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PARENTS AND TEACHERS.
Thousands of people are complain-
ing every year that the public schools |
are not “making good.” They cannot |
understand why the great majority of
boys, after reaching the sixth or sev-
enth grade, fail to pass their examin
ations, become discouraged and drop
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The small proportionate
graduates they regard as proving that
something Is radically wrong in the
echeme and methods of instruction.
Not for a moment do they remember
what they asking of the
If would compare
thelr outlay education with
the outlay heating light
ing their homes and then compare the
results, they would agree that no other
investment yields returns worthy to
be mentioned by the side of thelr in-
vestment in the public schools, yet
are
they
for
for
gchools
or
oomplish for average boy or girl ten
times what they do accomplish. Thea
mother or father who will give to the
children in the famlly an hour of as
sistance each day will have no reason
to be disappointed with the school ays-
tem. If they will three times a year
visit the schools and spend half an
hour in them, learning ut first hand
what the task of the teachers is and
how much the taxpayers have asked
the school system to do, they will con.
clude that wonders are being achieved
at nominal cost and they will be con-
vinced, moreover, that in respect to
thelr own children they may not ex-
pect the working of miracles unless
they set themselves to do faithfully
what is physically beyond the powers
f the overworked
0! teachers
The fact
you
that
men graduating
of agriculture
places
Nebraska
de-
at Washin
responsibility as
univers!
gratifying to
several
ng wo from the
partment
ton
into of
sced experts, some in
ties, while naturally
their neighbors, is most significant in
this, that it shows what a potent In-
fluence the government is exerting to
ward implanting the principle of in-
tensive agriculture, says Omaha
Bee. The first steps in the process of
making two blades of grow
where but one grew the
proper selection of seed and proper
preparation of the soll. The federal
government is doing a great work,
therefore, in thus fostering this move
ment and co-operating In it state
educational Institutions. Together
they are making the selection of seed
for agriculture and horticulture a scl
ence and a business. Of course, this
opens up to young men and women lu
crative flalds of serv but that is
only incidental to the main purpose
of improving methods
state
the
grass
before is
with
rice,
of farming
Women are indignant over the state
ment of a German expert at Washing-
ton lately that cooking is a lost art
view of the cooking schools and
the housewives’ leagues, both so popu-
lar now, and in the way which wom-
en are earnestly trying to raise cook-
ing in the eyes of their sex to a sci
ence worthy of respect and attention,
the statement is rather a sweeping
one. In fact, the average moderate
mind takes all the broad assertions
concerning the general deterioration
f the world with more than a few
grains of allowance for the zeal of the
speaker on special
broad statements seem
der
In
occasions when
to be in or
For purely material comfort, for a
padded life for the rich and one with
few eplinters for the less fortunate,
the old world offers advantages above
America, says the Cleveland Leader.
The chances for the education of the
eye and ear in beautiful pictures and
in worthy music are superior to those
of this new land; the deference pald
to money-—even in countries supposed
to be monarchial and castleridden—
is move marked than It is here
Europe is an ideal place for those
who love Juxurious living and are able
to pay for {t
In giving the amounts of dressmak-
ers’ bills for royal ladies an account
says that Queen Wilhelmina heads the
list with a considerable lead But
while she dresses more expensively
than the empresses of Germany and
tlussia,
she has one great
those imperial ladies, as she, and not
the family and has the last word when
it comes to orders in the case.
the eternal gratitude of the general
Cry and protest as it may, the baby
can make no noise. The idea of this
“silencer” might be extended with
profit to older shoulders.
A New York man went mad at the
sight of water and shot his wife.
There is danger In exposing individ
uals to sudden shocks of that charac
ter.
| Big Battle Ends In Triumph for
Bulgars.
TURKS TO SUE FOR PEACE.
great Turkish Army .Of 200,000 Men
Defeated and Routed—Unexpected
Climax Of One Of the Most Re-
markablie' Wars On Record.
THE POWERS PREPARING
TO ACT.
European governments reported
to have reached a tentative
ment for intervention
The powers wi
entry of Bulgarian or
Balkan troops int
The second
ing squadron of
sailed from Toulon t
coast protect I
foreign interests
Great Britain has dispatched a
warship to Salonika for protection
of British life and property
Sir Edward Grey, British foreign
minister, announced in the House
of Commons that as the sit
uation permitted the powers would
take ablish
The danger of antl-foreign dis
turbances and perhaps massacres
of foreigners in Constantinople
and Salonika following the Turk-
ish defeat and the ingress into
those town i demoralized
Turkish attr
tention
agree-
te the
other
Il not tolera
any
stantinople
the fiy-
French fleet
vrian
and
Oo {'on
division of
the
+
0
he SB
tO rench
BOON
steps to est peacs
acted
od
d
has
wers
Be
of the
battie in
riumph of
er-in-chief,
London
Thrace has
the Bulgariar
General Savoff, w»
has probably brougl
of shortest and
wars on record
A great Turkish
more than 200.000
feated and i
nople
of the victorious I
a council
cussing the
peace
Se $
the most
ed at
iigarian
the
mercy
army, and
Porte, is dis
f suing for
ig bellevy the
sitting
oO
1 is the ich comes from
Constantinople
it i& only
iared
eceampal
fall
for the fir
bad morals
pariat of the
that army is
BO miles
possibly
tal's line
Nazim
of war
Thrace,
prisoner
Sofia to , 8
Only brief
eounts of the
been
eapecially n
single war correspondent
allowed
of the
against
Thus
ratis
been pos i
to apes I 1d 03
rovided Hy the pective
ments
wounds
It ®
wiil be
suing for
tion of the
dec
En
from Con
retreat
f def
Paths
and ¢
has been
enge
the Turkish minister
command In
shot or taken
pateh from
hief
the ac
aguest
receive
has
{ xcept in the
Montenegrin campaign
no personal
its
Nar
have
has had
accounts
govern
ipplied by
es of
ng
world
ever
ai
lleved a sett]
ther by the
peace
re eed $
ari igen el
31
i
peace or through intersy
&n-
OWers
NEW YORK LAUNCHED.
Miss Elsie Calder, the Big Battleships
Sponsor
In the
William H. Taft a:
ited
New Yi
sea fighters,
New York
President
company
moth battleship
in Uncle
the waters
Brooklyn Navy
Built in the yard by go
bor, the great fighting machine was
declared by the officiale responsible
for her to be the greatest of all bat.
tleships
presence of
BF
guests, the
great
mam-
word
of i
rk, last
slid into
ver from the
Wednesday.
vernment la-
Sam's
y
of the East Ri
1 wel
LF Rat
NO COALING DEPOT TO GERMANY.
Chilean Minister Denies
Magellan
Report
Island Sale.
Washington
Germany was about to buy from Chile
gellan lslands was foolish.
try, he added, was not in the market
ing than the United States to part with |
A HAZER SHOT.
With Fatal Effect.
Wakeforest, N. C.—-As a result of a
hazing prank, B. Frank Powers lies in
the Wakeforest College hospital be.
tween life and death, with a bullet In
his left side and another in his shoul
der. This time it is a case of the
hazer getting the worst of the bargain.
He was shot by Gordon R. Rhoades, a
freshman student, from Kingston,
N. CO.
Wireless Plant
World at Arlington, Va.
THATS MY
GATE! |
TELL YOU
EATH HOUSE
Police Official Is
Now Convict No. 62.499.
Will
Communication
Be in
With All
War Vessels and Pos
Washington
its
sfRsIONs.
Was
tering wit?
loss 8
most
Lali
plant
flu
powerful
* &
Monday gE from its
first which
ITT
RAKES
of
an
ot
operators, profes nal
, on one side of the glob
thelr instruments
Monday night, straining
the
faint buzzes
Wireless
i amateur
probably
their ears
the
atl
to
had
a
apparatus
room, i
gome of th
operators
Wi
double doors,
experienced
nant
first flashe
N-AX, NAA)
1.785 miles ¢
u
IAeute odworth
through
The g
about 2.000 m
der. This range
of wireless opera
od gradually,
fore the big plar
hig! Melon
with the Pacifi
ed only
throug!
pliant will be
working or
the a«
be att
iles wl
me
ain
and weeks be
tes
aut
the Navy
ton, will be in in
cation
Colon, t
winter
with Key
he naval
maneuvs
lantiec stations
When the plant
fectly and the }
( ompleted
touch w
Philippi Harbor
complete vetem will #t about
no lo
e A
$1
nger
merican
aker equip
with the
but
Various
000 000 The seas will ther
be a
Navy
ment
power
may
stations
ton
The ships ith we
cannot mun
ful plant at Arlin
relay
for trai
Com icate
they
Messag t 1
Washing
MIKADO DID NOT GIVE RING.
| Husband Of General Grant's Daugh-
ter Denies Story.
New York. --It was most
{ally denied in Chicago by
Jones, husband of Mrs,
daughter of General U. 8, Grant,
{his wife had lost a $26,000
ring, a
her father.
emphatic.
Frank H.
that
i
Of
Set
Decem.
Notice Appeal Will
Stay Execution For ti
Week OF
ber
ie
week
m
Rosenths
the
toy
uraer
ice of appeal fro:
es Becker's
icath
dden entr
ny
s {0 make her residenc
ing during her husband
vill be allowed 10
not to enter his c«
Released,
Surveillance.
and
but
GIRL SLAIN
Fiance
Under
CHICAGO
Her But
carly Tues Mors ing
a Chicago
‘hat the crim
and arranged
enn by the tal me
ling the Ing
of the bods
ay
lodgi JOUSs
was planned
as to detail
thods employ-
¥
n
and the
Care
was
bru
Droy
ed in k you woma
sition
skull
of a blow
glung
fof, sal
md stuffed
towel bound
port her face to k¢
ing from its position
When the leading
was burst open by other boarders
the house Miss Singer's Ix was
an pright posit on a chair and
was enveloped from head with
a bed comfort. Her entire body was
bound with heavy cord. Several deep
gashes were found on her head
William R. Warthen, formerly =a
ear conductor in Baltimore,
wag also stopping at the board
house, on Indiana avenue, Chicago,
Singer's
force
a doorknob, in
A handkercl
form, was fo
th
wi a
fon of
her room
in
door ic
i ¥
ion
to foot
the murder,
tody for several hours, however, and
He
ieity about six months ago.
no historic value attached to it
NEW AVIATION RECORD,
Elmira, N. Walter Johnson, an
Y., established a
| seconds, Johnson used a biplane, and
his passenger weighed 166 pounds
‘16 pounds more than the rules call
| tor.
land his wife.
SOLDIERS IN WRECK,
Two Killed and Thirty 8ix injured On
the Grand Trunk.
Toronto, Ont-~-The Chicago Ex-
press on the Grand Trunk Railway
was in collision with a special train
bringing a regiment of infantry to this
city from a sham battle. Two privates
of the Twenty-elghth Highlanders
were killed and 38 persons injured, ac
oording to late reports. The collision
occurred near Strevtaville.
i
i
AHIR
Brought to Safety.
Work Of
mates Of St,
Nuns Saves 85 Ir
John's Orphan-
age, San Antonio,
Texas,
{
fru
ru
Orphanag
orphan, i
while
Bing
anothe
'wo women emplos
are injure
Over
i ition
MAY Ted
Af-nas
the
tra}
orphanage
of 2 and 12
chil
ones al
fell w
%
anging bety
To
dren in
HEEB
the 1 { wiich comes
i to
some little
tribute npe A litt
named “Bill according
survivor, with the
irink of
He
tho
the
tell ht le
to & small
desis B
1
IP Permno: nn Nis ming
BWOKe e JOT
walter
saw the
ight he
zed
fire smoke
ing
} appenin
and
WEE drea; hel hie
reall i
aroused the
with
WAS
what Whe
BIStere andg
rade
it
Sisters
lion hearts
garb
The death
directly due
two
was
10 save 3
it appeared
i been led from the
ung discoverer
reaching
the
vid ¢
nto
pg walls
MRS. CLEVELAND TO WED
Of Enga
College Professor
Announcement
agement
ge
and has been a
si NCE
ile EC
IRE
Her fa scar
parins
Mr. F i
Frances Folsom’'s guar
After his ent
dency Mr Cleveland
mapent ho
Cleveland
ther,
algom’
retirem
yme in Princetor
has i
continued
+ the
former presid
there since ent
in 1908
Her
Marion,
daughte
her sol
Eslhe
and “3 §
living with her here
The an
ment
nouncemeant
3 nade }
Grier Hibl« of Priv
vho said
Prof
age
Presto
a grad
whom we
eREOT
He
anes
in
and
esteem.”
INCOME TAX AMENDMENT.
Thirty-Two States Of the Union Have
Ratified It
Washington Th
have notif ed Secret
ratification of the
tax amendment (0
gtitution and four have notified the
State Department of their rejection
To become effective 36 states three
fourths in the Unlon—must ratify
Those which have not notified the
department of ratification or rejection
are . Delaware, Florida, Louisiana,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, New
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont,
Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming
Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode
feland and Utah have notified of rejec
tion.
pintes
their
two
Knox of
proposed income
the federal Cob
Ary
| celved from MInnesOLA on June 12.
BURNED AT ALTAR,
Kneeling In Devotion.
Mann, 75 years old, was burned to
death while kneeling in front of an
altar erected near her bedside. The
her clothing. The woman was dead
when members of the household enter
ed her room, having swelled smoke,
TERRIBLE HAVOC
Mexico, Nearly
Destroyed.
MANY NATIVES INJURED.
and Cleve
eut
u 8. Cr
land
uisers Maryland
Escape Damage
Other Smaller Ves
sels Suffer
USE FOR SCHOOL HOUSES
May 8e Utilized As
Offices
VEGETABLES DROP IN PRICE
Went
Past
However, in the
So
Year
aring
¥
$140
i be bong
NOW AVErag
that then Were
$47.30
nil
ned at $42.69 now are sold at
BANKS' RESOURCES GROW.
25,000 Institutions Show $1,324,000,
000 Increase.
0. Murray,
irsged a
re
nited
awrencs
Washington. —L
of the Currency,
that
in the i
an private
According
omptroller
statement indicating the
sources of ¥
States national,
are the highest in history
te reports of their condition on June
14, the Comptroller announced, 25.000
of the 28000 banke in country
showed aggregate resources of $24
855,000,000, an increase of $1.224.000..
State
the
which made returns in 1912
STIMSON GOING To PANAMA,
Secretary To Gather information Re.
garding Canal Work.
Washington Secretary War
Stimson will leave New York Novem.
ber 12 on a commercial liner for
Panama to gather information at first
hand regarding the condition of the
work on the canal. He will submit a
report to Congress at the approaching
session for ita guidance in legislating.
of