THE HOOD RIVER NEW3, WEDNESDAY. JULY 3. 1912
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Deep Decay Has Eaten Into
Study of the Classics
In America
By Professor C. GILBERT MURRAY. Reglu Profeisor of
Creek at Oxford
nYS.V DECAY HAS EATT.X INTO THE STUDY OF TIIE
CLASSICS IX AMERICA and widespread conscious-
JmS ness of it. I wnu struck y tlio general Benso of regret for
the lost inheritance.
The decay is in part duo to Dr. Eliot's policy at Harvard. lie
abolished compulsory Greek. It was an experiment which should
have Iktii tried. in a laboratory les3 noble than Harvard.
America is educating a vast democraev with SPLENDID PUB
LIC SI'IKIT AXD SUCCESS. The general effectiveness of the
education and the public zeal for it impresses one deeply. I can see
quite well that circumstances demanded that a quick, cheap, business'
like education should be given to meet the needs of the immediate
moment.
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IT 6EEMED A WASTE OF TIME TO GO TO THE MARKET PLACE BY
WAY OF ATHENS, BUT I THINK A TIME HAS COME WHICH DEMANDS
DEEPER, MORE SOLID AND THEREFORE SLOWER EDUCATION.
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Great insurgent forces are at work in the United States, and
CITIZENSHIP WILL REQUIRE IX FUTURE FIXER TRAIN
ING AXI) VISIOX THAX IX TIIE PAST.
At Oxford wo must preserve our ancient individuality and con
tinue to tench the classics in the old, thorough way. Tho American
universities, admirable as they are, cannot give education like our
ancient institutions of learning.
Hood River, Afternoon & Night
THURSDAY, JULY
1
KIT OAESOiYS
BUFFALO RANCH WILD WEST
AND
TRAINED WILD ANIMAL EXHIBITION.
TENTH TRANS-CONTINENTAL TOUR.
THE LARGEST WILD WEST SHOW ON EARTH
COMING DIRECT ON THEIR OWN SPECIAL TRAINS
OF DOUBLE LENGTH RAILROAD CARS FROM
THE BIGGEST RANCH IN THE WORLD.
Menagerie of Trained Wild Animals
From all parts of the Globe. Daring and death defying acts almost
beyond the realms of lucid imagination.
A COSMOPOLITAN COLLECTION OF COWBOYS AND GIRLS, VANQUEROS,
SENORITAS, GUARDIS RURALES, CHAMPIONS OP THE LARIAT,
ROUGH RIDERS, PONY EXPRESS VETERANS, DARINQ
ATHLETES, COMICAL CLOWNS, THRILLINQ
INDIAN FIGHTS AND WAR DANCES.
PRINCE BOTLOINE'S TROUPE OF RUSSIAN COSSACKS,
The most daring Horsemen in the World.
BANDS of SIOUX, CHEYENNE and COMANCHE INDIANS,
Fresh from the Camp-fire and Council, making their first acquaintance
with pale face civilization.
The Grand Ethnological Performance concludes with the Superb
Spectacular, Dramatic, Historical Fantasy,
The Battle of Wounded Knee
Introducing a vast and motley horde of Indians, Scouts, Trappers and Soldiers
that actually took active part in the last brave stand and hopeless
struggle the noble redskin made for his freedom and rights.
TWO PERFORMANCES DAILY, RAIN OR SHINE
Afternoon at t. Evening at 1 Doors open On Hour earlier.
WATER PROOF CANVAS. CANNOT LEAK.
Grand, Gold Glittering Free Street Parade
TWO MILES LONG at n a. m. dally on the main thoroughfare,.
BIG TRIE LXIIIBITIOVS on Show Grounds immediately alter the Parade
BRING IN YOUR DD HORSES AIMO MULES
Our Cowboys will ride them FREE OF CHARGE. '
S.OO will aw pa'"1 ' "y aw w brlnglnm a harw or mulm thy annual Hdm
USING YOUR EYES
Do You Think You Can Remember
Everything You See?
THEN TRY THE PICTURE TEST.
8tudy For a Minuta a Painting With a
Number of Figures and Objects lit It
and Then Endeavor to Describa It
and the Result May Surprise You.
"Seeing la believing" Is an old say
ing which is In a fair way to lose Ita
force. Modern psychology Is proving
by experiments tbnt people do not see
even a fraction of the things tbey con
fidently believe tbey see.
The picture test whs first demon
strated in America at Clark university
by the pioneer In this field. Professor
William Stern of the University of
Breslau. At this time two unusually
Intelligent children, a boy and a girl
In the upper grammar grades of the
Worcester schools, were shown sep
arately for the period of a minute a
colored picture entitled the "Bauer-
atube." giving the Interior of a Ger
man peuBntit'a home. Among other
detall-i Is seen a table at which a man
and a boy are seated, while a woman
la standing.
The man has removed bis coat, and
bis bright red vest Is clearly exposed
to view. The boy Is sitting on a bench,
bis bare feet not quite touching the
floor. The woman wears a brilliant
red skirt, over which Is a blue-green
apron She has a yellow shawl over
ber shoulders.
Near by is a cradle of the same
striking blue-green as the apron. At
tbe rear of the room Is a bed, and over
It hang three pictures. These pictures
depict landscapes, and in one Is a
long avenue of trees. At the foot of
the bed Is a window through which
nothing Is visible except a branch of a
tree. Near tbe window Is a clock wltD
the pendulum swung to one side. Tbe
bands point to exactly half past 12.
All of the detalla of the picture are ex
tremely clear.
The children examined by Stern bad
an opportunity In tbe minute allowed
for tbe examination of tbe picture to
study It In some detail. They knew
thnt they were to be tested Immedi
ately on what they had seen. Had
not the audience that witnessed the
demonstration been able to follow tbe
details of the testimony by means of
a reproduction of the picture thrown
by a lantern on a screen at the back
of the children they would have been
Impressed with the remarkable clear
ness and apparent occuracy of the
testimony, particularly with reference
to a certain cupboard which both tes
tified stood near the bed.
This cupboard was described mi
nutely with substantial agreement as
to the details. Tbe fiction of the cup
board was developed by a few sug
gestive questions Ingeniously put, such
us tbe following: "Is there a cup
board In the room? (The reply was
Yes."t "Where Is It?" "How many
drawers does It hove?''
Professor Colvln of the University of
Illinois, writing In tbe Independent,
says that he has carried on the same
experiment with a score of subjects,
both adults and children, and has not
found one who could give a complete
ly uccurate description of wbut he
had seen, even In the direct testimony.
while under the influence of the ques
tions tbe witnesses buve all shown
extensive falsification in one or more
particulars.
Scarcely two witnesses have agreed
as to the time of tbe clock; some have
uot observed that It was going (a fact
clearly indicated by the position of
the pendulum); several have described
tbe shoes of tbe boy In detail (he Is
barefooted): four have seen the cup
board; several have said that the lawn
is visible through the window and
have embellished It with fountain and
shrubs; some have seen a road wind
ing beyond the lawn and lined with
an avenue of trees, taken bodily from
one of the pictures on tbe wall; a non
existent tablecloth has been described
as torn; the woman's apron has been
given all tbe colors of the rainbow,
but seldom the right one; the sleeves
of tbe man's coat, nowhere visible,
have been described as worn at the
edges; the brllllnnt red walstcont has
generally been overlooked. But, most
remarkable of all, the entire twenty
witnesses have taken their oaths that
the cradle Is uot blue, but a red or a
reddish brown.
The results of this picture test are
all the more remarkable when we re-
niemtwr that the witnesses lu this ex
periment are In a much more advan
tageous position for giving an accu
rate report than are the witnesses of
ordinary events. In trials In court the
witness Is ordinarily called upon to re
late what has occurred only after a
considerable lapse of time. Mean
while he Is subjected to various ques
tions, often by Interested persona. He
alks about the occurrence with neigh
bors and friends, and then he Is placed
on the witness stand with the Injunc
tion to tell "the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth." Under
m;ch circumstances the wonder Is that
there Is any resemblance between tbe
testimony and the actual facts.
CURIOSITIES OF PAIN.
A Cramp In the Toe May Indieate a
Disordered Stomach.
Pain sometimes behaves in a curious
fashion. There was a soldier In Lon
don after tbe Boer war who complain
ed of excruciating neuralgic pains In
his right foot.
This very much amused his friends,
for be had loat his right leg, and both
leg and foot were long burled near
Ladysmlth.
Tbe explanation was that the pain
happened to be In the trunks of those
nerves which bad sent branches to tbe
foot Sometimes a patient comes to a
doctor complaining of pain In the knee,
and be la greatly surprised when tbe
doctor tells bim that the site of the
affection la not the knee, but tbe hip.
We are all familiar with the pain un
der tbe shoulder blade which comes
from an afflicted liver.
Tbe stomachy too, can produce pain
In many parts of the body. A disor
dered stomach will give us pain as far
away as the bead, and when one gets a
cramp In bis toe it Is often due to acid
lty of tbe stomach. Swallow a pinch
of soda and tbe cramp will disappear.
An aching tooth will produce neural
gle pains In tbe face, and very often a
violent pain at tbe back of the head Is
due to the faraway kidneys, which
themselves may suffer no pain at tbe
time.
FEAST OF THE VULTURES.
Magie of Tiger's Carcass In the Open
Air In India.
Tbe vulture Is seen at Its best when
a dead tiger, brought Into camp to be
skinned, In exposed In the open. Over
head la a cloudless sky and not a bird
to be seen In that great void by the
human eye.
Tbe tiger's body Is thrown from the
pad to tbe ground, and before the skin
has been removed there above one
and always neating tbe earth are the
vultures circling, poising like things of
air. now a dozen of tbem. In a few
minutes a score or two and then a
hundred strong. Then, when the
flayed carcass of the tiger la left by
those who skinned It, tbe vultures de
scend. Down tbey come like feathered thun
der out of the sky, and from east
and west and north and south, the
very embodiment of power while they
whirl aloft and In their quick de
scent to earth, and now, as they wad
dle around that carrion beast, mis
shapen ghouls, whose only apparent
strength Is that of the ravening Jaws
which tear and gorge tbe tiger's flesh
until within tbe hour naught of that
splendid brute remains but a clean
picked skeleton. Sir Edward Brad
den's "Thirty Years of Shikar."
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Arnprirnn wnmnn Hoc iimron
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A reader of this department asks
whether It will damage blue grass to
pply air slaked lime on It If scatter-
ed thinly It would do no particular
harm. Neither would anv benefit rn.
ult unless the soil were Inclined to be
wet and sour. In which case the lime
would serve to sweeten It and correct
n acid condition. Usually where this
Is the case, the grass Is thin or divs
Bntjrrow at all, while sorrel Is likely to
Followed Suit.
This curious lncldeut comes from
Suhr. Switzerland: An Inspector of
schools, without any previous warning,
visited the vllloge school and found
the elderly teacher asleep ot bis desk
and the children departed, having ap
parently taken French leave. To give
tbe teacher a great surprise and a bad
quarter of an hour the lnsector de
cided to wait until he awoke and seat
ed himself on a bench In front of the
culprit. The hours passed, and the In
spector himself went to sleep. The
teacher, ou awakening and seeing who
was sleeping before him, quietly left
the school for home. Without entering
the schoolroom the concierge locked
up the school and the slumbering In
spector Several hours later the con
cierge beard a great noise and. arming
himself, opened the door and was great
ly surprised to find the angry Inspector
before him
Three Million Wires to an Inch.
Gold has beeu hammered out to thin
sheets whose thinness is beyond Imagi
nation, so thin a pile one Inch high
would doubtless contain 300.000 If all
were as thin as the thinnest one But
a platinum wire has been drawn to a
diameter so minute that 3.000,000 side
by side would occupy one Inch. The
method was to surround platinum with
silver and draw the mass Into finer
and finer wire. Then the silver coating
was dissolved off with nitric add. leav
ing the excessively thin. Insoluble
thread of platinum. Particles of gold
have teen seen In the new ultra violet
light, dark ground reflecting micro
scopes so smoll that a row containing
2r0,000 would be one Inch long And
there are animals as small. New York
American.
And He Laitad Sixty Years,
IJoger Crab, the uciinil and astrolo
ger, almost solved the problem of bow
to live without eating. About ItMl he
began to restrict himself to a vege
tarian diet, avoiding even butter and
cheese From roots be got to a vege-
torlon diet of broth, thickened with
bran, and pudding made of bran and
turulp leaves cbopied together, and be
finally resorted to dock leaves and
grass, lie drank nothing but water
and lived for nearly forty years on 3
farthings a week. He died in London
In 1GS0 In bis sixtieth year.
A ginVi rr..ny reform movements are
run on a good deal the same Hue as cut
ting dandelions out by hand when ad
joining lots are allowed to mature
fluffy heads by the hundred for the
wind to scatter hither and yon. It Is a
pitifully Inadequate adaptation of
means to ends.
the Servant From
the Home
Democ-
J mm, ' t I
4 .; y ,
, 'J
rVJ " other hon- r "foy
O other hon- .
est work
bo BELITTLES
a woman social
ly as housework
performed for money. It is the
only field of labor which has
scarcely felt the touch of the mod
ern labor movement ; the only one
where the hours, conditions and
wages are not being attacked gen
erally; tho only one in which
THERE IS NO ORGANIZA
TION OR STANDARDIZA
TION, NO TRAINING, NO
REGULAR ROAD OF PROG
RESS. It i3 the only field of labor in
which there seems to bo a general
tendency to abandon the democrat
ic notion and return frankly to the
standards of the aristocratic re
gime. The multiplication of livery,
the tipping system, tho terms of
address, all show an increasing
IMITATION OF THE OLD
WORLD'S METHODS.
Unhappily enough, they are
used with little or none of the old
Old
World
Methods
Employed
Author and
SurTrttflst
world's ease. Be
ing imitations
and not natural
growths, they, of
course, cannot be.
More serious still is the relation
which has been shown to exist be
tween CRIMINALITY AND
HOUSEHOLD OCCUPA
TIONS. Nothing, indeed, which
recent investigation has establish
ed ought to startle tho American
woman more.
Contrary to public opinion, it is
not the factory and shop which
are making women offenders of
all kinds. It is tho HOUSE
HOLD. THE AMERICAN WOMAN IS A
VERY POOR DEMOCRAT, AND BY
HER UNWILLINGNESS TO DEMOC
RATIZE HER HOUSEHOLD AND
HER LACK OF INTEREST IN THE
CONDUCT OF ITS AFFAIRS SHE
HAS DRIVEN THOSE WHO IN
STINCTIVELY FEEL THAT HOUSE
HOLD LABOR WOULD BE THE
BETTER TASK WERE NOT THE
COST OF PERFORMING IT TOO
GREAT INTO THE SHOP AND
FACTORY.
BRIEF NEWS FROM
AROUND THE STATE
Eugenie may I expected to twite
a prominent place at the Salem Stat
Kulr. A plau Is now under way to
show In each town boys and girl
under one year, under two years and
under three yeur. The piixen will
lie awarded on points rather than
that of doll-like leauty, and the lest
children will then la? taken to tbe
State Fair and entered In a stHte
wide eoiitest.
Managers of the Pendleton Hound
up expect an attendance this year of
.'.O.ixki visitors. The show will m
bigger and better than ever la-fore,
with more varied attractions than
last year. The dates are Septemlier
Oregon has a good chance to win
the national prize for advance tit
earth education this year. The statu
committee has under way an exhibit
showing how 75,000 boye and girl
of the state have been Interested In
the new competitive gardening con
tests and how 10,000 Portland school
children were enlisted In similar work
In that city. Perhaps no other state
ever gave such lllieral support to thin
movement at the outset. The next
tep, It Is expected, will be to make
this Industrial education an Integral
part of the state school system.
For the first time In Its history the
famous battleship Oregon Is to vlidt
Its own state. During the F.Iks' re
union, tbe historic old fighting ship
will be brought to Portland harbor,
where It will be much admired by nil
loyal Oregonlans. Naval official
have at last given their consent to
the request that the Oregon be
brought here.
ELECTRIC ROADS TO
GRIDIRON VALLEY
A gridiron of electric roads
throughout the most fertile parts of
tbe Willamette Valley, costing
000,000, Is announced by the South
ern Pacific. Yamhill, Mc.Mlnnvllle.
t'orvullls, Alsea, Albany, Eugene,
Molalla, Salem, Falls City, C'anby,
Aurora, Lebanon and many other
points are to le reached by tbls new
system of roadu, which will develop
tbe country reached as nothing eMe
can. With ttiene big Improvement
going on and the biggest crop In It
hlxtory. to be harvested, tbe state
ha nothing to fear from the usual
blighting effect on buslhes of Presi
dential year.
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iprlnkllnjr them and by keeping the
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