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The Weather To-day:' FAIR; WARMER. The News and Observer. YOL. XLVI. NO. 87. LEADB ALL NORTH CAROLINA DAILIES 11 NEWB All GIRCUi 1111. S>C ADMIRAL WATSON BEACHES MANILA He Raises His Flag on the Baltimore. WAR DOGS CALL ON HIM ATTACK ON PEREZ DAS MARI NAS RENEWED. THE AMERICANS CAPTURE THE CITY The Place, Surrounded by Swamps, is of no Importance, and Gen. Wheiton Wid Probably Return to Imus. O.is Commends Wheaton. Manila. June 20 —8 p. in. —‘Rear Admir al John C. Watson arrived here to-day on Iroard the United States transport Znfiro from Hong Kong, and raised his Has on the United States cruiser Balti more. The commanders of all the war ships called upon the Admiral during tne course of the day. THE ATTACK IS RENEWED. Manila, June 20. —0 a. m.—General Wheaton’s command has renewed the at tack upon Peres das Marinas. Early this morning they moved on the town, hoping to reach there by noon unless very strong opposition was encountered. The latest list of the American casu alties in yesterday’s fighting shows that five were killed and twenty-three wound ed. The list includes no officers. The wounded were brought to Manila from Bacoor in cascoes. WHEATON TAKES THE TOWN. Manila. June 20.—8 p. m. —The troops commanded by General Wheaton entered Peres das Marinas today without opposi tion except upon the part of small Irodies of rebels who inflicted no losses upon the Americans. The town is an unimportant place, surrounded by swamps and Gen eral Wheaton will probably return to I in tis. OTIS REPORTS THE FIGHTING. Jipie 20,—General jQtis. in « cablegram to the Wnr eparfmerit, today gives the following brief account of the operations south of Manila yes terday: “Manila. June 20th. “Adjutant General, Washington: “Wheaton at Imus, (Cavite Province, with four guns, four battalions Fourth and Fourteenth infantry, Nevada troop cavalry; sent battalion south on recon naissance direction of Marinas yes terikiy morning where enemy reported concentrating scattered forces; battalion encountered enemy's force two thousand inarching to attack Imus: successfully impeding its progress, Wheaton with two guns and two battalions hurried forward; repulsed enemy with heavy loss: enemy leaving over hundred dead on field; our loss five killed, twenty three wounded. Wheaton reinforced last night by battalion Ninth infantvy; is driving enemy beyond Das Marines now in his possession. Casualties today not rejmrted. Wheaton’s qualities for lwdd and successful attack unsurpassed (Signed) “OTIS. - ’ ’BRANSPORTS FOR MANILA. San Francisco, Cal., June 20.—Four traii.s)Nirts will sail for Manila within a week, and a fifth will soon follow. Tin* steamer Zculandia is scheduled to suT on Thursday. The Sheridan and the Pennsylvania will depart together on Saturday and the Valencia will f„l --h*w on Sunday. The Way tic-Id. carrying •'inly freight, will depart early ih‘.\t week. !IEI LN E It’S ST AT EM ENT. His Report of the Conversation on llie Bridge of die Brooklyn. Washington, June 20.—Following the statement of Lieutenant Commander Hodgson r<*s|K“cting the events that oc curred on the bridge of the Brooklyn July 3rd. the Navy Department today ic m' public the following re]w»nt from Chad wick of his examination of Lieu tenant Commander Ileilner: “U. S. S. New Vnrk, Boston, Mass, June 19, 1899. “Sir: “In obedience to the orders of the Secretary of the Navy, I have the honor to make the following report of an examination of Lieutenant Com liisHwber HeLlner with re*qy*ct of Iris kiv wledge* of *a conversation reported to have occurred let ween Rear Admiral Schley and Lieutenant Commander II dgson, during the action of July 3rd, 1898. “lieutenant Commander Ileilner states as follows: “ ‘At one of the early sessions of the Board on Ships’ Positions During the Action of July 3rd, I strongly expressed my doubt as to the Brooklyn's position before making the loop, as laid down by Mr. Hogd'-w >n.; several Other nav iga li.ts, Mr. Con ly and Mr. Selim tz**. I know, sided with me. Mr. Hodgson and I on this particular occasion walked up and down the port side of the cabin rs the Brooklyn in which tin* board was sitting. It is my impression that Mr. Hodgson claimed that the Brooklyn was eleven hundred yards from the leading S" a Irish ship when the turn was made. The board. I think, put it later at fourten hundred yards. Mr. Hodg r l. told me that he felt certain they were closer than fourteen hundred yards, and that their stand inn ter r«ve eight hundred yards. lie sudd, ‘We were to close that Srhlev gave the order ‘Hard a-port,’ I said io him ‘Yon mean starboard, do you not?’ The Commodore said, ‘No, I mean port; we are close* enough to them now.’ Mr. Hodgson then said lie called attention to the position of tlie Texas and told the Commodore he thought there was danger of run ning her down. The Commodore re plied. ‘Damn the Texas; let her look out for herself.’ 'Phis conversation was repealed to me on several different oc casions.’ “ ‘Everything T say now was eoti taiiHMl in Mr. Hodgson’s statement. The words may have lnee>n a liftle different. He may have said ‘Don’t you mean starboard. Commodore?’ Instead of the first phraseology. He certainly said ‘We are near enough to them now’ and afiso ‘Damn the Texas; let her look out for herself.’ “ ‘lie repented this conversation to me at least three times during the sessions of tin* hoard. Krause every tinu* a discussion- arose. I recurred to tin* pi sit ion given by him which T did not think correct. I placed no depen dence oil any observation by standime ter or sextant during gun fire. My ex perience was that during the action, 1 could not get a single observation of the stand imt-iter on which T could place any confidence, though I was using two standimnlers and had a man in tile c<muling tower with cleaning material, whose only duty was to fry to keep the glasses clean. With the utmost care this could not be done. I tried keeping the standimeter under my coat, but it was no use. I mention this as a reason for the doubts which brought tip the discussion.’ “ ‘The report as published was prac tically tlie conversation as repented to rile.’ “Lieutenant Commander Heilner ap jH*nds his signature as an attestation of the correctness of the foregoing as ’ hi-rewith given. “Yerv respect fr.l'lv, “F. E. CHADWICK. “Captain U. 8. X. “L. C. HEILNER, “Lieutenant Commander. IT. 8. N. | “To the Commie 1 SCHLEY HAS NOTHING TO SAY. Baltimore, dune 20.—Rear Admiral j Schley, who is visiting General Felix \ Agnus at the home of the latter, near I this City, declined today to comment j ! upon, or discuss in an manner the state- j | meats of Lieutenant Hodlgaon. or of Lieutenant Commander Heilner. General Agnus said: “Admiral Schley has nothing to say. This is mi tidy a dispute Irntween junior officers. History tells the retd." CONDiriONS IN SOUTH ..... , A MORE OF THE DARK DAYS AMONG THE AGRICULTURAL POPULATION. * -- Lack of Money, Presfnce of the Negro, loo! Much Color, all Given as Reasons of the Conditii n?. Washington, June 20.—'llie Industrial Commission today continued its inves tigation of the agricultural conditions of the South. Mr. I’olk Brown. Prod- ! dent of the Agricultural Society of j Georgia, was the first witness. He j agreed with Mr. Barrett, who testified j yesterday, that the condition of agrie.nl- ■ tore in the South was more depressed j than it had ever been. More pimple j were plowing barefooted and barebacked than ever before. He agrted with the late Henry Grady that the fault was not with the soil or the eljmate, nor, as many had claimed, was it entirely with the tariff. Ore of the most prolific causes of Hie tumble was In the fact that cotton was. -practically tin* only crop. Education, he cons-yt-red, was iwt sufficiently practical. It should teach people to do manual 'labor. So far as the colored race was concerned there was lm opening for them in trade or the proftesil ms. Mr P >wn dwelt on tin* presence of the negro as the s|*eeial cause of the want of development of tin* South. He regardi 1 him as retarding Hi.* indus’tiriaJ. normal, religions, social and agricultural development of the section, and he frit that if he were absent, a teller (lass of labor would take his place. The more the negro was p.id the less ef ficient It:* was as a laborer. Mr. Brown wanted tin* race separated from the whites and colonized either In >‘iiis coun try or o!m where in the interest, of the Southern State's. i he great obstacle in the way of the <!ev< liopim lit of the inaniiifacturing in ter, sts was the want of money. Mr. Brown advocated diversified crops, recommending that, cacti community should! raise sufficient of everything to meet its own denmlids. At -the afternoon sew. Con, the cam mis s'-on listened to a statement by Mr. I’. If. Love joy. a merchant and planter ol Hawkinsville, Ga. lie spoke espe cmll.v ol the relations of the local mer thilii'ts and the farmers. The mer chants themselves had 1 not liecn pros perous for several! years. They were emu]riled to make Mu* majority of their sales on credit, anil had To take mort gages upon the bind of the farmers if I hey had any. or on their erops if they had no land. Many of them were mot able to give collateral of any value, and to such men sales were w.iaOe on large margins of profit. “We s'ze the man up,” he said. “If he Is good we sell to him on a srna’J margin. If lie is a hard case w<* take what he has and quit.” He said 1 that freight rates from Geor gia to New York wen* about twice what they are from New York to Georgia. The large cities were evidently being built up at the expense of the country. Even the watermelon crop was unfavor able. “We have found that fn shipping melons we pay the freight.” he said. “Tlx* railroads cut us out of profit in that business.” i RALEIGII, NORTH CAROLINA, WEENESDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1899. PARTLY WRECKED THE OLD FORT Smaller Magazine at Fort Pickens Exploded. A MAN INSTANTLY KILLED FOUR OTHER MEN WERE VERY BADLY HURT. SEVERAL BUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED Fire Broke Out in the Fort Late at Night and Reached the Magazine Bifure it Could be Checked. Work of the Gallant Men. Jacksonville, Fla., June 20.—A special | to the Times-Union and Citizen from | Pensacola, Fla., says: j "Tin* smaller powder magazine at | Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island, blew up at 5:45 this morning. The ex plosion wrecked the western corner of the old fort, demolishing the new brick store house, the brick bake house, the orderly sergeant’s residence and several wooden buildings used for quarters for i the laborers who had been working on j the new fortifications. “Flying fragments hit Private Wells | of Battery 11, who was on sentinel duty j on the wharf, and almost instantly kill , ed him. Four other men were badly injured, one having a leg and arm ' broken. j “A fire broke out among the buildings I at the fort at a late hour last night | *‘‘"'l reached the magazine before ir could | l K ‘ checked, thus causing the exclusion. | The fire raged all the forenoon and the larger magazine in which was stored a great quantity of dynamite and other : heavy explosives was in danger, it and the forts being saved through the brave j work of Captain Nieumann and a de- j j tnehment of marines, who had been sent over from the navy yard by Com mander Reisinger. They, at great per sonal risk, fought the fire arid iinavi;.**>x-' j tir.guished it at about 1 o’clock this afternoon. Flying fragments from the explosion : fell across the bay in Warrington and j on the deck of a vessel that was being I towed to sea. Buildings in Pensacola I were shaken by the force of the ex i plosion.” IIE TURNS TO TIIE HAGUE. And Mr. Bourgeois Will Try to Form a Cabinet. Paris, June 20. —It is definitely an-' nouneed that President Louhet has asked M. Bourgeois, who is head of the hreneli delegation at Tlie Hague Peace Conference to form a Cabinet. In response to the request of Presi dent Loubet, M. Bourgeois has tele graphed that he will arrive in this city from The Hague to-morrow morning. THEY FAVOR FEDERATION. Sydney, N. S. W., June 20.-11:20 p. ,n - Tlie Australian Colonies are voting to-ilay on the Federation question. The struggle is most acute in New South Wales. Incomplete returns in this colony up to the present show 100,034 votes in favor of Federation and 78,239 against it. ( London, .Tune 20.—The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Joseph ( hamberlain, in the House of Commons to-day announced, amid cheers, that New South Wales has voted iu favor of Federation by a large majority. SOME ERRORS IN THE COPY. Washington. June 20.—The Navy De partment to-day gave out the following correction in Captain Chadwick’s letter, anent the Hodgson statement: The typewritten copy of the state ment of Captain Chadwick and Lieu tenant Commander Hodgson, given to the press yesterday was in error in the following points: i About one-third from the begining, where published statement reads: "I in tended him to understand there was danger of running into the Texas. He said All right,” or words to that effect; I cannot repeat verbatim—it should have read: “I intended him to understand there was danger of running into the Texas. He said All right, the Texas must look out for that,” or words to that effect. I cannot repeat verbatim. CONSUL GENERAL AT MANILA. Washington, June 20.—The. Spanish Minister has been advised of the ap pointment by the Spanish Government of Sonor Luis Marinas as Consul Gen eral at Manila. He has been Spanish Consul at Balti more, Savannah, Key West and New Orleans. THE CHESAPEAKE LAUNCHED. Bath, Maine, June 20.—The United States practice vessel Chesapeake was launched to-day from the Bath Iron Works Yards. She was christened by Miss Elise Bradford, daughter of Rear Admiral Bradford, Chief of the Bureau of Equipment, at Washington. The launching was successful in every particular. The Chesapeake will be taken to the Charleston Navy Yard, where she will be rigged and fitted for sea duty. ON THE DIAMOND. At Cincinnati— Cincinnati .. ..1 00 00020 *-3 0 1 Philadelphia ...000011000-2 9 2 At Pittsburg— Pittsburg .. .10 0000 001 o—2 8 1 New York ...0000101002-4 9 3 At Louisville — Louisville .. ..00 0 0 00100-1 0 2 Baltimore .. ..200000000-2 8 2 At Chicago— Chicago .0 00100000 000 0-1 71 Boston ..0001000000004—5 9 3 Ait St. Louis* — St. Louis 2000 01 0 0 o—3 11 2 Washington ..100101101-5 10 1 At Cleveland— Cleveland ....001001302-7 12 3 Brooklyn .. ..031031010-9 10 2 UXD DR DIF F ERE XT-RE GIM ES. American Economy and Honesty Sur prise the Cubans. Havana, dune 20.—Administration Eeonomiea, which is charged with the disbursement of thp finances of the pro visional government of Havana, and the province, published a statement show ing that from January to May inclusive, tin* receipts were $703,194 and the ex i penses $178,228, the balance being cash on hand. This causes general astonisli j meat among the Cubans and is nnpre ' cedented in the history of Havana, j Never before have the figures been pub lished openly. The officials, formerly, merely made semi-official statements, which were not itemized. No two years of the Spanish regime have yielded as much as the past five months. The English La Lucha in an editorial | based on this fact, says the Cubans and | Americans are watching the results of military rule, recognizing the immense influence which will be exerted in the ! future political struggle by the present | campaign, and adds: I “The greatest praise is due to the , Americans here at this evidence of ' their intent to maintain methods of the strictest honesty.” MERIDIAN POSTS ERECTED. I.v Mark Placed in This County for Benefit of Surveyors. Mr. d. B. Baylor, of the United States j Coast and Geodetic* Survey, who lias j been here* erecting meridian stones, as ■ provided for by an act of the last Legis lature, has completed his mission and w ill to-day go to Greene county. These meridian posts will Is* placed at the i county seat of every county in the State, j They have already been established in i nearly fifty counties. When the (State has completed this work..a report of it in every county wlb Ik* published in pamphlet form. Ji requires two granite jsists. 300 to 000 feet apart, with a cross on top of each showing the true north and smith line. These were erected here at the A. and M. College, and a United States standard of lengths (33 feet and 50 feet) was put on the court house floor for test i imr surveyors’ chains. When the work was completed here, Mr. Baylor made a report showing the compass variation at this point to la* 2 d gives and 27 minutes west of true north. This report will he flhtl in the office of the register of deeds for the hene of surveyors and others inter ested. RUSHED TO SEE DREYFUS. Paris, .Tilth* 20.—The approaching ar rival of Dreyfus at Itcnnes is causing an influx of foreigners there. The hotels are besieged with applicants f< r rooms, which command immense prices. Tin* arrangements for the conveyance of the prisoner from Brest have been made with the greatest care and it is believed there is no danger of demon si nations. Dreyfus is expelled' to reach Brest early in the nw ining and precautions have been taken to prevent any body from ceeing him either at Brest or at Rennes. The Figaro today says it understands Dreyfus will arrive at Rennes on dune :{ Oth and that: lie will bo landed elso wh« re than at Brest. RIOTS IN INDIA SPREADING. Bombay, .Tune 20.—The riots in South ern India have spread to Travancore, where the police have been severely lieuten and forced to retire. The rioters have seized a numlier of guns and a quantity of ammunition. They are cut ting off the* ears of their opiwnents in order to obtain their ear-rings more ex peditiously. About 450 houses have been burned at Sauiboovadngarai. OIL OCTOPUS GOES TO GOTHAM. Cleveland, Ohio, June 20.—The Standard Oil Company is preparing to get out of Ohio. Its headquarters will In* removed from this city to New York, and on the first of duly its Ohio charter will ho given up. It was sug gested that the action of the company was prompted by a desire to avoid furth er litigation such as was instituted by Attorney General Monnett, but the offi cer who gave the information denied that such was the case. Prof. d. W. Canada, principal of Chapel Hill school, was in Raleigh yes terday. He rode over from Chapel Hill on his bicycle and made the trip in 5 hours. Prof Canada has built up a flourishing school at Ohapel»Hill that mi m I tors nearly 200 students. He is now putting up a new building on Pittx lmro street, three stories high, which will contain 19 rooms and be a model school structure. Mr. C. S. Canada, who graduated at the University this year, will assist his brother in the con duct of the school. REDEEMED FROM FAILURE IR RAME By Agreement on Arbitration that Does Not Arbitrate THIS WILL B£ ITS END SO SAYS A HIGH AUTHORITY AT THE HAGUE. SPEAKING OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE Attitude of Germany On’y a Little More Ad vancod than tLa f of me o h Ot ier Powers in Op?osi‘i r n 'o the Plant Suhm'fleH. Washington, dune 20. —Private ad vices received here from a high authori ty are to the effect that the conference I at The Hague probably will be re | deemed nominally from failure through i an agreement: on an arbitration project j that will satisfy the apparently general demand on that point, but which, at the same time, by carefully framed safe guards. will so narrow the field of ‘nat ters that may or must go before the arbitration tribunal as to make it little more than arbitration in name. The attitude of Germany is said to he only a little in advance of that of some of the other [lowers in opposition to the plans submitted, and the disaffection is more general than appears on the sur face. As for the other projects that were specially desired by the Americans, such as protection of individual property from seizure at sea, they have all been irredeemably lust, according to this re port. STREET RAILWAY COMBINE. One Hundred Mill’*m Involved —Many More Men to be Employed. St. Louis, Mo., dune 20. —It is an nounced that as* Governor Stephens lias signed the street railway bill, the ne gotiations for a general consolidation of all the street railways of Sr. Louis, which have been in progress for some trine, have ben practically completed. The deal involves nearly $100,000,000. Over $5,000,000 will Im* expended in inq movements and a much larger num ber of men will Is* employed than ever before. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. The Benevolent Order of Elks are in session at St. Louis. General Leonard Wood, the Military Governor of Santiago Province, has been offered the Presidency of the Washington Traction and Electric Com pany of Washington. Postoffice Inspector James, of Chica-1 go. has arrested Walter Porter and John Newman, drivers of mail wagons, for robberies of the mail just discov ered. i • - I Peter Maher, the Irish heavyweight | pugilist, scored a quick victory over I his fellow countryman. Mike Morrissey, j of Tipperary, before the Lenox Athletic Club last night. Governor Roosevelt said before Cor-! neil University yesterday that “out* country could better afford to lose all of the men who have amassed millions than to lose one-half of its college bred j men. We can get along without men j of enormous wealth, but not without men of brains.” Published allegations that the mails sent homeward by Nebraskan and other volunteers in tin* Philippines, had been censored at Manila have brought out an official denial by Director of Posts Vaille, at Manila. THEY LOOK FOR A FIGHT. Louisville, K.v.. dune 20. —The State Democratic Convention which meets at Central Music Hall to-morrow to nomi nate a full State ticket promises to be long and bitter. The sharpness of the struggle between the three leading can didates for Governor, General P. Wat Hardin, W. d. Stone and Will. Goebel lias not. been lessened by tin* numberless conferences which have occupied their followers to-day and to-night. A MOB SURROUND THE .TAIL. Mobile, Ala., .Tune 20. —Daniel Pat rick, the negro who is accused of as saulting Miss Bessie Isaacs in her home near Scranton. Miss., was captured to day. He lms confessed. At midnight a crowd has gathered for the purpose of assaulting the jail. Sheriff Moore and deputies say they will resist the mob. Shooting is looked for. PRINTING INK TRUST. Trenton, N. J., dime 20.—Articles of incorporation of the Federal Printing Ink Company were filed to-day at the State Department. The company is formed for the purpose of manufactur ing printing ink and has an authorized capital of $20,000,000. A good deal of war like activity L observable among the people of West Africa just now. 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS. SITE I MILITARY PARK. m «w t.omnnssu to Report on Battle- of Virginia. Y\ ashing J* tne 20 —Colonels Wheel er and Kir j ’ he (Quartermaster's De partment, ~*i Mfday to make a tour of tlie battle-fields of Virginia, especially those of the Wilderness, Fredericksburg and Spottsylvania, with instructions to report upon the best available site for a military park similar to those of Gettys burg, (’hiekamauga and . eksburg. Al lhough Virginia was the theatre of the Civil War, no military park has hem established in that State. The board I which visits the park does so under pro vision of the last Congress. THE BIBLICAL ASSEMBLY. Charlotte, X. (’.. dune 20.—The Southern Biblical Assembly held its first, session of ,i ten days* convention in the Second Presbyterian Church this even ■ ; ing. Rev. Dr. d. E. Gibbert, the Na tional Secretary. pri*siiling in the ab sence of the National President, General John Eaton, detained by illness. Hon. Arinistead Harwell, of the local bar. welcomed the assembly and his address was responded to by Rev. George E. Kirby. President of Weaver vilie College*, after which Rev. Dr. Alexander Sprnnt delivered an address on the motto of this assembly: "More and lad ter Bible study.’’ Many prominent ministers of various ! denominations are here. GOT TEN YEARS FOR MURDER. Memphis, Term., June 20.—Green berry Reilditt. a white farmer' of con siderable wealth and influence, was con victed to-day by a jury for murdering a negross. Redditt shot Maggie Hobbs, whom he claimed, tried to kill him with a brick. The jury, which was composed entirely of white citizens, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree and Redditt was given ten years in the penitentiary. j TIIE TWO COUNTS RELEASED. Paris, June 20.—Comte De Dion and Comte D’Aubigny, who were sentenced June lGth to two weeks’ imprisonment I and to pay 100 francs fine, after having ; been convicted of complicity in the dis turbances at Auteuil, June 4th, were , released from prison to-day. | Though there are bright prospects of a settlement of the Cleveland street ear men’s strike, there was severe riot ing yesterday. HOLYOKE HONORS HIM ITCONrtRS UPON McKINLEY degree of DOCTOR OF LAWS. 1 Tht Pres : dent Presents the Diplomas. Miss Grace McKinley Among the Gradu ates. President Speaks. South Hadley, Mass., June 20. —Com- mencement day at Mount Holyoke Col lege was made a national event to-day by the participation of President Melvin j ley, who with Mrs. McKinley, Assistant J Secretary of the Navy Allen and mem- I hers of his official family, had come here to witness the graduation of Miss Grace McKinley, tin* President's niece. Gov ' ernor Roger Wolcott and Mrs. Wolcott j and others of political and social prom ! inence also attended the exercises. President McKinley presented the gradu- J ating class with their diplomas and de i grew. As the last diploma was presented and ! the President was about to resume his ! seat. Dr. Trask arose and. addressing I Mr. McKinley, announced that Mount ! Holyoke College wished to confer upon him the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws. The President accepted the honor iu the I following words: | “Mrs. Meade, ladies and gentlemen: “I cannot refrain from making ac knowledgement in tin* presence of the very distinguished honor which the Board of Trustees and officers of this institu tion have been pleased to confer upon ! me. 1 want to assure the young ladies I of the graduating class that 1 am both | delighted and honored to be a member of a class of ’99. Massachusetts has been and is first in many things, but in noth ing more than in educational institu tions. "1 count myself most fortunate to have been privileged yesterday to look uimui ! I In* faces of graduates of Smith College. | that splendid institution of learning for the education of the women, and I count myself most fortunate to-day to look upon the faces of the graduates of this gloriously historic institution, that has done so much for the exaltation of wo men and whose influence is felt not only in ‘Massachusetts, but in every part o' our common country. “Mount Holyoke is .more than sixty years old to-day and the influence of this institution in moulding and shaping the citizens of the nation can never he told. “1 am glad that we are demonstrating in the United States to-day that the hoy shall have no more advantages than the girl, and Mount Holyoke and Smith and the half dozen other institutions of the land are demonstrating that fact. “An educated womanhood is an open school for citizenship every day of the year, and the home is the training school for mother, soldier and statesman. I wish for this graduating class all good things and I want you to la* assured that all good things wait upon a pure and noble woman.” At the close of the President’s deliver ance of the degrees, a beautiful purple banner inscribed: “Mount Holyoke, ’90.” was presented to him by the gradu ating class. Kansas is suffering from a hot wave, over 100 degrees at places.