not only the trolley
cars, electric lights and machinery of
Duluth and of Superior. its sister city
on the other side of st. Louis bay, but
also various manufacturing plants, big
and little, near and far. To increase
this initial capacity to $4,000 horse
power 1t will be necessary only to put
in more pipe lines, while the engineers
in charge of the work say that by
conveying water from the river over
a TAO feet fall directly into Duluth
10000 additional horsepower can be
produced
The electrical current generated in
the Great Northern power house at
the foot of the uplands will be trans
mitted over aerial wires to a substa-
ton in Duluth. fourteen miles away.
and from there distributed through the
city. From this substation, too, 1t will
be carried to Superior In submarine ca
bles. Both American and foreign en-
gineers have been engaged in the de-
of this remarkable scheme,
which when fully completed will give /
possibilities of industrial
power less only than those of the Nj
agara frontier.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
How They stood.

George McCrae, NJ. p, amused mem
bers Of the Heriot club in Edinburgh
the other night at their annual dinner
how on one occasion John Redmond
was wasting.the time of the house of
commons by wandering greatly from
his subject till at last the speaker had
to call him to order. "All right" said
the Irish orator; II shall not repate
what l was going to say" Another
story concerned Mr.. McCrae himself.
he was holding forth in the Canon
gate on the merits of free trade when
an elector stood up and shouted, How
did we stand fifty years ago" The
answer came from another elector'
"On twa legs "-Westminster Gazette.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
Tomb. schooIma.ter.

Every weekday morning just before
o'clock there is admitted through the
grim iron gateway of the Tombs pris-
on. in New York. an earnest, pleasant
hammered nan. who goes directly to
the second tier Of the boys prison
There he takes his stand in an alcove
lighted from barred windoY that
looks out on CenfDr street and fur
ntshed with bookcase, desk and four
teen benches. The man Is Joseph G..
0ravsur, the schoolmaster Of the
To0bs. otherwise chief dictionary
omeer. His PUPILS are the young men
and boys In the prison awaiting trial
charged with various ofRenses. For
seven PEARS Mr.. Graveur has presided
over ehis unique school and has exert
ed an influence for good upon thou
sands Of boys. There Is not such an
other school IN the world. The school
master let's the boys ark him whatever
they want to know There II no set
form Of study. On question leads to
anchor. and tho Tembs school takes
more tns fsem Of q ssuerNl infos,ma.
nen tursau than aAyfA&ns elss.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
The way Rome Taxes Americans.

Tax lodging is difficult in Rome, ac-
cording to the Dundee Advertiser The
assessors of the income tax in the city
of Rome are now called upon to tax
American visitors on the basis of their
incomes. Ali sorts of reasons
are alleged for the existence of con
cealed wealth" One American visitor
was heavily taxed on the ground that
his diamond rings We're of such value
as to stamp him undeniably as mil
lionaire. He repudlated the statement
when it was triumphantly pointed .out
to him that his name appeared daily in
a journal which inserted fashion
notes" only on payment. Another Wis
itor was taxed on the basis Of the num-
Der of letters which he received from
home. This, said the assessor, declar-
ed him to be man of substance. He
retorted that the letters contained
small sums of money, and, to his
amazement, he was met by the counter
assertion that the contents of the let
ters were known. A lady was taxed
on the ground that she mixed with
other people who were taxed at a GER
tain level, and Americans regard
equality in wealth as social equality"
She attempted to controvert the argu-
ment, but In vain.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
A JAPANESE DINNER.
This One Was Rather Topsy Turvy
In Costume and Manners.

An old fashioned Japanese dinner in
Kioto is described by Lord Redesdale,
who accompanied Prince Arthur Of
Connaught on the recent British mis-
sion to Japan. Lord Redesdale says:
'sThe invitation specially stipulated
that we should come in Japanese dress,
and as the mayor had very kindly pre-
sented us each with a suit, for which
be had actually sent man all the way
to Tokyo when we first arrived there to
take our measures, we could only do as
ne wished. How to put on suit of
Japanese clothes was a problem which
none of us was competent to solve.
There were knots and bows to be tied.
of which only the initiated possess the
secret. involving possibilities of sole
cisms not to be thought of. However,
there were willing and cunning hands
ready to help, and by the time the car
riages arrived we We're all rugged
out as Japanese gentlemen, perfectly
correct even to the incest fold.
ga more comfortable dress it would
be difficult to find, cool in summer,
WARM anu CCAy III W1Atcl. why Oip
the Japanese abandon it for our clumsy
costume? Only one thing came amiss
to me-the white socks, with their di-
vision for the big toe, seemed to cut
me- But that Is a matter of habit In
this matter of dress the mayors din
ner reached the height of topsy turyy
dom, for, whereas the English guests
were all in Japanese robes, the Japa-
nese guests were all in European coats.
Admiral Togo, General Kuroki and the
others had not brought their kimonos
with them ON this journey, so they
were compelled to dine in what
clothes they had.
at was curious sight, and the man
agements of chopsticks by some of our
party was not quite what might have
been expected of gentlemen so attired.
The black cloth coats were quite at
home with them. The kimonos, on the
contrary, were very much puzzled and
not averse to little help from small.
clever hands In taking their seats
upon the mats, too, the coats had much
the best of it, the poor kimonos sprawl
ing about in very ungainly attitudes.
All this was very amusing to the pref
ty little geishas, who were busy serv-
ing the dinner and who could not con-
ceal their merriment."
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23

An old Bible bought by a French
army officer in a secondhand bookshop
at Mont de Marsan contained long lost
treasure. The officer, turning over the
book In his quarters. was astonished TO
find in it coupons and scrip to the
value of more than $1,000. These bore
the name of the holder at st. Pierre do
Mont and the address Of notary of
the same place. On communicating
with the notary the officer learned that
the holder .of the scrip, small peas
ant owner, had died some -ears ago
and that the property represented by
the lest papers had not been distriort-
ed. Great was the surprise Wien tia
sfficer haSded over the scrip
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
1udue Can Drink Forty Pints.

New York. Aug. 22.-Justice Finn,
better known as Battery DAN" caused
spectators in the Westchester police
court to gasp in describing his capacity
for beer. A witness was trying to i'm
peach a woman's testimony by declar-
ing that she had called at saloon sew
eral times one evening for ''pints OF
beer" That's nothing" said Battery
Dan" 81 have thirty or forty some
times and think nothing of it."
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
General Markets.

New York, Aug. Il
FLoURQuiet and unchanged; Mime
sofa patents, 81. 20a4.40; winter straights.
s.. sOa3 IS ; winter extras. s2S5a3s5; winter
patents, s.. 8ea4.15-
WHEAE-Anected by poor cables, less
active bull support and lower tempera-
lures in the northwest, wheat was quiet
and trifie easier this morning: Septem-
Der, 7ss4aB5sc.; December, 81 7-16asl9sc.
BITTER - Creamery, extras 2Sa231zc. !:
firsts, aa221zc.; seconds. 191aa20tsc.; west
ern, imitation creamery, extras. 19a1stac. !.
eastern, dairy. choice DC; trsts 2Oa2lc. !;
renovated, extras, 1s1za20c.; factory. firsts.
17ihc: packing stock, No. /, 16a17c.
CEEESE-Stste. full cream, large and
small best. 121zc.; fair to good, large. la
121xc. small. l11aal2c.; half Skins. large.
best. SHE; small. 9i5asAe.; part Skins.
prime. S4aS%c.
ErsGS-Fresh gathered, extra, per doz-
en- 23c; nearby, fresh gathered, firsts to
extra firsts, 2oa21c.; western, fresh gath
cred, selected. 3Oc.; firsts, 1Si7al9c.; sec
onds. 17a1Sc.
MILK-The price of milk is s.4l per
forty quart can
MAY-Steady; shipping. e5a75c.: good to
choice, CSC. as1.05.
STRAW-Quiet; long rye. 55a60c
BEANS-Quiet: marrow, s2.90a295; me-
dunn, s1.76e1 77iz: pea, s1.Fasa1. 571k: red kid
ney. s.. 10.
WOOL-Firm; domestic fleece. soa38c.
HOPS-Quiet; state. common to choice
1905, 1al7c.; 1904 and olds. nominal.
POTATOES-S Steady; Jersey. prime, pei
barrel, H.50a1.75; Jersey, culls. per bar
rel, 65a75c.
LIVE POULTRY-Steady fair demand
fowls, 13l2al4c.; old ROSTERS, &c; spring
chickens, 15a16c.; ducks; old, 1Oal1c.; do
spring. Halle.
DRESSED POULTRY-Firm; good de-
mand; fowls. choice. lac; do, fair to
good, 1916; old ROSTERS. &c. br0itezs
nearby, 1ba1sc.: do. western, i4a17c.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
wianapex.s Ar.hbi.hep..

Winnipeg has two archbishops, but
neither OF them is archbishop Of Win
nipeg. The Protestant one. DR.. SMathe-
son, has the title Of archbishop Of Ru-
pertsiand. the old name Of what il now
the province of Manitoba The Catho-
lie is archbishop Of st. Bonifaee, the
name OF quist, pretty, old world like
French suburb Of Winnipeg. presenting
a quaint contrast TO the new. noisy. up
to date modern city. st. Boniface was
. Preach missionary center long before
Winnipeg came into beiaS.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
s IT,. m FoR HEARsT.
But Hearst Emphatieally Declares he
Is Not For Murphy.

New York. Aug - Without sayins
II am for Hearst for ,esnor" Charles
f. Murphy, leader OF Tan'many Han
nractieally declared for Hearst Mr.
Murphy was asked if he had candi-
date and said:
NO, | have no candidate
'.Win Tammany Hall support Hearst
If he is nominatedI'
"Certainly," was the reply.
us there any sentiment in the organ
ization for Jerome for governor"
None that | have discovered" was
the answer
is there any Hearst sentiment
PLENTY of il" said the boss of Tam
many. and he smiled as he said it,
Isn't the leader of Tammany largely
guided by the sentiment in the organi-
zation?'
always" said Murphy.
When this interview was brought to
Mr. Hearsts attention he gave out the
following statement:
Il have no interest whatever in the
fractional disputes of Tammany Hall
Those declarations for or against me
are nothing more than attempts to H.
duenee votes in primary contests.
over three months ago | gave an
interview to the Brooklyn Eagle defin-
ing my position, which l have not al
tered.
81 repeat now that | am absolutely
and unalterably opposed to the Muir
phys and the McCarrens and also to
the Sulffvans and the McClellans and
the kind of politics that they all repre-
sent.
81 am opposed to boss rule in poll
tics
81 am opposed to corporation control
of parties through machines, and the
fact that boss or a machine declares
for me does not alter my attitude in
any particular | am also opposed to
the Ryans and Belmonts and their Je-
romes in politics, to the corrupt use of
wealth to debauch the ballot and to the
purchase of puppets in Office.
MIR. Roosevelt says the people need
a square DEAL l would add that to
have a square deal they must have a
new deal, for nearly all the cards in
the old political packs are marked by
the corporations and dirty and dog
cared from the corrupt uses to which
they have been put"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
Illinois Democrats Indorse Bryan.

Peoria, ILL.,. Aug. 22.-By vote Of
1,03S to $40 the Democratic convention
placed upon the table the request OF
william J. Bryan for the resignation OF
Roger Sullivan from the national com
mittee. Despite the fact that Mr. Bry-
an had declared that he did not wish
to be Endorsed unless Sullivan was re-
pudiated, the convention declared him
to be the one and only man capable OF
leading the Democratic party to victory
in 1908. The Endorsement of Bryan
and the tabiing of the motion calling
for the resignation of Sullivan came al
the close of most exciting session OF
the convention. in which there were
several fights and throughout which
confusion reigped supreme.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
Cotton In India.

Cotton fabrics form practically the
so's raiment OF all the millions of In
Ola. Tha cotton IL now almost entirely
spun there by machinery. Fifty per
cent Of the spinning and the weaving
10 done In che city Of Bombay. Last
years. Esn$1 Of the Bombay mills
were estimated at over $11.5O0, 0CD.
Labor 10 extrsnsiy cheap. An average
weRvsr working thirteen hours per day
~ twsnty~dx days in the month
wsaid earn only go
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
WILSON surprises Omaha Packers

Omaha, Neb., Aug 22.-Seeretary
Wilson of the department of agricul
ture. nattended, arrived at local
hotel and without registering or dis
closing his identity drove alone to the
packing pIsnts in South Omaha. After
a short inspection of several plants the
secretary returned to this city. saying,
IT have inspected all the packing plants
and found them in good condition"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
SAVAGE CANNES.
Ferocity of the Man Eating Dogs Of
Labrador.

Labrador.
No fewer than five people were killed
and eaten last winter by the savage
dogs Of Labrador's dreary seaboard.
+ One of the victims was a man thirty
FIVE years of age named Cumby, who
left Battle Harbor, Belle Isle strait, on
April with some other men, each
/ driving a dog team, making for the
( forest inland to bring out loads of fire.
wood Cumby's dogs were exception
/ ally vicious. and previous to this two
men always had gone with them. But
on this occasion he took them alone
When the forest was reached every
man made his own trail. Cumby's dogs
must have begun fighting among them
selves, and in endeavoring to clear them
he got entangled in the traces and fell
among them. Thereupon the whole
pack turned upon him. He fought des-
perately with an ak, killing two, split
ting another's head and severely
wounding several more. But their num-
bers proved too much for him. His
brother had heard his cries for aid and
rushed to his help, but was too late, and
SO furious We're the dogs that he dared
not face them alone, but had to wait
till his comrades gathered to recover
the sadly mutilated remains from the
snarling fangs Then the body was
brought home and given Christian
burial
The other case was that of four per-
sons named Lane, an old man of sixty,
his wife, daughter and grandchild, who
left Ford Harbor, $50 miles farther
north, on March to visit the Moravian
mission at Main. Since that day moth
ing has ever been heard of them, but
the dogs returned to Ford Harbor thir-
teen days later, and because of frag-
ments of human garb adher1ng to the
sledge it is believed that they devoured
the four, none of whom could make any
effective defense against the brutes.
These Labrador dogs are known far
and wide for their uncomfortable saw
agery. There is a large admixture of
wolfish blood in them, many indeed
being the direct offspring Of wolf and
dog. The wolves of Labrador are of
the same species and quite as vicious
as those of Siberia.
Another time, according to the well
known DR.. Grenfell, tragedy almost
occurred at his hospital at Battle Har-
Dor, with its matron as the victim. He
writes: "A nasty accident with the
dogs seemed likely to prove fatal in
late December to Mrs. Williams. She
happened to fall, and the whole hungry
pack attacked her But for the for
tunate arrival of q woman with an ak
it might have been fatal When we
were at Hebron last summer the set
tiers told me that the dogs had recently
killed and eaten a boy Of thirteen
years who was bringing seal from
his fathers boat to his home"
Yet another tragedy caused by these
animals was at Hoiton, where they set
upon and killed an elderly woman who
had fallen on the ice in crossing the
harbor there. At Cradle they killed
and devoured man three years ago.
At Cartwright, anhther time, they de-
stroyed fifteen year old girl while she
was going TO well. At Main they
stole the baby out of the cradle in
settlers but there, and when the horri-
fed mother sought for her child moth
ing remained but its blood bedraggled
garments.-Chicago News.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-08-23
Live Stock Markets.

CATTLE-Receipts light: market steady:
choice, s. 75a6; prime. Ss,soa5e5; veal
calves Sass.
HOGS = Receipts light; market active
and higher: prime heayiss. Sc. 7sa6.75; me-
diums, 6 90a7 heavy Workers.. light York
ers and pigs. Ta70; roushs. $Sa5. rs.
SHEEP AND LAMBS Supply light:
market steady: prime wethsrs. sS.6oa5.n;
cults and common. s.. 5eas5o lambs, BsA
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-06
$4,000 SUIT FOR A SNEEZE
Foley Didn't Know 1t Was Coming.
Arrest Followed and He
Wants Revenge
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
CHICAGO ILL.,, Feb. 5.-As the result
of a sneeze G. L. Foley today brought
suit for $4,000 against o. II. Davidson.
Foley was in restaurant when DAY.
idson entered and asked for match
to light his cigar. Foley furnished the
match and as Davidson was in the act
of getting light the former sneezed
and out went the match.
Foley declared the sneeze was acct
dental. Davidson said that it was pre-
meditated. On this issue the men had
a war of words which ended with them
and two OF Davidson's friends going
to the central police station. Just what
happened during the formation and de-
livery of the sneeze is not quite plain,
but Foley was arrested for disorderly
conduct and attempted larceny. He
was discharged the next day for lack
of some one TO prosecute and he turned
about and filed the damage suit, alleg-
ing false arrest and Imprisonment
Foley's lawyer says he will prove
that Foley had a ''cold in the head
point that seems to be vital in the
case.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-06
SOMETHING TELLS HIM
TO CALL ON WOMAN
NOW RAlNMAkER MUST FACE
SANITY TRIAL
Defendant Says Strange Force That
Sways Him Brings About Embar-
RAISING Situations and He Cannot
Resist the Impulse

l.. V. DeForest, who thinks that he
is premier rain maker and who wac
arrested after trying to impress Mrs.
Il. H. Craig who lives at Hotel West
more, with the idea that he needed
some of her money to perfect his in
vention, was tried in the police court
yesterday and sentence suspended I'M
til the mans sanity can be investi-
gated.
The defendant went to call upon
Mrs. Craig and was loud in exploiting
the merits of his patent rain machine.
Mrs. Craig refused to talk witt,
DeForest and he became so violent
that the police were sent for and the
inventor taken to Jail.
When asked why he has insisted
upon seeing a woman unknown to him
he replied:
Something told me to go and see
her. This influence has already placed
me in several embarrassing situations
before, but / cannot resist it,"