CHEHAWA, OREGON, OLD FRIENDS. Thkre are no friends like tbe old friends, World wander as we may. The heart grows young at the mystic spell, And love at its ebb takes a wondrous As we drink from memory's dear old well, And live over our life's young day. There are no friends like the old friends, Though Boorew of years away There'8 a fresh-blown flower, and a per- That steals on the breath of the evening And ageiB lifted of griaf and care, With the ftiendB of life's young day. There are no friends lik ethe old friends. When we drank the sweet white wine OfUfe's fresh draught, and we felt the thrill Ofanameles purpose onr great heart's fill, Led on by the force of a boundless will, The aroma of love's sweet wioe. There aie no friends like the old friend,), Who have wandered on before; In some still hour we bear them (mil; Almost we hear their footstep tall; And we are reunited, all. To the dear old friends of yore. Sel. Pupils Poor Spellers, In spite of the fact that during the past two months there has been h general effort nude by nil the professors in Northwestern university to have the, students put spec ial study on the subject of spelling, a FRIDAY, APRIL, 18, looa- more discouraging showing has just made in a series of testa, and the faculty fear that the average university student is destined to be a poor speller. In a test examina tion in the elementary class in English only twenty in the more than sixty pupils in the class succeeded In passing above the required average. The showing Is nothing Bhort of disgraceful, and It should be a warning of the fact that modern day "fads" have spoiled our schools. In tbe days of of old-fahioned speltinir bees when the wholoe school would lino up along the walls to be "spelled down," the boy or .glrl who stayed on the flonrthe longest wrn an honor the whole school envied and, in cidentally, that boy or girl was learning how to spell. Nowadays they are too hues with their foolish "fads" to pay at tention to anything so commonplace as spelling, and the showing made by the students in the Evanstou university points on the result. When notice of the result of thp examination was pooled on the col let bulletin hoard the whole university was shocked and now that Ihe professors are telling of some of the details of the gunted. The failure the whole country the correctly Is surprised, and in fact din several word "through" was not, spilled vordbyfnllv a third of the class, and several "faddists gHve It as thoroV The word "judgment" was misled by half of the class, and manv other common word were spelled In a manner nothing short of disgraceful. Every sohool. college and university in the country should follow in the footsteps of Northwestern university, and give this matter an investigation, fol lowed by a special school of instruction fn spelling forevery student, Iowa State RegUter.