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§ A FOREST OF SOLID GOLD. >,_ ‘The Wonderful f};tlxlmco of the King HIS MAJESTY'S MONSTER CROWN Nine Stories High and Looks Like a Pagoda—Gossip About His Harem—The Real White Elephant, Siam's Reval Palace. {Copyrighted 1859 by Frank G. Carpenter.) espondence of Tne BER, Baxckok, Siam, February 10, ROM a yisit 1o the palace of the king of Siam I have just returned, having gone by the golden elephants at the portals, walked past £ the black soldiers at the ff gute, ana stood upon the g throne of his royal majesty himself. I have penetrated M the reception rooms and the various audience cham- ‘bers, have taken a look at the bushes and treos of gold and silver, which are sent t0 him from his provinces, have al- + most handled the royal jewels, and have, with my obractical American eyes, \looked at his cart loads of bric-a-brac gath- ‘ered from the four corners of the earth. 1 have visited the stables of his sacred white " elephants, have given the ugly beasts a taste of heathen grass, have trod with my patent leathers the floors of his Loliest tem- . Uples, and have with unwinking eyes *looked at the grandeur of the little cmerald idol. My ietters from Washington gave me access to the foreign minister and one of the English speaking nobles con- nected with the state department, a bright, 4 copper-colored, black-moustached young fel- ow in u dress halt Siamese and halfl Eurovean, acted as my guide. He showed " me the outside of the great buildings of the harem, but T have failed to meet any one of his majesty’s one hundred wives, and his royal highness himself had left the capital " for a six weeks’ trip into the interior of his realm three days before my arrival. I have “beep so fortunate, however, as to meet many men connected with his court. who are well ».bosted upon him and his kingdom. The * talks with these and with old residents of the country have given me almost a8 good ‘a Knowledge of his personality as though I had met him myself, and as I write this letter, % ‘his last photograph taken by the court pho- 5 tographer lies on the table before me. Iu represents a bright-eyed, slender young wan of thirty-six dressed m the gorgeous {uniform of Siamese royalty. Small 1 + stature, his head is crowned with a golden pyramid of jewels, rising in circular tiers, diminishing as thev go upward until they end: in a long, pencil-like point, which ex- tends nearly two feet above the forehead of its kingly owner. His body is clad in a gor- Reous coat and vest heavily embroidered in gold and jewels, and in place of pantaloons he has therich brocaded surong of the Siam- ese about his loins and waist. It comes down below his knees at the front, and it looks . here not unlike a pair of fancy knicker- bockers. Below these a pair of shapely calves in white silk stockings are thrust into jewel-covered, heelless slippers, pointed like ‘the shoe of the Turk, and the whole makes a. costume brilliant and grand. His majesty . 8its on a foreign armchair and his sword 4 %m on & table at his side.’ He 1s @ pleasant looking fellow and his olive brown face is plump and un- wrinkled. He has beautiful liquid black eyes, a broad, high and rather full forehead . and short, straight, black hair. Under his rather short and half-flat nose there is a silky black moustache and below this the lips are rather thick, and the chin plump . and well rounded. His hands and feet are well made and he is, all told, as good a speci- ~men of Siamese beuuty as I have scen. He the ninth son of Maha Mongkut, the last “king of Siam, and he was picked out of & family of eighty-four children to be placed upon the Siamese throne. He has thirty- four half brothers and forty-nine haif sis- ters, and ho-liked one of his half sisters so well that he married her and made her a queen, K. TIE KING 18 THE LAW. i Looking at him it is hard to imagine that _ Mo is the sacred ruler of from six to ten mil- lions of people, and it is hard for an Amer- fean prince o appreciate his absolute power and s holy dignity. The people of the country are his slaves. He has the right to call them into his service either with or | without pay, and all men in Siam are forced 10 give him either the whole or a part ot . their services during the year. His word _ can throw a man into chaius or put him to _ fleath; can deprive him of his property or " rob him of his daughter, All the women of ' Siam are supposed to belong to the king, and no one is forbidden to him except his mother. He supposed to take one of his sisters as the queen, and the nobles of the country offer him their daughters by tne scores. His court is one of | intrigue and plocting, and the nobles are " glad to have their daughters in the harem in that they may thus the better attain the king's friendship and powerful oftices. He taxes the veople as he pleases and these taxes are s0 heavy that at times some men have to sell their wives and children as sluves to en- ablo them to puy him. Still his vaults are full of treasure. Siam bhas no national debt d he has an ncome of more than ten mil- dullm‘tns’uur. He can spend tens of 4 thousands of dollurs in cremating a dead ‘wife or in_establishing a petty navy, which would be of no more good than so many boy's 10y bouts aguiust the war ships of the great nations. Still nis king of Siam is the most pro- iive the country has ever had. He is far of us people, and he is doing & groat deal to civilize them. Before his second coronation in 1873 all natives who wp- hrolnhed the king had to do so on all fours, 6y had to raise their hands in adoration to “« him and bump their heads on the mats be- fore him. This king did away with all this, and he has introduced the American hand- ake into his reception of foreigners. He jves recoptions to foreigners, and he spenks Boglis] lnngulmlhoulh he never does ““when no foreign visitors sudience with him. He 5 beneath — his dignity at s vimes to speak In any other than the Siamese and he has an n- ter who translates the English words to Siamese and the Siamese into English. bas brought the telegraph and the tele- phone ivto Baugkols, hus establishod u stroet line and lights his harem with the elec- Jight. * Just at present he is considering subject of railways, and he bas given ,000 to have a survoy madoof & run from Baugkok out into ;dom and shall connect with Mandalay Burmah, The engincers started out /ey this railro & few day ago 6 may be thut & decade hence we will be 40 travel all over this country by rail, established a custom house and a te, dark-skinned ofMcinl met me on "arrival in Bangkok asked we if my contained any contraband goods. T d they did not and he then wanted to af I 'was bringing any diamonds into SN avnuy. or if I had any packages of dyn- " smite about my clothes. I again replied no | and he chalk-marked my baggage without ooking into it. " This king of Sium is & Buddbist sud b 3 of Siam isa Buddhist aud he b 'nm some timea Buddhist priest, as is he om with all men in Siam. Ever, expected at some time to enter the hood, and this royal monarch with his millions of treasures, his scores of wives ‘: 0,000,000 & year, once shaved his d nominally @ up his crown and i 0 o wel yellow cotton scarf walst and to 4o tasting and ing. He is a liveral Buddhist now, and he gives, 1 am told, all facilities Jto the mission- aries and treats them well. One of the mis- slonaries is at the head of the royal school here, and the king has given something to the mission fund. Siam has now an @ nbass; at certain of the courts of Europe, andfer think the minister to London has also the Unitod States in his jurisdiction. There is a Siamese consul in New York, and here at Bangkok his majesty has his foreign depart- ment, his interior department and his royal mint. A new court of justice has just been built and the white of its exterior is probably more pure than will be the proceedings within, As far as I can learn the native Siamese courts aro founded more on the caprice of the judges than upon law. There i8 1o jury, and tortures similar to those of China, are practiced to make witnesses tes- tify. Oneis the twisting of bamboo withes tighter and tighter about the head until the vrisoner confesses, and the othoer is the whip- ping with the bamboo of the man stretched out at full length, wnd his skin pulled taut by men at his head and hee The prisons of Siam are horrible dungeons, some of them hanging over the water, and the forcing of convicts to work in heavy chains is so com- mon that you meet them constantly on the streets, and this not alone of men but of women as well. His majesty’s name is perhaps the longest of any monarch in the world. It contains fifty-scven letters and he is called Chul alangkorn for short. He has ten dif- ferent names in addition to this, and the full names of the royal family, would, I doubt not, flll & column of this 'newspaper. The queen is not far from twenty years of age she rules the harem, and she is a vei y Siamese girl. Her complexion is a ight brown and her oily black hair, about two inches long, stands straight up and is combed backward from the fair open fore- head, She has beautiful eyes, wears dia- mond ear rings aud a diamond pendant at her neck and her fingers are covered with precious stones. SIE SMOKES CIGARLTTES, as does also the King,and she chews the betel nut, making her teeth as black as jet and her lips stick out. ‘The Siamese say that any dog can have white teeth but it is only those who are rich enough to afford the betel nut who can have bluck ones. Black teeth aro a sign of beauty here, and all the ladies of the harem chew and snioke. 1 visited yesterday the store-house of the purveyor to the king. it is an English establishment, but its busi ness is to sell the palace and the harem the various articles they need. It has hundreds of balls and playthings, which are brought from Europe for the royal babies, and the clerk tells mo that thereis nota fancy French plavthing or amusement of any sort that is not sold to the palace. 1 was shown about a hundred dozen little china_spitoons about the size of a shaving mug. These were beautifully decorated and some of the pic- tures were by native Simese artists sent to Europe to be painted upon them. I bought one decorated with a picture by a Siamese prince, and 1 was told that these spittoons were used by the ladies of tho harem to spit _iu while chewing this dis- gusting preparation of the spongy betel nut mixed with rose-tinted lime and finecut to- bacco. 1 talked to the dressmaker as to the fashions affected by the king's wife and his scores of concubines, and was told that the ladies of the harem prefer Siamese dress and that their favorite costume is the surong or waist cloth, to which they add a loose jacket trimmed with Swiss embroidery and covered with bows of ribbons set on in rows, Com- monly they wear neither shoes nor stockings and the chief leg decoration is ‘an anklet of gold. They have some foreign costumes which they put on when the court pho- tographer takes their portraits, but their common attire is more that of jewelry and Dracelets than of silks and satins. These ladies of the harem are the most noble ladies of Siam. The last king had wives from China and India, and he was anxious to add a well-bred Enghsh girl to his gallery of beauties, He had, 1t 18" said, chances to se- cure one or two French maidens, but he nad had 8o much trouble with the French that he declined to receive them. Once in the harem it is impossible for a woman to get out, and in the case of flirtations the offend- ing'woman is in danger of being putto death. Many of the girls gamble and some of them do fine embroidery aud fancy work. Some become jewelers aud often make artictes and sueak them out of the palace to be sold. Tne women are not kept in separate palaces and each does not have an establishment of her own asin Japan. After the age of twenty- five, if they had no children, the older women become the waiting maids of the younger and the stock is replenished contin- uaiy. ‘The present king shows no inclina- tion to come down to the American one-wife principle, and during his prosent visit to the nterior he has taken & couple of score of his favorite women along with him. The Ama- zons have, I am told, been done away with at the palace. The last king had them, but though I looked through the best of pebbled glasses for them during my visit to the pal- ace, I saw not one. A MAGNIFICENT PALACE. The palace of the kinz at Bangkok was built only a few years ago. It looks much like oue of the great palaces of Europe. It has several stories, and under the bright rays of this Siamese sun it appears to be made of marble. A closer inspection shows that the marble is stucco, and golden _ele- phants, each about half which guard the entrance, change as you como near them from massive gold” to iron gilded. Wide stairways lead by marble steps through these into a great vestibule, the ceiling of which is about forty feet high and the walls of which are hung with old Siamese armor. At the rightof this is the king's audience hall. His throne is a bed, and he lies on his arm or sits Siamese fashion, a la Turk, while he receives his royal council and discusses the matters of the kingdom. The ministers and nobles sit on leather-cushioned benches, and the portraits of Siamese heroes, in oil, by European artists, look down upon them from the walls. Just back of the king there is a portrmt of a shaved-headed, crooked-mouthed, pale-faced, half-naked Buddhist priest. ' It is the high priest of the kingdom, and thus the proceedings go on un- der the very shadow of Buddha himself. The priests, by the way, claim that the royal fam- 1ly are lineal descendants of Buddha. On the other side of the vestibule is a grand reception room fully as wide und nearly as long as the east room of the white house ut Wasnington. This is paved with marble mosaic, and its high ceilings,twice as bigh as that of the east room, is gorgeously decorated with carvings of gold. Brilliant chandeliers hang down from it, and about the walls are oil puintings of the royal fam- ily. und the only ‘woman’s face among them is that of the present queen, whose sweet face looks down beside those of the king's brothers, and has the best light and the place of honor of the whole room, The fur- niture of this room is KEuropean, and the treasurcs of Europe have beeu ransacked to fill it. There ure rare vases from Dresden, fllligree work from Venice,and richly-carved gold from Siam, Through' this room and on into a third grand reception room we went, with the Siameso noble. Here the king re- ceived, the day before he left, the Austrian prince, who I have et during my stay, and who has been sent here as minister to Lhina, Japun and Siam, This room is full of beautiful things. Two of the largest elephant's tusks wonderfully carved stand beside the mantle and an album on a little stand at the back of the room has u medallion ‘roflrnll of the king painted ou porclain and set in the richest of diamonds. The corners of the room con- tain large cabinets filled with curious works in gold frem card cases ur to betel boxes, and I noticed a fine portrait of Frederick, the late emperor of Germany, amorg the many oil paintings on the wall. The audience chamber, or rather the throne room of the king, 18 & grand hall with a celling made of many colored pieces of glass and producing the same effect as the glass wall which Tiffany built between the vestibule and the long corridor of our white house. The light shinng through this makes it look as though it was made of jewels aud the room is lighted from the top. The ceilings 1 judge, fifty feet from the floor, It is vaulted and the walls below are frescoed in gold, 'I'Lree immense glass chandeliers®like those of the east room of the White House hang down from this ceil- ing and these were made for the pal- ace of the emperor of Austria, but were bouim by the king of Siam. The floor is of marble mosaic and the king sits on a Kreat chair on a rostrum at the back, Five steps lead to it and beside him are the kingly uwmbrellas and over hima nine story, da like crown of white and gold. Arnumm room there are gold trees and ra d bushes, and the leaves pf these are of pure gold, while their trunks are heavily pl-ud. ere were perhaps a dozen of these on each side of the room and they ranged from the size of & Cbristnas treo down to that of a small current bush. These are the offerings of the rulers of the various provinces under the king, They wmake these Tcunu of gold trees every year and some of them are worth fortunes. ' Not a few were of silver and the silver trees were placed oo ene #ide of the — room, while those of gold were placed on the other, THE WIITE ELEPHANTS, Siam is known as the land of the white elephant. The elephant ia the lml:erlll ani- mal of the country, ¥nd_you see his picture pon all of his flags. The old coins of the realm have an elephaut on one side of them and the white elephant is here sacred, He is the embodied spirit of some king or hero, and the people formerly worshipped him and do to some extent now. Before going to see the palace 1 had read a glowing description of the white elephant of Siam, I expected to see his tusks bound with gold, to find golden chains apout his neck and a superb velvet coat of purple, fringed with scarlet and gold, over his snow white body. What 1 did find was four wild-eyed, scraggy-look- ing elephants with long tusks and with skins not much whiter than those you see in the American circus. The only white part about them was their long flapping ears which seemed to be afflicted with the leprosy. The remainder of their skins had the white- ness only of disease, and I was told, as a rule, the white elephants of Siam are wmad elephants, These beasts were in dirty stables and they were chained by the feet to great wooden posts. They had dirty keepers and there was no sign of rayalty about them. Their keepers fed them some grass while we were present and they performed some or- dinary circus tricks for us, The glory of the white elephant has in all probability de- parted, and the elephants of the interior of Siam are made to work quite as hard as their brothers all over the -wworld, One of the punishments of Siam is the making convicts cut the grass for these royal elephants. One of them killed his keeper the other day and this same holy beast made a snap at me with his trunk when I entered his stable. FRANK G. CARPENTER, The lopement. New Orleans Times-Democrat, 1 sung beneath her silent room, My lips breathed forth the trysting word; 1 quaffed the night-balm's sweet perfume, Across the floor her footsteps stirred. A lamp soon starred the window pane, No sound rolled down the midnight street; “The ladder next the house was lain, And on its rounds were trembling feet. No sound rolled down the midnight strect, The ladder neither ereaked nor turned, And on its rounds were trembling feot] The street lamps like love’s tapers burded. I heard a mufiled stealthy tread, 1 felt my sick heart madly bound, And o'er my brow the cold drops spread— That dog my trousers seat had found. . . S - B « I felt my sick heart madly bound: The gun went off with awful boom, That dog my trousers seat had found— T sung beneath her silent room, o HONEY FOR THE LADIES. Pompadour foulards are a safe and pretty purchase at the coming season. The poplin of Ireland has taken posses- sion of Puris, and also arrived in Awmerica under flying colors. Turkish batiste 1s the nume of a new cot- ton material that is finer than cambric and more opaque than lawn. The **Collapsible” is the title bestowed upon the new bonnev that can be shut up like a fan and stowed away in muff or pocket. French cashmere is a fabric that holds its place in fashionable favor year aft r, and scason after scason, with unvarying mo- notony. Bishop sleeves will be scen upon many of the airy summer gowns, these fuli at the top and shirred into an embroidered cuff or band at the waist. Ribbons of every descrintion—wide, nar- row, and medium, and of satin, faille, bro- cade, silk ganze, and velvet—will be used upon every style of dress. A pretty empire gown from Paris,made for a Philadelphia bride, has fine clusters of English hedge roses and mignonette sprays on a ground of pale-rose satin. Miss Hattie Carter, of Keerney county, Kan., has won scveral prizes at lassooing in competition with cowboys. Of course she will join a wild west show. Tamise cloth with wide white silk ground striped in different colors is a beautiful ma- terial, and among other noveltics is the Diva costume—cloth, in all the season's newest tintings, The pretty 1dea of using only seasonable flowers upon the hat or bonnet seems wholly lost sight of this year, and fushion has lav- ishly spread out all her floral beauties at once. Many of the new tailor gowns designed for tennis, archery, boating, and mount use, are made with skirts that are_laid deep lalts, with no lining or sccond gored foundation skirt beneath. Many of the dressy straw hats and bon- nets show such a combination of braid,cither with gold galloon, ribbon, velvet or gauze, that straw scems too commonplace a title to bestow upon them. Ginghams in beautifully fine qualities, and showing immensely large plai or blocks, or stripes, in broken lines of delicate and de- licious tintings, are among the host of charm- ing summer textiles designed for morning dresses. Miss Dock, daughter of a prominent resi dent of Harrisburg, Pa., was among the Le- roic women who left’ luxurious homes to minister to the fever stricken at Jacks: ville, Fla. A correspondent says she ‘‘is making a great reputation for herself at the Sand Hills hospital as a nurse.” It is said that among the loves of bonnets end directoire and empire round hats many will be finished with ties and broad strings of crepe, lace, silk net, gauze, or crepe lisse, and 1t is a8 easy to imagine what a very pic turesque air those will impart to a Leghorn oravery vellow Italian straw hat whose shape and style will allow their being used as scarfs. . For Dyspepsia Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Dr. J. J. Williams, Denison, In., says: *T have used it largely in nervousness and dys- pepsia,and T consider that it stunds unrivalied as a rémedy in cases of this kind. 1 have also used it in cases of sleeplessness, with very gratifying results.” . ——— CONNUBIALITIES, The Indiana woman who only a short time ago was married for the seventh time is now seeking a divorce. Miss Edith Rockefeller, daughter of the great Standard oil trust monopolist, appears to have exchanged a rocky name for another feller. She is married. An Indiana girl flared up and fired a pistol at her young man because he was half an hour late one Sunday evening, and he didn’t wish to explain that he had been washing his feet. The young man in Montana who shot him- self because his sweetheart rejected him, missed one of the keenest pleasures of life. He should have married her neighbor aud ‘bought for his wife the prettiest spring bon- net that came to his town, A large party of well-dressed Italians drove up to the city hall, New York, in carriages the other day, and asked an alderman to per- form a marriage ceremony. As the bride, however, was not apparently over thirteen years old he refused. At least half a dozen couples have eloped from almshouses in the west within little more than a month. The last pair were in- mates of a poorhouse in Indiapa. The bride was blina and only nineteen—just fifty-one years younger than her partner. A “rambling courtship is described by a young man defendant for breach of promise s ‘‘walking out with & young woman to sce if the dispositions would suit each other, and 1o see whether at the right time anything would como of it.” He claims to have con- ducted a rambling courtship only. A groom in Monroe, Ga., was 80 poor that tho only fee he could give the squire was a dog, He should have kept the dog as a start toward hnuukseplui. y und by, when he ts poor enough to keep ten or twelve dogs, e could pay the squire without feeling it. A German living in Weehawkeu, N. Y, has sent @ letter to the superintendent of Casden offering him $1 if he will find a wife for him which will come up to the specifica- tions given in the letter. @ says she must be a rosy-cheeked, golden-haired Dutch girl, ears old, five feet tall, weighing not i pmmfl.sf plump, and ‘‘with a waist tapering genty from the head and feet. She must be of & modest, retiring disposition, and very industrious. No buffet should be without a bottle of Angostura Bitters, the South Amer- ican appetizer, Manufactured by Dr. J. G, pB Siegert & Sons. Ask your druggiste. CHAUTAUQUA'S W MOVE. s It Will Establish a Uhiversity Hx- tension Course. POPULAR EDUCATION AT HOME Instruction in the Higher Branches of Learningto be Given by Oir- cuit Lectureships Under Looal Auspices. Chautauqua’s New Move. Special Correspondence of Tir Ber. BAvLTIMORE, Md., April 10 NDER the leader- ship of a few public spivited and ener- gclic professors at P2 Cambridge, o syndi- A cate was formed in RS 1872 to put into operation a system of university exten= sion work among the people of Eng- land. By organized classes listen- ing to a series of circuit lectures, they proposed o bring within the reach of the common people facilities for higher eduecation extended by the colleges and universities of that country. Many of the graduates intending to follow collegiate carcers embraced the opportunity afforded for practice and experience 1n these popular lectures. It goes without saying that the move- ment was o success particularly in the city of London, where in 1887-8, over five thousand students were enrolled in the various classes. Thoe syndicate has been regularly organized for the work delegating tho different departments to separate committees. The fifteenth anniversary of the movement was cole- brated last year to the great gratifica- tion of its organizers and supporters. About two years after the formation of this English syndicate, the germ of an American system of popular educ: tion began to develop under the guid- ance of the Rev. Dr. Vincent. Chau- tauqua, N. Y., was the center of a plan to supplement the work then performed by the Sun hools of the different an outgrowth the Chau- tauqua Literary and Scientific circle soon began its career with the purpose of establishing a systemutic course of home reaqing in every town and village. Its s was surprising to all. And in t enlarged its usefulness by -ob- taining a charter of the state of New York enabling it, as the Chautauqua college of liberal arts, to confer degrees upon those who should finish the br scribed studies. 1t is a college for the people, for those who cannot leave their daily occupations to attend the distant educational institutions,. It has grad- racted to its aid, the assistance hecialists in every branch in nt: o their depurt And now theve comes an interc of the Amevican and English systems. The plan for home veading has alveady been transplanted to the mother coun- try branch of the Chatanqua is in a flourishing condition in the vicinity of Oxiord. On the other hand the Cha- authorities have issued a pros- blisnmentunder their auspices, of a system of | university-ex- tension lectur which, are to begin in the winter of 1889-90. They have gathered = together a brilliant array of talent and knowledge embodied in the various professors who are tosuperintend the work in its dif- ferent branches. The list contains the following well known names: Anthrop- ology, Major J. W, Powell, Washivg- ton. D. C.; archweology, Prof. John H. Wright, Harvard university; art his- tory, Prof. Allan Marquand, Princeton ; biology, Prof. L. M. Unde racusé university; chemi Lattimore, Rochester 1 literature, ’rof. M ethics, Prof. F. G. iversity; Englssh literatnre, Prof. F. Lafayette college; geology, James D. Dana, Yale unive iermun literature, Prof. H. G randt,. Hamilton college, Prof. H. B. Adams, Johns Hopkins un versity; Oriental litera Prof. W. RR. Harper, Yale university; Psychology Prof. B. P. Browne, Boston universi political cconomy, Prof. R. T. ily, Jolns Hopkins university; romance languages, Prof. W. 1. Knapp, Yale university: scieuce of government, Prof. Woodrow Wilson, Weslyan university; social sci olonel C. D. Wright, United States commissioner of labor. Under their oversight, but under the business munagement of a separate committee, the course will be mapoed out and the le assigned. The aims of the institution are set forth in the prospectus, First, revival in the United States of the original idea of a universi: voluntary association of students and itinerant lecturers, for higher educa- tion by means of systematic courses of local lectures upon special subjects. Secoud. The promotion of good citi- zeuship by the popular study of social science, economics, history. (ancient and modern,) hterature, political ethics and the science of government, in con- tinuous and progressive courses, under the guidance of competent tenchers. ] Third. By a course of instructive lec- tures upon such subjects as_modern as- tronomical discov climate nd weather, logy, physics, electricity and its u chemistry of arts and man- ufactures, agriculture, the human body and laws of health, anthropology, the history of art and architecture, to give students not only clear ideas of the pro- gress of science and its practical appli- cations, but also of itg fundamental principles. Fourth. By co-operation with Ameri- can colleges and other institutions of learning to supplement their educa- tional advantages by university exten- sion courses, occupying Qre or two terms, upon such subjects as are not fully provided for in thgir regular cur- riculum, l Fifth., By affiliation with publie li- bravies, mechanics’ institutes, lyceums, labor unions, guilds, Young Men’s Christian associations, local circles of the C. L. 8. C., or other literary and scientific clubs, to meet Yhejpeculiar so- cial and educational needsof different communities, Sixth, By the organization of the mostgntelligent and progressive forces in American towns to promote the higher education of the American peo- ple. By the stimulation of local en- deavor and the spirit of self-help to bring existing local agencies for popu- lar instruction to higher efliciency. By well-directed courses of university-ex- tension lectures to specialize popular Mare] Prof .interest along certain great lines of in- quiry, and thus not only to encourage systematic reading, but also to give int and method to the use of public ibraries. The attainment of these ends is to be reached by a sort of traveling college. Candidatgs for itinerant lecturships are to be appointed by the central commit- tee upon nomination by the heads of the various departments. They will deliver lectures to the local organiza- tions which select the courses desired, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY APRIL 14, 1889,~SIXTEEN PAGES FEach course will consist of twelve weekly lectures. occupyinge about an hour each. These are to roceded or followed by a class held for about three-quartars of an hour for those stu- dents who wish to become more famil- iar with the principlesof the sub‘iect. or to have their special difficulties ex- plained, but the teaching in the class 18 to be entirely conversational. A printed syllabus of each lecture is to be fue- nished, and also questions upon it which may be answered at home and submitted to the lecturer for correction and comment. Those who attend regu- larly and who have performed the re- quired number of weekly exercises may take a written examination on the com- pletion of the course. Pass-certificates are to be accepted by the Chautauqua College of Liberat Arts as counting to- ward graduation for a degree in any particular school that the student may have entered. It is desirable that the work be performed in connection with attendance on the summer school at Chautauqua, which has proved so bene- ficial during the last few years. Any town which is prepared to fur- nish an audience and to guarantee the payment for a course of twelve lectures may designate any subject offered by the university extension committee. Local expenses must be defrayed by the local committee. The charge for the lectures is #350. This amount can of course be made up by the sale of tickets, and certainly when divided among a fair number of attendunt students would be exceedingly low for a first class education in any one branch. The expectation is also expressed that asystem of traveling libraries in con- nection with the local lectures may be organized. These would comprise books treating only the technicalities of the subject and would serve to supplement 8 {BORIBIBIIE ARG B VAL COVIEBHOHE: This plan, of course, is nomoney mak- ing scheme and is to result in nothing more substantial than satis ion_and glovy to its originators. But, incident- ally, it will open the field for a great addition to the visible supply of college professors and it will enable the gentlemen at the head of the vari- ous departments to assist their collegi- ate proteges to remunerative occupa- tions. This has been made a paying business by two professors who have been giving similar courses of lectures during the past winter in Buffalo, St. Louis and Columbus. As to the effectiveness and usefulnes of this prospective institution, thery are differing opinions, as on every ques- tion of impurtance. The main object is to provide higher education for persons of all classes und of both sexes, engaged in the regular oceupations of life. It is generally acknowledged that instruc- tion exclusively by lectures can bring its greatest benefits only to those who have already engaged in considerable advanced study. To be sure, the con- versational classes in connection with the lectures will remedy this defect to certain extent, but conversation ex- an not hope to reach the thor- shown 1n the modern college. Higher education can not be obtained before one has acquired the rudiments of the subject. It would be like building achurch from the steeple downward. The only v to reach the lower classes is to begin with the primary schools. But it is not to be argued that this in- novation will do no good whatever, al- though it may fail in its principal pur- pose. It will undoubtedly help many who have passed through the ordinary public schools to continue their studies. It will arouse many who have fallen asleep to rencwed action. It will stimulate interest in the other educa- tional institutions, such as libraries and muscums. 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ALK, transportation for such of the articles. goous, and supplies that 2y 1ot be contructed for 10 be delivered at the agen Blds must be supplies required for each agency and the kinds and quantities i gross, of ul other goods and articles, togetaer with blank proposils, conditions to b obsurved Ly bidders, 1 pl delivery, terms of contrach , transportation routes, and all ry instructions will be furnished ion to the Indian Office in Washe u 67 Wooster strect, New of Bubsistence ' U Leayenworth, Oma nd ¥an Franc A,, at Cheyenue, Chica, Salny Lo Arkunans City d Wichita, Tho right iy 1 by the go nt Lo Fefect any and all bids, or any parg y Lid, and these proposals are invited proviso thut appropiistion shall be made for the supplies by Congross. Iiids will' be opened atthe hourand dayabove stated, and # wre lvited Lo be present at the opening, Certitiod Chec I Dids must be accome panied by certified checks or Arafts upon some Jnited States Depostiory or te ¥irst Natioyal Bunk of Los Angeles, Cal . for at least 876 cent of the amount of the proposal. OBERLY Commissioner, u NESS, GURED R ARSI ke, Ve THOOX 0w Var WRir e ELLARY b BOUK o FACUTSe PR o B4 e ————————