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W: 1 I^gpAGO, March 2.In its paren #il saljool the Chicago board of JetfticaticTB^has an unusual edu cational-feature bbt one that is.being o|ti^ *&' necessity in, all the larger citfes. This school, organized January, 1902, is presided, over by T. H. Mac Qjieary, by whom the plans for its es tablishment were- chiefly formulated ami whose educational "ideas it em bodies. Mr. MacQueary was' for sev eral' years pastor of! .All Souls' churc'h in.^Minneapolis, and was the first resi dent at Unity House. He came to Chi cago as head of the military school" for b*y at Highland Park. His socio logical "experience at "Unity House caused him to be greutly interested in the plan then under consideration for ifcjfe establishment, of a parental school foje the purpose of making effective iiha compulsory education law. His njferest soon led to his official identi ioftion with the work when steps were jtajken to put the plan into operation. $he law providing for parental schools in cities of over 100,000 inhab itants was passed in 1899, largely thru itlu* activity of the women's clubs of fch city and state. Before launching inio this difficult undertaking, the jtJ$ir -of education conducted an ex haustive examination of the organiza tion and management of parental and vefxmn schools in other states, these .yestigations being made by Mr. Mac Queary, Superintendent W. L. Bodine [ioittthe department of compulsory edu pamon, and others. The plans as for mated still remain in force with com tively minor changes. Jheoschoon armr fifty acres an i ascity, much iso lated as.if in a rural community. It has ^Ereie principal buildings, an ad ministration building and two double cottages in addition there is the su peifaitendent's house, a small isolation nodtal, farm buildings, etc. There rifSat present nearly 240 cadets, as the pujjps are called on account of the mil ltaty system of management used, altho accommodations are supposed to fide for only six families of thirty i each. A^cco^ding to the estimate the superintendent, provision aid be made for something like 400. How Commitments Are Made, ie school it^trot a penal institution there is ncffclnng abouti it that id indicate to t&e.^visitor that the i were there under any other com ion than that of parents used in ^amamsKts!iaesmiasxiBe^iiKt^pjm^agg^ W^CHICAGO'SPBAD a OYS ARE?MABE GOODis 'arental School, Under the Management of T, M. cQueary, a Former Minneapolis Minister, Is Re- arming Many Truant and Troublesome Lads in the ty Schools. By MARTHA ANDERSON WYMAN. is situated, on the extreme hwester edge, ofd thse on a jjp^^*^ lit**-5- keeping any child in school. The pu pils range from- 7 to 14 years and are sent only for truancy or the -persistent violation of rules of the grade schools. The consent of the parents or guardians of a child are not necessary in securing his commitment to the school. Com plaint may be made by a truant officer or any reputable citizen. The matter is decided in the juyenile court to which th&-.complaint is made. The child may be released on probation .by the court if that seems advisable, but sooner or later the habitual truant or the unruly boy arrives at the parental school, where his case receives special study and treatment such as experience has found most beneficial. The school has only boy pupils, altho the law contem plated a similar provision for girls, and this is likely to be made in the future. In order to determine the causes of the shortcomings of.the pupils they are carefully examined physically and men tally on their arrival, and very careful observation is maintained during the stay, and records made. The pupils are found below the average in physical development both as to growth and as to motor activity. They are especially defective in visualization and hearing, and their slow obedience in the school room is due in part to physical causes. Mentally they are not found dull, altho owing to their habits they are graded low in school. In the parental school 82 per cent are found able to do all the school work, against 90 per cent in the ordinary city school. They come to the school graded too high, and their inef fectual struggles to keep up with a. grade for which they are not fitted seems to be a contributory cause of their lack of interest in school work. However, in his analysis of the causes of truancy and crime'derived from his own records and those of other schools Mr. MacQueary states his belief ""that nine-tenths are caused by defects, in environment. It Really Reforms Them. The average stay of the pupils is about eight and one-half months, a very short time in which- to overcome ,-the bad habits of years, but about 80 per cent of the boys receive such an uplift and impetus in the right direction that they give no, further trouble. All pupils committed are released on parole except under unusual circumstances and remain under close observation .for a year, re ports being made to Mr. MacQueary by the.*schoolteachers every two weeks. Of the boys who have to be returned for breaking their parole it is commonly HARRY MITCHELL'S EDITORIAL SIC TRANSIT GLORIA SATURDAY. Now I am Satisfied. Now I know I have the confidence of the people. I'r.Over 2 5,ooo men and women came to my great spring, open- iiig yesterday, received a souvenir, smoke or.a flower, ancl,l^ft in return a pleasant smile of Encouragement and appreciation.' I I'm tickled all over. 'I never was so proud in my life. I don't give a snap of my finger for all the-other tailors put ^togetherI've proved Tvc got the public's complete confidence, if if, i-f} I nave only one regret, and that is that I couldn't wait p^i a '^Quarter of the men whom I know wanted to leave: their- meiakirc SSfb a suit or overcoat*.- "."V"i'..!$!/ :^S.,lJ:L^i-Z~'^ Jp|i My gfeat spring opening sale will continue all next week, and Jwith the tremendous values in exclusive spring fabrics I am show- Sffgi I expect to sell a hundred made-io-order garments^very day. ^JU See Ad" for details.:- .*&& Yours -truly, "-MtW^^M^^i ''**-4i HARRY MITCHELL. News Section. THE-MINNEi J0URNA1U the case that"they simply have not had enough time to benefit completely by the school methods, and all they need an extension of the time to -complete the good work. A considerable percentage of tjse ,boys come from positively bad homes,'- to which they-never should be returned, ibut if such cases are to be dealt with it has to be thru some other agency tha the parental school law. Provision jis made for dealing with .boys- whp 'Jproye to. be incorrigible, but thjis is a small percentage, as care is taken to !sift. out, this class as much as possible (before commitment. The majority #of, !the boys, however, come from "good ihomes,'" so-called, and are unmanage able on account of laxity in. family dis cipline, bad associations, etc. Develops Them Physically As the school management is based on the belief that,all intellectual and moral development, must rest on a sound physi cal basis, the boys are carefully built-j up by means of regular hours, a care fully planned diet, exercise, outdoor recreation and work, ten hours of sleep and careful attention to personal hy giene. They take two shower-baths a week in winter and bathe three times a week in the pond in summer. The cult of the toothbrush is rigidly en forced, and in each bathroom are long rows of brushes chained in place, which are used under the watchful eye of a family officer. One of the favorite educational the ories is that the usual public school course of instruction, exercising chiefly the- eye, ear and memory, embraced largely in the. three 's, has an im portant share of responsibility for the lack of interest in school work that is a direct cause of truancy or of the per manent dropping out of school of pupils who pass the age of compulsory attend ance. The experience of the parental school all goes to prove this contention,, for there much attention is given to manual training, military drill, horti culture and gymnasium work. All of this is in addition to the regular work of the graded schools of the c^ty, but the boys not only do the additional work but greatly improve their scholar-' ship records. The Work in. the School. The boys have an hour a day of man ual training, half an hour of\ gymnastics, several short periods of military drill, besides carrying on theit other work by military direction and methods. In summer there^ are only half-day sessions in the school and the boys woi an hour a day, in the garden, horticulture being a regular subject of study. In winter there is half an hour of nature study daily to supplement this practical ^ork. 'Much of the work about the school is performed by" the boys, in the dining Toom, in the .dormitories and about the farm, where a considerable amount of stock and chickens.is kept.. The discipline is military, as this gives excellent training and facilitates the smooth performance of school duties, but on the other hand family manage ment and training are given in the hours outside of school duties. Each cottage has at its head a man~ and a woman, preferably man and wife, who are re sponsible for the boys at all times ex .cept when they are engaged in regular duty under the teachers. The boys of each family all sleep in one large dor initory, whose white beds. are spotless and whose orderlinesses a lesson,in it self. All. of the apnointmen^i. of, the cottages are refined. ad attractive with out being luxurious. ^A &ood quality of table linen is used and the boys are re quired to use their napkins properly. Much attention is given bjjthe family officers to instruction in and) practice of good manners'as-well%8 to good-morals. Solitary Confinement Punishment. The chief incentive to'good'work-is to earn a parole, for, vhile the boys*are happy to all appearance and ,wprk in dustriously and contentedly, they ajl want, to get out, and they know there is no use to attempt to estcape. Honors in the military organization, vhich de velops a-fine esprit du.corps, and-special privileges are also spurs to good con^ duct and industry. There is no corporal punishment, the extremist penalty .being confinement alone, for meditation, in a small, well-lighted, and well-ventilated room on a diet of bread and milk. Ex tra work at drill or other duty and loss of privileges are the other punishments. In organizing the school on .-a mili tary basis Mr. MacjQueary ha,d valuable and expert assistance from 'Louis L. Ten Broeck, who was the first military .instructor and physical director. For a part of last year Mr. Ten Broeck was awayffrom the- school studying medi cine, but returned last summer. He is now a student at Rush Medical school. He belongs to the Faribault, family of Ten Broecks and is well known in Min neapolis. ATTEMPTS SUICIDE IN CELL Prisoner at. Bemldjl Tries Five Times to ~l Kl Himself., I Special to Ihe Journal. Bemidji, Minn., March 3.Ole liind quist, said Jo be a wealthy North Dakota farmer, made five desperate but unsuc cessful attempts to end his life in the Be midji jail, where he had been confined on a charge of drunkenness. He had been taken to the jail in an intoxicated condi tion and locked in a cell. Later he was discovered hanging to the bars, with a rope which he had twisted from the bed clothing, around his neck. A guard was immediately placed over him and he frus trated four other attempts the prisoner made to end his life. Lindquist is be lieved to be suffering from some mental affection. Improves Ticket Office. The city ticket office of the Soo line in the Metropolitan Life building, W. $ B. Chandler, agent, has been greatly' enlarged. The rear wall has been re moved and the former general supply room in the rear has been included in the main office. Several improvements, including a private office, are being installed. James Goes to Coast. Howard James, director of purchases of the Great Northern road and presi dent of the Great Northern Steamship company, went west yesterday after noon in a special car, Wisconsin, attached to the Great Northern fast mail. YANKTON PIONEER DIES. Special to The Journal. Pierre, S. D., March 3.Mrs. H. Pfoten hauer, a pioneer resident of Yankton, died here today after a lingering illness. bmvT. bnomtftJf tfiffcas***:*^^^^ Suit or Overcoat made to order127 styles fancy cheviots,- forty styles homespuns, 72 styles plain cheviots, lift styles: stripes, 60 styles fancy checksthe kind the tailors up the street ask $30 and $35 for, and which no ready-made, hand-me-down stofe can duplicate at any price. My price /i:?ejivt **v-' stripes, 75 styles Sunday suit goodsthe samev as the high priced tailors get $35 and $40 for, and which no ready-made!, hand-me-down store can duplicate at any price, Monday and all the Week.........'.. Suit or Overcoat made to order---All the latest styles, th#eream of the high priced ^imported |oods"that money can buy, for dress clothes and'special occasions---the $40 and $45 kind up the itreet.,s My price for the entire week ii n^fActive Page i Sunday, March 4, 1906.- CAPITOE CM^ALBERTA# IS OLD SCHOOLHbUSE $mm0mm iroBD, A/C.'RU Tint Premier of New Prosinc* of, Albert*.- yMMroaBawBMKaB^ Commencing Monday and lasting all week I shall hold the greatest sale of early spring fabrics ever held in the United States, Bargains galore. Prices cut to the quick. Read every item. It's worth dollars to you. Suit or Overcoat made to order235 styles fancy worsteds, 150 styles black and blue worsteds, 60 styles blue: sfjr? ii I-*?- M? O. H. V. BTTLTE II Special to The Journal. Winnipeg, Man., March 3.The legis lative assembly for Alberta meets on Thursday, March 15, ,ancl the Saskatche wan house will be called together later on in the month tho the exact date has not yet been fixed. The Albertan leg islators will meet in the, old school house of Edmonton, the new capital. Saskatchewan's legislative assembly gathers in the old parliament buildings at Regina, formerly the capital of the northwest territories. A. E. Forget, the first lieutenant gov ernor of Saskatchewan, has been for. many years in the Canadian civil serv- i First Lieutenant-Governor of Alberto. ice' and was' the last lieutenant gover nor of the northwest territories. Walter Scott, Saskatchewan's* new premier, is the editor of the Begina Leader, and a comparatively young man in politics. Q. H. V. Bulyeaj lieutenant governor of Alberta, was commissioner of public works in the old territorial cabinet. A. C. Rutherford, premier of Alberta, is one of "the solid business" men of the ranching province. The ruling parties in both the new governments are liberal. Of thirty! .members in Alberta, only two are eon servative. WALTER SCOTT. int Premier of New Proviso* i Saskatchewan, What Sulphur Does For the Human Body in Health and Disease. The mention of sulphur wiD recall to many^of us the early days wh,en our mothers and grandmothers gave us our daily dose or sulphur and molasses every Bpring and-tall. It was the unversal spring and fall "blood purifier," tonic and' cure-alL and, mind you, this old-fashioned rem edy was not-without merit. The idea was good,%ut the remedy was crude and unpalatable, and a large quantity had to be taken to get any effect. Nowadays we get all the beneficial effects of sulphur in a palatable, con centrated form, so that a single grain is far more effective than a table spoonful of the erude sulphur. In recent years research and experi ment have proven that the best sulphur for medicinal use is that obtained from Calcium (Calcium -.Sulphide) and sold in drugstores under the name of Stuart's Caleium Wafers. They are small chocolate coated pellets and cop tain the active principle of sulphur un a highly concentrated, effective form. Few people are aware of .the value of this form of sulphur in restoring and maintaining bodily vigor and .health: sulphur acta, directly on the liver, and excretory organs and purifies and en riches the blood by the prompt elimina-x, tion of waste material. Our grandmothers knew this when they dosed us with sulphur and mo lasses every spring and fall, but the crudity and impurity of ordinary flowers of sulphur were often worse than the disease, and cannot compare with the modern concentrated prepara tions of sulphur, of which Stuart's Calcium Wafers is undoubtedly the best and most widely used. They are, the natural antidote for liver and kidney troubles and cure con stipation and purify the blood in a way that often surprises patient and physician alike. Dr. R. M. Wilkins, while experiment ing with sulphur remedies, soon found that the sulphur from Calcium T?H superior to any other form. He says For liver, kidney and blood troubles. especially when resulting from con stipation or malaria. I have been sur prised at the results obtained from Stuart's Calcium Wafers. In patients Buffering from boils and pimples and even deep-seated carbuncles, I have re peatedly seen them dry np and disap pear in four or five days, leaving the skin smooth. Although Stuart's Calcium Wafers is a proprietary article and sold by druggists and for that reason tabooed by many physi cians, yet I know of nothing so safe and reliable for constipation, liver and kidney troubles and especially in all forms of skin diseases as this remedy." At any rate people who are tired of pills, cathartics and flpurifiers" Mew and Enlarged Store jH-'-^1 Satisfactio Absolutel Guarantee as.to Fit, Style, Wear-Everything, or Ton Mone Cheerfull Refunded and black serges, 100 styles checks and will find inso-calledsblood Stuart' Cal cium Wafers, a far safer, more palat able and effective preparation. VNA^V^tfVVWVWW\A/WVS'V%^WSA^ Vy Dr.C. L. Sargent Lady Attendant Syndicate Block 621% Nicollet AT Store 310-312 9 E Nicollet Ave.5*1^ "K^".'":-"'*'* "felt