Lenox library of New York City, have made Coronado a traditional hero and a historical enigma for almost half a millenium.

With the Castaneda letters in one's thought, it is something more than a dream to be enjoying the hospitality of a twentieth century hotel whose architecture, equipment and cuisine are of the metropolitan standard.

For nearly a third of a thousand years New Mexico was under Mexican rule; for fifty years it has been under the political rule of the United States; for ten years it has been under intelligent territorial rule, and while the most ardent local champion of statehood will not assent that the territory from end to end has been trained to statehood, the most bitter local opponent of statehood will not deny that it will require but a short time at the pace of the past decade to prepare the territory to join the sisterhood.

By inheritance, tradition and language, the large majority of the residents are affiliated with Mexico rather than with the United States. The reason for this is not to their discredit nor to the credit of Mexico, but to the discredit of the United States.

With all our boasted devotion to free schools, there was no faintest trace of an American school in the territory twelve years ago, except for the Indians, who have fared infinitely better at the hands of the goverment, educationally, than the other children of the territory.

About a quarter of a century ago, the Protestant churches did a little for the education of American children in Albuquerque, East Las Vegas and Sante Fe, and an apology for a little in Las Cruces and a few Mexican communities; but, for all that the government did, New Mexico might have been in Egyptian darkness educationally in 1890.

From time immemorial there have been several Catholic church schools

and the entire Mexican population has been at least nominally Christian. Ad mit if you please any criticism of the Catholic church in New Mexico prior to its passing into an American diocese, and even then what was done for the American Mexican was infinitely more creditable than what the United States and other churches left undone.

Twenty years ago I came to know the territory fairly well, notably in the Americanized cities, and I became acquainted with the educational mission work and appreciated the great joy and proud boast over the slight advance made in years of heroic effort of American Church societies to scatter a few educational seeds.

Aside from the Catholics, there are in all private and church schools eightyone teachers and 2,272 pupils enrolled. It is easy, therefore, for me to appreciate what the public schools have accomplished in eleven years. To-day there are more than 4,000 pupils enrolled, mostly in good schools; there are 1,046 teachers, drawing $412,340 in salaries, and there is public school property valued at far more than a million.

In remembrance of the ten years that enrolled only a few children, the astonishment is inexpressible to think of an eleven years enrollment of 261,886 pupils and the employment of 5,599 teachers to whom a total of $1,155,645 has been paid in salaries.

Greater yet, in remembrance of the names given to some of the schools in those days, is the amazement at the buildings, equipment and professional standards of the university at Albuquerque, the agricultural college at Mesilla Park, the school of mines at Socorro, the normal school at Silver City and the normal university at Las Vegas, enrolling a total of nearly 1,000 earnest students.

Here is a territory in which scarcely any English was spoken over nine-tenths

of its area eleven years ago; in which there had not been a public school in the 350 years of its history; in which there had not been an institution of learning of any prominence, and, suddenly, in a decade, it has been transformed as by magic and the people pay the bills, an average tax for the schools of $5.00 ($4.94) for every man, woman and child in the territory, with the average salary of $54.30 for the teachers. The spirit behind it all is more remarkable than the accomplishment. J. Francisco Chavez, superintendent of public instruction, voices the spirit of the people in this memorable utterance: "The indispensableness of education to worldly prosperity has been demonstrated. An ignorant people not only is, but must be, a poor people. They must be destitute of sagacity and, of course, of competence and comfort. The proof of this does not depend upon the lessons of history, but on the constitution of

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nature. No richness of climate, no spontaneous productiveness of soil, no facilities of commerce, no stores of the precious and useful metals garnered in the treasure-chambers of the earth can confer even worldly prosperity upon an uneducated people. Such a people cannot in this day and generation create wealth of themseles, and whatever riches may be showered upon them will run to waste.

"Let whoever will sow the seed or gather the fruits, intelligence will consume the banquet."

I doubt if in the world's history there has been more done for educational advancement in eleven years by any people than has been done by the residents of New Mexico since 1890.

Who can prophesy, or even make a good Yankee guess, at what New Mexico will be when an educated, Englishspeaking people shall make the most of its soil, climate, mines and resorts?

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ELIM S. HADDAD, an artist of Mt. Lebanon in Syria, has invented a new alphabet for writing and printing the languages of more than 250,000,000 people, and also has invented, and had manufactured in America, a typewriting machine for writing all languages which employ the complicated Arabic characters the first successful mechanism of this kind in the world.

The number of characters required to print a newspaper or book in Arabic is 630. A printer's case of Arabic letters is as large as a dining table. There is no Arabic type-writing machine - except the one just produced by Haddad -because a key-board containing over 600 characters, some large and some small, some narrow and some wide, would require mechanism enough to fill a

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piano box and cost from $500 to $1,000. This cumbrousness has made the cost of printing books in Arabic almost prohibitive, and is the reason why those who invented the "golden art of poetry," brought to us alchemy, medicine, astronomy, mathematics and the most picturesque architecture extant, are now in the direst literary poverty.

Their letters have four positions in the printed line - initial, middle, final and isolated - and types for printing or use on a writing machine must be so made that each will join all the others on the three distinct horizontal lines in

all positions save isolated. This rather blind statement may be better understood by having attention called to the fact that a in "cat" is not like a in "pa", or a in "at", or an isolated a, and so on through the alphabet. These compli cations of size, width and positions

are what have rendered improvements in types and the production of type-writing machines impossible.

Mr. Haddad struck at the root of the evil by reducing the number of characters from 630 to fifty-three, including six "weak" letters used in the Turkish language only.

Knowing that his people would accept nothing differing materially from what they had been using for ages, he so combined the old characters structurally, while reducing their number, that when joined in printing, they lost nothing perceptible of their ancient appearance. He then reduced them to common units of height and width and so rearranged them that those used most are found nearest the hands of the compositor or operator. Having accomplished these changes, he made complete fonts of type according to his invention, which are en route to Egypt and Turkey, ready for making books and newspapers, and also had manufactured, in America, two beautiful type-writers, finished in white.

and gold and nickel. One of these machines has been shipped to the Sultan of Turkey, as a mark of respect; the other Mr. Haddad personally presented to the Khedive of Egypt at Christmas.

While showing his wonderful machine to the Turkish minister in Washington, the Persian minister, who was present, cut from the Arabic newspaper Merrat el Gharb, a slip, No. 1, which Mr. Haddad copied on his machine as shown in No. 2-the former printed from a

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case of 630 or more characters; the latter from a key-board of only fifty-three characters, or twenty less than comprise the keyboard of an English type-writing machine.

Turkey, Arabia, Syria, Persia, British India, Hindustan, Egypt, Abyssinia, Morocco, Tunis, Turkey in Europe, and in fact all Mohammedan countries, so far as they are Mohammedan, use the Arabic characters in writing and printing. Thus, telegraphic messages are not sent in native tongues in those countries,

which, of course, are without type-writing machines and in some cases without a newspaper the natives can read.

The Koran unified the Arab nations and sent them conquering over southern Europe and northern Africa- from Lisbon to Samarcand and gave them a brilliant sway of centuries. Haddad's invention will lift them into the light of modern civilization-vitalize their trade and commerce, and open their imaginative, fantastic, gorgeous and irridescent literature to the remainder of mankind.

Once the Arabs held great national festivals at which rich prizes were awarded for the finest poems and compositions, just as Americans now hold expositions and fairs and give rewards for the best pigs, pianos, plows and pumpkins. Thousands of these ancient manuscripts, hidden away in Persia, Arabia and Egypt because the cost of their reproduction could not be met, will be brought to light by Haddad's really remarkable invention.

The inventor is quite as notable as his invention. Born in Mount Lebanon, he became an artist in a country which possessed no artists, artists' materials, art or pictures.

Establishing a studio in Cairo, he attracted attention by the accuracy of his drawing, the fervor of his imagination and the vividness of his Oriental coloring. His first exhibition at the Cairo Annual Salon won the government's first prize. This feat added to his fame and brought him in contact with persons of means who advanced more than the $50,000 required to finish his invention and put types and writing machines on the market. In Egypt, Syria, Turkey and Arabia, Haddad is regarded as greater than Edison, for his invention unlocks the literary treasures of more than a dozen peoples-of one-sixth of all mankind and will give to their commerce, learning and progress a modern impetus. to which no end is imaginable.

Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, who still practices law in Washington and is a familiar figure in committee rooms in the national capitol, has the unique distinction of being the only woman who ever "made the run"

for the presidency of the United States. The nomination, made at a convention of California women, was unsought by Mrs. Lockwood, but, like the greatness of some, was thrust upon her, and she led the way to the polling of several thousand votes and to the astonishing of the

paign made by the ad

vocates of women's rights under the leadership of Mrs. Lockwood forms an interesting and significant chapter in the political history of the country, and is here written for the first time by the woman who essayed

to sit in the chair of the chief magistrate of the land. Since that

time her cause has gained prodigiously. In several Western states and in Australia women have gained full franchise rightsand they are making

progress everywhere.

I was in the regular course of presi

dential elections in 1884 that I received the nomination to the office. The national conventions had been assembled, and had made their nominations early. James G. Blaine, then in the zenith of his popularity and one of the leading statesmen of the nation, had been nominated by the republican party, and Grover Cleveland, then a new possi- . bility, and comparatively unknown, was nominated by the democratic party; John P. St. John headed the ticket for

the prohibitionists, and Benjamin F. Butler was nominated in Michigan by the laboring men's party, and his nomination had been made by a woman.

Progressive and thinking women from all parties had attended in greater or less numbers all of these conventions, and were pressing forward for recognition. About this time Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mrs. Susan B. Anthony came out in a circular, directed to the leading women of the country, urging them to use their influence for the repub