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as A NEWsrarEn. .
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DAILY one year. :3; six months. $1. 75; three
months. $1.00; one month. 30c.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1897.

The Schools of New York.

, . There is no better index of the char-_.
-: sister of the people of a State than the
interest they show in education. Judged
by this standard the inhabitants of
New York compare favorably With those
of any other Commonwealth. It is true
' that their public schools have, as yet,
failed to realize all the hopes of their
most ardent friends. Their teachers
are, in many countries and some cities,
inadiquately paid, and there is a gen-
eral discrimination against women in
the impOrtant matter of compensation.
But these defects are prevalent in near-
ly all the States. In New York tLe
average pay for teachers is gradually
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rising. and appropriations fer
arerincreasing quite as fast as the num-
ber of children of school age. 9 , .
The report of State Superintendent
Skinner for the last school year 1895396
shows that the total amount expended
in that year for school buildings, sites,
repairs, and extensions was $5,827,000.
This was an increase of 19 per cent.
over the expenditures for the same pur-
poses in the school year of1891—’05, and
40 per. cent. over the disbursements
in 1893—94 Of the 450 buildings erec‘ed
last year, 405 were brick, 14 stone, and
31 frame structures. The report as to
pay of teachers would be discouraging
enough, but for the fact that it shows
improvement. It appears that the aver-
age of *pay to teachers in towns last
year was $926 per week, based on a
school term of thirty-three weeks, and

in the cities it was $18 59 on the basis

of a term of forty weeks. In 1835 the
average pay of teachers in towns Was
37 S-tper week, and of those in cities
$16 30 per week.
Brother Bail vy’s Coat.
Congressman Bailey, of'Texas, has
undertaken to down Ex-Oongressman
Bryan as» the particular champion of
the “plain people,”and having no orig-

 

inal pose of his own he has fallen back
upon that old, old pose of refusing to
dress like other folk. He has not the
gift of the gab as Bryan has, but he
thinks he can attract attention to his
coat. ‘
When Mr. Bailey was invited to
dinner at the White House the other
day he took the trouble to call on
the President and inform him that he
could not come because he had no dress
coat, whereupon,Mr. McKinley prompt-
ly replied that he would be welcome in
any coat he thought fit to wear. This
was not what Bailey wanted. He want-
ed an issue. So he caused it to be given
out in Washington that he could not go
to the White House, in spite of the
President, because the other guests all
would wtmr dress coats and he would
Lot. '
It is d.tficult to see how Mr. Bailey
, can mahea grievance of this. It is a,
matter entirely within his 'own coiiitrol.
If he prefers to weara Texiinnnifcrm,
nobody willcompel him to wear any-
thing else, though most people will
lave their own opinion of him all the
same. And If he absents himself from
the White House because he does not
wish to appear singular, that is clearly
his own choice. His salary is sufficient
to permit him to buy an extra coat.
Mr. Bailey’s idea of a neat and taste-
ful costume for a modest American
genticman is thus described: “Along
blue frock cOat, with full trousers and
low-cut Vest1.f the same cloth; about
his neck a white cravat tied ina bow
knot; and in the street, a broad-brim-
. Lied TeXas sombrero.” Now it may be
1.1.1, predicted that Mr. Bailey did not
rv'olvE this cosnnie from his own con-
sciousness. He (:31; red it from the
acct-pied fashion of his native State,
and it isjust as c itional end not
any more reasonable than the less flam-
boyant ' attire more usually worn in
washington
But Mr. Bailey will maintain, it a
irock coat is good enough for the street
or for the House of Representatives, it
is goodenongh to dine in. So it is. In
'l‘exas, we presume, the frock coat is
commonly worn'fat dinner. In Wash-
ington, as in more‘ sophisticated com-
. munities generally, mafikind has agreed
that‘it isa fitting and courteous hing
to change “ODE’B clothes before. going

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out to dinner, and a certain very simple
and not very picturesque but quite
modest, neat andsuitahle attire has
been commonly accepted throughout

, the civilized world as the ordinary ovenv .

ing dress of an ordinary gentlman.

It is the‘most democratic costume that
ever' was invented, since it is absolutely
without distinctions, and therein lies
one of its greatest merits. It puts the
poor man and the rich, the obscure and
the distinguished, the native and the
foreigner on an equal level, so far as
outward appearances go. If a man is
so circumstanced that he cannot get a
dress coat for the cccasion, heis not
thought the worse of; but the man who
sets himself up as superior to his fel-

their reasonable customs,makes a claim
for himself that it must require very
unusual personal endowments to main-
tain. . I

The last man who tried this frock-
coat pose in Washington was, Mr. Gar
land, of Arkansas, and his success was
not such as to encourage imitation. It
is, in fact, such an antique and elemen-
tarv pose that it would take a bigger
man than Brother Bailey to revive it.
While a great many queer issues arise
in Our politics, We have got beyond
the stage where parties could be ex-
pected to divide between the silk hat
and the sombrero or between a coat
with ample skirts and a-coat With a.
spiked tail. Bailey will have to do
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Generous Aid to Education. "

Roxboro. N. 0., April 7.—Dr. John C.
Terrell,_who spent the greater portion
of his life practicing medicine here, but
who has spent the last few years in
Philadelphia. where he recently died,
bequeathed $50,000 to the public schools
of'this county, and in addition a. sum
sufficient to build a new school build-
ing in each of the 29 townships of the
county.

Damage Done by Lightning.

Newton, N. J., April 7.—A severe
storm passed over this neighborhood.
There was thunder and lightning and a
heavy rain.
Northrup were struck by lightning and
were burned. Four valuable horses, 40
head of cattle, 200 of poultry and much
hay, grain, feed and farming implements
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The Detroit Election.-

Detroit, April 7.—With returns In
only two precinctsdacking, _A. C. May-
»bury (Dem. ) has 600 majority over A. E.
Stewart (Rep.,) Governor Pingree’ s can-
didate for mayor; A. F. Sellers (Rep),
for police justice, has about 1,100 plu-
rality.

low men, and therefore exempt from '

The barns of Richard,

 

 

 

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C. E. GILBERT, Ass t, See.

88*;Etna Life

llade the Followinrlflains in lhell’ear l89‘6:

Insurance.
‘ :coupiuv.

Increase in Income,

$ l 057.8 I 6.28.

Increase

in Assets,

a; I 997,234.42.
Increase in Surplus,

$1988 I 6,8l .

Increase inNew Life Busin

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$ l 598,668.00.

Increase in Life Insurance in Force,

$5,608,680.00. 5

Increase in Accident Insurance in Force,

$21, 736500.00 . ..

In .rease in Accident Premiums
$ l 75, 086. 72—0r 62 per cent.

Increase in New Life Insurance Written in Connecticut,

$3 I 0,642.00.

Increase in total Life Insurance in COnnecticut.

$472,569.00.

. From the increased Surplus the usual increase of dividends to
policy-holderswill be paid' Ill l891, making the Twentv-Fillh Regular
Annual Increase of DIVIdends to the Insured and a record unparalleled
in the history of life insurance.
Notwithstanding the material' Increase of new business on which
the expense in Lite insurance' 15 chiefly incurred, the ratio of expense to
income on the Life ..,.1 ms. t‘ t':.-s company, excluding the dosidenl
busmess,Issomewnjlowe:1. nl alyear, and is 23 per cent. less
than the average expense of me ten leading "purely mutual” compaI__ g.-
for the Year I895.

Their figures for “396 have not been published.

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J. L. ENGLISH. Sec.

H. W. 81‘. JOHN.‘Actuary.

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G. W, RUSSELL, M. D..' Med Director. JAMES CAMPBELL. M.D.. Med. Ex.

E. E. JHALLOCK, General Agent, 5Hubinger Bld’g.,New Haven. I
..l HUTCHINSON General Accident Agent, Hartford

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