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THE STATE TEACHERS.
ONE OF THEIR VERY INTEREST
ING DAYS
Voted the Rett Day of all The Work
ol the DayMeetinjs of Clubs--
Note, Personals Ac.
Atlahtic Hotel,
Mouebiad City, Jane 24.
To day was "Natural Science Day"
with the teachers.
There was a large and greatly inter
ested audience in the assembly hall
daring the day It was expected that
the exercises would be specially inter
esting and they were. It had been an
nounced that there would oe some work
by the ".Sea Club,' of which Prof. W. L.
Poteat is president, and another attrae
tioa announced was a lecture on "How
to Teach liotaoy in Publio Schools1 by
Prof. W. F. Massey, of the college of
agriculture and the mechanio arts.
Thia paper was the first featare of the
day's exercise. It was listened to with
profound attention. Prof. Massey said
that there was one general failing in the
system of teaching publio schools.
Teachers and pupils generally learned
enough from books, but they had hith
erto failed to win that practical
information which could only come from
the questioning and handling of nature. '
One great trouble witn tne Doys wno
came from the schools into the colleges
was that they bad been taught to memo
rize facts from books, but had never had
any practical training in any of the
sciences. If a boy could have the prop
er tralaiog he would, by the time he was
ten years old, hare some understanding
of mineralogy, geology, botany etc., as
well ait geography. Most of the boys in
the schools would always bo in direct
contact with nature, because most of
them would work in the woods and the
fields, but nature had hitherto been a
sealed book to them because they had
never been induoed to inquire into the
secrets. They had never been taught to
think about them, ana they did not usu
al! v make voluntary. Dractical observa
tion?. He illustrated the point by citing
a simple instance. A man who had
been farming several years, saw that his
crops and trees were being ravaged by
caterpillars. He sought to destroy them
and went out every day and burned
their webs and nests. But there appear
ed to be no perceptible diminution
in the number of the worms nor
any decrease in the havoc they work
ed. This went on for some days, until
the farmers little daughter went to him
anditaid: "Papi. I know why you do
not kill the caterpillars. You go out
every morning to burn their nests, and
Just at that time the caterpillars are
away from home getting something to
eat. When they come baok and find
their webs gone, they make them over
aiMin." This opened the farmers eyes.
lie watched the caterpillars, found when
thev all were at home, and then he soon
freed bis crop from the pests. This was
but an illustration of the "want of
thought and observation1' which was so
general, and it was general, because
there was no practical study of science in
the public schools, Prof. Massey ap
nealed for a change in this respect He
wished that there might be a science de
partment in all the publio schools. Af
ter he expressed this wish, he entertain
ed the assembly for some time by show.-
In how the study of plants might be
conducted in the publio schools in a sim
Die but effective manner.
Prof. W. L Poteat discussed Prof.
Massey's paper, and advocated a study
of botany, beginning with the loeit
order of plant life. He thought it
advisable to begin with the simple
nd work up to the complex forms of
plant life. This might be done with the
uid of a microscrope; and he did not
think any school was complete without
a microscope. He thought that auy
school committee would do a marvel
lously good thing to suspend the school
for two months, if necessary, for the
Duroose of accumulating a fund to pur
chase that instrument. The lower order
of plants was discovered and classified
in 1842. Oar schools knew but little
abDut this order, and hence we were
about fifty years behind time. This
fault of the schools could be easily
remedied by a study of the plants with
the aid of a microscope.
Prof. J. A. Holmes, of the State Uni
versity, also advocated the study of
botany from the bottom up. He had
observed that people generally cared
very little for hearing about "botany, "
but he had noticed that whenever he
took up a plant and tried to tell some
thing abcut it, it was very seldom that
the listener did not beeome greatly in
terested He believed in the study of
plants on account of its immense practi
cal vain, and he hoped that our effi
cient Btate Superintendent of Public In
struction would give his attention and
encouragement to this branch of study
in the publio schools.
Prof. W. L. Poteat followed Prof,
Holmes in a lecture on "Animal Studies
for Children."
He began by saying that, just now,
there was not titte for thia branch of
study; that the school period was al
ready too short, and besides beiaz too
short, it was too full, and nothing else
could bs incorporated into the course of
study. He didn't like this condition of
things. He laid down the proposition
that the study of animals and nature
was a supreme necessity, and he de
nonnced any condition that did not
make room for a "supreme necessity."
Be said that children loved animals bat
ter than anything else. They had
rather play with a dog or kitten than
with anything else. Whatever a child
might be doing, he dropped proceedings
at a proposition to go to -'see the horse."
This showed that children had an
innate love for animals, and could be
more easily interested in studying them
than any thing-else. He said that one rea
son why studies of animal life had been
almost universally excluded from the
course of study In the publio schools
vat because the science was a compara
tively new one. Beading, Arithmetic,
Geo-Ttsav. dec., were known before ani-
pila were known, and the former fea
tures had taken tt e "run" in thatschoois,
and it was difficult to rl x-. anything
else along with them. Bat this study of
animals was a ma 'er of very great im
portance, and timo must be mads for the
study.
Prof. Poteat gave a practical lecture
o i animal are. lie distributed a num
ber of grasshoppers among the audi
ence, and then, with the assistance of a
blackboard, gave an illustrated talk, in
which he chained the interest of that
vast gathering of teachers as though
they had been a lot of children looking
at a "Punch and Judy" show. Before
concluding his lecture, he stated that a
microscope which would answer all pub
lic school purposes, would cost about
twenty dollars.
Prof. J. A. Holmes, of the State Uni
versity, spoke to the assembly taking
for his snbject "After school Excur
sions." Ibis means the taking of chil
dren into the fields after school hours
for the purpose of studying nature in
all its forms, but he proposed particu
larly to talk about the study of rocks
and minerals. Prof. Holmes said he
knew that the teacher was already over
burdened, but he seemed to hope that
there would soon be a new order of
things which would give ample time for
these excursions with the children, that
they might learn from practical observa
tions something of things which were
ever around them.
Prof. Holmes began his lecture by
distributing specimens of rock, gathered
from certain portions of the Btate,
among the audience. Four specimens
were enclosed in envelopes. After the
envelopes had been distributed, the
professor designated each specimen, and
then gave a clear, concise and very ab
sorbing talk on the formation and quali
ties of each. A3 he talked, the listeners
were surprised to find that matters of
such great interest centered in a round
small specimens of stone. From
the rocks and minerals, Prof.
Holmes made a connection with mineral
waters which were found almost every
where, and these might be made mat
ters of great interest in these "after
school excursions." He showed how
easy it was to take any simple subject
such as a gully, a vessel of muddy water
or any thing usually regarded as unim
portant and insignifioent, and by proper
study draw from them most valuable
and important lessons, mentioned
bow the action of water on rocks and
early formations might be studied and
what great results ensued from this ac
tion, so much of which was seen and so
little of which was known by the children
or people generally. Prof Holmes
thought that the power of observation
deteriorated as a person grew in years,
and he therefore thought that this power
ought to be cultivated in early years,
and this could best bo done by some
method similar to these "after school
excursions" with the teachers.
The Best Day.
This has been pretty generally voted
the best day of the session. The exer
cises, while very thoughtful and instruc
tive, were sprinkled with wit, and while
the teachers learned they also laughed.
So far more tban fifteen hundred peo
ple have been here since the opening of
the session, and there are about nine
hur dred here now.
Good Care and Comfort.
I do not think I am addicted to trying
to place praise or commendation where
none belongs, and I surely would not do
it cere. Hotels, like railroads, are butts
on which th "cussin" public most free
ly exercise their special accomplishment;
and whenever, by any circumstance, lam
a temporary member cf that element, I
let go at hotels and hotel-keepers to the
best of my ability, but I wish to emphat-
icaiiy record mat i nave never seen a
crowd of people more comfortably pro
vided for and looked after, than is the
assemblage of people here. The polite
ness and kindness and affability of the
Messrs. Foster Bros, are absolutely inex
haustible, and the very same may be
said of the. very obliging chief clerk,
Mr. W. P. Campbell, and his assistants,
Messrs. O. T. Campbell and-W. J.
Branch. Just think of it a minute.
There are nine hundred people here.
There is good room for another hundred,
for tne notel has comfortable accommo
dations for one thousand guests. These
nine hundred people want, on an aver
age, about three favors each a day and
they ask an average of live questions
each. Two thousand seven hundred fa
vors and four thousand five hundred
questions all inone day 1 And yet every
body is favored and an questions are
promptly and pleasantly answered.
The chief cook (and by the way he is
superb, and gets a salary of $3,500 per
annnm) seems to think his reputation is
at stake, and he is maintaining a good
one.m spite of the magnitude and multi
a. . j J - m t mi a.
luainousness oi nis uuues. inree times
every day he sends in elegant meals, to
which tne fullest justice is always done.
The Alondern Language and English
Association.
The Modern Language and English
Association held its annual meeting this
morning, and elected the following om
ears for the ensuing year: Dr. W. S.
Cnrrell, President; Dr. Thomas Hume,
Vice President; Dr. G. A. Wauchope,
Secretary. Executive committee: Prof.
W. D. Toy, if cot. U. Alphonso Smith,
Mr. Geo. S. Wills. Readingcircle com
mittee: Dr. Thomas Hume, Mr. Logan
D. Howell, Prof. C- D. Mclvtr.
Tne sea uiub.
The "Sea Club" met in annual session
thi3 morning. Prof. W. L. Poteat was
elected president, and Prof. Henry Louis
Smith was elected Secretary. Prof. J.
A. Holmes was elected Vice-president
all the elections being for the ensuing
year.
. The work of the day closed at 9 p. m.
with a Shaksperian lecture by Rev. Dr.
Thos. Hnme. I would like very much
to give an outline of this most admirable
E reduction of the learned and scholarly
r. Hume, and hope I can do so later
on; but the growing length of this letter
warns me that I cannot do so here.
Notes.
The assembly base ball club went up
to New Berne to day and played a game
with the club of that city. It was a hot
and very interesting contest resulting in
a score of 2 to 2. Holding, the pitcher of
the assembly team struck out twenty
OnQ, B&3. .
The annual pony penning will oceuv
here on July 10th. It will be the grand
est penning ever known in this State.
and more tban five hundred ponies will
be offered for sale. r-To-night
a nt mber of young gentle
men of the State University, who are
spending some time , here, gave a
"Chapel Bill" sail to a special party of
about one hundred friends. The pro
gramme was a run to the banks, a moon
light Btroll on the beach, chats and
songs, the serving of refreshments at
Fort Macon and then a jolly, happy re
turn home, which was made about 1:30
a. m. '
Some Personals.
Rev. Dr. J. W. Carter likes to fish.
He doesn't trust to anything like "luck."
He watches the wind and weather, and
if they are not producing favorable con
ditions for angling,- he doesn't angle.
He likes the surf, too, and he wears a
perpetual smile as the waves and break
ers splash over him and pound him and
yank him and knock him in sixteen dif
ferent directions in seventeen seconds.
He was one of the interested listeners in
the assembly hall this morning. ,
I think Col. W. A. , Turk likes every
thing and everybody. If I am mistaken
here I will "even up" by saying une
quivocally that everybody likes him. I
saw his "play the devoted" for two
hours on Monday to a sweet little lady
just ten months old Miss Z Roberts,
the beautiful little daughter of Mrs.
Mena Branch Roberts. He went in the
the snrf to-day. Just as he stepped into
the ocean an unusually heavy wave
broke upon the beach. Col. Turk
weighs about three hundred, but of
course this had nothing to do with that
heavy swell. He was out on a moonlight
sale last night in a party of one bun
dred, and I did not see a more popular
gentleman among the ladies.
There were nearly one hundred new
arrivals to-day among whom are: O. W.
Dail, Tarboro; Miss Carrie Dail, Snow
Hill; Miss May Lucas, New Berne;, Mrs.
J, 1 Wiggins, Wilson; J. H. Loftin,
Kinston; Rev. J. J. HaU, J. E. Ray, J. M.
Broughton, N. B. Broughton, S. tkho
Wilson, W. H. Worth and Mrs. Worth,
Mrs. E. E. Moffitt, W. H.
King, Thos. Pescud, Raleigh; F. M.
Simmons, New Berne; T. H. Best, N. (J. ;
Alex. Graham, Charlotte; R. B. Drane,
Eden to a; J. W. Davis, Forest City; N.E.
Lea, Winston; F. McOwen, Clinton;
Miss Madge Pressley, King's Mountain;
C. F. Mitchell, Aulander; M. H. Quin-
nerly, Kinston; Dr. J. W. Grimsley,
Snow Hill, N. C; Miss M. Grimsley,
R L. Woodard, Pamlico, N. O. ; W.
W. Richardson, Springhope; Norwood
Carroll, Raleigh; A. G Hinton, Raleigh;
Mrs. Emily Claypoole, Miss Carrie Clay
poole, Master Jesse Claypoole, New
Berne; J. D. Ballentine. Varina; Mrs.
B. W. Cannady, Miss Fannie Murphey,
Mrs. Alice Kennedy, Miss C. TellMiss
Hattie Tull, Kinston! Mrs. Cox, Miss
Washington, T. C. Diggs, Goldsboro; W.
S. Wilkinson, Miss Emily Gilliam, N. C;
F. L. Fuller, Durham; Mrs. W. O.
Moseley.Miss Alice Moseley, Mrs. J. 0.
Wooten, Jr., Kinston; J. T. McCraw,
Wilson; Miss Myrtle Branson, Raleigh;
Jno. P. Haskett, Kinston; W. H. Pear
son, Morganton; 0. F. Hwvey, Kinston;
Jno. Odum, Rocky Mount; J. N. Wil
liamson, Jr., Graham; Chas. A. Webb,
Asheville; Geo. W. Marsh, Morganton;
T J. Lambe, Durham.
H. W. Ayeb.
SIS
NEW YGBK : ITS CENSUS.
POPULATION ONE MILLION
HUNDRED THOUSAND.
SIX
Cosmopolitan CL -racterislicsVisit to
the Herald Offiv Type-Settlng Ma
chinesImmensity of the Printing
Business.
Editorial Correspondence.
New Yobk, June 23, 1890. Tne cen
sus has just been completed here, and it
is found that there are upwards of 1.600,
000 people in this great city or quite as
many on this small island as in the great
State of North Carolina. Speaking of
the census, I saw a lady yesterday whose
answers to the questions shows how
these people travel - and how truly cos
mopolitan they are. Her father was
born in Scotland, her mother in Eng
land, she in a Western State, and of her
children no two wre born in the same
State.
I am particularly desirous of study
ing the present census of the cities of
the North to ascertain how large a pro
portion of them are native-born. I am
not a linguist, and it is only with diffi-
he can do so at the smallest cost. The
best schools are here and they are open
day and night. Here, for a small or
high price, a man may live as he pleases
without a care. His next-door neigh
bor doesn't think about his affairs acd
(what is worse!) he doesn't care. He
has no interruptions in business hours.
wnen he works, he works, and when he
rests, he rests. During business hours
every man is on a tension. He works with
all the steam on and he works
with efficiency or he cannot keep his
place. Then when business is over, he
has his recreation, and for a very small
sum of money he can go to the most de
lightful summer resorts on the coast. In
one hour after leaving bueiress he can
plunge in the surf take a clam-bake
a moonlight excursion and go to bed
reasonably early. They say that New
York is becoming a popular summer re
sort for people who want fun and pleas
ure. Tney come here and see the sights
and live at the best hotels, and make ex
cursions to the resorts that are within a
few minutes travel from this centre of
THE NATIONAL CONGRESS.
THE SENATE PASSES RESOLU
TIONS IN REGARD TO USE '
OF PIER AT CHICAGO, 1
And Discusses the Bill for the Ad
mission of Wyoming as a State. The
House Discusses the Silver Bill and
the National Election Law.
By United Press.
Washington, D. C, 'June 25. The '
Senate to-day amended and passed the
House joint resolution authorizing the
use of a government pier in Chicago.
House bill authorizing the erection of
a hotel, (for colored people) upon the
government reservation at Fortress
Monroe was passed.
Mr. Call rose to address the Senate on
the snbject of resolutions heretofore of
fered by him (and reported back ad
versely from the committee on foreign
relation) authorizing the President
negotiations with the Spanish
to open
all things. And not only so, but a resi- government for the purpose of inducing
dent or JSew York can (even it only mak
ing a small amount) hear the finest lec
tures and sermons in the world; see the
best operas and hear the best plays; en
joy every novelty ana every pleasure
that wealth and taste can secure.
Capacity , to earn enough money to
culty that I can make out the directions live on is essential here, but beyond that
which are given a stranger. The lan
guage is so foreign to the English, and
is a mixture of two or more, that it is
difficult to understand much of what is
said. '
Some weeks ago, a prominent citizen
of North Carolina visited a relative in
New Yoik. He walked about the
streets he lounged in the parks, he
rode on the elevated railroads, he went
to Coney Island, and everywhere be
found an active, restless, bustling crowd.
They were always going, but most of
those he saw were doing nothing at all.
He confided to his relative that for his
life he did not understand how half of
these people earned their bread. His
failure to undsrstand this fact is not
strange to me without reflection. When
ever I come here it fills me with wonder
until I reflect that what is made in New
York is sold in every quarter of the
globe. We get almost everything we
eat, drink, wear, use or read from this
metropolis. Take the reading alone, and
see what an army of men and women
are employed to furnish the world its
intellectual pabulum.
I went into the Herald office yester
day and what an immense establish
ment it is? Paper bought by the room
f ul, ink by the 100 barrels, men and boys
employed without number in every line
And all this immense establishment
runs absolutely without the least fric
tion or worry. Every conceivable publi
cation is issued here. The cost or thei:
publication is being cheapened by the
use of the type-setting machine. This
machine costs $2,000, and with it two
women can do the work of ten men. It
is used in only a few offices here, and
really has not yet been fully perfected.
a man need not care for it. Outside of
the Mammon lords, a man never asks if
jou have money. He doesn't care any
more about that than whether you have
a wart- on the back of your neck. If
you have enough to "go on, all welL If
you haven't, you just doa'tgoon." That
is all. .But if you do "go," it is all
right. Of course if a man has20,000,
000 or so, it is different, but whether a
man has $1.00 or $100,000 matters very
little, if any, in the chance he has to get
enjoyment out of life. But at best, the
work is machine work. Most men work,
and work without ever knowing whether
it is appreciated or whether it is helpful
to his iellows. Me is a cog in the great
machinery that moves everything. If
he dies or falls away, another takes his
place an i the machine goes on. It
is not encouraging to a man's van
ity or self-esteem to live in a great
city. He is an an atom, and though
rich and learned, he is stitl an atom, a
cog. It is more difficult to make friends
in a great city than in villages and in
the country. The rush and bustle seems
to prevent (at least, so it seems to me)
the strongest attachments. People are
so busy here they havn't time to see
each other. This morning after I had
finished what I had in hand and was
listlessly running over the dull columns
of a sensational daily and watching the
crowd at the same time, I felt like initiat
ing the example of an old-time fun-lov
ing .North Carolina gentleman who,
several years ago, was called to New York
oa business. After his business was finish-
(it was a very hot day, and when it is
hot here it is melting) he took a chair
out of the corridor and carried it out.
and sat down in it on Fifth Avenue. He
then took off his coat bought a palm-
leaf fan, and took things easy. He was
a very loquacious gentleman, and he
was as happy as he could be only he had
nobody to talk to. He looked around
him, and saw an elderly, pleasant-looking
gentleman approach. He arcse (still
But publishers here say that it is only a fanning) and said to the gentleman:
HANGED BY A MOB.
For Attempted Assault on a Child of I
12 Years Served Him Right.
(By United Press.)
LouisvttjLE, June 25. Near Branden
burg Monday, Henry Watts attempted
to commit an assault on Nellie Bland, a
child of 12 years. She succeeded in es
caping and ran to her grandfather's
house. A mob was organized at once,
but Watts was arrested by the deputy
sheriff and placed in Brandenburg jail.
The mob went to the jail last night and
took Watts seven miles in the country to
where the attempt occurred and banged
him to a tree.
A Complicated Shooting Result of an
Old Feud.
By United Press.
Kansas City, June 25. s the result
of an old feud, A. E. Coe, a farmer,
aged 55, living thirteen miles southwest
of Yates' Creek, yesterday went to the
field where his brother-in-law, Nathan
Augine, was working and shot him dead.
Coe turned to where .Ben Augine,
another brother in law, stood and shot
him through the shoulder, inflicting a
mortal wound. The murderer then
went to his house and shot Mrs. Coe
through the neck, killing her. To wind
it up he went to bis room and shot him
self in the farehead, dying instantly.
sullivanTTjackson.
The Fight Will Take Place at Alexan
dria, Va., if Terms can be Arranged.
By United Press.
Washington, D. 0., June 25. The
Sullivan Jackson prize fight, it is stat
ed will take place near Alexandria, Va.,
should the terms of the fight be arranged.
Fight with Bandits.
question of a short while when all read
ing matter will be set up ty the use of
these machines. But the printer need
not despair. He is not yet an Othello
with hi8 "occupation gone." Machines
cannot set up advertisements and they
are the' 'fat" which delights the printer's
heart. Suppose the cost of type-setting
could be reduced six-eighths, as is the
estimated saving of these machines, how
cheap books could could be sold at!
And newspapers would multiply and
get so large that it would require a dray
to haul a tingle paper. Then indeed
could we say "of making books there is
no end."
I have been for a long time a firm be
liever in the law of compensation, and I
believe in it now more firmly than ever.
When I reflect that here on Long IslaDd
live as many people as reside throughout
the length and breadth ot worth Caroli
na many of them living in tenements
crowded together in uncomfortable and
often unhealthy quarters I feel to
thank God that 1 live in the generous old
state where though poorer, slower, s
man has an abundance of fresh air and
the poorest man can have fields and
lawns upon which his children can romp,
play and grow rosy-face J, strong and
supple-jointed. Oi it is pitiful to
ee now miseraoiy tne poor live nere
and the hard, outcast look that
makes their eyes haunt you. And,
though worth their millions, the mer
chant princes and beneficiaries of Trusts
live crowded and jammed without
enough yard for a horse to turn around
in comfortably. I passed the Manhat
tan Club House this morning. It is the
A. T. Stewart mansion, and is one of
the handsomest places in the world so
said to be, and it cost a mint of money.
But it hasn't enough yard to let the
children play hide and seek. And
though costlier, it isn't half (to my no
tion) so desirable a residence as Maj.
Tucker's in Baleigh or Mb. Duke's in
Durham. It hasn't any grass or lawns.
These will make an old house look like
a home a place of rest and reposel
"Have a seat, sir, I will give you $10 to
sit down here and talk to me half an
hour." The well-dressed gentleman
thought he was crazy and hastened on,
while our N. C. friend said that these
New Yorkers were the most unsocial
people he had ever seen. I do not think
he has been to New York since.
J. D.
A War Over an Electric Railroad,
IBy United Prees.1
Spokane Falls, Wash., June 25. A
civil war is waging between the authori
ties of this city and the authorities of
Spokane county, over the laying of an
electric railroad. The matter has led to
open hostilities and the authorities of
both city and county, with all the police
force and sheriffs, have been arrested
each by the other and the United States
is now taking a hand. The matter will
land in the courts. Excitement runs
high.
A Mysterious Tragedy Two Killed.
(By United Press.)
Gboveton, Tex., June 25th. Allie
Turner, the beautiful daughter of John
B. Turner, shot herself at eight o'clock
last evening, dying almost instantly.
Her father and Prof. George Davis, of
the academy here were in the room at
the time. The father seized the pistol
rom his daughter's hand and shot the
professor, instantly killing him.
Tne cause of the tragedy is a mystery.
The father refuses to make a statement
Her father is county Judge and a lead
ing man of the county.
Strike at St. Louis All Freight
Traffic Suspended.
By United Press.
San Anxonia, Tex., June 25. The
revolution in Mexico turns out to be an
attempt of bandits to plunder the peo
ple. Last Friday the bandits attacked
a train near Montery, loaded with gold
and silver bullion for the United States.
In the fight that ensued, four bandits
were killed and their leader captured
and shot.
TELEGRAPHIC FLASHES.
(By United Press.)
Racink, June 25. By the collision of
a foot bridge leading from the steam
er "Stage" to the steamer "Saint Jean"
to-day, hundreds of persons were precip
itated into the sea. So far seven bodies
have been found and many persons are
still missing. Divers are seaching for
the bodies of others , who are believed to
have been drowned.
But these great marble and brown
stone structures have, to me, no home
look, but they look like a place where a
man stays and sleeps. Usually such is
all that they are. The head of the
family gets up and is off to business
early lunches down town and gets
home late. Illustrating such a life,
Bey. Tom Dixon told me in Baleigh
some days ago that a gentleman found
his little son down the street playing in
the gutter. He whipped him and sent
him home. The boy went to his mother
crying, and she said:
"What's thematter with you!"
"A man whipped me.
"What man I"
"Why, the man who stays here
Sunday."
The rnsh and bustle of business life
breaks up the home life too much.
But it has its compensation. Here
man can command his own time abso
lutely. If he wants to learn anything,
on
a
(By United Press.)
St. Louis, June 25. The freight hand
lers of the different roads running into
East St. Louis made a demand last
night for an increase of wages. It not
being granted, over 1,000 men went out
on a strike at 11 o'clock to-day and all
local freight traffic is suspended. Two
non-union men who attempted to go to
work, were assault d and severely beaten
by strikers. The local superintendent
and agent are now holding a consultation
with a view to settlement of the difficulty.
that government to consent to the es
tablishment of a free and independent
republic in Cuba, and the other in rela
tion to the Qerman ownership of a large
proportion of the bonded debt of Cuba.
While the second resolution was being
read, Mr. Sherman moved, that the
doors be closed. The motton was sec
oned by Mr. Edwards and O" doors were
ordered to be closed, r V
At 1:30 p. m. the doors 'were re-opened
and the Senate took up the House
bill for the admission of Wyoming in
to the Union as a State, the bill was laid
temporarily, and Mr. Ingalls offered a.
resolution, instructing the committee on
privileges and elections to inquire
into the publication in the Con
gressional record of to-day of
a personal explanation by ifr. Call
and to report whether it is in accordance
with the rules, regulations and practices
of the Senate; and directing that such
personal explanation be withheld from
the permanent edition of the record
until further order of the Senate.
Mr. Call said that he did not think
that the resolution should be adopted.
There waslno possible ground or reason
for it, and no excuse for it He had
asked leave of the Senate on the second
of June last to print extracts from the
record in vind casion of his career in the
Senate, in response to a pamphlet at
tacking him; and that was all he had
done to-day.
The discussion was further partici
pated in by Messrs. Hoar, Gorman and
Call. The latter retorted on Mr. Ingalls
by pointing out "how small the man,
how bitter the malevolence, how mean
the character that could find in snch
circumstances the willingness to accuse
another Senator of falsifying the re
cord." He went on to say, "I should demand
of him that he show the courage of a
man and not the cowardice of a slan
derer." Mr. Gullom called for the regular or
der of business.
The resolution therefore went over
without action and the Senate proceeded
with the bill for the admission Wyoming
as a State.
Mr. Vest opposed the bill and Mr.
Piatt defended it.
At 5:50 the Senate adjourned.
House.
Washington, D. C, June 25. The
House continued the discussion of the
silver bill to-day until 3 o'clock, when
the previous question was ordered.
Mr. Springer asked a separate vote On
the first section (the free coinage sec
tion), jind it resulted yeas 135, nays
152, against the free coinage proposi.
tion.
Mr. Cannon reported an order from
the committee on rules providing that
the House consider the national election
bill July 2, at 2 a'clock.
When the previous question shall be
considered as ordered on the bill and
any pending amendments and on the
substitute for the whole bill which the
members in charge of the bill shall have
the right to offer; that during the last
two days amendments may be offered
to any part of the bill in the House,
with debate under the five minutes rule.
That this shall not interfere with gen
eral appropriation bills.
Mr. Springer moved to adjourn, but
withdrew the motion when an agreement
for forty minutes' debate was reached.
Mr. McMillin, of Tennesse, charged
that the gentlemen were tired of being
elected by the people, and wanted to be
elected by the government.
Mr. Blount, of Georgia, said the pro
positions contained in the bill were
monstrous, and degrading to the best,
the most intelligent and most virtuous
element of the country.
Mr. McMillon wanted to know where
the bill was to be appealed in the North.
Mr. Connon replied that it was now
in operation in New York City.
This little reference brought' many of
the New York members to their feet.
There was a good deal of confusion at
this stage, but the speaker finally secured
order.
During the further discussion, a con
troversy occurred between Mr. Cannon
and Mr. Oneall, of Indiana, over a
charge made by the latter that votes had
been bought in Mr. Cannon's district.
Mr. Oneall refused to come to order and
the sergeant-at arms was called upon to
quiet him.
A motion of Mr. Springer to lay the
propossd order on the table was defeat
ed, 166 to 133. Coleman, of Louisiana,
voting with the Democrats, and the or
der was agreed to. It was also agreed
to meet at 11 o'clock each morning.
A Decision in
the Separate
Case.
School
(By United Press.)
Winnipeg, Man., June 25. Judge
Bain rendered a decision in the famous
separate school case yesterday. The
judge upheld the law recently passed by
the legislature abolishing separate
schools and grants an injunction to re
strain teachers in catholic schools from
holding religious services.
Sam Jones at Norfolk.
By United Press.
Norfolk, Va., June 25. Rev. Sam
Jones arrived here to-day at noon and
spoke this afternoon to 8,000 in the tab
ernacle and again to-night to 10,000 per
sons, tie will continue nis revival here
during the week.
Small Pox.
By United Press.
London, Jane 25. Small pox is pre
valent on both sides of the border, along
the Kusso-uerman frontier, andTdeatbs
from the disease are reported.
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