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THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JUNK 3 NEW YORK CITY A FEW SPECIALS uiia Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year .... By carrier, per month .$7.00 .60 .$1.50 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, at the postoffice at As toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Orders for the delivering of The Morning Aitorian to either residence or place of business may be made by postal .card or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THE WEATHER Oregon, Washington, and Idaho Cloudy and showers. SOUTH AMERICAN EDUCATION It is often a matter or surpnsi tj people of this country who are aware of the large number of highly educated men and women of native birth and training In South America that civ ilization there Is backward In com parison, with the United States and Canada for instance. Light is thrown upou this subject by Professor W. R. Shepherd of Columbia university, whose observations on a recent trip are set forth In the Review of Re views. Briefly it is gathered from Professor Shepherd's showing that, while there Is much education in the South American states, it is not of the right kind. Ete quotes a Chilean au thority, who criticises the system in his own country as follows: A capital fault in our method of In struction is Its academic and theoretical character of efflorescence and ostentation. Ve do not try to prepare the youthful mind for the dally struggle of existence, to teach our young people along lines that are really practical, that bear upon Industry and upon making use of the active forces of the country. On the contrary, before everything else we turn out academic debaters, aggressive rhetori cians and voluble talkers, who often run politics into the ground. The utmost ap parent: that can come forth from our universities, even the best and most se lect of them, is a quantity of doctors, lawyers and engineers, a number of young fellows equipped with diplomas and who, without realizing It, rush into professional and titular encounters. We have a surfeit of lawyers and doctors. ' Professor Shepherd remarks that this criticism" applies to all South American republics and proceeds to an explanation of the origin and tend encies of the educational influences now at work In several of the more progressive states. The basis of cul ture is Spanish or Portuguese, and upon that is laid a French veneer. French power dominates In astrono my and in fine arts, and German sway la apparent in the natural sciences. French ideals prevail in Chile and Ger man in Brazil. In the latter country the authorities In certain provinces have found it necessary to encourage the teaching of the national tongue, the Portuguese. From this readiness of the people to borrow and to Imitate culture it may be inferred that edu cation is looked upon in South Ameri ca as an adornment, not as a vital ele ment of race progress, and it Is easily conceivable that the educational sys tem applied to the masses, however generously supported, lacks practicali ty and directness, as Professor Shep herd asserts. who discovers that element will vie with Franklin In fame, and the man who applies It may outrank Morse and Edison as a worker of marvels. Every one will believe that Mark Twain enjoyed putting off the Joker's harness on "mothers' day" long enough to say this: This Is a pleasure and a duty that we have long neglected. No thought oould be more beautiful than that which prompts every man, woman and child to pay such a tribute to those dear ones to whom we owe so much. I do not know how many anniversaries of "mothers' day" I will see, but on those I have re maining I wUl wear a white carnation, the emblem of purity and mother love. The English are Interested in a gun that will carry 300 miles and one that will shoot six miles a second and, deluge the target beautifully. But the last known lack of the English army was a man with a musket who could outshoot the Boer marksman with his ordinary gun. , j Gathering In All Stray Dogs in Gotham DEATH OF PETE DAI LEY Kaiser Wilhelm's refusal to sign an arbitration treaty with the United States may only signify that he does not anticipate the arising of subjects tor arbitration. Nevertheless it might be as well to prepare against a case of Imperial ill temper. Captain Lawrence may have been thinking of the rumpus that might be kicked up over the old flag of the Chesapeake when be made that fa mous dying appeal, "Don't give up the ship!" MAN AS A BIRD. Ever since man learned bow to take long and high flights in the upper air he has been eager to become the mas ter of air. The balloon Is only a leaf or a feather, always the sport of the wind. It has served a good turn in war, and It is natural that it should Inspire men like the Wrights, Pro fessor Langley and Santos-Dumont to aim at greater perfection in aerial nav igation. The sea was feared for centu ries. Today it is only a canal between dominions which want to trade. The wild flight of the balloon has been curbed. Santos-Dumont has giv en a gas reservoir that can be pro pelled and guided at its master's will. But this device, the airship, can carry but little weight and is not controlla-: ble in a strong wind. It would be as sensible to try to navigate the wildest sea in a fair weather boat as to risk life and treasure In the bes Afrship yet constructed. Santos-Dumont, the expert on the airship, has practically declared that the future of aerial navi gation is for the device which the Wrights are working upon, a machine which will imitate the flight of a bird. Of course the bird was created to fly and to live in the air. But man seems to be an invader up there. ABSURDITIES OF CONGRESS. "This, however, did not break me ' in. I turned from the vain attempt to discover the system by which men are valued on the floor to the machinery of the House; its unintelligible pro cedure; its wantonness in waste; its glut of furniture in committee rooms and clusters of lights in unfrequented and dark passageways in the base ment: its suite of marble bathrooms, j far beneath, reached only by a devious hall and unknown to most of the , members; its army of idle doorkeep-. ers and guards, tally clerks, journal i clerks, enrolling clerks, docket clerks, . document clerks, file clerks, distribu-. ting clerks, index ckrks; its telegraph 1 operators and locksmiths and ma chinists and electricians and cab in spectors, barbers, janitors, and mes sengers. One clerk in particular caught and held my attention. He was a spare young man of solemn countenance. Every day at noon he carried from below into the House the glittering mace of authority, made up of Roman Jictor rods surmounted by an eagle. As you know, when the House is in session this is placed on a short marble shaft; when the House is in the Committee of the Whole, as it is most of the time, it comes down. The operation will occur possibly twice in a day's proceedings. It is the solemn young man's duty to ele vate and lower it on such occasions. The operation admits of no ornamen tation. It is a dreadfully infrequent and monotonous performance. In a foolish sort of way I fell to hoping that some day the young man, in desperation, would let it drop and break. "If there had been any humor in his soul he would have done this, hut he was without humor. I did not know then hut I was soon to learn that this young man was the creature of the Grim Presence which was to break me in." Success Magazine. PLAGUE AT CARACAS. WASHINGTON, June 2,-The American charge d'affaires at Caracas has advised the State Department that since May 25, the date of the re opening of the port of La Guaira, fVif.r. have heen seven cases of plague, The ele-' tw0 0f which are known to have been ments are hostile to his daring ambi-1 fatai, The government has caused to tlon. The air has yielded electricity j be published daily bulletins showing to man's uses. Perhaps It has In re-; piague conditions. The despatch also serve some element which a man-made ' reports one death from the plague at , a ..... a. a ni iThA man! bird can rest and float .upon. The man Caracas. Largest Clock in the World Eight Inches of Rainfall About Manhattan Since the First of the Month Ex cessive Heat Pent-Up Patriotism. NEW YORK, June 2. In the midst of a hot spell almost as humid as the dog days of Gotham is today taking its first step toward a sweeping war on the rabies menace that clutters its every corner. Where private so cieties have failed, the Health De partment has stepped in and an offic ial scouting column is just being set in motion to sieze and gather in the hundred thousand stray curs that skuik along the streets. In a pro cession of death tumbrels the yapping pups are slowly but surely being cart ed to an end as mericful for them as for their possible prey. The martyr dom of Marsh has made deep impress on the minds of people here and today a close watch is being kept on even the pampered pets of secluded Mil lionaire's Row. To the real dog lov er, the agony of canine vagabondia in the metropolis is worse than the death which the authorities have de creed to the friendless cur. Under any circumstances the paved confines of Manhattan Island arc no place for a dog and, even if hydrophobia has been made too much of a bugaboo, no one is regretting the enforced shrinkage of this four-footed popula tion here. Dailey's Death. Genuine grief has today spread far beyond the Great White Way over the loss of Pete Dailey, whose big heart drew him friends as widely as his big bump of wit audiences over the footlights. Everyone who went out evenings here knew the bulky fun-maker, To millions he was the man who made them forget their troubles for awhile; to hundreds and hundreds he was the one real friend who made life better worth living. In every corner of the white light district new stories of the secret generosity of Dailey to comrades down on their luck are being whis pered today. All over town the old music hall tunes that he made famous with off hand, debonaire mannerisms are being hummed to clouded eyes instead of roaring laughter. To make a multitude happy in the odd hours of IS years is better worth the doing than many a life work, New York ers believe, and Peter Dailey's mem ory will be set high in the minds of the many who received his brighten ing benefactions. Marshy May. Fiercer even than the blazing sun of the memorable May weather have heen the showers that have shed a clear eight inches of rainfall about Manhattan today since the first of Mav. Soggy lawns and gullied earth in parks and suburbs tell the story of a this fitful deluge, netting four times the average two-inch fall of normal May in this region. Each Saturday of the month the tenements have been turned inside out by a horde of youngsters greedy for their May party revels on the slopes of Central Park; but more than once they have been turned back, finding marshes instead of meadows. Today, however, the dripping town is being baked dry under a June sun and the passing tor rent has sunk awav. forgotten. If the summer season of 1908 grows as it has started, everyone looks for long days of record heat and rain. Pent-Up Patriotism. With all the military parade of the Clinton celebration and Memorial Day dinning in its ears, Gotham is today digesting a spectacle of more than usual historical significance. Few and far between have come the celebrations of patriotic events in this town of late years and the strik ing exercises that followed the body of New York's first governor across the island proved a novelty to the crowds. Dewey Day, the Columbus celebration and the few general events of such significance within the younger memory had almost been forgotten and everyone in this self centered city was ready to welcome another occasion to vent pent-up pa triotism. No larger or more earnest crowds have been seen down-town for years than those that lined the path of the Clinton procession. Time Told. 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Even suburban voyagers to Statcn Island, five miles down the hay, declare that the mammoth time piece, which has just been set ticking in Jersey City, follows them to and fro with the timc-o-day. No excuse of slow watches can now be offered over the cold dinner of the westward suburbanite, for no one can escape the staring admonition of this giant clock-face. Manhattan Island never had a timepiece that even one of its shores could see at once, and no bet ter place for time telling could have been selected than on this great com muting surface. THE LEADINO BUSINESS COLLEGE ELKS BUILDING, PORTLAND, OREGON A course !n our College means better work better wages. If interested, call or write for catalogue A. I. M. WALKER, Pres. . . . O. A. BOSSERM AN, Sec. Sherman Transier Co. J HENRY SHERMAN, Manager. Hacks, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred Trucks and Fttrnl1 Wagons Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped. in ' 433 Commercial Street Main Phone! 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Europe is used for honeymoon pur poses, and for those who arc used to American hotels it is a form of pen ance. Its imnortance as a tonic of con- - - fversation can hardly be over-estimat ed. It makes more talk than any other product. Europe is also useful as a means of getting acquainted with your next- door neighbor. While traveling with him on the other side there is usually time between stations to ascertain his name and business. As a place of refuge for our prin cipal millionairs, it is becoming more and more useful every year, and more affectionately regarded by all patrio tic Americans. Success Magazine. PRACTICAL POINTS PRACTICAL POINTS On Banking No. 5 Important to the business men: Having an account with this bank guarantees the security for your funds assures prompt, satisfactory service and the most courteous treatment. You will find an account with the Scandinavian-American Savings Bank a valuable asset to you. 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