Frederick William Wile, she well own Washington correspondent, rman, the retiring American Minister to China, is o of several Canadians who have risen high in the service of the United States. Dr. Schurman was born on Prince: Edward Island in Canada, The lat Frankli in K, Lane came to the Uni ed States from the same region to Paris, Mar. 20.
The latest manifestation of the Jeternal conflict between Church and State is a school strike in Alsace. The Catholics in that reconquered province fail to see that it derives any moral benefit from being brought within the scope of French secularism, wh: ch holds that the State should be absolutely neutral in the matter of religious teach this being a subject best left to ps ents. In pursuance of this policy it was recently decided by M. Herriot to make the schools in Alsace '"inter-confessional," that is to. say, purely secular. The Roman Catholfe faith having been taught in the primary schools under German rule and up to the present, the representatives of the Church could not jen dare the thought of a chang> which would make it possible, for instance, for an avowed atheist to teach in a classroom and use his influence on young minds against the principles inculcated by the priests.
Tt was accordingly decided to call Just retired as Superintendent of become one of the most beloved mena school strike, or, in other words, the U.S. Naval Acedemy at Anna- in public life, Admiral William S.|to request Catholic parents to keep polis, and by Admiral Charles Wit-sims, Senator James Couzens of|their children temporarily from gon Dyson, general inspector of en-Michigan, and Associate Justice of school, as a protest. The duration ering, gineering in the Bureau of Engine. tthe Supreme Court George Suther-fof the strike was to be three days lund were also all British-born, the' fat the town of Colmar, the pri Admiral and Senator in Canada, cipal centre of resistance, and one Admiral Williams was bora and the Ohio in October 7, 1863, and_ wil,
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