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.