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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

School boards Of the cities of Por'
to Rico adopted resolutions looking
to a large extension of the system
of instruction. ...... ....-
The Cuban masons resolved to re-
turn to work and submit their dis
putes to arbitration. ...
A large increase Of the national
guard of Hawaii Is urged by the war
Department in a communication 10
territorial officers.
There is little movement Of JAP
anese laborers from Hawaii to Van
couver, B. C. The sugar grinding
season has begun, and there IS an
abundance of employment. H
Business men of Manila criticised
the appointment Of Senior Oroneta to
the Supreme Bench. which appoint,
ment gives the Filipinos the majority
in the highest court in the land.
Governor Carter, Of Hawaii, asked
in his annual report that If exclusion
be extended to all Asiatics the Islands
be exempt. Ls1r->-- -+ss.; - ,..
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yotaries to give up little of their
personal comfort for the benefit 1t
does the race, and Stoneman saying
he wished he was we'll enough to go
out and bang the inventor of balloons
with a shotgun.
But I enjoyed the trip more than
expected. So many exciting surprises,
you know. AS soon as we got home
contable came and arrested me for
chucking that ignorant opponent or
scientific inquiry up against the fence
and wrecking him. And when I was
let off on bail 1 began to build new
balloon. She's done now, and I'm
going to make an ascension on Thurs
day. Won't you go up with me-.
The days going to come when every
body will travel that way. It's the
most exhilarating motion in the
world. Come ON up and help me
make scientific observations in the
upper easterly current.
I didn't accept the professors In
vitation.-New York Weekly.
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This Piano is a. -

The activity of piano manufacture
ers does not end with pianists, al
though naturally the greatest part Of
their energy and money is spent on
them. They often subsidize tours
of orchestras, Of violinists, of eel
lists, of conducting-composers and
neutrality-suspicious., and few sing
ers of prominence start on a concert
tour without the comfortable knowl-
edge that snug sum is to come from
the makers Of the piano which is to
be used in the concerts. Violinists
especially are notor:ously poor
business proposition. Very few of
them, however picturesque in appear
ance, make money for those that
back their tours, and an explanation
of their personal prosperity Is very
often found in the underline" on
the program Of the concerts where
they appear, to the effect that "The
piano is such and such," even when
no piano appears on the stage. And
so it is with other instrumentalists.
WIN. E. Walter, in the Atlantic.
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feet steamed into the harbor, under
the splendid mountains that frame
the bay, beautiful in the tropical sun,
1t was specscle incompatible TO tne
eye. The roadstead lay like a glitter
Ing mirror beneath. -.
Word that the feet had passed
Cape Frio, about forty-dVe miles OUT
was received at $50 o'clock, and I'M
mediately scores of tugs and other
small craft, crowded with spectators,
set out to meet the visitors, and &C
sompanied them to the anchorage.
outlined against the horizon the great
battleships, stretched out in one line,
came slowly through the passage into
The bay. The Connecticut, Rear-Ad-
hiral Evans flagship, was in the lead,
with the Brazilian cruisers, dressed
In gala attire, on either side. Passing
the ,fortresses, the Connecticut fred a
salute of twenty-one guns, which was
responded to by the Brazilian war
ships, the German cruiser Bremen
and the shore guns. The yards and
hghting-tops were manned and cheers
upon cheers were given for the splen-
lid passage of the flagship and her
sister ships.
: AS s561 as the anchorage was
made, the Brazilian Minister OF Ma
rine, Admiral Alencar, the Captain OF
the Port, the American Consul-Gen-
sral G. E. Anderson, the commandants
of naval divisions and the civic au-
thorities went on board the Connecti-
cut and extended hearty welcome
to Rear-Admiral Evans, his officers
and men. '-3'Ss; - !; - =
Hundreds of launches, tugs and
small boats circled about the battle
ships until long after the sun had
gone down. Not less than $4,000 to
10000 persons were aboard these
boats and more than $4,000 others
were gathered on shore to celebrate
the coming of the fleet. At night
the city was beautifully Illuminated,
and it was made a gala occasion IN
honor of the visitors.
All the way down from Port OF
Spain the voyage was an enjoyable
one and all on board the ships were
well and seemingly happy.
To some extent the progress Of the
fleet was hampered by the strong
currents and the swell, poor coal and
minor arrangements Of the auxiliary
machinery of several of the ships. A
stay at Rio de Janeiro of ten days is
r1anned
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CHILDREN CRUSHED TO DEATH
Sixteen Killed in Rush For Stair OF
Town Hall, Barnsley, England.
Panic Occurred at q Cinematograph
Show-ThiIty or Forty Were
:! Hurt, Some Very Seriously.

Barnsley, England.-Sixteen chill
dren were trampled to death and
forty others, several of whom cannot
live, were injured in q mad rush for
better seats at an afternoon enter
tainment given at the public hall
here.
j.: There was a great crush to obtain
admittance to the entertainment, ard
when the show opened every seat was
taken and the gallery was packed
with children, who filed the aisles
and were dangerously massed against
the lower railing. With a view to re-
lieving this crowding in the gallery
the attendants decided to transfer
some of the children to the body OF
the house, and one of the ushers
called out: Some Of you children
come down stairs"
- Immedia ely the rush started, and
within a few seconds hundreds Of
children were being trampled under
foot. Even those who had seats Ill
the gallery, doubtless being panic
stricken by the screams and strug-
giles of the crowds fighting to reach
the staircases, joined in the stampede.
The cries of the injured and means
of the dying caused wild excitement
among those gathered in the body Of
the hall. Police and. ushers rushed
to the head of the staircases, which
we're strewn with dead and dying, and
with desperate efforts managed to
drag scores Of the struggling children
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SYMBOLISM Of College Gowns.

1t he's been said that few people,
including many university men them
selves, have any definite idea Of the
meaning of the gowns worn by col
legiate students.
In America, university gowns ex-
htbit much variety, there being a
great difference in the various insti-
tutions; but all over the country-in
fact, all over the English-speaking
world-certain distinctions hold.
The ordinary bachelors gown, the
first the student owns, is OF un-
adorned black with pointed sleeves,
and is ordinarily made Of sarge or
other simple black fabric. The
masters gown is like the students
inasmuch as it is plain black; but
the sleeves are cut differently, being
long pendants shaped not unlike fish
tails, and hanging from the elbows
nearly to the bottom of the gown.
The masters gown may be made of
silk, as may also the bachelors gown
if it is worn by a man of long acade-
mic standing who has happened to
receive no higher degree; but the
ordinary university man has no de-
sire to clad himself in silk.
Most doctors gowns, especially in
England and Scotland, have hoods
that give them certain distinctions
and differentiate, by differences Of
color, the doctorat&5. - Harper's
Weekly. ---:,..,,s::s::Isc -
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Newspapers as Educators
By Cd. PUGSLEY, of Harvard.


Considering how large a proper
tion of the people the modern news
paper reaches, and how effective an
agency it is in disseminating news
and influencing public sentiment on
the issues of the day, has suggested
to me that the newspaper could be
made one Of the foremost educative
forces.
The education of the large pro-
portion of our population ends with
the public school, and very few have
the time or money to secure the ad-
vantages of a higher education.
The newspaper. I believe. could
easily organize an education depart
ment with connected articles of say
a column daily, in series, on eco
nomics, social ethics, biology, as
s.auomy and other subjects.
The opportunity for a liberal edu-
cation would thus be given to every
reader of the newspaper, and instead
Of the small minority who now at
tain a higher education at our COL
lages the large majority Of the peo-
pie would be highly educated.
Here lies q great mission for the
newspaper in giving to the whole
people the benefits Of higher educa-
ton and broad culture and the en-
richment Of their lives which it
would mean.
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BROOKLYN JOYFUL
OVER ITS TUNNEL
Celebration of First Official Trip
Under the East River.
COST TEN MILLION DOLLARS

New Subway Expected to Relieve the
Awful Bridge Crush - Under
River Trip Made in -Four
Minutes.
Brooklyn, N. Y.-Brooklyn's cele-
bration of the opening Of the inter-
borough tunnel under the East River
from Bowling Green to Borough Hall
was the happiest day Of merry
making the old city has ever had, not
even excepting the opening Of the
Brooklyn Bridge, May "a, 1884.
With the arrival of a special train
from Manhattan with number of
city officials, headed by President Nc
Gowan, of the Board of Aldermen,
and President Coler, of Brooklyn, the
bell in Borough Hall began tolling
and the crowd hocked from every
quarter.
Flags were unfurled and streamers
sent from every window of the build
ings overlooking the square. Twenty
thousand enthusiastic Brooklynites
gathered at the foot Of the broad
steps of Borough Hall, from which
speakers addressed the multitude.
The ceremonies Of the formal openo
ing began at 11.30 o'clock s.. M, when
Borough President Coler and dele
CATION of the Brooklyn League took
special train to Manhattan. This was
switched back at Wall Street. Presi-
dent of the Board of Aldermen Nc
Gowan and others representing the
city joined the party and became their
guests at the great demonstration
about the former City Hall OF the
late city Of BrooklynA
The exercises were opened by an
invocation by the Rev. Father Ed
ward McCarty and closed with bene-
diction by the Rev. DR.. Nehemiah
Boynton. Borough President Coler in
troduced the speakers, who were Pres
ident MCGOWAN, st. Clair McKelway,
former Senator Stephen M. Griswold,
the Rev. DR.. S. Parkes Cadman and
Frank Bailey, vice-president Of the
Title Guarantee and Trust Company.
Following the speeches there was
luncheon at the Hamilton Club.
| That Brooklyn expects great things
of the new subway that binds 1t
closer to New York was shown by the
enthusiasm. Every business house of
Importance and every public building
in the borough was appropriately dec
grated for the occasion. The Brook
lyn Board of Real Estate Brokers,
1000 strong, headed by a band,
marched to the Borough Hall to show
their interest in the enterprise.
It is estimated that the subway tun-
mel can divert a maximum of 5000
passengers an hour from the bridge
route, which $4,000 now use In the
evening crush hour. Even II 1t di-
verts only 10000, 1t will materially
benefit the Brooklyn travelling public.
Intolerable conditions on the bridge
may soon be an unregretted memory.
The new tunnel cost $10,000,0 900,
and is ninety-f1ve feet below the bed
of the river. = The distance from the
Bowling Green (Manhattan) station
to the Borough Hall (Brooklyn) sta
ton is one and six-tenths miles and
the length of the river tubes is one
and a quarter miles. There are two
tubes in the tunnel, one for eastern
travel and one for western travel.
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The Goat Comes First.

Switzerland is the only country in
the world where the goat is placed
ahead of all other animals, and even
of human beings. If boy plaques
goat, he can be fned and sent tc
Jail. If a person meets a goat on
path and drives him aside, he can
be arrested. II goat enters the
yard of a person not his owner, and
is hit with 4 club or stone, the per.
son guilty Of the offence must pay
thirty cents. If railroad train sees
goat on track, the train must halt
until the animal can be coaxcd to re.
move himself. There's many boy
in America who wishes he we're i
goat in Switzerlaud.-Week,;y fT,';.:t
uess.
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7re;ls<SaaapM4s---. -. ':;sH
THEY TOOK $11O,000,000 AWAY.
Figures on the Money Carried East in
the Stearages This Winter.

r~-~s-t -.
New York City.-According to the
North German Lloyd Line, which has
made careful computation based on
the figures of steamship agents,
money changers and railroad men,
more than $110,000,000 was taken
out of the United States by the imtni-
grants who returned to their native
places last year. The estimate is that
each of the 550,045 foreigners had
about 5000 with him. To get away
this throng had to put up about $751;
100000 in railroad and steamship
transportation and other charges. AS
an offset to millions that departed it
is noted that 1,364,6SS aliens. who
arrived last year brought with them,
according to the estimate of the
Commissioper-General Of Immigra-
ton, about $27,293,760. Much Of
this, however, was furnished to the
immigrants by relatives or friends in
the United States.
The impression among many Of the
steamship agents is that the disturbed
industrial conditions are aggravated
by the agitation incident to the COM
ing Presidential election. Preceding
a Presidential election more foreign
ers usually return home than in other
years. =
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Salaries and
Fees (estimated).


to the corridors below. A panic in
the children in the lower part of
the house was narrowly averted, all
of these eventually being taken to
the street in safety.
- When the reserve police arrived
they found the narrow stairway
blocked with bodies, some of whom
were crushed almost beyond recogni-
ton. Scores of children were forced
by the pressure from the crowd be-
hind them to scramble over those
that had fallen, living and dead, and
many of the injured children were
found later to be suffering from frac-
tured bones and severe decorations.
Soon after the accident the ap-
proaches to the hall were crowded
with sobbing women seaching for
their missing children.
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BATTLESHIP FLEET
REACHES RIO JANEIRG
Brazilians Extend a Warm Wei"
come to Admiral Evans.
oNE-THIRD OF VOYAGE OVER
Cheers and Salutes For United States
Ships at Brazil's Capital-Fine
Voyage Slightly Retarded by
Wind and Sea and Poor Coal. :

Rio Janeiro, Brazil.-The Ameri-
can fleet of sixteen battleships en-
tered the port Of Rio Janeiro at 9
o'clock p. m. after a passage from
Port of Spain, Trinidad, more than
5000 miles, unmarried by serious ac-
cident, replete with interesting Incl
dents and ending with royal well
come from thousands that had gath
cred to meet the visitors.
The fleet weighed anchor at 4
o'clock on the afternoon of December
20 at Port Of Spain, and exactly at 4
o'clock p. m. the vessels were swing
ing at their anchors in this beautiful
harbor. All of the battleships are
here. The fleet has now covered
about 1900 miles, about third the
distance of the voyage to San Fran
cisco.
Early in the morning the crowds
began to gather in the streets Of Rio
Janeiro, and long before the signal
flags were hoisted announcing the
approach Of the American ships thou
sands of curious spectators had taken
up points of vantage on public build
ings and elevated quays. When the
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DOMESTIC.

: Edwin Collier killed his blind son
and shot himself fatally on his wife's
grave at Ravenna, Ohio. o.,
Federal Judge Kohlsaat, at Chic.
ago. decided in favor Of the Govern.
ment it's suit against Oberlin M. Car
ter for the recovery OF securities val.
ued at upward of 100000, part o,
Carter's loot on the Greene-Gaynof
conspiracy.
Albert Moulton and his wife, both
over seventy-five years old, were
burned to death In their home al
Auburn, N. H. ....-,
Jumping from the dome of Frazer
Hall at Kansas University, Lawrence,
Urban Angney, football star, COM
mitted suicide. ...
The Cripple Creek Central Rail-
road Company passed dividends on
both its common and preferred
stock. =. 81. '".'. .r. o.
"A Federal jury at Omaha convicted
Perry A. Yeast, prominent cattle
raiser, Of conspiring with soldiers
widows to, obtain land fraudulently'
Claiming that he had been shang,
haied at Norfolk and taken to Eu!
rope,r Joseph Miller, aged twenty-tWoi
reached New York City, having been
aided by the American consul al
Rotterdam. >
DR.. Rowe, of the University o.
Pennsylvania, in a speech at An1
Arbor, Mich, voiced the opinion tina,
Germany had a hold on the South
American republics through its I'M
tellectual influence. !
At Amherst, Mass. Augustus AT
magnac, Phi. D., head Of the depart
ment Of modern languages at thl
Massachusetts Agricultural College
died suddenly from apoplexy wher
seated at his desk in a recitatiof
room.
H. o. Havemeyer by the terms oi
his will left all to his family.
Charles Wadsworth Whitney, 9
banker of New York City, committed
suicide while suffering from insom'
MIA due to overwork.
The Boston police arrested F. w
Elliott as an accessory to the murder
of Mrs. Theodore S. Whitmore.
A Department of Hygiene, to looA
especially after the health of school
children, was recommended to the
Board of Education by Supt. Max
we'll, of New York City. 49,.
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FOREIGN.

The Governor Of the Gold Coas'
Colony is returning from this countr!
with a new vaccine to check the raw
ages of meningitis in Africa.
Fierce riots broke out In Berlir
when the Prussian Landtag rejected
the demand for manhood suffrage.
Rodolphe Lemieux, the delegate o.
Canada to Japan, said that he be
lieved that his mission had been en-
tirely successful.
The rate of discount Of the Banl
of Bengal, at Calcutta, was raised
from seven to eight per cent.
Rioters burned the Protestant
chapel and school at Kia-Hsing-Fu
China.
The career of auto women cal
drivers in Berlin was short lived, the
women proving inefficient and lack
ing in power of endurance.
Captain Deichoff. of the Russian
navy, was among those awaiting the
arrival of the American fleet at Rlt
de Janeiro.
The great work Of constructing
the Guatemalan ocean to ocean rail-
way has been carried to completion
by American enterprise during war;
and revolutions.
The American Embassy, at Con-
stantinople, has received from tht
Sultan three small silk carpets anc
one large wooden carpet from his prr
vate factory at HereKe. They Wert
presented by the Sultan to President
Roosevelt.
The ;Sommittee Of the Kilkenny
Foxhoufids has decided to offer the
mastership of the pack to Mr.. 1saat
Bell, aG1American.
The 0hpanese press has urged
pressure4to be brought upon China
to compel her to observe alleged oblf
cations which means subservience tt
Japan's aims.
The Belgian Government issued tti
reply to the Congo State Commission
King Leopold is said to desire no per
sonal profit from the donations re
served under the treaty, but threat
ems to take his former place In thu
Congo administration If the treaty II
not ratified
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About Noted People.

General Booth, of the Salvation
Army, says Americans are more pious
than the English.
Judge John W. Barr. the distin-
guished Kentucky jurist, died in
Louisville, KY, of pneumonia, at the
age Of eighty-two.
Count Quadt, once first secretary
Of the German Embassy at Washing
ton, D. c., has been appointed Ger
man Minister to Persia.
Senator Allison, chairman of the
Senate Appropriations Committee, in
dorses Mr.. Cleveland's plan for PEN
sions for retired Presidents
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The World of Snort.

Standardization OF automobile bod
les is projected by automobile design
ers and engineers.
The racing season Of 1908 in Ken
lucky will probably be curtailed to
100 days or even less.
Frank Kitson, who was on the New
York Americans payroll for time.
has landed with Monte Cross Kansas
City Club.
James R. Keene's race horses won
$402,691 last year, according to the
records of various racing associa-
tions, exceeding all previous turf
winnings in any country
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FREES SCHMITZ AND RUFF.
San Francisco Prosecution Will Has.
ten Other Suits Against Them.

San Francisco.-The District Court
of Appeals set aside the judgment in
the case Of former Mayor Eugene E.
Schmitz, convicted Of eXtortion in the
French restaurant case. Abe Ruef
also benefits, for, according to the de-
cision, he pleaded guilty to an act
that was no offense against the laws
of the State.
The news Of the decision spread
rapidly over the city, causing conster-
nation in some quarters and delight
in others,
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NeUsy Para1raphS.

An eXtradition treaty between
Mexico and the Netherlands has been
signed.
Alarm is growing in England be-
cause of the grave problems resulting
from the immigration Of Asiatics to
her white colonies.
Baking as cure in severe cases Of
burned persons was tried successfully
at Roosevelt Hospital, New York
City.
Roulette is proving too slow for
visitors at Monte Carlo, and a COM
mittee has been formed to provide
more lively amusements.
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COURT House BURNED.
Bryson City Council Passes CurfeW
Law to Keep Negroes Of Streets.

Asheville, N. ca fire at Brysou
City, N. c., destroyed the county
court house and all the official records
for period of fifty years. The burn.
ing of the court house follows clash
between the whites and negroes In
the streets recently, in which five
whites were shotan seriously wound.
ed and a number of others less Sc.
riously hurt.
A special meeting Of the Town
Council has, been held, and a curfew
law for the negroes, requiring them
to be in by 9 o'clock at night, has
been passed.
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Pearson Gets London Times.

The London Times has passed from
the control of the Walter family.
which established and owned it for
three generations. G. Arthur Pear
son, the journalistic magnate of
London, has secured the direction of
the great newspaper.
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Women in the Days News.
Chicago mas a policewoman.

Chicago mas policewoman.
Miss Abbie Lathrop, of CRANKY,
Mass, runs a mouse farm.
nglishwomen lament the growing
hesitance of men to marry.
Lord Kelvin bequeathed his entire
estate of S5,000,000 to his widow.
To be silly, says an English writer,
Is the latest fad among London
women.
Mrs. Eddy has taken steps to found
an institution with S1,000,000 en-
dowment for the purpose Of helping
the poor.
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Greene and Gaynor Committed.

The mandate of the Circuit Court
Of Appeals in the case of Greene and
Gaynor was made the order of the
United States Court in Macon, Ca,
by Judge Speer, and an order was
taken committing the two prisoners
to the Atlanta penitentiary for four
years -
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Chicaco Losing Commerce,

Mayor Busse, of Chicago, has called
the attention Of the City Council to
the fact that the city now ranks
fourth in lake commerce, where it
once ranked first, and that its losses
increase year by year.