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"ODD HLIOIIIP III OIKD III GOlflL. -: '- 's .. . ' ."--, : ' l:t::S 'r;i-';v May h been an Important month for good, enlighten hi. adanc In try history- of Od4 Fellowship th rphefof hl .Section arvfi lead .I or iron md In seneraL 1 htm to a cultivation feraeJEra- lZt UiattonWal relation. deigned fthe, W known . the Irvbpendet Order of . AuUm, of hi. The motto O'd Fellow, had It. origin in JxmJon,rJ.ndPnp Love --J--- v,.,.- Th arlie-t -! known rnd Bied in connection witn S "d werV.embto'tb., c,d,r In 1T7C Th organization Ir Illation ceremony, a- collection beings branches, closely connected yet dts-Z--;1 Wrfv i nrnUn tlftct lodges and encampments. . . - ..2: r j: ; AIOUl 1:'' tne jousts i, uiiiuH '- About Liverpool were known a. the London Order. Jn 1 9 me-mber of a Lor Jen lodge moved to Manchr'ste r and Intro duce J the order Into that city, where It wa. tn fa vor&blj received that scv eral lodges were speedily organized, ard in 1M4 ths :'lodg? ln Van hest r end vicinity were consolidated TTinder the titla t-f The Independent Order of Odd Fellows cf the Macbfaier Pnlty. A grand Indg, composed ttt. those M ho bad filled tt.e chair of NcIIe- Grand a. regular leim In u sube.idinat lcde, ai organized tn asunred tr- super vision tf tho subordinates. ! JThe I.on don association and th other lodge throughout the kingdom refused to tiH.FUKnuui acunowi age tt.e au nority or tnr ur., :...... -..,., , 1 1. "Unltie." .prang into exjytr-nc... Th M.iim t'n-r ahcriit attrilH'J great rr rrowpfiltv tjj any of th-lr iv!sr, J ln Great 'Hi 1 tain, at length th Mn 'hicr iniHi'irUies! ceterminett to or ganize an Jinnwal movable uommltt", to take the place of th; 1-:.1 gn.rwl ml.leo, v'a. h fld at Hancly. .Stafford- ,hhe. M:,y lah and 2,tl, att -u 1- el by nli:ety-f Igfft dt'puiies, I rt piesei t Jm the rvtri .subordinate lodrfei. The cfiiily laws tverV orudo and.Jmper fwt, and the receipt, weie Inade-. t!ifci to meet the authoifeed (iisburpe- . 11. . !,. a . . n . , 1 r..t - i . . i vhkh enabk-d the subrt ditiJ te 1o1b- to 'nect the relli-f required and accu mulate a reserve fund. The Manth.- tn Unity, the . n.t i.nportaiu bo.i, of . ' ..... . .. . . tn itHi 'i eiKiivu oraer or uiu reiiows i in Kur . has Oavblzcd l.Kc8,in th..- ! Umied Kingdom. F.ancc-. Turk. V. Af-! Ilea. North an.i South An . rical th- ! lit.t end West Indiex, . Austr .l- sia. There . many ir.inor ordw.. .i, u.,h,.i.r i-.-.i ! i.i .m ,.r,i to iir.7 I ll me'rr b.'i s i So-let'l and lodge, of Odd Felldws w.re organized In New York and oth- I .,.. i. t o- as HOG. but they had a brief existence. . m Ajrll 26. 1M9. Thomas W'iUey and four other, who had iM.eri members 'of !odg. In England, organized- lodge in Ualtimore. Marvland. tulling it-, Washington Ixdgi No. I. A member cralt Preston. KngLin.!. vi.lt - .,i it,i -uir inf irnt.wi .,wtv in iho ! i ter part or the year lii, and on nis it turn to his home procure! from thj lxike of York I. t t'it l Jhi'hesit ?i" I'tiltv, Irt'iiU'd at Pristn, ; - .-n mn t dtd Fb5.1, lvcw. fWli'nf- tp Itta rt fl' .1 h I ' n t 'i ill jl I 1 I it.it ti.ti-m a 4 rr.nl l.l. an v, ll a. of a mor-i J'e! were orsanlzed under" .warrant. Mr .u.. od-,' urdvr tltlf of N... .l,rued- cy Lodge of the AVathln: ton Lodge, th - Ormrd lKfa- j n: StatM, tf' Maryland and ,f the I'nlt vJ .t 1 1 - j A charter having been obtained from of A.Mo.icn ' Thi,. nuihnritv frt iha he CJrand Lolge of the United State. a.rr'.iniati'in of n mburu.nat? loltr, i wys i n!frrc l ly the 'Grand Comtidt- tce of the ManctuMer I'n'ny. tn Fb. 2 Ul. WnshlngJon IKifje surrtn t'lered tr l-:ngllsh r-hartt-r, to a 'oily cf Pa-t Grand.-," and, Oi; j "Grand Ixdize of Mailjnd and (he Ui'lt.td St l"" wn. ignnl; cd. the itn.btr. of Wiif h ngton l. ?jtc !--( -, ing a sui--i hirte' horn th nw grand lodr. In AK1: th m If m-titiile, lo.ijH Uf i h.ladf Ipt.l i, New Yoik and lioMtn wr hidtiicd t K cognlze the Maryland m gan zation, arid ti nt Icrdy ImiiHdi.itely forwarded cluttt'-r. to thj subordinates, a us grand 1--J;; th..iitr. lor Pennsylvania. New Yo;k i.T.d Massoachust tt. .On: April 13, JJC4. it v as -deemed advtsaM? to sep arate th iMitVern of the n .tu nal from thot stete organiailfri, and iji.t project wa. -cotif ummab-d,. tV b. 2V, ,li. w hen the first meeting of the Grand Lodge of the Ur-lted tsteti-. war held. On t?e . 17. 1S7H. the name of tbt- siunrvme booy was changed to 'The Grand JxxUe cf the Inlep.ndent Ord?r of O.d Fellows," and tlie following ytar, on tcpt. IS, is;9. the p.eient title, "The Sovereign Grand Lodge of? the Inde pendent Jider of Odd Ft Haw.," was ndopti d. In lv:l Thomas Wildly, the presjid Inn; ctilcer of the Grand Ixlge of th" lTnlted Slates, known a. the "Grand Sire," kited England, and obtained from Iho Grand Committee of the Mai.cht Her Uruty a charu r, granting to the Giand Lodge of the United Ft its auth rlty to "conduct the bus-In- s. cf Odd Fellowship without the lul.rfeit nc of any other country, so tn.xml bodies for several years; but in! long a. me same i aminisierea ao denttal. reported the following broth cordng to the rrinfr!es ar.l purtty of er, ,vutled to be "present: C)id F!I whip." Internitlonal re- Chemeketa No. 1 E. M. ' Barnum. latlon. cot.tlnu.-d between the two cheater N. Torr rmu A. T?a1 mr 1812. afu r fruiiw. effort, on the part i Samaritan No. 2-J. C Canon. Seth cf membt-r. of the oidrr in Great P.iU-J s. Slater. Israel Gradon. H. W. Davis, .in and the lTnlted Stab to reconcile, U. Seymour and Z. N. Stansbury. by corresponderce. vital tUffert nee. tn j Oregon No. J-pAmory Holbraok. the work which had arlen, Jame. L. ; Thomas Charman and Wm. P. Bums, ltnlgely. Grand Corresponding and Re- n waa found at that meeting that cording F.K-rctaiy, and Isaac D. Wil-! re number of member, of lodge. In llaiisor Grand Chaplain of the Grand good tanilnr in Oregon fwa.180. It L-Hlwe of the United State were com- ' WM reported that since the organlza mi:ioncd a. special deputies to the tlon of the Grand Lodge for Oregon Mnihter Unity to adjust the mat- , a warrant had been issued for a lodge tei in dispute Ihe ccnmi.st.lor,-r. at th Dsllc. of the Columbia river, attended the meeting of the Annual ua title was Columbia No. 6. and it Movable Committee, at Wigan, May was instituted by Dep. d. M. H. W. 14, 1842, and. after a conference c-n- Davis on Nor. 1. 185. ; . tlnuing through several days, found in 1858 the Grand Lodge was held ihat their efforts for harmonious co- t Portland, beginning May ; 5th. oper-tion wir i futile. : Thf commte- OrJr i: the fotlowinir nMMntMia uuu wwii- luine. -,: iiw co mm is- . tners pieparei an elaborate report of the pivc:diivg. fend presented It to the t!if.ni IxJgu of the United Stale. In St ptemU-r, 1812. and that tody adorted a sorics or lesolutions on the subject. The host l.Sttrs of the Manchester Tni ty, threatened In 1142 and consummat ed In 1SI4. by thts attempt to Institute Uxigea In the Un'tcd States, reu:tfd in the entire severance of the existing reUtu.ns. . : The object, of the Independent Or dr ofvn: i i, ""T. , . T VKr relieve th distressed, bury the dad. nd Juei ik. r. eks -to imtiZirrCl- character of man. iTk. ri."' -1 - Poier ct.nr,n,(;,. "V?- "I" , " capani.iie. t in issi the latU e' degTee. or degree " . ,. " . . cf Helksh. wm cdopted. The Sovereign Grand Lodge, the bad of the American branch of the order, has organized grand lodge In every state and in most of the terri tories of the United State, the prov incea of Canada. Switzerland. Aus tralia, Cfoin and South ; America, and a grand lodge cf the German Empire, which to five grand lodge, under it. Jurisdiction. Subordinate lodge, have been organized in the Hawaiian Isl and. Peru, some of the South Amer lean countries, and London, England. Grand and subordinate encampments have been instituted in nearly every locality where lodges are established. f,lfl .Fnv..lh! ha an extensive llt.- i - - - , . 1 eraiure. inuinaum utom f PUbll-hed. . and many newspaper, are maintained In the interest of the order In -this country and all other, where lie lal begln:idng in Salem. The earliest organized effort to- ' wards establishing a .ubordinate j lodge In Oregon was made in the first wonth. . of ltol. Appl cation wa. 1 Odd .o Porta made ortland to Alex. P. Frazer, who had by authority of the Grand Itecorder of the United States been deputed a special deputy Grand Sire, with blank warrants to organize lodges In California and oth- 1 . . m . i r . i i , Br Will IS 1 U1S ratlin! W'Jttnw A w ar- rant, with the necessary books for opening. a lodge at Portland, were re ported to have been forwarded to this territory. What became of them ha. retn-ilnctl a mystery to thU .day. Jn Jnnttarv a foond effort -was . ,. a V.H,e" r application direct lJ h9 .aI?n lj00! the-United " " ...j v aucce.. to the piUoners A warrant, l,,ed, f- S" ,V W; if000,re' oa th 16th day of August, 182, was shortly received and on the, Sth. lay of Ifcember, 1852. Past Gand and J-tHct Deputy Grand J ire B. U. J T lf 't " "V Chtmeketa Lodge No. 1. the pioneer n ro and Whloh ha. al- wa ljen "nialng one of the atrongeat bulwark, of Oregon Odd Jl!owhip. In. the language of Mr, ; um. In an addre.. delivered later, od,J- eQw.hlp hadthen, upon this .tct - klental hore, a local habitation and a name. On Airil 8, 1S53, Samaritan No. 2, at Portland, wa. instituted. Oregon Lodge No. 3 was instituted at Oregon City Iecember 31, 153. On the 26th of July. 1854, Albany Lodge No. 4 was instituted at Albany. These four for a. grand lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows In Oregon, the following brothers, Past Grands, con vened at Oregon City on the 23d day of May, 1S06, for the purpose of organ izing the same. Thuy "met in Odd Feljows ball: Iipt- Grands E. M. Barnum, H. W. Div., t H. F. Stikr, Armory Holbraok, t harle. l-opo, Thomas rharn:ar. and Win. P. Burns. The lodge was opened 4n due form by District Deputy- Grand Sire E. M. Barnum. Past Grand A. Ilolbrook wai appoint ed Secretary. The dispensation for organizing the Grand Lodge of Ore gon wa. read, after which the election was held, and the following Past Grands were declared duly elected: K. M. Barnum. M. W. O. M.; 11. W. DavUi, II. W. D. G. M.; II. F. Stryker, It. W. G. W.; Wm. P. Burns, IX. W, . S.: Charle. Pope. R. W. G. T. The officers being duly installed, an ad journment was taken until July "10th. At the meeting on July 10th, among other proceeding.. Past Grand Amory Ilolbrook wa. chosen a. Right Worthy Grand Representative Co the R. W. Grand Lodge of the United States, by acclamation. Mr. Ilolbrook attended the national meeting. But he. had difficulty In securing a seat in the body, for his valise was stolen in New York, containing his credentials. But, by the aid of Brother. Parker. G. R. from California, and C. E. Bucking ham, of Massachusetts, he succeeded In establishing hi. right. The second annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Oregon met In the Odd Fellow, halt at , Portland. July 8, IS5Z. The committee on ere tnn.ih.n nTmn.ij only : the foil wcreypresent: Sam I K. May; s. Slater, H. S For Chemeketa No. 1. Samaritan No. 2." Seth Sevmour. 1- f CaMvin U.' D. Austin. Israel Gradon and H. McKinnell; Oregon No. 3. Arthur War ner. Amory Ilolbrook. Chris. Taylor and Fred Charman; Albany No. 4. IL A. Cunningham; Columbia No. S, E. G. Cowne. '. In 1&9 the Grand Lodge met at Sa lem.-In the Masonic hall. May 4th. Chemeketa No. 1 was represented by v t t t ..t . r tlarnum' " sonata, e. Jonn s. ZJeber, A. W. Fergu n' M- Laurhead and I. R. Moorea. Samaritan No, 2 was repre sented toy Past Grands R. D. Carson, John P. Walker, Ezra St. John and IL AIcKinnelL Barnum Lodge No. 7 by Past Grand A. G. Hovey. PhUe tarian No. S by Past Grand John Ful lerton. (Philetarian Nov S had been instituted at Rcseburg March 9. 1S58. l y Grand Rep. a E. May.) V ,, . In 1S60 the Grand Lodge was held at Portland, and only the following num bered lodges were represented: L 2. S, . and ... Friendship No. C was rep resented by A. T. Baboock, and Phtl etar4an No, 8 by John Fuller-ton. Rufas Mallory and Crawford Gaddls. In 161 the Grand body for Ore gon met May 1st in the .Masonic hail at Oregon City, and No.. L i, 4 and 1 only, were represented- On July 21, 1S0, Sincer Butte Lodgs No.: had been instituted .at Eugeae, and on the 18th of August, ISO0, Jack sonville No. 10 at Jacksonville. In 1S42 the meeting was at Albany, in the Masonic hall. May SLst, and Noa. 1, 2, S. 4, 6. 7, and 10 were repre sented. , In 1S63 the meeting was at Corvallis; In 184 at Eugene; in 1S65 at Salem, and in 1866 at Dalles City. OuJur.e 1, 18C. the ftliowini wre reported as. members or cnerrreKeia. Lofge No. 1, -having taken eitb-r the fifth.! second or initiatory degree: E. M. Barnum? C. S. Wood worth. E. N. Cooke, Samuel E. M ay, C. A, Reed, A. Zleber, Milton Shannon.' Chester N. Terry, II. C. Sterling. A. Myers, Wm. M. Laugihead, Thos. Cross, Isaac IX. Moorea, John Q. WiUon, L. W. - Pom--eroy, John Hughes, E. E. Wheeler, Daniel Strang, Geo. Anderson. John S. Zelber.-Geo, M. Stroud. C B. Ro land. W. K. Leveridge, Wm. S. Bar ker, John O. Wright." Sam'l Bass, D. P. ThompiKin. II. OH. Thatcher, L. E. Pratt. J. Henry Brown. F. G. Schwat ka, Jas. T. Wortley, E. G. Bolter. D. L. JUggs. Harrison Smith, Lot Liver--more, H. D. Mount. I S, Skiff. C. L. Fipher, E. D. Towl, J. Hi Haas, Wm. England, S. H. Stroop, J. W. Smith. C. P. Crandall, R. C. Geer, W. K. PJg by. Geo. H. Chance, Rufus Mallory, Joseih A. Barker, L. S. Scovllle. M. Fitzserrell, O. P. Terrell. E. K. Miller. V. L. Wade, Geo. H. XUddell. Henry Perkins. S. K. Shelly. Ben Simpson, John II Moofes, Stephen J'rieo, Jas Garden. Moes Levy, Joseph Atkinson, G. l. Maxson, S- R. Woodbury, J. D. Jordan, JJelos Jeffersoti, W. D. C.tl, Geo. Kelly, Thompson Kelly, Wm. Piper, I. L. Miller, J. IL Wythe, Thos. B. Rickey, H. M. Clark.. - The following were members of Samaritan Lodge No. 2 at the same date: M. S. Burrell, Wm. Braden. W. B. Barlow. H. C. Coulson. J. C. Car son, D. Cram, H. W. Davis, Jas. El ton, Jas. W. Going, Israel Gradon, F. Ilapbaugh, J. C. Klngsley, Wm. Mor ton, C. II- Marvin, E. T. Rees, II. Sey mour.' J?cob Stltiiel, Ezra St. John, L. WbJte, John P. Walker. W. W. Upton, W. H. Andrus, D. Abrahamson, S. E. Burr. E. Bennet, C. Bills. C. Binder, J. G. Brooks, L. Bettman, Joseph-Bach-man, H. F. Block, Isaac Barman," C. O. Clark. P. Cardiff. A. J. Chapman, F. A. Clark, It. E. Ohatfield, Dorson Chaae, Jas. Davis, laac Dove, J. N. Dolph, L. S. Denny, E. -C. Denny, W. G. Edwards. A. Frank. L. Faulk. L. Goodman. A. C. Glbbs. N. Ham, O. B. Henry, II. E. Hill, J. K. Hardie, Chas Hodge', t. Henshaw, J. M. Hallery, W. Uod.cn, F. E. Hogue, A. M. 'Jones. M. Kline, E. Kuhl, Joseph Kohn, L- Levy. L. G. Lewis, T. C. Lord, J. II. Lyon, W. Moffit. J. H. Mitchell. M. Moritz, J. M. Maj-k.. John Marshall, E. S. Morgan. J. O'Neil, C. C. Phillips, J. Phlllippl, Julius Peters, J. H. Perry, L. D. Smith. W. Stephenson, A. Staen- der, A. Stlefel. H. Scheland, J. F. Shartle, Stephens Thomas, L. Stein heiser, J. Van Rensalaer, B. E. Vestel, C. .II. Woodward. John Walters, A. Waldman, W. H. Weteell. W. G. Bal lard. A. R. DufreneJ. KoWitz, It. J. Ladd. If. P. Martin. M. Seller. "E. Zelt fo.ka. W. Barnes, C. A. Burckhardt. A. Cohn, J. W. Gates; J. B. Kellogg, Isaac C. Levy, John Nestor, M.' O'Connor, Joseph , Tucker, W. J. Van Schuyver, E. F. Albright. F. S. Crosby, T. J. Car ter, C. A. Dolph, C. S. Fechhelmer, W. D. I laic, A.M. Lc ryea, L.C. Fuller. Jas. Miller. Robert Parker. C. T. - Rogers', C. O.: Schram, J. A. Thomas, F. Weg- ner. '--. The session of the Grand Lodge that convened In the senate S chamber of the capitol ,on Wednesday morning, May 17th. was the tenth session of that body held In Salem. Odd Fellowship has grown In Oregon since the Insti tution of the. first lodge, Chemeketa Lodge No. 1 of this city, as recorded above. The charter members were E. M. Barnum. E. N. Cooke. Benjamin F. Harding, C. S. Wood worth and Joel Palmer five In alL C. A. Reed was one of the organizers, but lacked the neceegtary degree, to entitle him to be a charter member. Mr. Harding and Mr. Wood worth are yet living, the former at Cottage Grove and the lat ter at, Salem.' From thi. starting point, the lodges In Oregon have grown in' number Until there are now 127, and the membership was on the first of January last $103. -The grow4ih Is yet a very healthy one. . This Is the twenty-fifth Grand En campment. There are now thirty- seven encampments In Oregon, with 109 members, as reported on the first of January last. The Rebekahs are strong In .this state, having 89 lodges, which (had a membership on the first day of the current year of 4514. The first encampment Instituted In Oregon was Ellison Encampment No. 1, of Portland, on September 23, 1857. The : Grand Encampment for Oregon was organized March 2J, 1875. the local organization, op to that time being under Jmfsdtction of the California Grand Encampment. In : 1870 the first Oregon Rebekah lodge was Instituted, In Salem, blng Colfax No. l. Th!. lodge ran for a few yearn, and surrendered Its charter, though hnlges continued to 1e -organized throughout the state. The work was taken up here again In 1895, and on March lath of that year Sale n Re bekah Ledge No. t was organlzj, with 1?S charter members, and Mr. Wm. L'nrUnd was th first Noblt Grand. Tlw writer has found the pursuit of f-cts concerning Cdl Fellowship very Interesting. This, the gicaWst of the purely beneficial and - fraternat socie ties In this country, In point of num bers, has had a history embracing the live, of many of the best end greatest of our citizens. ! The enthusiasm that ' is ever characteristic of Its members gives assurance that the ten work of the -rdr Is rot In the past. It Is in ino luiuie. i TRYIKG IT Oil IHE CHILD ETHICAL CULTURE SCHOOL IS . i Oil AN EXPEHIME5 T. ktm vnric'. institution Where All New Ideas in Teaching Are Given a Thor- j ough Trial -CreaUve or "Learning by Doing" Method. , ; . , If anybody wants to see 250 'children having a beautiful time, let Wm go to the Ethical Culture schools, says the New York Sun. This institution alms t be a model public school and to serve as an experimental field In which new methods of education - may be tried for the benefit of the entire pub lic school system. - It hopes to remain In constant touch with the public schools and to try new educational Ideas, which can be tested under more favorable conditions by an institution outside , of the system than by one which forms part of it. "People have demanded a reason. said an Interested person, "for the ex istence of the school. In the first place, the . Ethical Culture school ts one of the pioneers in the progress of education all over the country. It doesn't do any good to say, if there Is a need for experimental stations In education, so to speak, let the public School inaugurate them. The public school system is a great and unwleliy body. - Of necessity it moves slowly, and there would be a great hue and cry of protest If K did otherwise. So, you see; one of the most valuable re sults of the school's existence is share 1 by thousands of children, not merely by the few hundred pupils in actual attendance. "In the second place, there Is the di rect gain to these boys o and - girls themselves. The benefits of the meth ods we use ought to and do follow them thro ugh life. To begin with, the classes here are only half as large sometimes not even half as those In the public schools. Thejre fifty or six ty pupils are under the care of one teacher. You can't expect that teach er to ! accomplish as much with them as one of our instructors can with only tweny-five children. Then there? is another thing. A public school class, j except In rare cases, goes plod ding along as an inseparable whole. No matter whether there are bright and dull pupils side by side, one straining at the leas-h, the other hang lng back like so much dead weaght, the class Is approximately indivisible. Our classes are so much smaller that the Individual ability or lack of abil ity of each child shows more clearly And ur syBtem is so much less rigid and -unwieldy that we can gradually separate the bright ones from the duller ones and let them work ahead at their own gait "The methods applied have been variously called the 'creative methods' and "learning by doing. Besides sup plying the elements of a broad and general culture, jt Is the particular aim of the school to discover the indi vidual bent of each pupil, to train him 4k.io.ng, the lines of his natural aptitude and tbus to prepare him mentally and morally for his future vocation. At the same time, the superintendent does not often influence a boy In tha choice of a vocation. Just because a boy shows ah aptitude for drawing he is not forthwith Impressed with the idea that he is an artirt Krn. He merely gets an opportunity to develop in that direction." Thej reporter spent an hour or two going' f rom classroom to classroom, Superintendent Relgart showing the way. i First came the kindergarten classes, one in a bright, sunny room, the other in the big gymnasium, for the building is by no means adequate to th need, of the school, and classes must be quartered In every available room. Children of 4 years old are ad mitted to the kindergarten. In connec tion with which Is a training class for kindergarten teachers. At years of age, on an average, the little folks go from their low table, to the desKs of the first grade, and right here begin certain methods which are seldom found in primary grades. When (manual training was Introduced Into some of the public schools of the country, only the high schools were favored, the Idea being that the new featnre would gradually work down through the lower grades. At the ,eth!cal culture school manual train ing begins in the kindergarten and continues without Interruption throujgh the .entire course. When the reporter ent Into the first grade classroom tne other day the children were not gilding the lily, but painting a picture of a turnip which had a love ly hectic flush on one side and a vig orous: tall twisting off on the other. They j mixed ' their own colors, and some :of them came pretty near repro ducing the flush, while not one of them forgot the talL Then they had a reading lesson. Right there the advantage of giving the brighter pupils a freer rein was at once apparent. The more backward worked at one aide of the room, while the other, had a little lesson of their own. Studies are not pursued here In the old-fashioned, arbitrary way. For instance, there is an Interrelation be tween the different Hne which make. J each a help to the other. This begins to be more apparent In the second grade, where i tha children are now reading Hiawatha." Instead of ar bitrary and senseless reading lessons, they take something which has a real value, literary or historical. With thi. they- Interweave their manual training work. Jor instance. In one corner or the second class room was - an inclosed space on the floor. Here was a min iature representation of a scene from "Hiawatha," Sand was banked In hills and valley leading down to a river which ran Into a lake: a srVass lake, of course. In among the small trees were wigwams and clay figures of Indians and of the various animals uwniKinm m in poem. A paper canoe, la which sat a painted Indian. floated on the lake. In a case near thi. sylvan scene were a good many clay figure, cf the same types Indi an, pipes and so on all modeled: and iukjitu bt me cnuaren.wAo siui - , - - . i aae .wigwam, or canvas m Hlen thej J tiemmM and erprorprtatefr painted. -.-v.w 4 M4 r 1 ivvcu BuiriB i thing they had read apropos of the Eskimo.. There were; clay figures of the people, polar fceara, walruses, huts and dogs, as weU as very clever little (now shoes. - kayaks and sledges. It was most ingenious, and a for the knowledge it grave the children of prac tical greography, of natural: history and of racial conditions It was both comprehensive and aot soon to be for gotten. But It was across the hall. In the third rade class room, that the vis itors lingered and would fain have been children again. There was an other square inclosufe here, contain ing hills which supported palms and tropical vegetation, and plunged down to the margin of a looking-glass sea. There on the sandy shore stood the cross : which Robinson Crusoe ot up when he landed there. And half way up the hills, against a bold bluff, was his stockade. Around a point of land were the sea turtles he used to take. In short. It was all there; Crusoe him self, the fine old boy! and the goats and Friday and all the rest of It. As for the third gYader-4hey were about eight years old and their eyes shone they had been making clay figrures of Crusoe. Crusoe standing. Crusoe on his left knee, Crusoe on his right knee, Crusoe in every position which he might have assumed for the purpose of shooting with a murderous tooth pick at the goats. v They were having a beautiful Hlme, and somehow that beloved tale had been made to lead them through the weary -ways of geography and natural history and clay modeling-and color work and moral instruction yes, mor al instruction. Unsectarlan moral in struction Is part -of t-he regular course. It Isn't dealt out to them In cold lumps, but Is woven lntsthe fabric of the whole curriculum. For Instance, in the, first year the original nature myths "are used, stories such as one finds in "Mother Goose," Andersen and Grimm. Next come fables and books like "Hiawatha." eh4wlrur man In conflict with nature. Next come Crusoe, John Smith and other men who conquered nature. For this year the-re is a portion of John Smith's own diary, which the superintendent had mimeographed. Then come Columbus and the other discoverers, the coloniz ers, early Amerksan'hlatory, and so on through Greece and Rome and Europs a nd e very th I n g. Music and art ate taught throughout the entire course. The eighth grade?, composed of boys and frirls of about 14. were designing a cover for the pa pers they have been writing about Whlttler. Each design was original and there were some very clever one.. The classroom for scientific studies is at the top of the bouse. There, was no class In it when the reporter was there, but the evidences of practical work In botany, chemistry, biology, all the ologles, . in fact, were there. The room, however, Is too email to m?t the need, of the school. This demand for more space was evident on all sides, although the school is handled a. well as it can be. A. It is support ed almcM entirely by private contribu tion. the few paying pupil., of tourse, do nt bring a very large income th? work should have more funds In order to ibe amplified a. the projectors wish. In the basement is -the workshop, with its lathe, and benches, its tools for carpentry and Iron work. In con nection with this work comes mechan ical drawing. The practical results of the training can be testified to by boys who have left the school to be come mechanical engineers, exp?rt draughtsmen and to fill other posts of thnt kind. In place of tbee branches for the boys, the girls are taught sew ing and desisnlnff. They learn to sew by hnd and niachlne, to draft pat terns, cut and. fit. Before they leave tr. school they make a set of unJer cl;4,hlnr. a shirt -wniifct ana a dress skirt. They also learn to make the simpler forms of mllMnery. There Is a library and reading room In the basement, and, what is an un usual feature, there Is a physician's office, where the physical condition of the children Is watched and their health generally, cared for. There is a branch school up town, whre a high school coarse of, four years out on the same methods. is carried Of course the reporter cannot give a complete list of the studies taken up nor any thing more than a mere glimpse of the methods used and Che end desired. The two buildings are as busy as bee hives and there is something interest ing going on in every room. There was one Impression gained every where, however. '.Nobody ever saw a srore alert. Interested, happy crowd of little folks. There Wa. but one un- Jiappjr-looklnr small youngster.' and he wa wrestling with the perfect sub ject and the perfect predicate of a sentence. Nobody could blame him for being bored: j There are no grounds in connection with the school, but the president of the ' Manhattan Storage corn-pan f has given the .children th free use of some vacant lots near bv and there, at 2 p. m., they go to play DasKet bail and other games. I BREATHING AT HIGH ALTITUDES The eaporlerce of thi doctor In charge of the men now ' laying the completed electric ral way to life sum mit of the Gorner Grat in Switzerland (heifcht- IS tat limn Ito . nat dwellers in the plains ean never I sciustom themselves to physical exer-,' toi at gieat altitudes. According to. recent article In the Revenue Scieu- tifi4u,. the worker., many of whom were front th low-lylmc province of t,m hen political feeling should fl Bjlcgne, worked perfectly wen n 1. j ny to secure sw.-ces. In war, . -when the elevation wa; below 2,400! 1 An nt mean to say that ad in feet; but In 197, when they were get-.jdemoerat. who .res In the d?pirtment ling above tha height Ihe workmen ?re dioyal, but that enough ar so began to complain of I.rrMtude, btti lo t-ause--eomKnt. There is mt rnuch headaches.' lo.. of aptetite. and other to ,,e 3,,i ln favcT -r th. civil service, sr-mptrn- which at first led the tioc- f hut It is not rcasoraMe that ir.en l tor to think an epidemic cf Infiuenxa au;t hfh position slu!d tak g pa" ad broke n wit. None t-t lh affectert 6tr?ctly'cppiset! to the i,dv.ir:ft-",: rr.il could do arythlng like their tifcual bcllly fc riome- do. 'It 'is tl yn'W amount of work; nd. though a short stay at Zerrratt. In rhf vhiiv hin tbar,ished the unple-asant tymptema' tr.try reiurnea as sevet!y as before whn the" -men. resumed wn-rk m the mountain.: -The ruttome of. the ob?er- vation. was that the a vet age man may te counted on to work t to a heichr ?tff about ?0C feet; above 3,30 hIs r.eif h ., wr.virin. . - . me n-i I-ins- ly arectel. Tn the end all rl mn from th tiin. a iiiiHMn. ana nri i mountain-bied men ngageL CaamU-ra' Jocrn-L WASHINGTON . CORRESPONDENCE.? Washington, n, c ' mv t- has been not forming perfectly iiuiLiiixsr nr z n t ihi . . . have showers and sunjMne n nt Jtidicioii. mixture tht ' th. . ' r - - - 4 'I I I i 1 1 c irt.a t tl i II nnt Artur, i.n. , I . - - . .i icii'ff respond with Knd with growth and frauraroi th world I as bcanufut a . im. Lt me tll yi.t that dr,! and .1 1 ra I.I. A L 1 1 ! Iil I'k.t. ,1. a nets. Th y can jiIo Icthf d'rTt JI 1 posits of nil that. It d. p i.dW aU ,?eT I ft on w ho does the .ireaniinj;. I takf St for granted thrt the rxailtyof I the Statesman are t th n vex. li l.nt ott, who do hot Wtc'ih,-,! " . on pnmi'Uon f nd h. i :U,:t. i, j:im;nw J -rsive, ct cMtrf , w ti.4l, Vt. -si n- !v ' lkl. Jl..l.,n V, ....... A .'- . ' Ul' II lll(,' .-uuu lis-. ID j jjj , .rd r. -.: ' Tbci-.i Is talk of tn 'oxtrjt et.n. This has poss-.bUiti - ba.-d.. n eMa cf-mmon ensv, Evliy cti j.nna will tll us that the iK.-.-n.l r rmting of ongre! is tc It- t .s Y 4.Kj before th-? holldcys. Th ?fu!t is that the es$lon vittiially I sit Year's and Is pi-dongod imc th -stlm. mcr. To meet tn Ot tob r rrt iiiK u,4t there will be vvork dire l f Me th hclidays and the vacatl-m that cover rbat time w ill 1 e a mu h nrd. ed (recess. Theste facts have. ien PaiVnt for all the years flnc'e-'cmrrets n it. so it Is time there vv.s.sne c.-n. mon sense bicught to .'Var anil tha work of the' serslon,. cornrtii nee sj t enough to get. through before the hot J tl.me.rf Mimmer. . On rf the sir of th- ttr.w: i. ;ht J the cotton states oe grov. lng kIs arA. ( show it by giow:ng cotton l s smj bavins mixed farming tttut-t i-v.-ra bread st u Ts, feed and vi;. t thst have h th rto-bec:i i-tf - ti tl from th northwestern tt.itc. iJ-v-rslu ffirmes are not only gr.. in.R ii.-,t but are building floiirJnt? rri.'s ni.j miklne thtir own flour. 'l'h'. Ti i;; t Site betnt put up rdl over the .re ,'nl pc inaugurate a ri-W era In th t olun. a tlon of the south. Thy. ri v (i.vt-rs'fy "J" their iro-iur tlon by'-gr-Mii is '.at,t. trn, oats, pork, and far u.. : y ittie thar.ever before. The Orepon farmer who r 1 1 put his ftc-t on the wr. iks r u,vi tfv n t'.onr.l capitcl. .night n't iili li fct:M"-s When he Imagined he; saw ats . grov lng close to the very v IK f ihe magnificei.t structure,.' but woo d n t be wrong to so. conclude. 1 r b..li!y there was a canity f t-i : th public domain, -Iric tli- t;;:.- x:t CoxU- s multitude wer e tt I ; t p off the grass."', it rimy b th t u tlve fate kt'.led nff th gt ru lt ai that wrong dene to f:e ; !.. tli it hid com so far find travel d ?f I to rach the national cfiitPi. Ai d -it-. idl ed triple only to Ihj t'lii'i to ;K -p e? the gass." At i nv r: t . ' li was : . . t . t .1. . .... J Iifrmanent rml is ti row the l lh .cine protctlng growth. Ho tHe U a lusty, rop of t tit, growing al . ul ur ntion'S' tempi.; of litrly. J i 1-aMy itte'lff&KH is follow ins suit lit n Ritat distance. . '. f - ' '" " J.Mt now the enterprise tf AS : "-hiii?-t-m Is cn the nlort to have the ! hB time Cii nt-ord. week after n.-xt. Thes Peace will hive its . iubjiee. .Ai.-lexit the peace of ' Washingti'-T w II' ( 1I turbed by the difrerent fn'ur - t the Jubliee. At the head of this- . mat ter of torse 1 1M" Hay. As Hhe twiul of rood humer, and for . e: of lurgs 'and boniiomini ,f tin; ni'xd-mapi-dfict-nt tinier. El. . llvy ' 1 i;ii qoald. He has wt.ndeiiul ;!i.iimtlo pow-r--ahd one uiidei; StfiniJs t: v torce of c'omedy when he. or -n.-i his )i"ii;h and his voice cer.tio If. It is i t eif long ago ulnce h v.cnt t -Ofeon- .a repiesentatUe cf tin Kit... In l' i d. he can readily stand, as the very embodi ment ,of -that genial order. With E4 Hay at the head of the man.iKcnent means that the r-asbui will equ.'il all expectation. , Slnot; being invliel wv- ra! time, this Inter to attenl the iter to aiu n i u. i t'ty. that is onV of turcs of Was-litng- f ive'" womleird -how I Shakespearian society the Intellectual feat U-n wliiters, I ha communities g?t along who do not have an "Ed Hay" to do far tbem. The I coming Jubilee will te nvrnorab'e ana bring tens of thousand, from al: ivrt of the nation to take prt In it. The irei,ident li a erring rt : dy to Is sue hl kng-talld-of o d r cor t rn ing the cull sei vice. Tbectr, c.t n It jiothing more ut.j.jsu in Mme-rtxttt than the present civil service re'iuire- meiita; some juvenile just out of u herd. who has h!fc rock of wisdom h indy at ihe tit or bis tcngue, can answer all the questions, while others ' wbo have caperlence and understand th" busi ness of Pfo are unable tv perform. iM rcqufremcnts. It is a. alsiud as any thing can be. The - parrot irform- aneCa of h irrreallw1 uili are not anything to ccunt on, p they- r don't half the time undei stand the meaning of what they h;ive memorls- de. Another fact of Interest is. ihat. probably, three-f out th. if -h- en ploy?e. in the public service aie dem ocrats. That is not so bad a that they have no scruples to say ihat w have no business tn the rhillp;-ln?s end show sympathy with the Filipino. J ' ratner a sfngular eonJUIon ea affair, when the majority of the ser- or me government seem mn fonly to be its rolltlcal oppesnents bot -.'many are actually disloyal t It la. t,,T when all Ame.ltr.ns fh ui mrnite ihi'nri r humunv ji mere prejudice rather than na1oal unuy. ..... , Hon John L. Mitchell Is In ewn unl will remain at the E-st f or a f weeks. He is looking well and se hi. itihtr.MrL llelmbddt off to France, where she will Bn I -ftr . - . . . m monins wun wr awicr, i .-"'-... . - -.1 r.,. ki- iw nrc- lice. S. A. CLARKE i t