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R h y m e d A ll R i g h t . your words. The teacher who addresses a crowd o f whlw perlng, giggling, or otherwise preoccupied students cheap The many oases reported recently In the pa- ens both himself and his subject No matter how excellent pers of men and women wandering mechanically his Instruction, even that which the students hear has little through the streets like wound-up automata, re effect becanse really he speaks on sufferance; at their pleas call to my mind an experience o f my brother. ure they cease to listen. But a teacher has more or less In a Madras hospital, with which he was con authority over hjs pupils; his position gives him a tre nected, lay a gigantic negro, who was supposed mendous advantage. On the other hand, the man who to be a congenital Idiot. An Idiot he was cer solicits business of any kind has the Inferior position be tainly, and of an unusually mindless type— a cause he Is asking something, and he needs to be always mere vegetable who seemed even to eat and on the watch lest he be put off, cut short In his talk, or listened drink mechanically. A surgeon who had only Just Joined to with only half attention. the staff at the hospital, and who therefore saw lta pu tlents with a new eye, after looking long at the negro, STRIKING PECULIARITIES OF MEN OF GENIUS. said: " I don't think the fellow Is a congenital Idiot at By C s s a r e L om b roa o. all. Here, lay him on this bed, and let me examine his I f we study the brain o f the man o f genius skull.” A brief examination of the black’s skull showed and It» cubic contents we find that the majority the mark of an old and deep wound. “ Just as I thought, of geniuses surpass the ordinary man In this di cried the surgeon, triumphantly. " I shall trephine his skull, rection. For example, Petrarch, Kant, Lebou, and you’ll see.” When he had sawed the scarred piece of who examined the brains o f twenty-six French skull away he found, as he expected, a bit of bone press geniuses, found that their brain, on the average, Ing upon the brain. He raised and removed It, with the re contained about 200 cubic centimeters more than sult that the patient, the moment he recovered conscious that of the average man. This result was the ness, asked, eagerly: “ Where’s the army to-day?” “ Where more striking, since some o f the twenty-six was It yesterday?" asked the surgeon. “ Yesterday" turned geniuses had only an ordinary cubic capacity o f brain, such out to be nine years before, when this negro had been as Descartes, Tlssot and Hoffman. Among the brains of wounded In a battle on the Indian frontier. twelve famous Germans, which Included Wagner and • It Is noteworthy that In clairvoyant cases the body Blsehoff, investigated, It was found there were brah Is, through overwork, or 111 health, or fasting, or con either an exceptionally large cubic capacity or an excep genitally, In the subdued state to which the Indian mystic tionally small capacity. end miracle mdnger reduces his own by maceration. It was so with Scott and Rousseou, and with William Hone when he had the following experience recorded In him memoir: tor Hugo, Katherine II., Zola and Napoleon loved When worn out with overwork he was shown Into a cer and simplest music. According to Gautier, music li tain room In a certain part o f London where he had never most horrible of all forms o f sound. In contradistinction been before. “ On looking round everything appeared per to these outspoken enemies o f music we have the honor fectly familiar to me; I seemed to recognize every ob paid it by others, such as Aristotle, who held music as one ject. I said to myself, ‘Wrhat is tills? I was never here o f the finest Inspirations to good work. Among modern before, and yet I have seen all this; and. If so, there Is writers are Daudet, Darwin, Goethe, Carlyle, who called a peculiar knot In the shutter.’ I opened the shutter and music the language o f the angels, and Moore, who con found the knot. Now. then, I thought, here Is something I ceived his poems first in music. Ruskln called music the cannot explain on principles; there must be some power finest and most developed pleasure that can benefit any age beyond matter." And from being a pronounced materialist he became a believer In spirits, and. Indeed, eventually a profoundly religious soul. COLLEGE ATTENDANCE IS INCREASING. MYSTERY OF THE HUMAN BRAIN. B y A. P. O ’Connor , M. P. I A school teacher was trying to Im press upon a scholar’s mind that Co lumbus discovered America in 14D2. “ Now, John," he said, " I will tell you the daté la rhyme so that you won’t forget It. ‘In fourteen huudred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue.’ Now, can you remember that, John?” "Yes, sir," replied John. Next day the teacher said, “ John, when did Columbus discover Ameri ca?” “ In fourteen hundred and ninety- three Columbus sailed the dark-blue sea!” Justice Is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.— Diderot. The secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.— Adam Clarke. MALLEABLE IRON STUMP PULLERS Fastest, lightest and strongest Htump Puller on the market, lltf Horse power on the sweep with two horses. W rite lor descriptive catalog *nd prices. "T "-: RKIERSON MACHINERY CO. Foot of Morrison Street Portland. Oregon OREGON PORTLAND S T. H E L E N ’S H A L L A GIRL'D SCHOOL OF THE HIGHEST CLASS corps of teachers, location, build ing equipment—the beat. Send for cat alogue. T e r m O p en s S e p te m b e r ««,190*4 BAD DEBTS C O LLE C T E D E V E R Y W H E R E -5 E N D S A LT LA K E C IT Y . U T A H SOMt PIOOll OONT UNI UJ C ube There are no signs of the development In the United States o f a class o f over-educated depend Never talk business unless you are sure you ents. The vast Increase In the attendance upon have the attention o f your listener. You only the Institution« o f higher education Is due to an cheapen yourself If yon do, cheapen the Idea you Increasing appreciation on the part o f the people represent, and you accomplish nothing. You are o f the value o f a training which makes life really ushered Into Mr. Brown's office, for Instance, and worth living by filling It with resources that are after listening a moment, Mr. Brown drops his both pleasant and profitable, apart from their eyes and begins to finger his mall. Stop talking, possible practical application. even In the midst of a sentence, and wait till Another reason for the great increase In the attendance Mr. Brown looks up. He will probably say some at the colleges and universities Is that the people at large thing like this: “ I can listen Just as well, Mr. Jones. have I ’ve caught sight of the fact that the chances o f practical got this mall to look over. Go right on talking.” Do noth success in life are multiplied enormously If a boy has a ing of the kind. Tell Mr. Brown politely that If he is busy sound college training. The statistics by President Thwlng you will call again when he has time to listen to you. I f of Western Reserve University, published several years ago, he says he Is ready to give you his full attention and then proved this conclusively. begins to Jot down a few figures on an envelope or to read An adjustment of the courses o f study and cnrlcnll that letters, stop talking. He may say: “ Oh, I ’ m listening. will bring the bachelor's degree down to a point where It I’m hearing. Go right on.” You may now be more ex can be had by a normal student at about twenty years o f plicit and say: “ I have no doubt, Mr. Brown, that you age Is an absolute necessity. At present there Is waste, can listen Just as well, but I cannot talk Just as w e ll” He almost Incredible waste, all along the line. The elementary cannot possibly get angry at this, and you should withdraw school Is the most wasteful o f all, taking, as It does, eight If you are not assured o f his full attention. years to do what thousands o f children do in six and very It pays to have a proper regard for your own dignity. many can do in four or five. The secondary school Is If you allow a man to treat you with disrespect or Inatten wasteful, but to a less degree, and as matters ara at pres tion, your arguments, no matter how good they are, lose ent the college Is the least wasteful o f all. Therefore, to their power to convince because what you are always shorten the college coarse Is at the moment to give up an stands back of what you my. either to enforce or to weaken element o f the greatest relative value. B y Jo h n A. Bonlnnd. . I RU S S IA A T P A N A M A H o w N s a r th a t N a tio n C am e to B u ild in g th e Is t h m ia n W a te r w a y . The work at Panama which the United States government has Just un dertaken narrowly escaped being fin ished under the ausplcee o f the Csar of Hoasta. as a sort of complement to the Trans-Siberian Railway. Mona. Philippe Bunau-Varllla. in a history of the canal project which he contributes to La Nonvelle Revue, narrates the cir cumstances. which ara certainly not generally known. In 18M. not long after Russia be gan the Trans-Siberian, be says. It oc curred to me that the Panama canal was In some way a complement to that undertaking. as the Snes bad baan to the American transcontinental rail w ays It seemed to me that than was e proper time for Russia to manifest her friendship for Franca la • tangi ble way by helping to re-establish the work at the Isthmus. So I applied to Monsieur De W itte with that In view. "W hat Is the opinion of the French government In the matter?” he naked. Then, in a way to auggest that he conveyed the wishes of C u r Alexan der, he added; “If It conforms to yours, without engaging the word of the C u r. I can u y to you that any solution which will aid tha Interests of Francs In that question will be received in a moat favorable manner by the government of bis majesty.” I then returned to France and con sulted Monsieur Casimlr-Perler, who was then president of the oonndl and minister of foreign affaire, and Monsieur Hurd .an, minister of finance. Monsieur Bnrdean soon called me to tbs ministry of finance. *T have studied tha question with Monsieur Psrlar," ha said, “who will call you In a few days to tell you that the French government la favorable to Joint action with Russia, and that con sequently there is a basis on which to re-establish the Panama work. To - 1 day It Is the friend who epeaka. 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