Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — Page 6

Schools of Mexico

(Special Letter.) The fact that many Mexican children are sent to the States and Europe for an education does not reflect upon the schools of Mexico. In nearly all cases they receive the foundation of their education in their native country, but seek other parts to perfect themselves in their work in the different languages. That education is one of the principal efforts of the government is seen at once in the many fine schools and colleges where all classes may receive free a learning that enables them to enter into any profession or business, these schools and colleges being not only for boys but for girls as well. The Preparatory College in Mexico City accommodates 3,000 boys, fits them for schools of law, medicine and mining. The academies are well equipped with all necessary material and apparatus for both brain and body. In the cities the orphans are cared for in Hospicios. where they receive an education by which they may earn

GENERAL J VILLADA.

a living in the various paths of life. Girls and boys are trained alike, no partiality being shown in sex. The largest of these schools is in Guadalajara, where 1,500 children between the ages of 3 and 15 are domiciled. The girls are taught to sew, embroider. cook, teach and work in business lines, and the boys are taught all kinds of trades, and in fact whatever they show a disposition to learn. All over the Republic s os Mexico are excellent public schools and compulsory education is a law, although not well carried out owing to the indifference of the lower classes—-the peons. In the prisons education is enforced. The incarcerated are taught to read, write, make hats, shoes, clothing, etc.’ and those who do not know a trade are obliged to learn one. In the correctional schools the same rule is followed, and until the person placed

COURT OF THE NORMAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.

NEW FISH IN SUPERIOR.

SuoocMfal Planting; of Stnellwacl Salmon by tho Government. An interesting experiment has been under way for the past four years by the United States fish commission at the station at Duluth, Minn. It has now resulted in the successful planting and acclimation in Lake Superior of a new food fish. This is the famous steelhead salmon of the Pacific, a saltwater fish exclusively heretofore. It was believed that this fish would thrive in the cold, fresh water of Lake Superior, where so many other salmonldae grow. Four years ago, therefore, the commission sent here several thousand fry and planted them on the north shore of the lake, near Port Arthur and at Silver Islet, both points on the Canadian side. The following year a larger number was planted off Isle Royale, and since then the planting has been kept up. Now from time to time the catch of an occasional steelhead is reported, and from the size of those found it Is estimated they are growing about a pound a year In these fresh waters. It is also evident from certain modifications of some of those specimens caught, that they have been propagating and increasing naturally. Fish of this kind five pounds in weight have been caught the past few days. These salmon are now spawning, and notices are being sent out, asking all fishermen who find them In their nets to throw them back in the water, in order that the work of the government may be aided as fast as possible. The salt-water steelhead salmon' as modified by existence in Lake Superior is ■aid to have a most delicate flavor, to be well shaped and firm, and to have

THEY COMPARE FAVORABLY WITH OUR OWN.

there has learned a means of livelihood he or she is not permitted to leave. The heads of the government work hard for the improvement of their country and thoroughly realize that education is the primary cause of elevating a nation. Each state strives for the betterment of its people and there is no reason except that of indo-lence-for ignorance among the growing population. One of the most earnest among the many hard workers in this cause is General Joeo Vicente Villada, governor of the state of Mexico, As the result of his arduous labors Toluca, capital of his state, boasts of the finest colleges in the republic outside of Mexico City. At the Normal School for Girls, which has an attendance of 600, girls learn all modes of gaining a living. Everything is taught them —law, music, art, photography, stenography, languages, sciences, bookbinding, filagree work, sewing, embroidery and making flowers, nearly all the best teachers in Mexico being educated here. Those among the girls who have money pay for their schooling and those who have not’are supported by the state. Most of the latter are Indians. The boys have a similar college. An institute is being built which when completed will accommodate •'I,OOO students in all studies, law and medicine being the most important. Governor Villada takes a keen interest in the schools of his state, and they are under his personal supervision. He has traveled extensively and gathered material for his public libraries and museums, which are a portion of his educational method. Way down in Chiapos, the most southern state in the republic, where there are no railroads, Governor Rafael Pimental has just completed the erection of a Normal school. Teachers will ,be sent out from this college to enlighten the children of the surrounding country. These schools are non-sectarian and are all under the general head of the government. The average Mexican is a good student, painstaking and anxious to learn. They are very fond of English, and although it is very dijficult for them to pronounce it, they speak it well. In many of the mountain districts it is difficult to place schools on account of the continuous changing of the population, but as time advances it will be found necessary. The peon does net learn to advance rapidly, but it is the fault of his desire rather than his. intellect. A kindly gentleman once tried to explain to a peon porter in a hotel that it would be better for him to expand his brain with learning than crush it with the heavy loads he carried on his bead. He thought for a while and then answered that a trunk was heavy enough for his to carry without the addditional weight, of knowledge.

F. E. A. WRIGHT.

a flesh of a beautiful red. The planting of these fish will now proceed with much greater rapidity, and with this and the natural increase it is expected that it will soon become quite a common fish in this lake. —Milwaukee Wisconsin.

Ices For Little Children.

‘‘London ices for the London boy!" That is the motto of a British company which has been formed to sell penny ices, guaranteed pure and of wholesome manufacture, from clean barrows, attended by clean British salesmen in clean white coats. Every ice will be served in a paper cup with a metal spoon, both intended to be thrown away when once used, so that the propagation of disease by repeated washings of ice-glasses in water that is far from reputable may be avoided. It is no jesting matte?, this selling of unwholesome ices by peripatetic Italian vendors. As each summer comes around the same warning is given by medical officers against the half-penny ices of the streets, the same neglect of the warnings by careless children, the same record of deaths traced directly to the ice-barrow. Thia new and recent supply “of ices for the boy” is a direct outcome of the forceful admonition of the health oflicers concerning this kind of “reform." Perfumes were introduced into Spain by the Arabs, who brought many recipes for making them from the east. No British ship may carry a deckload of timber into a British port between the last day of October and April 16.

VALUABLE WALNUT TREES.

One Cut in North Carolina Said to Have Brought 860,000. There is more wealth in our forests than in gold mines, if the timber is properly cared for. One walnut tree, cut In Haywood County last week, brought SIOOO. The people who live in such a country are rich if they only know it. This recallo an interview with Mr. S. L. Rogers, corporation commissioner, which recently appeared in the High Point (N. C.) Enterprise. We quote: • “Railroad Commissioner Rogers, who was here Saturday, was talking about the value of North Carolina timber. He said that he had only one story to relate, and that Was a big one. A man in Western North Carolina was selling standing timber—walnut trees. The man who was buying came to one very handsome tree. He* told the owner he would pay as much as SSO for that tree. This excited the owner. He did not sell, but sent for experts. The owner got SISOO for the tree (curled walnut) as it stood. The man who cut it down realized S3OOO for it on the cars. It was shipped to New York and veneered one-sixth to onehalf an Inch. The sales were watched and estimated as the best that could be done, and when all was disposed of it turned out that the tree brought near $00,030. The point is this: We h .ve no idea as to the value of our timber, much of which is being sent North for a mere song. We can become rich in North Carolina if we work our raw material as others werk it for us.”—Raleigh News and Observer.

WIDE WORDS.

Creed is stronger than pasture.— George Elict If things do not turn out as you wish, let us wish them to turn out as they do.—S. Easil. Clews are sarcasms turned stunid; which is a form cf force that leaves the limbs at rest.—George Eliot. The sowing of evil seed is an irreparable evil; nene can tell where the wind will carry it, and unexpected crops are found far and wide.—George Moore. The chief crosses and self-denials we have to put up with do not come from the contradictions of the bad, but from the unintentional fretting and wearing of the good.—A. H. Mackonochle. Right is right, in all simplicity, and either the teachings of the great prophets are false, or they are to be reckoned with daily in all the common affairs of human life upon the earth. -W. j. Jupp. Girls should be veritable sunbeams, not only to the members of their own family circle, but also to everybody with whom they come in contact Every room they enter should be the brighter for their presence.—Ruskin. Our private sorrows will look smaller when we accustom ourselves to care for the larger life of the world, for the good of the community, for the public welfare, for the spread of truth and righteousness among mankind.— Charles G. Ames. We cannot but discover bow in our very griefs there Were hidden angels reaching up to hide, within the dark experience, some treasure of patience or trust we could never have possessed, had the angels only descended on us, and our life been one long joy. —Robert Collyer. To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and to spend less; to make upon the whole a family happier by his presence; to renounce where that shall be necessary, and not to be embittered; to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all. on the same grim conditions to keep friends with himself—here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. Robert Lopis Steven son.

An Editor and a Golden Hair.

“One beautiful spring morning an editor found a golden hair lying between the pages of p. manuscript,” writes Eaward Eok, in the Ladies’ Home Journal. “The moment he reached the page it gracefully fluttered out. Flushed with excitement, the editor caught it. It was not his hair, he argued, therefore it was not his property. Then, again, he thought, the owner probably lost it and might need it So he put it back. He was a methodical man and he replaced it exactly as he had found it. He was not many days older when he received a letter proving, by the very hair he had so dexterously caught and conscientiously replaced, that he never had read, nor even opened, the manuscript of the writer. Corid anything have been a clearer case against the editor? Most certainly not It was conclusive and final, don’t you see?”

A Leaning Tower in England.

The famous leaning tower of Pisa has a rival in the Temple Tower of Bristol, in England. It is a square tower of early Gothic architecture. All its parts still preserve their normal relative positions without cracks or fissures. The tower, which is about 115 feet high, is five feet out of perpendicular at the summit There are no records to show whether the inclination was part of the architect’s design, or whether it is the result of an earthquake or of slow changes in the inclination of the soil. For many yenrs there has been no change in the slope of the tower.

Decorative Indian Corn.

An Englishwoman, writing about her garden, says: “I have planted Indian corn, simply one or two grains here and there for decorative purposes, because I think it such a handsome thing—quite as handsome in its way as bamboo.**

OFF FOR THE POLE

Evelyn B. Baldwin, the American explorer, has sailed from Christiana and hopes to plant the flag of our country at the north pole before this time next year. The explorer expressed confidence that the American energy and money enlisted in the enterprise and the novel methods brought to Its aid would bring success to the efforts of himself and his associates. Three vessels, well provisioned, a large company of scientists and everything in the way of equipment that experience could suggest make up the expedition, and all are now on the seas bound northward. Mr. Baldwin, on the steamer America, the flagship, will go first to Archangel, where he will take on 425 dogs, fifteen Siberian ponies and six Siberian dog trainers. Forty-two men in all accompany him on the America. This

California's Natural Sphinx.

One of the greatest freaks of nature has recently been discovered close to the immense tunnel that is nearing completion on the line of the Southern Pacific running along the boundary line of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, says the San Francisco Call. Some workmen employed by the company discovered an immense rock that is a perfect image of a man’s head. A photograph was taken of this freak of nature by one of the workmen who had a camera in his possession, and it was sent to Chief Engineer Hood, of the Southern Pacific. A reproduc-

tion of the picture accompanies this article. The photograph has been shown to numbers of scientists and globe-trotters, and they all claim that there is no other rock in existence that is such a perfect representation of a man’s head. The rock will no doubt be looked upon in the future as one of

End of tHe World May Result from Heat.

This summer’s excessive heat is explained by a Chicago scientist in a way calculated to give both chills and fever to that part of humanity which accepts his explanation. He asserts that the earth in its annual revolution about the sun fs approaching nearer and nearer to that orb every summer and getting farther and farther away every winter. The ultimate result, he avers, will be that the Inhabitants of this sphere will be alternately baked and frozen until no living being is left. Professor Ludwig J. Marienburger, Ph. D., a graduate of the University of

SOLID LINE SHOWS THE PLANET’S PATH AND DOTS REPUTED VARIATIONS-

is the first time that Siberian ponies have been used in arctic exploration,

the points of interest in California. Americans can now proudly claim that California has a sphinx that is just as imposing as that in far-away Egypt, and that ■’the sphinx of California took a long time to be discovered, but that it is older than the Egyptian sphinx and was not made by man ‘Principle of Jfationa! Churches. The civil war in the Southern states resulted in a Northern and a Southern organization of each one of several religious denominations, notably the Baptists and the'' Presbyterians. By

rights the Methodist division ought to be accounted for in the same way, though it long antedates the war, for it grew out of the same old difference of opinion on the slavery question, while the Southern Presbyterian organization was the result of a clearcut protest against an alleged disposi-

Berlin, who speaks ten languages, is the exponent of this startling theory. Some scientists have argued that eventually this earth ryould become a frozen mass; others that it would in the course of a few thousand years, be transformed into an orbicular furnace, which in time would consume itself. Professor Marienburger says both of these contingencies are quite probable. The professor’s idea is that this globe, in its orbital revolutions, has “slipped a cog,” and that it will continue to slip into ever changing orbits.

and the voyagers expect important results from the experiment. The America was preceded northward by the two other vessels of the expedition, the Frithjof and the Belgica. The America and Frithjof, which sailed together from Christiana, parted company at Honingsvaag, the Frithjof sailing direct for Franz Joseph Land. The Belgica sailed for the east coast of Greenland to establish supply stations. From Archangel Mr. Baldwin expects to skirt the northern coast of Norway to Vardoe, from where he will start within a few days to begin in earnest his dash for a new farthest north. Chekib Bey, the new Turkish minister to this country, is a keen-going sportsman and extensive breeder of thoroughbred horses, in which he takes a great Interest.

tlon of the Northern Presbyterians to go into war politics as a denomination. Forty years have elapsed since the war broke out, and at last the Northern and Southern Presbyterians are beginning—only beginning—to get together. They are consolidating their denominational colleges and theological seminaries in Kentucky, which, was one of the border states of the secession struggle. Religious dissensions based on differences of opinion about abstract doctrines, or about once practical ques_t.ons which nave ceased to be practical and so become purely historic and speculative, are in a fair way to be healed when those who have been so divided begin to come together and stand shoulder to shoulder in some work that continues to be practical. Education is always a practical question by rights, and the union of Northern and Southern Presbyterians in ths management of educational interests is likely to be permanent enough to yield that better acquaintance and mutual liking and respect which are certain in time to bring about a more complete and varied form of co-opera-tion. ~ — Although the famous Father Ryan sang many Confederate war lyrics there was no Northern and Southern division of the Roman Catholic church in America. Indeed, there could hardly have been any such thing in any country since the Council of Trent, when the national church ideal, under the leadership of the French bishops, was overshadowed by Ultramontanism under Spanish and Italian leadership. In the Episcopal church the bishop of Louisiana became a Confederate lieutenant general; General Lee’s chief of artillery was General William N. Pendleton, a prominent Virginia rector, and Bishops Wilmer and Wingfield suffered various things at the hands of stalwart Union generals for refusing to pray for the President of the United States. But the Southern Episcopal church never nad any real and effective separate organization, and the Confederate bishops were welcomed to the house of bishops in the first general convention that met after the*close of the war. The oldest person in Lehigh county, Pa., and the oldest practicing physician in the state and probably in the United States, is Dr. Henry Helfrich, who celebrated his ninety-eighth birthday recently. He prescribed for several patients on that day who called at his office. He no longer makes professional calls, but has considerable practice.

He Is of the opinion that the earth is approaching old age, becoming somewhat decrepit and “wobbly," and has not the amount of inherent magnetism to maintain itself in its proper channel. Solstices and the other demonstrations showing that nearness to the sun does not make this mundane sphere hotter or colder do not bother Professor Marieuburger. Sun spots and similar phenomena are only incidental and can have little effect. A Chicago University professor ridicules the theory of Prof. Marlenburger.

LIŢLE MOUSE FOILED PLOT.

* BUnd Woman and Thu n yM a Schema. One of the leading occullsts of Montreal, whose practice extends tar outside the boundaries of the city, relates that one day a young woman came into his office accompanied by an older woman, apparently the mother. The young woman wore colored glasses, which one might have assumed to be superfluous, as it was claimed that the girl was totally blind. What was wanted of the doctor was a certificate authenticating this claim of blindness, putting it beyond dispute; and it was frankly stated that the object in seeking this was to obtain certain aids and advantages of a philanthropic nature, impossible of access otherwise. The standing of the oculist was such that a statement from him would carry full weight wherever presented. On examination the surface of the eyes gave no indication of any defect, but that might be so and blindness still exist Applying tests of the strongest light, the girl professed herself to be absolutely unable to distinguish between light and darkness. Other tests were resorted to, trying in their nature, and some of them vej-y painful, and these were all borne with patience and courage. The doctor was puzzled and baffled. Apparently the girl was stone blind, but he was unable to solve the problem of those eyes, to discover the cause of that blindness, or say just where the defect lay. The doctor was more than half-disposed to grant the desired certificate, when as a last expedient, he hit upon a novel experiment. He dismissed his patient with instructions that she should come again at a certain hour the following day, and this gave the oculist time to arrange for the carrying out of his plan. When the girl came the next day the doctor had her securely blindfolded with a heavy bandage over her eyes. He then took a tiny mouse which he had procured and held the lovely little thing by its tail before the girl’s face, though not touching her, while he ordered the bandage to be removed. No sooner was the bandage off than her screams rang through the place and her eyes were wide with terror at the harmless little rodent which had thrown her so completely off her guard and exposed the imposture. Of course she saw it or she would not have screamed. Needless to say the applicant did not get that certificate. —Syracuse Herald.

The Drummer's Conscience,

The “Listener” of the Boston Transcript quotes an authority on “drummers.” The other night he sat cheek by jowl with a gentleman with a sonorous checked suit, auu learned much. “A drummer’s conscience,” said he of the vehement pepper-and-salt—-“a drummer’s conscience is lodged in his trunk.” Remarkable, thought the “'Listener.” “Yes,” he continued, “you can judge of the drummer’s morals pretty accurately by the size of his trunk. If he carries a big trunk, he’s a temperate, moral, decent chap. Keeps straight, you know. But if he carries a little trunk, or only a suit case, steer clear of him; he’s dangerous! And here’s the reason, sir: The big trunk is packed full of samples and the rascal has to spend all his evenings packing and unpacking them. The little trunk or the suit case means a free evening to run wild and tear up the town.” Glancing across the hotel lobby, which was still well crowded with loungers, the philosopher continued: “See that jolly chap smoking the crooked cigar? Father of seven, good bank account, gets credit anywhere, doesn’t drink, hates cards—three trunks! See that round-shoul-dered little chump with the silk hatT Plays the races, runs after the sluggers, drinks two Manhattans before breakfast, smokes in bed —suit case!"

Nice Turkish Customs.

It is said by a correspondent of the London Telegraph that the habits of the Turkish ladies in Constantinople are wonderfully fastidious. When they wash their hands at a tap from which water runs into a marble basin, they let the water run till a servant shuts it off, as to do this themselves would make them unclean. They cannot open or shut a door, as the handle would be unclean. One of these fastidious ladies was talking to a small niece the other day, who had just received a present of a doll from Paris. By and by the child laid the doll on the lady’s lap. She was horrified, and ordered the child to take it away. As the little girl would not move it, and no servant was near, and the lady would be defiled by touching a doll that had been brought from abroad, the only thing she could think of was to jump up and let the doll fall. It broke in pieces. The same lady will not open a letter coming by post, but a servant opens it and holds it near for her to read. If her handkerchief falls to the ground it is immediately destroyed or given away, so that she may not again use it. Among the men this curious state of things does not exist. —Youth’s Companion' Pi so’s Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as • cough cure.—J. W. O Bfubh, 822 Third Ava, N., Minneapolis, Minn.. Jan. 6. 1900. You can’t judge a man’s business capacity by his belt-line measurement. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. Bend for FREE 52.00 trial bottle and treatise. Db. R. H. Klink. Ltd.. 931 Arch BL. Philadelphia, Pa. Where there’s marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

Hall’s Catarrh Cure

b a constitutional cure. Price, Tsa Exported butter is one of the things that Is bound to be spread abroad