CHRISTIAN
. I
Educational Department.
CONDUCTED BY PROP.
J.
D. HAWES.
All matter intended for this department
should be handed or sent to Prof. J. D. Hawes,
Monmouth, Oregon.
The Normal School.
The Normal here is in a very
prosperous condition.
Students
111 p arts-qf the S t ate we h o re
in Normal work preparing for
teachers. About KO have entered
during the year, and still more keep
coming on as the fact gets better
known that there is a real live Nor-
fUlkwl li ntArV in
AH a .
AWe have also quite a number of ex
cellent students from Washington
Territory who will all make ex-
f. cellent teachers. These, with many
of the very best material we have
in our own State, go to show that
a Normal School is an actual ne
cessity in the State and that Mon
mouth is the place for it.
The success this year, so far, is
far beyond the most sanguine ex
pectations of its most ardent friends,
and has filled the rooms nearly
I to overflowing with intelligent
and industrious students, who will
yet make their work felt in the
educational field. Not the slight-
" est discord, nor a case of insubor
dination happening during the
whole year so far.
Monmouth is one of the most
enlightened little boroughs it has
been our pleasure to see since ar
riving on this coast, something over
four years ago ; the people all being
intelligent, and noted for the in
terest they take in all educational
work. A high moral sentiment
î prevails. And looking at the mat
ter in all its bearings, the legisla
ture certainly took a very sensible
I view of the situation when they
established the Normal School here.
There is no liquor saloon nearer
than Independence, two and a half '
miles away, the tempérance senti
ment being so strong as not to
allow a saloon license in the place.
We hope the day is not far distant
when larger buildings, and other
conveniences will be here, and the
Normal will be one of the leading
institutions of its kind on the coast-
VISITORS.
We had the pleasure of a short
visit from the Hon. E. B. McElroy
last Tuesday at the Normal. He
and Dr Stott, of Independence,
spending the afternoon in visiting
the different departments, and see
ing the machinery of the institu
tion in motion. Both expressed
themselves as highly pleased w.ith
■ •f
the way in which affairs were
managed. These gentlemen are
competent to judge. Dr. S. is an
old and successful teacher, and a
very successful student.* He is
working up a good practice in In
dependence. We would like to see
him do well. The State Superin
tendent needs no recommendation
at our bands as an educator, as the
people of the State know him by
this time. Come again Bro. Me.
and stay longer. Dr. S. ditto.
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The Columbia Commercial ;
College.
This waekwebave Mcathe re-
çipient of one of those letters whose
artistic chirography does a person’s
eyes good to gaze upon. Our old
friend, W. 8. James, of the C. C
College, Cor. of Second and Salmon
Streets, Portland, is still able to
drive a nobby quill, and seems to
be quite elevated over tho success
of the Columbia.
And why
shouldn’t he ? We had the honor
of helping to establish that institu
tion two years ago the first of Sep
tember, and began at that date
with two Btudents.
To-day it
ranks among the leading institu
tions of its kind on the^coast with
students from all parts of Oregon
and Washington Territory, keeping
three teachers busily engaged.
There is nothing like fair and
square work in any business. Give
an equivalent. The old Roman
maxim of a quid pro quo is the
text from which our friend James
works, and no student graduates
from his institution who is not just
as his diploma says he is. The
Columbia is rearing a reputation
on a solid basis, and we are pleased
to see the people of Portland ap
preciate the labors of a good and
substantial citizen like the Prof.
Many thanks, W. S., for kindnesses
received. Write again. It does us
«rood to see your “ fist."
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“ The Grand Old Man.”
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone
has just completed the 74th..year of
his age, and he is as hale hearty,
and hopeful as if he were thirty
years younger. His friends and
admirers are not to be reckoned by
legion*, but by millions, and no
wonder that congratulations have
poured in upon him like a flood.
Mr. Gladstone can also reckon upon
multitudes on this side of the At
lantic who aie of opinion that, take
him all in all, he is one of the great
est men that England has ever pro
duced, and the congratulations from
HKRALD.
here will be quite as hearty, and the
hopes expressed quite as sanguine,
as those with which the vigorous
’septuagenarian has been greeted on
his own side of the water. - Ex.
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Hold on, Boys 1
Hold on to your tongues when
you are just’ ready to swear, lie, or
jpaaLhardily...
Hold on to your hands when you
are on the point of punching,
scratching, stealing, or doing any
improper act.
Hold on to your feet when you
are on the point of kicking, run-
<
ning off from study, or pursueing
the path of error, shame, or crime.
Hold on to your temper when
you are angry, excited, or imposed
upon, or others aré angrywith you.
Hold on to your heart when evil
associates seek your company, and
invite you to join in their mirth,
games, and revelry.
Hold on to your good name at all
times, for it is of more value than
gold, high places, or fashonable at
tire. (
Hold on to the truth, for it will
serve you well and do you good
throughout eternity.
Hold on to virtue—it is above all
price to you, at all times and places.
Hold on to your character, for. it
is and ever will be your best wealth.
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The Tendency of Scientific In
quiry.
Sir Henry Barkly, O. C. M. G..F.
R S , took the chair at the annual
meeting of the Victoria (Philoso
phical) Institute at 7, Adelphi Ter
race, London, in the last week in
June.
The honorary secretary,
Captain F. Petrie, F. R. S. L, read
the report, by which it appeared
that the institute—founded to in
vestigate all questions of philosophy
and science, and more especially
.any alleged to militate against the
truth of revelation—had now risen
to 1,020 members, of whom about
dne-thirjl were foreign, colonial, and
American, and new application to
join were constantly coming in. An
increaszng number of leading men
of science had joined the ranks, and
men of science, whether in its ranks
or not, cooperated in its work.
During the session a careful analy
sis has been undertaken by Profes
sor Stokes F. R. S., Sir J. R. Ben
nett, Vice President R. S., Professor
Beale, F. R. S., and others, of the
various theories of evolution, and it
was reported that, as yet, no scien
y
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tific evidence has been met with
giving countenance to the theory
that man had been evolved from a
lower order in animals ; and Pro
fessor Virchow had declared that
there was a complete absence of
any fossil type of a lower stage in
the development of man ; and that
any positive advance in the prov
ince of prehistoric anthropology has
aeUalUt jemaved us further from
proofs of such connection—namely,
with the rest of the animal king
dom. In this Professor Barrande,
the great palaeontologist, had con
curred, declaring that in none of
his investigations had he found any
one fossil species develop into an
other. In fact, it would seem that
no scientific man had yet discover
ed a link between man and the ape,
between fish and frog, or between
the vertebrate and the invertebrate
animals; further, there was no evi
dence of any one species, fossil or
other, losing its peculiar character
istics to acquire new ones belong
ing to other species; for instance,
however similar the dog to the wolf,
there was no connecting link, and
among extinct species the same was.
the case; there was no gradual
passage from one to another. ’
Moreover, the first animals that
existed on the earth were by no
means to be considered as inferior
or degraded. Among other investi
gations, one into the truth of tho
argument from design in nature had
been carried on, and had hitherto
tended to fully confirm that doc
trine. The question of the Assy
rian inscriptions, and the recent
Babylonian researches, had been
under the leadership of Mr. Hor-
muzd Rassam, who, on his arrival
from Nineveh, had given a full re
port of the extent of his new exca
vations, which were of the highest
interest. His discovery of Sephar-
vaim, one of the first cities mention
ed in Holy Writ, was most impor
tant. Professor Delitsch and oth
ers aided in the consideration of the
discoveries and the inscriptions
found. Two meetings had been
held to cbnsider the questions rais
ed in Mr. Herbert Spencer’s philos
ophy, and Lord O’Neill and others
had shown, by a careful analysis of
his arguments, that a greater atten
tion to accuracy in statements,
would have kept Mr. Spencer from
arriving at those hasty conclusions
which had made his philosophy re
markable. It was announced that
the results of explorations now be
ing carried on in Egypt would be
laid before the Institute early in