Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 29, 1902, Page 19

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE UNCLE SAM'S LECAL GUIDE Ubaracter Bketoh of Philander Chase Knox, Attorney General, HIS INCOME AS A PRACTICING LAWYER Wotable Features of the Carepr of the | Present Cabinet Minister<A Tire- Worker with a Re- markable Memory. Tews WASHINGTON, June 28.—When Philander Chase Knox, who as attorney general of the | United States is conducting the prosecution agalnst the Beef trust, entered the cabinet he relinquished a private law practice of | $200,000 a year. The firm of Knox & Reed | always demanded and received large fees for their profess al services The story of the Indlanapolis street rail- way case, the last great argument made | by Mr. Knox before he came to Washington, 18 fllustrative. He was anxious to go to Europe for a rest when the pressure upon him to argue this case before the supreme court became so strong that, to rid himself of turther importunity, he named a fee to the company which he believed would be probibitive. To his surprise it was ac- cepted instantly; he argued the case in con- Junction with the late ex-President Ben) min Harrison, and won General Harrison evidently regarded P. C. Knox as a secondary consideration in the presentation of the case, though the consensus of the opinfon was that Knox bad carried the court irresistibly by the masterful character of his argument. Some time later Harrison and Knox met on the board walk of Atlantic City, and after an exchange of clvilities, the ex-president, In & manaer that was not altogether free from & patronizing alr, sald “By the way, Knox, how did you come out In the settlement of your account with the Indianapolls Street Railway company? 1 got $25,000 out of them for my services.” “I am very glad to hear it, general,’” re- plted Knox pleasantly. Then in a modestly deferential way he continued: “I got $125,- 000." ““What!"” blurted the ex-president, over- whelmed with astonishment. Then, appre- elating the embarrassment of the situation he wheeled and continued his walk without another word. Knox a Country Banker's Son. Phil Knox, as he was known then and as +he is known today among his intimates in western Pennsylvania, was 16 years of age when he left home to attend Mount Unlon college, Ohlo. He was born in Brownsville, Fayette county, Pa., May 6, 1853. His father was & country banker, a boyhood friend of James G. Blaine, who sent his son to the public achools until he was ready for col- lege. He was graduated in 1872 and im- medlately registered as a law student in the office of H. Bucher Swope, Pittsburg. No two natures were more dissimilar than preceptor and pupll. Swope, then United States district attorney for the wegtern dis- trict of Pennsylvania, was nervous, flery, impetuous, aggreesive and master of the greatest vocabulary of vitriolic adjectives that was ever exhibited in a district court room. At all times, however, his dictlon was polished, and in this respect his pupil owes much to the master, though the for- mer was Swope's antithesis, cool, eelf-re- strained, a natural logiclan and a rhetori- clan whose command of language is still charmingly exact. P. C. Knox was admitted to the bar in 1875 and in 1877 formed a partnership with James H. Reed, another young lawyer, the son of a Pittsburg physician. The career of these young men for the first few years ve no hint of phenomenal success. They ere chaperoned by no advantageous cir- cumstances; they had no influential friends in the background; they wera generally regarded an energetic palr who pos- d no advantages above other junior members -of the bar. He “Grew Up” with Pittsburg. But Pittsburg was then heading for in- ternational fame. Conditions were shap- ing themselves for the mgn who had wit and wisdom to mount the crest of waliting advantage. In the same class with “Phil” &Knox and “Jim" Reed in point of brains and energy, and equally as unknown, were Henry Clay Frick, subsequently president of the Carnegle company; Congressman John Dalzell; James M. Guffey, the phenomenally successful ofl producer and millionaire, natlonal committeeman from Pennsylvania and head of the democratic party In that state; George T. Oliver, then a small owner, now a multi-millionaire and director of a great syndicate of Pitts- burg newspapers, and John T. Chambers, the largest Individual glass producer in the United States, at that period a partner in a struggling concern on the South Side, Pittsburg. During his career in Pltteburg “Phil” Knox was known as a tireless worker. He frequently appeared at the office in the morning before any of the others had ar- rived, when his sole companion was tho office boy. This was particularly true when be nad & great case on hand, for it was his unvarying rule never to leave any of the preparation of a great action to a subordinate or junior member. Bvery doc- ument, letter, reference or scrap of in- formation on evidence was examined by himself. It was no uncommon thing for him to spend elghteen or twenty hours & There are some men who seem to be favorites of fortune. are indue- trious, cheerful workers, to over- flowing of the energy of health, and success seems fairly to into their hands, It isof as these that the less hardy and less success- ful man says enviously, *That fellow v—dbonwul_- spoon in fi mouth.” And yet on analysis it will - be found that —_— this success is largely dn; to splendid health, the endowment - healthy mother. Dr. ce's Favorite Prescription gives the mother health to give her child. It cures nervousness, nausea and less- ness. It makes the bod{ comfortable and t the mind content. ves {:y ical vliw and muscular elasti 80 that the baby's advent is practically painless. 1 will endeavor to tell benefits 1 have derived Favorlte Prescription. ” writ tou. of Medicine Bas the of 1 wis ex) o4 Tastier ad SNred tereibiy wilh paine Ia the back of head ; in fact I ached all over. Suffered with“awful bearing-down paina; I was threat: ened for weeks with mi A lady fric 1914 me to uee Dr. Plarce's medicines. Bhe ha taken them and feit ke & new woman, 1 the * Favorite Prescription ' and took before my baby came and two wards. 1 suffered almast death two children, but hard) sick whea this baby was twelve and on rter mn She s now eleven mouths old and has never known sa Bour's sickaess; at present she weighs thirty: pounds h wmy other realized that | wes d she hed 1 owe it all to Dr. P The Day We Ceiebrate | The day which we make our national festival is not a very happy ome, in theory, to the greater number of Ameri- can women. except Tn spite of all their patriotism, they afe obliged to dread it before it ar- rives, and to be glad when |t yesterday. has become As a general thing it brings them only work, anxiety and crashing head- aches. The preparation of plenic baskets, the addition to the dinner if at home, the making ready of the pretty clothes that are expected to be worn on the day—of all that they seldom complain. But what they do object to is the barbarous manner in which boys and men are allowed to make merry, which would be disgraceful to a Flji lslander, which destroys sleep and peace and health, the perpetual shocks of the explosions keeping the nerves on the rack. Added to this 1s the fear that the house will be reduced to ashes by the silly firecrackers, or a child will be brought home to have the gunpowder picked out of his face, or with fewer fingers, ears, or eyes, than those he had when he left for his rald. Perhaps one day we shall abolish much of this exciting cause of trouble. People may come to perceive that the symbols of battle and bloodshed give a poor and wrong expression to the love of that coun- try in whose existence Is the hope of hu manity, and under whose fostering influ- ence the peace and well-being of the world shall in time be assured. Then other and finer ways of showing patriotism will be Soothing Patriots With Money The charge which is being made now against General Wood of having paid Gomez a large sum of money to secure his influ- ence with the military element in Cuba reminds a writer in the Washington Post of the same charge made in 1847, when President Polk asked congress to appro- priate $2,000,000 to secure peace with Mex- ico. That sum was to be employed in se- curing the return to power of Santa Anna, who, it was stated, had agreed to make peace upon the terms dictated by our gov- ernment. It was sald (hat Santa Anna, while a prisoner in this country, in his anxiety to return to power in Mexico, had offered if his return was secured to agree to such terms as were most favorable to the United States. In the great speech by Corwin in the senate on the 17th of February, 1847, he alludes to the capture of Santa Anna and his whole army of 750 Texans, under Gen- eral Houston, then also In) the senate, with a loss of only three or four men. This was the famed battle of/ San Jacinto, and Governor Corwin in his speech objecting to the appropriation for additional troops al- luded to this battle, and complimented General Houston, then within sound of his volce, and argued if, with that small force of men, the Mexican army and its com- mander were defeated, he could not under- stand why the already large force in Mexico was not sufficient to conquer a peace in- stead of purchasing it. He subsequently, however, voted for the bill, and in another speech, delivered on the 1ith of March, 1847, stated why he refused to vote for the bill then pending, asking for $2,000,000. His first speech contains an expression which relegated him for some years to private life, and in which he said “If I were a Mexican, I would tell you, Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men? If you come into mine, we will greet you with bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves. Corwin, in after years, while secretary of the treasury under Mr. Fillmore, com- plained that very few of his party asso- clates sustained him in the position he took at that time, and though its effect person- ally was almost banishment from the public councils, yet none doubted the integrity or the courage of his convictions, and he lost none of the respect and love which fol- lowed him to the end of his life. The charge that the appropriation asked was to be used in securing Santa Anna’ return to power defeated the first appro- priation asked for $2,000,000, but at the next scssion of congress the request for the ap- propriation, raised to $3,000,000, was passed. Mr. Webster and other leading whigs, who had opposed the first appropriation, voted for the increased amount. found, ways of expressing joy that shall be quite as eatisfactory as the nolsy and savage methods of the present—methods of the same nature as those of the ghost dance of the Indian tribes, or as the mad rude way in which the Dahomey chiefs re- Jolce. The Fourth of July, nevertheless, is a day that has & peculiar interest and significance for women, and they are fain to join in its celebration, whether they like the man- ner of it or not. For in mo country of Christendom do women receive the recogni- tion that they have in this one. Whatever may still be lacking to them in measure of justice here, yet nowhere else do they have the protection to their persons and their possessions that is given to them under the American flag. In Europe, where you see the women yoked with the dog or the cow; In China, where their feet are crippled; in polygamous countries, where they are the slaves of the harem, women are often merely an appanage, an object of utility or pleasure. In the United States they recelve their measure of justice and right, such as It is, not for their beauty or grace or charm or sex, but as individuals with a stake in the country. Men and women being, together, really the unit of the race, the measure of right that benefits one cannot but benefit the other. and In as far as men have risen under the great sky of our liberty, women The death of Hon. John P. Stockton of New Jersey recalls the extreme partisanship which deprived him of his seat in the sen ate. The first clvil rights bill was passed by the two houses of congr the demo- cratic party could offer but feeble resist- ance. On March .27, 1865, President John- son vetoed the bill, and with but little de- lay in the eenate It was passed over the president’s veto—33 to 12—and on that oc: caslon Senators Cowan and Norton left the republican party and voted with the demo- crats “The Freedman's Mr. Johnson also vetoed, could not he passed over his veto, ms the votes and tions of Senators Reverdy Johnson and Stockton prevented f{t. Mr. Johnson was engaged in an argument before one of the courts of Baltimore when a telegram from Senator Stockton reached him, informing him the vote on that bill would be taken in an hour or two. A locomotive was placed at his-disposal by the Baltimore & Ohio rallroad, in whose service he was en- gaged before the court, and he reached the city in an hour and prevented the passage of the bill over the president's veto. bureau bill,"” which This act of Mr. Stockton in telegraphing for Mr. Johnson and voting against the majority of the senate sealed his fate, for it was determined by the relentless ma- Jority to rid the senate of one who had been deaf to the warning conveyed to him should he array himself on the eide of his conviction and sustain the veto of that pet measure of the reconstructionists of the republican party. Mr. Stockton's case was referred to a commlittee composed of five republicans and two democrats, and on thelr report that he was legally elected he obtalned his seat. The absence of his colleague, Mr. Wright, from his seat in the senate by fllness in- duced him to vote for himself, as his state would otherwise have been unrepresented on this most vital question. It was elther Friday or Saturday that the vote alluded to was taken, and that night it was de- termined to reconsider the vote by which he was declared entitled to his seat. Mr. Poland, who had voted for him, was in- duced on Monday to move a reconsideration, and then, disregarding all precedent and unwritten law, more binding that the stat- utes, as it rested upon the honor of the senators, the majority contrived to vent their spite and carry out their threat by unseating the senator whom only a few days before they had declared legally elected. Their mode of procedure {s worth re- cording, for it marks their desperate re- solves to tolerate no opposition. Mr. Some Criticisms by Harrite Prescott Spofford. have risen with them, and not anywhere else on earth has there been such an achievement in the advancing of the whole generation of women as under this flag, that today, more than ever, seems beautiful as a great bountiful flower when waving against the sky, and beneath whose starry folds women have a larger outlook, a higher reach, a surer grasp, a greater security, & nobler honor, a firmer future.. Here the genius of the country has taught the boy to respect his mother as the boy of old—love her though he might with all bis heart—never dreamed of doing: to re- gard his sister as on a plane of equality; to despise no woman because she is & woman, And he knows that she owes all this to the independence of this country from the old world influence and greed, which has opened to every one all the avenues of freedom, enlarging the borders of thought and fecling and consequent action and all the possibilities of growth. The flag, then, means more to American women than the flag of any other country can mean to the women beneath it. And they endure for the sake of it all the horrors of the volleylng Fourth, eaying to themselves of the flag, whenever and wherever they see it: “It is my safeguard, my glory and my ehleld, and feeling as Browning did when he saw his own na- tional ensign off Cape St. Vincent, Trafal- gar, and Gibraltar: ‘Here, and here, did England help me—how can I help England, say!* " Stewart of Nevada was fnduced to absent himself and when a friend of Mr. Stockton asked him to return, as he had voted for Stockton, he said: “No, you must get along without me this time.”” Hon. Solomon Foote of Vermont, who was detained at home by sickness, telegraphed the request that the vote on Mr. Stockton's case be delayed until he could reach Washington, as he had thoroughly Investigated it and desired to record his vote in favor of Mr. Stockton. His request was disregarded. Then came the crowning iniquity of the desperate majority. Senator Lot Morrell of Maine wae ‘‘paired” with Mr. Wright of New Jersey and for the first time in all legislative history, to unseat a political op- ponent, he broke his “pair’ without even informing the gentleman who had relied on his honor. This senator died with the distinction of being the only member of any legislative body in the world who violated that un- written code of honor. When the fllness of Mr. Foote and Mr. Wright were urgel as reasons for postponement the majority rivaled their Puritan antecedents by say- ing that “Providence had placed the power in their hands by dispensation.” Precedents for the Gomez Case. Mr. Blalne, in his “Twenty Years In Congress,”” speaking of the unseating of Mr. Stockton, to whom he refers in the most complimentary terms, says: “The constitu- tion had been strained to exchange Mr. Stockton for a republican senator, sure to succeed him, and it would not have been done had the margin been broader and the need not so great for a two-thirds ma- Jority.” The state of New Jersey returned Mr. Stockton to the eenate for the ensuing six years to rebuke by his presence the outrage by which, for a time, they secured the two- thirds majority. The Spartan band of democrats fought the Iniquities of the reconstruction meas- ures and the force bill inch by inch, using with great skill the parliamentary expedi- ents designed to protect a minority, which enabled them In some measure to restrain and eventually to eave the southern states from the crowning act of oppression. For forty-six and a half hours they presented an unbroken front to the enemy of the rights of the south and defeat after defeat 80 wore out the courage and stremgth of their assallants that at last they ylelded and an adjournment took place. It should never be forgotten by the south that the unyielding ‘courage of the late Samuel J. Randall protected them from this Infquity, for during all those hours he never left his seat. Southern representatives seemed, however, to have had a very brief memory of that service, for at the next election for speaker he was defeated by southern votes. day In the preparation of a case. This has developed a rare faculty of selt- control which invades even the domain of sleep. Day or night the attorney general can awaken at any hour or at the end of any period of time which he may have de- | termined. He can take a half hour nap and awaken himself on the minute. Knox an Barly Riser. In Washington the early rising habit s a feature of his daily life. He is up at § o’clock and breakfasts with his family at 8 The intervening two hours are spent be- hind his famous roadsters, “Wert" and “B. C." a team that cost $9,500, and which, driven by the attorney general two years ago, lowered the world's pole record for a gentleman's team to 2:121 and 2:10%. These horses were trained by General Knox himself, and one of the familiar sights vouchsafed to early risers in the suburbs of Washington is that of the attorney gen- eral in cap and duster spinning along the country roads, or climbing the helghts of the Potomac in & light wagon behind his favorite team. Outdoor life is the attorney general's hobby, although he declares that in no respect 18 he faddist. He loves to hunt and fish and play golf. He is a charter member of the Castalia club, one of the most wealthy and exclusive hunting and fishing clubs ip the United States. It controls an fmmense game preserve near Sandusky, O., where Mr. Knox and his family have spent a fortnight or two every year for the last half dozen years. The feat of the attorney general in low- ering the pole record for gentlemen drivers of the world was a surprise to everybody except Mr. Knox himself. He made a study of the horses for weeks before the trial on the Brunot island’s private track below Pittsburg. He marked all their peculiarities of temper and motion. In these practice epins “Wert" the pole horse. One dav in June, 1900, apparently without reason and against the vigorous protest of drivers and trainers, Mr. Knox put “Wert" on the other side of the pole. He knew just what be was doing, however, and the record breaktug whirl began. He gave the team & loose rein, mever the touch of the whip, but now and then encouraging them with s word. The result of it was a smashed world's record. “They Are All Cold and H " The attorney general is a man of gen- erous impulse, who never permits any rec- ord of his benefactions to become public. A characteristic instance s related by a prominent and wealthy woman who ecalled on bim {n behalf of & charity organisation immediately following the great blizzard of 1898 in western Pennsylvania. She solicited » contribution for coal and food and the response was & check for a very conside able sum, so large in fact that it led the startled woman to inquire: “How do you wish this money applied, Mr. Knox™ T | are worthy and unworthy poor, T know, but | they are all cold and hungry,” was the an- | swer. One of the most striking characteristies of the attorney general is his remarkably | retentive memory. He never forgets a | | name or face. A gentleman who had busi- | ness with the department relates this incl- | ‘dl*n(. The attorney general had written to him months before on a matter in which the visitor was greatly interested. The let- ter was one of 1,000 similar ones, perhaps, dictated by General Knox. In the course of conversation the visitor quoted a sen- tence from his letter. “I never wrote such a sentence,” eald | General Knox. “But you certalnly did; very distinctly.” “If T wrote those words then I confess I am losing my memory,” insisted the at- torney general. The letter-copying book | Wwas seat for and General Knox pointed out the sentence, but not as the visitor had quoted It. Philander C. Knox has always been a re- publican. The only office he ever held prior to his call to Washington was that of as- stant United States district attorney for the western district of Peonsylvania for one year In 1876 and ‘7 He has never made a political speech. He has neither state, city or precinct at his back or under his control. In giving reasons for his ap- pointment President McKinley sald: “His lntimate knowledge of corporate law and his standing In his profession alone bave led me to decide upon Mr. Knox ae Attorney Genmeral Grigg's successor.” Thoroughly Clubable Man. Although he 1s verging on 50 years of age, he looks five years younger. He is of me- dium helght, full-faced and smooth-shaven. Phrenologists would say that his eyes indi- cate unusual comand of language; they are full eyes, dark and expressive. The mouth and jaw indicate firmness, the forehead is high and hair brown, changing into gray. Whether in court or in private conversation General Knox speaks with great delibera- tion, carefully choosing his-words, though when roused he expresses bimself with all the vigor necessary emphasize an opinion. Y I remember it to He 18 not a soclety man; rather the at- torney general 1s a *clubable man.” He has been president of the Pennsylvania Ba assoclation and the Duquesne club of Pitt He 15 & member of the Union league und Lawyers' olub of New York, besides other clubs in Philadelphia and Pittsburg, His Washington home Is on K street, two short squares from the Department of Jus- tice. It is the former George W. Childs residence and was purchased recently by General Knox for the sum of $170,000. The Pittsburg home of the Knoxes is on Ell worth avenue, a large, magnificently fur- mished stone house, standing on & slight eminence surrounded by sloping lawns and entirely concealed by paintings of Indian and frontier life executed on the pelts of f wild animals by A. F. Harmer of Califor- nia, a painter whom Mr. Knox speclally engaged for this work. The family of General Knox consists ot his wife, who was formerly Miss Smith, daughter of one of the pioneer iron manu- facturers of Pittsburg, three sons and a daughter, the latter just reaching woman- hood. The Knoxes are Protestant Episco- palians, Mr. Knox being a vestryman in the Church of the Ascension, Pittsburgz. Discussing religlious creeds one day with some of his friends, the attorney general in reply to & question as to his belief, said “My creed Is to live for those I love and to do all the good I can.” PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. “You're up pretty early ‘Willle,”” saild the milkman. “Yeh,” replled Willie, without looking up from his dime novel. “Mom sent me ter bed las’ night jest as Handsome Harry wuz goin' ter rescue the beauteous maiden.” this morning, Father—What? Fighting? Haven't I told you if an enemy smite thee upon one cheek you should turn the other to him? Tommy—Yes, sir, but you told me, too, that it was ‘““more blessed to give than to receive.” Joseph Jefferson, asked by one of his little friends to hear him recite his lesson in an- clent history, put this question: “Who was Atlas?" “A glant who was supposed to support the world,” answered the child. “Oh, he supported the world, did he?" “Yes, “Well, who supported Atlas? The little fellow was nonplussed for a moment, but after a little thought sald: “I guess he must have married a rich wife.” That a boy with a square chin possesses much the same attributes as a man with & similar contour was amply {llustrated to the parents of Arthur. That young hopeful came o to dinner triumphantly displaying a four-leat clover. Vhen you find that kind of a clover it's a sign someone lkes you,” he announced, proudly. ‘Well, I guess it must mean me. you, Artle,” put In his sister M “No, it doesn't mean you, Ma; Arthur, regretfully but firmly. Marjorie Brooks.” ““But you can't have Marjorie,” spoke up the elder boy, who wi two years Arthur's senjor. “‘Sh my girl." “Now, you see here, Charlle,” sald Arthur, his square chin getting squarer, “when Mar- Jorie got her hair cut you wouldn't have her ‘cos she looked like a boy, so I took her, and now, ‘cos her hair is long an’ she looks like 1 like politely returned “It means 0ld shade trees. The striking feature of .un- Bome is the Ubrary, whose walls ar a girl agaln you want her back, But you can't bave ber. Can he. pat" We Show the Largest Stock We Sell the Greatest Variety We Make the Lowest Prices We arrange terms to suityou Compare (Quality Prices and Terms Western Originators of $5 Monthly Payments THE NEW HARDMAN 27 BABY GRAND. The Greatest Success of Modern Piano-Building. Only 5 feet and 8 inches long, yet containing all the finest points of the Concert Grand. We are Piano Manufacturers Our Guarantee covers every de- tail of their construetion. 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Flowers, Plants, ons and Among the most interesting evidences of results in the last year's work among the grade puplls of the public schools of the city are the carefully prepared reports of the nature study work as furnished by the teachers of the various grades and last week placed on file in the office of the su- perintendent. Complaints of educators of the lack of familiarity among city children with na- ture and its products, and of the serious- ness of this deficlency, have occasioned spasmodic Interest in these subjects at dif- ferent times and maintained for a number of years some study of nature in all of the grades, but there has been no systematic outline followed, and as a result, while the pupils have absorbed a great deal of val- uable information, they have chiefly in- vestigated the things most convenient or interesting to them, doing much duplicate work and losing much that is valuable and interesting in the things that chanced to | be more remote. Incidentally, considerable botany and some zoology was taught and many useful lessons from life learned, the tendency and readiness of the children to apply them at last ipfiuencing the board to incorporate the study of nature In the regular course of study, and last fall a new plan was adopted which provides a definite outline for each grade, giving each certain flowers, & well known vegetable, & tree and a bird, and offering suggestions for practically car- rying on the study. In the main, however, the teachers were left to pursue the work according to their own judgment, and to what extent the na- ture study has been & success is shown by | thelr reports. Practical Work of the Schools. Nearly every school yard has its flower | beds where seeds were planted and flowers | cared for until they blossomed. It was the same with the vegetables, which were care- fully cultivated until ready to use. The custom of planting trees on Arbor day was | especially helptul in the study of trees, while the bird study furnished a mnever | tailing source of interest. In studylng the flowers and vegelables (he puplls became famillar with all the seeds, bulbs or cuttings and with the proper time and manner of planting them. The kinds of soil were also studied, together with the preparation and cultivation neces- gary to produce the best results. Having the entire year for the study of these things, there has been time for care- ful observation of all the changes and de- velopment, few of which have escaped the children, their numerous experiments and questions taxing the teachers for proper answers. In this manner the habit of fn- terest in the cultivation and care of flow- ers and vegetables has been stimulated, and aside from the beds in the school yards It is estimated that between 8,000 and 10,000 little gardens in the home yards have re- sulted this spring from the study. And then there has been amother gain to the children that has been even more | | noticeable than these material results. | | that | school | terest | their games, one teacher moticing that her class which had been studylng the robin, | dislike for compositions and oral language lessons is no longer felt, for the keen inter- est in the things they have investigated has given the children thoughts to express and their observations and experiments bave furnished material for compositions and stories that they find pleasant to pre- pare. There is so much to tell about those little meeds that were so carefully planted and of the great difference between | the plants that spring from them and those rank intruders called weeds thai in spite of the most watchful attention will spring up in the carefully prepared bed. And so each of the branches furnish unlimited material, the extent to which the children have grasped their subjects surprising all Secrets of the Trees. The study of trees and birds has been more difficult, but even more Interesting. Last fall the fallen leaves were brought to the school room and the vgrious shapes, colors and varieties examined and dis- cussed until all were familiar with them. Then the bark was studied and In many cases the different kinds, with leaves from the same tree, were mounted on card- board and used about the room for dec- orations. As the secason progressed the buds were examined and during the cold weather much interest was felt In those were frostbitten and the comparison of them ju the normal buds, the difference being carefully noted. In the spring when the buds began swelling small branches were brought to the school room, placed in water and their development watched with interest until they had matured sufficiently for the puplls to recognize them. This progress was watched with the keenest | interest. Acorns and Dpu.s were also | studied and in the spring almost all of the classes were taken to the parks, where they readily recognized the friends they | had been studying all winter. One teacher | relates her experience with a class nm‘ was studying the linden tree. As there happened to be no tree of this variety in the vicinity of the hool the puplls were asked to look about and see where the nearest linden tree could be found. Soon | one was located seven blocks from the | The distance seemed to make no difference in the interest of the children, who visited It and studied it between school hours every day for a week and at the end of that time produced a splendid set of | compositions on the linden tree. Watching the Birds, It was the bird more than anything else that the puplls enjoyed, and espectally among the younger children was this in- | and its profit most noticeable. In the autumn the story was told of the bird's long journey to the south and of his re- | turn in the spring; also that of the bird | who remains here during the cold weather, | these latter belng carefully watched and pictures of the others brought to the school |room to fix the different kinds in the minds of the children. With the return of spring it was wondered_which would be the first child to see the olass biid and needless (o 81y the early comers were detected as soon us they arrived and every little characteristio being noticed and described with surpris- |ing accuracy in the enthusiastic accounts that were given. Even the kindergartners had made these | discoveries, which they soon show o | in playing the game known as “the robin's | " it was the child who wore blue that was invariably chosen for the part of the egE Next year the work will be resumed and the teachers will have these records of this year's work to help them, while the children will have the foundation for an | — 502 BROADWAY, COUNCIL BLUFFS. OLORAD The way to get the best ace GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE WHY? It is the only direct line o Colorado Springs and Manitou. It is the popular route to Denver, It has the best Dining Car Service, It has the finest equipment and gives choice of three fast daily trains to Colorado. Rocky Mountain Limited leaves Omaha 6.50 a. m., arrives Den- ver 8.45 p. m., Colorado Springs (Man- itou) 8.30 p. m. Big &5 leaves Omaha 1.30 p. m., arrives Den- ver 7.45 a. m., Colorado Springs (Man- itou) 7.35 a. m., Pueblo 9.10 a. m. 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