The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 1, 1895, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, J E 1, 1895. TRIBUTES TO MR, SWETT. Reception Tendered Him by the Teachers of San Francisco. MEMORIAL ALBUM PRESENTED. Presentation Speech by A. L. Mann and Address by Deputy Super- Intendent Babcock. The public-school teachers of this City tendered a reception to ex-Superintendent John Swett at the Girls’ High School last evening, when a2 handsome volume con- taining tributes from a committee selected by the teachers, on his retiring from office, to represent them, was presented to him. An informal reception preceded the pre- sentation. Mr. Joseph O'Connor, princi- pal of the Horace Mann Grammar School, called the committee to order and invited Mr. Swett and the committee to the plat- form. The orchestra from the Horace Mann School, the mandolin club from the Poly- technic High School and a chorus from the Normal School provided music. Owing to the enforced absence of City Buperintendent A. J. Moulder owing to illness, Deputy Superintendent Babcock made the address of welcome, in the course of which he said it would require the wisdom and eloquence of a Webster to do justice to the life and labors of the vet- eran educator, who had builded ‘better than he knew.” In behalf of the teachers, the pupils and the School Board of San Francisco he de- sired to extend to him the heartiest of wel- comes. He read a letter from Superin- tendent Moulder indorsing the compli- ment to Mr. Swett in the reception, and re- | “‘a man who had devoted | ferred to him as the best energies of his life to the educa- tional interests of California for more than a generation and who had left his impress on the schools of the State.” A. L. Mann in a highly eulogistic speech resented the memorial album to Mr. Swett. Referring to the monogram on the silver embossed volume he “These letters stand for John Swett, a name that stands in educational annals with those of Emma Willard and Ho found on the title page of that educational classic, ‘Methods of Teaching’; in golden letters on the wall of one of our finest schools, and that is engraven on the hearts of the pupils and teachers as the ‘master builder of the school system of California.’§ In response Mr. Swett expressed grati- tude for the sentiments uttered, said that the conscientious discharge of his duties had brought blame as well as prai in its wake, and that fact made him appre- ciate recognition of his work the more. In closing, he made humorous allusion to his rivileges as a private ci n at Martinez. the Girls’ High School, and contains an introduction by A. C. Mann, followed by monographs on Mr. Swett as a teacher by Miss Jean Parker, as State Superintendent by L. A. White, as City Superintendent by Miss Amelia Griffiths, as"an author by Albert Leyser, as a_benefactor by Miss Agnes Manning and Joseph O'Connor. Following are ex- tracts from each of these tribute: John Swett’s work as a teacher has given him wide opportunity to exercise sympathy for those who must Wwin in an upward way through struggle. end his heart always went out to these children, cld or young, who Mann, that is | thatis seen | considerable quantity of the deadly poison in her stomach. The following will be witnesses before the Coroner to-day: Fanny Raynor, 1403}4 Folsom street; Dr. Griffiths, 1340 Hayes street; O. W. Winthrop, John Benirage and Howard Smith of Laurel Hill ceme- tery; Kittie Burton, 2i01 Hyde street; Mabel Bowen, 2107 Hyde; Mrs. C. Hayden, 502 Broderick; Mrs. Gedge, 1222 Jackson; Edwin Matthews and Miss Matthews, 502 Broderick; Miss Corbett, Dr. yon Buelow, C. L. Morgan and Mrs. J. C. Dolan, 312 Hickory avenue. Therfgllow’mg jurors will sit on the case: L. Poznanovich, 23 Van Ness avenue; H. Mangels, 239 Hayes street; M. Moses, 305 Hayes; John Elder, 315 Hayes; S. Mc- Faull, 341 Hayes; J. C. Owen, 401 Hayes; J. McEnroe, 443 Hayes; C. C. Rivers, 500 Hayes, and T. H.” Van Norden, 1215 Steiner. - g Tt is expected that on_ the advice of his counsel Winthrop will refuse to testify. The police, however, seem confident that enough testimony will be given at the in- quest to warrant a verdict of murder. INTHE MALAY PENINSULA, Mr. Wildman Lectures to the Geographical Society of California. The Beautles of Johore and of the Straits of Malacca Illus- trated. Hon. Rounsevelle Wildman, ex-United States Consul-General at Singapore, at | present editor of the Overland Monthly, delivered an illustrated lecture on ‘“Johore and the Malay Peninsula’ at Golden Gate Holl last night. The lecture was under the auspices of the Geographical Society of California, and was the last of the course. About 200 invited guests of the society were seated in the hall, and thoroughly en- joyed the descriptions given by Mr. Wild- | man and the beautiful scenes shown on the canvas. The speaker was introduced by Eli P. Sheppard, e-president of the society, who took occasion to say that during the | past year a large addition in membership | bad been gained, San Francicco being | largely represented. He also took pleas- ure in stating that Lieutenant Jephson and Dr. Voorsanger would sit as its represen- tatives at the meeting of the Royal Geo- grapnical Society in London in July. r. Wildman began his lecture by a short review of the history of the Malays from the time when that bold navigator, | Sir Francis Drake, sailed into the Straits | of Malacca and found the Dutch and the lpormiuese teaching them tricks of trade | | | they had not learned when Solomon’s ships touched at _their ports for the gola and peacocks and apes of Ophir. That was in 1578, and it was not long before the | Malays were ground between the upper and the nether millstones. Dutch and Portuguese trading methods and British encroachment forced them into the waters to become pirates to prey on every flag that flew. Following down, with a brief disserta- tion on the habits and dress of the natives, | the lecturer took his hearers through the [bustling city of Singapore, with its Mo- | hammedan mosques and Chinese temples | on _every corner, with its three brands of policemen, each tended to keep the other | in line, to the native principality of Johore, i where the Sultan, a handsome, progressive | man, lived in the most sumptuous state. | The beautiful streets, the openwork archi- | tecture in the land of daily rains, where | the natives perch high and keep dry and the Chinese live on the ground and wallow |in mud, were all shown with fine effect. TITLE PAGE OF THE RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED TO PROFESSOR JOHEN SWETT BY THE SAN FRANCISCO TEACHERS. needed a chance to work out of dark shades into the light of higher intelligence. Eastern educators often speak of Hon.John Swett as the Horace Mann of California. Our citizens bless the man who laid the founda- tion of the free public school of California. As City Buperintendent Mr. Swett has stamped our schools with his own marked in- dividuality—alert, progressive, active, practi- cal. The literary work of John Swett' marks an epoch in the creation of a literature of educa- tion in the United States. He was a path- finder to the hitherto undiscovered bourne of &n ideal American school system. The schools and teachers of San Francisco County never had a better friend than John Swett. After all, I believe the secret of John Swett’s wonderful success in educational endeavor is to be found in Swett, the man, rather than in Swett, the teacher. The singing right heartily of ‘‘Auld Lang Syne'’ was the close of an evening that will be memorable. ‘WHENEVER the Government wants the most trustworthy article and the best in quality it prefers the Royal, as this brand was found to be superior to all others in leavening power by the official chemical tests, made at the instance of the Govern- ment, in the Agricultural Department at ‘Washington. THE MATTHEWS INQUEST. A Crowd of Witnesses Will Be Exam- ined and a Verdict of Murder Is Expected. The inquest into the cause of the death of Mrs. Jennie Matthews will begin before Coroner Hawkins this morning. In her ante-mortem statement she accused 0. W. Winthrop, assistant superintendent of the Laurel Hill cemetery, of having forced her to swallow a strychnine pill. In this she is corroborated by her little daughter. ‘The autopsy also showed that there wasa | Malay courts, Malay beauties, head-hurt- | ing dyaks, intelligent-looking sices from | Borneo, were all shown and_highly appre- | ciated by the audience. Mr. Wildman’s lecture ook about an hour and a balf in the delivery, and to, judge from the a | plause was “highly interesting to the audi- ence. THE CAMERA CLUB. Some Beautiful Slides of Holland and Belgium Shown in Metropolitan Temple. ‘Will Alsford, a member of the California Camera Club, delivered alecture,illustrated by slides of his own make, in Metropolitan Temple last evening. While the brilliant views wers presented, he told of his travels in Belgium and Holland. The slides were all covered and lacked nothing in either art or interest. “The Old World of To-Day” was the sub- jectand it was an apt one. The views of the marshes of Holland, its windmills, lagoons, wooden shod and clumsily clad people, marshes, fishing smacksand quaint old-fashioned houses and streets were ver interesting. Belgium with its cathedrals and public buildings, its seacoast and queer vessels was alsoillustrated, as was also Holland’s capital, Amsterdam. Atone of the intermissions Miss E. H. Smith sang “Jessie’s Dream,” while views illustrating it were shown upon the screen. During the otbrer intermission A. Shep- ard Y yed upon the great organ of the temple. ———————— Nothing Succeeds Like Success. The successes achieved by men and things are not always based upon merit. But a success well merited and unprecedented in the annals of pro- prietary medicine, should these ever come 0 be written, is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a botanic medicine, discovered nearly half a century ago, and the leading remedy for and preventive of malarial, heumatic and kidney compiaints, dys- pepsis, constipation and biliousness, | SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS Annual Camp - Meeting and Conference at Bushrod Park, Oakland. PROMINENT SPEAKERS HEARD. Order, Neatness and Devotlon Char- acteristics of the Small Tented Clty. An active little colony is encamped at Bushrod Park, North Oakland, a small tented city of 800 souls. It has a kind of patriarchal government with Elder N. C. McClure at the head. Tts characteristics barians wear clothes, it is true, and they have learned to smoke, but they are cloaked barbarians still, and not until there be missionaries, willing to yield up their lives for them, will" there be prog- ress in the better way. We complain that but t ) patriots, few indeed who are willing to lay down their lives for their country. #No wonder that many hearts are rest- less like the sea, for they are self-seeking. Selfishness is the bane of the church to- day, asit is_the bane of the individual. We say we love, we caress the object of our affection; but would we make a sacri- fice, even to a life, for that object? ‘Yet God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.’” Last evening M. C. Wilcox, editor of the Signs of the Times, addressed a large con- gregation, Elder McClure stated the creed of the sect in the words: *“We observe the seventh instead of the first day of the week. The Bible is our creed. We believe the signs of the times are that the world will soon come to an end, but we are not time-setters.” —_— Silverberg Is Wanted. Chief of Police Crowley yesterday received a communication from the Chief of Police olitics is a muddy pool, and so it is, | Y)e trouble is that few politicians are | ALL ARE STILL IN DOUBT. Governor Budd May Not Ap- point the Board of Health for Weeks. THERE ARE MANY CANDIDATES Dr. Levingston Approves This and Tells Why He Hopes the Governor WIIl Delay. Governor Budd is expected here this morning. The office-seekers know this, and it is all they know. Some say that the Governor will come to appoint the Board of Health in the next SBERVICES IN THE TENT OF THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS. [Sketched yesterday by a “Call’ artist.] are order, neatness and devotion. A prayer meeting at 5:30 in the morning. Think of it, ye godless and indolent! Yet the Seventh Day Adventists, who are hold- ing their seventeenth annual conference at the park, yohng and old, rise in time for prompt attendance at such meetings every day. Surely it is a devout spirit that would prompt such an act. At 8 o'clock there is another prayer meeting, this one composed of the residents of a certain por- tion, say six or eight of the canvas houses of the community. After these morning devotions there are ministerial meetings, business meetings of representatives of the various institutions under the jurisdiction of the California conference, and minis- terial meetings till noon. There are children’s meetings, young eople’s meetings and three daily preach- ing services, two of the latter being at 2:30 and 7:30 . M. One of the tents of most attractive interior is used for a kindergar- ten and there the youngest of the children receive instruction. The series of meet- ings will continue till the evening of June 9. The personnel of this community, rep- resenting as it does the 3509 Adventists re- siding in California and Nevada, includes Elders A.J. Breed of Minneapoiis, superin- tendent of the Pacific Conference; Elder N. C. McClure of the California Conference, Elder N. W. Kaubel, president of the Colo- rada Conference; Elder W. W. Prescott, educational secretary of the general con- ference of Battle Creek, Mich.; Elder Wil- liam Healey, president of the North Pacific Conference, of Portland. Assurred by the legend, “Welcome to AllL” that appears above the entrance to the camp that he is one of the invited a visitor strolls about the canvas village at will. He sees one broad thoroughfare along which the large tents for audiences, the headquarters of the Pacific Press and the big dining-hall are ranged. Diverging from this are narrower streets, along which are ranged the temporary residences. He can but remark the neatness of the tents,which being open show a cozy interior. He no- tices also that except when the voice of a preacher; is heard from the immense pa- vilion or the sound of congregational sing- ing floats out among the trees, almost perfect quiet prevails. He understands this partially when he sees the sign “No playing allowed on these grounds,” for the children are according to the adage, oft repeated and always trying to juvenile souls, “seen but not heard.” A feature that attracts many ladies not identified with the sect is the hygienic cooking school, and a device in the Kitchen, the product of Elder McClure’s practical genius, is a barrel stove, which has advan- tages that delight ever}y; housewife who sees it. Before Sunday there will be large additions to the littie city, swelling the number of residents to upward of 1000. It was an interesting audience that as- sembled in the great tent yesterday after- noon. Not a fashionable audience cer- tainly, but a most attentive one, All car- ried their Bibles and followed closely the lesson read, and only one man went to sleep during the sermon of one hour. There was not a more eager listener than a middle-aged woman who lay propped up by pillows on a couch near the platform. It was Miss Jewett, an invalid who has been a patient at the Saint Helena Sani- tarium for years. Elder A. W. Bartlett of Pomona de- livered a sermon on the text: ‘‘Hereby erceive we the love of God, because he aid down his life for us, and we otht, to lay down our life for the brethren.” He sald in part: “All nature is a rebuke to selfishness. The leaves fall to the ground in winter. They seem to be doing this in order to preserve their own life and strength, but in reality the tree is yieldin, up its life for ancther.” This is true of ani- mal as well as plant life. The mother i;uarding theeggsand afterward the bird- ings in the nests, the father attending to the wants of the nestlings are in a sense giving up their lives for those of the little ones. KEven the babes are not dropped from heaven into our waiting arms, 'Fge beautiful new life comes into the world at the hazard of the mother’s, and as it grows and develops ‘the mother and father give up rest and exert their strength for the protection and care of the chug. We talk of the growth of a child, but that growth is at the expense of lives or the greatest and best of lives. Thousands contribute to the i:mwth and advancement of a yousg life, iven the teacher, if she be a true tef her, gives up much of ‘her life to her charges. “There is a cruel instinct stil in the hearts of many people, concealed only by a thin veneer of civilization. We see traces of the instinct in the eagerness with which people throng to bull-fights and pugilistic encounters, These modern bar- i at Washington, D. C., asking for informa- tion relative to the whereabouts of one David Silverberg, a former resident of that city, who left for the Pacific Coast in 1888, which time he has not been heard from by his relatives at home. The Chief would be glad of any information concerning the missing man. PRESENTED T0 THE PR, The Museum Receives a Valu- able Collection of Cali- fornia Onyx. & Stones That Show Translucent Pictures of Rare Beauty and Natural Formation. J. L. Davis, president of the State Mining Burean, yesterday gave to the Park museum a valuable collection of onyx from the mines of San Luis Obispo. These specimens which show translucent pictures of natural formation on the stone, were formerly owned by J. and F. Kesseler of this City, and by them were exhibited at the World’s Fair, where the unique col- lection attracted a great deal of attention. Among the pictures are: “The Sierra Nevada Mountains,” ‘‘Lake Tahoe,” “Switzerland,” “The Coast of Africa,” “Atlantis Sinking Into the Sea,” “Face of the Moon,” and “Regions of the North Pole.” The entire collection, which comprises ten pieces, is valued at §5000, and is so rare and beautiful that it excites. wonder in every one who beholds it. Many of the pictures are as perfect as though worked out by the hand of an artist, being com- plete Tepresentations of the respective sub- jects, the like of which has never before Leen found in any rock. There is no other collection in existence that equals this for transparency and perfection of detail. It 1s a most valuable addition to the museum, for which Mr. Davis will receive a special vote of thanks from the Park Commissioners at their next meeting. i Curator Charles ¥. Wilcomb is having the collection set up in the Royal Pavilion, in which room of wonders the donation of Mr. Davis will hold first place. Among other donations during the past week was a beautifully carved tray of wood made by natives of the South Sea Islands and presented by J. R. Stroud of this City. Mrs. F. V. Hubbard has contributed a book printed in London in 1695 and a col- lection of about sixty curios gathered from all quarters of the globe, ranging from Egyptian earrings to Indian pottery and Venetian mosaics. Mr. Wilcomb says that the Commission- ers are much_gratified at the manner in which the public is responding to their re- cent circular soliciting contributions to the museum. From all parts of the State donations are coming in, and it is said that a year or so will suflice to_build up an in- stitution of which California may well be proud. “I Fixp the Royal Baking Powder su- perior to all the others in every respect. It is entirely free from all adulteration and unwholesome impurity, and, in baking it ives off a greater volume of leavening gas fhnn any other powder, ““WALTER S. Harngs, M.D.” Chemist to the Chicago Board of Health. —_— King’s Daughters’ Benefit. There will be given for the benefit of the King’s Daughters’ Home this evening a rose tea and coacert at Beethoven Hall, on Post street, near Powell. A very interesting pro- ramme has been arranged. " Among the well- {nown artists who will take part are: Mme. Emilia Tojetti, soprano; Miss Ella V. McClos- key, contralto; Mrs. Mabel Smith, soprano; Mrs. Lida Hickok, elocutionist; Miss Leola Stone, elocutionist; Mr. Frank Coffin, tenor; Miss Clara McConnell, violinist, and the follow~ ing members of the Castilian Quintet: Profes- sor J. Lombardero, bandurria; Professor G. Stantisteban, guitar; P. Manzano, bandurria; C. Kuss, "cello, and Emilio Cruells, pianist. St Gtk Thrown From a Buggy. Frank Williams, & rancher from Sacramento, who is staying at the Russ House, was treated last night at the Receiving Hospital for lace- rated wounds of the face, received by bein, thrown from a buggy at the corner of Post ane Montgomery streets. During the afternoon he drove out to the Cliff House, and returned about 6 o’clock in a hilarious condition. At Post and Montgomery his team was struck bys. streetear, with the result as stated in the fore- | few days. Others assert with equal posi- tiveness that he intends to start for the Yosemite Valley shortly and will make no appointments till he returns. Dr. Marc Levingston says he hopes the rumors that the Governor intends post- poning the appointment of the Board of Health till after his trip to the Yosemite are true. He bases his desires on the fact that the fiscal year is close at hand and that a report is expected from each county official. The report of the Board of Health is a voluminous one. It must review the work accomplished during the past twelve months and suggest improvements and changes which experience has taught are necessary. “Were the Governor to a?point the Board of Health to-morrow,” said Dr. Levingston yesterday, *‘they would have little over two weeks in which to prepare their report, for 1 believe reports are due about the middle of June. This would re- sult in the loss of many vaiuable sugges- tions and the overlooking of much valua- ble data. It is not to be expected that in a few days a set of men can become con- versant with the year’s work of their prede- cessors. It woulg be wiser then, I think, to let the appointments wait till the be- ginning of the fiscal year.” Dr. Levingston has a number of im- provements that he thinks should be made in the sanitary arrangement of the City. These he says he will suggest in order that they may be inculcated in the report of the Board of Health without regard to whether he receives the appointment as Health Officer or not. That there are numerous candidates for laces on the Board of Health is well known, and every day starts fresh rumors upon the streets that the Governor has selected this or that candidate. Yester- day word went along the line that the lucky ones were Dr.H. H. Hart of 114 Powell street, Dr. John F. Morse of 200 Stockton street, Dr. John M. Williamson and Dr. G. J. Fitzgerald, whose offices are at 21 Powell street. All of these medical entlemen deny that they have heard any- thing definite from the Goyernor in regard to their appointment. They have all heard the rumor, but they seem to be as much in doubt as any one. THE cook should examine carefully the label of the baking powder and see that she is not imposed upon. If the grocer sends anythin§ but the Royal send it back, as one cook did five times until she got the Royal. The only safe way is for the cook to have the finest things to work with, ana the Royal is not only the finest but the most economical to use, because it goes so wmuch further. UNIVERSITIES OF EUROPE. They Number 170 With Nearly 200,000 Students. It is interesting to observe that as the Dark Ages, as they were called, were pass- ing away, institutions of learning with more or lesslight began to spring up in Europe and to exert their beneficent influ- ence in diffusing knowledge and reforming the world. During the twelith century three universities were founded in Europe. The first of these was the University of Bologna, Italy, which was founded A. D. 1119, 400 years before the beginning of the Reformation. It is said, indeed, that this venerable seat of learning was founded by Theodosius II, in the fifth century, but if this were so it had probably fallen into decay, and was restored or founded anew in the early part of the thirteenth century. By the middle of the thirteenth century the Unuversity of Bologna had attained great popularity, and was attended by 10,000 students, a_larger number than any uni- versity of Europe can boast of to-day, says a writer in the Christian Leader. They came from all parts of the Christian world, a circumstance which shows how intense was the desire for learning at the time. And whatis remarkable, this oldest and for centuries the most noted and popular institution of learning in the world, admitted women to its halls and’| allowed them to hold professors’ chairs and read lectures—a thing which I venture to predict will be repeated in this country ang within less than half a century. There is really no reason why women should not become successful teachers, especially in the languages, ancient and modern, for which, if I mistake not, they have a taste and a Mx‘ty in netimsmon, and also in the sciences, certainly some of them. Give Women the same opportunities, set before them the same honors and tewards, and why should they not achieve success and Wwin fame as well as the other sex? Although the University of Bologna no longer enljloys the reputation it once had or attracts throngs of students as formerly, it still, after so many centuries of service, holds a reputable place among the univer- sities of ]Surope and can boast of having educated several Popes of the Roman Cath- olic church and especially as having had, first as a student and afterward as a pro- fessor, the Cardinal Mezzofanti, a marvel of linguists, said to have spoken more than fifty languages—fifty-eight is, if I rightly remember, the exact number—but was re- markable, I believe, for nothing else. The University of Bologna was founded, as I said, in 1119 and stood alone in all Europe for more than half a century, when in A. D. 1180 the University of Montpelier, France, was founded, and twenty years later, 1200, the University ot Paris sprang into existence and began its career of per- ennial fame. It is to-day, in the number of its students, the largest university in Europe, having more than 9000. The work of education so well begun in the twelfth century was nobly carried for- ward in the thirteenth, during which ten other universities were founded, among which were the two great English uni- versities, Oxford and Cambridge. It is difficult to say definitely when these fa- mous institutions were founded. They were very small and unpretentious at the beginninig. They are both the growths of time. But though so old and famous they have never been remarkable for the num- ber of their students. Oxford is much the larger of the two, and yet does not number 1800 students, while Cambridge, if I re- member, has less than 1000. Many uni- versities much younger and with less repu- tation surpass them in the number of students. Edinburgh, forinstance, though by no means so popular and famous as either Oxford or Cambridge, has more students than both of them taken together, and that, too, while Scotland is much smaller than England and has fewer peo- ple. There are, indeed, more than twenty universities in Europe which are educat- ing more students than Oxford, and more than fifty whose number of students ex- ceed that of Cambridge. Before the close of the fifteenth century, or, to mark the date more generally, be- fore the discovery of this western world by Columbus in 1492, and practically before the Reformation begun by Luther in the year 1517, those two great events in his- tory, separated by only a quarter of a cen- tury, more than fifty universities had been created in Europe, a fact which shows that the Roman Catholic church was not un- friendly to the cause of education, as it has sometimes been represented. It is true, however, that that church has always wished to have the control of education, and see well to it that nothing shall be taught that might endanger its own in- terests, which 1t naturally assumed were the interests of truth and the welfare of mankind. This, however consistent with all its traditions, was certainly not always wise. The Christian religion is in a world of thought and action, and necessarily comes in contact with all kinds of adverse influ- ences and meets all forms of opposition, and if it is not strong enough to maintain itself and work itself in spite of all war- ring and resisting forces, there is nothing for 1t but sooner or later to fall or perish. But whoever believes Christianity believes it to be of divine origin, and to announce the ultimate truth in relation to God z2nd human duty and destiny, and hence it is indestructible. The fifty universities founded in Europe during the four centuries prior to the achievements of Columbus and Martin Luther have, during the four centuries since their time, been more than trebled in number and iImmensely augmented in effective educational power. They num- ber at present about 170, and are scattered all over Europe. And in all the better and even more important of them, I judge, the custom which long bound them to the exclusive use of the Latin as “the learned language” has given way to the influences of modern times, and the education is given in the language of the people who have reared these institutions and use them. It would be very interesting could we know what all these universities originally cost and what their money value now is. It would show what an estimate Christen- dom puts upon education and how much it is willing to pay to promote it. The ex- pense of this vast investment is still going on. These institutions must not only be Kept up, but they must be improved. New edifices must be built, libraries must be constantly enlarged, scientific apparatus in multiplied forms and never-ending im- provements must be provided, museums must be created and &)erput\lnlly enlarged and money in a hundred w: is needed and must be expended in carrying forward the great and beneficent work. ‘What the total number of students in all the universities of Europe now is, is not accurately known, since all are not prop- erly reported. The number of those re. vorted, however, is very near 170,000, and were they all reported the grand result would be an army of from 175,000 to 200,- 000 men. And this vast host of youn men, many of them of the best blood ang best brains of all the_ nations of Europe, are being educated and trained, not in the noble art of war, butin the far noblerarts of peace, and so fitted for the performance of the highest duties of citizenship, and thu also for advancing the intelligence, the vir- tue and the welfare of mankind. —————— For thirty years the Royal has been the standard for purity and strength in baking owders, and hasibeen placed at the head y every board of official examiners, whether State or National. A Crow’s Rare Colors. The peculiarly colored crow that has been seen about Lyme for the past two years, of which mention was made in Tuesday’s Times, was captured there. For the past two weeks every hunter there and every boy who could borrow a gun has ;{msued that bird, but without success. ecently Melville Bill of Sterling City dis- trict (Hamburg), saw the much-coveted bird flying about near his home. Finally it settled down a short distance away, and began an attack upon a hen’s nest, contain- ing at_least a half dozen eggs. Mr. Bill got his gun, and before the bird fully realized its danger he had it bagged. The bird is a trifle larger than the ordi- nary crow, with heavy feathers, which grow with almost regular alternation be- tween straw and light chocolate colors. John Page of Portland, one of the best in- formed ornithologist in New England, has never seen such colors of feathers, although crows not entirely black have been seen. When the article descriptive of the bird appeared Tuesday, Middletown scribes pronounced it a fake, but when the bird was shown Thursday evening they were obliged to “eat crow.” EAGLE Brand «CONDENSED MILK.. Has No Equal SOLD GEVERYWHERE NEW TO-DAY. IT HAS KEPT US BUSY. The demand for Tan Shoes has been big—in fact, larger than we ever expected. 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