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ASS UK FN PEACE.
The Document Signed, Sealed a
Delived--Closing Scenes Were
Highly Impressive and of
Momentuous Nature.
A Paris special says. The treaty
peace was signed at .8:45 Haturd
evening, and the signing would ha
afforded a subject for a great histu
eal painting.
The group, gathered about the tal
in the chamber of the fori?i<m f.rtl.
was impressive in ifself, while thefi
that the sense of the momentousuc
of the issue w hich the net decided w
deeply felt'hytho participants, gn
an impressive nnd solemn tone to tl
scene.
Around the groat mahogany tali
sat the ten arbiters of the destinies
an old and a young nation, linage
standing behind them, were nuinero
attaches of the American commi
sion.
To the Americans it w*as a hap]
ending of the epilogue of war; for tl
Spaniards it was plainly a bitter tra
cdy, none the less painful hecau
long foreseen. They sat silently
though almost crushed, and noi
could withhold sympathy from Sen
Montero llios, the president of tl
Sprtnish commission, who, comit
from his bed. was bundled in a gre
overcoat, though logs were burning
the lirsplaeo nearby.
1'nrclimrnt Work Wiih Slow.
A ltl?nn orl? *
"" i umiiilsMdllt IllCl
3:110 o'clock, exporting to finish the
work in hnlf an hour, tho engmssii
of the treaty on parchment wan four
to ho so troublesome that it delayc
the signing of the document until 8:'2i
Clerk Martin, of the American con
mission, worked all day without eve
stopping to cat. When he came ilit
the chamber at 7:30 with the doci
mcnt ho found the commissionci
waiting. The Spanish Copy had a
rived half hour earlief. Sir. ArtIn:
Ferguson then proceeded to read fir:
tho English and after that thoSpanis
version of the treaty. This finished
two copies were passed around th
table, the commissioners signing thru
in tlio order of their rnk, ns follow:
William It. Day, Senator Cushion
K. Davis. Senator William 1*. Fry<
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I by Prices.
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hest kind of prices for your i
not always follow that you
ght to get. Oftentimes the
are the stiffest, most unyield- !
l clothes made?making the
had to stand a certain wav
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That can't be said of our
point is lots of style at a
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ats between $6.50 and
see the style in them
>m on. Plenty to choose
r good point.
lothing Co.
ftpnntor George
1* for ribbons of tlu^ To J, ;L
with which the documents . / ,
. I ? a compliment to the French hoW../ i
of the commissions.
Many ollieials interestedly watched
every detail of the proceedings.
The last seal being impressed, the
t cfpnmigHyQUernj^ctiredjt'tthout^forinn^I
of all his antagonists and exchanged
assurance of sincere personal esteem.
n(j The signing was finished r.t 8:4I>
o'clock. At that time the door of the
chamber opened and Senor Yillarii'in
appeared and exclaimed to a group of
correspondents who were waiting in the
corridor:
i "Cost flni."
of The other members of the Spanish
:ly commission followed Senor Villurutia
e 1 and passed silently through the vestibule
to their waiting carriages. The
ri" American commission strolled oat
chatting complacently and as they
>le ascended the steps the lights in the
,p chamber were darkened,
j There was a great contest among
the families and friends of tho American
commissioners for possession of
the pens with which tho signatures to
I ^ the treaty were written.
The treaty as signed consists of sevj
enteen articles, it having been found
^ advisable to It-divide two or three of
j the articles in the draft agreed upon at
! the lust meeting.
1 s The coniruissioncrs of the two nal's
tions wrote their signatures on two
, copies of the treaty, one copy being
^ for the archives. The dneument was
" prepared by Secretary Moore in beI.,,If
..f ?i,.. 1 . -
...... ... *. ?i?h-?i mint n ttMII mission
M" and by Scaur Yillaruiia for >pain on
fts account <>f the continued illness of
Secretary Ojeda, of the Spanish com"r
mission.
M> ' Kneh copy contained the English
" and Spanish texts of tho treaty in j?nrat
allel eolunms. The wording had heen
1,1 approved previously l>y the eomniis- !
sions without a joint meeting, so there j
was 110 controversy on this subject. i
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WINK AI)VA\('i:S I> PRICE. J
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I IM'I'pMnv In (lie Otlol ill inu?. y
\ San Fran -ixco dispatch says: Tho J
,n shortage in the w ine crop of lH'.tH and ?
[() , the fairly good demand that has ex- J
isted during the last year have result- |
rs e?l in advancing prices. v
r. | In speaking of the situation, Seero- 1
,r I tary Ilotchkiss, of tho Wine Manu|
facturcrs' Corporation, said:
I, ! "Prices of wines havo tieen steadily t
j( advancing for some time, and since j
0 October 10th the increase has amonntn
ed to fi eents p?r gallon. We feel eon- u
,. thlent that prices will go higher. Our 11
u opinion is based on the fact of the ^
, long continued dry weather." i
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dr.t\l^bt;s sermon
rhe Etmivent Whine's Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: "Life's Minor Chord"?Trials and
Tribulation* Are ?cessary For the
Proper Development of CharacterMan'*
Compensation (For Suffering.
Text: "I will open my Writ saying upon
the harp.*'?Psalm xlix., 4\,
The world Is full of the inexplicable, the
Impassnble, the unfnthomt.Vde, the Insurmountable.
We ennuot go three steps In
any direction without coming up against a
hard wall of mystery, riddles, paradoxes,
profundities, labyrinths; problems that we
cannot solve, hieroglyphics that wo oennot
decipher, anagrams we cannot spell out,
sphinxes that will not speak. For that
reason David in my text proposed to tnke
II n ROmA of ?nmhnr anrl flurlr Hi intra
ml try to net them to sweet music. "I
will open my dark savings on a harp."
So I look off upon society and find people
in unhappy conjunction ot circumstances,
and they de not know what it means, nnd
they have a right to ask. Why Is this? Why
is thai? nnd I think l.jpill be doing n good
work by trying^yfexttjatn some of these
strange things nnAfankeyau more content
with your lot, nn<rl shall only be answering
questions that have often been asked
roe. or that we tyive all asked ourselvesf
while I try to set these mysteries to muslo
and open rav dathfsnvlngs on a harp.
Interrogation the first: Why does God
tako out ot this world those who are useful
and whom we canuot spare and leave
alive and iu good health so many who are
only a nuisapce to tho world? I thought I
would begin with the very toughest of all
the seeming Inscrutables. Many of the
most usoful men and women die at thirty
or forty years of age, while you often find
useless people alive at sixty and seventy
nnd olghty. John Careless wrote to Hradford,
who was soon to bo put to dentb,
an I'lni.' "\VI? v ,lr>H. On.-t ... (To- ..... .. .. A
other catorpilllars to live, that can do
nothing but consuma tho alms of the
ohurcli, and take away so many
worthy workmen in tho Lord's vineyard?"
Similar questions are ofton
asked. Here are two men. The one is a
noble character and a Christian man.
He chooses for a lifetime companion one
who has been tenderly reared, and sho
is worthy of him and lie is worthy of hor.
As merchnnt or farmer o: /ijcofosslonal man
or mechanic or artist Imr^Tlfcrto educate
and ronr his ehtrflLfi /' succeeding,
but lie has not yet e-dfejrty rwm bis family
a full competency. 1^?-^^<{|^KlispensaMe
to that household; bul^ono c^H before he
lias paid off the mortgage on^^B house, lie
is coming home through n^wiWug northcast
wind and a chill strikes through
him. and four days of pneumonia end
bis earthly career, and the wife and
children go Into a struggle for shelter
and food. His next door neighbor Is a
man who though strong and well, lets his
wife support him. He is around at the
grocery store or some general loafing place
in the evenings while his wife sews. His
boys are imitating Ills example, and loange
and swagger nod swear. All the uso that
man Is In that house is to rave because tho
coflfeo is cold when he comes to a late
breakfast, or to say cutting things about
his wife's looks, when he furnishes nothing
for her wardrobe. The best thing that
could happen to that family would be that
mnn'j riin.icul K.if lw% /lunlliiAo f <1Ia IT,.
iui%u 0 |Ullullfcl, UUV 41 \J UVWMUtfl W UIO, AAC
lives on ami on ami on. So we have nil
noticed that many of the useful are early
cut ofT. while the p<y^|^have groat vital
tenacity. ni*. i.?
I take up this -Tou" he =fV?
ati-l give three or f4u\7m'UfrllY&niily werS
in tlie way of gurnuslflg anf uJ(1 nQt jiave
Perhaps tho useful man wL,ly tlmt m|B|,t
the world because he ana |tl0y altogether
aauionstruoted that thpv Al,U( yortev of
allows up
n,.i,st "oj fl^VeMfi9s wh'.li
in ht0li tor ??f "Wr0'1. 511111 n>oy
of lite c/' oe/t\en UifitidM) kept close to
other hand, the u-l.bhii iUness hera and
lltty or sixty or scve1rtj?when they meet
the ea^o ho ever can lit\S> they will ncthls
world, and you ouiBi . "'fftjc.
begrudge hi in ids cariHt' "*f/r " *
ail the ages there lias not a Viugre u.Vrtjj
ever entered heaven, 'f^iera isno place foi
him there to hang arc*'jd; not even In tho
temples, for they are' t'ull of vigorous,
alert and rapturous worship, if the good
and useful go ently, rejoice for them that
tliey have so soon got through with human
life, which at best Is a struggle. And if
the useless and tho bad stay, rejoice that
thoy may be out In the world's fresh air a
good many years before their final incarceration.
Interrogation the secoid: Why do good
people have so much trouble, sickness,
bankruptcy, persecution, the three black
vultures sometimes putting their llerco
beaks into one set of jingled nerves? I
think now of a good frieol I once hud. Ho
was a consecrated Christ an man, an elder
in tho church, and us polshed n Christian
gentleman as over walkel Broad way. First
his general health gave cut and ho hobbled
around on a cane, au ?ld man at forty.
After awhile paralysis stuck him. Having
by poor health been couponed suddenly to
quit business, ho lost .vhnt property ho
ha i. Then his beautifil daughter died;
then n son became haplessly demented.
Another son, splendid >f mind and corn- j
manding of presence, resolved that ho
would take euro of his fiber's household,
but under the swoop o yellow fever at
Fcinamlina. Fin., he sudimly expired. So
you know good men who havo
had enough troubles,to crush
fifty people. No worldly v couit
take such a trouble an t it it to^^iaV, or
plnv it on violin or flute,6ut I dare to open j
?!.?*? --- - - 1
ii.iia ??ii a i;/*!'1'1 mirp.
You wonder that verjxonsecrated peopte j
havo trouble? Did yI ever know any
very ecnsoorated man fr wotnnu who had
not had threat trouhlf? Never! It was
through thc'rlroublesniiictifled that they
were made verjr good./ If you hud anywhere
ia <*ity a tup who has now, an 1
always I.as h el. per.'eJt health, an 1 never
lost a child. and has Jways been popular i
and never bad bushei straggle <>r misfor- i
tune whi? is disiing:uth > I for goain'ss,
pull your wire for a telegraph messenger!
boy and send mo w.fu. and I will drop j
fiverylhing and go right away t>> look at
Itim. There never his been a man like that
and never will be. Who a*e those arrogant.
.*elf concede I creatures who move
ibout without svilpathy for others and I
who think morn <i a St. Bernard dog
">r nu Al'erney fow or a Southdown
diee;> or a I5erk-!dro pig than of a man:
I'licy never had any trouble, or tlio trouble
was never sanctified. Who nro those men
ivlio listen with moist eye as you tell them
>f suffering and who havo a pathos in
lie:r voice and a kindners in tlioir m-mnet
ind an #'xeu-e <>r an alleviation for those
tone asirav.' Thev are the men who havo
fraduate I at the 1'oyal Aeadcaiy of Trou?ie.
and tliev It.'il'A t hn *11 r ktrhtn -i ivriltoti < ?
vrink 1 on their own couutenaoees. My,
nv! What heartaches they had! What
ears they have wont! What injustice
hey li:i\ e mifJVrn.l! Tho mightiest inliumeo
for |?uri!lc:ttion and salvation I'
rouble.
There are only three things that ean
ireak off a ehr.in?a hammer, a tile or a lire
-:;n<l trouble Is al! three of them. The
;reatest writers, orators and reformers t*e?
nueli of their force from trouble. What
;ave to Washington Irving that exquisite
eruierne-s and pathos which will make his
moks fav rites whilett.o Kuglish bint: ta 'e
outlaw > to l:o wri'.teu and spoken'.' as
early heartbreak, that be never onee
mentioned, and when thirty years after
the death of Matilda Hoffman, who wna
to have been his bride, her father pioked
no a pleoe of embroidery and snld,
I "That Is a piece of poor Matilda's
workmanship." Washington Irving sank
from hilarity Into silence and walked
away. Out of that lifetime grief the
great author dipped his pen's mightiest reenforcement.
Calvin's "Institutes of Religion,"
than which a more wondorful
t>ook was never written by human hand,
was begun by the author at twenty-live
'years of age, because of the persecution
by Francis, king of France. Faraday
tolled for all time on n salary of ?80 a year
'and candles. As every brick of the wall of
Babylon was stamped with the lotter N,
standing for Nebuchadnezzar, bo evcrv
part or the temple ot Christian achievement
Is stamped with the letter T. standing
for trouble.
When in England a man is honored with
knighthood, he Is struck with the Mat ot
lur B\Y<uu. uui vuuno wuu unvu uuuin iu
knighthood in the kingdom of God wore
first struck, not with the flat of the sword,
but with the keen edge of the sclmotnr. To
build his magnificence of ehnrncter Pnul
could not have spared one lasli, one prison,
ne stoning, one anathema, one poisonous
viper from the haud, one shipwreck. What
is true of individuals Is true of nations.
The horrors of the American Revolution
gave this country this side of the Mississippi
River to independence and France gave i
tne most of this country west of the Mississippi
to the United Htates. France
owned It, but Napoleon, fearing that
England would take it, practically
mode a present to the Unltod States?lor
he received only $15,000,000 for Louisiana,
Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska.
Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota, Montana,
Wyoming an<l tlie Indian Territory.
Out of the lire of the American Revolution
came this country east of the Mississippi,
out of the European war came thnt west
of the Mississippi ltlver. Tho British empire
rose to its present overtowcring
grandeur through gunpowder plot and Guy
Fawkes' conspiracy and Northampton insurrection
and Walter Raleigh's beheading
and Bacon's bribery nnd Cromwell's dissolution
of parliament nnd the battles of
Edge Hill nnd the vicissitudes of centuries.
So the earth itself, before it could become
an appropriate and benutiful residence for
the human family, had, according to geology,
to be washed by universal deluge and
scorched and made incandescent by universal
ilres, and poundjed by sledge hammer
oT icebergs nnd wronohed by earthquakes
that split continents, nnd shaken by volcanoes
thnt tossed mountains aud passed
through the catastrophes of thousands of
years before paradise beenmo possible and
the groves could shake out their greeu banners
and the first garden pour its carnage
of color between thoGihon nnd tho Iliddekel.
Trouble?a good thing for the rocks,
a good thing for nations, as well as a good
thing for individuals. Bo when you push
aguinst me with n sharp interrogation
point. Why do the good suiter? I open the
dark saying on a harp, and, though I can
| neither play nu organ or cornet or hautboy
I or bugle or clarinet, I have taken some
I lessons on the gospol harp, and if you would
i like to hear me I will play you these: "All
> things work together for good to those who
love God."
Interrogation third: Why did the good
> God lot sin or trouble come into tne world
when He might have kept them out? My
reply is, He had a good reason. lis had
reasons thnt He has never glveu us. Ho
had reasons which He could no more make
i us uuderstaud in our lluito state than tho
i father, starting out on some great and
' elaborate enterprise, could make tho two1
yeur-oJdWlibl in its armed chair comprehend
i^P^^-5wa?to demoustrthere' Ot-fftriib
deur or!.?.u1uer ntul no trouble to console
i |)V cms universe would never have
*f"kiiunit nn Abraham or u Moses or a Joshua
or nu Ezekiol or n Paul or a Christ or a
Washington or a John Miltoa or a John
^HowarJ. nud a million victories which have
been gained by tho consecrated spirits of
: all ages would never have been gained.
Had there be?n no buttle, there w:u! I have
been no victory. Nine-tenths of tho anthems
of heaven would never have been
I sung. Heaven could never have been a
! thousandth part of tho heaven that it is. t
will not say that I am glad that sin and
.1 ??o-nr4i4-iatec.-Ltti I do sny that I am
*1' t'f o|ld be in a small sfngR/1 it'll.
r|-^,?alberg and Gottschalk and Wagner and
Beethoven and Itheinl)erger and Schumann
> should all at once entor. Tho immortals
that have been chanting 10,000 years before
the throne will say, as they close thoir
librettos, "Oh, it wo could ouly sing like
that!" But God will say to those who have
never fallen and consequently have not
been redeemed, "You must bo silent now;
you have not the qualification for tuis anthem."
So they sit with closed lips and
folded hands, and sinners saved by grace
take up the hnrmony, for the Bible says
"no man could learn that song but tho hundred
and forty and four thousand which
were'redeemed from the earth."
A great prima donna, who can now do
nuylhing with her voice, told me that when
she llrst started in inusio her teacher in
Berlin told her she could be a good singer,
but a certain note she could never reach.
"And then," she said, " 1 went to work ancl
studied and practiced for years until I did
reach it." But tho song ot the singer redeemed,
the Biblo says, the exalted liar- j
raouists who have never sinned could not
reach and never will reach. Would you 1
| like to hear mo in a very poor way play 1
| snatch of tlint tuue? I can give you
! only one bar of the music on this gospel i
harp, "Unto Him that hath loved us
and washed us from our sins in His own 1
blood and hath made us kings and priests <
unto God and the Lamb, to Him bo glory p
aud dominion forever nud ever, amen."
God lot si n come into the worll, let"
that great battles seem to be noGilm
suffering nnd outrage ut tho time of their
occurrence, yet after they have beon a long
while past we con see that it was better for ^
them to have been fought, namely, Sal- | s
amis. Inkernan, Toulouse,,Arhola, Agin- i
court. Trafalgar, lileuhcim, Lexington, |
Sedan. j '
But hero I must slow up lest In trying to 11
soive my.-.tones 1 a.hi to uio mystoiy tuat ! *
wo! have already wondero I at?namely, j
why preachers should keep on after all the j '
liear.-rs are tired. Sol gather up into one ; i
great armful all the whys and hows and | j
wherefores of your life and mine, which !
we have not ha I lima or tiia ability to aa- i 1
swer, au<l write on tliam the word-'. "A I- I >
journed to eternity.'' I rejoice tiia*. wedo nor. , j
undoitstand ail tilings now. for it we did
what would we learn in heaven? If we ?
knew it all down here in the freshman and 1
sopliorr.oro class, what would be the use of
our going up to stand amid t lie juniors and (
the seniors? If we conI I put down one leg
of tlie compass ami with the oilier sweep a" 1
cir-uo clear around ail the inscrutable-, if <
we could lift our little steelyards and ,
weigh the throne of the Omnipotent, if wo
could with our seven-day elock measure
eternity, what would bo left for heavenly 1
revelation? So I inovo that we cheer- i ]
Sully adjourn wiiat is now heyond our ' f
comprehension, and as. according to Itolliii.
the historian, Alexander the Great,
having obtained the gold casket In win i (
Danes had kept his rare perfume, t i
that dramatic casket thereafter to keep his ,
favorite cony of Homer in and culled the
b >o!c, therefore, the "edition of the casket," '
and at night put the casket and his swor I ! i
under his pillow, so I put this day into tno j
per.u mod casket of your r.chest affections ,
and hoptM. ibis promise worth more tuna
Homer ever wrote or sword ever < >.: ;
< tiered. ".Vliar I do tnou knowest no' '
now. but thou shall know nereatter, ' and ,
that 1 cull the "edition celestial."
Ill UPS WEEKLY LETTER.
IS OPPOSED TO PRESENT PLAN OF
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
A DISADVANTAGE TO TAX-PAYERS.
FaTori Home Teaching Hut la Willing to
Help KilucMte Poor Whlto
Children.
"Blessed aro they who expect little,
for they shall not be disappointed." It
seems impossible to elect a legislature
that will relieve the people from the
overburden of-taxation, and hence it
is good philosophy for us to be reconciled
to what wo cannot help. Wo old
men are back numbers and must acquiesce
in the modern methods and let the
procession proceed. But I shall die
In the faith that it is wrong in principle
for us to pay for the education of
children whose parents are better off
than we are, or to pay. pension money
to those who could buy us out at a
sheriff's sale. You see, my brethren,
I wasn't raised that way and I am too
old now to be raised over again. My
private opinion is that some
of these gentlemen who speak I
so gushingly about these poor, |
dear children, who with outstretched
arms are pleading and bogging
for education, are talking for
buncombe and want to be re-elected
or else they linvent got any property
to be taxed and don't care a darn
whr t becomes of the rest of us. My
tax now is more than one-tenth of my
total income and I consider myself an
injured person, for I don't see how I
can pay it; and some of my nabors aro
in the same fix. I have educated our
ten children and paid for it and got no
help and now if the new principle is
right I want the state to refund. If
my part of the tax weut to educate
poor whito children only I would say
amen and amen, but when I see it
going to educate rich men's children
and to educate negroes for the cliaiugang,
I am disgusted beyond measure.
It fatigues my indignation to read
the gush of those orators who profess
to be the guardian nngels of the children
of the state. I can form a home
syndicate right now iu this town who
will agree to give a common school
education to ev ry child in Cartersville
whose parents are uiin^ft.AQ.pay
the ordinary tuition. Th? 5iiKtitutionnl
is '? "/'reconsider the qualilication
of voters and it slinnl.i ?
- 8?nize
the school system and require all
who are able, both white ami black,
to pay for the education of their children.
If the pensions are put upon
the indigent basis, why not put the
schooling? I tell yon, my brethren,
this taxation business has got
to stop. Those who are able j
to stand it cannot realize what a I
burden it is to those who are not. It j
is the straw that breaks the camel's
back. Captain Neal said this morning
TlliuiJ in 1 ill
friend Fort, who said lie trie< rw
tried to sell his house and lot to somebody
so as to pay his debts, but he
couldn't find a buyer, but one day the
sheriff came along and sold it just as
easy.
A great deal of this stuff about education
and the dear children pleading
for it is sentimentnlism. They are
not pleading for it around here, hut
had rather dodge it and stay at
homo or hunt persimmons and walnut
or rabbits and black haws or
shoot sparrows and squirrels. If the
parents nre any account ami love their
children they will help to educate them
at home. I can say with truth that
I got more and a better oducatiou from
my father and mother than I ever did '
it school, for about all the teacher did j
was to hear me recite.
I reckon these sentiments will shock ;
liese paternalists who are so crazy [
ibout the public schools and will lie j
specially horrible to the army of ;
school teachers, for they are desper- !
,tely in earnest, aud like l'aul !
nagnify nil he 'buu"tfv son. I;
unking a bigger thing of our sys- ,
cm of Public education tbnn it ?l?. ,
iervos to be. Public moral* are of fur
more importance, ami Mr. Stetson,the '
statistician of Massachusetts, in his j
ihle report t?Tthe legislature, declares
hat the system has been trie<l ami j
bund wanting; that moral training is j
n tlie background ami crime is rap- j
dly increasing; that public education j
s but a frigid training of tlio mind, j
vhile the heart is neglected and tin* !
prisons are tilled to overflowing with '
onvicts,7() per cent of whom have had j
i liberal public school education.
As Judge Milner well said in a re- j
ent article published in your col- j
unns, the average parent turns his i
hildren over tot|ie public for nn edu- j
cation and dismisses them from his |
mind. It is no longer any of his bus- I
ness. Put if the parent had to |
inv fur mill linil fi vninn i i? 4l,n I
election of teachers he would take
nore interest in the education of his
hildren. lint all this is preaching in
k*ain. The people are wedded to the
system, and it will have to run its
course. It is said to he the policy in
all enlightened countries, hut we read
[hat in Prussia no man is allowed to
leach who has not had at least one
year's training in theological studies.
The standard of moral fitness in the
teacher is. very h>gh and the pupil is
required to give two years' service to
the state after he has graduated.
After all is said that cau he said
about auy system of education the
great part and the good part must be
douo by the parent at home. The
training of the heart must go along
with that of the miud. 1 saw two
boj s fighting on the street the other
day. It was a willing light and they
had laid their schoolbooks carefully
down by the fence. They had been
down on the ground some time before
I got to them and my presence did
not deter them. It was a hard tight
and the bottom boy ttnnlly got out
his knife, but at my earliest protest
they separated, and went to their
homes. I wondered if there wan no
book in their school that taught them
it was wrong to tight, or if their parents
had told them, as some parents
do, to take no insult or abuse from
anybody. Hat I learned afterwards
that these were not bad or vicious
boys, nnd wore popular with their
schoolmates, and then I remembered
that I had a hard light myself wlieu .1
schoolboy and my father whipped me
for it ami my mother cried about it,
and when father went away 1 comforted
mother by tellinsr her that I licked
him and made him holler. Precept is
good, but example is stronger, nnd I
was always proud that my father
whipped a bully who rode into his
rtore and cursed him.
Well, the children must all have a
fair start ill Mchoolitur nml if
can't pet it in the ohl fashioned way
we old folks must full into line with
the new, tn\ or no tax. But T want
the demagogues to hush. They mako
me *ired.? Bii.i. Aw, in Atlanta Constitution.
MJLES ADVOCATES HIS BILL.
Ornrrnl Aiipnirn Iloforo IIoihi< Com III I <iloii
On Military AITair*.
Major General Miles appeared Monday
before the house commission on
| military affairs for a hearing relative
to the proposed reorganization and
increase of the army.
Two bills for this purpose are pending,
one drawn by General Miles and
introduced in the senate as the Hawley
bill, and another introduced in the
house by Chairman Hull, of the military
committee.
At the outset General Miles addressed
himself to the general need of
increasing the army without reference
to either bill. He said he had always
favored the establishment of a fixed
standard for the army. The experience
of the Inst year, he said, had
demonstrated that our present military
establishment was inadequate to innin|
'OW.POHition as a first-class power,
j ossary now'to^.^1^1 \\ WJ!S "IV." /
j .ary requirements nr home and thovj
I "1..-0!V ,,e.w. coIo,,i?l denendetn>w.u .
ui'hjum, and the rapidly inw<jnsii;p de- ,
mauds made by the seaeoust t'ojtiiieV
tions. The latter, as far as completed.,
required some INfi batteries of t
lery, and when the entire increase^
roast defenses was eompleted, 3(>.v >
j would be required. \
The war with Spain had shown >
pretty elearly how many men would .
be required. General Miles said. The \ ^
war had required .r>2,000 met for ae- ^
and field operations at various points. J
T I JenflVll? .h.ll'MiFtudHnUmilu^p.ObO j
j inp army of one soldier from 1,(TV /
i population at home, with native troopsw ^
' (iii a basis of two native soldiers for ^
I every 1,000 p<>T>ulation.
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1 WILL KM It A UK AT NEW YORK.
Thrco ICrciiiicnt Will n<< to MmiiIIm tIk
flu* Suez Cniutl
The next repinients to start for Manila
will embark at New York about the
end of this month and will po throuph
the Sue/ canal. The expedition will
nt\w cio* '> f 11
"> uuec regiments of regular
infantry, destrilmtod' between two of
the largest converted transports owned _
by the government, with perhaps a
convoy of two warships. Arrangements
are now being made for this expedition
hy Adjutant General Corbin
as rapidly as j?r ssildc, in view of its
great importance, especially as it involves
co-operation by the. stnto and i
navy department authorities .as wcl/ M
as those <?f the war de]?artntei)t. V
1
Willi Olllrcr* of Seventh Armv Corp*:
General Kit/.hugh Iiee, commanding
the Seventh army corps, and staff, sailed
from Savannah, (la., at -1 o'clock
Sunday afternoon on the tiansport
Panama, the vessel captured from the
Spnni tnls.
General TiOe stood upon the hurricane
deck, surrounded l>v his start'officers,
hats in hand, while ton to fifteen
thousand people, who lined the
wharves, bade him farewell and godspeed.
The Panama carried only the oflieors.
of headquarters of Cain]) Onward, with
the clerks, orderlies, animals and
transportation used l?v these officers.
Sho goes direct to Marianao, near
which place the corps wpi ~
FOIt TEXTILE SCHOOL.
TtlMajority of tlcorslii l.i-tpMlot ors Vot?
An Appropriation of ttlo.dlio,
By it largo majority tin- (ieorgin
house of repi esontatives paused a liill
appropri .ting $10,000 for the textile
department of the Teehuologieul
sehool.
A light whs made upon the hill, hut
representatives from all seetionsof tlx ^
state rushed to its defense and
pressed their hearty approval
siipp'*"' "f the ilr^n'tino'it, jj^^' I