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SCHOOL FOR CONSULS
It Is the intention to create in the
public mind the great necessity for a
new law which will give the perma
nency of statute to reform regulations
inaugurated by President Hoosevelt
and Secretary Root which aim at the
divorcing of consular appointments
and politics and placing the appoint
ments on the same basis as In the
army and navy.
With this idea in view representa
tive business men of the country have
approved of the establishment of the
consular training school, where any
ambitious young man may fit himself
for the important duties of a consular
office and where he may look forward
to a career of service without fear
that the next change in political ad
ministration will cause his recall.
In connection with the indorsement
of the National Business League of
America there will also be issued two
pamphlets written by men familiar
With the needs of a consular training,
says a Washington special dispatch to
the Chicago Herald. One Is from the
pen of I{lchard D. ITarlan, D. D.,
LL. D., special representative of the
George Washington university move
ment, and the other by John Ball Os
borne, chief of the bureau of trade
relations, which Is reprinted from the
North American Review with addi
tional notes.
In its letter of Indorsement the Na
tional Rusiness league says that the
extension of American commerce
abroad and the Increase of the na
tion's influence In foreign lands are
matters which must Interest every
public spirited citizen. It points out
that more uniformly trained consuls
would secure this boon and that the
proposed new law and the establish
ment of a special consular training
school would supplement each other.
The National Business league's letter
reads as follows:
The league desires most Impartially to
commend all of these educational proj
ects to the gem-rous financial support of
the business m«?n of the country. Only In
this way can we develop that class of
trained men mentioned by Secretary Root
from which the state department can
draw for Its appointments to the foretgrn
service In order that It may maintain the
high standard.* that have at last been
created for the consular service.
But In order to co-operate with the uni
versities In heir ef.orts to provide a spe
eial education for the new consular serv
ice career opened up by the reform reg
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Washington University's
New Move Deemed Big Boon.
TRAINS MEN FOR SERVICE.
National Business League of America
Indorses College For Education of
Young Diplomats—Plans on Foot
For Their Beneftt—Petition System
For Old Age.
Unusual efforts are to be made dur
bff the next few weeks to place be
fore the public the great need of the
extension of American commerce
abroad in foreign lands, by means of
more uniformly well trained consuls.
The National Business League of
America has written a strong Indorse
ment of the effort of the George Wash
ington university of Washington to de
Tttlop a great consular training school
In connection with its new College of
Political Sciences and will send this
Indorsement out broadcast.
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Absolutely
PURE
oul the land must now stir tTiemselvos to
united action In favor of tin.- immediate
passage by congress of a proper law.
which, as Dr. Harlan well puts it, "will
give the permanency of the stutute to the
regulations which now merely rest upon
an executive order."
Dr. Harlan In his pamphlet'reprints
letters of commendation from Secre
tary Elihu Root in answer to a point
ed Inquiry from a Bpecial group of
New York importers, who ask, "What
guarantee would the business inter
ests of the country have that the best
graduates of such schools would ac
tually get the new appointments In
the consular service?" Mr. Root's re
ply was so eminently satisfactory that
they have since all subscribed to the
eustentation fund of the university.
Secretary Root declared he would
raise the standards of admission to
the consular service 100 per cent if
the means were at hand for preparing
enough men to attain those standards.
Among the new plans on foot are
higher salaries for the upper ranks of
consulates, a pension system to care
for old age after the best years of the
consul officers have been given over
to the service.
PLAN TO HELP BOYS.
Philanthropist Will Give Cent a Day
to All Young Iowa Teetotalers.
To every boy in Iowa who will take
a pledge to use neither tobacco or liq
uor Samuel Saucerman, a wealthy
I)es Moines resident, will give a dol
lar, a cent a day for three years and
another dollar at the end of the three
years, says a Des Moines dispatch. At
the same time he urges the boys who
accept his proposition to save the nick
els and dimes they would otherwise
have spent for tobacco and alcoholic
drink and put them with their account,
lie has figured out that if the boys will
do this none will arrive at the age of
twenty-one years without having
enough to take them through college
or give them a good start In life.
Mr. Saucerman Is reputed to be
worth $1,500,000. The new organiza
tion he is perfecting to help boys is to
be known as "the trimmer band." To
demonstrate his earnestness he has de
posited in the name of "the trimmer
band" $5,000, which is drawing inter
est.
The plan as outlined by Mr. Saucer
man is to take boys from the age of
nine to sixteen and organize them into
plants or companies of fifty or a hun
dred. He would have these boys hold
monthly meetings, at which time they
would discuss and be taught economy,
finance and how to earn money, clean
living and everything in line with in
dustry and morals. Each boy on join
ing the club will receive $1. The boy
must deposit with his dollar 50 cents
to show good faith. Starting his bank
account with $1.50, each boy will re
ceive a penny per day for three years,
and at the end of that period he will
receive an additional $1. This will
give him $12 }f he has not saved a
cent himself. He urges all boys to
save their nickels and dimes so as to
be prepared to start life right.
The pledge each boy takes on joining
"the trimmer band" is to abstain from
"tobacco In any form, intoxicating
liquors, gambling of aay kind and pro
fane and slang language."
Mr. Saucerman has already organis
ed one elub in Des Moines. He is not
going to be content with accepting the
boys who will come to him. On the
contrary, he has hired out of his owu
pocket a state organizer, who Is to
travel all over Iowa Inducing boys to
do away with their bad habits and
start bank accounts at the Des Moines
philanthropist's expense. J. B. Ham
mond has been secured as an organiser.
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Young Machinist Who Bathed In
Flames Was Unhurt
NO SIGNS OF SCORCHING EVEN
Fred E. Foskett Said He Did Not Feel
Slightest Sensation of Burning.
Professor James and Other Psychol
ogists Conducted Remarkable Teats
In Boston.
The marvelous psychic power of
Fred E. Foskett, a young machinist
of Orange, Mass., has attracted the
attention of Professor James of Har
vard and other leading members of
the Boston branch of the American
Society of Psychical Research, who
recently gave him tests on two days.
The first of the tests was held at the
home of Prescott F. Hall on a Sat
urday afternoon. Professor William
James and several well known physi
cians were there, and test conditions
as nearly perfect as possible were
made. Foskett was seated in the cen
ter of a room before a small table.
There he performed every feat of the
Hindoo faker and the Buddhist adept.
On the table was an ordinary kero
sene lamp with a chimney and a flat
wick, a pan and several quarts of al
cohol. According to the reports of
those present, Foskett succeeded in
every test. The first test was made
with ordinary Bulphur matches. Fos
kett lighted half a dozen, one after
the other, holding them with one hand
so close to the fingers of the other
that the flames curled around them.
He then lighted the lamp and held his
hands above the wick, while the
flames curled over them and the soot
completely blackened them.
From one of these tests to another
Foskett went, while the scientists
held their breath and watched every
motion, until he came to the climax.
In this he poured a quart of alcohol
Into the basin, lighted it and then
tv aShed his hands, bathing them for
nearly ten minutes In the burning
fluid, washing It up over his arms and
to his face—literally bathing himself
In blazing alcohol. That completed
the tests for the first day. As soon as
they were finished the physicians
present examined Foskett, and they
could find not the slightest trace of a
burn or blister. Foskett told them
that the flames did not givr him the
slightest sensation of burning that he
felt comfortably warm and pleasant
and nothing more.
The second tests were made on the
nc:t afternoon at the home of Pro
fessor James in Cambridge, Mass.,
and under the same conditions as the
day before. Considerable mystery Is
thrown about them. Mr. Hall said
they were so startling that he did not
care to discuss them until they had
been tried again. Another scientist
who was there said that Foskett per
formed all of his experiments of the
day before and then "absolutely and
positively demateriallzed.
"He seemed to dissolve into thin air
as we watched him was gone forty
one seconds and then materialized. It
was so startling that we, I am afraid,
lost sight of the test conditions, and
we have asked him to appear before
us again. It seems unbelievable, but
It certainly seemed so. We hardly
know what to think of It**
Professor James refuses to talk
about the tests.
According to those who were pres
ent, Fosket' seems in a passive state
during the tests, and he says he
thinks of nothing In particular. Those
who examined him discredit the hyj^
notic theory. They believe he has
some lateni phychlc force that never
has been studied,
BIG SCHOOL BUILDING.
Chicago to Have One Unlike Any
Other In United States.
School Architect Dwlght II. Ferkins
of Chicago recently completed his first
drawings of the proposed $2,000,000
commercial high school and school
office building to be erected at Harri
son street and Plymouth court, Chlea
go. The structure as planned is un
like any other school building in the
United States, having seventeen sto
ries above ground and four basements.
The basement stories will have the
school supply department and the
heating and ventilating apparatus.
Above these there will be, in succes
sion, a great assembly hall for teach
ers' meetings and school exercises, the
commercial high school and the offices
of the board of education and of its
various departments. A unique tea
tnre of the plans is truck elevator,
which will lower the largest coal wag
on bodily to the !a«t of the four base
ments.
Victims of Gas Poisoning.
New York, Dec. 30.—Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Nasiulin of Cleveland, O., were
found dead from gas poisoning in
their room in the home of the hus
band's stepbrother, Peter Palownka,.
in Brooklyn. The police declare it
was a case of accidental asphyxiation.
The Nasiulins had come East Monday
flor a holiday with relative*
MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1908
USE FOR THE APPENDIX.
Surgeons Hope to Use It as Duel For
Intestinal Medication.
What purports to be an important
discovery in reference to the vermi
form appi ndlx is described by one of
the surgeons of the West London hos
pital, apparently showing that the
dangerous, mysterious orirau can
greatly help a surgeon In treating dis
eases of the lower Intestines, says a
London cable dispatch. The difficulty
of applying medicines in the lower
intestines Is overcome by using the
appendix as a duct
The operation begins exactly in the
same manner as the familiar operation
for appendic itis, but instead of remov
ing the organ the surgeon threads It
through the various layers of mus
cle In the abdominal wall and attaches
It to the skin. It Is then opened, and
by a tube passed through it any nec
essary medicine can be applied direct
ly to the mucous membrane of the
lower intestines..
The appendix, it is said, may safely
be left: open In this position because
the abdominal muscles protect it suffi
ciently.
RURAL SCHOOL UPLIPf,
Senator Dolliver Plana For Govern
ment to Give 8ome Aid.
Senator Dolliver as chairman of the
committee on education and labor is
trying to work out a scheme of corre
lating the rural schools with the agri
cultural colleges, to which the govern
ment now contributes fi considerable
sum for maintenance, says a Wash
ington dispatch. He has In mind that
the country schools ought to teach in
addition to the regular courses practi
cal and theoretical agriculture.
To carry out his Idea Senator Dolli
ver hopes to introduce a bill soon. The
plan probably will Involve some sort
of encouragement from the national
government to Induce states to organ
ize their country schools In such man
ner as to bring about co-operation
with the higher Institutions.
LONG TRIP FOR LIBERTY BELL
Councils Asked to Send It to the Pa
cific Coast.
Should the request of the city coun
cil of Portland. Ore., be granted by
the Philadelphia councils the Liberty
bell will begin one of the longest Jouiv
neys in its history next spring.
The Portland councils and the Port
land rose festival have asked that the
bell be brought to the Pacific coast to
be present at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exposition at Seattle in June, 1809. The
communications containing the request
were read the other day in select
council and referred to the committee
on city property.
Beautiful Girl
Weds
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thlnaman.
Meridian, Miss., Dec. SO.—Miss 01
lie Patton, granddaughter of the late
W. S. Patton. a Confederate genera)
and past grand master of Mississippi
Masons, It has developed, married a
Chinaman here Sunday. The mar
riage violates the state law forbidding
intermarriage between whites and per
sons of negro or Mongolian blood.
Miss Patton is youag and beautiful
and an orptaw.
A Happy New Year
We extend to everybody a happy and prosper
ous year for 1909.
We thank our customers for their help In mak
ing the season 1908 the banner year since establish
ing our Drug and Jewelry business in Madison.
During the past year we have endeavored to
satisfy every purchaser who visited this store and
for 1909 we anticipate a larger volume of business
and are making preparations to accommodate
everybody in the line of Drug% Jtwelry and
Stationery. Respectfully,
Jones Drug Co.,
CORNER DRUG STORE Phone 260
MAKES
APPEAL
American Society Will AM ttmian
Sufferers.
Washington, Dec. 30.—The Amer
ican Red Cross has sent out tele
graphic requests to all of its branches
for relief funds to be applied to the
sufferers from the earthquake in
Southern Italy. The Italian Red
Cross society being so fully organized
it will not be necessary for the Amer
ican society to do more than to send
money contributions, which will be
done as promptly as possible.
Prominent Odd Fellow Killed.
Madison, S. D., Dec. 30.—Peter Mar
quardt, past grand master of South
Dakota Odd Fellows, waB instantly
killed here by a switch engine, his
body being badly mangled.
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