Weekly Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1900-1924, April 01, 1902, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Text(FnOW iEXFCniEWCE'S NOTEBOOK 1 KCE : upon a time, as the stories ran, I applied for. a school, as teachers do, ik.a far-olTpart of Oregon. I It 'Has nyj ( first application. Vilh if ear and trembling I sent the hit of paper to' that august body, the board of directors, who exam ined "my Vritingwbook their heads bvet my spelling,' Und hired me.. The school house of unhewn logs with 'shakes" . nailed over the cracks,; snuggled low ' down csnthe sunset side 'of .. a very - big hill. Standing thickly a,boYe- it, throw ing their long -morning shadows across our play-ground; rose tier upon tier, and tier upon tier of straight. Oregon firs; and all around, furnishing acceptable mid day lunches, throve a thicket of sal mon and thimble berry bushes. ; - I At last the first day that day of all days-was over. I walked along the crooked country road and climber the, many; hills escortedjby a band of chattering youngsters, arid feeling quite as young and glad and free as thev. I was coins home with one set of my pupils, for t boarded Ground. . 1 Ho the first day, and the next, and the next, the first week, and by-and-byya month passed a month of real pleasure. Not one unpleas ant jar, ' ' not one unruly boy : or saucy girl, not one failurp of les soiis from lack of study pr atten tion, no, not even one hand raised with the . ubiquitious question, " Teacher, please may I go otttl" not any of these, or the many otficrsl diHtiirbed my. peace or awoke with in me a mtvnpl "nerves." t had a gol school with em phasis on the vord goodthanks to the. parents, 'r Evidently the child ren had been trained in . the way. they should go, Land were going in that way. Iroin the ABG class to the "big girls" finishing the .eighth grade, there was no lack of ambi tion. . ' . . "-' ' faces at the school in general. This would never do. ' j:; As the four-o'clock line inarched jubilantly out, I quietly asked my two-.pldest girls to remain a mo ment, t They were sensible -j girls, studying to be teachers themselves, and I knew I could trust themil pat the case before i them, talking as gin to giri, ana never pretena- ing for it would have been only a pretense to know what to do.; explained how I could "not do jus tice to the others and have one eye constantly on Hod, and we laughed together over my "spoiling" tem per. - - f ' -: ' :- "Where '11 I set, today!" queri ed Hod next morning. .' N '"Let me see,5 I mused,' letting my eyes run over the rows of rude home-made benches. 1. " How .would you like to take my chair and sit at that? desk ? " indicating a spot in the farthermost corner of the room, at the end of the longest row of seats, and just back !of where my two old est girls sat; j r;-.-l' ;.; Hod surveyed the location! criti cally, but the possession of the only chair and a desk where the'"big" pupils sat, were honors too: strong to be resisted He took possession of his new quarters with manifest delight,- but a delight no greater than my own, for my two girls had volunteered tq look after Hod. e , won t let rum : Dottier us and perhaps We can help 'him, they said. s "Yes, help J him, help him with his lessons help him whenever you have time, i Jm is so far behind he just can't 'i get along alonej an when ho d(H"8n't know what 'to do he's getting into mischief, arid positively 'can't find time to help him as much as ho needs, Mhad nnsweml. J-imit was agreed.- ; Therea f tjrt he girls taught 1 fod how to study,' ignored his antics treated hjm with respect, and cham pionetl his cause ion r the schoo" its floor exr-crt .business to Newport .There Is one wool much lighter thin cork.. This l'lh marsh nmi. fiiun J In Brazil.- , " ' ' Swimming' and life saving la a i art of the course In Siew Zealand's cubiic schools. ,' ; . The g-old fields of Western Austral la are the larget In the world. Tbey cover 824,000 siuare miles. Out of every ;1C pounds otvt manufactured In the world only six pounds are made Into books. .Germany has imrorted as much a- $10,00J,MM) worth of appe in one year and $2,50e,eoo worth of pears. British war shi; are' to be painted freen this season, in order to complete the tests of the best colr- for wr purposes. : ?ti .'- -:-Vf' Automobile which have a flange out side of a, pneumatic tire are being-used for scoutlns on tha Transvaal rail- ways. ! ' ' . ' ' - ' - Germany's colonies are five times as big-as herself, tkoae cf Prance IS timej and Britain's 8" times bigger than her- Self. - !:--. -,- Harrre, France. Is the world's larg eat coffee-market. The amount of that commodity in its warehouses seldom falls belo v 2.0e0,00v bags. . - Kinc Edward has put typewriting machines , in the o.lice of his private secretary.' This is Quite an Innovation for the letters of royalty" have always, heretofore, been executed by hand. !A GHILD SHOT . 1 BY. SMALL BOY Alice Willsoa, Accd Twenty Months, -. Killed jsa Satsrdjy. NOTES FROM UNIVERSITY School teaehint? was easv-iof ,'snmnd.. In return they gained ;ns course it was. I had begim to thinkiTo a little,, subject; as fmtben it ideal work, but, " 'Tis a long roadj wSsh 7? P088088;, ' Y.V that has no turning," they aay.-.l : i .naiitie 1 never suspected came ,'iu uie inrai jn tttxi s nature. lie (gained resneet for lldnrs. for oth ersi, for hiniselC. The girlsjWicorid ed.by the younger children I who were quick to follow jan action so decided, had given Hod' a- place in the school ; had made hun feel, m stead of the outcast he- had uncon- One morning in walkedta boy as ragged rtnd unkempt a-aby4lthad ever seem ms apparel neggaring ie script ion. ' . r:. ' ' Jly name's lf(Klgc,. folks' calls we Hod fur short," he announced. ! ' And your a ge t " I questioned, reaching for my reginter. L "Oh, I dunno, 'bout 'leven, I -reckon." I suggcstel that he ask his parents. ; . I -"Twon't do no good," he re joined, "I've asked heeps o- times; mam's dead and pap 'lows he dun- Here was a speciman, to me an unknown oneT -.From others I learn ed that the boy's futhef had l)Ut recently entered the neighborhood, arid .belonged to the class designat ed as'ihift,leRS." 1 r a week I workedwith my : boy r worked-- hard and Friday " itiglitcwent home with a raging headache. Had I known about - " Huckleberry - Firm". I might, have thought ho had come to 44 be, civil ized'!, over again; but I, didn't k,nfw '.'IllnCkljorryf' and I didn't know-what to do with' Hod. , J AVhorever I sat him he cretel a 'round of commotion. Smothered! giggls froin some 6f the little ones often warned me that something . f-jher than study! was on hand. liven ohler pupils deigneV to gjancc. from their books more, than -ieeasionally. I was In dispair. My look of rxjier.ieiiee consisted of, otic month's " reeortl, and my theories wouldn't work. The story of the one bad ap ple in a bushel o f good ones presist- antly stool forth in my memory and my- spirits were fast going dovt to rero. . . Mend a v, however, Hod was ab- f ntf I Ie'hail f got a job and gone to work" I - was -told. l'crhaps i breathel a sigh of relief though I felfll would, never. have been pro- Pfr to have said r. " . , For two weeks pcace reigned, -itlten Hod, tiring ofliis "job" came back to school, just as unmanagable Jr3"i n,c as everand two weeks " farther behind, iri & his classes. "Pap" thought "a week or tw out didni 'moUnt to nuthinV" ami when I urgel a little home study sciousiy been accustomed to consid er himself, that he was one with the ethers, and," being pupils them selves, they had done, for, Hod what a teacner a tone couia not ao. Still he did not become an angel ali at once far from it ; but he was ii." . .t . - learning, ana so were me rest- oi us. Kven thd little ones ceased to give special heed when. Hod's chair, which was being trained to stand on two legs; went over among the .i: ':i ii.. f t'liiutT-paiiH in ihk curucr, u often did, boy and all. I rafgbt mention one other plan, if plan it could be called, which helped . me in the management -of niy boy, and upon which I accident ally stumbled in thearly das of liio nltnnilaTiKa .. I - ' ' You may bi excuse! to go home and hunt for your arithmetic," a inueh-needed and many-times-for- gotten book which its owner "never had time to find," I had said late one afternoon. Hod objcted; he did hot want to be excused ' Asit happened, being summer, no neighbors to disturb, a crowded school room, uncomfortable seats, ctc.r I was accustomed, as soon as the first arid second grade children had completed a certain work, to excuse them. Sometimes in the rush of classes I fortrot them, and not until their restlessness attract ed my attention did I send them to play. . i :-;; ; ': - f Ilod had drawn his conclusions the older pupils were not excused ; the little ones 'disturbed and they were ; for a big loy to be excused was a disgrace,-sinceif meant he was too troublesome to be wanteti in the schoolnwm, arid' Hod' ob jected. - "I fear I' must excuse you' was thereafter a magic charm, but a eharm brought into ; use; only on special occasions. It was too g(nxl to wear out bv everv-day its;. No Track Team to Dc Put in the - i - i . " ': ';' ..- : ' v ' A GOOD LOCAIFIELJ MKET WILX. HE HELD TO DEVErX)I' rlTTKR MATJiiniAii FOR NEXT TKAU HTU DENT SOCIETIES MEET AND ' ENJOY. THEMSELVES. A TE.V-TAR-OLD BOY Kilt ED A BCLLET TIimtf;H 11 Ell IfEAD, CAUSINO INSTANT DEATli AN OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION-HELD NO ARRESTS. , . (From Sunday's Stateaman.) - At a mass meeting of 'heKtudonts oh last Monday rjiornlnr. It waa deeid ed not to put out a, tnw-k team or any intercollegiate meet this year. The reason for thisaction was, in the main, a lack pt developed mn; the iwijorlty tt lat year's team not bHnjf In attend aru-e tliia year. It was thought heat to withdraw for this year and throw the greatest atrength into other athletics forlhis np.uon. This step upon the part of 13 students does not mean that they are to withdraw permanent ly. Arrangements are already under way for a kood local field nieet, by which it Is hoped men for next year may be developed.- A committee, con sisting1 of Prof. Drew. E. K. Miller and W. O. Wlnslow, has in chaxBe the di vIsionijOT the track mn into two teams which1 Wilt rioli- a" tnwst ht r otn4 V Th-taifcball men ' have oriiamsed with Gtenn Upruh d captain and Prof. Ii A. Kerr as manager. The prospect are good for a. strong teitm, as several of last years- players will be fre to try for positions, white cortsidffrable new material will make players enough for two icood teuma. . . , .'. -t On Friday evening fhe VhillorlanS entertained the PhllodonlnK and the faculty. The profnim for th evening t-onsli ted of a mock, society meeting lpi imitation of the m-thods' of, a young ladies' literary society, thus1 giving- the Philodosians an opportunity of seeinc themselves as they have been on ninny occasions. After the program, ice cream and "April fool" punchy Iwerf served, the punch iwlnsf colored water and. was the cause of much merriment Many of the students are visiting at home this week, in this way, takJng advantage of the spring- vacation of one week. School veek will be resumed on Monday, April 7th. CSATH A WTIC ffy CANDY CATHJtHTI Gemiins i tamped C C C Ncvsr std to btdlL BtwarsM tha scaler who tries to tiu - sesHthin lust at food." " lerhaPs ask father; to help-IIo.il; So the days, one by one, became t lectrifiel the school by announc ''f ? an-Hal Jcarnetl much. . . - ' . . ;a.l- 1 -I ; -ii,f- !. out pernans tne iraciier' i.trncu s u . g K until a n nak mi j t . hired yo fur' but I am gettin:;mo,v- aheftd of my story, j r : v During the boy's alisenee liis benen, me oniy on5 empiy, natiigTOWth ot emnu l?WT. been assigned to somo new comers;: -Oregon TeaciH-rsi Monthly. ; r . s , .' i PEcrLIAU AND PERTINENT. i ,1 The Iat census shows increasea Kit frr ihc d;iv. Ifod sal on n Ikx at tnc ctigc oi my piauorm ana maai Three fourths of .the pfODie of Cuba depend for a livelihood upon the sugar New Toik has lost a good share of The. main difficulty with the present money order system is inai icw man half the postofflc in the eoun'try are money order offices, and even at hese such evidences' of money can only be obtalnl at the expenditure of much time: and trouble and durinjr certain specified hours. ' With a" post cneck note in his possession one has but to nil in the blank spaces for the purpose, attacn postage Mamp. cancel it. In close in an envelope, place in a mail bosr. and the transaction is finished. , Unaucstionably the Intent f the po tal authoriths im to extend aad Increaee ih usefulness and popularity of the rural free dt-livery service.' The adop tion of the post check notes will afford a. most convenient ana saie monfjr ior the-aRTicuUural communMieSk to whom bunks, with their fact lilies and safe guards, cannot b-utiiized with con venience, " 1 claimed by those who have Investigated-the subject .that the revenues of the pojetofflce department would ! very materially incresksed .by th, adoption of the post check system. A somewhat unusual feature of . the pst . rti'eck proposlUon Is tho fact that the inventor is ' a successful business man, w ho has for years reslisel -th ursrent necessity for a simpler way of making mall remittances In the mails. and who has de voted a great d5l of his tims and means t the perfection of the tdc. und ofTers. in case of Its aJottlon; to turn the patents, in-J ail rtsrhts under them, over to th gov- emmeivt free of any ctst or charjre whAtever. ;11 considers that stiould the systetn be .adopte'l the conscious ness of havlDK ccomplfhed a reform of suc h Importance t4he Rral pub lic and i tusint-a men will more than (iimimvil . hi ;a fr bis ' time and trouble. n .'-;' . ' -, i :: . , On Sunday aftcrnoous Coroner W V. Ime and Deputy Sb?rlff VL R. Colboih received telephone messages from St. Paul to the effect that Clara Alice WiUson. a little girl aged 20 months, had been shot and kiUed on Saturday, afternoon by- Lloyd CSmabest, the . 10-year-old son of Mr. Louise E. Conibest and an official Investigation waa ear nestly desired Coroner Lane and De puty FherifT Colbath, accompanied hy a stf nographer, at one went to the scene of the homicide near St. , Paul, and made an investigation of, the case, resulting in a coroner's inquest, and the finding of a verdict that death Wat accidental. ' , 1 ' ' Tho Combeat family seems to be In bad odor In that neighborhood, one of the sons having, a few years ago, baen tried for killing- a man In Tatnhlll county, and when the death of the lit tle girl became known to the neigh bors, at o'clock Sunday morning, the authorities In this city were at once notified, the neighbors, generally, be lieving that th? death was the result of foul play. r , i nwn the officers 'arrived they at once Inquired into the facts in the case and the demand of the population of that neighborhood, to hold an inquest was complied with. Coroner Lane em panelling the foUowinig , well-known citizen of. St. Paul as a coroner's Jury Vm. Murphy, Alphonse Rout In, R. E- Kirk, Matt Connor, John lrk, and Andrew Hughes. The latter was a p pointed foreman. : 1 The story developed by the Investl' gation is about as follows: . Mrs. Combest and her two grown sons were away from the house, and the children, h r son Lloyd, aged 10 , years, and lit ..tie Clara. Wtllaon,. aed 20 .months, were- playing in the bouse. The little girl's parents ore away, the i mother b'lnj In a bosiital In Is'AngflcH, talifornia, while tht father's where about s are unknown, and Mrs. t.Vmi- wst was caring for the little one, During the afternoon the loi sceinpr a Wrd on a fence near the hous, took a revolver on a. shelf, and shot at the bird, shooting- from ' the kiU-hen through , the open doors of an outside room, Mhcn. Just as he pulled the triprfr?r, the little girl toddled ln the wny, the bull enteHnpr hyer, head tmck of. and an Inch -or so above, the right ear, and passing through the 'head. Iod;-d InsJde the skull JustWbove and in front of the left ear. This was the substance of - the-. story told by the prlnr1pl actor, in the tragedy, and was corroborated, as far as possible, by the members of the family. An aulop sy held by 'Dr. White, 7 of Oerval showed the range of the bullet, and that dedith had been Instantaneous. It seems, that after the lad killed the i child, he took the Isxly into the" kitchen, washed off he blood, and l;tter removed the little corpse to the Wool- shefV, where he placed If in a sitting position In the corner, after which he left the house-. This hppenl !-tv.-etn J and 4 olockln the afternoon. A little later the rest of the family re turned, and a search for the children resulted in finding the body of the lit tle sirt, and later the boy , was found in art adjoining; field. The pioI with which the, deed "was committed,; Is an' ordinary 32 calibre rtvolvfr, and It was lying fn a shelf In the house, unknown to Mrs. Combest. It was the first time the boy had used a pistol, and .u only hart one cartridge in it when he took it down. The Jury heard all. of the evidence given by . Mrs. Comtst, her two grown sons, Thomas and Wylie. Dr. H. C. White, of Gervais, and Lloyd Corn best, the latter the boy who acknowl edged- shootlngtho cbltd. Later the premises were examined , and the jury retired to prepare a verdict, find ing that the , littla girl ame to her death by a gun shot, fired by Lloyd F, Combest. and that death was. due to accidental causes. . This closed the. Investigation; and r the remains were l?ft wlth'the Com- t best family, and. were yesterday given Burial. . ' The Combests have long lived near St. Pa uU and the facts that th y : we re about ;to move to Texas: that the girl, a t-U kly child, was somewhat of a bur den to them, and that any knowledge of the tragedy had been kept from the neighbors for a Cii, "caused a feeling In that neighborhood that the case should be thoroughly lnvjfrtlgHted. as mtny feared foul play.' The Investi gation, so far as made. Indicate that no crime has been Commit-d, although the clrcurnstances are, somewhat s;is piHous to mm of the officer, i m u rnj for infants end Children. I Tho Kind You Ilavo Always Hough t basi Ixrrno tho rIluv turo of Chan. II. jFlejtcher, and Itaaj been made under lib personal enpenlslonj for over SO years. Allow no ono to deceive jon la jthts. Counterfeits, Imitations and Jut-as-ffood,t arojbut Experiments, and endanger tbp hcaltli.of Children Experience ajaisst lixncrimcnt.. Tho Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tho Signature of i ! 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TWICE-A-WEEW STATESMAN, psr year BOTH PAPERS....... ARE YOU DEAF? , $ 0 $1.00 ,..........$1.43 ..I1JW ..........$i.oa .$1.63 M'CALL'S MAGAZINE (irclod3 f,o pattern to jMoh eubeeriber). .fliK) ' i .$1XO i . .......$U3 DEAFNESS mmM h HEAD Ail-' CASES OF ' OR HARD HEARING ARE nOW CURABLE lOe, Sc. If a & C, fall, orueuu ref ncd c3-a. s tj? n zl zr j- ' ItOOSEVKLTS MOTHER. The mother of the President f the United SUte k aJwaya an object of Ktfec!t Interest and regard on the lafl of the pic. Hut In all thsrt-hs hn written tnut Mr; TtoeVr-H Jn' Jw bwawe rhlef executive la t Septem ber there haa b-en little aid or n mtntion of Ws nthr.. On thia ac wunt. aad heauye h" i'j-a rm.-rfc.'-tTy fine and nxry woman, much In terest attache trt an arfiHe rm "Th Ire3idet'ji MHbei" wbkh wlil appear in the Ladba Home Journal In the! nrar fnture. tl wlll be the first story ? -nf her life yet tola, xrrf will ! on of a eerie .of artl' l the. flWt of. whkh in r-uhBfbed in th current immlKt of the Journal, on the PriilTit and hb fjfciHy. : Mw Alk Keyfit t the ubjeri of hj. Next month "Th Oat fiwr Prrridnt will be tfild if. n-t !a-' tr th Irsidf nt'a wife ant cUUdn-n ' wiil l tfortrayed. . ' ' . by our new iareoUon.1 HEAD IIOISES Cemtfrmen r Bein g entirely eewd m iuii nwonr oi my nf. to te al F. A. WERMAH, OP CALT1MORE, SAYSt B4tToais. Mi, Mrta v. tmt. jrj defii.hnk la yomt trttrueot I wiU bow give yam About fir yrn r my rigitt et tgn ti sing, and tfci kept on gtttiat wemi, BBtil l.rrt tcy hrirnnn in th; ear rTiltrr! tat rnltrrl. I tttrteTwrnt trratmrtit for ctarm. for tfce month whrt anvweem rttntmUi fin -n. trcf thTkin.. rr.-Ti c'hrr tHe Kiiy an ppfttimn emilrl hHt tn. m Wtn rrsuMf, fctit tho l:c.-ri-J3 in the S tbs -miri-irt r.r ttpri') 4t IJ.Uftly. ithilnM m-lht -i ,vn l int oniy imprrTtiy, laat ( ncaa Bfnuet truuid t ib'i : vt vottr ! rrrttr,,-nt ,t'U. n''.v it rrr-w Tk fmor. ir4 erdfVa your rr nf nL Aftrr t hit-i tl U o-i'.r m lwl ua:iuy r.u i i-'3 lortngm Only those barri deaf are incurmblcw - CEASE IMMEDIATELY. tit- : it--1 ar i Ln rt ir 'w i twitted. I thitik yut Vt rr tru'r -,r)r Y . ... v. ,.ri f)trr trraftvit do- nof Infcvfcrr fiih. your iriml omtpatton. lAnKlXilCKAl MZXl lUN:r.Di-3.t AAll? AVt4 Ct!IC.COf ILL. TBI I TNC IttMCOr TUT CUlft Itn Mnntt EPIDEMIC now RAGJTJG amonn HORSES wB1 Core them of Jtemm, CmKh or J CORID ItOKStS. -rd. I? ... Ill f-. lc l.) (rl Jewltt Why don't you advertise for; "Aunts' Authority An K-1I" Ial IIeitt--Uhat do you nwanT . Kxtate blanks, at the ttateaman Job. JewlU I thought you sid you ha Offioe. - i lost your pocklbook. Smart Het. JLEGAu BLAW1 ALL FOIiMS AND -TI1JLE rnrKTfNGiAT STATIC MAN JOB OF riCU, UALEM