I The Normal School |
| at Manila, P. 1.1
"T" O event that has occurred
|\| sinse the occupation of the
| Philippine Islands by the
Q Americans can be more far
reaching and beneficial In its effect
than tlie recent inauguration and es
tablishment of a normal school at
Manila for tho training of native
teachers. By a recent act of the Civil
Commission the sum of $25,000 was
•appropriated for the organization and
®r.. BAVID P. BAHBOWS, CITT SUPEEIN
TENDENT AND ACTING FRINOIPAII
MANILA NOHMAL SCHOOL, WITH OF
FICE ASSISTANTS.
maintenance of a normal school in
Manila for the year 1901. Closely
following upon this act, City Super
intendent of Schools, Dr. David P.
Barrows, late of San Diego, California,
was duly appointed, and authorized
to act as principal of the school (lur
ing a preliminary term beginning
April 10, and ending May 10.
Dr. Barrows immediately called to
liis assistance some forty-five of .Mie
brightest American resident teachers,
•and opened the office for matriculation
on April 1. A pamphlet outlining the
course intended to be followed was
duly printed and sent to all Ameri
can teachers situated throughout tlie
archipelago, and letters were written
to them asking their co-operation in
urging the native teachers to attend.
At first it was estimated that possibly
350 might be matriculated, but by the
middle of the first week of school o\ r er
000 (mostly all men and women of
mature age) had entered the school,
sind in order to accommodate them, a
THE NORMAL SCHOOL BUILDING.
hue rod or more were sent to another
sch>ol building, 340 Calle Palacio,
where several American teachers were
placed in charge, and the work
progressed. As, under Spanish rule,
only antiquated methods of questions
and answers had been pursued, ih<>
object of the normal school was not
so much to impart knowledge of the
subjects in hand as it was to introduce
new methods, and to show native
teachers, who are, without exception,
overanxious to prepare themselves for
the work of educating their people,
.how to make the best use of materials
at hand, and thus encourage them to
further research and preparation. The
students that attended the school were
representatives of the highest intelli
gence throughout the archipelago.
Hardly an island or province occupied
by American forces but was repre
sented.
As an example of the interest taken
by those in charge in extending the
benefits of free public schools to the
natives, none is more worthy of emu
lation than the action of Captain J.
P. Q'Neill, commanding officer at San
Felipe, Zambales Province, Island of
(Luzon, who, when lie found that the
iventy odd teachers from his district
INTERIOR OF FIT.IPINO SCHOOL, PRESIDED
OVER TSY AS AMERICAN TEACHER.
could not. reach Manila to attend tlie
normal school on account of lack of
funds, generously donated the sum
nc-ce.-siiry himself.
Tliirty-three classes in English,
Geography, Arithmetic. Physiology,
Manual Training. Art, Nature Study,
Kindergarten, and Music were organ
ized, and successfully conducted
throughout the entire term. The main
object of mist of the studies was to
familiarise the native teachers, through
observation of work principally, with
the various forms and methods
which will be Introduced later oil iu
nil the schools.
. 'i'lio most market, interest v.is taken
In the work as is shown by the higli
average daily attendance.
Following is a part of the statistical
report of the school: Number matricu
lated, 020: average number attending
.170; percentage of attendance, ninety
eight; number of male students, 4501
number of female students, 170; aver
age of students, twenty-five; number
of islands and provinces represented,
thirty-one.
The school closed its session on May
10, and the students leturned to their
respective provinces imbued with a
determination to labor earnestly foi
the advancement of their people. As
a result of the summer session of the
normal school, several normal classes
are to be organized in many of tlie
interior provinces.
As outlined, it is the present inten
tion of the Department of Education
to assign at least one American teach
er to each school, and during an hour
of eaeli day's session this teacher will
be obliged to instruct the native teach
ers. All instruction is ti be given in
tlie English language.
The Civil Commission, backed by
tlie military Government, have been
exceedingly generous in their appro
priations to the public-school system,
and under the able management of
General Superintendent, Professor
Fred. W. Atkinson, the next twelve
months will see great advancement
made in the march of education and
the uplifting and enlightenment of the
Filipinos. These people are ready to
labor early and late to secure a good
education.—H. G, Squicr, in Harper'?
Weekly.
Famous and Didn't T w It.
It is not often that a becomes
famous in his lifetime ">ut his
knowing it himself, but t» as tho
case of the poet Arthur 111 ,aud, to
whose memory a monument has just
been erected at Charleville, his birth
place, writes a Paris correspondent.
Rimbaud, who was born in 1857,
and died at Marseilles in 1891, had
been an obscure verse-maker when
his unpublished works were discov
ered by Paul Verlaine, who was en
chanted by the rare quality of Rlm
l.aud's poetry, and bringing it to the
notice of the Paris literary world, in
stantly created an enthusiastic cult
for the young genius.
Rimbaud, however, knew nothing
of the laurels thrust upon him, as ho
was then In the heart of Ethiopia,
amassing a fortune iu the ivory trade.
On landing at Marseilles he under
went. a surgical operation, from which
he died, unconscious of the fact tlia*
he had become a celebrity.
A Strancc Extinct ISird of Mauritius.
"Dodo" is a word often used in theso
days to describe a person who, whHo
he may not be an Idiot, is not remark
able for his wisdom. And all the
meaning that the word conveys has
been given it by the strange creature
iliat once bore it. The dodo, as a bird,
is now extinct, and, judging from Its
picture, doubtless some of my readers
will not be sorry. The dodo was about
the size of the swan, and had means
neither of defense nor llight. It lived
TIIE DODO AS IT WAS.
in the small islands east of Madagas
car, Mauritius, Reunion, etc., and was
found there by European explorers
early iu the sixteentli century. The
coming of Europeans, however, proved
the downfall of the strange bird, and
the last one of them disappeared about
the year 1020.
It was an exceedingly clumsy bird,
with short, thick legs, a ponderous
bill and with useless little wings. It
was covered with down instead of
feathers, and its general appearance
was anything but prepossessing. Sev
eral specimens were carried to Eu
rope by the explorers, but the dodo
was destined to a brief existence when
the white men came.
The Unruly Member.
By examining the tongue of a pa
tient a doctor finds out the diseases of
the body and philosophers the disease
uf the mind.—bunny South.
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IWM Spain's King |
3 £ohies ot Age. |
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OCOBOOOOOOGCOOCOOGCCOOOOOCi
TIIE young King of Spain,
Alfonso XIII., comes of ago
next spring, and will have !
the nominal ruling of his
country. He will have good advisers,
however. Including liis motlier, the
present Queen Regent, Senor Sagasta,
and the Duke of Tetuan. Alfomo
XIII. will be sixteen years of age on
May 17. It Is believed that the coro
nation will be practically a private
event, and In the light of present po
litical conditions In the country, it will
probably be a wise precaution.
The political atmosphere has cleared
somewhat. Things are not so bad as
they might be: there is a surplus, even
LATEST PORTRAIT OF THE YOUNG SPANISH KING. •
though not a largo oue, in tlie treas
ury, and therj is no lack of activity in
the more important trailing circles.
So nor Sagasta, one of the notable
figures iu the political history of the
day, lias a tremendous task before
him. lie stands for Spanish Liberal
ism, and there is no one in the country
that is so well versed in its peculiar
conditions. Worn by long service to
his country, absolutely faithful to it
iu every sense, of unimpeachable in
tegrity, Sagasta has earned the title
of the Grand Old Man of Spanish
Liberalism, and it i j a deserved recog
nition.
Sagasta's cabinet includes General
YVeyler, as Minister of War; Senor
Moret, as Minister of the Interior; the
Duke of Alir.odovar del Itio, as Min
ister ol' Foreign Affairs, and the
Duke of Veragua, as Minister of the
Navy. The tirst and last named gen
tlemen are i.ot known in the United
States, but it can hardly oe said that
they are regarded with favor.
The American people remember
Weyler through his Cuban administra
tion, the story of which, all things con
sidered, does not improve with the
telling. The Duke of Almodovar del
Itio is said to be somewhat iu syni
j atiiy with the British; Senor Moret
is perhaps the biSst known of all the
cabinet, and has an excellent record.
General Weyler's inliuence was in
evidence in connection with the mar
riage of tiie Princess of Asturias, the
Queen's eldest child. The Princess's
choice —Bon Carlos de Bourbon—is the
second son of the Count Caserta, who,
is a pronounced Carlist. The Queen
Regent approved of the match because
it was based entirely on mutual esteem
and love, but Senor Sagasta strongly
opposed the marriage, even refusing
to be in office whep it took place. Gen
eral Weyler's friendship for tne young
man meant so much, nowever, that
notwithstanding Sagasta's disapproval,
which was warmly seconded by both
Liberals and Republicans, the mar
riage was consummated. Don Carlos—
now Prince of the Asturias by the
royal decree—studied in the Artillery
S :hool at Se&ovia, and served iu Cuba
i.nUer Weyler.—Harper's Weekly.
Cuba's Salvation.
The pest of yellow fever has been
combated with such vigor iu Cuba
that not a single death has been re
ported as resulting from it this year,
according to good authority. Reports
received by Surgeon-General Wyman
from members of the medical staff
scattered all over tlie Island of Cuba
show that it is practically free from
yellow fever. This is probably the
lirst time this statement could be made
for centuries. The reason that yellow
fever lias been so successfully over
come is because of the efficient sani
tary methods employed by the United
States health officers. Havana itself
has been revolutionized as regards its
sanitary conditions. Ilecent experi
ments having proved that yellow fever
was to a great extent transmitted by
mosquitoes bred iu the tropical
swamps and the cesspools, drastic
means were employed to kill these in
sects. The streets and sewers in Ha
vana and other cities of the island
T/ere sprinkled with kerosene, with
most satisfactory results.
Sad to say there is such a thing as
alert stupidity.
j COMICS FUR FASHIONS.
Tails Galore Form Neck Pieces F :r-
I.inert Paletots.
The nimble fingers of n fashionable
' furrier's employes are already busy
! enrrying out the clever designs from
London and Paris In mink and sable
neck pieces. Sable, you know, is im
ported In the pelt shape without duty,
so It is really sane to buy these fine
natural furs hero where one knows
and has confidence In the furrier.
To judge by these fine novelties out
furry fellows have taken to growing a
great number of tails. Of yore, when
we complained that there were too
few tails on a neck piece we were in
formed that animals seldom had inoro
than one each.
Evidently we've changed all that,
for these advance beauties are com
posed entirely of tails.
In mink tails these pieces cost from
' SSO to $75. The one shown in the illus
tration is perhaps the most graceful
and fetching. Round the satin neck
band is a double row of tails, the top
row looped down, the bottom row
looped up, until both rows meet. At
each end of the ruche-like neck pieco
there are four ends in chenille effect,
each of these strands being composed
of four tails.
Among the variations on this pictur
esque arrangement is one which lias
twenty tails hooped around the foun
dation band. The ends are either Ilka
the one pictured or consist of sinipld
bunches of tails.
Though fur-lined coats now seem
A. FORE tiOOK AT Ft'R FASHIONS
y
synonytndws with torture garments—
never mind, there are cold days com
ing.
Paletots are to lead In style, hlac'u
broadcloth being the favoivd fabric.
The all-gray Siberian squirrel is the
choice for linings.
As to the details, the sleeves will
bell a bit at the wrist, and though the
coat is perl'ectlr loose the seam down
the middle back will be slightly curved
and open about half the way up.
Women who are to indulge in a mid
season as well as a cold-weather pale
tot are choosing black Louisine, and
white Is still the favorite lining.
Coal in Indian Territory.
Some idea of the value of the coal
deposits in Indian Territory can be
gained when it is known the average
thickness of the vein is four feet,
which will produce 401)0 tons an acre.
These lands are leased in lots of 900
acres each, which means that 3,500,000
to 4,000.000 tons can be produced by
those leasing the land. On this out
put the lessees pay a royalty of 8
cents a ton. The output during the
last year was 1,900,127, as against
1,400,442 tons the previous year. The
interests of the Chickasaw and Choc
tuw Indians are protected.—Chicago
.TournnL
DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE 3Y THE NOTED
DIVINc.
Sa!),|oct:\(itlilns; is Inslgniftrfint—lnstnncrs
of on AVliat a Slnnder Thread Great ltc
sulta Hang— A Little Thine May Decide
Your Kate—The Importance of Trifles.
ICopj'riirht 1901.1
Washington, J). C.—A Bible incident
not often noticed is here used by Dr. Tal
mage to set forth practical and beautiful
truth; text, 11. Corinthians xi, 33,
"Through a window in a basket was I let
down bv the wall."
Sermons on Paul in jail, Paul on Mars
hill, Paul in the shipwreck, Paul before
the sanhedrin, Paul before Felix, are
plentiful, but in my text we have Paul in
a basket.
Damascus is a city of white and glisten
ing architecture, sometimes called "the
eye of the East," soini v .imes called "a
pearl surrounded by emeralds," at one
time distinguished for swords of the best
material called Damascus blades and up
holstery of richest fabric called damask.
A horseman of the name of Saul riding
toward this city had been thrown from
the saddle. The horse had dropped under
a flash from the sky which at the same
time was so bright it blinded the rider for
many days, and T think so permanently
injured his eyesight that this defect of
vision became the thorn in the flesh he
afterward speaks of. He started for Da
mascus to butcher Christians, but after
that hard fall from his horse he was a
changed man and preached Christ in Da
mascus till the city was shaken to its
foundation.
The mayor gives authority for his ar
rest. and the popular cry is, "Kill him,
kill him!" The city is surrounded by a
high wall, and the gates are watched by
the police lest the Cilieian preacher es
cape. Many of the houses are built on the
wall, and their balconies projected clear
over and hovered above the gardens out
side. Tt was customary to lower baskets
out of these balconies and pull up fruits
and flowers from the gardens. To this
day visitors at the monastery of Mount
Sinai are lifted and let down in baskets.
Detectives prowled around from house to
house looking for Paul, but his friends
hid him now in one place, now in another.
He is no coward, as fifty incidents in his
life demonstrate, but he feels his work is
not done yet, and so he evades assassina
tion. "Is that preacher here?" the foam
ing mob shout at one house door. "Is
that fanatic here?" the police shout at an
other house door. Sometimes on the
street incognito he passes through a crowd
of clinched lists, and sometimes he secretes
himself on the house top. At last the in
furiate populace get on sure track of him.
They have positive evidence that he is in
the house of one of the Christians, the bal
cony of whose home reaches over the
wall. "Here he is! Here he is!" The vo
ciferation and blasphemy and howling of
the pursuers are at the front door. They
break in. "Fetch out that gospelizer and
let us hang his head on the city gate.
Where is he?" The emergency was terri
ble. Providentially there was a good
stout basket in the house. Paul's friends
fasten a rope to the basket. Paul steps
into it. The backet is lifted to the edge
of the balcony on the wall, and then whi'e
Paul holds the rope with both hands his
friends lower away carefully and cautious
ly, slowly but surely, farther down and
farther down, until the basket strikes the
earth and the apostle steps out and afoot
and alone starts on that famous mission
ary tour the story of which has astonished
earth and heaven. Appropriate entry in
Paul's diary of travels: "Through a win
dow in a basket was I let down by the
wall."
I observe first on what a slender tenure
great results hang. The ropemakers who
twisted that cord fastened to that lower
ing basket never knew how much would
depend upon the strength of it. How if it
had been broken and the apostle's life
had been dashed out? What would have
become of the Christian Church? All that
magnificent missionary work in l'amphy
lia. Capnadocia, Galatia, Macedonia, would
never have been accomplished. All his
writings that make up so indispensable
ami enchanting a part of the New Testa
ment would never have been written.
The storv of resurrection would never
have been so gloriously told as he to'.d it.
That example of heroic and triumphant
endurance at Philippi. in the Mediterra
nean Euroclydon, under flagellation and
at his beheading would not have kindled
the courage of 10,000 martyrdoms. But
that rope holding that basket, how much
depended on it! So again and again great
j results have hung on slender circum
stances.
Did ever ship of many thousand tons
I crossing the sea have such an important
passenger as had once a boat of leaves
! from taffrail to stern only three or four
: feet, the vessel made waterproof by a coat
i of bitumen and floating on the Nile with
j the infant lawgiver of the Jews on board?
Wjiat if some crocodile should crunch it?
j What if some of the cattle wading in for
I a drink should sink it?
Vessels of war sometimes carry forty
| guns looking through the portholes, ready
; to open battle. But the tinv craft on the
[ Nile seems to be armed with all the guns
j of thunder that bombarded Sinai at the
I lawgiving. On how fragile a craft sailed
! how much of historical importance!
| The parsonage at Kpworth, England, is
i on fire in the night, and the father rushed
1 through the hallway for the rescue of his
j children. Seven children are out and safe
j on the ground, hut one remains in the
consuming building. That one awakes
and, finding his bed on tire and the build
ing crumbling, comes to the window, and
two peasants make a ladder of their bod
ies. one peasant standing on the shoulder
of the other, and down the human ladder
the boy descends —John Wesley.
If you would know how much depended
on that ladder of peasants, ask the mill
ions of Methodists on both sides of the
sea. Ask their mission stations all around
| the world. Ask their hundreds of thou
-1 sands already ascended to join their foun
der, who would have perished but for the
living stairs of peasants' shoulders.
An English ship stopped at Pitcairn
Island, and right in the midst of surround
ing cannibalism and squalor the passen
gers discovered a Christian colony of
churches and schools and beautiful homes
and highest style of religion and civiliza
tion. r'or fifty years no missionary and
no Christian influence had landed there.
Why this oasis of light amid a desert of
heathendom? Sixty years before a ship
had met disaster, and one of the sailors,
unable to save anything else, went to his
trunk and took out a Bible which his
mother had placed there and swam ashore,
the Bible he.d in his teeth. The book was
read on all sides until the rough and vi
cious population were evangelized, and a
church was started, and an enlightened
commonwealth established and the world's
history has no more brilliant page than
that which tells of the transformation of
a nation by one book. It did not seem of
much importance whether the sailor con
tinued to hold the book in his teeth or
let it fall in the breakers, but upon that
small circumstance depended what mighty
results?
Practical inference: There are no insig
nificances in life. The minutest thing is
part of a magnitude. Infinity is made up
of infinitesimals; great things an aggrega
tion of small things. Bethlehem manger
nulling on a star in the Eastern sky. One
book in a drenched sailor's mouth the
evangelization of a multitude. One boat
of papyrus on the Nile freighted with
events for all ages. The fate of Christen
dom in a basket let down from a window
on the wall. What you do. do well. If
you make a rope, m >«e it strong and true.
for you know not how much may depend
on your workmanship. If you fashion a
boat, let it be waterproof, for you know
not who may sail in it. If you put a Bible
in the trunk of your boy as he goes from
home, let it be remembered in your pray
ers, for it may have a mission as far-reach
ing as the book which the sartor carried
in his teeth to the Pitcairn beach.
The plainest man's life is an island be
tween two eternities—eternity past rip
pling against his shoulders, eternity to
come touching his brow. The casual, the
accidental, that which merely happened
so, are parts of a great plan, and the rope
that lets the fugitive apostle from the Da
mascus wall is the cable that holds to its
mooring the shi>> of the church in the
storm of the centuries.
Again, notice unrecognized and unre
corded service. Who spun that rone?
Who tied it to the basket? Who steadied
the illustrious preacher as he stepped into
it? Who relaxed not a muscle of the arm
or dismissed an anxious look from his
face until the basket touched the ground
and dischareed its magnificent cargo?
Not one of their names has come to us,
hut there was no work done that day in
Damascus or in all earth coripared with
the importance of their work. What if
they had in their agitation tied a knot
that could slip? What if the sound of
the mob at the door had led thc-i to say,
"Paul must take care of himself f>nd we
will take care of ourselves?" No, no!
They held the rope and in sr> did
more fo" the Christian church than any
thousand of us will ever accomplish. But
God knows and has made record of their
undertaking. And they know.
How exultant they must have felt when
they read his letters to the Romans, to
the Corinthians, to the Galatians, to the
Ephesians, to the Philippians, to the Co
lossians, to the Thessn'ontans, and when
tliev heard how he walked out of prison,
with the earthquake unlocking the door
for him, and took command of the Alex
andrian corn ship when the sailors were
nearly scared to death and preached a
sermon that nearly shook Felix off his
judgment seat! I hear the men and wom
en who helped him down through the win
dow and over the wall talking in private
over the matter and saying: "How glad I
am that we effected that rescue! In com
ing times others may get the g'.ory of
Paul's work, but no one shall rob us of
the satisfaction of knowing that we held
the rope."
Once for thirty-six hours we expected
every moment togo to the bottom of the
ocean. The waves struck through the
skylights and rushed down into the hold
of the ship and hissed against the boilers.
It was an awful time, but by the blessing
of God and the faithfulness of the men in
charge we came out of the cyclone, and
we arrived at home. Each one before
leaving the shin thanked Captain An
drews. I do not think there was a man
or woman that went off that ship without
thanking Cantain Andrews, and when
years after I heard of his death I was im
pelled to write a letter of condolence to
his family in Liverpool. Everybody rec
ognized the fioodness. the courage, the
kindness of Cantain Andrews, but it oc
curs to me now that we never thanked the
engineer. He stood away down in the
darkness amid the hissing furnaces, doing
his whole dutv. Nobody thanked the en
gineer. but God recognized his heroism
and his continuance and his fidelity, and
there will be just as high reward for the
engineer, who worked out of sight, as for
the cantain, who stood on the bridge of
the ship in the midst of the howling tem
pest.
Come, let us go right up and accost
those on the circle of heavenly thrones.
Surely they must have killed in battle a
million men. Surely they must have been
buried with all the cathedrals sounding a
dirge and all the towers of all the cities
tolling the national grief. Who art thou,
mighty one of heaven? "I lived by choice
the unmarried daughter of an humble
home that I might take care of my par
ents in their old are, and I endured with
out complaint all their querulousness and
administered to all their wants for twenty
years." Let us pass on round the circle
of thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of
heaven? "I was for thirtv-iive years a
Christian invalid and suffered all the
while, occasionally writing a note of sym
pathy for those worse off than I, and was
general confidant of all those who had
trouble, and once in awhile I was strong
enough to make a garment for that poor
family in the back lane." Pass onto an
other throne. Who art thou, mighty one
of heaven? "I was the mother who raised
a whole family of children for God, and
they are out in the world Christian mer
chants, Christian mechanics. Christian
wives, and I have had full reward for all
my toil." Let us pass on in the circle of
thrones. '"I had a Sabbath-school class,
and they were always on my heart, and
they all entered the kingdom of God, and
I am waiting for their arrival." But whe
art thou, mighty one of heaven, on this
other throne? "In time of bitter persecu
tion I owned a house in Damascus, a
house on the wall. A man who preached
Christ was hounded from street to street,
and I hid him from the assassins, and
when I found them breaking into my
house and 1 could no longer keep him safe
ly, I advised him to flee for his dear life,
and a basket was let down over the wall
with the maltreated man in it, and I was
one who helped hold the rope." And I
said, "Is that all?" And he answered,
"That is all." And while I was lost in
amazement I heard a strong voice that
sounded as though it might once have
been hoarse from many exposures and
triumphant as though it might have be
longed to one of the martyrs, and it said,
"Not manv mighty, not many noble, are
called, but God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the things
which are mighty, and base things of the
world and things which are despised hath
God chosen; yea, and things which are
not to bring to naught things which are,
that no flesh should glory in Ilis presence."
And I looked to see from whence the
voice came, and. 10, it was the very one
who had said, "Through a window in a
basket was I let down by the wall!"
Henceforth think of nothing as insig
nificant. A little thing may decide your
all. A Cunarder put out from England
for New York. It was well equipped, but
in nutting uo a stove in the pilot box a
nail was driven too near the compass.
You know how that nail would affect the
compass. The ship's officers, deceived by
that distracted compass, put the ship 200
miles off her right course and suddenly
the man on the 'lookout cried, "Land
ho!" and the ship was halted on Nan
tucket shoals. A sixpenny nail came
near wrecking a t'unarder. Small ropes
hold mighty destinies.
A minister seated in Boston at his table,
lacking a word, puts his hand behind his
head and tilts back his chair to think,
and the ceiling falls and crushes the table
and would have crushed him.
A minister in Jamaica at night by the
light of an insect called the candle fly is
kept from stepping over a precipice a hun
dred feet. r. W. .Robertson, the cele
brated English clergyman, said that lie
entered the ministry from a train of cir
cumstances started by the barking of a
dog.
Had the wind blown one way on a cer
tain day the Spanish Inquisition would
have been established in England, but it
blew the other way, and that dropped
the accursed institution, with seventy-five
tons of shipping, to the bottom of the
sea or flung the splintered logs on the
rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life or
mine. Three naughts placed on the right
side of the figure one make a thousand,
and six naughts on the right side of the
figure one a million, and our nothingness
placed on the right side may be augmen
tation illimitable. All the ages of time
and eternity affected by the basket let
down from a Damascus balcony.