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Leaminj: made eay n to be tli
ideal of the modern pedagogue. Hi en
deavor is to ojxire the student exertion.
The elective curriculum enable the stu
dent to follow the Hue of leat resist
ance in choosing a course of studies. He
i encourajred to follow hi natural bent;
that is. to pursue only such branches as
lie has a distinct liking for. In the case
of an averajre achool or college boy
these branches are the ones which re
quire the minimum of lalxr. Knylioh
literature, for that reason, attracts more
"disciples titan Greek, and hUtory more
than mathematics. Such difficulties as
the elective system has not obviated
for the student are removed by copiously
annotated text oooka. Editions of the
Latin and Creek author are provided
that translate in notes every construc
tion and save the student the trouble
of thinking anything out. Similarly,
the mathematical texts present, fully
amplified, every step in each problem so
that mastering it sufficiently for recita
tion requires nothing but an exercise of
memory.
If education consists, as the authori
ties say it does, more in mental discipline
and. training than in storing the memory
with facts, do not the easy methods now
in vojnie defeat the purpose of the
whole scheme! Would, it not be better
to restrict election and to compel the ue
of texts that do not .do all the thinking
for the ntudentl
mer employe of hi, road has exploded
any wh theory. . General Manager Horn
of " the Northern Pacific ha Issued an
ultimatum to the telegraphers which U
less bombastic than the utterance ot .Mr.
Hill and i yet firm, dictating that the
m roast return to work within ten
day aid subject to eondttona a to their
rating which ha will impose. President
Perkaw apparently is a man possessing
unusual xecutive ability. It eww
reasonable to believe, judging from the
manner in which the telegrapher have
acquitted tiwmselvea thus far and the
personality of Mr. IVrham that the pro
posal of Mr. Horn will not be considered
for a moment. Coupled with the atti
tude of Mr. IHU. this would indicate that
the strike i to be long and bitterly
fought. Tiie Oreat Northern and North
ern Pacific railway are unquestionably
crippled under present conditions, and
while great effort are being made to
nrevent the. demoralization of traffic,
trains are not running on schedule
Some important poiuts of both roadi
have been literally wiped from the time
tables Missoula, Mont., must flag
trains to permit the embarking of pas
sengers, All limited, trains are arriv
ing several hours late, fat freights are
Wing maintained on disrupted schedule
and local freight has practically been
aliandoned. Aram we call attention
not to the railways or to the telegraph
ei-s. but to the thousands of small deal
ers and merchants who are sntTering as
a result of the strike. We hope sin
eerely that Governor .lohnson may prove
successful as a mediator.
IN LIGHTER VEIN
THE EXILED HOBBY HORSE.
Men are not a a class sympathetic
with other people's suffering, although
when a man is in pain he is very im
perious and insistent in his demand for
sympathy. The average man is rather
impatinet of the manifestations of men
tal or physical suffering in other .people.
He is disposed to believe that a per
son, making a fu over some sorrow or
pain, pretend to feel more anguish
than he really does feel. On the con
trary, women respond to suffering with
instinctive sympathy. They are abie to
project themselves into the soul of the
sufferer, feel with his nerves and think
with bis brain.
To have suffered keen sorrow and In
tense pain is a valuable experience well
worth what it costs. One who has de
ftcended into the depth of wretchedness
can always thereafter feel for another
who is there.
Yet too much euffenng Is demoraliz
in. Intense pain, long endured, will
turn a man into a savage. Men, such as
convicts, long subjected to brutal treat
ment become themselves brutalized and
if given a position of authority, will be
cruel and tyrannical. The sailor who is
cursed at, struck and starved in the
forecastle, usually, if he ever ries to the
-'quarter-deck, curses, strikes and starves
ids crews, as mate or master. The hell
siiin Wets other hell-ships. The rea
son of this is that the man inured to
brutnlitv lo-es his sensitiveness and
tl
fail to perceive the character of bis eon
duct or the impression it makes on less
baldened spirit than hi own.
In a recent issue of the Astorian con
ditionn were cited that would develop
as a result of the telegraphers' strike on
tiie Great Northern and Northern Fa
c''ic railways. Attentiin was called to
the fuct that these railways were pe
culiarly located and that mucji suffering
would be visited upon the regions they
touch if the strike continued for any
length of time. Our prophesy has proved
currect. Collectively and individually,
Merchants in communities situated on
the lines of both companies are endeav
oring to bring about a settlement of the
difficulty, Governor Johnson of Min-ne-ota
has !een appealed to and in re
sponse be has addressed letters to the
beads of the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific and to President Perham of
the tf!e.ii!phrs requesting that imme
diate measures Is? adopted to bring the
strike to an end and thus alleviate the
miffcrin" of thousands of people. While
it was thought that President Hill of
..ttlie Great Northern would intervene in
behalf of the striking telegraphers, his
rather emphatic denunciation of the for
Hark, dear friends, to my pitiful tale, of
how I crossed the seas,
Sent by a loving grandma, to the land
of the Japanese!
Tn mii a little one. livmc there on
Yokohama's bluff
I crossed the wide Pacific, an ocean, oh,
so rough!
They packed me up in a box so tight,
with canva round my head;
I'd rather been back in the toy-ship, or
anywhere else Instead.
Now I've settled down in this foreign
- land, and am learning every day
To love this child and her "Ama," and
gues at what they say.
My mistress is not a yellow balie, but
as white as she can be,
With golden hair upon her head and eyes
that match the sea.
And she loves me, I assure you, for she
thinks my rickety-rock
As fine as a Japanese pony, in either a
gallop or trot.
So when she puts her arms round me
and tives me a good hard squeeze
I open my round' eyes wider with a wild
endeavor to pleas.
nt t.mrt U lilted with sadness, for
LJIIV ' "" "
doubtless this maiden will prow
And I'll pas. on to somebody el- do
vou wonder my spirits get low!
For how could a Japanc-e maiden rule
me with any repose!
It never would do I ve seen a lew
they don't wear suitable clothes.
So a muscular 1mv will get me and ride
astride of my back-
In this land of go he'll, think me slow
and L'ive me many a whack.
And with mv sides all battered down.
what chant have I, or show
To return to that dear land so free,
where I'm loved by high and low!
And while I'm only a hobby-horse, with
a badlv modeled head,
A bit of harness nailed on tight and
stirrups made .of lead,
I've thought' enough to know full well
where I would like to stay-
Ami that is under the Stars and Stripes,
forever and a day.
I',y Catherine Norris Harrison.
THE OLD HOME PORCH.
A plague on city porches close abutting
on the street! ,
They're purely ornamental, aaj for
comfort 'not designed
The amall and stuffy porche uapwtect-
ed from the heat
That steams from street and pave
ment, and no rest on them I
find!
Where'a one to wing a hammock no' to
stretch a yawning nn ,
And never crack his knuckle on the
railing' close confines!
Oh, give me, please, the porch the home
folk have down on the farm
VKii preen wistaria tannics and
wlier five-leafed ivy twines!
I'd like to have my hammock awing be
tween an outer pot
Of that wide porch and our old house
the house where 1 wa lawn:
There I could lie and rest tha while
, sweet memories, a host.
Passed in review, fond memories of
of hovhood' sun-kissed morn.
In that retreat so leaf-ensconsed the
world I'd quite Jorget t
I'd Mimoth from out mv brow dull
worrv'a deeply penciled lines
From that old porch I'd wave adieu to
flnrrv, fume and fret '
Where gm-n wistaria tangle and
where five-leafed Ivjr twines.
The August heat were powerless then
to reach or assail
My rot when daily toil were o'er ami
and twilight shadow should
An evening in my hammock then with
pUtlnes 1 could hail;
fall;
Of suit rv.citv nitihts I then would
feel no dread at all.
A broad old porch all garlanded with
close-mehei leaves of green.
A porch that eoiy comfort and not
ornament designed
Sot man-made porch, but (Jod-made
porch and Nature-clad, I ween
Where green wistaria tangle ami
where five-leafed ivy twines.
By Roy Farrell fireene.
HIS LITTLE JOKE.
Chief of Police Hut if you don't
know t'ne name of the clairvoyant who
robbed you. can't you at least give us a
description of herf
Victim Well, she wasn't very abort
nor very tall
Chief of Police Naturally. 0f course
clairvoyant would be of medium build.
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A LAMENT.
0 World! 0 life! O time!
On who last step I climb,
Trembling at that where I nad stood
before;
When will return the glory of your
prime?
Out of the day and night
A joy ba taken flight;
Fresh 'pring, and snmmer, and winter
hoar,
Move mv faint heart with grief, but with
delight
No more ih, never more!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
WHAT HE WORKED.
"Rmoothltoy got his new mining
scheme on its feet in a week."
"Worked wonders, eh!"
"No; worked stickers." Louisville
Courier-Journal.
TRUE GRIT.
True Grit will never scowl and fret;
111 lin k is but the test of it.
If it the worst of luck should get
It simply makes the Is-st of it.
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