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The state herald., 1907-08-09
SPAIN FAR BEHIND NATIONS.
Illiteracy Prevails There to Most
Amazing Extent.

OF the 100000 people inhabiting
Spain, only about 35 per cent. can
read and write; another two and one
half per cent. of the population can
read without being able to write, but
the remaining 62h per cent are abb
solute illiterates. In the south OF
Spain it is impossible to get a serv-
ant who can read and write, and
many of the postmen are unable to
tell to whom the letters they carry
are addressed. They bring a bum
die of letters to house and the
owner looks through them and takes
those which are (or which he thinks
are) addressed to him. The Spanish
postmen are not paid by the state;
the recipient of the letters have to
remunerate them according to the
amount of their correspondence, and
each letter costs the addressee at
least one cent. 1t is joke among
the easy-going Spaniards that he who
treats the postmen best receives the
most letters-whether they are in
tended for him or not.
The state herald., 1907-08-09
B BUTCHER FOES
CHlNAMEN IN BOSTON ARE
KILLED LIKE RATS.
ALLEYS RUN RED WITH BLOOD
The Hep Sing Tong Organization Muir.
ders Members of the Leong Tong,
Hereditary Enemies.

Boston.-Burning with hatred for
their deadly enemies belonging to the
rival On Leong Tong society, a band
Of New York Cinnamon numbering
dozen or more, and said to be members
of the notorious Hep Sing Tong organ
ization, entered narrow alley in Chi
natown and. drawing revolvers. opened
fire upon half hundred Cinnamon,
killing three and injuring seven.
AT the first volley the Cinnamon
rushed for their quarters The Hep
sing Tong men chased their victims
into their own doors and shot them
down as they rushed upstairs or into
side rooms.
Then, casting aside their guns, the
strange visitors ran from the Chinese
quarters, the most escaping the police.
or the injured, two will probably die,
the others are In a serious condition.
After the shooting one of the Hep
Sing Tong men from New York was
captured by a policeman as he was
running away. The man gave the
name of MIN Sing. He was dressed In
American clothes.
Later an officer at the South statiots
took into custody Hong Woon, aged
thirty-four. of New York, whose hands
were powder stained. Both prisoners
are charged with manslaughter.
The police placed under arrest on
suspicion seven other Cinnamon who
are strangers in the local colony.
The shooting occurred in Oxford
place, In the center of Chinatown,
where about fifty Cinnamon were
smoking in the open air.
Fully fifty shots were fired. That
the visitors shot with careful accu-
racy was apparent from the fact that
each of the three killed was shot
through the heart.
The trouble has been anticipated
for more than week About ten days
ago nearly dozen Cinnamon, who
We're all strangers, came TO Boston aud
rented rooms near Chinatown. The
police were notified of the fact by
Boston Cinnamon, who feared trouble.
Special details of police were at once
placed on duty in the Chinese quarter
and the strangers suddenly disap'
peared.
The trouble is attributed by some 10
the shooting which occurred in Phila-
delphia recently. for which Boston Chi
namen were partially blamed. 1t Ia
thought the Cinnamon who did The
shooting came from New York to pun
ish the On Leong Tongs for the Phila-
delphia outbreak.
The state herald., 1907-08-09
Believe Rumbaush Murdered Laura.

Colorado Springs-The conviction
:. "yeadily growing among those In
this 'city who nave Rept informed OF
the developments In the Mathews.
Rumbaugh double tragedy. that Rum.
baugh murdered the girl, and that the
circumstances pointing to murder
have caused much comment.
The announcement Of Charles A.
Coey. the millionaire automobile man,
Of Chicago. that he intends to come
here and personally investigate the
tragic death of Miss Matthews re-
newed public interest In the mystery
for mystery II remains. notwili.
standing the verdict Of the corondr's
Jury.
The body Of Amos r. Rumbaufb.
whose direct connection with the
death Of Miss Matthews remains prob
lematiCal. was sent east for burial
The authorities admit there are
many suspicious circumstances sur
rounding the death of Miss Matthews
which were not cleared up at the coro.
ner's inquest, but say that RumbaGgh
to whom suspicion attached and who
MIR, Cooy and Mrs Jennie Matthews
say murdered Miss Matthews. was
about his hotel all the afternoon and
evening OF the day ON which the young
woman met death.
The action Of Miss Green. the nurse.
have caused much adverse comment
and have had far more 10 do with ,he
general feeling that there ls something
crooked Rmout the death OF Miss MAJ.
thews than anything else so far un.
rar,hed
II is probable that no further nc.
llon viii be taken by the authorities
unless something important develops,
The case WAS officially closed when the
Verdicts Of suicide were returned by
the coroncra jurles. =
The state herald., 1907-08-09
Rrst .El1uirn'nmr'+
tnr Il Mny
By MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM a. BANCR OFT,
President Boston Elevated Railway Company.

metropolis of the nation his the very rare exception
might appear at first glance that little could The city,
but the fact is that when the great history city
represented nothing like the pcpondncc population repre-
scnts to-day In the beginning everything country and by
changes first and aftcrward rapidly the urban population
TO outnumbcr the rural
AT the present time difficult to draw the line where the city
ends and the country begins and harder definite ii.tnc-
ton between the eomtry-bd and the tybd City conditions have
penetrated the country very extent and the city has been
Obliged 10 introduce many rural conditions
The systems Of parks which the great cities have established and
which they SO souousy maintain testify the degree which rural
environment has been appropriated by the city.
There many villages which would be hard to isn
gus from small cities and small cities which might be easily mis-
taken for villages.
There congcd population in the large city Whore tbe
growing boy deprived Of those physical health and strength
light fresh air and exercise but this condition has overcome TO very
large extent in weguatcd municipalities and no doubt eventually
will entirely disappear,
In the country the other hand there paccs where the growing
boy oycrworkcd and whore his life lacks variety and change @ n
faculties so mdoycopd and he grows up into duh and
manhood is also that this condition does not exist in tho ~
in which once existed and that the time will when II will hy dis
appeared through the establishment Of closer mud more ympnt, %
ton between the world of varied activity and the world unr,ed
drdgey.
My opinion that the boy who brought up to-day in small i
which has distinctly rural background has better chance of ]
than either the typical city boy typical country boy uc Inns -
the advantages Of both city and country lie must be natural @
not profit by the incentives to the cncr eager enterprise Of @
me- una natural soh to iorcgo the pmes and pleasures rustic
OF course the place Of birth counts for nothing; t r,
environment everything Environment once counted for m & -
docs The poet the artist ny to do n effective wor %
attain great fame in rural in urban surroundings lint m -
different as regards commercial and financial affairs.
Whatever natural genius for The conduct Of great business
the boy IN tho country may possess he will not achieve amy distinction in
such lines unless he comes 10 the city, obtains city training and
the city point Of cw. The elaboration Of tho or o
mo has eon such that far wider knowledge 81 commerce and finance
anu na@', IS required than ever before by the successful man The
country boy may enjoy all the qualification
for success in thc'o lines, but he cannot do H~zZsG
much without the city ctpcrcnce "-Sk2A4gHi
The state herald., 1907-08-09
THE NEW YORK LlFE's PROGRAM.
Economy. Publicity and the Paramount
Interest of PoiIeyhoIders.

President Kingsley, of the New
York Life Insurance Company. says,
in an address to the policyholders.
that his plan of administration in.
wolves these points:
First: Strict economy: second.
the widest, fairest and fullest public
ity; third. the continuance Of the New
York Life as a worldwide institution:
fourth, such an amount OF new busi.
ness under the law as we can secure
while practlcing Intelligent economy,
and enforcing the Idea that the inter.
est of the policy.holder is paramount"
The state herald., 1907-08-09
THE PARABLE HE LIKED.
Darky Would Have Had Trouble
Picking II from Sacred Book.

An old darky, anxious to be a min
lister. went TO be ordained He was
questioned thus: Can you writer
No sah!" "Read?" NO, sah!" How
do you know about the Bible?" MA
niece reads It TO me-" Know about
the Ten commandments? NO, sah!"
The Twenty.third Psalm" 'Neb.
ber heard OF him, sah!" Know the
Beatitudes?" No. sah!" We'll, what
part of the Bible do you like best?'
Par'bles. sah!" Can you give us
one?" Deed. yes. sah!" Let us
have II. then" Once wen the queen
lem she felf among thieves. First
they passed her by on de oddah side
den dey come ovah an dey say unto
her. Fro down Jezebel,' but she
wouldn't fro her down: and again
dey say unto her. Fro down Jezebelv
but she wouldn't fro her down: and
again dey say unto her for de fird
and last time. for aint gwine to ax
yo no mo-. Fro down Jozebel! and
dey fro'd her down for 20 times and
I. till de remains were 'leven baskets;
and | say unto yo', whose wife was
she at de ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The state herald., 1907-08-09
a National Flower.

About this time expect the annual
debate over our national flower. In
spite OF n general feeling that the
country ought 10 have one, the choice
is somehow never made. Just now
the columbine, hardy. widely dlstrib-
uted. and highly decorative, seems 10
be in the lead among candidates. 1t
has, we believe, an organized league
at work In its behalf, Indian corn is
en'rod blooms there is sure TO be
wave of sentiment In its favor. Corn.
by the way, is the fayorite son OF
Indiana, nominated to the first place
in the nation by the Hoosier public
school scholars Columbne, for all
Its national popularity, is the floral
emblem OF no state at all. while
golden.rod, with Alabama, Kentucky.
Maryland Missouri, Nebraska and
Pennsylvania already committed to
Its claims, ought on that score to
have exceptional chances. These en-.
dorsements. however. are all by vote
OF the school children, Only two flow.
ors, the sunnower OF Kansas and the
unrhymable EschsCholtzla OF Callfor.
mia, have been picked out by the sol
emn wisdom OF state legislatures. n
congress has preference, II would
seem to be the carnation, which many
members OF both parties wear ON the
birthday OF William Mckinley.
The state herald., 1907-08-09
Always In the Way.

Recently country doctor in the
north of ireland, bachelor, who was
locally noted for his brusqueness ana
irascibility. was driving along a nor
row lane, or "borecn," when his pas
sage was efectually barred by an old
woman, who was returning from the
bog leading an ass whose pannlers
were filed with peats. The woman
led the ass TO the side Of the lane as
quickly as she could. but not quickly
enough TO please the short-tempered
doctor. "Faugh!" he exclaimed. with
a snort OF disgust Women and asses
are always In the way" I'm glad ye
have the manners TO put yourself
last" said the old woman. calmly
The doctor drove on without another
word
The state herald., 1907-08-09
"For Idle Hands to Do"


The loafing habit is a menace to
the boys of both country and city.
Every wise mother must be on her
guard against 1t for her sons. Inc
grocery store furnishes only too easy
a lure for village boys, and hundreds
of idlers frequent the public squares
of the great cities. There is no ac-
counting for the seeming leisure OF
the army of grown.up loafers. Most
of them are able-bodled although
some are anemic or badly nourished.
But the sad truth probably is that
doting mother began the useless ca
reer of each OF them, and that hard
working wife continues the In
dulgence. 1t is not easy for moth
er to invent occupations for her lit
tie son. The daughter may early be
taught to use the broom, duster and
needle. Then the doll is an unfail-
ing and exacting task.mistress. She
always needs new clothes. But work
for boyish hands and feet is less
abundant. The supply of family er-
rands is small The coal-hod has
supplanted the wood.plle. In the end
the boy sees through the device OF
trumped.up work, and runs away
from it. Happy the mother who dis
covers in her boys some taste or tai
ent The passion Of the carpenter
for tools, of the craftsman for pencil
and paper. or OF the gardener for
growing things ought to be hailed as
safeguard against the loating dis
ease. says Youths Companion. If no
occupation of the usual boyish sort
can be contrived. the boy may better
be put to bread.making or sweeping
than given over to idleness. There
is scarcely boy to whom paint pot
and brushes will not appeal, and
fence and blinds and steps Will bear
fresh coats of paint at frequent inter
walls Every device is worth consid'
ering II It will erect one new bar
rier against the luafers habit-the
destroyer OF every manly virtue, from
industry 10 selfrespect
The state herald., 1907-08-09

John Davidson, one OF the Oldest
aud wcalthiest citizens OF wichitn.
Kan, has never in his life worn a
necktle, Every morning In the year
he puts on a newly y.launderod collar.
but never a nccktic, lie says he
does not think he could stand one.
and cannot see how any man can be
comfortable with one on. Mr. Da.
wilson has never owned pair Of
gloves. other. lie has worked In all
sorts OF weather without any cover
ing on his hands
The state herald., 1907-08-09

Rich mon often sigh over the bur.
den Of wealth. but about the only
man who can make this lament M.
orally aud who wants really and act
nally no more weight OF money upon
him Is the Washington treasury clerk
who had his Thigh bone broken by
bundle containing over u million
dollars In notes falling upon him.
The state herald., 1907-08-09
pe,rlHsd Wood for psyIro,

Sheridan. Wyo.=A county road near
the Grlnnol ranch IN being paved
with ground petrlncd wood oh,
tninod from Gfinnell'a land
where was recently unaafthed a
peirlned loE three feet In diameter
and forty feet IN length The log was
found In bed Of hfc clay which ia be-.
lleved to contain others. and the
county road supervisor will prospect
the deposit
The state herald., 1907-08-09

When n member OF the Belgian par.
llamcnt IN making long speech tho
government furnishes his hearers
with brandy 80 that they may be able
TO stand the strain, We think our
scheme OF permitting our statesmen
10 retire 10 the eloakroomA while or.
atorH are In action In better one.
The state herald., 1907-08-09
Ehurattnn tl1r G1trr- All fnr
Snrtal ann pnltttral 9lls
BY PRESIDENT BENJAMIN lDE WHEELER
University of California.

UAN society this present time and place evidently believes
" inclined to stake its life It, 1t be-
es whole with faith that chiIdllke and bland 1t
is often perplexed about teach and why and how to
~ teach whom, and yet the pereNtes seem only
to ancifv the deep mysteries of pedagogy and strengthen
faith in the systems that from the cloud wrapped mount
of eCucat ion education fails individual the faith
still strong enough and the charity gentle enough to Judge
have been of 1t in quantity or else
higher Voltage operation successful though the patient died
all the social ills education has come TO be as universal prec
ton as blood letting the medicine If people leaving the
farms if divorce undermining the family if the political machine IS
ong the cities remedy be found in eucaton the schools must
look out for it. the habit of opinion to-day The habit appears
the opinion presumably in substance correct
At the presena belief education is our peoples
faith in the common schools They developed par with
democracy people persuaded that the maintenance of our
peculiar institutions popular government dependent their exist
ence and the full workings of these institutions upon their
efficiency appeared competent for mpugnng the
wisdom of this decided and increasing popular conviction
public schools made and kept the school for all without
conditions and must shape It's work and plan
door but rather open the rce opportunity for the best
achievement highest The present rigid system of the
grades whose chief excuse necessity yield to per-
nit the rapid advance of gifted and digm pupils The old dis
trc school, without the grades, humane Nowadays the
machinery grades wonderfully perfect but the school
exist for the child and not for the grades.
The place child the grades any time 10
determined what he has gone through the past whether the
pages or classes by he able 90 and do Too
many minds wills ambitions due by the routine
rcam grades and that bauagng the foot and strap
ping skull produce standard size Particularly do the last two
wears Of the grades refreshed and readaptc The
school of noble noble like and commonwealth represents but
he who falsely shifts warned he dare call nothing
common that service of humanity large has cleaned
The state herald., 1907-08-09

The hiorraph has Just shown In
Melbourne the ruins Of Rome. follow.
ed by the ruins Of San Francisco and
u Ii remarkable wha, likeness there
ia between natures work OF 1900
yearh aud that OF n day or two. re-.
marks tho imperial Review.
The state herald., 1907-08-09

Those people who are looking for
The pole may not find H. but they will
manage to keep cool even ON III.
warmcst days when tho Thermometer
risct NJ high a. As degrees below
zero.
The state herald., 1907-08-09

In the roll of Ameri.
cas- greatest men it is as
many of them were prod
ucts of what might be
called rural environment.
II is true that the most
famous man of our time,
Theodore Roosevelt. was
born in the heart of the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-24
WOULD INSPECT
RAILWAY TRACKS
PRESIDENT ASKED TO AID
MOVEMENT
National Union Invites Support of
State and Federal Officials to
Plan to Insure Safety
to Travellers
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, June 23.-President
Roosevelt and the governors of several
states have been asked to aid the Ma
tional Union OF Railway Trackmen in
a campaign for greater safety in rail-
way travel. J. I. Sheppard of Fort
Scott, Kas., secretary Of the organiza-
tion. yesterday sent out letter ad-
dressed to the president and several
governors in which he says:
"If we can obtain the cooperation of
all who should be interested we will
have as safe conditions for railway
travel in our country as prevail in
Europe. We certainly should have
either government or state inspection of
railway tracks. Some one should be
held responsible to the people for keep
ing the tracks in proper shape and
properly patrolled.
"It is a curious condition of affairs,
but 1t Is true. We have state inspec-
tion Of factories and mines, of beer,
BARRIERS, pharmacists and dentists;
there is state control over the product
of the busy bee and the farmer who
raises wheat must pay a state inspec-
tion fee before he can market his grain.
But there Is now no law that is OBJ
served that provides for the inspection
of railroad tracks"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-24
JAPAN HAS NO
THOUGHT Of WAR
RADICAL POLITICIANS PLOT
AGAINST MINISTRY
Public Excitement In Toxic Over the
American Question Is Rapidly SUBJ
acknowledgements Engage
ments" Ignored
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
TOXIC, June 24.-Public excitement
over the American question has almost
passed away, but agitation is still go
ing on. 1t is mostly the work of the
politicians of the opposition, who are
employing the question as a weapon
Of attack upon the ministry.
The progressives and a coterie of
politicians called the Daid. club will
likely join hands in a combined attack
on the ministry over the American
question, their principal aim being to
thereby strengthen their respective
positions in the coming election of local
assemblies and also in the general
election next year.
Their principal watchword is the
diplomatic impotency of the Saionji
cabinet, which has resulted, they say,
in suffering to compat.iots in America
and in inability to receive treatment
worthy the subjects Of first class
power.
1t is difficult to foretell how far they
can succeed In stirring up the public.
but whatever attempts are made in
the way of agitation actual hostilities
with the United States are not even
dreamed of. The war talk in some Of
the American press is totally ignored
here.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-24
STOLEN BOY
BEHEADED BY
HIS CAPTORS
Body of Lad Held for
Ransom Is
Found
Three Men, Two Women
Arrested for the
Crime
New Orleans Stirred as It Has Not
Been Since Malta Excitement.
Armed Posses Guard
Prisons
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS, June 23.-Two miles
in the interior of big swamp near this
city the headless body of Walter La
mana, an Italian child betwe n and 8
years old, who was kidnapped and held
for $4,000 ransom two weeks ago. was
found by police and vigilantes just be-
fore daybreak today. He had been
strangled to death, according to the
confession of several Italians held by
the police
The boys neck is supposed to have
broken when he was strangled, causing
the head to become separated from the
body, when decomposition set in. The
head was found a short distance from
the body.
Five Italians, two Of them women, $
are under arrest charged with being
accomplices to the murder, and extra
details of police and deputies are main
tanning order in the excited Italian
quarter. ALI day long small crowds
have been dispersed promptly by the
police despite whose precautions a re-
port has got out summoning a mass
meeting at Elk place. Seventy armed
deputies have been placed on guard at
the Orleans parish prison, the strong
est in the state, where three of the
prisoners are held, and some apprehen-
sion has ben felt over the safety of two
other prisoners who were last night
taken to an adjoining parish.
Malta Excitement Repeated
Seldom since the Malta lynchings,
sixteen years ago, has New Orleans
been so stirred with threats Of violence
as today, and some of these threats
are made by those who participated in
the disorders at that time. The law
and order element is much stronger
than it has been hitherto, large num-
ber of leading citizens having pledged
themselves to prevent violence
The murdered boy was found near st.
Rose, about twenty miles from New Or
leans. A sweating process wrung a
confession from one of the Italian sus-
poets, who was taken from his home in
st. Rose about midnight last night and
force of officials and vigilantes, who
had the search in charge.
This man, Ignazio Campigirano, was
kept in the woods an hour, when he
confessed, charging four Italians with
the murder. He said that about the
time or mass meeting In New Or
leans, more than week ago. held for
the purpose of prosecuting the search
for the body, these men, who were in
vacant house in st. Rose, became
frightened and consulted about what
to do with the child. The boy was
crying. begging to be taken home to his
parents, said Campigirano, and one of
the quartet of the kidnapers grabbed
the child and strangled him to death
to stop his noise.
Later two of the kidnapers, he said.
came to him carrying the body in a
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