Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1897, Page 9

—— THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1897-24 PAGES. — WASH. B. WILLIAIS, 7th and D Sts. Furniture, &c. 75c. to $1 LACE CURTAINS. © several lots of lity White Not- “e Cartalns, only in all, that sold at Sie. We. and $1 ° pete Will clowe them out Monday at...... ++ . $5.50 Tapestry Curtains, $3.90. Just 14 pairs left of Beautiful Tanestry Corteins, tured 6 t ¢ Fine Tapestry Brussels at wl Te. Rody Brussels at Wilton Velevets at $1 and Axminsters at $1.25. Special reduced prices cn all Furniture next week, WASH. B._ WILLIAFS, Furniture, &c., 7th and D Sts. mi The Man of Fashion appreciates the value of ism i They have that individual sir of about them prized by every well-dressed N, Tailor, 423 11th St. e212 aaa Fine Turnouts For Hire by the Month, also by the day and trip. EF REASONABLE PRICES. £7 Boarding horses a specialty. DOWNEY’S Model Stables, L STREET. "Phone 555. —™~ a ee ae \ \ | _ HIGH-QUALITY CLOTHING For Boys Only (TO ORDER-NO READY MADE) At Ploderate Prices. PARKER & CO. will be at the Ebbitt House JAN- nd 28, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with »f samples of both Woolens and Linens own importation for the Spring and Sum- » some of the best families In Wash- : Flower AAAAR GRE Bargains} Chinese Frimroses, = ‘ (cowl. generous sized plants, these— £ 4 shew y ome aml easily cared By 5 j CYCLAMEN a plant of increasing popu- Pi va: of its coloriug—at * 3 the plant—ome of the best > 4 for Teas, Recep- > 4 every occasion } 4 Estimates gladly > q % Just of F near G st. 9 ‘Freeman’s, ai tiene ; (mows, - wet — Go to Siccardi’s ARGAINS IN HUMAN HAIR. vel a large assortment of ‘¢ Shell Combs and Pins, igus, finest stock ever displayed in lot of All Long Human Hair ny. reduced to $1.50. ches reduced to $2.50. itches rednved to $5.00. Geay and White Hair reduced in same proportion. Mme. Siccardi, 1 With st., next to Palais Royal. je rooms for hairdressing. shampooins, and ern WarmUnderwear ‘at cost and less! ‘Bath Robes, $3.75: > y > bane formerly $5-$7 grades are offered similar sacrifices made in the het- ter qi thes moking Jackets that others ask $4.50 for_we sell for $3. $1.25 and $1.0 Suirts go now for 7c. This sacri- , > i wer fice bargaim table of ours bas values that il even interest every mother, sister for Men's Goods of w wife, ch fine quali les were never so ruthlessly cut in price ‘Teel’s, 935 Pa. Ave ever verees Something New for the New Year. No MoreToothache YOUR TEETH KEPT IN PERFECT CONDITION FOR $10 PER YEAR. Call and let us give you coon Work MUS PAINL. ARTIFICIAL TEETH. CROWN AND WORK AT LOWEST POSSIBLE PR! The Evans Dental Parlors, jalin 1309 F ST. N.W. Carriage-Riding | Folks, Attention. A grand chance Robe” or ow Horse Blanket—Is ed At this 25 off sate Pine Plush, Cloth » scenmaceen i Seabee peel | 5 ! utz & jazt aot is cheaper, safer and more easily * managed than steam. It requires no * engineer. Printing offices, machine * sbops and factories should investigate. * Glad to answer questions, U. S. Electric Lighting Co., 213 Mth st. nw, "Phone TT. EACH EYE and ‘Jal6-200 oie SELBACH'SGOOD LUCK His Injuries Not as Serious as Ap- peared at First HAS PASSED THE DANGER POINT Preparing for the Local Champion- ship Skating Contests. en CURRENT SPORTING NOTES aQsncness Specia’ Dispatch to The Evening Star. COLUMBUS, Ohio, January 23.—Al Selbach, the outfielder of the Wash- ington bail team, will be seen in his usual Place on the diamond the coming season, but he has just passed the danger point in @ most unpleasant experience tha: both his physicians and himself feared would prevent him from ever playing ball again. Selbach has a fine residence at 244 East Schiller street, where he is spending the winter with his wife. Last Sunday evening, just as they were Preparing to retire, Mrs, Selbach dropped a lighted match on the floor of the parlor, close to a lounge. The fringe of the lounge hung down close to the floor and caught from the flame of the match. He saw the danger and seized the lounge to throw it out of doors, but the “excelstor’ in the lounge caught fire then, and instantly the whole piece of furniture was in flames. To get it out of doors he had to carry it through a hall. In picking it up he caught the lounge by the legs and the hot varnish burned the inside of his hands terribly. It stuck so that he could not get it off, and cooked the flesh. One thumb—his right— and one finger—the middle finger on his left_hand—were burned td the bone. The thumb had been broken once, and the flesh was burned away so that he could plainly see where the bones were knitted. Dr. Barnes, his physician, would give him no assurance that he would again be able to use his hands with free joints of the fingers at first, and untii last night was in doubt about the matter. Then he openel the great blisters that had formed and asked Al. if he could move his fingers. It was found that he could move them all a little. Dr. Barnes then assured him that there wes n> doubt that he would soon recover full and perfect use of his hands, but said that the fact that he was not left by the accident with stiff fingers was entirely due to the fact that he had kept up his gym- rasium practice, and had thick, tough skin on his hands. Al Is still suffering a great deal from the burns, but is happy over the assurance that he will not in the least be incapaci- tated from work in base ball. He has put in long hours every day in the gymnasium, and is in the best of con- dition. Gus Schmelz, the Washington man- ager, who also lives here, has been a fre- quen: caller at the house since the acci- dent, and is happy over the fact that there are to be no serious and permanent results. LOCAL SKATERS TO RACE. for the Championship xt Convention Hall. The races for the skating championship of the District and Maryland next week at the Convention Hall Ice Palace will bring out about all of the local men who are at all proficient on the racing steels. The races will #e for one, two and three miles, and will be skated Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. The winner of each event will be given a medal, and when the meet is over the man who has the highest num- ber of points will be given the champion- ship medal. There are many local skaters who have, through the introduction of the ice rink, become proficient, not only on the “rocker” skates, but on the racing skates as well, and although they have been at it but a short time many show promise of some good work. As a rule, they are about even- ly matched, and the races will prove to be interesting and exciting. ‘The holder of the championship from last year is Harry Stites, who is probably the fastest man in this vicinity. He will enter in all the races, and as he has been train- ing hard for some time he will be prepared to defend his title. Amongsthe others who will compete are R. Le Mat, A. P. Morris, Fred Frear, P. B. Lewis, Ed. Hughes, R. T. Strickland, David Williams, “Chic” Cassin and Bailey. These men are all considered as having an excellent chance, and the re- sult of the meet will be in doubt uaull the last race has been skated. Of the racers enumerated, Morris, Lewis, Hughes, Williams and Cassin are new- comers, and have not been racing more than two or three weeks. They are all cellent skaters on the short biades, how ever, and the change to racing skaies did not affect them very much. entry upon the track they ting in some hard work, and there Is ev: likelihood of a dark horse being among the lot. Of the others Le Mat is remembered from last year, although at that time he did not do much on account of a fall which he received during one of the races with Joe Donoghue and which cut tis hand -so severely that he was obligel to give up racing for the season. This year he has shown mark®d improvement in his work, and lately has been training faithfully. Strickland is well known 4s probabiy the best fancy skater at the rink. His work on the short skates is exceptionally good, and often the subject of comment on the’ part of spectators at that resort. Strickland ts remembered also from last year as having given Joe Donoghue one of the closest finishes during that skater’s stay here in a short handicap race, and while he has not been training this season is confident of being able to uphold his own in the races next week. Contests Fred Frear has been training since the | beginning of the season, and his hard work will not fail to tell in the result of the races. Hailey is another skater who 3 on the track last year, and from all ac: counts his work this year entitles him to a place in the front rank of the local cracks. A race between Bailey and Stites has tong been talked of in skating circles, and their coming together next week will be wutched with interest. Although Harry Stites Promises to be made the favorite, there is no doubt but that he will have to work in order to retain his present right and tit!. Wednesday night at the rink will see a game of hockey between the team from Johns Hopkins University and an All- Washington team. The Johns Hopkins team is the one which tied Yale early in the season, and is looked upen as being one of the strongest hockey aggregations in the United States. The ceara which will represent Washington will be made up from about sixteen or eighteen piayers who have been practicing at the rink ever stuce the beginning of the season. Owing to the fact that the National Guard will use Convention Hall as a drill ground Monday and Tuesday of each week until the close of the season, there will b= no evening sessions of the Ive Palace on those days, but the morning and aft+rnoon sessions will be continued as usual. Le- ginning with next week no charg> will be made for ice privileges at the afternoon sessions, one admission sufficing for all tne facilities for amusement afforded by the rink. BASKET BALL. Ne Games Were Pluyed During th Week. No games were played at all during the week in the Basket Ball League, though only one game was scheduled, and that for Wednesday evening between the East- ern Athletic Club and the Corcoran Ca- dets. It was through no fault of the teams that the game was postponed. The gym- nasium of Carroll Institute had been se- cured as the scene of the battle, and tick- ets were out, a number being sold. There was a lecture to have been given Thurs- day evening at Carroll Institute, and at the last moment the date was changed Wednesday evening, owing to the fact that the hall had been rented out forthe occa- sion. This threw the basket ball game out entirely, and another date will ‘have to be “trae | Corco . their friends. 630. o'clock, £ H i be sf bidding fatr to capture it this season. This {A match between Pitisbury and Lasker same team last year beat the Carroll In- stitute team by the score of 19 to 1, and { Pillsbury sco! only a week ago administered ». good drub- bing to the Princeton University basket | ing of the ma’ ball team. would be interesting. At St. Petersburg to 2% for Lasker in the between them. In speak- with Steinits, Lasker is reported to have written a letter in which six games pla: The local party wif consist of about | he stated that @c has proved the worthless- thirty or more people, many of whom be- long to the Corcorans. The balance of the crowd will be composed of the Carroll In- ness of the vet in the Gtuoco 0, the B—B4 defense in the Ruy Lepe: if, sacrifice of the bishop well as the defense of stitute bowlers, who go over to the monu- | 3P—Q3 followed by Kt—K2 Furthermore, the Young Men’s Catholic Club of that city. The team of the Corcorans will con- sist of Davis and Dodge, forwards; Demar |- and Walters, backs; and Clark, center, with Roland, Guister, Collins, Bouley and | Monday. O'Connell, substitutes. mental city to play a return game with | he states path QRS in the Ruy Li a seems to be again discredited in the tenth game, ieee The match between Pillsbury and Sho- walter is scheduled to commence next As Jat present arranged the ‘The local team is | games will be flayed at the Hamilton Club, not sanguine of a victory. On the con- | the Crescent Club and the Brooklyn Chess trary, they will feel proud if they will be | Club. Other clubs, including the Boston. able to score against their opponents. The Queer Wheelmen and the Washing- ton Athletic Club are game this evening, and then not another game is on the list until next Saturday evening, when tne Washington Light In- fantry and the Queer Wheelmen play. The standing of the teams up to date is as follows: Per Name. Won. Lost. ct. ashington Light Infantry. 0 1,000 Carroll Institute. 2 600 Eastern Athletic Club. 2 Corcoran Cadet Cor, an 55 600 Queer Wheelmen.. 1 4 Washington Athletic Oo 5 000 VISITORS OF THE SAENGERBUND. Washington Athletic Club Bowlers Win a Game. The Saengerbund bowlers had as their visitors last night the Washington Athletic Club and two very close games of tenpins were played on their alleys. Each club won a game. The Washingtons won the first game by seventeen pins, and the Saen- Franklin of Philadelphta and the Metro- politan Chess Club, have asked to have scheduled for a| part of the match played in their clubs. Three games will be played weekly—on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. The match will continue until one player wins seven games. A tournament began in Berlin last Mon- day, in which the competitors were Jano’ ski, Charousek, Winawer, Schlechter, Wa’ brodt, Bardeleben, Mieses, Cohn and Met- mer. But few games have been played the past 600 | Week in the chess tournament at the Capi- tal Bicycle Club, and the standing of the 200 | leaders is unchanged. The score is as fol- lows Barrick . Vsina Bonnemyer Calver ‘Macdani Skating at Stamford Postponed. W. H. Robertson, manager of the skat- ing Carnival at Stamford, Conn.,announced last night that the proposed events of Thursday would take place today if the gerbund the second by 29 pins. Bruegger } condition of the ice warrants, but it is the made the higest score of the evening, 200; Kidd was next, with 199. Bruegger made an average of 171% for the set; Kidd had an average of 168 for his two games. Bur- dine made the difficult spare of 7-8. This set of games makes the sixth that these two cluhs have met, and each time they have broke even. The score follows: Washington Athletic Club. SECOND GAME. Sp. 4 iz. iJ as 1 5 2 4 2 + Saengerbund. FIRST GAME. SECOND GAMB. St. Sp. ce. St. Sp. 1 4 1 a 2 2 1 8 my oS 120 1 3 136 1 - 180 4 4 143 oO 6 | Bruegger.. 200 4 5 Totals... 719 9 18! Totals... 806 11 24 The following is the standing of the clubs in the Senior Bowling League: Lost. : 10 ce Institut 12 Washington At 12 Work of the Members of the League to Date. Below will be found the averages of the general opinion that the races are “off” until next week, There were no races yes- terday. : Dixon Defeats Murphy. George Dixon, champfon featherweight Pugilist of the world, defeated Australian Billy Murphy of Cincinnati in six rounds last night at the Broadway Athletic Club, in New York. Columbia to Have a Crew. Columbia University of New York may put a crew in the water after all. There was an enthusiastic meeting yesterday af- ternoon of 300 alumni and undergraduates of the university in the library room of the law department for the purpose of agitat- ing the subject and discussing the matter at length. Every one present appeared arxious that the question, which had been closed by the action of the Athletic Union of the university, who had decided that it would be inadvisable to put a Columbia crew in training for the race at Pough keepsie, next June, should be reopened. The chief obstacle in the way was the financial one A ietter wi read from John Murray Mitchell, in which he wrote that since the election he was a poor man, but sent $l0 as a mite to the fund. The announcement of the subscription was received with applause, during which scme one offered a resolution that Colum- bia should have a crew. The. resolution was adopted, and almost in the same breath it was announced that the resigna- tion of Mr. Searing of the Athletic Union players in the District Bowling League to | WaS Not accepted, and he was asked to act date: CHECKERS. The checker tournament at the Wash- ington Chess, Checker and Whist Club is nearing completion. Several games were played the past week. Messrs. Mundell, Collins and Sheridan bave finished all their games. lows: The present score is as fdl- Won. Lost. 3, Wricht. 18% 2% Murray 6% eneil. loner ‘The contest for pairs commenced at the Columbia Athletic Club last Wednesday evening. Elght pairs were entered, and each played twenty-eight deals. The scor- ing was under the new Safford system. ‘The tournament will include six evenings’ play. ‘here will be first and second prizes for the highest scores. The results of the first evening's play are as follows: =» Baldwin and Norri: 7 plus. Safford and ‘Taliafer 4 plus. Bedon and Davis. 1 plus. Wooten and Wal zero. Swearingen and Goodale 4 minus. Jackson and Barnard. Childs and Hampton Murray and Tibbetts 8 minus. Another match will be played next Wed- nesday evening. By reason of the pogt- ponement of the mid-winter meeting of the executive committee of the American Whist League, the challenge trophy did not go to Nashville, as expected, but is in Albany in the possession of the Albany club, which won it from the American Whist Club of Boston by the score of 20 to it. Tonight the Albany Chess and Whist Club will try to gain possession of the trophy from the Albany club. The Columbia Athletic Club comes next in the list of challengers, and the club has been notified by President Barney of the league to be ready to play at Albany next Saturday. The whist committee of the Columbias has not yet selected its team, though it will probably consist of Wooten, Walls, Safford and Hampton. Mrs. Earl has returned to the city, and now Mrs. McCrea and her team will begin practicing for the match for the woman’s trophy, held, at last accounts, by Mrs. An- drew’s team of Philadelphia. The turn of the local team will come about the middle of next month. The following scores were made at the Capital Bicycle Club last Saturday night in the prize compass whist match: N. and 8.--Capt. Taylor and B. Taylor, 128; Jones and Adams, 126; lowest score, 119. E, and W.—Barnes and Bunnemyer, 119; McComb and Austin, 114; lowest score, 5 CHESS, The leaders in the tournament at the Washington Chess Club have played no games the past week. Capt. O'Farrell was ‘under the weather” last Saturday even- ing, and his game with Tibbetts was post- poned. This evening all of the leaders are scheduled to play as follows: Hanna with O'Farrell, Tharp with Tibbetts, and Walk- er with Gwyer. Some changes in the standing of the players are likely to result from these contests. Mr. Dunham won from Mr. Thomas in a game lasting seventy moves. Mr. Thomas accepted @ queen’s gambit, and had an even game for thirty-five moves, when Dunham won the exchange. Mr. Thomas still had good opportunities, but allowed {11; undrawn, large, per Ib in the capacity of manager of the crew. ++ WHOLESALE PRODUCE ™ ARKET. Eggs Remarkably Low—Batter Lower —Chaexe Advancing. sre ofthe local wholesale pro- market Yoffay is the remarkably marked deciiné jin eggs, they being from two .te three Ants a dozen lower today than they werf Jast week. And they are not only lower, but there are indications of asstill further, dé Butier. is slightly lower” and cnt higher. Poultry is selling at ahoyy the same prices, al- though there ‘ate some indications of an advance in the ext few days. Game re- mains about as last reported, and the same can be salt of ve; les and fruits, also beef and other’meats. There’ ig” sti {“acarcity in the finest grades, cf “bur and the tatk in extrag. im th deelined st following: ice 20; Yeceipis. being smalie 5 @uiie firm, particular! ».t@p grades prices have ja creaméry, 18; dairy packed, 14 Eggs are not only much lower, but they are duller, the market having a down- ward terdency. Today’s prices: Nearh fresh, 14 to 15 cents a dozen cents, and southern, 12 cents. Cheese ts higher and much f market being an advancing one. cream, large, 11 to 11% cents flats; 13, and ponys, 13% cents. ile prices for poultry remain about as last quoted, it is more than iikely that they, will advance during the next few days. Today prices: Turkeys—choice, drawn, S-Ib. average, 11 to choice, drawn, large, M1 to 12; choice, drawn, ali large, 10 to 11; choice, undrawn, Ib., 10 to 1b. 9; live, hens, per ib. smail, per lb, 9 to 10. Chicken: per Ib., 9 to 10; undrawn, per 1 live, per Ib., 8; spring, live, per Ib. fowis—Drawn, to 8; undrawn, per Yb, 7 , 6 to 7; roosters, ucks—Dressed, per ive, large, per Ib., old, 8.to 9; young, 5 Lo ¥. Geese—Live, per dressed, 6 to 8 Game continues plentiful, with cally unchanged prices: Pheasants, 40 to 50 cents; rabbits, $1 to $1.50 + dozen; quail, $1.50 to $2: wild turkeys, 9 to 10 cents per poung; woddceck, 30 to 40 cents each. Vegetables and fruits are selling as fol- lows: Cucumbers, per box, $1.0) to $: cauliflower, per barrel, $2.50 to $3; kale, po doz., 50 to cblery, fancy, en, 50 to to 40 cents; common, 15 0 cents; beans, per bo $1.25 to $2; lettuce, per barrel, $1.50 to” per basket, 75 cents to $1.25; potatoes, fancy, new, per barrel, $1 to $1.25; choic per barrel, $1; new, per bushel, 30 to cents; culls, per barrel, 40 cents; New York, per bushel, 35 to 38 cents; Maryland and Virginia, per ‘bushel, 30 to 35 cenis; culls, per bushel, 20 to 25 cents; sweet po- tatoes, fancy, per barrel, $1 to $1. 7% to 85 cents; culls, 35 to 40 cei and haymons,-barrel, 60.te toes, Florida, per crate, $1.50 to $2.50; na- tive, per erate, 25 to 50 cents; egg plant, per one-nalf-barrel box, $1.50 to $2.50); beets, per 100 bunches, $1.50 to $2.50; cabbage, per 100, $3 to $4.50; new, per barrel, 40 ccuts; onions, Bermuda, per crate, $1.40 to $1.50; yellow, per barrel, $1.25 to $1.40; yellow, new, per bushel, 40 to 65 cents; turnips, per barrel, 50 to 75 cents; beans, white, New York mediums, $1.10 to $1.15; New York Pea, $1.10 to $1.15; marrow, $1.30 to $1.35; Virginia, white, 75 cents; white, mixed, 50. cents; colored, 5) to 60 cents; black-eyed per bushel, 90 cents; apples, fancy 75 to $2; choice, barrel, $2 per: 100 pounds, 40 to 50 practi- cents; oranges, Florida, faney bright, per box, $4 to $4.50; Messina, per box, $3.50 to $5; Valencia, 8, $3 to $3.50; tangerines, bex, $7 to $10; ms, Cicily, per box, $3 to $5; cranberries, per box, $1.50 to $2; Jersey, arrel, $5 t6 $5.50; Cape Cod, per bar- = to $6. ser" ie followi: tok: ices for beef and other Meats are not Live cattle, from 2 to 4% cents a poun bs, 5 to 7 cents: sheep, 2 to 3% cents; cows with calves, $25 to $35: calves, 3 to 7 eénts a pound; dressed hogs, 8 to 7 cents a pound. Loni G1GAREFTE FIENDS, U oth YOUNG To Satisfy Their Desires They Robbed 2 Tobacco Store. nine years,and Willie James pen Je his opponent to trade pieces. Mr. Dunham | Parrish, aged eléven years, who confessed was enabled to queen a pawn on the fifty- eighth move, and won easily thereafter. The result placed him a tie with Harris for fifth place. The score to date is as follows: of the to robbing a store of cigarettes and tobac- ‘co, were given a hearing at Lamberville, N. J., yesterday before Justice Lyman ‘this morning.” The justice said he ‘would be. | it with .the _ prisoners, owing to their tender years, th |} The Memtgomery Goes to Sea. The United #tates: cruiser Montgomery, Governor's down MODERN EDUCATION Some of the Fallacies in Our School System. PESSIMISTIC VIEWS OF MR. STETSON Have We the Average Rank of a Century Ago? WHERE WE MAKE MISTAKES —— At the meeting of the Society for Philo- sophical Research this week the principat event was a paper by Mr. George G. Stet- son, which gave rise to considerable dis- cussion. He chose for his subject “Some Fallacies of Our Educational Metheds,” and in the course of his paper he gave utterance to views that he spoke of him- self as pessimistic and by no means cer- tain to meet with general favor. Mr. Stet- son has given the subject of American educaticnal methods long and careful study, and he is not slow to give expression to his opinions, In ais most recent essay on the sub- ject Mr. Stetson opposed the ideas that America {s the most literate nation, that the negro race is being given the educa- tion best suited to its needs, that educa- tion diminishes crime and that our mod- ern school system is as near perfection as it can be made. These were some of the views that he characterized as fallacies. it is a melancholy refiection, said Mr. Stetson, that in the formation of thinking habits and in character building, the old home and the low school house, with their simple text books and their moral, re- Kgious and industrial training, were more effective than our modern palatial edifices filled to repletion with sclentifie educa- tional machinery, by which individual ef- fort, impulse, incentive and thinking habits are discouraged and lost. The primitive methods of our fathers practically applied the theory of Rosseau, that the great secret of education is to manage it so that the training of the mind and the body shall serve to assist each other, a system which, first applicd here, has in very recent years been sounded abroad and hailed again as a great modern educational discovery. It is interesting to note that in 1642 the general court of Mas- achusetts Bay, “taking into consideration ‘he great neglect in many parents and mas- ters in training up their children in learn- ing and labor and other employments which may be profiteble to the commonwealth” made mental, moral, industrial and techni- cal instruction and education compulsory. These interests are primarily and practi- cally in our own hands, and while we spend money freely, even lavishly, for edu- cational purposes, we are mean and parsi- montous in the thought bestowed upon the methods employed. The southern whites have alone given by taxation $65,000,000, to which sum the nerthern whites have added $22,000,000, to educate negroes, with no consideration of racial needs or differences, with what feeble results we all kno ulty as Students, ‘The fallacies are natioral that we as a Feople are the most literate, the most pro- gressive and the most intellectual of na- that our systems of education are and that our schools educate. In literacy we by no means occupy the first rank; as a people we are the most con- servative In intellect; it is doubtful if we have the average rank we held one hun- dred years and our efforts at eduea- tion of the masses have resulted generally in “the smotherings and conceit of haif knowledge.” Mr. Aldrich ot Newton, Mass., at the meeting of the New England Association of Colleges, October, 1806, clared ‘our children do not know what study means.” A distinguished ex-trustee of public schools in the city of New York, in a personal note received a few days ago, says: “In the large public school which came under my authority I could show you better work than any school in the cit New York can this day produce.” Why in this particular we bave lost grourd may be best answered by giving the study course for one year of the fourth grade, averaging abou: ten and one-half years of age, in a modern city school—a course of study apparently arranged upon the plan of Washington's Vade Mecum, the “Young Man's Companion,” which included a modicum of all knowledge, from naviga- tion and house building, composition of let- and wills, to horticulture, making of cider and ink, how to behave and to doctor family: 1, composition: 2, grammar; elling; 4, reading; 5, arithmetic; 6, agri- cultural chemistry; Physical —geog- sketching natural objects; 9, photographic; 10, studies of etymolozy, ornithology elementary; Zo. 14, physiology; 15 ; 16, penmanship: 17, drawing, geo- 18, modeling; 19, color sense and painting: sewing and pattera 20, object drawing and paper folding and cutting, water color ‘painting; 23, sewing and pattern afting: 23, music, reading at sight and 24, gymnasti This course of study is indiscriminately led for both races, white and black, y that at the end of the year the mind would resemble the sand gar- dens made in our childhood upon the beach, laid out in symmetric paths,marked with sprigs of green, beautiful and pleas- urable for the moment, but soon blasted by the scorthing sun and leaving no trace behind. I once asked a Boston school boy if he had studied botany. “Oh, yes,” he answered. “A year or two agi “Do you know anything of it now?” ‘Nothing whatever.” Problem of Secondary Education. Another prevailing fallacy which must be spoken of with bated breath is in the be- hef that secondary education must be conducted at the expense of the public. This is too large a subject to be treated at the moment. It will suffice to state that the argument against such conduct is reasonably besed upon these facts. First. That the great majority of chil- dren abandon school before reaching the 14th year. Second. That of the entire number in school, 96% per cent are in the elementary department, but 2% per cent in the second- ary, and 1 per cent in the university, col- lege or professional school. Third. That of the whole sum collected in this country for school purposes, 86 per cent is levied in taxes by the state and communities. = Fourth. That in the most illiterate por- tion of the conntry the taxpayer is not only responsible for instruction of which he feels that he cannot take the advan- tage, but is obliged to pay the expense of those who are able themselves to pay, be- sides paying almost entirely for the educa- tion of an alien race which cannot or will not help itself. Fifth. That the elementary school is thus made to suffer by shortening its term, by inferior methods and incompetent instrue- tion; a condition by no means confined to the south, as in New England we find among teachers “black abysses of igno- rance 2ppalling to contemplate.” ‘The southern states established universi- ties (so called) and colleges, but neglected public and preparatory schools, and at the moment there is in that section one such college or university for every 124,000 pco- ple, while in New England we have but one in 247,000. This heavy educational burden imposed upon the few able to bear it by the sparse- ress of the population, and poverty of the masses, and made heavier by the addition of elementary and secondary schools, is supported freely by taxation which in pro- Portion to their resources is as heavy as that borne by New England and the middle states, but not sufficient to prevent the unfortunate results in keeping the elemen- tary school term down to three and one- third months annually, which in New Eng- land and the middie states is maintained at ten months. The limitation of the period of free pub- lic instruction to the age of f as . Iestestontontotonfondostontordosloatontoatontoatontontontedtontontodt antes todionteetos ode MMPS OGD, Monday Last Day Of the Great 58.40 Suit Sale. We're clearing the decks for our great spring stock of woolens. We've been taken by storm the past 10 days. We could continue this sale indefinitely if the goods only held out. 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Ii ; 5 so, see us! $ 8 é Castelberg’s . National Jewelry Co., 1103 Pa. Ave., Next to Star Office. BALTO. STORE, 108 N. EUTAW ST. ESTABLISHED 1546. an GOSS SS8S6CG66 ees Saeraeeetentenceneneeteetetendentendecge eset eneeeetdententeetes Points of Construction in RAMBLER BICYCLES About Strong Joints. Lap brazed joints, strengthened by fish-moutli outside re forceménts, are the strongest joints known in bicycle constructi Fish-mouth outside reinforcement is used mainly to perform 3 the office of a socket for attaching one tube to another, especially ¢ where one or both tubes are of a very light gauge. In brazing light tubes together, the intense heat necessary for the operation deprives the steel of its carbon, which is so vital an element contributing to the strength of the tubing. This renders the steel porous and crystalized by the intense heat. The fish-meuth socket has a distinct advantage over any other style of joint, in that it permits the use of somewhat thicker ma- terial in the reinforcement, to sustain, without injury, the great heat to which it is subjected in brazing. This form of joint is even more necessary where steel tubing is used which contains a greater percentage of carbon than where tubing having a lesser proportion of carbon is employed. Bicycle frames are subjected to great strains of vibration, and become weakened at the joints thereby, unless properly protect- ed. The vibration extends along the tubing toward the joints and is concentrated when met by the abrupt resistance of a rigid reinforcement, and the tube is thus weakened, often with fatal re- sults. This danger is obviated by the use of the outside fish-mouth socket which distributes the vibration from the tube to the rein- forcement in a graduated manner, that is, the vibrations are grad- ually absorbed, making fracture at the joint next to impossible. So much for reinforcements. For the joint proper there is ncthing so strong as lap brazing, because in its process, the supporting tube is not weakened by drilling for the insertion of a forged connection, or a “thimble stamping. On the other hand, the supporting tube is left intact, while the attaching tube end is “flared” around it, and is held in place, quite securely, even before brazing. After brazing it forms an absolutely perfect joint, the LIGHTES AND STRONGEST known in bicycle frame construction. It may be interesting to know that at the World’s Columbian Exposition, an unbrazed lap-jointed RAMBLER frame was ex- hibited, and was highly praised and honored with a special award. The fish-mouth outside reinforcement, then introduced on RAM- BLERS, has so favorably affected the construction of bicycle frames that it is now being copied by the more progressive wheel designers. . RAFIBLERS Have Strong Joints. Look for Them 1897 Patterns. $80-° For $ 1 30 For SINGLES; TANDEMS. GORMULLY & JEFFERY -27 29-31 unmeenw. TIfg. Co ‘ oe seston Soto Se pepteteceeeneteerent ss nn & Seetoehoetectostontodtoatoetontonte bosteet Se te te i te a tee “ °9 10th St. N. W. Proposed Legistation. electors shall hold any position within the Asseemblyman Abel! of Brooklyn has in- | Sift of the Arkansas legislature. The army of women who tesiege the members at troduced in the New York legislature ©} svery session to secure votes for olerkships bill amending the banking law. It. pro- | ts responsible for the action of the senat. vides that the stockholders in every bank- Mr. Aldrichs has introduced a bill in the ing association organized under the author- | Delaware senate abolishing the whipping ity of this state, or the United States, shall | Pst and pillory in Delaware. be assessed and taxed on the value of their So a ee mentors shares of stock therein. Lieut. Wise of the United States army, ‘The Arkansas state senate has passed a bill | with the aid of kites, has made an ascen: providing that hereafter none but qualified ! sion on Governor's Island, N. ¥.